The Hardhat Climber, 2023 turbo edition
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:52 am
Hi,
I've taken the liberty of creating a slightly enhanced version of "The Hardhat Climber", the iconic type-in BASIC game by Chris Lesher.
After reverse engineering it, I turned it into machine language using the Mospeed compiler, making it a little faster than the original and also implementing flicker-free animation by synchronizing the screen drawing with the raster beam. I've also fixed some minor bugs and added a proper credit/copyright screen page (which didn't fit in the original unexpanded version -- now it requires 16K RAM).
I abstained from making other improvements as I didn't want to deviate from the original gameplay which is simple yet enjoyable.
You can download it from here.
You can also have a look at my reverse engineering work (with comments in italian).
Github repo: https://github.com/nippur72/lo-scalatore
I've taken the liberty of creating a slightly enhanced version of "The Hardhat Climber", the iconic type-in BASIC game by Chris Lesher.
After reverse engineering it, I turned it into machine language using the Mospeed compiler, making it a little faster than the original and also implementing flicker-free animation by synchronizing the screen drawing with the raster beam. I've also fixed some minor bugs and added a proper credit/copyright screen page (which didn't fit in the original unexpanded version -- now it requires 16K RAM).
I abstained from making other improvements as I didn't want to deviate from the original gameplay which is simple yet enjoyable.
You can download it from here.
You can also have a look at my reverse engineering work (with comments in italian).
Github repo: https://github.com/nippur72/lo-scalatore
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