Invaders
In 1996 I wrote Invaders for the recently released Pilot 1000 before there was an official SDK for it.
Darrin Massena had discovered MacsBug symbols in the Pilot ROMs and had pieced together a rudimentary SDK which I used to create Invaders (which is a from scratch creation modeled after Apple Invaders).I
posted Invaders.prc to comp.sys.palmtops on 6/25/96, before Palm had an official SDK available. Invaders qualified as the first 3rd party Palm application (that I'm aware of).
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| Invaders for Pilot 1000 | Apple Invaders (for comparison) |
It is adapted to the Palm's display but otherwise is a very faithful Apple Invaders reproduction in terms of images, timing, and game play. Unfortunately later I received a cease and desist letter from Taito Corp. claiming that I was distributing their copyrighted work "Space Invaders" and therefore infringing upon Taito's copyright. Not wanting to argue, I no longer distribute my Invaders program. If you wish to see how it works you can download the source code for
Palm,
Palm-sized PC or
Handheld PC.
The famous cease and desist letter:
