Vector Tanks now available on the App Store

My iPhone/iPod touch retro game "Vector Tanks" is now available on the App Store. Go get it!

The official website is here: www.vectortanks.com


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"Adventure" Fan Art

From Dale Crawford I recently received this:

"I have attached a photo I took of some items my son created after playing your iPhone app. We wanted toys, and there weren't any, so he made his own with Lego bricks!"




I love it! :-)

Happy Holidays everyone!

-Peter

Adventure: Revisited on Youtube

It's always thrilling to me whenever I find stuff like this. Here's a Youtube video that somebody posted of themselves playing my Atari Adventure 'emu-simulator-clone" Adventure: Revisited.





The description of the video reads: "What is the best use of the extreme processing power of a dual quad-core Mac Pro? Playing Peter Hirschberg's port of the old Atari 2600 game "Adventure", of course!"

Man, and all I can notice is how SLOW the game is running at that size window. I had a lot of drawing performance problems on the Mac port that I left unfixed. They were due to how OS X handles double-buffering to the screen. I need to switch the program to have it use OpenGL, which should make it blindingly fast on the Mac.

The Atari 2600 Television Set

A friend of my neighbor Fred donated this retro TV set to me. It makes a perfect television set for our Atari 2600!

Mac Version of Adventure:Revisited

I've been doing some Mac programming at work, so I did a Mac OSX version of my re-creation of the Atari 2600 game, Adventure.

I just finished it up today, so here you go!
Adventure:Revisited

This is a Universal Binary and requires OSX 10.4 or greater.