[Coco] Fresh new retro computing article!

[Eric]

What has Stevie said that makes the FB groups suck?

Since when shouldn't there be hardware competition. Look at any bit of
hardware for any system and you'll find 1-2 competing products by different
people... That's standard operating procedure. People need a product, they
build it for themselves, they build it in a way that they can also
distribute it to others.

If you don't like that, you're in the wrong hobby.

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:55 PM Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
wrote:

> On 28/05/2019 9:28 am, tonym wrote:
>
> > Has ANY other group of user around a machine ever had as much
> > in-fighting as the CoCo has over the past 2 decades? We've had so
> > many "events," battles, and situations, that it is absolutely beyond
> > belief.
>
> I don't think you'll find the CoCo community is any worse than other
> retro-computing/gaming based communities on the net.
>
> I have a fairly broad interest across the retro computing/gaming hobby
> arena and there's squabbles and in-fighting everywhere. A lot of it
> fairly minor and isolated, but every now and then it can erupt into a
> "religious" war between factions. The NeoSD vs Darksoft is a very
> relevant example in the Neo Geo scene where two recently developed
> products that have essentially the same function seem to have polarized
> the community.
>
> The Neo Geo community is notorious for its general intolerance towards
> "noobs". The Atari forums are rife with constant, albeit low-level,
> squabbles. The Apple II scene has recently had its feathers ruffled by a
> very green would-be hardware developer. Plenty of squabbles behind the
> scenes of the MAMEDEV group. The list goes on...
>
> The CoCo community is relatively small but thanks in no small part to
> the CoCoCrew Podcast, Stevie's Videos and CoCoFest & Tandy Assembly
> events has seen a huge resurgence in recent years. I also personally
> think the CoCoSDC has been the most significant hardware development in
> quite a while, and itself responsible for people spending more time
> playing with their CoCo hardware. But to be honest by the same token
> I've sort of being expecting the bubble to burst; for some of the
> leading personalities to burn out and move onto other things, and the
> scene to settle back down to a less chaotic - although hopefully still
> vibrant - status quo.
>
> Lastly, I'll re-iterate what I said in a post somewhere a few weeks ago.
> If you do decide to ignore the excellent advice in Boisy's article and
> go ahead and produce hardware in direct competition to an established
> product, at least refrain from specifically targeting that product and
> drawing up a hit-list of cherry-picked "features". That's just kicking
> sand in someone's face.
>
> Regards,
>
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