Prince of Persia for the 7800?

[Rybags]

IMO doable on a standard machine - of course to do it justice a Pokey cart would be desirable.

 

I'm of the opinion also that at least some of the graphics animations would likely need to be copied to RAM as needed since there can be more than one animated human onscreen. Obviously a banked cart is needed to do the game to begin with.

So any graphics referenced direct from ROM would need to sit in a fixed bank or if switchable bank, be the exclusive user of that reference method.

 

The hero graphics are by far the most complex and often changing, the fat guards have much fewer animation frames so would be obvious candidates to live in Ram, additionally many versions of PoP suffer slowdown at times - so it would be acceptable if in worst case scenarios that some slowdown occurred.

[+sixersfan105]

Given that Im resurrecting a 4.5-year-old thread, I have a feeling that nothing ever came of porting PoP over to the 7800? Anyone up to the task in 2018? ?

[Synthpopalooza]

Necrobump ...

 

I did music for this now. 

 

 

 

[christo930]

On 12/13/2013 at 12:39 AM, Rybags said:

IMO doable on a standard machine - of course to do it justice a Pokey cart would be desirable.

 

I'm of the opinion also that at least some of the graphics animations would likely need to be copied to RAM as needed since there can be more than one animated human onscreen. Obviously a banked cart is needed to do the game to begin with.

So any graphics referenced direct from ROM would need to sit in a fixed bank or if switchable bank, be the exclusive user of that reference method.

 

The hero graphics are by far the most complex and often changing, the fat guards have much fewer animation frames so would be obvious candidates to live in Ram, additionally many versions of PoP suffer slowdown at times - so it would be acceptable if in worst case scenarios that some slowdown occurred.

Why do you say it would need a pokey chip?  The original ran on Apple IIe, not exactly a sound powerhouse.