[Coco] Mice and The CoCo, PD Library and Sub-Etha stuff -- Attn: Allen Huffman!

[Joel Ewy]

coco at yourdvd.net wrote:
> Joel, your suggestions are excellent. As soon as I get moved in I'll
> start organizing everything (honestly, when I'm not working, I am at
> the PC or one of the CoCo's - the CoCo is much more fun). I was sitting
> here fooling with one of my PIC programmers and working on the idea - I
> actually like your idea of having it roll over from 0 to 63 and vice
> versa, but perhaps it could be switchable - exact emulation, or
> rollover).
>
>   
Thanks, Robert.  I'll be really interested in what you might come up
with.  I wonder how difficult it would be to add support for scroll
wheels.  I hated those things when they first came out -- I think the
first one I played with had too weak a spring for the middle-button
function, so I found it very difficult to scroll without doing
unintended middle-button clicks -- but by now I've gotten to like them.
> As for organizing the PD, I wouldn't want to include anything that
> hadn't been officially released to the public for distribution, but I
> am going to proceed with this - I'll have given something to the
> community useful other than my sometimes senseless rants.
>
>   
I understand and agree.  But as you noted in your original post, others
do sometimes upload things other than that which is confirmed freely
distributable.  Establishing a system that includes tags for other types
might be useful in contexts other than your specific library.  And for
some purposes, PD vs OS vs SW might matter.  Also, if somebody sends you
something clearly marked CS, you can quickly decide how to deal with it.

I wonder how much actual Public Domain stuff you will find.  I know
there were disk subscription services that distributed "PD" stuff.  I
never subscribed to those, so I really don't know how much of that was
really PD, how much was shareware, how much was ??.  If there is a bunch
of real PD stuff, I'd love to get to see it all.  Let me know if I can help.
> All of your suggestions are useful and have given me something to think
> about. I'll definitely keep in touch. Also, I wonder, what did Allen do
> with all of the Sub-Etha stuff (I would love to get ahold of the 80
> column patch he did for the Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy).
>
>   
Good question.  Hey Allen!
> -robert
>
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