[Coco] Japanese PC Game in CoCo Style?

[Andrew]

Torsten,

I am not sure it is - it looks like it could really be an actual CoCo 
game (but it certainly isn't one I recognize). The download, though, 
does appear to be a PC/DOS executable in the zipfile. I wonder if it is 
a real CoCo game, but written for the CoCo 3, using CoCo 2 screen modes 
for less CPU load (so more could be dedicated to sound)? Maybe even 
written post-1992?

I can't imagine why someone would create a game for the PC, and 
old-school it down to CoCo colors/res? I can only think of one other 
possibility:

Maybe it is a CGA-only game? AFAIR, though - CGA didn't have a 
red/green/blue/yellow palette set. I don't even remember a hack to 
enable such a thing. I suppose it could've been done in an EGA mode of 
some sort. At any rate, the sound probably come from speaker twiddling 
(though it seemed like cleaner sound than that - like a DAC tied to the 
parallel port).

I would love to know what the truth/reality of this game is - it looks 
like something on the edge of what a CoCo could do, given the right 
programming.

-- Andrew

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 > Message: 13
 > Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:31:38 +0100
 > From: Torsten Dittel <Torsten at Dittel.info>
 > Subject: [Coco] Japanese PC Game in CoCo Style?
 > To: coco at maltedmedia.com
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 > "Beluga Mk II" (C)2007 T. MATSUSHIMA
 > Video 1st 3 Stages: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=u2IArNy2If8
 > I guess this is a PC game reduced to CoCo Colors/Resolution. Should be
 > portet...  ;-)
 > (The download http://matzun.hp.infoseek.co.jp/beluga.zip doesn't work
 > for me).
 >
 > Torsten