[Coco] Hi from a new member!

[Jason Pittman]

Hi CoCo mailing list! I'm a new addition to the group and just wanted to send a quick intro. I've spent many hours on CoCos as a kid, and like others, I'm just getting back in touch with them and reliving my childhood (or maybe having a midlife crisis). I've tinkered with emulators for a while and recently picked up a CoCo2 and 3 and the related goodies. I'm currently really getting into the possibilities of making some games, utilities, etc using CMOC and have a pretty decent "hybrid" setup coding in c using CMOC on Linux and playing on the vintage hardware with a CoCoSDC. I've programmed in C# for years, but it's been a blast getting back to the bits, but it's pretty amazing (and daunting!) to see some of the things like CMOC, lwtools, DriveWire, etc. that people have done in my short 30-year hiatus. I wish I still had all my CoCo goodies from years ago, but most of them seem to have moved on to CoCo heaven over the years, except for a box of cassettes that I found and am currently digging through.



Thanks for letting me join. I'm looking forward to getting caught up on what I've missed.

- Jason Pittman

Here's a screenshot<https://imgur.com/a/ooGkS10> of my current setup in HSCREEN 2 generated using a program I'm tinkering around with in CMOC (with the help of a C# app that generates the 16 color palette and a data file with the hex pixel values)