[Coco] Announcing the Color Computer Starter Kits

[Andrew]

Hey Bill, these sound great! One question, though:

You mention that you'll have MESS kits available later (as well as the 
"real deal"); do you have any interest in building a kit using one of 
the DOS-based emulators (perhaps Jeff Vavasour's CoCo 3 emu)? Would 
there be any limitations on such a system?

I've found MESS to be ok on my Linux system, but for some reason I like 
the DOS emulators better (they seem to work fine under DOSBox as well - 
though I haven't really exercised them well). I've never tried VCC under 
Wine (maybe it works ok?).

Regardless, I can tell you've put a lot of effort and thought into 
these, so congrats and thanks!

-- 
Andrew L. Ayers
Glendale, Arizona
http://www.phoenixgarage.org/

On 05/18/2014 12:14 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 03:10:47 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Bill Pierce<ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
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> Subject: [Coco] Announcing the Color Computer Starter Kits
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> Hi guys,
> A while back (last year) there was talk of putting together some starter kits for make it easier for people just getting back into Cocos to get started with the real machines, the emulators, DW4, HDBDSO etc. I had volunteered to do this. But it was about that time we found the NitrOS9 repository was a wreck and I decided to wait until we had good repo builds to do this.
> Thanks to Tormod, we now have a good NitrOS9 repo and now it's time for the "Starter Kits"
>
> These "Starter Kits" include almost everything needed for getting started with the Color Computer including the manuals