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Is anyone working on a SMS Attack of the Petscii Robots port?
Post Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 7:57 am
I know a bunch of platforms are getting ports of the game and the author is giving out the source code freely, just curious if anyone is tackling that project or not?
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Post Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 9:29 am
I dont think that he is giving "freely" the source code. He is taking the control about releases of game.
So:
1 - You can ask for port it;
2- He will do a agreement with you and will give the source code;
3 - You will must return to him the game finished;
4 - He will turn it commercial via cartridges or virtually.

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Post Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:15 pm
Well, now the author uploaded the source code here:
https://github.com/zeropolis79
Unfortunately, there is not a source code for ZX version that is more close to our SMS, so somebody interested will have of port it from 6502.
Edit: There is a Z80 source code from C128 but i dont know how much it is close to Sega 8 bit.
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Post Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 12:17 am
segarule wrote
Well, now the author uploaded the source code here:
https://github.com/zeropolis79
Unfortunately, there is not a source code for ZX version that is more close to our SMS, so somebody interested will have of port it from 6502.
Edit: There is a Z80 source code from C128 but i dont know how much it is close to Sega 8 bit.


The C128 has both a 6502 and a z80, but, since the port was based on the C64 versio, it uses 6502 assembly. An alternative would be to use the Amiga an/or SDL versions as starting points, since they are made in C (obviously, the graphics routines would have to be rewritten from scratch, no matter what).
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Post Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:17 pm
segarule wrote
Well, now the author uploaded the source code here:
https://github.com/zeropolis79
Unfortunately, there is not a source code for ZX version that is more close to our SMS, so somebody interested will have of port it from 6502.
Edit: There is a Z80 source code from C128 but i dont know how much it is close to Sega 8 bit.


That repository must be the author of those ports.
The author of the game is David Murray who lives in Texas (in the USA).
David just made a long video on his youtube channel ("The 8-bit Guy") announcing he's basically done with the game. IIRC he said he might be willing to do a little bit of bug checking but he's otherwise not interested in new ports.
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