[Coco] CoCo graphics adventures ... online?

Robert Emery theother_bob at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 26 07:37:27 EDT 2005


I have it on disk Roger... a great example of what the old CoCo1/2 could do
with Basic. ISTR sending it to someone else a while back, so I probably have a
zipped version ready to go... just got to find it! :O

Bob

--- Roger Taylor <roger at newfoal.com> wrote:

> I thought this might get your attention...
> 
> I'm seeking the BASIC program 'CoCoZone' which was in one of the Rainbow 
> magazines and the disk or tape.  I used to have this program and liked it 
> quite a bit.  The upper part of the screen is the graphics and you type in 
> the lower portion.  I want to convert this game to run on CoCo3.com using
> PHP.
> 
> If anyone knows of other neat BASIC-written text/graphics adventures they 
> would like to see put online and possibly take on a multiplayer form, 
> please forward your ideas to the list or to me privately.  I'm ready to do 
> these projects and give the CoCo community something else to keep us
> together.
> 
> The reason I'm seeking games like these written in BASIC is so I can 
> translate the entire code to another language instead of trying to clone 
> just the look and feel but with only some of the features.  I want to 
> translate the entire game.
> 
> On a similar note, I'm installing an RPG game on the site now which will I 
> hope to customize to have some kind of CoCo theme if possible.  Also, the 
> CoCo Cafe will be cloned into a PHP version soon which will take on more 
> features.  In other words, CoCo3.com is going PHP/MySQL so expect many 
> great changes to come.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> -- 
> Roger Taylor
> 
> 
> 
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