[Coco] Infocom

[D. Bruce Moore]

Exciting!

 
D. Bruce Moore, BA, BGS, Dipl
www.AlternativeVocalTraining.com
Distinguished Voice Professional – New York  Singing Teachers Association

> On Feb 7, 2018, at 6:32 PM, Carlos Camacho <idevgames at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Cross posting this here as I know not everyone is on Facebook...
> 
> Recently I was driving and listening to a CoCoCrew Podcast and they were
> interviewing Brian Moriarty, a former Infocom programmer, who developed the
> 6809 version of their interpreter (amoungst other things.) I highly
> recommend that Podcast episode as he talked so fondly of the 6809. During
> the interview Brian, who is now a professor of game design/development,
> mentioned that he might have a binder with the original source code for the
> CoCo version of Infocom's interpreter!! An excited John W. Linville asked
> if any CoCoNut that lived near Brian could scan the binder, should he be
> able to find it. Well, it so happens I live 12 minutes from Brian and so I
> reached out to the professor concerning the binder. Brian replied with even
> better news... he had all the files in a ZIP file so no scanning of 100s of
> pages was needed! I have just uploaded to the CoCo Archive said file.
> (Should be approved and displayed soon.) I'm very excited to play a small
> part in helping preserve this history. Though kudos to John for asking.
> Questions about the code should be directed to John as he has looked over a
> few different 'versions.' Also, Ed Snider has worked on an interpreter for
> the CoCo so knows a bit about it too. Thanks.
> 
> Carlos Camacho
> Color Computer Store.
> 
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