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

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:44:03 PM Steven Hirsch did opine:

> 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

Doubtful Steve.  There is unzip, and there is gunzip.  They do not appear 
to be compatible with each others file structures.

Cheers, Gene
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