[Coco] Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior

[Tormod Volden]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>
> Aaron,
> I can think of a good counter example for distributing old versions of
> active projects. :)
>
> NitrOS-9 is an active project but if we could not get older versions to run,
> more than a few programs would fail. For example, the change of parameter
> names for tmode and xmode causes problems with programs that call these
> commands. I was just looking at Shanghai for OS-9 which contains tmode
> -echo. As that game is not a 3rdparty entry in NitrOS-9, it will not like
> recent versions of NitrOS-9.

NitrOS-9 is probably a bad example, because the official web site
/does have/ the old versions, many more than on the
colorcomputerarchive! And the source code for it. Actually if you
would want to check out e.g. 3.2.5 you could be mislead by
colorcomputerarchive to believe this version was not available.

One thing that is good about CCA is that you can browse i.e. the OS
folder and get a good overview of which OSes are available for the
CoCo. But a link to active projects would be better than a few
downloads.

Tormod