4cade/res/attract-mode.txt
2018-12-08 08:39:05 -05:00

108 lines
2.4 KiB
Plaintext

# List of candidates for self-running 'captive' demos
#
# Not all games are good candidates. Some have no demo mode at all.
# Others technically have one but it's visually uninteresting or too short.
# Others are ruled out by technical constraints. Due to the architecture of
# the launcher, all captive demos must run entirely in main memory (48K).
# NO languard card, NO auxmem!
#
# We have enough disk space that we don't worry too much about it. (Wow.)
# Generally we start with an uncompressed ProDOS port of the entire game
# and whittle it down to just the files it needs for its demo mode, then
# apply patches so that it
#
# - returns control after the natural end of the demo cycle
# - returns control on any keypress
# - returns control on any button press (note: some games don't support
# joystick buttons at all, and we don't add button support, but if you
# can start the game by pressing a button, we need to ensure that that
# returns control instead)
# - disables all sound output
#
# 'Returning control' involves activating RAM bank 1 read access and
# jumping to $D000 (labeled as |Reenter| in the source code). The launcher
# puts this code at $0100 before executing a captive demo, so generally
# you can just put 'JMP $0100' anywhere. If a particular game overwrites
# this area of the stack page, you will need to find 6 bytes for the
# 'LDA $C088 / JMP $D000' instructions yourself.
#
# Notes on completed and in-progress captive demos are in res/notes/
#
# TODO
Apple Cider Spider
Conan
Gumball
Stellar 7
Track N Field
Tubeway ][
# uncompressed but unpatched
Agent USA
Alien Downpour
Bouncing Kamungas
Buzzard Bait
Canyon Climber
Ceiling Zero
Drelbs
Firebird
Flip Out
Formula 1 Racer
Galaxian
High Rise
Lady Tut
Mr. Cool
Nibbler
O'Riley's Mine
Ribbit
Robotron 2084
Snake Byte
Snoggle
Spider Raid
Starblaster
Stargate
Succession
The Goonies
Thunder Bombs
# done
Alien Ambush
Alien Rain
Aquatron
Bolo
BurgerTime
Championship Lode Runner
Choplifter
Dino Eggs
Dung Beetles
Gamma Goblins
Hard Hat Mack
Jungle Hunt
Karateka
Lode Runner
Lost Tomb
Pac-Man
Pest Patrol
Pie-Man
Pitfall II
Plasmania
Pooyan
Repton
Sammy Lightfoot
Serpentine
Sneakers
Spare Change
Spy Hunter
Spy's Demise
Warp Destroyer
Wavy Navy
Vindicator
# obvious candidates that we're skipping
Arkanoid (requires 64K)
Drol (attract mode is minimal)
Mr. Do (attract mode requires 64K)
Prince of Persia (requires 128K)
Rescue Raiders (requires 64K)
Tag Team Wrestling (requires 64K)