Asteroids Emulator

published by author, running on Arcade

type: shooter
genre: Science Fiction, Arena shooter
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: eng

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Technical specs

hardware: SuperCPU,

display: vector

Editor note

This game comes in two different versions. A C64 version and a SuperCPU version. The original Asteroids coin-op used a 6502 much like the CPU of the C64. The Asteroids machine code runs without modification. The video and sound was done in circutry, without the CPU. This is only what the Commodore must emulate. The SuperCPU version uses the much faster 65816 which can also run the machine code directly with many more CPU cycles left over to do graphics and sound.