[Coco] Nick's Survey results

[Bruce Calkins]

Robert has stated my take on the place of my CoCos in my life, perhaps even
a bit better than I could have.  I toss what little money I can to new CoCo
stuff, but, money has been a bit short while I am "between jobs".  I still
haven't tried out my Digiwiper yet!  That said; A GOOD, GUI for Nitros9
would get my attention.

Bruce W.



> As one of those "mature adults" who still support the Coco, I have to
> say the power of modern computers have so greatly exceeded that of the
> Coco, I do all of my word processing, spreadsheet, internet activity,
> and games non-Coco with few exceptions. I use the Coco for tinkering and
> support of the Coco community and not much else.
>
> Frankly the Coco has always been for me, a chance to prove Tandy wrong
> in some fashion, by making the Coco do something Tandy thought
> impossible. I still buy many adventure games but for the PC. While there
> were some games sold by Tandy that still hold their own against the
> current crop, nostalgia probably plays a large part.
>
> We have got to be realistic folks. Much as we like the Coco, and it is
> the perfect tool for hardware tinkering and programming, it is not going
> to take the world by storm no matter what we do with it. There just is
> not much of a Coco market left.
>
> What this means to anyone who wants to create software for the Coco
> community is don't create end products like games and expect to sell
> much. Create tools so users can produce their own projects. That is why
> the emulators, Portal9, and the like or hardware sold by Cloud-9 have at
> least a limited market. These items enable user creativity.