You can now download shareware versions for the systems listed below. These versions include 2 complete levels. The only features removed from the 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. You can download them here:
- PET Robots Shareware
- C64 Robots Shareware
- C64 REU Robots-Shareware
- C128 Robots Shareware
- Amiga Robots Shareware
- Sega Genesis Robots-Shareware
- Atari 7800 Shareware
- Oric-1 / Atmos (Full Version)
- Enterprise 128 (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.