BBC game conversions for RISC OS updated

The RISC OS conversions of the the classic BBC games I originally converted to RISC OS have now been updated to work better on the Pi and other modern RISC OS hardware.
Crispian Daniels has updated the games to work with the higher resolution screen modes and improved the sound.
These versions will also run on older Acorn hardware as well but requires RISC OS 3.6 or above.

The games can be downloaded from:
https://mjfoot.netlify.app/ under RISC OS Software.

Enjoy,

What license are the sources under? MIT?
Or some more restrictive one?
Or something proprietary?

I would like to one of them as an example of how to make them build on GitHub, but its not clear from the archives what the license is, so I cannot decide whether that would be acceptable.

WOw .. I feel my ChuckieEg skills are worse than bad!
Very fun. Thanks.

What license are the sources under?

If you look at the source, it’s a lot of:

m2B92:
  /*get number of players*/
  LDX_IMMED(0xCF)
  LDY_IMMED(0xFF)
  LDA_IMMED(0x81)
  OSBYTE81
  CPY_IMMED(0x00)
  BEQ(m2BA4)
  LDA_IMMED(0x01)
  JMP_ABSOL(m2BE7)

So it looks like it is a ridiculously literal conversion from 6502 instructions to “does-the-same” in C.
As such, the question of which licence is… probably best a question that isn’t asked. ;)

It is, however, a rather impressive example of how to port a BBC Micro game to RISC OS using, well, brute force and dollops of magic.

I feel my ChuckieEg skills are worse than bad!

I won’t be playing.

I spent ENTIRE WEEKENDS in the school computer room (they gave me the key after the nth time I broke in) to master that game.
I eventually finished, which was no small feat for a dyspraxic.
Bloody thing just went back to the beginning. No fanfare, no “You’re awesome” screen, no little musical jingle, just back to level one.

It’s a good thing my emotional response is flatline, else something might have ended up being thrown.

It’s a fun game ¹, but, jeez, it could have at least some something upon completion.

¹ It’s the one I remember most from my childhood, which is why my series about writing my own game references Chuckie when talking about my own character design.

If you look at the source

Mind-boggling!

What license are the sources under?

No license at all. These games are literally done by running the original 6502 code through a translator to produce like for like ‘C’ code, so it’s not completely my code, nor my game or design and the copyright is iffy also…
As Rick said “it is a ridiculously literal conversion from 6502 instructions to “does-the-same” in C.” with RISC OS video, sound and keyboard wrapper code.

Hmm – a way of bitting 32 to 64 Arm code :-)

No license at all.

That’s a pity. Oh well.