[Coco] CoCoFEST! is coming... Re: CoCoFEST! call for presentations!

[Mark McDougall]

On 1/02/2017 12:11 PM, RETRO Innovations wrote:

> Your statement is inconclusive as to how you feel about this new fact.
> "Bummer, it's the same guy", or "Wow, it's the same guy" both follow
> from your statement :-)

I guess you'll never know... ;)

Cross-pollination is always good in the retro world! I have (rather low 
profile) hooks in all aspects of retro computing/gaming, across arcade, 
console and 8/16-bit microcomputers, and dabble in hardware and software 
for a few of them! :)

Coco is, of course, one of my nostalgic favourites considering I 
actually owned one back in the day. Ditto for TRS-80 Model I & Amiga. 
And good to see the Coco scene come alive in recent years, that has been 
the impetus for my recent Coco-based projects. Without an active 
community, it pretty pointless doing much development...

Although I never owned a Commodore myself, a good friend had a C64. 
These days I own a VIC-20 and C64(C) and a drive or two. I've dabbled 
with FPGA emulation and actually implemented a 1541 in an FPGA which 
could read a G64 disk image from SD card. Even hooked it up to a 
physical C64, as well as the C64 emulation running inside the same FPGA.

That's about the extent of my C64 experience. One day I want to port a 
game to it, much like my Coco ports, although the 6502/6510 isn't my 
favourite processor... maybe I'll port a C64 game to another machine 
first... :P

Regards,

-- 
Mark McDougall
<http://retroports.blogspot.com.au>