[Coco] Emulating a 1980 4K CoCo on PC

Nick Marentes nickma2 at optusnet.com.au
Wed Dec 31 19:18:44 EST 2014


On 1/01/2015 10:14 AM, Rogelio Perea wrote:
> 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
>


How many people here who are interested in entering the competition 
actually have a working 4K Color Basic computer?

Are we all going to enter using an emulator?

Nick


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