carlsson Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 Someone in the TRS-80 MC-10 camp found a bunch of new games for that computer, and as it turns out the developer Inufuto has made available versions for a long range of mainly Japanese home computers, but also some others: MSX, NEC PC-6001, PC-8001, PC-8801, PC-8001mkII, PC-8001mkIISR, Sharp MZ-80B, MZ-2200, MZ-1500, Sharp X1, Toshiba Pasopia 7, Fujitsu FM-7, Hitachi MB-6890, MB-6885 Jr, National/Panasonic JR-100, JR-200, Bandai RX-78, Sony SMC-777, Casio PV-1000, PV-2000, Casio FP-1100, Mitsubishi MULTI8, Sega SC-3000, Sega Master System, Sord M5, ZX Spectrum, Apple II, C64 Japan, VIC-1001, TRS-80 MC-10, TRS-80 CoCo Many of these models may be almost unheard of in the west, but at least some like MSX, Apple II, C64 (though Japanese version), VIC-20 (VIC-1001), the MC-10 and CoCo should be accessible natively. Aerial: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/aerial/ Battlot: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/battlot/ Bootskell: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/bootskell/ Cavit: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/cavit/ Impetus: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/impetus/ Mazy: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/mazy/ Neuras: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/neuras/ Ruptus: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/ruptus/ He may have made additional games, but those were the ones I found out. Given the wide range of formats, most likely those are made with a cross compiler, perhaps CROSS-LIB or something similar? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 16, 2021 Author Share Posted November 16, 2021 (edited) I downloaded the VIC-1001 versions and tested briefly. Apparently most (all?) of those set up a 24x24 screen matrix compared to the default 22x23 and hard code the coordinates to NTSC position just like the majority of old school VIC-20 games did. It means on PAL all those games would show up in the upper left corner of the screen. It might be possible to patch, but I wonder which library was used to generate the files and if that library would need rewriting to avoid doing this, or least read ROM values to determine how to position the screen relatively. Since I doubt those games depend on the raster beam, only screen positioning is what makes them NTSC or PAL. For other formats this usually isn't a problem. Edit: The default horizontal positioning is 5 on NTSC and 12 on PAL, and the games set it to 2 on NTSC which should be 10 on PAL. I suppose patching LDA #$02; STA $9000 into AND #$08; ADC #$02; STA $9000 should do it. Edited November 16, 2021 by carlsson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 Very cool find! I like seeing how they run on different systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 A fabulous find, what a treasure trove. Will test ride later some of them later, thanks a million @carlsson! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 While not typically associated with the Japanese market, I saw that he now has posted his first port to the Commodore 16 as well. Or what do I know, perhaps the C16 and Plus/4 got a small launch in Japan, onto an already fierce market? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 10, 2021 Author Share Posted December 10, 2021 Latest addition to the format list is the Epoch Super Cassette Vision! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jltursan Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 Only Mazy but it would be great to have all titles ported to SCV (and even more having the source) ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 15, 2021 Author Share Posted December 15, 2021 I saw that his Z80 assembler was posted but I haven't look into what it might do that other cross assemblers already don't. Perhaps he has a macro language that is converted to assembly instead of a traditional compiler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoBeans Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Ohh man, I've been looking for things to run on my PC-8001 (once I get the darn color cable built) and pre-SR PC-8801s, these look slick! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 New game: Lift (so far for a selection of systems, but surely more will be added in the near future) http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/lift/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jltursan Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Impressive!, right now "Lift" is available for more than thirty systems!. Very few japanese machines are not supported yet, maybe PC-6001mkII or PHC-25(this port would be a clone of PC-6001). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 5, 2022 Author Share Posted January 5, 2022 I suppose if he counts the number of download clicks, he figures out which systems to prioritize in case porting isn't automatic/trivial. Many are very similar but surely not binary identical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 Latest system added is the Tomy Tutor, a.k.a. Pyuta. I wonder how big the step is to TI-99/4A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 Latest system to add is ColecoVision, first game just posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 6 hours ago, carlsson said: Latest system to add is ColecoVision, first game just posted. Very interesting! Is there a blog or someplace where he is updating what he posts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 He posts on Twitter every time a new game has been uploaded: https://twitter.com/mxb03523 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 9 minutes ago, carlsson said: He posts on Twitter every time a new game has been uploaded: https://twitter.com/mxb03523 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jltursan Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 He definitely must have some kind of high level abstraction library that allows him to quickly port his games...and a pretty efficient one IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 Today he added Amstrad CPC to his list of systems. I doubt it ever reached Japan but perhaps it is relatively low hanging fruit since he got so many other Z80 systems. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jltursan Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Brilliant!, what's next, Oric?...Camputers Lynx perhaps? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 I'm speculating BBC Micro, or perhaps Apple II which had some following in Japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jltursan Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Apple II is already supported!. BBC Micro would be an obvious choice indeed; but I would really love to see platforms like the Camputers being supported, I've always thought that this machine has something in common with the japanese machines, the planar graphics are not very common amongst the other western computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 25, 2022 Author Share Posted February 25, 2022 THE DAY HAS COME!!!!! From now, Inufuto supports the super obscure Atari 800! First game already posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobAtari Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 How on Earth do you find out when new games have been made? There seems to be no index page, do people just guess random URL ends until they find one? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 8, 2022 Author Share Posted March 8, 2022 He posts on Twitter, a link to respective game page + a YouTube video once he has uploaded something new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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