[Coco] Re: Re: philosphical ... discussions

[Charlie]

Basic can be good, yes. I've heard very good things about my basic programs
that run on the limited MC-10.

However what I meant was basic can't do a Sinistaar or Pac-Man Tribute :-)

Charlie

"James Dessart" <james at skwirl.ca> wrote in
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> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Charlie wrote:
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> > Well if you want new stuff, and have to write it yourself, then the CoCo
is
> > nothing more than nostalgia.
>
> But what else would it be? Hacker nostalgia is a big pass time. And how is
> that something that can be referred to as "nothing more than"?
>
> I'm not directing my comments at you, but at the community in general.
> There's a little too much, "Well I can't do it, so I'll wait for someone
> else to." and not enough "That sounds like fun, I'll do it."
>
> I agree with John that BASIC games can be good. What you have to
> concentrate on there is making the content good, rather than making it do
> something fantastic and new. The thing is, for those kinds of games, you
> have to take the time to think a story through.
>
> We can push the hardware all we want, but that doesn't make a good game
> necessarily. Yes, everyone could learn assembly, and become GIME gurus,
> but that's not going to happen. So you write something in BASIC that's
> really cool. Then someone who knows assembly can turn it into something
> that pushes the hardware.
>
> The thing is, it's not just hardware and software skills that make a
> computer community great, it's the creativity, the desire to explore.
>
> In any case, I think we need more high level languages for the CoCo.
> That's one of my big reasons for wanting to get gcc up to speed. once you
> have the backend, gcc can use almost any language as the front end. Java,
> objective-c, Ada, FORTRAN, COBOL, whatever your heart desires almost.
>
> James
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