DESCRIPTION
Atari Adventure [wikipedia article] has always been one of my favorite games.
Not just for the Atari 2600, but in general.
It just has so much heart and personality. I can still,
today, play the game and be amazed at the scope and playability of the game.
The original version was written by Warren Robinett
and was released sometime around 1980 as a cartridge for the Atari 2600 VCS game console. It went on to sell a million copies
and is widely considered to be a true classic and a landmark in computer gaming.
So, yeah yeah - I know there are emulators in existence that already run this game perfectly. There are also some recreations out there that add additional levels and such. But emulators require substantial CPU resources to run, which seems pretty wasteful for a game like Adventure and also thereby eliminate many "lo-fi" platforms from running the game (cell phones for instance). None of the simulation/recreations that I have played have the same feel as the original game. They all seem to be completely lacking the "soul" of the original game, and the source code is typically not available and/or platform independent. There is the Atari Flashback version (ewww, what a BAD simulation!). The Atari Flashback 2 has a perfect version of Adventure (and a sequel too!) but then of course you have to play the game on your TV.
Finally, I loved the fact that original sources had been decompiled (which provided some pretty cool insights into the game!) and annotated/commented, but I wanted the game to be preserved and documented in a more portable (and readable!) form.
Adventure Revisited is my attempt at creating a lightweight but HIGHLY ACCURATE open-source and platform independent version of the classic Atari game Adventure. I wanted to write something that you could pick up and read to just see how the game worked, or you could take and with very little changes, create a version of the game that could run on a portable device for instance. My original motivation for doing this was so that I could create a version of Adventure that would run on my Treo 600 which incidentally has a resolution of 160x160 - less than that of the original 2600, thus requiring some sub-pixel magic, but certainly doable. The Windows application, minus sound samples, is only 68k. w00t!
