As described in the latest article about the Prince of Persia source code (well, assembly listings), the code for the Apple II version of this game is now available on GitHub.

I'm too busy with other things, and Prince of Persia wasn't really my cup of tea, but maybe someone wants to wave their magic wand over the 6502 code at some point and bring it to the 8-bit Acorns.

There's a guy that has just converted it to run on the C64. (He disassembled it from scratch).

He has a terrific development diary over here:

http://popc64.blogspot.com/

He had big problems with memory (needed 128K?) and in the end made it as a C64 flash cart so I would think that would be a big problem for the BBC. (Maybe the Master?)

He based it on the Apple II version as that was 6502 as well.


- PJ

Yeah was a great game, I've just (re)bought a copy on the GameBoy.

Conversions aren't really my thing, but be nice to see a BBC version.

Certainly would be! Shame about the licensing, but I doubt a Beeb version would sell enough copies for Ubisoft's lawyers to bother complaining about.

Having been first introduced to this game on the Amiga, a video of the original Apple II version makes awesome viewing.

Beeb version!



Ok, well that's obviously a mockup - but POP may indeed lend itself to a Beeb conversion? Minimal colours (on the Apple II version, at least) and no horizontal scrolling needed ... though as PJ notes, it'd almost certainly need an M128!

Maybe it's one for Tricky to get his teeth into, once Carnival's out the way?!

That looks beautiful Dave! Would be amazing to get that running on a Beeb... if only I had the time

I really liked PoP, but prefer to write from scratch (with someone else making the sprites) if possible.
If I really wanted to trawl through other peoples code, I would go back to Jeltron (as after 30 years, it all looks like someone else's code!).
I also like to tackle the tricky bits (hence the nickname as I guess most of us do. Since I got the three rows of targets working in 1/4 of a 1/50th of a second frame, the rest has been a bit of a slog on carnival with the exception of a few bright moments like writing a program to generate the code and data to draw the pipes in a 1/4 of a frame too.
I am intrigued by PoP, so who knows, but as they say, "it won't be any time soon".
Richard

And you know what, it even looks good on the Electron!



(Shame there's more to converting a game than just fiddling around with a screengrab in PaintShop for a couple of minutes, eh?) .

LOL!

Oops, mustn't forget the Atom version either ...

Great work Dave - makes it all look very tempting!

I had a quick look at the memory requirements when the source code was first released. As you say, it would definitely need a M128 (and even then I wasn't sure that the data and code could be arranged successfully) or a Beeb with loads of sideways RAM.

Would be great if someone could take on the challenge though.