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

[Manny]

Charlie,

I think the Guy's name was Jim Davis or something similar.  Lived in Nixa,
MO.  He disappeared soon after he got all of the Sundog games, etc.

-M.
On Dec 28, 2012 4:53 PM, "Charlie" <chazbeenhad at hotmail.com> 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.
>
> In my search I ran across an old web page by Rick Cooper that list several
> CFDM issues. At the bottom listed several Sundog games for sale.
> I contacted Rick via email and he was kind enough to look through his
> things for me. He found a flippy disk labeled Paladin's Legacy.
> He sent me the disk and I received it a couple days ago.
>
> The game does not work, although it does not seem to be a "bad" disk. The
> game starts by LOADM"BOOT and it start to load.
> However the coco then RESETS and your looking at the Disk Extended Basic
> logo again.
> I can do a BACKUP of the disk with no errors and the disk drive makes no
> sickly noises like it should if the disk is bad.
>
> I contacted Rick about it and he seems to think it may be a Master Disk,
> that needs to be "patched" or modified to run correctly.
> The copy protection added so the software sees it and runs proper.
> He searched for the instructions on this but had no luck.
>
> He then remembered he had transferred CFDM and all the software companies
> he had to a fellow coco user. Here is what he told me:
>
> "I suddenly remember that I turned CFDM over to a fellow Cocoist from
> Missouri (I believe it was) in 1996 or 1997.  I also gave him rights to all
> the software I had bought from the various companies.  I would bet that if
> there exist the instructions to copying the Sundog Software that it would
> be in his possession."
>
> So, as the subject says, we are looking for the person that Rick gave over
> the software to.
>
> Thanks for any and all help!
>
> I can always be reached off the mailing list at chazbeenhad at hotmail dot
> com
>
> Charlie
>
>
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