FujiNet for COCO is already here. Lots of people using them. The whole thing is a bit weird to me as Atari enthusiast- but whatever floats your boat. It's actually a cart and insta-loads the config, it's one of the cooler platforms for FujiNet. -andy
On Jun 25, 2024, at 6:04 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I sold a Model III, but the Model 4 came home with me. I also sold a Color Computer 2, but had to bring home another Coco 2 and a Coco 1B. There used to be a lot more interest in them.
Market saturation? Waiting for the killer app or YouTube love? FujiNet maybe?
Note, I've heard in the book Ready Player One the Coco2 game Dungeons of Daggorath is mentioned. Modernish tie-in.
Growing up I remember a neighbor playing some kind of Mickey game on the Coco2 and it was using a tape for real time audio. I remember thinking, man my Atari doesn't do it quite that well.... The case design of that mall-found computer isn't appealing but could this thing give my Atari 800XL a run for the money? I just tried to search and came across Mickey's Space Adventure:
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/mickeysspaceadventure.html
Which mentions disk drive so I don't think that was it. But interesting that Al Lowe wrote that. He did Black Cauldron, my best and favorite early Tandy 1000SX title.
Feebay shows Math Adventures with Mickey and Mickey's Alpine Adventure. Looking at the manual pdf for the Math one that doesn't sound like it but who knows. Maybe I misremember the whole thing and that neighbor had a disk drive but I'm 99% sure it was tape and doing audio playback between loading screens during plot. Anyone know?
- Ethan