I’m writing this from the CoCoFest floor. Turnout has been quite good this year and there are a lot of folks who showed up for the first time or the first time in a long time this year. In particular are such notables as Mary Kramer (CoCoNutz newsletter) and Steve Bjork (programmer extra-ordinaire) are in attendance this year.
We had a couple of interesting presentations today along with a panel discussion of the life and times of the CoCo. The Cloud 9 guys did a good commercial on their main products (and they have some good ones).
The real cool thing is the Sockmaster has unleashed his latest secret project on the world today. He has ported Donkey Kong to the CoCo. Now that’s really cool. Seeing the CoCo running Donkey Kong brought back childhood memories. He got it exactly right. Of course, he had original Z80 code to work from so I suppose it isn’t surprising that he managed to get such a close correspondence. Even so, he does admit it was a difficult task.
Well, it’s time to sign off as the auction is getting underway. I wonder if there’s anything I need.
Update at 9:55PM CDT
I didn’t buy anything at the auction and supper was quite good even though the service was terrible initially. The real run was finding out about twenty minutes ago that a tornado watch is in effect for the area until about midnight. That’s always a great thing to hear about. Of course it doesn’t mean a twister will appear but it’s never a good sign. That’s two out of three years I’ve come down here that a twister or something resembling a twister has been involved in the trip. Interesting.
Now it’s off to relax until bed so I can take on the day tomorrow with renewed vigour.