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Pompeii

This game was never completed and/or given a public release.
As a result of this, keep in mind that the developers might have used or deleted some of the content featured here, had the game actually been released.

Pompeii is an adventure game developed by Apollo before they went under during the video game crash of 1983. A tech demo of the game was released in 2001.

Uncompiled Source Code#

Scattered from 0x0981 through 0x0FED are various pieces of the game's source code.

SCRLP1 STA STRTLINE
NOP
NOP
STA WORK
LDA (DNROCK1),Y
STA BULLETR
LDA MNT1 ,Y
STA HIRESL
TA COLORR
LDY #6
"VOLCANO LOOP 2"
STA HIRESL
LDA VOLC2 ,Y
STA LOWRES3
LDA LAVA2 ,Y
PLCANO LOOP 3
STA SHIFTCLR
LDA #$E0
STA LOWRES3
LDY #8
LDA #$30
ST
OLCAN
IRESR
STA WORK
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
LDA (DNROCK3),Y
STA BULLETR
STX HICNTLL
JSR DELAY12
LDA #0
STA HICNTLL
DEY
BNE SCRLP3
" BACKGROUND COLOR"
BACKGROUND COLOR TABLE

(Source: John Aycock)

References#


  1. https://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/pompeii/pompeii.htm↩︎