[Coco] Announcement: CoCoBoot Project's first Alpha release

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Brett Gordon wrote:

> I have decided that my "CoCoBoot" project is complete enough for it's
> first alpha release.
>
> CoCoBoot is an effort to modernize, and unify booting strategies for
> the Tandy Color Computer.
>
> 1. Provides scripting to the end user to allow maximum flexibility
>   in creating new way to boot their CoCo.  This scripting ability
>   is provided by a token threaded FORTH compiler.
>
> 2. Allows one boot loader to impliment the various different ways a
>   CoCo can boot: via the DOS, CLOADM, LOADM commands in BASIC, as
>   well as BASIC's cartridge interrupt, and DECB's external ROM paths
>   too.
>
> 3. Provides routines for accessing different disk-based hardware: FDC,
>   IDE, DriveWire, ROM.
>
> see the release's "HELP" file more more info:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cocoboot/

Wow.  That looks like some nice work!

FYI:  The zip file is a bit... odd.  The three text files are present with 
relative paths in the archive:

../README
../COPYING
../HELP

The version of unzip on my Linux box doesn't seem to like that very much.

Was this deliberate?

Steve


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