You can now download shareware and freeware versions for the systems listed below. The shareware versions include 2 complete levels. The only features removed from those game is SNES controller support, and the cheat-code. The C128 and Amiga versions also remove the ability to see robots on the map. (but the map itself still works) A PDF manual is included in the ZIP file. The ones listed as “full version” are the complete game for free on those platforms. You can download them here:
- PET Robots Shareware
- C64 Robots Shareware
- C64 REU Robots-Shareware
- Plus/4 Robots Shareware
- C128 Robots Shareware
- Amiga Robots Shareware
- Sega Genesis Robots-Shareware
- Atari 7800 Shareware
- Super Nintendo Shareware
- MS-DOS Shareware
- Oric-1 / Atmos (Full Version)
- Enterprise 128 (Full Version)
- Picomite MMBasic (Full Version)
- Commander X16 (Full Version)
- Nintendo 3DS (Full Version)
- TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator (full version)
- Tic-80 Tiny Computer (full version)
If you’d like to buy the complete version of the game, you can find them here:
Thanks for sending me the Atari version of Attack of the PETSCII Robots! It’s great to have a proper boxed version of software, instead of this illusory, insubstantial data that floats through the ether, most likely to be captured on a non-moving, silent SSD. Sometimes it’s good to go back to one’s roots.
All I need now is to get an Atari 400 or 800, but I can run this on my MiSTer FPGA thing in the meantime.
Lex
Doers PETSCII Robots work on “B” PETs (“CBM professional computers”) or only “N” PETs? I’ve found that due to differences in graphics and keyboard mapping, most games are unplayable on my PET 2001-32B. They will load and run, but they won’t look right and usually can’t be controlled as the programmer intended.
Hey…
Love PETSCII ROBOTS. Finished it on the C64 but now I am having issues with my emulator and it is not working. But HEY! Now I have it for SEGA GENESIS (so freaking cool)!
Many thanks for this really fun and addictive (and slightly frustrating) game.
Has anyone given any thought to a Level Editor? IIRC a few C-64 and Amiga games had add-ons for some games that allowed users to create their own levels. I think they were mostly racing games, but it was a while ago…
where is ms-dos versions or apple Versions or atari 7800 versions?
There is no Apple shareware version. There probably won’t be a 7800 shareware version either. The MS-DOS version will have one, but it’s not even finished and released yet. The shareware version of that will appear after the main release.
Hello David! My kids absolutely love your channel, and they really want to try the game, but they find the Doom-face damage indicator to be too disturbing; would it be at all possible to implement an option to turn it off? (Either by removing the face or just not showing the damage?)
Has the MS-DOS version been completed? I’d love to give the shareware version a try and then purchase it!
It has been finished for a few months now. The shareware version hasn’t been built yet, but we should have that available in a few weeks, hopefully.
I sort of started wriing a port of Petscii Robots for the TI-85 graphing calculator a while back. It would be great to see the NES 8-bit version of Petscii Robots.
Cemetech user prime17569 is porting Petscii Robots to the TI-84 Plus CE.
Will you ever make the ROM for the SNES version buyable again???
Maybe I don’t understand the question. The digital download for the full version is still available in the store for $10, and is not going away.
I downloaded the SNES Shareware to test it on my Anbernic RG35XX. It only shows the Shareware screen but the game does not start 🙁
It must be the internal emulator that’s not compatible. I tested it on multiple emulators and some of them gave the error you described, most worked fine.
I believe the MS-Dos version works under DosBox, which Petscii Robots technically be used under Knoppix Linux
I tried to play the SNES Shareware version to test it on my SD2SNES cartridge on my 1-CHIP SNES console. it just stays on the Shareware screen but will not load to the game. Even tried it with SNES9x emulator too , does the same. Used BSNES Plus v05. You guessed it. It stuck on the shareware screen and will not boot the game.