[Coco] Color Flex

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Fri Aug 29 10:25:33 EDT 2008


Frank Swygert wrote:
> There are no patches to Color Flex that will allow it to be run on a
> CC3. It was gone way before the CC3 came out! It was sort of a
> competitor to OS-9 Level 1, and in some ways was better -- it made
> better use of a 32-64K environment. Frank Hogg got in a bit of hot
> water by saying Flex was better than OS-9! Then the CC3 and Level II
> came out. OS-9 was better than Flex given the extra memory to work
> with, and Flex fell to the wayside. 
And of course the TC-9 and most or all of the other computers FHL sold
ran OS-9 rather than Flex.  He just thought Level I was a bit too
cramped on the CoCo 1/2.

Still, I've always wanted to see what Flex was all about.  I guess I'd
better break out an older CoCo for that.

JCE

> There may have been later versions of Flex that exploited more memory,
> but none were developed for or ported to the CoCo3 that I know of.
> ---------
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:26:51 +1000
> From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
>
> Among the many disk images in the ISO file recently uploaded to RTSI,
> I came across a disk image of "Color Flex V5.0.2"
>
> I believe that this will only run on a Coco 1 or 2. Does anyone know
> of any patches to enable Flex to run on a Coco3?
>




More information about the Coco mailing list