[Coco] The CoCo

[ostro011]

Roger, please don't ever stop writing for the Coco.  I'm sure many of us
have written programs that we needed to help us over a sticky spot in some
development project.  It's great when these get shared with the Coco
community.  Thanks!

-- Steve --


On 3 Dec 2003, Roger Taylor wrote:
> I wanted to take a minute to tell everybody that I plan to produce some 
> very serious CoCo projects soon.  Some of these will be projects I have
on 
> old EDTASM floppy disks, which I will simply move over to the PC for 
> advanced development.
> 
> Before I could set myself up for this task, I had to create the ultimate 
> tool for writing ML software for the CoCo.  The name of this 6809/6309
IDE 
> is called Portal-9 (yes, for Windows).  I'm writing it not only for me,
but 
> for you.
> 
> I have gotten zero response from the CoCo list about this tool, as I
still 
> work tremendously hard on it.  All of my response has come from Vectrex 
> users, which is a major surprise, since Portal-9 is 97.44% CoCo-biased. 
In 
> fact, it's a CoCo IDE.  In a version or two, there'll be so many 
> subroutines you can insert as snippets, that it will leave little to be 
> written yourself.  Now is this nice or what?  And I'm only getting
started.
> 
> What I do know is that most of us own PCs... we love our CoCos, but we 
> still live modern lives, and there's nothing wrong with that.  From all
the 
> talk about the M.E.S.S. emulator and JVC emulators, I'm sure we've had
our 
> fun emulating the CoCo even if we've got our real ones sitting on the
same 
> desk.
> 
> As I churn out these projects, I will know from feedback whether or not 
> what I'm doing is helping keep the CoCo alive or whether it's not.  That 
> has been my goal since the beginning.
> 
> What I need is feedback of any kind.  Negative feedback won't hurt my 
> feelings at all.  Cuss me out, tell me to stop writing CoCo programs,
tell 
> me that my efforts are pointless, etc... but tell me something.
> 
> cheers
> 
> {Roger Taylor}
> 
> 
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