Asteroids on Textronix 4404

[Adam_Billyard]

Asteronix: Asteroids on Tektronix 4404. Wrapped this up over the weekend, I’ll update the Tek4404 emulator disk images to include. The sound effects are truly terrible.

I use the panned screen to double buffer the display by flipping between top and bottom of the 1024x1024 framebuffer.

Souce code here: https://github.com/Elektraglide/tek4404/tree/main/asteronix

[EdS]

Very nice! I’ll add a Tektronix tag to some posts, I think, to make them easier to find.

Meantime, a minimal background:

@EdS

a small group within Tektronix took Xerox’ experience in Smalltalk and made a series of 68000 based machines with bitmapped graphics and GUIs. Eventually they put Smalltalk into their scopes, and the group went on to spread the word about advanced software techniques.