[Coco] Fresh new retro computing article!

[Brian Blake]

Why don't you try reading the posts before CoCoFest. Or better yet, reread
the message you responded to.

Some guy named 'Brock' said that Richard L. asked him to join FB, the CoCo
Group specifically, and answer some questions about the Boomerang that were
going around. Which Richard L. denied ever knowing the guy  or asking him
to speak on his behalf.



On Mon, May 27, 2019, 9:59 PM Eric <eric at canales.me> wrote:

> Why should a seller have to have heard of someone? That doesn't make sense.
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 8:56 PM Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 'The whole chart idea was ill conceived to start with.'
> >
> > Why? As long as logical discussion follows, there's no problem. What IS a
> > problem is when others say they are speaking on behalf of one of the
> > selling entities when in fact they are not, and the seller has never
> heard
> > of the person, THAT is a problem.
> >
> > On Mon, May 27, 2019, 9:48 PM D. Bruce Moore <bruce at gracenote.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > "ignore the excellent advice in Boisy's article and go ahead and
> produce
> > > hardware in direct competition to an established product, at least
> > refrain
> > > from specifically targeting that product and drawing up a hit-list of
> > > cherry-picked "features". That's just kicking sand in someone's face.”
> > >
> > > Mark McDougall, who do you think drew up that hit-list?  It wasn’t the
> > guy
> > > who produced a competing product, it was the guy who had the current
> > > product dissing his new competitor.  That new competitor responded
> with a
> > > chart refuting a long list of errors.  The whole chart idea was ill
> > > conceived to start with.
> > >
> > > > On May 27, 2019, at 7:55 PM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 28/05/2019 9:28 am, tonym wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Has ANY other group of user around a machine ever had as much
> > > >> in-fighting as the CoCo has over the past 2 decades? We've had so
> > > >> many "events," battles, and situations, that it is absolutely beyond
> > > >> belief.
> > > >
> > > > I don't think you'll find the CoCo community is any worse than other
> > > retro-computing/gaming based communities on the net.
> > > >
> > > > I have a fairly broad interest across the retro computing/gaming
> hobby
> > > arena and there's squabbles and in-fighting everywhere. A lot of it
> > fairly
> > > minor and isolated, but every now and then it can erupt into a
> > "religious"
> > > war between factions. The NeoSD vs Darksoft is a very relevant example
> in
> > > the Neo Geo scene where two recently developed products that have
> > > essentially the same function seem to have polarized the community.
> > > >
> > > > The Neo Geo community is notorious for its general intolerance
> towards
> > > "noobs". The Atari forums are rife with constant, albeit low-level,
> > > squabbles. The Apple II scene has recently had its feathers ruffled by
> a
> > > very green would-be hardware developer. Plenty of squabbles behind the
> > > scenes of the MAMEDEV group. The list goes on...
> > > >
> > > > The CoCo community is relatively small but thanks in no small part to
> > > the CoCoCrew Podcast, Stevie's Videos and CoCoFest & Tandy Assembly
> > events
> > > has seen a huge resurgence in recent years. I also personally think the
> > > CoCoSDC has been the most significant hardware development in quite a
> > > while, and itself responsible for people spending more time playing
> with
> > > their CoCo hardware. But to be honest by the same token I've sort of
> > being
> > > expecting the bubble to burst; for some of the leading personalities to
> > > burn out and move onto other things, and the scene to settle back down
> > to a
> > > less chaotic - although hopefully still vibrant - status quo.
> > > >
> > > > Lastly, I'll re-iterate what I said in a post somewhere a few weeks
> > ago.
> > > If you do decide to ignore the excellent advice in Boisy's article and
> go
> > > ahead and produce hardware in direct competition to an established
> > product,
> > > at least refrain from specifically targeting that product and drawing
> up
> > a
> > > hit-list of cherry-picked "features". That's just kicking sand in
> > someone's
> > > face.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mark McDougall
> > > > <http://retroports.blogspot.com.au>
> > > >
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