C64 Xiangqi
Xiangqi game data
Commodore 64 game name: Xiangqi | Release date:
1988 |
Publisher: Markt & Technik |
Game media type: prg |
Language: en
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About Commodore 64 Xiangqi
What a pleasure. Phuoc, the author of the game sent us the description that should help you to enjoy the game. So here it is:
Joystick (port 1) to navigate the cursor and fire button to select.
- <F1> Toggle between Chinese characters and symbols
- <RETURN> Restart the game
- <F7> Display all possible moves of the selected piece.
All the moves are explained here:
Source: 64’er Sonderheft 17
Last, but not least here is the list (matching the order of the German magazine above) with the translation and the corresponding links to an English description:
- Turm: Chariot/ Rook
- Springer: Horse/ Knights
- Kanone: Cannon
- Läufer: Elephant/ Bishop
- Wächter: Advisor
- König: General/ King
- Bauer: Soldier/ Pawn
You can also watch a video about the program with demonstration and technical background information below:
Disk version download: C64 xiangqi
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Xiangqi C64 keyboard mapping
When you start a game, each joystick port is automatically turned on. Sometimes this causes a problem as the joystick port is mapped to the keys below. If a game uses these keys, you need to turn off the joystick ports.
C64 emulator joystick - keyboard mappings| DIRECTION | JOYSTICK 1 | JOYSTICK 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LEFT | A | CURSOR LEFT |
| RIGHT | D | CURSOR RIGHT |
| UP | W | CURSOR UP |
| DOWN | S | CURSOR DOWN |
| FIRE | LEFT / RIGHT CTRL | LEFT / RIGHT SHIFT |