IRIDIS ALPHA THEORY

Iridis Alpha is a classic of the 8-bit home computer era. An innovative, side-scrolling shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64 published by Llamasoft in 1985 that was notable then and now for its technical accomplishment.

IRIDIS ALPHA THEORY unpacks the assembly code of the game and pores over it in minute detail. There are also lots of pretty pictures.

You can download and read the book here.

How about an edition of the book that allows you to play Iridis Alpha too? What? Find out more!.

If you'd like to read a hard copy instead you can get the current version from Amazon at a very reasonable price.

The electronic edition is free, but if you like it you can gift what you want.

A PEEK INSIDE

SOURCE & MORE

Find out more about the making of this book at its github repository.

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PLEASE NOTE

It's not really a theory.