I haven't been active on this site for a long time, but I have been active in the retro programming and homebrewing scene lately!

Over the past few months I learned BASIC as well as 6502 assembly and got busy making some cool games for the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 systems.

So far I did the programming for Good Deal Games' new cartridge release "Lava Trip", made ports of Duck and Cover for the 2600 and C64, and programmed multiple mini-games for the C64.

You can find footage of Lava Trip in action here, as well as the source code for my other games here and here.

I made my Atari 2600 games using an awesome programming language called batari Basic, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in retro game development.

As for my Commodore 64 games, I designed and implemented a custom Lisp-like programming language that compiles to 6502 assembly. I programmed Duck and Cover as well as my mini-games entirely in this language, and the source code for the compiler is available here.

Here is a photo of Duck and Cover running on my real Commodore 64:

And here is a GIF of one of the mini-games in action:

I've been having a lot of fun programming for these retro systems, and I plan on publishing some homebrews to Newgrounds using Javascript emulators in the future!

Thanks for reading and happy holidays!