Cosmic Avenger

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Cosmic game simulation for FPGAARCADE Replay

All rights reserved — (c) copyright 2011 — Credits go to Mike Johnson. Ver 1.0

Cosmic Avenger is a horizontally scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Universal Entertainment Corporation and released in 1981. Like Universal’s Lady Bug, Cosmic Avenger was not a hit in arcades, but found success and a larger audience as a launch title for the ColecoVision console. It was not ported to other systems. Wes Hupp holds the official record for this game with 117,290 points on November 17, 1982.

## Controls

### Joystick

Attach joystick to port 1. A second joystick is currently not supported.

### Virtual keyboard

The joystick in port 1 is emulated in parallel using the virtual keyboard:

* Cursor up, down, left, right
* enter -> fire
* space -> bomb
* key 5 -> coin
* key 1 -> start 1

## Video output

R1 and V4 both output 640×480 progressive with 60 Hz on DVI (-A and -D) and HDMI, respectively.

# Acknowledgements

* Original FPGA conversion by Arnim Laeuger

* A-Z80 core by Goran Devic, https://github.com/gdevic/A-Z80

* SN76489 core by Arnim Laeuger

# Revision history

## FPGA FW `0012`

* ROM folders reorganized
* Snap Jack added
* Fixed pixel wrapping on Cosmic Avenger
* Renamed *_15khz.ini

Note: See Readme.md for ROM and further information.

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Note: Cosmic Avenger is part of the ladybug core.

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Please note:
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I will ignore any requests for a copy of the ROM images.

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