Retro Gaming Hacks,9780596009175

Retro Gaming Hacks

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ISBN13: 9780596009175
ISBN10: 0596009178
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

Whether you're just discovering Tetris or you've been a Pong junkie since puberty, Chris Kohler's Retro Gaming Hacks is the indispensable new guide to classic games. Kohler has compiled the how-to information that used to take weeks of Web surfing to find and presents it in highly readable Hacks style. Serving up 85 hard-nosed hacks for reviving the classic games, including tips on hacking ancient hardware, home-brewing classic software, and adapting today's equipment for retro games, Retro Gaming Hacks hands you the joystick.

Author Biography

Chris Kohler is a video game journalist and editor who has written for several publications in the past decade, including Wired, Animerica magazine, and Nintendo Official Magazine UK. After graduating from Tufts University with a degree in Japanese, Chris attended Kyoto Seika University on a Fulbright Fellowship, and completed major research for a book tentatively titled Super Mario Nation: The Cinematic Japanese Video Game. At Tufts, he taught a for-credit undergraduate course titled "A History of Video Games" and continues to study Japanese at an advanced level.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Credits xiii
Preface xix
Playing Retro Games
1(53)
Buy Retro Games
1(5)
Collect Original ``Pong'' Systems
6(2)
Buy and Run an Atari 2600
8(5)
Buy and Run Later Classic Consoles
13(5)
Play with Power: Set Up an NES
18(3)
Make Your NES Work Like New
21(4)
Take Your NES Games on the Go
25(3)
Buy a Famicom from Japan
28(5)
Buy Retro Games from Japan
33(4)
Find, Fix, Play, and Emulate the Vectrex
37(3)
Collect Classic Handhelds
40(3)
Buy Your Own Arcade Hardware
43(4)
Find the Holy Grails
47(4)
Find Classic Games for Cheap
51(3)
Playing Neo-Retro Games
54(30)
Play Retro Games in All-in-One Joysticks
54(10)
Play Retro Games on Current Consoles
64(6)
Play Retro Games on Older Systems
70(4)
Play Contemporary Classics
74(5)
Find and Play Hidden Classics
79(5)
Playing Arcade Games on Your Computer
84(53)
Play Arcade Games Under Windows
84(7)
Run Arcade Games on a Mac
91(5)
Play Arcade Games Under Linux
96(9)
Run MAME on the Xbox
105(3)
Find Legal, Free MAME ROMs
108(3)
Buy Legal MAME ROMs
111(2)
Care for Your ROMs
113(3)
Buy or Make Classic MAME Controllers
116(4)
Add Sound to Your MAME Experience
120(3)
Add Cabinet Art to MAME
123(3)
Build a MAME Cabinet
126(5)
Make a Self-Booting MAME Disc
131(2)
Play MAME Anywhere
133(4)
Playing Classic Console Games
137(104)
Emulate the Earliest Game Systems
137(5)
Emulate the Atari 2600
142(5)
Emulate the Intellivision
147(3)
Emulate the Colecovision
150(4)
Emulate the Atari 7800
154(4)
Emulate the Nintendo Entertainment System on a PC
158(7)
Run NES Emulators on the Mac
165(3)
Run NES Emulators Under Linux
168(7)
Emulate 16-Bit Systems in Windows
175(5)
Emulate Other Classic Systems on the Mac
180(3)
Emulate Other Classic Systems in Linux
183(10)
Emulate the Game Boy on Your PC
193(4)
Play Games on a Smartphone or PDA
197(10)
Play Homebrews on Your GBA
207(3)
Play Classic Systems on the GBA
210(5)
Emulate Other Classic Portables
215(6)
Retro-Hack the GP32
221(3)
Retro-Hack the Dreamcast
224(4)
Use Console Controllers on your PC
228(8)
Use USB Gamepads Under Linux
236(5)
Playing with Early Personal Computers
241(49)
Run the Apple ][
241(4)
Trick Out Your Apple ][
245(3)
Emulate the Apple ][
248(5)
Become an Apple Guru
253(4)
Run a Commodore 64
257(5)
Emulate the Commodore 64
262(5)
Emulate Other Classic Computers
267(10)
Type in Classic Computer Games
277(6)
Find Classic Computer Games
283(2)
Emulate Classic Computers on the Dreamcast
285(5)
Playing with Text Adventures
290(31)
Play Interactive Fiction in One Minute
290(5)
Download and Play Text Adventures
295(3)
Play the Best: Infocom Adventures
298(7)
Get Covered in MUDs
305(6)
Write Text Adventures with INFORM
311(10)
Playing with DOS
321(28)
Run DOS Without Microsoft
321(6)
Run DOS Games
327(10)
Rediscover Classic DOS Games
337(4)
Write a DOS Game
341(8)
Playing at Game Design
349(71)
Design Games with ZZT
349(9)
Use Freeware Game Creation Tools
358(5)
Design Web-based Flash Games
363(11)
Create Your Own Atari 2600 Homebrew Games
374(5)
Program for the Game Boy Advance
379(11)
Add Tiles and Sprites to Your GBA Game
390(10)
Put Your Homebrews on Cartridges
400(6)
Create Packaging for Homebrew Games
406(7)
Create Your Own Adventure Game
413(7)
Playing Around with Other Neat Stuff
420(25)
Learn the Patterns of Pac-Man
420(4)
Show Off with Super Mario
424(6)
Hack the Leisure Suit Larry Games
430(7)
Play Retro Versions of Modern Games
437(4)
Remix Your Retro Sounds
441(4)
Index 445

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