[Coco] New game for CoCo3 - new C libraries for RSDOS

[Chris Spry]

I know that I wouldn't be able to do that probably.  For now it looks like
I'm going to stick with CBASIC for making Minihog, which means it won't
scroll, but it should be JUST quick enough for playing (When you reach the
end of the screen it jumps to the next, like with Rad Warrior or Predator).
I'll see what I can do for writing music/sound with the speech sound pak
modified for the CoCo 3's high speed poke.  If I slow down the program for
the sound on a typical ss pak it'll bog down the game and wouldn't be worth
playing.  The ss pak has a buffer of memory to store the data for
sound/music so it'd be independent, letting the CPU deal with everything
else it needs to.  It's kind of like having a sound card for the CoCo.
Perhaps that's something someone can make for the CoCo 3...a sound blaster
like sound card that'd plug into one of the MPI slots, but that's just me
thinking.  If someone did that I would definitely write routines for it for
MiniHog.

-Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Dessart" <james at skwirl.ca>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: [Coco] New game for CoCo3 - new C libraries for RSDOS


>
> On 29-Nov-03, at 3:48 AM, Chris Spry wrote:
>
> > I do know how to program in C, although it has been years, but I don't
> > have any C Compiler for RS-DOS (was there ever one made?).
>
> Not that I'm aware of, but we do have gcc targeting RS-DOS right now.
> If you don't need stdlib stuff, it's all ready to go, but there's very
> little in the way of any library support for RS-DOS.  Everything needs
> to be written from scratch.  That includes disk drive support... right
> now there is no support whatsoever for disk drives, and I have no idea
> how to write it myself.
>
> However, with a complete, comprehensive set of information on all the
> disk drive interfaces (maybe even what HDB-DOS supports...) I could
> whip something up quickly.  But I'd need all that info in one spot, I
> don't really have time to compile it myself.  If someone could do that,
> it'd be fantastic.
>
> James
>
>
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