[Coco] old newbie on the list

[Stephen Pereira]

OK, I certainly understand your situation.

The good news is that my Color Forth adaptation also works with the VCC CoCo emulator.

With VCC, you can vicariously get started right away, and be ready for when the opportunity arises that you can acquire your favorite CoCo model in the future.

smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
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> On Aug 15, 2015, at 8:37 AM, BlameTroi <blametroi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Cool news. I went looking for Color Forth but since Charles Moore has his
> own project by that name, I couldn't find anything for all the noise. Color
> Forth is where I first got interested in the language. My wife will shoot
> me if I get any more toys for the year, but I'm watching and plan to get a
> real coco again soon. I was shocked and pleased to see so much available
> once I started looking.
> 
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> BlameTroi,
>> 
>> Welcome back to the CoCo community!
>> 
>> Please note that you can get back into Forth on the CoCo.  If you have a
>> CoCo, I have modified the Talbot Microsystems Color Forth to work on any
>> CoCo with Disk Extended Color Basic (DECB).  So, a CoCo with one disk
>> drive, or with Drivewire substituting for your disk storage will give you
>> the best of both - CoCo and Forth.
>> 
>> Good luck to you,
>> smp
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>> Stephen M. Pereira
>> Bedford, NH  03110
>> KB1SXE
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 15, 2015, at 8:10 AM, BlameTroi <blametroi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi. BlameTroi is Troy Brumley. I was an avid coco user back in the day
>> and
>>> wrote articles for Color Computer News, Rainbow, and Color Micro
>> Journal. I
>>> wrote a macro key assembler program as my first serious article in Color
>>> Computer News. I can't remember the name of the hard sectored DOS from a
>>> guy in Arizona, but that was my first set of disks for my coco. I even
>> did
>>> the soldered upgrade to 32K :)
>>> 
>>> I can't find any of my old stuff digitized, and my paper copies are long
>>> gone after a messy divorce :(
>>> 
>>> I got kicked out of the workforce a couple of years ago (disability) and
>> as
>>> I cast about for something to do, I discovered that retro computing is a
>>> thing. Right now I'm most seriously looking at relearning Forth but want
>> to
>>> start watching the coco community as well. As it was back in the day, all
>>> the attention seems to go to the more successful but less interesting
>>> systems, so I was surprised to find much of anything on the coco. There's
>>> some kickstarter for a C64 book, wtf :)
>>> 
>>> L8r,
>>> 
>>> Troy.
>>> 
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