[Coco] Game development - plus, what happened to CER-COMP?

[Andrew]

All,

There has been discussion recently about games done in BASIC on the 
CoCo, whether they would be "fun", etc. I am curious if people would be 
interested in the following:

Back in the mid-90's I wrote a library for QBASIC, QuickBASIC, and 
PowerBASIC called the "Blast! Library" - which was a collection of 
mainly 8086 assembler routines for extremely fast graphics which could 
be called (and/or compiled into) programs for the above mentioned 
languages. There was multi-page Mode 13h commands, page flipping, hidden 
background drawing (for flicker-free animation), line drawing, advanced 
sprite commands (with auto masking), etc.

Would there be an interest in this community if I could port part of 
this library over to work on the CoCo? I am not saying this is something 
I am getting into right now - I can't say I will or won't do it, or 
when. One thing, I know 80x86 assembler fairly well, but I am very rusty 
on my 6809 assembler. Plus, I have other obligations at the moment, too.

However, I wanted to pop this out there and see if anyone would be 
interested.

BTW - if anyone can respond: Does anyone know what happened to Bill 
Vergona, CER-COMP and his software? I have purchased copies of CBASIC 
III and Window Master: if you have never used either on a CoCo 3, you 
don't know what you missed - CBASIC makes BASIC *scream*, and Window 
Master is an interesting piece of GUI software (alas, they never came 
together, AFAIK). Anyhow - I would like to share these with the 
community, for emulation and to keep this "abandonware" alive - but I 
don't know what the author is doing, whether he cares, if he is still 
alive...? I have heard that he is selling software on Ebay (?)...

Andrew