Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by th0ma5 » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 9:30 PM UTC

Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
popc64.blogspot.com

Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by tluyben2 » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 10:16 PM UTC

Very nice. I'm back in my retro computing phase atm and trying to do some ports from the C64 to the MSX (fun hacking!). This is great work; any annotated assembly source?

Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by tatsuke95 » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 10:28 PM UTC

I remember seeing this game for the first time at my cousin's house, probably around 1990. Jumping, hanging, swinging, creeping, sword-fighting? The animation blew my mind.

/nostalgia

Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by comatose_kid » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 10:33 PM UTC

No link bait title and a pretty rocking technical achievement. Great submission!

Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by gcv » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 10:34 PM UTC

I'd love to see an iOS port of the original Prince of Persia.

Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by joshu » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 10:37 PM UTC

little known fact: robert, one of the founders of Metaweb/Freebase was one of the rotoscoped models for PoP.

Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by lhnz » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 10:39 PM UTC

I used to watch my dad play this when I was a little boy. When the prince landed in the spikes it would make me jump and I had to put my hands over my ears because of the scary sound. :]

Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by eliasmacpherson » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 10:39 PM UTC

I'm impressed that Jordan Mechner himself responds within a number of hours in the comments of the post!

Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by epenn » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 10:41 PM UTC

gcv wrote: post #5

I'd love to see an iOS port of the original Prince of Persia.

There is one: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prince-of-persia-retro/id3739...

The graphics have been updated though, resembling POP2. I wish there was a version or a mode of POP for iOS where I could put it in a kind of "classic" graphics mode that would resemble what I remember of the DOS version I used to have.

Edit: grammar.

Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

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Post by daeken » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 10:44 PM UTC

tluyben2 wrote: post #2

Very nice. I'm back in my retro computing phase atm and trying to do some ports from the C64 to the MSX (fun hacking!). This is great work; any annotated assembly source?

According to the comments on the post, he'll be putting up chunks of annotated assembly. This is a seriously, seriously impressive effort.