[Coco] pacos9 ported to lwtools

[Bill Pierce]

Boisy, thanks for the correction. I now remember David Ladd set up the makefiles for DW compatible disks.

But, the original question was, "would it be ok to add pacos9 to the arcade pack?"

I think it's a logical move. There are too many "one hit wonder" disks already being produced. Particularly in the "utils" section. I know some things require their own disk due to sheer size, but a "less than 1k utility" ??
Take all the little utilitis, put them on one disk with each utility under a directory of it's own. Name it "nos9Utils.dsk" or something.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 9, 2014 1:56 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] pacos9 ported to lwtools


Thanks for that clarification Curtis. Sorry about that.

On Feb 9, 2014, at 10:17 AM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:

> One slight correction - Bill Nobel did the original Shanghai port. Alan later 
changed it to allow custom tile sets, etc.
> 
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 9, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
> 
>> For the record… the Arcade Pak was a product that I had assembled and 
licensed to Cloud-9. It was composed of Alan DeKok’s Thexder and Shanghai OS-9 
ports, and a third game I cannot recall at the moment. It was sold through 
Cloud-9 for years before deciding to release it to the NitrOS-9 Project (with 
permission of Alan of course).
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 8, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Tormod
>>>> I think the "Arcade Pack" was originally just 3 games disks someone had 
added (in individual dirs). "I think" David Ladd combined them to be the arcade 
pack when he was doing some of the lwtools changeover fixes in Dec, 2012 & Jan, 
2013 (aprx). They are not by the same author or distibutor or part of a package.
>>> 
>>> It looks like Boisy added the complete pack in Jan 2012. According to
>>> the startup file, it was "Licensed to Cloud-9", but there is no other
>>> descriptions of its origin.
>>> 
>>>> Since "Pacman" was a true arcade game originally, it would fit right in 
with the theme. What would be nice is a "menu" system on the disk where you can 
select a game to run. When the game ends (or stopped), it would return to the 
menu.
>>>> 
>>>> I was suggesting directx for Wine because you were describing graphics 
problems in Vcc and Vcc requires directx 9 (or better) and a lot of people don't 
realize it as there's not much of a "system requirement" list for Vcc and I know 
wine doesn't insatll directx by default, or at least it didn't the last time I 
worked with it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks, good to know.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> BTW... Thanx for fixing the pacos9 code. I had looked at it several times 
but did not know enough about the differences in lwtools asm from os9 asm to 
make any workable changes in the code or the makefile.
>>>> If I used cross compilers regularly, I might know more, but I'm slowly 
figuring it out though... :-)
>>> 
>>> Yeah, that was a learning experience. I never used lwtools object file
>>> linking (and never used os9 asm), but the lwtools documentation is
>>> good and it seems that I got it right.
>>> 
>>> Tormod
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