[Coco] PopStar Pilot - Another chapter added

[Al Hartman]

You might get a kick out of this...

Tim Jennison of Video Toaster fame used to work for Colorware in Queens. One 
day, John Monin who owned Colorware and Alpha Products asked me to stop 
across the street to see something Tim was working on.

I was working for Zebra Systems at the time.

Tim showed me the prototype for the Video Toaster, which he built as a Coco 
cartridge. It was HUGE!

But, it was neat!

He eventually moved it to the Amiga platform. Even the Mac was originally 
going to use the 6809 processor.

- Al -

-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Goedeken
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 7:59 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] PopStar Pilot - Another chapter added

I'm impressed that people are using Amigas for Coco development work.  I 
have
a sweet A1200 setup but have never written any software for the Amiga and am
not familiar with the tools.  So I'm using a modern linux PC with MESS as my
main dev platform for DynoSprite, and only using the real Coco 3 for 
testing.
  Even doing the software development on the coco would be extremely 
painful.
  If my sprite compiler were ported from Python to BASIC it would probably
take days for one run :)

Richard