Date: March 16, 2007 11:42:43
Subject: Re: Your Coco Software
From: Greg Wittmeyer <gregw@gammadyne.com>
To: L. Curtis Boyle

In response to your message on 16-March-2007 9:18:21a
 
Hello!  I did indeed write software for the CoCo under the 
company name GSW Software.  War Monger was originally called "A 
World At War".  After the CoCo market collapsed, I literally gave 
the game away to Sundog.  They put a different opening screen on 
it, but did not change it in any other way that I know of.  I 
also wrote a game called Jubilex, a disassembler called Diasm, a 
library of generic assembly routines called Roots, and two disk 
utilities:  GAT Backup and Omni Utility.  I wrote all this 
between the ages of 13 and 16.  I made almost no money from them, 
and eventually had to get a job in a grocery store, which I 
despised greatly.
 
I have no objection to you putting this stuff up for download.  I 
will attempt to get everything transferred to PC files, however I 
don't know how well all those old floppies survived.  I have the 
dual disk drive setup for the CoCo III.  I do have a Windows 95 
box that I use for testing.  I just need to get the cable and 
software.  Or would it be better to obtain an old 5.25 drive for 
the PC?
 
Sincerely,
 
Greg Wittmeyer
CEO, Gammadyne Corporation
mailto:gregw@gammadyne.com
http://www.gammadyne.com
 
 
***** ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS *****
 
	Some fellow Coco users put me in contact with you. I run the 
Tandy/TRS-80  
Color Computer Games webpage:
http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/coco_game_list.html
and I have one of your games on there (War Monger). I was 
wondering a  
couple of things:
1) Did you have any corrections, or further comments, that you 
would like  
me to put into the game information?
2) Would you be willing to allow me to put the game up for 
download?
3) What other games (or other Coco software) did you write?
4) How did you get involved with Sundog to do the distribution of 
your  
game?
 
I guess that's a little more than a couple, but... 
 
Thanks for your time!
 
P.S. It was mentioned that you were wondering how to transfer 
software  
 from real Coco disks to a PC... what floppy drives do you have 
on both  
systems, and which operating systems?
 
 
-- 
L. Curtis Boyle