This is a long shot… Mitchtron’s Laserdisc Player/Dragon’s Lair package for ST

[Paul Westphal]

On 9/10/2022 at 12:01 PM, ColecoGamer said:

Storage would be an issue due to the size of each animation clip. Sure, an UltraSatan could be used to store the LD content, but the other issue would be system RAM. Since the video would have to stream through the ST’s CPU - and also the game code - I suspect a lot of bottlenecks would occur. Unless someone with the know-how could re-write the game code to run off the ST, while using the LD player and the Dragon’s Lair LD in tandem. I’m talking about joystick controls and not whatever the heck Mitchron released.

 

If I (or someone else) could get their hands on the Amiga’s DL floppy disc - which contains the game instructions for play off a LD player - then maybe this package could truly come to fruition on the ST.

I was thinking the same thing about Road Avenger. I have seen the Amiga pull it off and I believe the STe / Falcon could do it with an Ultra-Satan compliant device. You would have to have enough CPU cycles left over to calculate joystick inputs / timings.

[oky2000]

The original Laserdisc footage is pretty ropey being limited to composite video technically. There have been various releases with enhanced/restored footage.