[Coco] Nick's Survey results

[Mark Marlette]

At 11:24 PM 11/26/2003 -0600, you wrote:

In the near future... The CoCo will be FLASHable. Boisy and I have the 
software and the hardware to do this implemented on the SuperIDE board. It 
looks like you are FLASHing your motherboard's BIOS and it is on the CoCo! :)

That portion is working 100%. Have a slight timing problem in the CPLD that 
I need to figure out yet.

Mark
Cloud-9

>At 05:23 PM 11/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>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.
>
>
>Ofcourse, if the CoCo is completely dead to some of us here (not me), then 
>I wonder if we are becoming a chit-chat group.  I've always thought of 
>"us" as a support group of the only remaining serious CoCo users who have 
>the power to keep this computer alive for years to come.
>
>My idea was to make it possible for creative people to still have a desire 
>to create CoCo projects.. and in turn help keep the CoCo useful.
>
>I really think embedded projects using old CoCo motherboards will be 
>something we might all want to try one day.  Creating the ROM software 
>with Portal-9 and getting Cloud-9 to burn the EPROMs might be the only way 
>for some.
>
>
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