[Coco] CoCo Video Player Project

[Allen Huffman]

On Apr 3, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
> age where we all take for granted the ability to play 30fps, high  
> color videos on our phones, how many of us "old timers" are there  
> that will be impressed for long?

You obviously haven't seen what small, trivial things get tons of blog- 
press on sites like BoingBoing. Someone made a Guitar Hero type game  
for the C64 and it spread all over. Guitar Hero is a brain dead simple  
game that a pocket calculator could do. What makes it unique is the  
sound track (turn off the sound and it's a rather boring game). Even  
the background graphics aren't cutting edge. The C64 "version" just  
played SID synth music, so nothing at all like Guitar Hero... But  
folks thought it was neat and it got mentioned on some pretty big sites.

So things along those lines -- doing something "modern" on old  
hardware -- are good targets for getting some attention.

Hmmm, I bet I could write a simply Guitar Hero in BASIC ;-)

		-- A