https://sourceforge.net/p/commodore-multi-player/wiki/Overview/Recent changes to OverviewenMon, 17 Aug 2015 09:44:13 -0000https://sourceforge.net/p/commodore-multi-player/wiki/Overview/<div class="markdown_content"><h1 id="introduction">Introduction</h1> <p>Classic Commodore computers support up to two controllers for multi-player games. This is not much, if you want to enjoy retro-fun with a couple of friends. In our youth, we were more patient, sometimes waiting for our loading of a game or our turn in a single-player game for minutes, but today we are older (at least I am) and don't have all the time in the world, plus having more people having fun simultaneously is really great. </p> <p>So, this is all about adding more controllers (hardware) and writing new games or adopting old ones to the hardware. </p> <h1 id="details">Details</h1> <p>Inspired by playing Tron on a C-64 with the Protovision 4-player adapter (that just adds two ports, so on a VIC-20 it would actually be a 3-player adapter), I decided to build an adapter for the User-Port that supports <strong>8</strong> additional controllers. There is already hardware available supporting 8 or 16 Joysticks for computers that have two Joystick ports (search for ATARI MultiJoy interface), but that would not work for the VIC-20 and does interfere with normal operation of the internal ports. </p> <p>AND i want LEDs (blinkenlights!). Hence the <a class="" href="/p/commodore-multi-player/wiki/EightPlayer/">EightPlayer</a> adapter. </p></div>AnonymousMon, 17 Aug 2015 09:44:13 -0000https://sourceforge.netb89a1c0463dfd0f180462f93c686a6cc67e968b7