Damon: The Rocket Jockey is a Commander X16 clone of the Commodore 64 game Nomad: The Space Pirate. It was written from scratch in 65C02 assembly, and is released under the MIT license. It has been tested with ROM version 47 using the Commander X16 Emulator, and with ROM version 46 on real hardware.
The goal of the game is to pick up all of the pellets on each level while avoiding the enemy ship(s). Once all pellets have been collected on a level, shoot any remaining enemies to advance to the next level.
A bonus ship is awarded every 10,000 points.
The game accepts input from any of the controllers attached to the system, including the keyboard joystick. The D-pad or arrow keys steer your ship, and any other controller button fires your gun.
This game was written using ca65 assembly syntax. To build it, you will need the following build dependencies to be installed:
Once these are installed (and available on your shell's search path), you can build the game by navigating to the repository root and issuing the command:
make
This will produce the game binary in a file named damon.prg.
If you have the Commander X16 Emulator installed, you can also start the game with either of these commands:
make run
or
make debug
The latter command will start the game with the debugger enabled.