COMX Software

Now you have your High Speed Direct Connection on your COMiX running, you might ask yourself where to find COMX software and which software to try out. Here are some tips!

Where to find

All COMX software rescued from tapes and floppy disks is available in the Emma 02 'archive'. To access that either install Emma 02 from this download page or alternatively directly from the Emma 02 GitHub

What to try

Let's start with my own (or my brother and mine), you can find a summary here: F&M Software.

My favourites from F&M:

• Happiehap: the PacMan clone
• Spellenslag / Tennismania: pong clone, actually we wrote this with our cousin, Steven de Vries
• Zoek de Trein / Trainspotting: written in BASIC, brilliant graphics thanks to my brother Frank.
• F&M Monitor+: 'monitor' program to write hex machine code and to inspect memory. One unique feature is the ability to insert 'NOP' (or 0xC4) instructions anywhere in the written code and at the same time 'translating' 1802 branch instructions. This includes additional 'inserts' if a short branch has to be changed to a long branch and as such needs 3 bytes instead of 2; also the branch itself will in such cases be changed to a long branch.

Some other favourites games:

• Get Your Gadget - from Jeroen Griffin and Robbert Nix
• Boulderdash - from Ahon
• Eet een wurm, COMX Dragon, Gatemaster, Hit and Run, Space Invaders - from COMX
• Xbomber, Xchase, Xhorde, Xshoot, Xsnake, Xstinger and Xverbix - new games from Fabrizio Caruso

I'm sure I forgot some...