Updates:
- 2014/03/08: More games added.
- 2015/03/20: Added Caladuril Flame of Light (thanks to a comment from Hugo).
- 2017/01/20: Added Bouncy Ball NG by Lee Patterson.
I previously mentioned that my first home computer was a Commodore VIC-20 in 1982. A year later I would be running a Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (“CoCo”), expanded to 64K by a local Houston CoCo guru named Don Burr. I stuck with that computer (then a CoCo 2, and finally a CoCo 3) and was still using it as a primary machine until around the end of 1995 when I bought my first modern PC laptop (a Toshiba) so I could use the world wide web.
But I digress…
In recent years, it seems several Color Computer programs have been ported or recreated on other systems. I thought it might be fun to share the list I have so far.
- Airball – an Android port of a game made for the Dragon 32/64.
- Bedlam, Raakatu, and Pyramid 2000 – these three text adventures were sold on cassette by Radio Shack. Aaron Wolf has ported them to Android in all their green-screen glory.
- Bouncy Ball – Now available for iOS (iPhones, iPads) and TVOS (AppleTV) as Bouncy Ball NG.
- Caladuril Flame of Light – This Diecom/Oblique Triad graphical adventure game was ported to the Palm Pilot PDAs.
- Donut Delima – Nick Marentes’ platform game for the CoCo 1/2 has been ported to the Maximite retro gaming system.
- Dungeons of Daggorath – the classic ROM Pak has been ported to a Windows PC and PlayStation Portable! (I’m pretty sure I had a Mac version of it at one point, too.)
- Doubleback – this 1982 ROM Pak game was sold by Radio Shack, and it’s original author, Dale Lear, has just released an iOS version for iPhone and iPad.
- Module Man – this 1984 platform game by Spectral Associates was released for the European CoCo clone, the Dragon (and the CoCo too?). You can see a video on YouTube of the original. It was ported to the ColecoVision!
- Zenix3D – an update to the GOSUB Software game Zenix (Jeremy Spiller and Mike Newell) by one of the original authors. (See this video of the original CoCo 3 version.)
Know of any others? Let me know and I will keep updating this page.
I know Caladuril: Flame of light has been ported to a few handheld platforms in the early 2000s but I can’t find many links. Here’s one: http://distantsystems.com/DistantSystems/adventures.htm
Thanks, Hugo. I will check that out and updatre the list.
Found this link, where you can still download the B&W version for Palm III. But who owns a Palm Pilot anymore (or wants to install a Palm OS emulator, for what it’s worth)? I think it’s more convenient playing Caladuril in VCC!!!
http://www.distantsystems.com/DistantSystems/Cal1.htm