[Coco] Multi Pack Replacement

[nickma2 at optusnet.com.au]

Thanks Al. You're right. It's not worth the effort. All this dreaming
is pointless.

And you've opened my eyes to all the time I have been wasting even
writing my new game. What am I doing it for? Haven't I got better
things to do?!

I've spent months building what I percieve to be a cutting edge CoCo3
game utilizing some fancy techniques. Who is even interested in it? I
won't be making a dime from it in sales anyway.

Why would anyone want to put the effort in to create anything new for
the CoCo?

Thanks Al. You've given me back so much of my free time.

Project shelved.

Nick

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From: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To:"CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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Sent:Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:37:48 -0500
Subject:Re: [Coco] Multi Pack Replacement

 1. I think anything other than a simple MPI Clone is a project way
beyond 
 the scope of hobbyists. It sounds so simple to say, "hey! Let's throw
this 
 or that in!" When you aren't the one who has to design, debug, and
produce 
 it.

 At Zebra Systems, we sold a disk system for the Timex Computer made
for the 
 ZX-Spectrum and the TC-2068. The TC-2068 was software compatible with
the 
 American TS-2068, but the expansion bus had a ZX-Spectrum pinout
rather than 
 the one the American system had. We had to manufacture something
called a 
 Twister Board. I was pushing for us to make a "Super Twister" which
would 
 have the expansion adapter, RGB video out, and an on-board Spectrum
Emulator 
 ROM. We even had the thing already designed for us in the technical
manual 
 Timex published.

 We wasted half a year laying out, building and testing prototypes to
give 
 up. It was taking too long and costing too much to develop. We'd
never earn 
 it back in sales. We laid out a simple twister that worked first
time, and 
 went into production with those.

 -[ Al ]- 

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