[Coco] "Sprites" on CoCo?

Simon Jonassen simon at roust-it.dk
Mon May 8 15:37:33 EDT 2017


Sound HW... where we're going we don't need sound hw...

/Simon :-)

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Fra: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] På vegne af Bill Loguidice
Sendt: 8. maj 2017 19:51
Til: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Emne: Re: [Coco] "Sprites" on CoCo?

Some impressive stuff was indeed accomplished. The major negative of course was that the speed of many games, particularly the action games, was crushingly slow, especially in comparison to many of the other contemporary platforms. Fortunately, a lot of the gaming issues were rectified with the CoCo 3, although it was unfortunate it never did receive a dedicated sound hardware upgrade to go along with the other improvements.

-Bill

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On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Steve Strowbridge <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That's what made CoCo games so impressive, the fact there was no 
> hardware assist for _anything_ sprites, screen scrolling, music, 
> sound, etc., everything you heard and saw was done in software by the 
> CPU and the the programmers made the computer shine, to this day, I 
> still think of the CoCo game authors as both superheroes and rock 
> stars :)
>
>
> Steve Strowbridge, aka
> The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> http://ogsteviestrow.com
> ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
>
>

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