Video and computer games
One of my hobbies is playing video and computer gamees. I'm especially interested in classic games like there were in the early days of video and computer games (late 70's/early 80's). Lately I've also been experimenting with writing new programs for old systems.
Here is my newest creation... it's Pitstop2000, a PC game originally written by Ivan Bermejo Bolado. This is based on Epyx's Pitstop game which came out for the Commodore 64 and Colecovision
systems back in the 1980's. I greatly enhanced it over the original version. The enhancements include:
- Sound
- Fullscreen display, the game selection screen also fills the full screen
- More realistic duration of laps
- More realistic track bending
- The curves on the track now match up to the minimaps of the tracks much more closely
- More realistic scrolling of mountains (think Pole Position, the old arcade game)
and other minor tweaks...
You can download it here by clicking on the screenshot:
Below you can see a screenshot of my latest attempt in this direction - a version of Tetrinet for the Philips G7400 (which was released only in Europe, although it was also planned to appear in the USA as the Odyssey^3). The game is not really playable yet (doesn't respond to Joystick inputs). A big thanks goes to Soren Gust whose homepage has been a wealth of information for me regarding this rather rare system.
So what's the idea behind this? There have been clones of this game for virtually all video and computer systems - but some early systems missed out until now. One of them is the Odyssey^2 a.k.a. Philips G7000. Now, Ted Foolerey has written a version of this game for the "normal" G7000, but for only one player, and without any extras. The puzzle is also displayed in only one color, and the blocks don't have textures due to the limitations of the G7000 which already has to work hard to create this display.
However, the G7400 is a different beast since it offers some additional character-based graphics which comes in tiles, as usual on early home computers (and also many arcade games work this way). And using tiles, it's easy to display puzzle games like this one. So I think the G7400 should be able to pull of a 2-player version with extras.
If you click on one of the screenshots below, you can download the ROM file. You'll probably need an emulator (i.e. O2EM) to play it.
If you want to know more about this,
please contact me at: [email protected]
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