[Coco] Re:DS-69B Reverse Engineering/GofD Archive (Brian)

[Michael Crawford]

Hi Andrew,

I have an original copy of Diecom's Rat Graphics Design Package. Its disk 
sleeve color is light blue.

Mike


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From: "Andrew" <keeper63 at cox.net>
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Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: [Coco] Re:DS-69B Reverse Engineering/GofD Archive (Brian)


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>> From: "Brian" <bpa65117 at bigpond.net.au>
>> Subject: [Coco] ] DS-69B Reverse Engineering/GofD Archive
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>> Hi Curtis and Andrew,
>>
>> I have original copies of both the programs you's disscussed, DS-69B, And 
>> Gates Of Delirium.
>> Curtis, I'll make a backup of my copy, And send you it, So you can 
>> compare the 2 programs.
>> Andrew, As for GOFD not working on a coco 3, The Original copy I have, 
>> Worked fine on my Pal Coco3 system, But I never much got into it, Mostly 
>> because there was no way to Back it up, And being a really old copy, 
>> Wasn't worth the risk in playing it.
>>
>> laters
>>
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>
> I could have sworn I had to use my CoCo 2 to run GofD - my CoCo 2 is an 
> NTSC version - so I am not sure that makes a difference or not. 
> Unfortunately, as I have noted before in other emails, my original copy 
> won't boot - which is what prompted my whole "crusade" to get it running 
> again, because at the time it seemed like I was the only person in North 
> America who still had a (somewhat) working copy. I am glad to hear that 
> there is another person out there who has it as well. Michael Crawford has 
> a copy as well - he contacted me after seeing a post I had made on 
> Slashdot.
>
> BTW, as far as your floppies of GofD are concerned, do you still have the 
> original disk envelopes? If you do, what colors are they? I surmised (from 
> my limited sample of Diecom software - which was only GofD) that they 
> might have had various color printing on each of the disk envelopes. My 
> two envelopes came in red and violet/purple - what color are your 
> envelopes? If they are the same colors, then Diecom might have only used 
> those. If you have other colors, then maybe there was a whole "rainbow" of 
> them. It would be neat to have a scanned archive of all the colors of 
> Diecom software disk envelopes...
>
> Survey: Does anyone else on this list have any Diecom disk envelopes of 
> different colors?
>
> -- Andrew L. Ayers
>    Glendale (Phoenix), Arizona
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