nep.pgelhausen@AMES-VMSB.ARPA (01/23/86)
Someone mentioned that they have already converted a number of C sources to Action!. Are any of these programs useful? Would a general posting (or an upload to the info-atari archives) be appropriate? Does ANYONE have any interesting/useful 8-bit software that is PD distributable? -Richard Hartman max.hartman@ames-vmsb ------
langdon@lll-lcc.UUcp (Bruce Langdon) (01/30/86)
I have a collection of PD programs in Action, primarily from 3 sources:
-The bbs that Clint Parker (author of Action) maintained until last Fall.
-The bbs that OSS (marketer of Action et al) sometimes maintains.
-A few things that I adapted or wrote.
There are various utilities, including a good UNIX terminal with termcap,
examples of how to make the Atari do various things with graphics etc.,
nothing significant in complete games.
I am quite willing to upload all of this, if it isn't much hassle to
distribute or post or archive or whatever. I hesitate to post it
because it would make a lot of traffic on the net and would expire soon
anyway. I have no idea whether some of it is the archives, because I don't
know how to access that or add to it. (Where does one learn that?)
One program, Palevich's VT52 emulator + kermit, was once mentioned as if
it was posted or archived, for example.
How Public Domain can programs ever be that are translations of
copyrighted magazine programs, or of UNIX C utilities? Not much, I
fear.
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