[Coco] One-liners for the Coco -- Rainbow Magazine

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

>From: "Doug Wylie" <dougwylie at comcast.net>
>To: <coco-owner at maltedmedia.com>
>Subject: One-liners for the Coco -- Rainbow Magazine
>Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 00:30:36 -0400
>
>Dear Coco-owner:
>  
>I came across your CoCoList via some creative Google searching.  I am in
need of some help in trying to locate some of my personal history for my
young son to remember me by....all before history erases itself like an old
Coco program tape.
>  
>Back in my extreme youth (circa 1984-86), I wrote something called a
'One-Liner' for what I remember as Rainbow Magazine.  If you're not
familiar with One-Liners, they are complete programs written in a single
line of code for the CoCo....something like 256 ASCII characters long.
What's significant was that this was my first time getting published.  I'd
like to preserve this memory for my son for when he grows old enough to
reflect on his father's first computer experiences.  However, I simply
can't find any record of Rainbow Magazine One-Liners anywhere.  My parents
didn't save the copy of Rainbow in which my program was published either.
I was wondering that since you clearly continue to carry the Coco torch,
perhaps you could give me advice where I might turn to locate my One-liner
code and maybe even locate a back issue of Rainbow Magazine.
>  
>Here's all I can tell you -- It was a issue Rainbow Magazine circa
1985-86; Rainbow hosted a write a One-liner competition that anyone could
submit for....I didn't win, but did get published;  My name would have
appeared as "Douglas Wylie" or "Doug Wylie"; My code was inset on a page
like a feature article; My program would have been called something like
"Smiley Face"; My program put the Coco into color graphics mode, drew and
filled two circle eyes, then drew an ellipse mouth that grew and shrunk
like a mouth opening and closing.  That's all I remember.
>  
>Thanks for listening.  Can you help?  Any direction or ideas to find a my
Rainbow Magazine One-liner would be much appreciated.
>  
>Thank you so much in advance,
>  
>Doug Wylie
>dougwylie at msn.com
>