Just plain bitcoin with those patches successfully applied is a stem cell type of thing, the first step every merged mined coin needs, thus a step that makes little sense for each to have to do separately.
Once you get those patches applied to the latest bitcoin, all the merged mined coins can clone it and start changing into their latest new version, which should cause there to be plenty of folk who are at the perfect time to help you identify what you need to do to your copy to make it into your new type of (merged mine able) coin!
They can walk you through the steps as they do them to theirs, and all doing it at the same time they can all serve as reminders to each other of exactly what all the little details are that one needs to change to turn bitcoin into an altcoin.
Up for it?
The most recent version of merged mining patches I have is online at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/galacticmilieu/files/
-MarkM-
Yep, now thats a good idea.
Solidcoin is kind of/sort of dead but that's because a new crypto-currency is being written, from scratch, with new ideas and isn't based off of Bitcoin at all. The new currency is called Microcash and will provide a system for converting Solidcoin's to Microcash Dollars.
The project was dormant for a really long time, but after spurring necessary discussions and, becoming a developer on the project, development has restarted. I trust you all can google. If you are interested in finding out more, just go to the Microcash forum and look around.
I already pointed out it was buggy. Any ways, DigiCoin will be released under the mit license all credit for the codebase goes to Bitcoin. Anyone know the maker of cgminer? Might contact the cgminer developer to see about intergrating it and making it user friendly. Thanks everyone for the wonderfull ideas, don't know if I'll implement them right a way, but I'll do my best to add them.