[Coco] Intro.

[Arthur Flexser]

Welcome, but I've gotta ask:

What's an "MK 3" Color Computer?  Never heard of that beast.  Do you perhaps
mean a CoCo 3?  Or, is it one of those CoCo clones sold only in Madagascar
or someplace?

Art
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Steven Triller <trillersmi at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Well, to introduce myself, I suppose I should say I am a collector
> interested in vintage electronics from the old-era, why? Because they
> generally embody a better design both in the style of the design and in the
> quality of the hardware, and perhaps most importantly are still useful and
> certainly fun, in the case of vintage micro-computers they offer all of the
> basic functions that we use on modern computers today-that is to say with
> the right hardware and software you could even write a term-paper on a Tandy
> Color Computer. Furthermore, they also play great old-style/arcade games, so
> they are great gaming machines. The second generation of hardware, in terms
> of video games and computers was for me at least the best era, so many
> simple but innovative games made in that era-in short I think there was much
> more uniqueness in the design of games. As for the modern era-games seem to
> follow a predetermined pattern and consensus, in other words genres and
> franchises-in short what i
>  s successful, the modern era seems stagnant, it is just a game of follow
> the leader. As for my interest in CoCo, I am interested in it because of the
> reasons cited above and so I just acquired a MK 3 Color Computer, but I have
>  no games for it.........so what I would really like is some basic game
> code so I can enter the the game code itself so that I can start
> enjoying it-computers like the Commodore Vic-20 and The Coco are really
> great gaming computers, and that is my main interest-the type of games I
>  like are arcade-style games, Like Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pacman
> and so on. Also I am also interested in the history of the Machine and as
>  such would be interested in material like Consumer reports or Ad's or
> other material produced-magazine articles or general articles especially
>  those containing examples of game code, and introducing the new CoCo.
> These material are desired on the subject of CoCo, articles made at the
> height of The Color Computer's popularity from the early 80's to the early
> 90's........
>
> Steven
>
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