I’ve released a C64 game: Rasterjack, a poker roguelike for the Commodore 64, where you build a scoring machine out of five cards and a rack of jokers.

Rasterjack lifts the cycle-exact raster code from my Galactic Rasterbar Power demo and uses it to handle animating the joker rack and a few other things.

It’s NTSC and PAL compatible, with music data packs optimized for each standard.

You can read more about the game and download from itch.io, or download the D64 directly.

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