Subject: Re: regarding your page http://nitros9.stg.net/hauntedhouse.html
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:42:39 -0700
From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
To: Darren DeLoach <Darren.DeLoach@RIAG.com>
CC: "'Curtis Boyle'" <curtisboyle@sasktel.net>

I'd be flattered if it were available for download somewhere.
Please do!  If anyone can track down any of those
other programs we put together for that monthly magazine,
I'd be happy to see those released as well.

Yeah, it would have been released probably in 1982.
(or maybe early 1983).

Good luck, Curtis, it's great to see someone is still
enjoying that stuff.

Tim Kientzle

Darren DeLoach wrote:

> It's certainly OK by me!  I'm still stunned that anyone actually cares
> about that old stuff!  (Of course, I did read recently of two Swedes who
> wrote a TCP/IP stack for a Commodore 64, wrote the obligatory web server
> _with_ real-time audio streaming from the old C64 "Datasette" cassette
> player, built an Ethernet card for it, and now has it hooked up to the
> 'net...)
>
>
> Tim, I CC'd you because Curtis believes he still has a copy of the
> program (you mentioned you wish you still had some of the old ones
> around; not sure if you were being facetious or not!).  Of course, you'd
> still need to have the CoCo (unless someone hacked up an emulator).
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Boyle [mailto:curtisboyle@sasktel.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 6:46 PM
> To: Darren DeLoach
> Subject: Re: regarding your page http://nitros9.stg.net/hauntedhouse.html
>
>
>  > Darren DeLoach wrote:
>  >
>  > Darren DeLoach here!  As you can imagine, I got quite a chuckle
>  > reading this page!  Sheesh, this was 20 years ago!
>  >
>  > I originally wrote the program for TRS-80 model one, based on an older
>  > text-based game that Radio Shack once sold.  Tim and I were roommates
>  > at a residential high school, and we both worked on the side for
>  > Futurehouse, Inc. (which went out of business around 1985).  They had
>  > a "magazine on floppy disk" called TRC Magazine that Tim and I put
>  > together every month, and Tim updated my Model one source code for
>  > this game to run on the CoCo; it went out on one of the monthly mags.
>  > So "Futurehouse, Inc." would be the producer, and I would guess at
>  > 1982 as the year we made it.  I suppose it's possible Tim still has
>  > the executable for download, but I doubt it.
>
>     I still have it somewhere's (or it wouldn't be on the page)... would
> you and/or Tim be willing to release it for download?
>