Instead of the A8 range I opted for the good ole 7800 (obviously!
Out of all the Beeb games to convert I chose Tempest as the first one. The original BBC Micro version developed by Superior Software in 1985 was officially sanctioned by Atari so in my mind it was a natural choice. I like to think that Tempest is just coming home
It was a very interesting exercise in x-porting/adapting from one machine to another. The original game code is pretty much intact. A few things to note :-
1) Its a wire frame game. So that's a big
2) Its full screen in 8 colours.
3) The drawing routines aren't the best but will do as a first attempt.
4) There are a few bugs e.g. random lines drawn, random deaths (parts of the core game are still not working), wrong colours the first time through, maybe others I haven't found.
6) The display needs moving around because the Beeb is 256 vertical lines and I've only got 192 to play with.
ProSystem emulator screenshots (from version 1.03 of the game) :-
CC2 owners will need the following information :-
78SC_R16 78BIOS
Anyways... Enough teasing, so here's the game :-
beebx.a78 128.13K
179 downloads
beebx.bin 128K
122 downloadsAnd the screenshots from my portable TV :-
Enjoy!
EDIT: To update the text and screenshots.
EDIT: To add ProSystem emulator configuration link.
EDIT: To add ProSystem emulator screenshots and text updates.














