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Prince of Persia for the Atari XL/XE – A deserved port hits the Atari 8-bit comp...

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Prince of Persia for the Atari XL/XE – A deserved port hits the Atari 8-bit computers!

by Paulo · October 25, 2021

After two years of intense development, one of the most important games of all time, Prince of Persia, is now available for the Atari XL/XE.

Created by Jordan Mechner, Prince of Persia was first released for the Apple II and it was an astonishing success. Some ports came after (I played the PC version) but the Atari 8-bit users never had the opportunity to play it!

Thanks to a group of crazy people this 30-year wait are over and anyone can now download the game and play on any Atari XL/XE with 128Kb of RAM.

The game was ported from the BBC Master port by Bitshifters which has the source code available on Github. The Atari port credits go to:

-On the art side:

-On the tech side:    

  • Soundplayer: @dmsc‘s LZ4 SAPR player.
  • Disk loading & zx5 unpacker Xbios by @xxl.
  • Dev+ Testing: Altirra by @phaeron.
  • Assembler: Beebasm(!) by Rich Talbot-Watkins.
  • zx0 unpacker: @elmer
  • zx packer: Einar Saukas

If you don’t have an Atari or emulator at hand, you can check a bit of the game in the video below:

You can download the game for free, following the link below.

Link: Atariage


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