10 Best Games for the TRS-80 MC-10
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- This is a list of my top 10 favourite video games for the TRS-80 Micro Color Computer. The Micro Color Computer, also known as the MC-10, was a 8-bit home computer made in 1983. It is a low cost starter computer with many similarities to the Sinclair ZX-81. The games are in no particular order. I would add the following as well (perhaps knocking off one of the text adventures): • Flood It by Mechacoco
• Darren Atkinson's Aste...
I think the MC-10 was an underrated machine for it's price point.
Hello I discover this great video... In France, the Matra Alice computer was the same as your TRS 80 MC 10. I discovered than the processor is a 6803 at 3.5 MHz, as power, it's the best one of all computer consoles for this time since:
- Z80 is 0.15 MIPS/MHz
- Motorola 680n is 0.42 MIPS/Mhz
- 6502 is 0.43MIPS/MHz
- Hitachi 6309 is 0.55 MIPS/MHz
So as Amstrad, MSX etc hav Z80 at 3.5 MHz (0.52 MIPS), C64 is 6502 at 0.95 MHz (saying 0.4 MIPS), Atari VCS and XL had 6502 à 1. MHz (0.73 MIPS), BBC Micro had a 6502 at 2 MHZ (0.86 MIPS), and Alice TRS MC10 a 6803 at 3.5 MHz, TRS MC 10 had a 1.47 MIPS!! So NO it's not the equivalent of ZX Spexctrum, its many more powerfull in fact (3 times). Sadly, because of shoirt RAM, a basic graphic processor... It doensn't give the best for this processor.
Merci pour votre intérêt. Je pence que le vitesse de la MC6803 sur le MC-10 est actuellement .89MHZ. Regardez ici: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10
(la boite a droit). Peut-être l'Alice 32/90 c'est different.
The Pac-Man clone was made for a computer that was one step down from the CoCo, and it still looked better than the Atari 2600 version.
Oh yes!!! Sold all my Micronauts, Shogun warriors, Kiss and Iron Maiden vinyls (signed by the group) to buy me a TRS-80. (trading from vic-20 to the coco...)... Was so jealous of my cousin (with his c-64!)... Well, I did got a nice career in IT at least !-)
This would be better over the 'music' track.
Thank you for your comment. What is the "this" that would be better?
@@BenevolentChum The entire video.
Space Assault had a fun bug where sometimes when you hit the mother ship on late levels the reverse video stayed reversed. Also you could roll over the score to zero (took about 2 hours of straight play).
I assume you are referring to the Coco version. I don't know if those traits would have survived into the port to the MC-10, which is what you see in the video. It was made for the MC-10 by Darren Atkinson in the last decade or so. Now I'll have to try to recreate the conditions and find out...
Cool.
Are the bitmapped games being played on an unexpanded system? If I recall there is a four color bitmapped mode and a two color 'resolution' mode that works within 1K of video RAM.
Is it possible that this machine may be quite related to the Dragon 32? The Beeping, low resoluted games with 4 colours - thats nearly similar it seems. Im an 8-bit home computer collector, but except the commodore and atari computers the has not ecen beem a shop to by tandy products, and even the papers concerning 8-bit games back in the 80s do not mention TRS computers as well... So if you didnt mention that those are games running on the trs, if would have guessed its the welsh dragon playing...
Yes. It was a simplified sibling to the TRS-80 Color Computer (Coco) using the MC6803 instead of the more expensive MC6809. But it shares the MC6847 VDG for its screen and Color BASIC (with a few alterations) and has the same basic sound generation. It can't access the highest resolutions of the VDG, but otherwise games will look and sound the same on both systems. The MC-10 was essentially an attempt to create a "ZX-81" low cost computer variation of the Coco. It failed in the market (which had matured by 1983) and was discontinued after a year. So in regard to the Dragon, it's a close relative to the Motorola spec sheets/proposed 8-bit computer designs that all these systems derive from.
@@BenevolentChum Thank you a lot for all this precise answers - Im heading for ebay nowto get one... The same concept did acorn with the electron ("elk") - quite fascinating!
I'll take Lost World Pinball as an exception from a BEST list... back in the day when released it was an eye opener onthe capabilities (unadvertised) for the MC-10, but the game play is horribly unforgiving :-)
Indeed. It's a rather lackluster game, but beggars can't be choosers....
The volcano animation is all that kept me playing, wrote a few programs to publish in one of the many pc mags back then . They said not enough market 😢, now the 128 expansion kits look intriguing
I didn't know the MC-10 was capable of such things.
The MC-10 can do high res (CG3) 128X96 in 4 colours using M/L with no problem. Its just the highest resolutions of the MC6847 it can't access -- 128X192 in 4 colours or 255X192 in 2 colours (CG6&RG6), which were the modes commonly used in Coco games.
3:27 "MC Bouncy Ball" What is this game? I can't find any information on it.
It's by Darren Atkinson, maker of Space Assault, and Asteroids (other super M/L ports), and Flood It. He's in the programmer directory of my MC-10 distro: drive.google.com/file/d/1IZ7z84dlKLHu8IBOzNpFKbX4N3C03r8I/view?usp=sharing
@@BenevolentChum Awesome! Because of your response I was able to finally find a rom. Thanks for the reply! Keep up the great work!
Cool video! What emulator do you use?
James Tamer's VMC10. Also, Mike Tinnes Javascript emulator: faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/MC10/JG_MC10.html
Here's a link to VMC10: drive.google.com/open?id=1x1EBm3Hje-_EdCZhC_U5wMjIYIJ3K4TV
What are the names of the word adventure games and are the cartage disk or tape?
They're from the numbered "adv" games listed in the Alan Cox Directory off the programmers directory in the cassette directory of: faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/VMC10_073D.zip