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Cocofest Chronicles (Allen Huffman).Pdf CoCoFest Chronicles Dedication This book is dedicated to the memory of Alex Forrest, one of the few remaining CoCo-only hackers I know, and a friend who will be sadly missed by all who knew him. In Memory Of Alex Forrest May 1, 1966 - July 19, 1997 “Leaving Friend” (by Jenna Brackmann) When they leave it hurts, but what they left stands fast. The way they talk Their warming touch Every little thing will last. For when they left they lost in you a memory that runs deep. A memory of only them that’s simple and unique. So when that friend moves on in life don’t be devastated and grey. For when they leave they touch your heart with a memory that will stay. 1 CoCoFest Chronicles Acknowledgments While I do claim to be the original author of the original CoCoFest reports (not counting the other original ones contributed by others for this original book), please pay special attention to the “Special Thanks” section of each report for additional credit where credit is or was due. Certainly, this book could not have been written without the assistance and support from the dozens and dozens (possibly more) of people whom I consider friends within this Community. I cannot possibly thank you all here, though at first I did try and realized how bad it would look for me to leave out people who were also instrumental in all of this. So, hopefully you know who you are. And if you don’t, please check your wallet for proper identification. Thanks. And I really, really mean that. SOME WHO ASSISTED Carl Boll provided some outside opinions on yours truly, as well as more favors to me over the years than I could ever repay. Jenna Brackmann provided the dedication poem as well as endless moral support. Brother Jeremy provided a letter to the Community which has been included. Ron Bull provided commentary on his independent Pennsylvania Fest. Ken Fish provided his thoughts on the Atlanta Fests and their real meanings. Tim Johns allowed me to publish his entire report of the Iowa Fest, and further add to the credibility of “IT.” James Jones provided proofreading, editing, his Fest reports, the use of his laser printer, and immense support for this project. Without him this book probably would have been made anyway, but it certainly it would not have been nearly as good as it is. Mike Knudsen provided hundreds of K of archived messages about the Fests, as well as his history of music on the CoCo. John Kowalski provided use of his hand drawn CoCo 3 graphic for the cover. Dave Myers provided his discussion on how the post-RAINBOWfests even began to happen. Tony Podraza provided a look into the Glenside Chicago Fests. Terry Simons provided insight on the one and only Iowa Fest. Terry Todd provided another view of the Fests. The Members of Delphi and the Internet CoCo mailing list posted many comments of which portions have been included here to show the before and after effects of the various Fests. 2 CoCoFest Chronicles Introduction A FEW WORDS FROM THE AUTHOR I have been a loyal Color Computer enthusiast since 1982. I was in the market for a new machine and discovered a grey case CoCo 1 at a local Radio Shack. My grandmother used to drop me off on Saturdays, and while she shopped next door I'd spend my time learning about this amazing machine. Since I was used to non-Microsoft BASIC, I found the simple commands such as SOUND, SET, and even CLS to be incredible. I can still remember the day the Pasadena, Texas salesman, Don, called to tell me about the new Extended Color BASIC. Much has changed since then with the industry and our Community. We've gone from a little-known machine with a small supply of Tandy ROM-paks, to having many magazines and outside vendors, back down to a small circle of developers and users. To anyone who may frown upon our current humble existence we can simply say “been there, seen that, done it.” ORIGINS OF AN IDEA In 1990 I was a student at a Junior College in Lufkin, Texas. I was also a die-hard CoCo user spending all my free time calling the four local bulletin boards in this small East Texas town. When they were busy, I'd be programming. A good friend of mine, Terry Todd, had been talked into buying a CoCo soon after I met him. (He was a classic Tandy 1000 user, though his roots went back to a 128K multitasking computer which his dad used to sell, made by the long-defunct Monroe company.) We actually had a small CoCo club at that time with about a dozen members. Terry had been working on a BBS program originally known as SMORBBBS (Shadow Magic's Original Room Based BBS), named in protest of all the “clone” CoCo systems that looked like the COBBS package published in Rainbow. (Terry originally joked about calling his package NOTCOBBS). The system was good and getting better all the time. Soon he ran out of BASIC memory so he started writing series of patches (originally called “MODULE-DOS”) to give him more memory. This package was about to be uploaded to the U.S. Hayes BBS (which had a CoCo section and a toll free 800 number for a while) when I got a call from Terry. He had bigger plans. As fate would have it, these events would lead us into deciding to form “Forty-Two Technology,” the original name for our company (which was never used, but the prototype business card sized ad still sits in front of me even today). History was made when Shadow BBS, MultiBASIC, and Sub-Etha Software became a reality. Dave Myers of CoCoPro! was a great guy to know. He had just began planning to hold a CoCoFest “down South” in Atlanta. During a phone conversation a month before our first ad would be printed in The Rainbow , Dave invited us to attend the Fest. It sounded like a wonderful idea so we came up with the money for a half-booth and Dave arranged for us to catch a ride with a couple who would be coming up from Houston. We literally rode in the back of a covered pickup all the way to Georgia — it was a great trip. The show was also a great trip as we finally got to come face to face with “legends” in the CoCo Community such as Steve Bjork and many others we’d only previously read about within the pages of The Rainbow magazine. Sadly, I know of no written report of this gathering and my memory of the 3 CoCoFest Chronicles event is limited to foggy recollections and a small roll of film taken at this historic show. Other Fests happened, of course, and I have done my best to attend every one of them. Through the years everything has changed. The CoCo was discontinued and soon the concept of a cheap, affordable home computer was no more. Now the entry level system is well over one thousand dollars, and even then you cannot run everything that exists. Time has changed us as well. When this first Fest happened, we were fresh out of high school. Today it seems like ages ago that all of this happened, quite possibly because it was — especially in computer years. ABOUT THIS BOOK What follows are versions of the reports I originally wrote for uploading to various bulletin board systems. I had been used to reading items from Marty Goodman or Kevin Darling from the RAINBOWfests, but when it looked like no one was doing that for these non-Rainbow events, I took it upon myself to share my thoughts on the shows. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have enjoyed putting them all together. Proofreading services have been provided by my friend James Jones, however additional typesetting and editing was done after the fact, so any errors you notice are were most likely introduced by myself. I need to point out that James provided assistance above and beyond the call of friendship. He has probably read these reports now more times than I have, offering corrections and just generally pointing out embarrassing grammatical mistakes I made years ago. (Why didn't any of you guys ever tell me about them???) I sincerely believe the reports are now better than ever before and one might even consider this the “Special Edition” of these reports (with apologies to George Lucas). However, in order to preserve some of the original “feel” of these reports, revisions have been kept to a minimum (usually just to fix spelling or grammar). The writing style is informal, with many inside jokes and typographical “emoticons.” Much of the information is now outdated (such as addresses, phone numbers, and online service signup information) but is presented here for completeness. Trademarks belong to those who own them. As I have said in the past, please don’t stress the details. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy. After all, it’s only a book, right? Allen C. Huffman, cofounder of Sub-Etha Software and Loyal CoCoist... 4 CoCoFest Chronicles Carl Boll A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE AUTHOR (From an all around great guy.) What would any Fest be without a chronicler? That is where Allen Huffman steps in. Allen has been a stoic attendee of Fests for as long as I can remember and that goes way back! He and pal Terry Todd used to come from Texas on gas fumes and Jolt Cola, pray that they would sell enough software for gas back and just have a blast all weekend long.
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