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Here there are. Those doofy programs I promised.  I'm not a terribly good programmer, nor am I very quick, but I shall
post what occasionally gets hacked up.  Enjoy!
When I finally got tired of relearning ECB and experimenting, I decided it was time to
actually produce something.  The first attempt was called Light Psycles, which still isn't
done on account it just keeps getting more and more complex.  So I did this "lite" version.  
Keep it simple, stupid... that's my motto!  In this one you drive your Lite Psycle around the
board trying to snag up as many blocks as you can before you ram into your own light
trail... or the dreaded Green Block!  (The latter because the collision detection is based on
color. heh. Well...)  POKE to high speed for a real challange.   CoCo 3 users with an RGB
or VGA monitor will want to type PALETTE RGB before RUNning this one.

.dsk format     CoCo 1/2/3    4K Color BASIC     
DOWNLOAD HERE
Lite Psycle
Some random stuff, one-liners and bits.  Nothing particularly spectacular here, but a
couple might be useful.  Let's see, there's a bouncy program, which was one of the first I
wrote after turning the CoCo on for the first time again.  And text screen POKE character
lister thingie is actually pretty handy if you're working in that mode.  Most run on a 4K Color
BASIC machine, but I'm sure some will required Extended Color BASIC.  I'll be updating this
one occasionally.  See date below.

Last Updated: 1/10/07

.dsk format     CoCo 1/2/3    various     
DOWNLOAD HERE
Misc.
Pumpkin Dash came about because I suddenly got the bright idea to write up a game
program for Halloween 06.  This was on October 29th.  So, I spent about 4 hours in the
wee hours of the 30th hammering this together.  The I realized that I didn't have any way to
get it from the CoCo to the PC, so it sat there on disk until months later when I hooked up
the
Cloud-9 DriveWire and transferred it to the PC.   So here it is.  Late, but here.

I would say this is my first "complete" program.  As in it has a title screen, instructions, level
difficulty settings, and a proper exit.  It could use a few more bells and whistles, but at
some point, at 4 A.M. good enough is good enough. :)

To suggest this is a blatant rip off of Richard Ramella's
Broken Field Nightmare, that
appeared in Elmer's Arcade way back when, would be... well, probably fair.  In my defense,
I consider it more of a homage.  And I did code it out of my head with out peeking at that
program... and this one uses joysticks instead of a keyboard... and there's a target to hit...
and it's guy running with a pumpkin instead of football players... so.... heh.  Not as slick
and brilliant as the original, but still a fun game.  

CoCo 3 user's with RGB or VGA monitors please type PALETTE RGB before RUNning.

.dsk format     CoCo 1/2/3    16K Extended Color BASIC    Joystick    
DOWNLOAD HERE
Pumpkin Dash
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Software
Software
Speak Up!

by David
Dubowski
Classical
Computing
Download the first software-only full-voice synthesizer for the CoCo 1/2/3!  Written way
back in 1982, by Classical Computing's David Dubowski, this is still a wicked cool voice
demonstration and useful way to add voice to your BASIC and ML programs.  

The link below takes you to the download site.  You an download the disk image of the
original program, which includes both 16K and 32K versions.  Use the 32K version for the
CoCo 3.  Also included is a pdf of the original manual, scanned by David himself, and an
interview with David that appeared in
CoCo Nutz E-Zine (in Open Office.org format).  The
zip file has all of the above in one package.

CoCo 1/2/3    16K    Color BASIC    
DOWNLOAD HERE
Programmers, Past and Present!  If you would like to have your creations served up here at the CoCo Hut, please drop a
note to
coco@clubltdstudios.com and I'll be happy to add them.