[Coco] Japanese PC Game in CoCo Style?

[Andrew]

I think my "japanese friend" found the author's homepage - 
unfortunately, it is in japanese as well:

   http://bernie.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

   http://bernie.hp.infoseek.co.jp/beluga.html

He noted on this page (and if you look around the site you will see what 
I mean) that maybe the game was written for something called a PC-6001 
(?) - does anyone know what this is? He tried to indicate that this may 
be a Japanese CoCo compatible machine?

The "bernie" site above seems to indicate that the author develops/is 
developing/developed some kind of emulation system or something:

   http://bernie.hp.infoseek.co.jp/develop/p6develop.html

He references it as "hot soup processor" (hmm - looking at things does 
he mean "java")? More:

   http://bernie.hp.infoseek.co.jp/vanity/pc6001.html

Look at that picture - looks almost like a weird CoCo 1 (grey case), 
doesn't it? Except - it has a fan or speaker over where the cartridge 
slot should be. That may not even be the machine - there is another 
machine above it - looks almost like a PCjr? Is the PC-6001 a PCjr clone?

Ah - apparently some more searching brought me this:

   http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=177

And there is the answer to this mystery - alas, not a CoCo - darn.

However, the PC-6001 did use an MC6847 compatible video chipset, which, 
along with 3.8 Mhz Z-80 compatible CPU plus three audio channels via a 
General Instruments AY-3-8910 - kinda makes it a machine more on par 
with an NES/Famicom, than a CoCo.

Once again proving that the Japanese always have the better stuff long 
before we can get our hands on it (why is that?!)...

Challenge:

Can we create a similar game on arguably worse hardware (I still say 
YES)...?

-- Andrew L. Ayers
    Glendale, Arizona

Andrew wrote:
> I sent an email to the owner of the linked webpage, the one with the 
> download. He informed me in readable english that it was a windows 
> executable, and that it was fun to play. He noted that he wasn't the 
> author (and didn't know who was), and only had put it up on his page for 
> others to download.
> 
> Too bad - I wonder if you disassembled it, what you might find out?
> 
> -- Andrew L. Ayers
>    Glendale, Arizona
> 
> 
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>> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:05:33 -0500
>> From: "Joef6809" <joef6809 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Japanese PC Game in CoCo Style?
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>> The download is a win32 executable using Directx8. definatly done 
>> recently. (last 10 years) But yes this really does look like a coco2 
>> game using pmode 3 graphics. Or at least a simulation of a system 
>> using a 6847. The main play colors imply it Red/Green/Blue/Yellow and 
>> when you die is swaps to the second 6847 color set.
> 
>