[Coco] Emulating a 1980 4K CoCo on PC
Rogelio Perea
os9dude at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 19:14:35 EST 2014
On Wed Dec 31 2014, Nick Marentes wrote:
2) Does the 4K programming competition have to be designated for a 4K Color
> Basic system? Here is Australia, the standard system at the time was a 16K
> Extended Basic system. 4K Color Basic was available but those that bought
> this either quickly dumped their machine for something better or had it
> upgraded. When I think of the CoCo1, I think of 16K Extended Basic. I know
> many would not even have looked at the CoCo at this configuration and all
> the Tandy (Radio Shack) stores had 16 Extended as their store demo systems.
>
> Should the competition be changed to a 16K Extended Basic competition?
>
That would defeat the purpose of this particular exercise - work within the
limitations of a 4K RAM and Color Basic 1.x
Perhaps another category can be open to other system's particulars at
another time.
-- RP
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