[Coco] So how about sequels for classic CoCo games like Ghana Bwana in 3D for PC and Consoles?

wdg3rd at comcast.net wdg3rd at comcast.net
Wed Dec 24 17:08:29 EST 2008


From: "RJLCyberPunk" <cyberpunk at prtc.net>
> > Even see him here once in a while.
> 
> Wow! You do? Like face to face? Man to me and my brothers and cousins he is 
> a freaking legend with the games that he made and we played on the CoCo back 
> in the day! If I ever saw him face to face I'd ask for the man's authograph 
> he is our hero! :D

Honest, he's not a god, he's just a nice guy and a hell of a programmer.  "Back in the day" I used to see him fairly regularly, as he lived in the San Fernando Valley and I did tech support at the RSCC in downtown L.A.  Happens at the time he was engaged to (and later married) a field tech who sometimes worked out of our repair shop, though she usually worked out of the RSCC down by LAX or the one in Beverly Hills.

In those days, I was about the only person doing tech support for RS in SoCal who had any real fondness for (or gave any support for) the Color Computer line.  (I made up for my support of low-ticket items by also being tops in support of the high-end Xenix systems, often farmed out to other RSCCs in the triangle between Santa Barbara, San Diego and San Bernardino to handle problems their CSRs couldn't handle).  (And yes, I own a Tandy 6000HD along with all of my Color Computers, my Mod One, my 4 and 4P, my Mod 2 and my Mod 100s).  My support for the Color Computer did get me one fan, practically a disciple.  You've seen him if you ever watched the original "Beastmaster" movie.  Josh Milrad, who played the young prince (and hasn't a major impact on the movie industry since then, as far as the IMDB can tell).
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I thought about being diplomatic and polite.  Honest, I really did.  But while I was thinking about it, I accidentally bumped the button that puts my mouth on autopilot, because it said, "That's a load of crap, Captain, and you know it".    Jim Butcher, _Small Favor_




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