[Coco] No more dream ports (Was:Wolfenstein 3-D on a 4.77mhz 8088? So, 6809 port, anyone?)

[Mark McDougall]

On 25/04/2013 12:24 PM, Steve Bjork wrote:

> It would be very easy to do a continuous vertical scrolling shooting
> game like Xevious or 1942.

Xevious is my all-time favourite arcade game, and 1942 is pretty high on the 
list as well. I'd love to see those done for the Coco...

I've always wondered whether Xevious really _needed_ three CPU's, especially 
given the scrolling, tile and sprite hardware. I figure not because it was 
ported to home machines with far less processing and graphics power. The NES 
port, for example, is pretty impressive.

Of course, emulating sprites on the Coco is always going to be the bottleneck...

Regards,

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