[Coco] Re: The CoCo

Richard E. Crislip rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Mon Dec 8 01:20:00 EST 2003


Hello Roger

I did download it, but haven't had time to try iy out yet.

On 12/03/03, 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}
> 
> 
Regards
-- 
Cruisen                                                         _|_
              on AutoPilot with an Amiga   ---o-( )-o---   and a CoCo
 
                                             Richard




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