[Coco] What are some good starting points for a CoCo noob (me)?

[Bob Devries]

To Hex Star:

FIRSTLY:  in my not so humble opinion, you cannot go past owning a REAL 
colour computer. For preference, get a Colour Computer 3 with 512K of memory 
and a colour monitor.

The emulators, as good as they are, just don't cut it.

SECONDLY:
Use google to search for, and then read the many documents available for 
this computer of ours. Some of the FTP sites and Web sites already mentioned 
are a good starting point. It has been my pleasure to make available to the 
coco community, all the documentation I have. That is an on-going project.

THIRDLY:
play, play, play. By that I mean, TYPE IN the example programmes, and make 
them work; modify them to make them do stuff the way *you* want it. Read the 
many example programmes available in BASIC, Assembler, and other languages 
for the coco.

When you've done that, by all means, ask questions here.

BUT!!!! Keep the posts SHORT!

I'm considered one of the gurus here (though I dispute that!), and my posts 
are USUALLY quite short (this one excepted), unless more details are 
required to explain the problem I'm having.

Hope that helps.
--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hex Star" <hexstar at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:14 PM
Subject: [Coco] What are some good starting points for a CoCo noob (me)?


> Hello, I would likely to seriously start learning about the CoCo so that I
> can properly answer on topic CoCo questions and thus am wondering if 
> anyone
> on this list has any advice on some good starting points for a CoCo noob
> like me? Thanks! :)
>
> P.S. I regret ever going about promoting my archive on this list the way I
> did, if I were to promote it at all again I'd make a post saying that I am
> working on putting up a public file server containing vintage era 
> computing
> software files and would like opinions on what coco related software I
> should put on the server. I was very wrong in going about blatantly saying
> that I will be archiving everything on my server and fully regret ever 
> doing
> that. The only reason I ever even embarked on this project was to give 
> back
> to the community because of the fact that I don't really have the 
> experience
> that others who help out in the community have but I do have system
> administration skills and it is from that that I got the idea of giving 
> back
> to the community by way of protecting the files from ever disappearing.
> However I am now aware that 1) I really promoted the server the wrong way
> and 2) Answering on topic questions would be much better received by the
> community then a multi purpose retro file server. Thus I am working on
> number 2 by being silent on the list and reading the mail, in the future I
> only plan to respond when I am confident that I can properly answer a on
> topic coco question. I fully regret my mistakes and hope that you guys 
> will
> in time forgive me....
>
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