[Coco] Ideas for a Graphics Project

[L. Curtis Boyle]

    Hot Coco had a really good 3d program in one of their earliest issues,  
which was a hybrid BASIC and ML program. You could enter up to 26 points  
and lines based on all 3 axis, and then the ML routine would let you  
rotate it on each of the 3 axis, and also zoom in and out. I fiddled with  
it a bit at the time, and it produced results similiar to the Spectral  
game Space Wrek (See my webpage for screenshots of that).

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:14:55 -0600, John R. Hogerhuis <jhoger at pobox.com>  
wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:57 -0500, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>> I'm taking a 3D graphics programming class this semester and have to
>> give a presentation related to the subject matter.  Naturally, I
>> insist on bringing the CoCo into it somehow, so I've decided on a
>> topic that has been approved: a look at the evolution of 3D graphics
>> systems on home computers.
>>
>> In part of my presentation I want to run the CoCo 3 emulator under
>> MESS and try out a few 3D graphics programs, but the problem is I
>> don't remember what was out there in terms of 3D perspective games.
>> There was a 3D tank battle game of some kind that ran on the CoCo 2.
>> Does anyone remember what it was?  Rommel or some such?
>>
>> And were there any 3D graphics programs on the CoCo 3?  Sockmaster's
>> GLOOM comes to mind, but was there anything else?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Boisy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Not games, but I recall Coco 1 programs: a 3-D rotating space shuttle
> wireframe from either TCCM or TRS-80 Microcomputer News (both had a 3-d
> wireframe program but one was just a cube). There were instructions for
> making your own models. Let me know if you want this and cannot find it,
> I'll dig it up in the garage.
>
> Also I remember some helicopter games with 3-d wireframe graphics for
> coco1 but I cannot remember the titles.
>
> -- John.
>
>



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L. Curtis Boyle