[Coco] Japanese PC Game in CoCo Style?

[Joef6809]

The download is a win32 executable using Directx8. definatly done recently. 
(last 10 years) But yes this really does look like a coco2 game using pmode 
3 graphics. Or at least a simulation of a system using a 6847. The main play 
colors imply it Red/Green/Blue/Yellow and when you die is swaps to the 
second 6847 color set.


>From Hell's heart I STore Accumulator B at thee!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew" <keeper63 at cox.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Japanese PC Game in CoCo Style?


> 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
>
> ---
>
> > 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
> > Message-ID: <fqbib8$tob$1 at ger.gmane.org>
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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
>
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