Table of Contents

Foreword; Credits; About the Author; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Why Retro Gaming Hacks?; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari Enabled; Got a Hack?; Where to Read More; Chapter 1: Playing Retro Games; 1.1 Hacks 1–14: Introduction; 1.2 Buy Retro Games; 1.3 Collect Original "Pong” Systems; 1.4 Buy and Run an Atari 2600; 1.5 Buy and Run Later Classic Consoles; 1.6 Play with Power: Set Up an NES; 1.7 Make Your NES Work Like New; 1.8 Take Your NES Games on the Go; 1.9 Buy a Famicom from Japan; 1.10 Buy Retro Games from Japan; 1.11 Find, Fix, Play, and Emulate the Vectrex; 1.12 Collect Classic Handhelds; 1.13 Buy Your Own Arcade Hardware; 1.14 Find the Holy Grails; 1.15 Find Classic Games for Cheap; Chapter 2: Playing Neo-Retro Games; 2.1 Hacks 15–19: Introduction; 2.2 Play Retro Games in All-in-One Joysticks; 2.3 Play Retro Games on Current Consoles; 2.4 Play Retro Games on Older Systems; 2.5 Play Contemporary Classics; 2.6 Find and Play Hidden Classics; Chapter 3: Playing Arcade Games on Your Computer; 3.1 Play Arcade Games Under Windows; 3.2 Run Arcade Games on a Mac; 3.3 Play Arcade Games Under Linux; 3.4 Run MAME on the Xbox; 3.5 Find Legal, Free MAME ROMs; 3.6 Buy Legal MAME ROMs; 3.7 Care for Your ROMs; 3.8 Buy or Make Classic MAME Controllers; 3.9 Add Sound to Your MAME Experience; 3.10 Add Cabinet Art to MAME; 3.11 Build a MAME Cabinet; 3.12 Make a Self-Booting MAME Disc; 3.13 Play MAME Anywhere; Chapter 4: Playing Classic Console Games; 4.1 Hacks 33–52: Introduction; 4.2 Emulate the Earliest Game Systems; 4.3 Emulate the Atari 2600; 4.4 Emulate the Intellivision; 4.5 Emulate the Colecovision; 4.6 Emulate the Atari 7800; 4.7 Emulate the Nintendo Entertainment System on a PC; 4.8 Run NES Emulators on the Mac; 4.9 Run NES Emulators Under Linux; 4.10 Emulate 16-Bit Systems in Windows; 4.11 Emulate Other Classic Systems on the Mac; 4.12 Emulate Other Classic Systems in Linux; 4.13 ; 4.14 Emulate the Game Boy on Your PC; 4.15 Play Games on a Smartphone or PDA; 4.16 Play Homebrews on Your GBA; 4.17 Play Classic Systems on the GBA; 4.18 Emulate Other Classic Portables; 4.19 Retro-Hack the GP32; 4.20 Retro-Hack the Dreamcast; 4.21 Use Console Controllers on your PC; 4.22 Use USB Gamepads Under Linux; Chapter 5: Playing with Early Personal Computers; 5.1 Hacks 53–62: Introduction; 5.2 Run the Apple ][; 5.3 Trick Out Your Apple ][; 5.4 Emulate the Apple ][; 5.5 Become an Apple Guru; 5.6 Run a Commodore 64; 5.7 Emulate the Commodore 64; 5.8 Emulate Other Classic Computers; 5.9 Type in Classic Computer Games; 5.10 Find Classic Computer Games; 5.11 Emulate Classic Computers on the Dreamcast; Chapter 6: Playing with Text Adventures; 6.1 Hacks 63–67: Introduction; 6.2 Play Interactive Fiction in One Minute; 6.3 Download and Play Text Adventures; 6.4 Play the Best: Infocom Adventures; 6.5 Get Covered in MUDs; 6.6 Write Text Adventures with INFORM; Chapter 7: Playing with DOS; 7.1 Hacks 68–71: Introduction; 7.2 Run DOS Without Microsoft; 7.3 Run DOS Games; 7.4 Rediscover Classic DOS Games; 7.5 Write a DOS Game; Chapter 8: Playing at Game Design; 8.1 Design Games with ZZT; 8.2 Use Freeware Game Creation Tools; 8.3 Design Web-based Flash Games; 8.4 Create Your Own Atari 2600 Homebrew Games; 8.5 Program for the Game Boy Advance; 8.6 Add Tiles and Sprites to Your GBA Game; 8.7 Put Your Homebrews on Cartridges; 8.8 Create Packaging for Homebrew Games; 8.9 Create Your Own Adventure Game; Chapter 9: Playing Around with Other Neat Stuff; 9.1 Hacks 81–85: Introduction; 9.2 Learn the Patterns of Pac-Man; 9.3 Show Off with Super Mario; 9.4 Hack the Leisure Suit Larry Games; 9.5 Play Retro Versions of Modern Games; 9.6 Remix Your Retro Sounds; Colophon;

Chris Kohler is a video game journalist and editor who has written for several publications in the past decade, including Wired, Animerica magazine, and Nintendo Official Magazine UK. After graduating from Tufts University with a degree in Japanese, Chris attended Kyoto Seika University on a Fulbright Fellowship, and completed major research for a book tentatively titled Super Mario Nation: The Cinematic Japanese Video Game. At Tufts, he taught a for-credit undergraduate course titled "A History of Video Games" and continues to study Japanese at an advanced level.