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

[Charlie]

Hi Griz, I really didnt mean its crap I just meant as in saying same old 
"stuff" :-)

Ports of the old programs to take advantage of the better coco hardware 
today would be excellent.
I'm in the same boat, above my capability. (for now)

Tonight I started laying out a map for a graphical adventure, and will hand 
draw the art in a drawing program I made myself a long time ago. You can see 
examples of it in my game Dragon Castles, on my web page. All I can do is 
basic, so thats what I'll do! :-)

Charlie

"Ray Watts" <rayanddoraleew at earthlink.net> wrote 
in message news:41659C15.2030804 at earthlink.net...
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> Charlie wrote:
>
>>Well if you want new stuff, and have to write it yourself, then the CoCo 
>>is
>>nothing more than nostalgia.
>>All this new hardware is just cooler faster better ways to store and run 
>>the
>>same old shit.
>>
>>
> Charlie,  I don't know how far back you go with the CoCo, but there were 
> apps that would look fairly good even on today's computers.  Such RSDOS 
> apps as the VIP Library, MAX-10 & CoCoMax3 were ,and still are superb. The 
> problem that exists on nearly all the good apps is to get them working on 
> HGBDOS or to port them over to OS-9.  They used their own disk commands 
> and need to hacked into conformity.  There were also some very good apps 
> for OS-9 that seemed to disappear into the woodwork like MVCanvas.  So, it 
> may not be a requirement of programming from scratch, but just digging in 
> and hacking away.  Unforch, it is a little above my capability.
>
> Cheers,  Griz
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