[Coco] An interesting find...

[Ward Griffiths]

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 03:43 pm, alsplace at pobox.com wrote:
> Very very cool, Boisy.  The closest I've ever found to that was
> before moving to Des Moines (early 1990s) an area college had some
> CD-i books in their library.
>
> It would be neat to be able to get a CD/DVD collection of "all" the
> issues of various classic computer magazines like Byte or 80 Micros
> or Hot CoCo.  I wonder if reprints will ever come back as nostalgia,
> like old video games and such.
>
> (Speaking of -- Atari is re-re-rereleasing another collection of old
> arcade, 2600, and 7800 games to various consoles, AND they are
> releasing a "new" console that plays a bunch of them.  The twist to
> the software release is it comes with a pair of "old school"
> joysticks to properly play the Atari games on.)
>
> I wonder if Radio Shack could ever be convinced in producing a TRS80
> emulation collection for PCs -- one with TRS-80 stuff, one with CoCo
> stuff, etc.  Just having all the Radio Shack ROM paks on a CD
> "official and legal" (and tape and disk games, too?) would be
> something I'd snag.

Unfortunately, Radio Shack doesn't own any of the stuff.  Literally 
everything was sold to AST (and I guess is now owned by Sanyo or 
somebody).  That is, the stuff they owned in the first place.  Most of 
the software sold by RS was under license from the real owners.
-- 
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net    http://home.comcast.net/~wdg3rd/

No phrase sickens me more than the pious "'Tis God's will" and I must be
hearing it in one form or another at least twenty times a day.
    --  Richard Cowper, "The Hertsford Manuscript", F&SF Oct '76 p31col2