CoolCV (ColecoVision)

mediamogul

I wanted to use this space to thank you guys for including this amazing emulator. Daphne was a surprise and led me to install RetroPie to begin with when I was already happy with my previous emulation setup, but it turns out that I find myself spending so much time using this emulator.

I have always loved the Colecovision, but have had mixed results emulating it on various platforms. After working out a reliable controller scheme, I'm enjoying titles that I haven't played since Muppet Babies was on the air. I was also too young at the time to appreciate one of my current favorite movies, 'War Games', let alone be able to comprehend the 'Global Thermonuclear War' adaptation for the system, but now I'm having a blast experiencing it for the first time.

Anyway, I could geek out about this all day, but my enthusiasm had reached a point where I had to compliment you guys on it's somewhat recent inclusion. It's a great system and a great emulator. I'll be logging in many hours of blips and bleeps on this and it's much appreciated.

BuZz

I know little about the platform, but after your post I have been watching some videos and some of the games look very impressive for the time, and will def have a go. Starting with WarGames! :-)

Cheers!

BuZz

Going a bit offtopic - if you like "Global Thermonuclear War" from WarGames, DEFCON is a great indie game to try - and chilling too (Available for linux also)

mediamogul

@BuZz

Thanks for the recommendation. That really looks great. Outside of retro-gaming, the indie scene is the only area that really gets my attention anymore. When video games first came around, they were allowed to be about anything. Now it's an uphill battle if your game doesn't conform to a commercially proven genre. Mobile Releases and the early VR titles also seem to be alleviating that some and it's always a lot of fun to see what the IndieCade has to offer at E3 every year. Thanks again. I look forward to nuking Las Vegas. "Suitably biblical ending to the place, don't you think?"

pimpmaul69

Oscar released coolcv with his great homebrew game princess quest. If you dont have it already you can probably find it in the atariage forums.

mediamogul

@pimpmaul69

Wow! The same guy made 'Princess Quest'? I don't play a ton of homebrew, but I remember being really impressed with that. As I recall it was quite a bit like 'Ghosts & Goblins", but with some unique twists. I believe it was even featured on the retail 'Colecovision Flashback' hardware release.

mediamogul

For anyone interest, instructions for getting ADAM .DDP and .DSK images to load can be found on page-14 of what appears to be the release thread for CoolCV. It's funny that the discussion starts about it's release on OSX and Windows. If you skip forward a few pages, someone makes mention of the Raspberry Pi and a user asks if such talk could be relegated to another thread. Skip forward several more pages and RetroPie integration is almost all people are discussing.