[Coco] Re: philosphical ... discussions

[Charlie]

In some ways even converting some older software to run under OS-9 would
take advantage of the newer hardware.
Actualy it would be interesting to see if OS-9 could handle a game like
Zenix, or any of Nicks CoCo3 games.

Charlie

"Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote in
message news:6.1.1.1.0.20041007000508.01fe4c28 at pop.bayou.com...

> At 10:20 PM 10/6/2004, you wrote:

> >On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 19:07, Roger Taylor wrote:

> >

> > > Today, we're seeing a lot of new gadgets to add on, but hardly any

> > software

> > > to use that hardware.  This is why I think CoCo authors should try

> > Portal-9

> > > to see how easy it can be to develop for the CoCo from a more modern

> > > computer just like the hardware designers are using modern tools to

> > develop

> > > all these neat CoCo gadgets.  After all, hardware is nothing without

> > software.

>

>

>

> >I guess the important questions are:

> >

> >a) What is needed... there's a lot of old stuff that's perfectly usable.

> >What's missing?

> >b) Who is ready to volunteer?

>

> What's missing is new Disk BASIC software that can take advantage of the

> new hardware and memory expansions.

>

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> Roger Taylor

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