Commando 2084 – a game for the Commodore 64

Commando 2084 is the mix between Commando and Robotron 2084: it is like the original Commando game, but using the Robotron 2084 controls.

You play it using the two joysticks at the same time:

• Joy #2 controls the hero direction
• Joy #1 controls the bullets direction

But better if you play it with a Unijoysticle 2 with a Dualshok4 gamepad (or similar).

Download

• Download game: commando-2084.d64
• Source code, fully commented: https://gitlab.com/ricardoquesada/c64-commando-2084/

Changes

• Controls are like in Robotron 2084. Use two joysicks (or one Unijoysticle):
  • Joystick #2 to control the hero direction
  • Joystick #1 to control the fire direction
  • Autofire is enabled
  • ‘Space’ to throw grenades.
• Levels 2 and 3 have bosses (enemies taken from Robotron 2084)
  • The SFX used when these bossed are killed, are unused SFX from the original Commando.
• Difficulty increased, otherwise the game would be too easy to play:
  • No extra lives
  • 28 soldiers are inside forts, instead of 20
• Flickers were reduced, but there are still a few. Changes made to reduce flickering:
  • Uses double-buffer multiplexer
  • Faster sorting algorithm
  • Faster “view port” rendering
  • Music is played outside IRQ
  • Unrolled some functions like “apply delta”
  • And other tiny improvements here and there
• Smaller binary, single load
  • Removed unused data/code
  • Packed everything in a single binary
  • Compressed binary using exomizer
• Misc fixes