Yep, that's me! I'm sorry I don't remember meeting you... there were lots offaces at rainbowfest.I misspoke in my original email- I do have some of the binaries (in fact Ihave copies of all the original disks), but they are on copy-protected disksand don't run on the current crop of emulators. Hence, I wanted to findpirate versions and just post those.Defendroid never got finished. The demand for it was so weak we just didn'tbother. A pity- we had some really cool compiled bitmap code that reallymade it fly.I do occasionally still talk to Dave, but he's kinda unreliable aboutresponding to email these days :-). We now live about 2000 miles apart, soit can be pretty hard to stay in touch.-Jeff----- Original Message -----From: "Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle@sasktel.net>To: "Distant Systems Staff" <info@distantsystems.com>Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 11:15 AMSubject: Re: Coco games from Oblique Triad> > Distant Systems Staff wrote:> >> > Hi Curtis!> >> > I wrote the Oblique Triad coco games (see> > http://www.distantsystems.com/personal/jeff/coco.htm), and I'd like to> > release them for public consumption.> >> > Trouble is, I don't have any of the binaries!> >> > I've seen some screen shots of a few of my titles here and there that> > look like they were taken from an emulator running on the PC. Since I> > know Jeff Vavasour's emulator didn't like my copy protection scheme, I> > was guessing that these were pirate copies running on an emulator. I'd> > love to find any copies of my old games in ANY condition,> > pirated/broken/hacked or whatever... if you have access to them, or> > have copies squirreled away somewhere, then please do post them on> > your site- I'll be the first to download 'em! (Uh, I'm guessing I can> > get away with not getting permission from whoever it was who cracked> > them :-) )> >> > thanks a lot> > -Jeff> >>>    Jeff Noyle, I presume? I met you and Dave at one of the Rainbowfests> in the late 1980's in Chicago. Did you guys ever get very far on the> Defendroid game your were working on (I don't think it ever got> released, did it?). Neither you or Dave have any of the original disks> anymore (even copy-protected... Tim Linder, who maintains the MacMESS> emulator, leant me a CatWeasel board that allows copying floppy disk> images complete with copy protection for use in the emulators.> Unfortunately, some of your games don't quite work on the emulators> yet... they are still a work in progress)? I don't have a complete> set... I have the original 7th Link (the 1.1 update disk I received got> lost in a move around 1992), and Those Darn Marbles. Are you still in> contact with Dave?>>     Sorry for the long delay in responding, but have been too busy at> work to check my home email.>