Posted By
Rio
on 2013-03-16
08:26:16
|  Re: Asteroids Emulator for the +4
I think his project was really all about bringing Asteroids to computers which have the same CPU as the arcade machine.
Asteroids was based on a 6502, and so he tried to target the emulator at 8-bit machines with compatible CPUs.
The only thing is that the 6502 on the arcade machine is clocked at 1.5Mhz whereas the 8-bit home computers are clocked at about 1Mhz meaning some slowdown is unfortunately inevitable. In any case the game is still playable, and after porting to the Atari 800 series machines and the C64, I guess a plus 4 version was another possible target.
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