[Coco] Re: CUBIX on the CoCo?

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Arthur

You're thinking of the wrong thng. CUbix was a computer with its own OS. I
believe that's what we are talking about here.

On 10/29/2005, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> Cubix has definitely been ported to the CoCo 3, assuming it is the game
> I am thinking of, where your guy plops around on a pyramidal array of
> blocks, trying to change the color of all the blocks to get to the next
> level, while avoiding things chasing him.  I'm pretty sure the version
> I'm thinking of, which was very nicely done, was called Pyramix, and
> I'm certain it was written by Jordan Tsvetkoff (sp?). I bought mine
> from him at a Rainbowfest, but I think it was also advertised in
> Rainbow.
>
> Art
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Dave Dunfield wrote:
>
>> In browsing a different 6809 related topic, I came across:
>> 
>>    http://oarizo.com/mod.php?mod=content&page=downloads
>> 
>> which I noticed has a somewhat outdated copy of my CUBIX
>> 6809 operating source code posted, with a note that it is
>> "a good candidate for porting".
>> 
>> There was also a pointer on the page to this list...
>> 
>> Just curious of anyone has ever ported CUBIX to the CoCo?
>> 
>> 
>> BTW, the last release of CUBIX (with source code), as well
>> as a complete simulation of my original 6809 homebuilt portable
>> for which it was designed (which will let you run it) an be
>> downloaded from my site:
>> 
>>    http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
>>    (Look for "Dunfield 6809" under the HomeBuilts section)
>> 
>> 
>> Although I've done scads of 6809 code (still my favorite 8-bit
>> processor), and have had a number of CoCos over the years, I
>> never delved into it (the CoCo) deep enough to get around to
>> porting my operating system over - if it hasn't been done, and
>> anyone is interested, I'd be happy to offer assistance.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dave
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>> 
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>
>
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