Welcome to Centipede for the C64 as an emulator by Norbert. A game that was not only released as a vertical fixed shooter by Atari in 1980, but it also featured as a rather cheesy but nostalgic Pixel movie. A nod to a game in which you had to protect your garden against not just spiders and scorpions, but also a rather nasty splitting Centipede. To coincide with this bit of history, Saberman has provided some gameplay footage of the Centipede Emulator for the C64!
Here's the latest from the dev. " The arcade machine is based on a 6502 CPU and Atari's POKEY sound chip. The game was later ported to many different hardware platforms up to today's smartphone era. Since the nineties, arcade emulators like MAME can emulate the classics like Centipede on modern computers. This program is a Centipede emulator for the Commodore 64. The "emulation" of the arcade machine's CPU is done directly by the 6510 processor of the C64, which just runs the original game program on the C64. The video and sound hardware of the arcade machine is simulated on the C64 by specific routines in Assembly language. In this way, the original game play is (more or less) exactly reproduced, with some major trade-offs, though, which had to be made due to the lower resolution and sprite and color capabilities of the C64".
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