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Contents 1 Atomic Joe Blade by Kees van Oss 1.1 Licence 1.2 Introduction 1.3 Platforms 1.3.1 Atom 1.3.1.1 System Requirements 1.3.1.2 Joystick Connections 1.3.1.3 Downloads 1.3.1.4 Screenshots 1.3.1.5 Videos

Atomic Joe Blade by Kees van Oss

Licence

Tape/disk images freeware (source code on request)

BBC Micro / Electron Joe Blade © 1988 Players / Richard Paul-Jones & Wayne Dobson
Atomic Joe Blade © 2014 Kees van Oss

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, Wayne Dobson.

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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Platforms

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

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.

Screenshots

Joe Blade instructions1 Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014	Joe Blade instructions2 Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014	Joe Blade game controls Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014
Joe Blade loading screen Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014	Joe Blade title Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014	Joe Blade play1 Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014
Joe Blade play2 Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014	Joe Blade play3 Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014	Joe Blade play4 Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014
Joe Blade bomb puzzle Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014	Joe Blade play5 Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014	Joe Blade hostage Posted: 14:50, 15 Jun 2014

Videos

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