[Coco] Modern ports of CoCo games.

[L. Curtis Boyle]

I think so... but my memory is a bit rusty, as it was more than a decade ago that I saw it. I remember that it was keyboard controlled, which was much more difficult then the Coco joystick controls.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On Mar 9, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Stan Blazejewski <stanblaz at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Was it still called Photon?  I'd heard there was a port but haven't
> been able to find it anywhere, plenty of references to the fact that
> it was ported but nothing else. I used to love that game.
> 
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 15:32:56 -0600, you wrote:
> 
>> There was a port of Photon on the PC (I actually had a copy of it over a decade ago), but it appears to have long disappeared.
>> 
>> L. Curtis Boyle
>> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 8, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Anyone know of any others to add to my page? (This should end up as  a CoCoPedia entry, I think.)
>>> 
>>> http://subethasoftware.com/2014/02/21/modern-ports-of-coco-games/
>>> 
>>> Bedlam, Raakatu, and Pyramid 2000 – these three text adventures were sold on cassette by Radio Shack. Aaron Wolf has ported them to Android in all their green-screen glory.
>>> Doubleback – this 1982 ROM Pak game was sold by Radio Shack, and it’s original author, Dale Lear, has just released an iOS version for iPhone and iPad.
>>> Module Man – this 1984 platform game by Spectral Associates was released for the European CoCo clone, the Dragon (and the CoCo too?). You can see a video on YouTube of the original. It was ported to the ColecoVision!
>>> 
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