[Coco] TC-9 (was Coco Repack)

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/7/04 11:33:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
boisy at boisypitre.com writes:

> You still use your CoCo?  What are you doing with it these days?  An 
>  old timer you like you would be great to help with the NitrOS-9 
>  project.

Hi Boisy.  Well, I don't boot up my Coco very often.  I used to, just to 
back-port improvements to MM/1 UltiMusE into the Coco code -- quite a trick, with 
the dynamic memory mapping and all.  At some point I gave this up, when the 
MM/1 features went beyond what could be fit into the Coco version (well, not 
without a lot more effort -- we all know that *anything* is possible with the 
Coco! :-)

But my Linux port of UME has long since passed the point where even the MM/1 
would probably be able to handle the upgrades, and so I haven't booted my 
Coco3 in probably close to a year.  It was once state of the art, with 1 Meg (or 
did I go to 2?), dual ST-225 20M hard drives on B&B, and three floppy drive sof 
different sizes.  But I never went to 6309, IDE HD, or other stuff.

So I don't use it much anymore.  I do miss the assembly programming and the 
close to the metal approach. 

What I WOULD get back to it for, would be dedicated real-time systems, like 
MIDI merge and control boxes, where I could program in assembler and blow code 
into ROMs.  That would let the Coco 2's lying around in my attic do something 
useful.
  --Mike K.