Anyone have a digital copy of the sourcecode of the game Megaroids for the Macintosh or Atari ST, written by Mike Bunnell in Megamax C?
Reddit thread seeking it (not me):
https://reddit.com/r/atarist/comments/1dgjml0/megaroids_source_code_for_the_atari_st/
#reddit #AtariST #Macintosh #retrogames #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #C #MegamaxC #sourcecode #wanted
More on Megaroids here (blog post I wrote a few years back),
https://bytecellar.com/2011/07/16/megaroids-my-all-time-favorite-asteroids-clone/
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@blakespot I transcribed the source which was published in "Programming C on the Macintosh" using OCR (tesseract) and a lot of manual fixes, but haven't tried compiling the source yet. There are probably still a number of errors in the source...
I uploaded the transcribed sources (with a modified resource file to compile with the command line resource compiler) and the PDF to https://multicores.org/megaroids/
I'm not on Reddit, please feel free to post the URL there.
@me_ Many thanks! Well done, then and now. I have posted your info to the aforelinked Reddit thread.
I always loved that game, personally (on the Atari ST).
@me_ Hah, I get that, for sure. It looks so nice in medium res color on the ST, with that perplexing seems-to-be-interlaced thing going on there. I used to play it in the shop in 1985 when the ST had just landed.
I've not got it on my 520STm, Mac Plus, and DOS PC -- there's a monochrome EGA version that's squished down a bit, since the screenmode is 640x350 rather than 640x400. Certainly the weakest version.
I always wished it had been ported to the Amiga.
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