[Coco] A Humble Proposal Re: M/L Disk I/O and CoCo Game "Construction Sets"

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Sat Apr 14 01:43:16 EDT 2007


well, i've heard beer is basically liquid bread :-)

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Coco] A Humble Proposal Re: M/L Disk I/O and CoCo Game
> "Construction Sets"
> From: wdg3rd at comcast.net
> Date: Fri, April 13, 2007 10:24 pm
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Joel Ewy
>  > Actually, it sounds to me like what you have started and what I'm
> > proposing could be largely complementary. You are talking about >
> back-end stuff (which will obviously need some kind of programming >
> interface) and I'm talking about a programming interface (which will
> > obviously need some kind of back-end, whether that be calls to the
> > CoCo's ROM routines, entirely new code, or some combination of the
> two.) Joel, I congratulate you. You are one of the extremely few
> posters I have seen in a quarter of a century on Usenet and in email
> lists to properly use the word "complementary". The print media
> usually screws it up as well. Sorry. I've had a couple of beers and
> obviously am easily amused. The comment is off-topic. But it is none
> the less true. I spend literally years gritting my teeth at crappy
> word usage and I have to compliment somebody when he uses complement
> correctly. I'll go back downstairs and watch the Comedy Central roast
> of Pamela Anderson now. Yeah, I really have to get my Color Computers
> back in action. -- Ward Griffiths wdg3rd at comcast.net The reason folks
> don't think of installing Windows as a painful experience is roughly
> the same reason men don't think of childbirth as a painful
> experience. Mike,
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/letters_3003/ -- Coco mailing
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