[Coco] Re: Disk Basic and 512 byte block floppies.

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 00:38, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, ostro011 wrote:
>> Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but I seem to recall that Marty
>> Goodman was the author of Graphicom, or at least the seller. 
>> Didn't he own Cheshire Cat Software, and didn't they sell
>> Graphicom?  Anyone remember for sure?  It's quite possible I'm
>> confused.
>>
>> -- Steve --
>
>Marty, who was indeed Cheshire Cat Software, was the seller but not
> the author.  It was written by Peter Ryan, a friend of Marty's who
> also wrote the CoCo Wefax software, both of which Marty wrote about
> in Rainbow.  Peter chose to remain anonymous and let Marty
> publicize and distribute the software.  Unfortunately Peter, a
> brilliant fellow by Marty's account whom I met briefly at the Palo
> Alto Rainbowfest, died a few years ago from AIDS.  Graphicom was
> written in Forth, BTW, using a CoCo version that was never marketed
> (though not written by Peter).
>
>Art

Thats sad, Art.  Thanks for the update.  I actually ran wefax a few 
times at the tv station back in the mid 80's, but my poor old pin 
pounder printer, and a lack of a sync detector in the software made 
it less than usefull for our weather people.  I suppose the output 
could have been saved, and a sync utility run over it to make it nice 
and square, but I didn't then know enough about programming the coco 
to do that.

However, even then we had enough cpu's blasting out noise that it was 
difficult to get decent reception of the signal here in WV, and that 
of course degraded the graphs too.

-- 
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