Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 08:45:03 From: "Jim Hurd" To: Curtis Boyle Subject: Re: Old Coco (TRS-80 Color Computer) games One and the same. It's fine with me, although I doubt I have the authority since it was entirely Adventure International's copyright. I only received a royalty, I don't think I have any clause to get the copyright back. I wrote a few other games, but I think those were the only ones published before AI self destructed. I gave away all my coco equipment to some other up and coming programmer, so it's a closed book for me at this point. I love the 6809; it's a very elegant processor. With OS/9, it's an amazing machine. It's very easy to program in assembly language especially relative to the 6502 and the Z80. The .9 Mhz of the Coco was a bit lean, though. Best wishes, Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Boyle" To: Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 8:30 PM Subject: Old Coco (TRS-80 Color Computer) games > Judging by your bio on extremetech, you must be the same Jim Hurd that >was Coniah Software back in the early '80s, writing games such as Sea Dragon >and RearGuard for Adventure International, correct? I have been making a Coco >games page (http://nitros9.stg.net/coco_game_list.html), and have a couple of >your games shown on there. Would you allow me to put the .BIN files up for >download, as some other authors have done? Did you write any other programs >(games or otherwise) for the Coco? What was your opinion of the 6809 chip, >as compared to others at the time? > >Thanks for your time, and the great games you made back then.