[Coco] Has anyone done an Angry Birds port on the CoCo?

[Steve Bjork]

With all due respect, what you call a 3D engine CoCo "game" still show 
the limits of the CoCo.  While trying to be a Wolfenstein 3D game, it 
come up short in control, speed, sound and graphics. Yes, it was good 
for a CoCo. But the real point is that I never got the "WOW" factor 
playing that 3D CoCo game like I got with Wolfenstein 3D when it first 
came out on the PC.

Yes, you can code a game more efficient and that's how some of the game 
ports have been done.  But there are limits.  You will never get 800 
Watts of good power from a 300 Watt power supply.  The same it true with 
the CoCo.  You can push it, but there are limits.

This come from someone that knows all too well the limits of the 6809 
and the hardware of the CoCo and the horsepower needed for this type of 
physics engine game.  After all, I did professionally code for the CoCo 
for over a decade before moving on to other systems.

Another way to look at it, time is short.  Too short wasting time on 
trying to get an 30 year old computer to do the things a $35 Raspberry 
Pi can do.  I'm sitting here with all types of computers. From Mac to PC 
to iPad to Microsoft Surface to Android, it runs the gambit.  Don't get 
me started about all the micro-controllers I have at the workbench.  
With all the choices out there, it's easy to pick the right computer or 
device for the tack.

Steve

On 10/30/2012 4:26 PM, Roy Lores wrote:
> With all due respect Steve there is a lot of things that others have 
> accomplished on the CoCo that most if not everyone at one time said 
> could not be done. The CoCo  is too slow for a 3D engine let alone a 
> textured one and yet one was developed and a game to boot and recently 
> they have developed a textured 3D engine as well. So there are 
> precedents of many things deemed impossible for the CoCo and have been 
> proven wrong. perhaps Sockmaster or some other coding genious will 
> create an algorithm that allows to do a reasonably fast Angry birds game.
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