[Coco] What we want out of the CoCo was:c64 taking making a comback!?

[Frank Pittel]

I always thought that hobbies were the act of big boys playing with toys :-)

I'm interested in a new version of a coco for a number of reasons. The first is
that real coco's aren't being made anymore and one day won't exist in volumes high
enough for me to be able to afford more. :-) The second is that my coco and all
it's related hardware takes up a lot of space in storage when I'm not using it and
even more space when I am! A coco by itself doesn't take up a lot of room but when
you plugg in the mpi, attach drives and plug it into a monitor of some sort it
takes up a lot of space. A coco3fpga board is far more compact and offers to me at
least a "coco experience" very much like a real coco.

The Other Frank


On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:40:49PM -0700, Steve Bjork wrote:
> While I would not call the "CoCo experience" a toy, I would call it
> a hobby.  (Hobby is our code word for big boy toys.)
> 
> For me, writing code for the 6809 is my hobby because I really enjoy
> coding for that CPU.  But at one time, I did use the CoCo for more.
> I used a CoCo as a controller for small hardware projects.  But
> these days, I use everything from Basic Stamp to BasicX to Arduino
> to PIC chips for my simple hardware projects.   For larger projects,
> I use a PC as the controller for lighting, sound and animation
> systems for shows and displays.
> 
> Other than hobby coding on the 6809, there is very little that I use
> the CoCo for these days.  (Well, I do test code and hardware for the
> FDC emulator project.)  But that's why I find CoCo emulators running
> on a PC a good fit for me. I can test out the code on the emulator
> and than drop it on the real CoCo for the final test.  (It also
> speeds of code development too.)
> 
> So, the real question is why do *YOU* (as in all of you) need a new
> version of the CoCo?
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 6/9/2011 12:11 PM, Frank Pittel wrote:
> >Sounds great! Where do I get your coco-4 from? :-) ( for the humor impared
> >I'm joking )
> >
> >I'm not sure that I agree that running an emulator on top of another OS on my
> >desktop computer (or laptop for that matter) gives any more bang for my buck.
> >Remember for most of us the coco is a "toy" that we pull out of storage from time
> >to time to play with. Any more "real" work is done on either our desktops or
> >laptops running windows or linux.
> >
> >The Other Frank
> 
> 
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