[Coco] The CoCo

rondelvo rondelvo at rochester.rr.com
Wed Dec 3 02:20:01 EST 2003


im amazed of your talent!
go!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:38 AM
Subject: [Coco] The CoCo


> 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}
>
>
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