[Coco] The Tri-Annual CoCo 4 Thread

[Allen Huffman]

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On Feb 16, 2014, at 2:15 AM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On 16/02/2014 6:46 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
> 
>> No! This is where it starts falling down!
>> 
>> We start adding all these add-on's and then what do we have? A mish-mash
>> machine with no definite personality.

On the flipside, when it comes to a machine that runs virtually, if it could do so dynamically (think: a hardware "MESS" emulator machine, with modules for different things), it gives the benefit of a machine being whatever you want, so you use it like you want, but if someone sends you a program written for Virtual Speech Pak, you can run it... Or Virtual WordPack+, you can run it... Interesting.

In a way, it's like the real hardware was. There were things written for Hi-Res joystick or Speech Pak many never got to run 'cause they didn't have that hardware. In the early years, disk software was like that for me when I just had cassette...

But I suppose latching on a 32-bit "something" accessory wouldn't be very CoCo-like.

		-- A