After 2 years of very intensive development, one of the most classic games has just been made for the Atari 8-bit computer.
The Prince of Persia was created by Jordan Mechner and was first released for the Apple 2 and became a very surprising success.
Many ports for The Prince of Persia were made afterwards but unfortunately, users of the Atari 8-bit computer system never got the chance to play it.
That was until one day a group of people were able to suspend the 30-year long wait by making it downloadable and playable for anyone who owned any Atari XL/XE with 128kb of RAM.
The Prince of Persia was ported from the BBC Master port by Bitshifters which has the source code available on Github.
All the Atari port credit goes to:
The art side of things:
- @TIX Character art+ Princess room
- @miker music bank 1+ SFX bank 1
- @VinsCool music bank1 & 2
- @emkay SFX bank 2
- @makary SFX bank 1
- @superrune title picture
The technical side of things:
- Soundplayer: @dmsc‘s LZ4 SAPR player.
- Disk loading & zx5 unpacker Xbios by @xxl.
- Dev+ Testing: Altirra by @phaeron.
- Assembler: Beebasm(!) by Rich Talbot-Watkins.
- zx0 unpacker: @elmer
- zx packer: Einar Saukas
If you don’t own an Atari or if you do not have an emulator on hand you could watch the video of The Prince of Persia through this link here.
You can also download the game for free here by following this link: Atariage
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