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

[Charlie]

Thanks Manny.

Anyone have the last known email for Jim Davis?

I tried e-mailing Allan Chaney the game author about a week ago and received 
no reply from him,

Charlie


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From: "Manny" <manney at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 2:07 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] In search of current owner of Coco Friends Disk 
Magaizine and Sundog software

> 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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