[Coco] Fresh new retro computing article!

[Michael Miller]

Not gonna lie, I've read all of this, including the original article, and I am just not seeing the reason why there is such a blow up. You either agree with Boisey's points or you don't, but it seemed reasonable to me. 

I have a CoCo2 system with a handful of cartridges, an Apple IIc and an Apple IIgs. I don’t really "participate" in the community for either machine, vut I do enjoy reading what others are doing with them. I've found that finding any hardware for these things is a real pain, though, and I include NEW hardware in that statement, not just the vintage stuff. Even when you do find a new custom piece of hardware for your vintage machine that you want, unless you happened to be lucky enough to catch the site of the designer right when it was initially released, you are unlikely to ever actually get one. All sorts of things I've seen I thought I'd like to get for one or another of these machines, but availability is just not there.

That said, as a CoCo enthusiast, what I personally would really like someone to make (my dream cartridge, so to speak) is a single cartridge with the Speech/Sound Pak, the RS-232 Pak, and the Orchestra 90 Pak all built in to it. Ideally this would work with one of those new 2- or 4-way mini-MPI's I've seen available every now and again. This way you can add your own Floppy controller (original Radio Shack, CocoSDC, or whatever) or Hard Drive controller and have maximum compatibility with the original CoCo experience that created my nostalgia for the platform in the first place. With modern FPGAs I can't think of a reason why this wouldn't be possible, and I would drop $$$ on this in a heartbeat.

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> On Behalf Of tonym
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:13 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>; coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Fresh new retro computing article!

>---- Original Message ----
>From: "Boisy Pitre" <boisy at pitre.org>
>Sent: 5/28/2019 1:25:13 AM
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Fresh new retro computing article!
>
>Hi all,
>
>I’ve been unsubscribed to the list for over a year or so, mostly due to lack of time and focusing on pursuits, but given the last few posts, I have re->subscribed for the time being.
>
>

I will say this much about Boisy...

When I had trouble making ends meet, and wanted something from C9, he never failed to ship it or email it (depending on what it was) and he never asked about payment status, never hounded me. Been quite a while, that, but it is what it is.

The only time I've seen him overtly become aggressive about a C9 product, was when challenged.

I faintly remember this happening with another storage product, was it sd pack or something?
And a comparison chart came out. 

But guess what? It was in defense.

I'll not throw Boisy under the bus, as I think he's been pretty good to alot of people, and some will refuse to admit it ;) I hardly think he's trying to be a CoCo dictator in regards to hardware creation.


Sorry I opened this can of worms - can I put Pandora back inside?

Tony


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