The real Commander X16 binary from TimePilot-CX16/ boots the
X16 KERNAL and the game in your browser: title screen, all five time
zones and VERA sprites.
Arrows move · [ ] rotate · 1 / Space fire · P pause
What this is, the controls, and the notices
What you are running
The actual TimePilot-CX16 PRG, cross-compiled with
llvm-mos and loaded into the
emulator's HostFS virtual drive with -prg time_pilot.prg -run. The 43
audio banks, sprite VRAM and font VRAM are copied alongside it. The emulator is the
official X16Community WebAssembly release r49, fetched and checksum-checked at build
time; it is not vendored in this repository.
Controls (keyboard)
| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Move left / right / up / down |
| [ / ] | Rotate left / right |
| 1 / Space | Fire |
| 2 | Two-player game |
| P / Esc | Pause / quit |
The emulator keeps the X16 en-us keyboard layout, so physical key
positions are what the KERNAL sees. The browser build runs with the joystick scan
disabled; the keyboard path is fully wired.
Notes
The official r49 WebAssembly build used here does not enable VERA PCM audio, so this player is silent. The native WebAssembly port on the front page has audio. “Fullscreen” scales the 640×480 VERA screen. The first boot takes a few seconds while the 46 game files are copied into the emulator's memory.
Licences
The emulator is 2-clause BSD (© 2019 Michael Steil); its bundled X16 ROM mixes Commodore/Microsoft-licensed KERNAL and BASIC code with BSD-licensed additions. The Time Pilot code and assets are covered by this repository's source repository.