Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

Post by trobertson » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 12:07 AM UTC

gridspy wrote: post #13

bprater wrote: post #11

Does anyone have the article talking about Jordan and the development of this game? I was really inspired by it!

Detailed blog written during development starts here: http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/ I've read it end to end. Expect it to take a day. Very inspiring.

    I have to rent a car. I have to drive it. On these insane twelve-lane racetracks
    they call freeways. I have to find an apartment and rent it. I have to move in.
    I have to buy a car. I have to buy insurance. I’ve never done any of this stuff
    before… and now I have to do it all at once.

    And on top of this – or rather, at the bottom of it – I have to make a
    computer game.

    It’s gonna be fun.

Post by mmahemoff » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 12:32 AM UTC

scottshapiro wrote: post #17

jpitz wrote: post #15

Ohh the memories. Back in '90 or '91 I was teaching myself Turbo Pascal and completely sucking so badly at PoP that I wrote a cheat - I made a little DOS GUI save game editor that could max out your lives and/or time remaining. I released it to the wild but sadly there's no chance of finding that source again.

How'd you release to the wild back then? BBS?

Post by codezero » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 1:10 AM UTC

epenn wrote: post #9

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.

Post by comatose_kid » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 1:55 AM UTC

daeken wrote: post #10

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.

Post by kalleboo » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 2:52 AM UTC

epenn wrote: post #9

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.