It's great that there's so much action in the Coco community both on the software and hardware levels. Joust and Defender are in fact transcodes. They take the actual arcade game's ROMs and work some machine code magic on them to make them play nice with the Coco 3 so that what you end up with is a more or less perfect arcade conversion for your Colour computer. Great machines these ;)
@pfc.thomas3482 жыл бұрын
I remember this one video game, they would sing this weird song "are you there space station amigos oh"
@vwestlife3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see some new games for the TRS-80 MC-10 (a.k.a. Matra Alice). That pipes game should be able to be ported to it, although trying to play it with a chiclet keyboard may be a bit clumsy.
@parrottm762623 жыл бұрын
So many indie devs for all the old systems. I tip my virtual hat to them, and to those who feature them (hint, hint). Thanks to all.
@ChetSimpson3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@nowhereman9993 жыл бұрын
Hi Mr. Lurch, thanks for showing and playing my Joust and Defender conversions. It's a fun hobby of mine and I like to prove to myself that my CoCo from the 80's could do this. Also to think what it would have been like as a kid to be able to play these games at home on my CoCo 3. It makes me happy to find other people also enjoy seeing and playing the games running on the retro computer. Cheers!
@michahoffmann10548 ай бұрын
both are impressive as hell! especially Joust.
@StingyGeek3 жыл бұрын
Really surprised at what the machine was capable of! Great capability demo!
@fourthhorseman45313 жыл бұрын
Those Williams ports (Joust and Defender) were fantastic! Very impressive.
@Xoferif3 жыл бұрын
Dead impressed that Defender and Joust are the actual arcade ROMs modified to run on the CoCo! Can't get more authentic than that!
@stonent3 жыл бұрын
Someone did a Pacman also that dynamically recompiles the Z80 code to 6809 code.
@joelavcoco3 жыл бұрын
@@stonent I think that was the same guy, Glen Hewlett.
@druballesteros92933 жыл бұрын
Interesting classic games. Thanks mate.
@CRG3 жыл бұрын
Always nice to see new games for these classic systems.
@mintyprojects2 жыл бұрын
I had that exact joystick back in the '80s for my Dragon 32. My childhood was spent in South Wales, so it was only natural. And that was the Old South Wales, not the New one. Rally SG (in case you didn't already know) is a modern conversion of Rally-X, an arcade game from 1980 by Namco.
@DaveMcAnulty3 жыл бұрын
that Joust looks pretty legit! Of course it's terrible to play without a leaf switch "flap" button :D
@OzRetrocomp3 жыл бұрын
It's a SepTandy miracle!
@geekwithsocialskills3 жыл бұрын
True story LOL!
@senilyDeluxe3 жыл бұрын
Rally-SG looks like a clone of Rally-X, which Namco released together with Pac Man, it runs on the same hardware.
@8_Bit3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'm sure it's an unofficial port of Rally-X, which VIC-20 and Commodore 64 fans may know as "Radar Rat Race".
@massmike113 жыл бұрын
I have found the while the C-64 often have bad chips the coco just seems to keep going and going
@sa32703 жыл бұрын
Possibly something to do with the Commodore 64 power supply is notorious for going bad and damaging the computer. Maybe the CoCo didn't have that problem.
@RudysRetroIntel3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! The defender and joust games are excellent ports!
@geekwithsocialskills3 жыл бұрын
Apparently Joust and Defender are both conversions of the original Williams sourcecode. It was brought to my attention in a reply on my comment above.
@ctrlaltrees3 жыл бұрын
Another great video as always! I would say I'm surprised that there's still such an active homebrew scene for the CoCo but it seems to be true of all of these old machines these days - and that's a wonderful thing. 😁
@joelavcoco3 жыл бұрын
The CoCo has had a robust DIY ethic from the very beginning, at least in part due to the fact that it was largely snubbed by many of the big developers back in the '80s. Though Tandy did manage to arrange some high quality ports in the early days of the CoCo 3 from the likes of Sierra, Epyx, and Sublogic, there were few official arcade ports (Rampage being a very good exception), and the vast majority of CoCo 1 / 2 games were indie clones. (Some Frogger clones are arguably much better than the official Frogger port.) CoCo folks knew what the machine was capable of, having seen programs like CoCoMax / CoCoMax 3 and the OS-9 operating system. They knew that the machine's potential had not been fully tapped by the commercial offerings available at the time. And they knew that if they wanted software like what was available on the Apple 2 or the C=64, they would have to do it themselves. Now I think we're seeing people who grew up with the CoCo and have the skill (and time) to develop the software that could and should have been available for it in the '80s.
@GORF_EMPIRE3 жыл бұрын
Love those block graphics! Brings back the youth of my days! Love it!
@seanmchughnt3 жыл бұрын
Great looking games. Thanks Mr Lurch!
@renatoamaral20293 ай бұрын
Zaxxon was a great game in the 80s. I had a CoCo II 64K RAM at home.
@bigdaddigaming3 жыл бұрын
Sadly I was never a Tandy owner but I did use to play on the machine set up in my local Tandy shop when Tandy was still a thing back in England, mostly because Tandy was right next to a computer shop at the time where I bought my Amiga from, before that I was a Sinclair fan, but after Amiga it was a short hop to PC witch I've been using ever since, but the nostalgia is fantastic
@brianv28713 жыл бұрын
These are some of the best games I've seen on the Coco. I need to finish making a video (probably scart) cable for this which has been what's holding me up on using this system.. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
@geekwithsocialskills3 жыл бұрын
Wow! Both the Defender and Joust ports look and sound great! Do I dare say very close to arcade perfect? Pipes and Rally-SG look pretty good too. Not as awesome graphics and sound like the first two games, but they do look fun with decent gameplay which is what really matters. Digger III looks amazing! I had no idea the CoCo 3 was capable of such games. I don't own a CoCo 3 computer, but seeing these games makes me want to consider adding one to the collection. P.S. your beard is starting to look pretty epic!
@CurtisBoyle3 жыл бұрын
Joust and Defender are both conversions of the original Williams sourcecode (both they and the Coco share the 6809 CPU), to run on the Coco 3's sound and graphics hardware. So they are basically transcodes, except with the same native CPU (unlike Donkey Kong, or Glen's old PacMan transcodes, which use code manually translated from a different CPU, like the Z80). So they *are* essentially running the original code.
@geekwithsocialskills3 жыл бұрын
@@CurtisBoyle Well that explains why they look arcade perfect. Thank you for sharing those details. I know zero about the specs of the CoCo 3.
@MrLurchsThings3 жыл бұрын
Glen did really well with both ports 👍
@martindejong39743 жыл бұрын
@@CurtisBoyle Meaning that both Tandy and Wiliams both used the same Motorola reference design for their hardware platform
@CurtisBoyle3 жыл бұрын
@@martindejong3974 - Not quite; I believe the reference design included things like the SAM and VDG, neither of which are used on the Williams games. (Please correct me if I am wrong, but that is what I faintly remember).
@PJBonoVox3 жыл бұрын
Beard looks fine buddy, don't stress :) I've gotta say, it's a lovely looking machine. Being from the UK I've never seen a Tandy machine of any variety in real life.
@CurtisBoyle3 жыл бұрын
The Coco 2 was sold in the UK for awhile, but you already had the Dragon 32/64 (which Pipes & Rally-SG will run on as well).
@_zzpza3 жыл бұрын
I'm in the UK and I had an MC-10 as my first computer, one of my brothers had a model 1, and my pop had a coco1.
@BCjeffro4203 жыл бұрын
very cool
@patbreen38593 жыл бұрын
Really great episode Jason! Although I gotta question your upbringing if you are that bad at Defender and never played Joust! :)
@MrLurchsThings3 жыл бұрын
Don’t think they were ever released on the Sega Master System (aka, the greatest console of all time) 😁
@wayland71502 жыл бұрын
That Defender looks spot on. When's it coming to Dragon 32?
@renatoamaral20293 ай бұрын
Great video, man! Lurch, what is your real name?
@rager19692 жыл бұрын
Digger 3 looks great (and fun), Those are good ports of Defender and Joust. DK Remix is a good game.
@wimwiddershins3 жыл бұрын
I never sussed out Defender's contols even back in the day in the arcades. Too many buttons for my 8yo brain.
@FADE2GRY20483 жыл бұрын
And my 15 or so year old brain and by now it would be totally hopeless. Loved the look and sound of the game.
@richardparker32003 жыл бұрын
Hey Mr Lurch did you like any of these games: Sailor man Rupert Rhythm Lunar Rover Donut dilemma Buzzard Bait Cash Man Speed Racer
@cathrynm3 жыл бұрын
Coco3, was a pretty huge upgrade from Coco2, looks like. Back in the day, I did not know this. I don't think these machines were well-marketed. RS had a confusing product line back then, and I think they were selling Tandy 1000s and Coco3s and Model 3s all at the same time?
@rottmanthan3 жыл бұрын
i used to play joust on atari, i think i have it now also but not the same one, lost it all in house fire of 99 but have since replaced some of it.
@tenminutetokyo26433 жыл бұрын
DOOD!
@renatoamaral20293 ай бұрын
If possible, try to get Zaxxon and play it. Great game it was! ❤