Browser Emulation of 1975 Computer Runs First 16-Bit Home Game 40
An anonymous reader writes "Following up on the 2009 story about the first graphics game written for a 16-Bit Home PC, I thought Slashdot readers might be interested in seeing the game in question running in their browsers. The original hardware has been emulated and loaded with the original machine code transcribed from PDF scans. Some brief background here."
Cool! (Score:5, Funny)
Okay, now I just need someone to be my "player 2"... :)
WSAD (Score:3)
My WSAD skills are rearing up to harm me in this game.
W - Up
S - Right
A - Left
Z - Down
I can't imagine trying to play Player 1 and Player 2 at the same time.
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Bitch, please!
W - up; A- left ; S - down; D - right.
That's how god almighty intended.
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God almighty meant for you to use the arrow keys, the way all decent people do.
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Apparently you can fire a torpedo as well . . . but since no controls are given and my boss is here I don't have the time to figure out how.
3... 2... 1... (Score:2)
Re:oh ffs (Score:5, Interesting)
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The "outrage" was expressed in:
Why don't we just buy locked-down graphical terminals with no local storage and hurry up on our way to giving all our data up to "the cloud".
And which said outrage is being posted to a website using a web browser that is stored on a server not local to you...
The irony, it drips with it!
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when will people ever learn
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Rewriting history (Score:1)
Can someone please tell me what 16 bit home computer was around in 1975?
The first home computers were all 8 bit
Re:Rewriting history (Score:4, Informative)
If you read the article, you will find that Adam's brother built a custom 16-bit PC.
Re:Rewriting history (Score:5, Informative)
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My favorite part of that page was this statement.
This page contains links to relevant pages at wikipedia and other external sources. These are identified by the text that is colored and underlined. Click on them to open new windows or tabs.
Purely Awesome.
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It was a custom-built computer by the author's brother using an IMP16 chip.
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Charset (Score:1)
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Can using a charset really be counted as "graphics" ?
Ask the folks at Bay 12: Dwarf Fortress [bay12games.com]
Wow.... (Score:3)
Games sure sucked back then, didn't they? ;)
(I can't wait to see someone write that in a forum 30 years from now, when they look back at todays games)
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People are already complaining about today's games.
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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/fury-as-'retro-80s-arcade'-app-discovered-to-be-just-very-poor-new-games-201111094519/ [thedailymash.co.uk]
Um... (Score:2)
The display is made up of PNG images. For "emulated hardware", that's a bit disappointing.
I was hoping for something a little more like this [slashdot.org].
Bah... (Score:1)
No game can be complete without DLC, multiple levels of hardware-enforced DRM, anti-trading policies, forced to be on the Internet every second of play, and random bans of networked IDs just to show that the game company means business, and that the debugger installed with VS *might* be considered a hacking tool.
Meh... unless it is on a locked down console, it isn't worth playing.
Is there an OpenGL version? (Score:2)
I think that would look really sweet.
That reminds me (Score:2)
0x10c (Score:1)
16 bits (Score:2)
I remember a very similar game... (Score:3)
... that I played on a teletype terminal connected to a mainframe that resided in the Lawrence Hall of Science (associated with UCB).
Now get off my lawn.
TRS-80 Color Computer (Score:2)
Of course, we TRS-80 Color Computer enthusiasts would try to claim that somehow we were the first 16-bit home computer owners, but anyway.