#: 6656 S1/General Interest 11-Sep-90 21:10:05 Sb: #10-20 Fm: Paul Hanke 73467,403 To: All Ok, so where is everybody? There are 3 Replies. #: 6657 S1/General Interest 11-Sep-90 21:59:45 Sb: #6656-10-20 Fm: James Jones 76257,562 To: Paul Hanke 73467,403 (X) Got me--there is a surprising lack of messages today. I hope that folks will return! #: 6658 S1/General Interest 11-Sep-90 22:23:56 Sb: #6656-10-20 Fm: Bruce Isted (UG VP) 76625,2273 To: Paul Hanke 73467,403 (X) Paul, I'm here... back after a long absence and just "lurking" the last little while. But today I decided to answer a full 1/3 of the messages others left here. This is/was it! Bruce #: 6662 S1/General Interest 12-Sep-90 09:39:04 Sb: #6656-10-20 Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 To: Paul Hanke 73467,403 (X) Paul - methinks everyone is A: working too hard, and B: still in summer vacation mode . Kind of the calm before the storm ;-) #: 6659 S10/Tandy CoCo 12-Sep-90 01:05:26 Sb: #Great games Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 To: Floyd Resler 72500,2572 (X) Floyd; Just snarfed 2 of your games -- GemQuest and Rescue (aka Tank). _GOOD_ jobb Check is "in the mail", as they say. If I send you a diskette & mailer with the check, could I get a copy of the source please? The way I play games, I don't remember from time to time what to do, so I was planning to have your opening paragraphs of the docs scroll slowly down the screen using the supplied fonts prior to presenting the initial game screen. Also, I'd like to add water-wings to the tanks! ;-) Sound like it's do-able? ...Jim There is 1 Reply. #: 6664 S10/Tandy CoCo 12-Sep-90 16:58:10 Sb: #6659-#Great games Fm: Floyd Resler 72500,2572 To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X) Thanks for the kudos and the soon-arriving check! Yeah, I'll be more than happy to send you the source. I like the idea of being able to scroll through the docs before playing. Could even add a help key that would call up the doc file. Adding water-wings would be a piece of cake. All it would take would be to remove one check in the source. Floyd There is 1 Reply. #: 6670 S10/Tandy CoCo 13-Sep-90 01:46:45 Sb: #6664-#Great games Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 To: Floyd Resler 72500,2572 (X) Floyd; O.K., mailer is on it's way. I'm beginning to wonder if I should have showed my wife and daughter those 2 games -- I haven't been able to get on the CoCo for the past 2 days until they went to bed! And the sickening part of it all is that they beat my best score(s) within 15 minutes of starting to play!!! :-( Just wait'll I get water-wings for _MY_ tanks tho; I'll show them a thing or two!! Can you do 360K 5 1/4" disks O.K.? ..Jim There is 1 Reply. #: 6673 S10/Tandy CoCo 13-Sep-90 06:06:48 Sb: #6670-Great games Fm: Floyd Resler 72500,2572 To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 Ah, I love it when I create addictive games! I still have the single-sided 40 track drives, so I won't be able to use a 360k disk. Floyd #: 6660 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 12-Sep-90 07:15:59 Sb: #6655-mm/1 information Fm: Mark B. Sheffield 76247,1332 To: SCOTT HOWELL 70270,641 Scott - Paul's out of town right now. I'll drop one in the mail to you this morning - you should have it in a couple of days. Please send your telephone number so we can stay in touch easily. -mark #: 6661 S10/Tandy CoCo 12-Sep-90 08:58:57 Sb: #disk drive additions Fm: STEPHEN WALLACE 73720,2420 To: sysop (X) Can four double sided flopies be used with a multipak under OS9 and how should they be connected. /exit There is 1 Reply. #: 6665 S10/Tandy CoCo 12-Sep-90 17:43:03 Sb: #6661-disk drive additions Fm: James Jones 76257,562 To: STEPHEN WALLACE 73720,2420 An unmodified CoCo can only have three double-sided floppy drives connected to it. I think that someone has figured out what to modify to connect more; a "browse/key=floppy" in DL10 might turn up something. The other question that perhaps deserves asking is "What do you need to do that for?" I don't recall how much needs to be done in the way of modification, but if you need disk space, I think you should give serious thought to a hard disk--they're getting fairly inexpensive these days. #: 6663 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 12-Sep-90 14:31:57 Sb: #6611-Osk 2.2 C bugs Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76 To: Robert A. Larson 75126,723 I wasn't aware "string"[0] was broken - I have used that idiom before. It surely isn't in the compiler with osk 2.3. sizeof("string") may be fixed - it returns 7 8-). - Carl #: 6666 S14/misc/info/Soapbox 12-Sep-90 17:50:02 Sb: Ouch! Fm: James Jones 76257,562 To: All Word from the BITNET mailing list this morning is that Mark Griffith fell at work and hit his head against a DEC terminal. Also, thank , immediately following was a message from Mark himself saying he's recovering nicely. Perhaps when next he dials up there can be a sufficiently large quantity of well-wishing messages to put him in "aw shucks" mode as he was on BITNET. :-) :-) Seriously--I'm very glad that he is doing well. #: 6667 S10/Tandy CoCo 12-Sep-90 20:07:06 Sb: #TANK Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 To: floyd resler Floyd Two questions regarding the TANK game. 1. The game crashes with an out of bounds subscript when I get to level 15. 2. In the program, do you deallocate the graphics buffers before exiting the program? If yes, all is fine, but if not, it would be better if you did. Other than that, a fine program! There is 1 Reply. #: 6674 S10/Tandy CoCo 13-Sep-90 06:10:22 Sb: #6667-TANK Fm: Floyd Resler 72500,2572 To: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 Mmm. I'll have to check out level 15. As far as deallocating graphic buffers, no I don't. It's a very good idea, of course. I just didn't think about it. I'll have to include that in my future games. Floyd #: 6668 S10/Tandy CoCo 13-Sep-90 01:28:34 Sb: Fallout? Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X) Glad to hear that you're feeling better! I finally got on the CoCo list via the Internet shadow at work -it seems strange to see so many familiar namEs from here coming thru my terminal at work! Would have replied to your message of this morning, but I've only got read access (until I poke around some more). ...Jim #: 6669 S10/Tandy CoCo 13-Sep-90 01:30:15 Sb: Fallout? Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X) Glad to hear that you're feeling better! I finally got on the CoCo list via the Internet shadow at work -it seems strange to see so many familiar names from here coming thru my terminal at work! Would have replied to your message of this morning, but I've only got read access (until I poke around some more). ...Jim #: 6671 S10/Tandy CoCo 13-Sep-90 01:46:50 Sb: Fallout? Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X) /\/~\ark; Glad to hear that you're feeling better! I finally got on the CoCo list via the Internet shadow at work -it seems strange to see so many familiar names from here coming thru my terminal at work! Would have replied to your message of this morning, but I've only got read access (until I poke arousd some more). ...Jim #: 6672 S15/Hot Topics 13-Sep-90 01:47:58 Sb: MM/1 specs Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 To: Paul Ward 73477,2004 Paul; I'm getting a lot of queries about the MM/1 from interested people at work, and although I can answer a lot of questions and prcvide them with your address, it'd be nice if I could post the specs and save myself some reply time. Could you upload a spec sheet with the final configuration, provided software, prices, etc. and area codes for both KLE and IMS (some of the queries are coming from overseas & the 800 number won't get it!) Thanks, ...Jim Press !>