What does HackerNews think of Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II?

A running-jumping-swordfighting game I made on the Apple II from 1985-89

Language: Assembly

Tomb Raider | Jun 2023
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Reminder that the source code to Prince of Persia is available for research purposes.

[*] https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS version disassembly | Nov 2021
Also of interest: The Apple II version was open-sourced officially: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations [video] | Mar 2020
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If you want to delve into the details then the Apple II source code is on github: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

Along with technical documentation: http://jordanmechner.com/downloads/popsource.pdf
Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality? | Sep 2018
Does assembly count? Prince of Persia's source code (not really open source...): https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

One look at any of the assembly files and you can get a sense of how properly organized the source code is.

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 | Oct 2017
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There are many large assembly projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_written_prim...

Even today a minority prefers writing new projects in assembly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281522

Here you can have a look at Prince of Persia's source for the Apple II: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
Attitudes That Lead to Maintainable Code | Mar 2017
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Give me my procedures, conditionals, and loops, and I shall move mountains.

Assembler (Prince of Persia): https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

BASIC: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/14945...
Development content accidentally shipped on a DOS CD-ROM game from 1993 | Feb 2017
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Jordan Mechner released the source of the 1989 Prince of Persia. https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

"Code review" http://www.fabiensanglard.net/prince_of_persia/index.php
Original source code for Prince of Persia posted to Github | Apr 2013
Github repo: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
Prince of Persia HTML5 | Feb 2013
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I don't think it's a problem, since the author already released the original source code on GitHub.

https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source code on GitHub | Feb 2013
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I agree! I was pretty pleased when Jordan Mechner found and posted the source to Prince of Persia

https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
Easy 6502 - Learn the 6502 Assembly Language | Jul 2012
If anyone would like to use this to write emulation instructions for Prince-of-Persia II [0], I would be happy to merge them into the github repo [0].

[0] https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II