[Coco] Emulating a 1980 4K CoCo on PC

Rogelio Perea os9dude at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 19:14:35 EST 2014


On Wed Dec 31 2014, Nick Marentes wrote:

2) Does the 4K programming competition have to be designated for a 4K Color
> Basic system? Here is Australia, the standard system at the time was a 16K
> Extended Basic system. 4K Color Basic was available but those that bought
> this either quickly dumped their machine for something better or had it
> upgraded. When I think of the CoCo1, I think of 16K Extended Basic. I know
> many would not even have looked at the CoCo at this configuration and all
> the Tandy (Radio Shack) stores had 16 Extended as their store demo systems.
>
> Should the competition be changed to a 16K Extended Basic competition?
>

That would defeat the purpose of this particular exercise - work within the
limitations of a 4K RAM and Color Basic 1.x

Perhaps another category can be open to other system's particulars at
another time.


-- RP


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