Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:37:57 -0600 (Central Standard Time) From: The Snail Subject: Re: Old Coco games To: curtisboyle@sasktel.net Reply-To: TheSnail@SnailSoft-NoSpam.No-Ip.org Hello.Sorry about delays. I hope this will explain a few things for you- Greetings.Wow... now I am feeling nostalgic. I have not done anything CoCo related in ages.As most of my games are now around 20 years old... and certainly not being sold...I have been informing emulation sites they may post my CoCo softwares.(Although, few have, and none CoCo specific). Recently, an Atari 2600 project was started to port some of the CoCo games.Quirky. I looked up some of my old CoCo sites.If you find anything useful, please feel free to host it on your site.Please keep in mind these sites have not been updated in years.All of my work was turned over to Lowell O Turner including all emulation. >>>From my former CoCo site, not updated in years E-Mail: Greg Zumwalt Addendum: Throughout Jan. and Feb. of 2002, I finished transfering the data off the harddrive... 360Kb at a time... I have now successfully emulated the CoCo-CoCo3, RS-DOS, NitrOS9, OS9 and OS9 with harddrive under the WinXP OS. While scattered across virtual floppies and in somewhat of a disaray as of yet, recovery of all data was successfull, meaning that all aformentioned software has been recovered with the exception of double sided versions of certain disks. Further, progress with the Emulated CoCo4 prototype running NitrOS9 and also having harddrive support goes well. Due to time constraints, things will progress slowly from this point onward. My main goal has been accomplished. I didn't get nearly the number of manuals I wanted, converted. I am turning over all physical hardware and books, including current emulation projects, to: E-Mail: Lowell O Turner I wish him the best of luck. Following your request, I sent you the message and then proceed to see if I could contact Lowell. The Snail wrote: >Hello. > >I hope this goes through. >I passed along to you some time back all of my CoCo >hardware/software/manuals. > >In that time, much has happened, including the loss of my computers in a >tornado. > >I am hoping you still have the software. >It was all contained on a single CD. > >If you do still have the software, might I get a copy from you again? > > I received this response moments ago: Hey there, Of course you may have a copy. Since you sent me the items, I managedto finish my degree last summer but I am still in the job that made myprogress so slow. I finally moved into a place large enough to unpackall of my computing artifacts. I had recently pulled the data off the CDand used it in the MAME/MESS CoCo emulator. Let me know where you would like the CD sent, and I will mail you acopy. Unless you wanted me to FTP it to you or something. Lowell. At this time Curtis, you have my permission to use "images" of my CoCo software on your site.Once Lowell has uploaded my old archive, I will create an updated site.At that time, I will direct you to it for use on your site. Grega.k.a. Snail -------Original Message------- From: curtisboyle@sasktel.net Date: 03/30/05 21:59:38 To: thesnail@bigfoot.com Subject: Old Coco games Hi Greg... I run a Coco games site(http://nitros9.stg.net/coco_game_list.html), and was wondering if youwould allow me to put some (or all) of your old games available fordownload, as other authors have done. You are probably the most prolificCoco software author, and there may be quite a few that i don't evenlisted on my site yet that you have wrote, so even just gettinginformation on them would be a plus. Thanks for your time! --L. Curtis Boyle