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Atomic Joe Blade by Kees van Oss

Licence

Freeware (source code available on request, subject to copyright holders' permission)

BBC Micro / Electron Joe Blade © 1988 Players / Wayne Dobson

Atomic Joe Blade by Kees van Oss, 2014

Introduction

The budget-price platform game Joe Blade was originally released on the Spectrum. The game was also ported to the C64, CPC, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Amiga ST by Player, based on an original idea from the Spectrum author, Colin Swinbourne.

Retro Software is therefore proud to reveal a brand new Atom port by the Dutch coder Kees van Oss. This new release is an astonishingly accurate version of the original title. The conversion was 'relative' easy because the resolution of the screen matches perfectly the Atom CLEAR4 resolution. Because it's a monochrome game, the graphics are exactly the same as the original BBC/Electron game. In the original game there were not many sound effects but they are also included in the Atom version.

Discuss Joe Blade

![ZX Spectrum cassette tape cover](./images/Joeblade cover.PNG "ZX Spectrum cassette tape cover")

===Platforms===

====Atom==== Port by Kees van Oss

System Requirements
  • Standard Acorn Atom

  • 32 KB RAM (#0000-#7FFF)

  • 6 KB video RAM (#8000-#97FF)

  • VIA

  • Joystick (Optional)

Joystick Connections

An optional joystick can be connected to PORTB of the AtoMMC interface with software version 2.9.

AtoMMC  Joystick

-----------------

 PB0  -  Right

 PB1  -  Left

 PB2  -  Down

 PB3  -  Up

 PB4  -  Jump

 PB5  -  nc

 PB6  -  nc

 PB7  -  nc

 GND  -  GND

Downloads

Joe Blade Acorn Atom disc/tape images

This image archive includes both tape and disc versions of the game. Read the included Readme.txt file for more info.

The sourcefiles are available on request and have to be compiled with the CC65 cross compiler.

Type MAKE JOEBLADE to compile the program.

An assembler listing is created in the JOEBLADE.LST file.

Screenshots

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Joe Blade instructions1

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Joe Blade instructions2

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Joe Blade game controls

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Joe Blade loading screen

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Joe Blade title

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Joe Blade play1

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Joe Blade play2

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Joe Blade play3

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Joe Blade play4

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Joe Blade bomb puzzle

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Joe Blade play5

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Joe Blade hostage

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Videos

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Atomic Joe Blade by Kees van Oss

Posted: Thu Jan 2, 2014.

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