[vcf-midatlantic] VCF CoCo Market

[Andrew Diller]

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 at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>>  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.
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> Market saturation? Waiting for the killer app or YouTube love? FujiNet maybe?
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> Note, I've heard in the book Ready Player One the Coco2 game Dungeons of Daggorath is mentioned. Modernish tie-in.
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> 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:
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> http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/mickeysspaceadventure.html
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> - Ethan
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