[HN Gopher] Petscii Side-Scrolling Platformer by Jimbo
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       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):
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       | 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.
        
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