Wednesday, 12 October 2022

What's old is new again - AKA M5 Madness

 I've been going from port to port recently. It started with Chuckie Egg. A favourite game of mine.

It was ported to the venerable M5 from the Tatung Einstein code. Of all the Chuckies I think this is one of the best as it has the 'physics' of the BBC micro version that I grew up with, but much less of the flicker.

You can read a little about how I went about it here.

Apart from the qualities of the Tatung version I chose it as the port's source because it was on a machine fairly similar to the M5. Z80, TMS VDP, err that's it really :laughing:

The M5 version will appear on all new M5 Multi carts that I make from now on. Yes, I still make them - typically to order. You can always check SellMyRetro (unaffiliated) or contact me directly from there or here via a message.

I enjoyed the porting process so much I looked around to see if there were any other systems that were suitably M5-like. And oh yes indeed, there certainly is one in particular...

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