[Coco] The CoCo

[Roger Taylor]

I wanted to take a minute to tell everybody that I plan to produce some 
very serious CoCo projects soon.  Some of these will be projects I have on 
old EDTASM floppy disks, which I will simply move over to the PC for 
advanced development.

Before I could set myself up for this task, I had to create the ultimate 
tool for writing ML software for the CoCo.  The name of this 6809/6309 IDE 
is called Portal-9 (yes, for Windows).  I'm writing it not only for me, but 
for you.

I have gotten zero response from the CoCo list about this tool, as I still 
work tremendously hard on it.  All of my response has come from Vectrex 
users, which is a major surprise, since Portal-9 is 97.44% CoCo-biased.  In 
fact, it's a CoCo IDE.  In a version or two, there'll be so many 
subroutines you can insert as snippets, that it will leave little to be 
written yourself.  Now is this nice or what?  And I'm only getting started.

What I do know is that most of us own PCs... we love our CoCos, but we 
still live modern lives, and there's nothing wrong with that.  From all the 
talk about the M.E.S.S. emulator and JVC emulators, I'm sure we've had our 
fun emulating the CoCo even if we've got our real ones sitting on the same 
desk.

As I churn out these projects, I will know from feedback whether or not 
what I'm doing is helping keep the CoCo alive or whether it's not.  That 
has been my goal since the beginning.

What I need is feedback of any kind.  Negative feedback won't hurt my 
feelings at all.  Cuss me out, tell me to stop writing CoCo programs, tell 
me that my efforts are pointless, etc... but tell me something.

cheers

{Roger Taylor}