[Coco] because we can not do the same

[Nick Marentes]

When I first saw the site, I was intrigued. But when I realized that 
it's just a Netbook PC (ion based motherboard), I then saw that the real 
wow was just how they replicated the plastic case and keyboard.

 From there on, it's just a PC running Linux (and Win7?) with a 
downgrader program (C64 emulator). Kudos to the guys behind it for 
making it such a commercial venture. There isn't anything like it or 
anywhere near it in the CoCo community.

For me, I can do that on my existing PC with a free C64 emulator. Once 
you get over the novelty, it really is working in the reverse of 
progress by taking a more powerful computer and dumbing it down. I think 
anyone buying such a system will end up using it mainly as a PC with a 
novelty case.

Like my PC that I currently use, it's a full PC in a Amiga 2000 case 
(Modded it myself). Run an Emulator and it looks like an Amiga... but I 
rarely do. I have a real Amiga sitting right next to it.

I still believe in *real hardware*. The FPGA CoCo3 holds more interest 
to me because it's taking something and building it up from there, 
eventually with added CoCo4 functionality.

This is a far greater achievement in my mind.

Nick