[Coco] Re: Howdy from another n00b

[Chad H]

Welcome to the group! :)  Always great to meet new creative CoCo enthusiasts.  There are a lot of different types here with many talents in both software and hardware.





- Chad H

https://sites.google.com/site/cbhlab101


--------- Original Message ---------
From: Lee Patterson
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Date: Sat Jan 16 14:34:43 CST 2016
Subject: Re: [Coco] Howdy from another n00b
New to the mailing list at least :) I've been coding since the 80's, and made it my career. I owe learning Color BASIC to the kind Radio Shack employees that let me hack away on the demo machine all day long. I wish I could thank the manager.

After learning Color BASIC and finally getting a Coco 3, I picked up EDTASM and didn't have a clue about it, so I returned it. When I got OS9 L2 I switched to BASIC09. Must have been about ’89 a friend working for a video game company said I should learn C. Not an easy process switching from BASIC to C, but I'm glad I did. I lost my Coco 3 sometime after switching to PC's a couple years later.

Since getting back into the Coco late last year, I've been following the assembly rabbit hole all the way down! It's like the ultimate puzzle, tough as nails. But these days it makes a lot more sense. I'm not that great, but with Simon showing me the ropes, I hope to have an all assembly game out soon.

I now have a Coco 3 with 512K and 6309 cpu from Cloud9. An RGBtoVGA and CocoSDC from Ed, and a non functioning Multipak from ebay. Development is on my Mac using CMOC and lwasm, testing on MAME/MESS, then deploying to my real Coco3 for final testing.

You can see the latest updates on Bouncy Ball here http://www.8bitcoder.com/bouncyball/ <http://www.8bitcoder.com/bouncyball/>. My plan is to make it shareware, and hoping the community is open to the idea. When I was feeling really nostalgic and I needed a new domain that really said programmer, I came up with 8BitCoder.com, which seemed to fit the bill perfectly. I plan to publish my games, as well as any programming related experiments. Like converting BASIC programs to C, learning AI, graphics on the Coco, and of course, learning assembly.

Lee
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