[Coco] In search of current owner of Coco Friends Disk Magaizine and Sundog software

[Robert Gault]

J.P. Samson wrote:
> On Dec. 28, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Charlie wrote:
>
>> I was searching all over for an original copy of Paladin's Legacy that would
>> run as intended on all version of the coco with at least 64K.
>> The current version on the internet has been hacked and is playable only on a
>> coco 3.
>
> The original author of Paladin's Legacy, Allan Chaney, contacted the CoCo list
> back in September, 2008.  He was trying to get the game working (in an emulator)
> so he could show it to his kids.  Allan had many of his original work disks, but
> many of them had physically decayed and could not be easily read.  Allan had
> disks of the final version of the game prior to copy protection being applied by
> Sundog Systems for the commercially sold disks.
>
> Fellow CoCoist Tim Lindner seemed to have some disk images in his collection
> that pertained to Paladin's Legacy:
>
> Paladin.dmk
> Paladin_workdisk.dmk
> Paladin_orig_1of2.dmk
> Paladin_legacy_s2.dmk
> Paladin_legacy_s1.dmk
>
>  From his collection, we were able to cobble together a working version of
> Paladin as you found on Allan's website
> <http://paladinslegacyretro.wordpress.com/>.
>
> Another Cocoist, Andrew Ayers, was working on compiling a complete repository of
> all of the Paladin assets <http://www.phoenixgarage.org/show_article/75>.  I'm
> not sure what became of this project.
>
> -- JP
>
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The above disk images could include the copy protection scheme since they are 
.dmk formatted. I've not seen them but do have the .dsk images for this game.

I have been able to recover the actual game written in Disk Basic and should be 
able to create a working Coco1/Coco2 version.

Don't expect immediate results. :) It should take at least several days.

Robert