[Coco] Emulating a 1980 4K CoCo on PC

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:18:44 +1000
Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> 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
> 

	I for one DO have a 4k CoCo with Color Basic 1.0. (It even says
so on the case.)

	I'm also interested in entering the Dartmouth Time-Sharing
System (DTSS) contest, but, unfortunately I no longer have one here at
home...


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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