Lost Joust conversion for the C64 found

[Deleted User]

Collector Ken “Dutchman2000” Van Mersbergen has found and preserved the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, a successful arcade game released in 1982 where you control a knight riding a flying ostrich.
The game was ported to many platforms, like the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Lynx, Atari ST, IBM PC, Macintosh, and NES.
Ken Van Mersbergen recovered the game from an 8″ CP/M disk belonging to a retired programmer that used to work for Roklan Corporation.
The disk contained the full source code and the hex image meant to create the cartridge image.
The source code has shown that Joust for the C64 was coded by Joe Hellesen at Roklan Corporation.

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[AmandaRose]

Thats pretty cool joust is my second favourite arcade game ever.

 

[FAST6191]

"belonging to a retired programmer"

That, along with dead guys, seems to be a common theme in many of your threads these days.

The tech is there so it is tempting almost to figure out hotspots for game development back in the day and go from there similar to game collecting. Something like it has been done for a few other fields I have had some involvement in over the years to avoid loss of info or better chances.