Trying to contact David Wright

Minuous · 20 March 2012, 00:44

Hello all, I'm trying to get in touch with famous Amiga developer David Wright about obtaining source code for CRobots and Empire to continue development of these programs.

I managed to find his page at http://blogs.nvidia.com/author/david-wright/ but there doesn't seem to be an email address there or any way to contact him (or nVidia for that matter). Does anyone have an email address for him? Thanks.

johnim · 20 March 2012, 01:00

is this the same guy here

http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidawright

Minuous · 20 March 2012, 01:58

Yes.

28 March 2012, 15:46

Empire has been improved over the years already. Check out http://wolfpackempire.com/

Minuous · 28 March 2012, 15:54

Yes, and so has CRobots for that matter. I'd like to merge some or all of the improvements into the Amiga version, I'd prefer to update the existing version rather than re-port from scratch.

28 March 2012, 15:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minuous

Yes, and so has CRobots for that matter. I'd like to merge some or all of the improvements into the Amiga version, I'd prefer to update the existing version rather than re-port from scratch.

Source for Empire 1.0 was available on some fish-disk, unfortunately, that's not the latest released version. Being written in Draco would be another obstacle, even though it is an easy language, as far as I remember.

Oh, these days, playing Empire with a friend who hooked up his C-64 to my Amiga using a Userport-RS232 interface.

TCD · 28 March 2012, 16:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by wuselfuzz

Source for Empire 1.0 was available on some fish-disk, unfortunately, that's not the latest released version.

It's on Fish disk #118.

Minuous · 29 March 2012, 06:21

>Being written in Draco would be another obstacle, even though it is an easy language, as far as I remember.

Yep, it's pretty easy. I've already written and released a Draco-to-C conversion program and some trivial Draco programs.

>It's on Fish disk #118.

Yes, I have that version. There's also some later binary-only versions on later Fish disks, and apparently some even later (presumably binary-only) versions (eg. V2.25w) which aren't in the Fish library but which were released elsewhere, I haven't had any success tracking those down.

WRT CRobots, there have been AFAIK 2 binary-only Amiga versions, and ports to various platforms but no source code for any of them has been released. Mr Wright did mention in the docs however that he was happy to send source to anyone who wanted it. I've ported CodeWar to Amiga which is a similar kind of program, I'm still interested in doing something with CRobots though.

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20 March 2012, 00:44	#1
Minuous Coder/webmaster/gamer Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canberra/Australia Posts: 2,688	Trying to contact David Wright Hello all, I'm trying to get in touch with famous Amiga developer David Wright about obtaining source code for CRobots and Empire to continue development of these programs. I managed to find his page at http://blogs.nvidia.com/author/david-wright/ but there doesn't seem to be an email address there or any way to contact him (or nVidia for that matter). Does anyone have an email address for him? Thanks.

20 March 2012, 01:00	#2
johnim Amibay Mod/Staff Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: birmingham uk Age: 48 Posts: 1,019	is this the same guy here http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidawright

20 March 2012, 01:58	#3
Minuous Coder/webmaster/gamer Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canberra/Australia Posts: 2,688	Yes.

28 March 2012, 15:46	#4
wuselfuzz Posts: n/a	Empire has been improved over the years already. Check out http://wolfpackempire.com/

28 March 2012, 15:54	#5
Minuous Coder/webmaster/gamer Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canberra/Australia Posts: 2,688	Yes, and so has CRobots for that matter. I'd like to merge some or all of the improvements into the Amiga version, I'd prefer to update the existing version rather than re-port from scratch.

29 March 2012, 06:21	#8
Minuous Coder/webmaster/gamer Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canberra/Australia Posts: 2,688	>Being written in Draco would be another obstacle, even though it is an easy language, as far as I remember. Yep, it's pretty easy. I've already written and released a Draco-to-C conversion program and some trivial Draco programs. >It's on Fish disk #118. Yes, I have that version. There's also some later binary-only versions on later Fish disks, and apparently some even later (presumably binary-only) versions (eg. V2.25w) which aren't in the Fish library but which were released elsewhere, I haven't had any success tracking those down. WRT CRobots, there have been AFAIK 2 binary-only Amiga versions, and ports to various platforms but no source code for any of them has been released. Mr Wright did mention in the docs however that he was happy to send source to anyone who wanted it. I've ported CodeWar to Amiga which is a similar kind of program, I'm still interested in doing something with CRobots though.

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