Finally, those stalwarts who refuse to “upgrade” from their trusty Commodore 64 computers can experience that hot new game, Prince of Persia. Homebrew developer mrsid ported the 1989 game from its original Apple 2 version, making the cartridge image available for download from his site. If you have a C64 or 128 and a flashable C64 cartridge — or, more likely, if you have a C64 emulator — you can check out the achievement.
The rest of us will have to settle for this video, which looks remarkably smooth for an unofficial port on such an old system. It drew the attention of Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, who commented to say “I’m amazed and humbled by the amount of work this must have taken.”
Mechner also solved the mystery of why there wasn’t an official C64 version, even though there were so many ports: “Back in 1989, when I was making POP on the Apple II, I couldn’t get anyone interested in doing a C64 port,” he commented, “because it was too old a system.”
Prince of Persia leaps to Commodore 64 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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