Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:04:40 -0500
From: Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Old TRS-80 Color Computer games
To: "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle@sasktel.net>

I thought your name was familiar, I've seen your site.  Thank you for the nice reviews, by the way.
 
L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
 
   Tower of Fear, Ninja Warrior, Pac Droids, and possibly others.
 
Yes, I wrote those.  I had a title "<something> Invaders" that was sold through Scott Adams' Adventure International.  It was written in BASIC with a 
machine-code subroutine for doing some of the graphics manipulations.  It was pretty cheezy and I'm not sure why Scott chose to publish it.
 
I run  the Color Computer games list  (http://nitros9.stg.net/coco_game_list.html), and have been trying to  track down the original authors for two 
reasons:
1) To update/get information on the games from the author's themselves  (and any stories abut them that they would like to pass along), and
 
I've been pretty busy, but I'll see if can provide you with something soon.  
2) To see if the author's would allow the games to be put up for download  for people either with real TRS-80 Color Computers, or one of the  emulators.
    Would you be willing to do so?
 
Yes, please do!  When I found your page a while back, a friend noted that the screen shots were "too perfect" to be captured off a video capture and were 
probaby taken from an emulator of some sort.  I'd been meaning to look for that emulator (especially a Linux version), and if you could point me to that 
AND downloadable versions of the games I wrote, I'd greatly appreciate it.  I still have my original CoCo in storage, as well as a zillion cassettes, 
but I have no idea if they'd still load.
 
I've already found an emulator and copies of a least one of my TRS-80 Model I/III games.  Your guess that "Tower of Fear" was my first commercial 
release was correct only in the Color Computer context.  It was my first CoCo game.  Pac-Droids and Ninja Warrior followed in that order.
 
-- Charles