Aging: You can play 1989 Prince of Persia in your browser

The game Prince of Persia, released in 1989 on the Apple II, can be (re)discovered directly in your browser, thanks to the simulation.

If you were in the 90s, you might have played Prince of Persia. Released in 1989, the game has featured an entire generation of gamers. How much time could we spend in CDI, in college time, transporting the champ in this strange place in 2D? Afternoon a lot to be sure. But she left lasting memories.

Memories that surface. // Source: Prince of Persia

Play Prince of Persia in the browser

Imagine that you can relive this very distant era in a web browser, thanks to adapting the video game in JavaScript. Go to the site PrinceJS.com And start playing without delay. The site is recent: It recently appeared on the net, according to the Internet Archive. Alexis Kaufman, founder of Framasoft, He was talking about her December 28.

It should be noted that adapting the game in JavaScript makes it possible to cheat easily, by moving variables in the URL. It is possible to change the level by moving the parameter “level=”, to add health points with “health=” or to modify time (“time”) and strength (“strength”). But this takes the spice out of the adventure a bit.

https://princejs.com/?level=5&health=5&time=58&st Strength=100&width=0

Prince of Persia is a game that has been available for a long time in emulation: for example, in 2015 it was reported that 2,300 video games for MS-DOS were made available by the same organization, the Internet Archive, so that they could be launched within its web browser – Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Opera, Brave and Vivaldi in particular.

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In 2012, the source code for . was released Prince of Persia From 1989 it has been published on GitHub, but without a free license. Developer Jordan Mechner found 3.5-inch floppy disks containing the game’s source code for the Apple II computer. His father, who created the game’s music, had discovered it in a box when he was tidying the house.

Tess Larson

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