[HN Gopher] Petscii Side-Scrolling Platformer by Jimbo ___________________________________________________________________ Petscii Side-Scrolling Platformer by Jimbo Author : reaperducer Score : 83 points Date : 2023-10-06 15:31 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (jimbo.itch.io) (TXT) w3m dump (jimbo.itch.io) | masswerk wrote: | Play it here in online emulation (PET 2001): | | https://www.masswerk.at/pet/?prg=pssp&ram=32k&keyboard=games... | | For some more PET games by Jim Orlando, ready to run in the | emulator, see: | | https://www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#jim_orlando | | (BTW, if you are there, also check the star icon next to the help | button on the top, for some amazing PETSCII demos.) | | Edit: Maybe worth noting, the PET isn't only limited to it's | built-in block character set, it originally came without sound, | as well. However, it was soon figured out that there is a shift | register connected to the user port and, if you connect a speaker | to that pin, you can produce pulse audio at 1 MHz by this. (In | "free running" mode, this shift register will rotate and its | current LSB is exposed on that pin, each clock cycle. What's | audible are the high/low state changes of that bit.) Commodore | gladly adopted this scheme and added an internal piezo speaker in | subsequent models. Still, every bit of sound coming out of the | PET is a clever hack. | mixmastamyk wrote: | Incredible, all things considered. In color on the C64 would be | interesting as well. | jonny_eh wrote: | Not to be confused with "Attack of the Petscii Robots": | https://www.the8bitguy.com/product/petscii-robots/ | p1mrx wrote: | That's a top-down action/puzzle game, not a side-scrolling | platformer. | mmatants wrote: | Reminded me of one of my favourite text-art/PETSCII adjacent | creators I follow - Mrmo - who creates satisfying retro stuff | like this custom font/tileset: | https://mrmotarius.itch.io/mrmotext | city41 wrote: | This is really cool. It's impressive how mario-like it can look | and feel like using just petscii. | | There's also 8 Bit Guy's Attack of the Petscii robots: | https://www.the8bitguy.com/product/petscii-robots/ | | is Petscii/Pet seeing a little resurgence? | doomlaser wrote: | Digiloi is another cool Petscii platformer from a few years | back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UNMSeS5l4k#t=30s | city41 wrote: | That one might be the most impressive one yet. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-10-06 23:00 UTC)