[Coco] [Color Computer] Digger II (and source archive) as Freeware

[Chet Simpson]

Hello all!

Been a long time since I've talked to anyone form the CoCo days and 
unfortunately the state of the bit.listserv.coco newsgroup is 
extremely bad with all the SPAM (20 coco messages out of 500? ICK!).

Anyway, I received an email several months back on one of the 
accounts I no longer use requesting information about Digger II: 
Return of the Saint and the possibility of releasing it as freeware 
or open source. Although I no longer have working disk images I do 
have the source code and all game data in my backups or archives 
including the assembler and other tools used to build the binary 
images.

Currently the archive includes the following works:

as9 - with some conversions
casm - enhanced version of as9 with conditionals, structs, macros, 
local labels and several other options.
bcc6809 - An unfinished enhancement of the BCC C Compiler targeted 
for 6809 and 6309 CPU's
copt - unfinished rework of a the C Peephole Optimizer included with 
BCC
unproto - utility to remove ANSI C prototypes
Image Master Source Code
gmake - modified GNU Make Source (not sure why it's in there)
emacs - OLD OLD OLD Source for emacs. Probably for testing BCC
Gold Runner 2000 Source Archive
Digger II Source Archive (derived from GR2K)
CASM Dev Server - CoCo program for uploading binary executables for 
testing
CASM Dev Client - PC Based client for uploading the binary 
executables.
Real time multi-voice mod like playback system I was working on for 
games including a mod file conversion utility.
Sprite Compiler - compiled graphics data with masking into 
executable code that was usually no bigger than the graphics (SUPER 
FAST BLITS!!!)
??Full?? CoCo List Archives from 93, 94, 95, and 96
A lot of other misc. code and tools which I created over the years.


I am currently in the process of rearranging the archive and running 
diffs on all the various packages to eliminate any code archives 
which may be duplicates although I highly doubt there will be any. 
Right now the zip archive sits at a little over 27MB with an 
alternative zip archive of 8MB. I created this archive sometime in 
2002 and haven't looked at it since so it may take a few days before 
I can make a full distro available.

I would prefer to hand this over to someone that is interested in 
making use of the source code and utilities or expanding on the 
development of it. I am also considering uploading the contents of 
the archive to my Dev6809 SourceForge project which I never ended up 
using.

I know at one time I had an almost complete archive of the CoCo and 
OS-9 Delphi Forums up to around message 100,000. **IF** I can locate 
the archive I'll include it in the distro.




You can contact me either here or through my primary email address: 
secure at ytunnelpro.com



Chet "The Saint" Simpson




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