[PLUG] Dungeons of Daggorath

Michael Robinson plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Mon Nov 24 11:30:12 UTC 2008


Remember this coco 2 game?  Well, I found a Linux port and tried it 
out.  It uses SDL.  It seems a bit harder than I remember it being on 
the coco, I'm wondering if the port has some changes from the original.

Finally survived the first level only to be wiped out by a knight on the 
second.  Typing seems a bit slow, that's my only real complaint.

It would be nice if I could get the original coco version in a dsk image 
that I can load into drivewire to play on my actual color computer.  The 
whole game is only 8k.

There is a windows port as well, apparently that came first.

The other classic I miss is Downland, a coco 2 game that had problems 
running on the coco 3.  I don't
know if anyone has ported it to the PC let alone Linux.

Out of curiosity, what would a 6809 redesigned to run at say 2.4 Ghz 
with additional 16 bit sound hardware built in be like to work with?  
I've heard a lot of talk that PC machine language is just plain gross 
where the 6809 is much simpler than say a quad core processor used in a 
modern PC.  There
is talk from some coco enthusiasts of a COCO 4, but I doubt that will 
ever happen.  At least it won't
happen until the hardware gets old enough.  The coco3 had disk basic, 
what would a modern coco
look like?  I suppose memory protection would have to be considered and 
the ability to access data using more than 8 bits, although a 
compatability mode would make sense.  I think the Coco 3 was the first 
coco in the coco line to have compatability issues.  For one thing, 
every pmode 4 game you play on an RGB monitor on a COCO 3 is in black 
and white.  I guess what would be most interesting is taking the best of 
all the computers that were popular in 1980 and making a modern 
variant.  Imagine a COCO 4 having the sprite technology of the Commodore 64.


These days it seems like your choices are Mac or PC, not as diverse as 
say 1980 when you could go
with a Commodore, a TRS-80, an Apple IIe, an Atari, etcetera.  In 1980 
Microsoft wasn't dominant yet.
Tandy corporation licensed software from Microsoft for the color 
computer, but Microsoft wasn't the
sole provider of that software.  Isn't 1980 about the time that Windows 
3.1 was getting popular?



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