[Coco] Fresh new retro computing article!

[Eric]

Why should a seller have to have heard of someone? That doesn't make sense.

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 8:56 PM Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:

> 'The whole chart idea was ill conceived to start with.'
>
> Why? As long as logical discussion follows, there's no problem. What IS a
> problem is when others say they are speaking on behalf of one of the
> selling entities when in fact they are not, and the seller has never heard
> of the person, THAT is a problem.
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019, 9:48 PM D. Bruce Moore <bruce at gracenote.ca> wrote:
>
> > "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.”
> >
> > Mark McDougall, who do you think drew up that hit-list?  It wasn’t the
> guy
> > who produced a competing product, it was the guy who had the current
> > product dissing his new competitor.  That new competitor responded with a
> > chart refuting a long list of errors.  The whole chart idea was ill
> > conceived to start with.
> >
> > > On 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,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark McDougall
> > > <http://retroports.blogspot.com.au>
> > >
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