JoeBlade

= Atomic Joe Blade by Kees van Oss =

Licence
Freeware (source code [mailto:contact@retrosoftware.co.uk available on request], subject to copyright holders' permission)

BBC Micro / Electron Joe Blade &copy; 1988 Players / Wayne Dobson Atomic Joe Blade by Kees van Oss, 2014

Introduction
The budget-price platform game Joe Blade was originally released on the Spectrum. The game was also ported to the C64, CPC, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Amiga ST by Player, based on an original idea from the Spectrum author, Colin Swinbourne.

Retro Software is therefore proud to reveal a brand new Atom port by the Dutch coder Kees van Oss. This new release is an astonishingly accurate version of the original title. The conversion was 'relative' easy because the resolution of the screen matches perfectly the Atom CLEAR4 resolution. Because it's a monochrome game, the graphics are exactly the same as the original BBC/Electron game. In the original game there were not many sound effects but they are also included in the Atom version.

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Atom
Port by Kees van Oss

System Requirements

 * Standard Acorn Atom
 * 32 KB RAM (#0000-#7FFF)
 * 6 KB video RAM (#8000-#97FF)
 * VIA
 * Joystick (Optional)

Joystick Connections
An optional joystick can be connected to PORTB of the AtoMMC interface with software version 2.9.

AtoMMC Joystick - PB0  -  Right PB1 -  Left PB2 -  Down PB3 -  Up  PB4  -  Jump PB5 -  nc  PB6  -  nc  PB7  -  nc  GND  -  GND

Downloads
[[Media:JOEBLADE.zip‎|Joe Blade Acorn Atom disc/tape images]]

This image archive includes both tape and disc versions of the game. Read the included Readme.txt file for more info.

The sourcefiles are available on request and have to be compiled with the CC65 cross compiler.

Type MAKE JOEBLADE to compile the program.

An assembler listing is created in the JOEBLADE.LST file.

Videos
Atomic Joe Blade by Kees van Oss Posted: Thu Jan 2, 2014.