Sunday 8 January 2012

C64anabalt Cartridge Available! (C64)


Here's the news that many of you have been waiting for... C64anabalt is finally available to buy on cartridge from our shop!

C64anabalt is an official conversion of Adam Atomic & Danny B.'s award winning single-button 2009 indie game Canabalt for the 8-Bit, 64KB RAM, 1Mhz Commodore 64 home computer developed by Paul Koller (Paulko64). This particular version was designed to run from a 16KB cartridge (although there are also tape and disk versions available for free download as well).

The game was developed as an entry for the RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition (2011) in which it achieved second place, and the name C64anabalt was suggested by Adam Atomic himself. The physics and procedural algorithms are based on those documented in the original game's open source code.

There are two versions of C64anabalt available; one with a SID chip conversion of Danny B.'s original score by Mikkel Hastrup (Encore), and an alternative build featuring music from the PC indie game ThrustBurst by Andreas Slotte (Ghormak). Unfortunately it wasn't possible to fit them both into a single 16KB ROM, so we've made two versions available to order or download.

Please note that C64anabalt is compatible with NTSC C64's, but lacks the static parallax background cityscape (the background scrolls instead) and it stutters slightly at high running speeds (due to the NTSC machine having less CPU time available). The game also plays fractionally faster than the PAL version. None of these issues severely affect the play of the game, but it should be noted that the game was coded specifically for PAL machines.

The dove-grey cartridge is packaged in a box designed by Adam Saltsman and comes complete with a printed manual. I will endeavour to ship out games within a week of purchase, but due to these being custom built with separate soundtracks it may take a bit of time (depending on how many orders come in).

7 comments:

  1. That's one sexy MF cart right there!

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  2. Great work guys, I already ordered it :-)
    Can't wait!

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  3. Where I can hear both songs to know which to choose?

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  4. A lot of people are asking about different soundtracks, and what is which. The video above uses the Encore version, whereas the video here has the Ghormak soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jID05by7gw4

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  5. You have the start the whole game over for every mistake...

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  6. ...yep, just like in the original game :)

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  7. I got mine today, it arrived in perfect condition. Thanks. :)

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