[Coco] Original Iron Forest...plus other Diecom games?

[Tom Seagrove]

The Hi-Res adapter was sold by Tandy and designed by Steve Bjork.  Dave Dies modified one and cut off one of the plugs.  The Rat also included a special mouse.  I have one in my collection and would have to look it over to see if I can tell who made it.

The Rainbow ran an article about modifying a Hi-Res adapter and gave a switch on it to go back and forth between normal and use with The Rat.

Tom

IIRC the light gun was a modified Sega light gun.  I think he just changed the adapter on the end to plug into the CoCo.

On Nov 3, 2014, at 12:02 AM, Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net> wrote:

Darren,

Thanks for posting that list, that looks pretty good (and maybe complete), but I honestly don't know what the actual complete catalog of their games/apps really were to know whether that is all of them (I do know of (maybe) one that isn't on there - more on that later).

It actually goes beyond the list though: Which of those games consist of the original copies (minus the copy protection, if any), and which are "cracked" copies (which may or may not have bugs - ie, like that version of Iron Forest being discussed)?

Personally, if at all possible, a complete archive with everything - games/apps (without any copy protection - whether that is a "clean" version like we did with GofD, or a clean "crack" w/ banners), manuals/inserts/etc, scans of advertisements, plus info in relation to any custom hardware (ie - light gun in Iron Forest, for instance) - which would likely be schematics, etc.

One application I didn't see on your list (unless I am mis-attributing it to Diecom) - was "The Rat" graphics package. For this one, IIRC, you could either use one of the high-res adaptors (Hawksoft?) - or mod the adaptor to work with the package (I recall that it had it's own special high-res adaptor, but I think that was quickly gotten around - there might even have been discussion about it in the Rainbow back in the day).

A "quick" run through the Rainbow mag archive would reveal what the catalog consisted of; their advert was always (as far as I recall) on the inside front cover.

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Andrew L. Ayers
Glendale, Arizona
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> On 11/01/2014 03:09 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
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>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Andrew<keeper63 at cox.net>  wrote:
>> 
>> >All,
>> >
>> ><snip>
> This is just the tip of the iceberg, though - so to speak. We as a
>> >community need to find and preserve the entire Diecom library, and make it
>> >available for download for everyone. So - can we do this?
>> >
> 
> A quick scan of the Color Computer Archive reveals that the following
> Diecom games are already there. Are there others?


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