TL;DR — An action-adventure in the “Metroidvania” style.
Building: make at the top level
Build requires: 64tass, sbcl, and some other stuff.
Copyright © 2021, Bruce-Robert Pocock
https://star-hope.org/games/Meteoroid/
Program, art, music, etc. — Bruce-Robert Pocock.
Includes VCS header file by Matthew Dillon, Olaf “Rhialto” Seibert, Andrew Davie, and Peter H. Froehlich (converted for 64tass syntax).
Binary-to-decimal translation based upon code by Andrew Jacobs, based upon code by Garth Wilson.
Some math functions by AtariAge Forum user Omegamatrix; others taken from December 1984 Apple Assembly Line. (actually, I'm not sure if I'm using these, but they're in the macro files.)
“Have You Played Atari Today” jingle transcribed by AtariAge Forum user tiggerthehun and converted to MIDI myself.
And, of course thanks to everyone in the Stella and AtariAge communities for making this game possible.
First off, you'll probably want a Linux® system as this build process has not been tested under macOS and is very unlikely to work with Windows (since most of the tools are missing).
Make sure you have installed:
- SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp)
- Perl 5(.x)
- XeLaTeX
- 64tass (Turbo Assembler)
- GNU Make
and, to test:
- Stella
and, to burn EPROMS:
- MiniPro USB recording tools, a MiniPro USB EPROM burner, and AT27C256 EPROMs or compatible.
cd into the top-level directory and run make demo to build the demo
software for all three regions (NTSC, PAL, and SECAM) into the
Dist directory.
To build and playtest, run make stella for NTSC, or make stella-pal
or make stella-secam for the other regions.
To burn an EPROM, run make cart-ntsc, make cart-pal, or make cart-secam
If you have a Harmony or Uno cartridge and mount the SD card under
/run/media/${USER}/HARMONY or /run/media/${USER}/TBA_2600, which are
the default mount points and SD disk labels for those platforms
respectively, you can write to the top level directory with make harmony or make uno. It may be just as easy to make demo and copy
the .a26 files over directly.