It's author says that "The 3D system was pretty advanced for 1989".
@yakumo
I'm looking forward to your new "slog", too. Hopefully it'll be more fun for you than the last one! ;-)
I also agree that the emulator screenshots are nice and big. I hope that the tiles are worth it and I'm curious about the 3D dungeons.
@Seventh Link:
The game definitely looks a bit like Ultima IV with the EGA patch.
It appears that nearly everybody programmed an Ultima clone back then but thankfully only a few got published.
John Carmack ("Wraith") of id for example but the author of this game also seems to be quite successful: http://www.distantsystems.com/personal/jeff/cv.htm
@CoCo3:
Another machine I've never seen in Germany. I'm sure that there were some but I think that couldn't have had a large market share. It's graphics are quite good for an 8-bit-machine - not quite comparable to the MSX2-stuff we discussed recently, but at about as good as the Atari ST. I like those clean frame buffer systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer#Color_Computer_3_.281...
The 6809 was more powerful than a 6502 and it got clocked faster than most. Sadly not many computers had one (Motorola never had "aggressive pricing" and with the 6502 and Z80 the mass market already had cheap, proven workhorses).
OS9 was also interesting as it was one of the first realtime-systems (used in Philips CD-I players and the legendary Fairlight sound samplers, for example) but it was never "well known".
What I find noteworthy is that Tandy apparently crippled the CoCo3 to push the Tandy 1000 (one of the first home PCs - competitor to the IBM PC jr.) just like Apple thwarted the IIgs (slower processor, lower resolution) so that it didn't steal the fame from the Macintosh which still had a black&white display at that time (the Mac II was launched the following year).
Officially these "lowly" machines had problems with custom chips or the CPUs couldn't yet run as fast (which may be true - initially) but when you look closely you see that the companies quickly cancelled their advertising, cut costs by reducing staff or killing peripheral & successor development. Different companies - yet both didn't really care for a large part of their customers.
Great! Hey, what year is this game from again?
It's author says that "The 3D system was pretty advanced for 1989".
@yakumo
I'm looking forward to your new "slog", too. Hopefully it'll be more fun for you than the last one! ;-)
I also agree that the emulator screenshots are nice and big. I hope that the tiles are worth it and I'm curious about the 3D dungeons.
@Seventh Link:
The game definitely looks a bit like Ultima IV with the EGA patch.
It appears that nearly everybody programmed an Ultima clone back then but thankfully only a few got published.
John Carmack ("Wraith") of id for example but the author of this game also seems to be quite successful:
http://www.distantsystems.com/personal/jeff/cv.htm
@CoCo3:
Another machine I've never seen in Germany. I'm sure that there were some but I think that couldn't have had a large market share. It's graphics are quite good for an 8-bit-machine - not quite comparable to the MSX2-stuff we discussed recently, but at about as good as the Atari ST. I like those clean frame buffer systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer#Color_Computer_3_.281...
The 6809 was more powerful than a 6502 and it got clocked faster than most. Sadly not many computers had one (Motorola never had "aggressive pricing" and with the 6502 and Z80 the mass market already had cheap, proven workhorses).
OS9 was also interesting as it was one of the first realtime-systems (used in Philips CD-I players and the legendary Fairlight sound samplers, for example) but it was never "well known".
What I find noteworthy is that Tandy apparently crippled the CoCo3 to push the Tandy 1000 (one of the first home PCs - competitor to the IBM PC jr.) just like Apple thwarted the IIgs (slower processor, lower resolution) so that it didn't steal the fame from the Macintosh which still had a black&white display at that time (the Mac II was launched the following year).
Officially these "lowly" machines had problems with custom chips or the CPUs couldn't yet run as fast (which may be true - initially) but when you look closely you see that the companies quickly cancelled their advertising, cut costs by reducing staff or killing peripheral & successor development. Different companies - yet both didn't really care for a large part of their customers.
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Calibrator
take care,
Calibrator