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I didn't know it was all written in Assembly. Is there any documentation to help with reading the code?

Thanks for the code btw. PoP is a landmark in the history of computer games.



Of course, you need only go to the horse's mouth. [1]

It's been posted before but Jordan, the creator of both Karateka and Prince of Persia, has a wonderful series of journals documenting his travails with video games and the movie industry. [2] As part of this he has a detailed description of his trek out to California and a lot of details on technical obstacles that make you thankful to live in the second decade of the third millennium.

[1] http://jordanmechner.com/wp-content/uploads/1989/10/popsourc...

[2] http://jordanmechner.com/




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