[Coco] Next arcade port to CoCo 3: Joust?

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Tue Apr 10 05:14:52 EDT 2007


Fedor Steeman wrote:

> For the next arcade port to the CoCo3 it would in my humble opinion be best
> if it were 6809-based in the first place. Many of the Williams Arcade
> system, like for example Joust, are based on the 6809 and besides that
> involve 4-bits graphics like in HSCREEN3. That would make relative easy
> porting, I reckon...

Joust and most other Williams games have a blitter chip... so if there's 
heavy use made of it, it's going to be very difficult to emulate a decent 
frame-rate....

Regards,

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