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# TK2048
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## DISCLAIMER
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Any use of this project is **under your own responsibility**.
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By using this project You will agree that I cannot be held responsible if it will destroy any of your devices, damage your computer, burn down your house or whatever.
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## Introduction
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I recently built myself a Microdigital TK2000, a clone of an almost-clone (the MPF-II) of an Apple II.
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Building it from the files found in [this github repository](https://github.com/clemarfolly/Microdigital-TK2000) proved to be a [bit of an adventure](https://github.com/hkzlab/TK2000_Build_Notes),
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but I took a liking to the computer, so I started developing [boards](https://codeberg.org/hkzlab) for it.
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Hardware fiddling is fine, but given that there isn't much software available for the machine and that I wanted to experiment with the [Calypsi toolchain](https://www.calypsi.cc/) a bit, I decided to
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pick a simple game concept and develop it for the machine.
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I decided for 2048, the now-classic tile sliding game, as it provided several advantages as a first time/playground project:
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- Doesn't need complex graphics hardware or advanced artist skills
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- It can be drawn in B/W with static graphics, but animations and colors can be added in the future
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- Sound is not needed either, but can be added for simple events like a tile slide or a button press
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- The game logic is pretty simple
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- Not CPU or memory intensive
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- Can be expanded with support for additional hardware (sound cards, video cards, timers) if so desired, but it's not necessary
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- Floppy drive can be potentially used not only to load the game, but also for saving the high score
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### Current state
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The game is playable, and the following features have been implemented:
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- B/W mode
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- Single graphical tileset
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- Crude sound (only beeps)
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- Control via keyboard
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- 5x5 grid, with randomized start and new tiles
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## How to play
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You can move the tiles using the cursor keys. Pushing CTRL-R will make you lose the game and restart it.
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The game ends once you reach a tile with a value of 2048.
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### Floppy version
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Just put your floppy in the first drive and power on the TK2000. It will autoboot.
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### Tape version
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Power on the TK2000 with the sound player connected to the EAR input. Once at the `>` prompt, type the following
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```
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CALL -159
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```
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This will drop you into the monitor, `@` prompt. Type
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```
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801.4EBBRA
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```
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And press play on tape. If the load completes successfully, the computer will beep and give you back the prompt. Now type:
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```
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801G
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```
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This will start the game.
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## How to build
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You need the following:
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- GNU Make (I used the one provide via [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org/))
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- [Calypsi 6502 toolchain](https://www.calypsi.cc/) (tested with 5.10)
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- [AppleCommander](https://github.com/AppleCommander/AppleCommander), "ac" command line version (tested with 1.9.0)
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- [dsk2woz](https://github.com/TomHarte/dsk2woz)
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- vitasam's fork of [c2t](https://github.com/vitasam/c2t)
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## The future
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I plan to refactor the whole game, modularize it, and leverage loading of single modules from a floppy disk. This
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should give more flexibility, expandability, free some memory and allow me to exercise the floppy drive routines I wrote.
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As such, V1.0 will probably be the last one supporting loading from tape. |