Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809 Path: utzoo!lsuc!jimomura From: jimomura@lsuc.uucp (Jim Omura) Subject: CoCo3 suggestions Keywords: Followup-To: Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Date: Wed, 10-Aug-88 22:40:31 EDT Summary: What I'd like Message-ID: <1988Aug10.224033.8096@lsuc.uucp> Expires: Sender: References: Organization: Consultant, Toronto Some recent discussions have arisen regarding what programs would be worth writing. This actually happens fairly often, but it just stuck in my mind this time: 1. A new chess game in a cartridge. I have the first Chess cartridge. I never got around to buying Cyruss chess, but I was going to. Now I hear it won't run on the CoCo3 anyway. I would certainly be in the market for a new chess cartridge! In fact, there has always been a market for chess. It's a consistent seller. By the way, you will notice that I am asking for *cartridges*! I do not like software on disk except under OS-9. Even that has become a bit painful with the 3 different screen drivers. I no longer have a cassette hooked up, so that's not practical and I only have 80 track drives so anything on a 48 TPI disk is worthless for me (I will not bother trying to transfer it). I *do* have the MultiPak, so cartridges are wonderful! I sit Thexder in slot 3 and play it occasionally. That's what I'd do with cartridges if I had them. Just leave one in and play it periodically for a break. I believe there is a really good future in cartridges with around 32K bytes - 128K bytes. 2. A new version of Defender. And try to negotiate with Williams for the rights to the name! Do it right for a change. This too should be on cartridge. 3. A new DL Logo to work under Multivue. Obviously this would not be a cartridge. Notice that none of these are "new" ideas? There are a lot of old ideas worth rehashing. I have no idea why people think that just because the idea is an old one that it's not good. With the CoCo3 we can "get it right this time" which is fine. Cheers! -- Jim O. -- Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880 ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura