CoCo vs. C64 duke it out (was: Apple ][/II/2

Rumor has it that woodelf may have mentioned these words: Ah... but as of '82 or so, you could purchase a Unix-like OS for the CoCo that ran in 64K called OS-9 from MicroWare. People are speaking about writing "Unix for 6502" -now-... What about then? Admittedly, it took a fair investment in hardware, but anything back then that could run a multiuser multiprocessing OS generally did. IMHO, C64 = toy. Honestly, one damn fun toy! As toys, they *rocked!* Played Zork on it with a buddy for many an hour way back when. Graphics were great, sounds were awesome, Basic language *sucked*, peripherals were fairly expensive & damn slow. Basic CoCo = toy, and a crappy one at that. Most games sucked & were very expensive, peripherals were even more expensive, but awfully fast. At least the extended Basic didn't *completely* suck. Put enough money into a good printer, floppy drive, OS-9, languages that didn't suck (Basic09 didn't come bundled with OS-9L1 then) and you had a system with the power that a C64 couldn't touch... but the games still sucked[1]. ;-) [1] Until the CoCo3 - Rogue rocked on the CoCo; sucked on the IBM, didn't exist on the C64. There was a game called Micro[mumble] Mission[2] or somesuch - I remember reading a review where they compared the CoCo vs. IBM versions (dunno if they released it for the C64) - the CoCo version got 8/10, the IBM 3/10. If it came out for the C128, it prolly would've gotten a 10/10. ;-) [2] You were a "miniaturized doctor" in a little capsule traversing the bloodstream of a body healing illnesses & fighting bacteria & viruses; too many margaritas tonite to really remember a game I never had & hadn't even tried to remember for over 1.5 decades... ;-) If you haven't noticed: Lumping the CoCo with the C64... well... thems is fightin' words to some! ;-) Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Bugs of a feather flock together." sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Russell Nelson zmerch at 30below.com |