Agon Software

A list of Software for the Agon Light modern 8-bit computers.

Table of contents

• Distributions
• Documentation
• Editors
• Emulators
• Firmware
• Games
• Graphical demos
• Graphics
• Internet
• Libraries and sample code
• Operating systems
• Programming languages
• Simulation
• Sound
• Utilities

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Distributions

• Agon Mite - Agon Mite is a software distribution for the Agon Light™ 8 bit computer.
• Popup MOS - A batteries-included SDCard template for Agon Light / Console8.

Documentation

• AgonDoc - Newbie FAQ for AgonLight2.
• Agon Console8 Wiki - Community Agon Platform documentation.
• AgonLight2 - Olimex's Github of their revision of the Agon Light 2.
• Agon Light Wiki - Official source for all documentation regarding the Agon Quark firmware and any third-party software development.

Editors

• AED: Another Text Editor - Another Text Editor.
• nano - Editor with nano-style key bindings.
• Vi - Vi for the Agon series of eZ80 computers.

Emulators

• Fab Agon Emulator - Agon Light, Agon Light 2, Agon Console8 Emulator for Linux, Windows, any system with libSDL.

Firmware

• AgonElectron - Binary distribution of Agon Electron HAL and OS plus firmware switcher.
• Agon Electron HAL - The Agon Electron Hardware Abstraction Layer.
• Agon MOS - Official AGON QUARK Firmware: eZ80 MOS.
• Agon MOS (Console8) - Official AGON QUARK Firmware for Console8: eZ80 MOS.
• Agon VDP - Official AGON QUARK Firmware: ESP32 VDP.
• Agon VDP (Console8) - Official Firmware for the Agon Console8: ESP32 VDP.

Games

• 2048 - The classic game 2028 ported from CP/M.
• 3D Maze - 3d maze game engine.
• 3D Tic-Tac-Toe - An Agon Light adaptation of the classic three-in-a-row strategy game of X's & O's, as if played inside of a 3 x 3 cube. Includes solo-player, multi-player, and spectator options, as well as an 'avoidance' play variation. (Preview on GitHub)
• AgCadia - A game for the Agon Light based on the ZX Spectrum game Arcadia.
• AgonLight Game Library - Games for the BBC Micro and Electron converted for AgonLight.
• Agon Light Invaders - Invaders for the Agon Light.
• Agon Light Text Adventures - A Collection Of Text Adventure Games Ported To The Agon Light.
• Akalabeth - Akalabeth: World of Doom.
• Amines - Amines is Minefield for Agon Light.
• Dans la prison hantée - This prison is haunted. But this prison also hides a treasure. And finding treasures is your job.
• Death House - A BBC BASIC v3 port of the horror interactive fiction game coded for the Commodore 64 by Mark S. Boucher. (Preview on GitHub)
• Diamond Quest - eZ80 game on AgonLight. A simple game, built purely as a goal to learn z80 assembly routines on the Agon Light.
• Draegerman - Draegerman for Agon Light.
• Drug Wars - An adaption of the DOS version of the game, converted to BBC BASIC (Z80) for the Agon Light.
• ELIZA - An adaptation of the first example of the ELIZA chatbot originally developed by Joseph Weizenbaum in the mid-60s.
• Escape the Mansion - Multi-room graphical adventure.
• Eternal Castle - Eternal Castle text adventure for Agon Light.
• FSUDOKU - Sudoku game app for Agon Light.
• Game of Life - Conway's Game of Life for the Agon Light.
• Jotto 2020 - Jotto 2020 is a word puzzle game that cleverly combines the game mechanics of the games, Jotto and Mastermind. (Preview on GitHub)
• Lunar Lander - Lunar Lander Game.
• Moles - Whack-a-mole game written to use Agon/Console 8 mouse input.
• NOMIS - A clone of the classic game SIMON for AgonLight and BBC BASIC SDL. (Preview on GitHub)
• Nova-Star - An original game for the Agon Light.
• Oregon Trail - Oregon Trail for the Agon Light (TM) 8-bit computer.
• Painter - Painter game.
• Pitman - Port of Pitman, written in BBC BASIC.
• Realm - An adventure game for Agon Light.
• Rokky - Dungeons and Diamonds game for Agon Light.
• Sargon Chess - Port of the award-winning Sargon Chess program by Dan and Kathe Spracklen from 1978.
• Snac-Snake - A nostalgic variant of the classic SNAKE game written in BBC BASIC v3. (Preview on GitHub)
• Sokoban - A custom port of the Sokoban game for the Agon platform.
• Space Birds - A simple game written in C for the Agon Light retro computer.
• The Valley - Agon Light conversion of The Valley adventure game.
• TINACOT - An original game inspired by tower defense games and Tetris. (Preview on GitHub)
• Vezza - Vezza is a tool for running Infocom compatible (Z-machine) text adventure and other games, including Zork 1/2/3, Beyond Zork, Sherlock, Rogue, Zracer etc. The link contains guides on where to download around 1,000 compaitble game files.
• Wizard's Castle - The Wizard's castle modded for BBC Basic on the Agon Light.

Graphical demos

• AgonAsciiWars - Star ASCIImation Wars for Agon.
• Agoniccc - AtariST STNICCC animation on the Agon console8. (Preview on YouTube)
• Agon Raytracer - A ray tracing engine written in C++/ASM for the TI-84 CE ported to the Agon.
• Bad Apple - An Agon Light port of Bad Apple. (Preview on YouTube)
• Bubble Universe - An animated version of Bubble Universe. (Preview on YouTube)
• Elite - Elite demo by the original developer of Elite - The New Kind.
• Lemmings - Lemmings educational demo.
• Mandelbrot generator - A fast and interactive Mandelbrot generator. (Preview on YouTube)
• Wolf - Wolf3D demo on Agon.
• Z80 Plasma Demo - Graphics demos for Z80-based computers.

Graphics

• ANSIplay - MOS utility to play .ANS ANSI art files.
• btmg - (B)itmap (T)ile (M)ap (G)enerator. A map generator for AgonLight/Console8 which uses bitmap (16x16) images to create a 14x14 playfield.
• miniGraf - A BBC BASIC vectorial graphic tool for Agon series.
• MapMaker - Build a map for your own BASIC game using MapMaker.
• Sprite editor - sped.bas is a sprite editor for the Agon series of retro computers.

Internet

• Snail - Snail gopher browser.

Libraries and sample code

• Agon Basic - Code repo for BBC Basic programs written for the Agon Light and Console8.
• AgonLight Code Library - A collection of useful subroutines.
• Agon Light 2 C Template - A template for the Agon Light C compiler toolchain.
• Agon code collection - Collection of code, docs and libraries for the Agon platform.
• Ray Tracing Demo - A breakdown by robogeekoid.
• UART Basic - Sending UART data from BBC Basic.

Operating systems

• CP/M 2.2 for Agon Light - CP/M 2.2 port for Agon Light that didn't require custom firmware. Use your Agon fully and have access to CP/M system.
• CP/M 2.2 for Agon Light (more disk images) - Fork of Nihirash's CP/M 2.2 port for Agon Light with extra disk images.
• FreeRTOS/MOS for Agon Light - FreeRTOS port for the Zilog eZ80-based Agon Light (and compatibles) running MOS.
• TRS-OS for Agon Light - A bootstrap to run TRS-OS on Agon Light under MOS. TRS-OS is an eZ80 port of the LS-DOS TRS-80 operating system. No firmware change required.
• Zeal-8-bit-OS for Agon Light - A bootstrap to run Zeal 8-bit on the Agon Light under MOS. No firmware change required.
• ZINC - CP/M compatibility layer for Agon's MOS.

Programming languages

• A(gon)Basic - A Basic interpreter with developer enviroment.
• AgDev - Port to Agon Light of TI-84-CE C/C++ Toolchain which uses LLVM and generates eZ80 ADL code.
• agon-ez80asm - ez80 assembler, running natively on the Agon platform.
• Agon Forth - Forth for Agon computer.
• Bargo - BASIC build system and package manager.
• BBC Basic - Official AGON QUARK Firmware: BASIC Interpreter.
• BBC Basic ADL - Official AGON QUARK Firmware: BASIC Interpreter (ADL version).
• TinyContext - A tiny programming language written in itself.
• Turbo Rascal Syntax Error - TRSE is a complete suite (IDE, compiler, programming language, resource editor) intended for developing games/demos for 8 / 16-bit line of computers.
• Z88DK - The Development Kit for Z80 Computers.

Simulation

• Mini-SPS - PLC simulation (German).
• UE14500 - simulation of the Usagi Electric Vacuum Tube Computer (UEVTC): a vacuum tube computer heavily inspired by the Motorola MC14500 1-bit ICU.

Sound

• Agon MOD - Agon .MOD tracker.

Utilities

• agon_64cfontloader - Load .64c fonts on the Agon in BBC BASIC.
• Agon Basic Header - Agon Light 2 Basic Header.
• Agon Bootlogo - Assembler MOSlet bootlogo of the Basic Header.
• Agon Flash - Agon firmware update utility.
• Agon Hex - Agon hex editor.
• Agon Light 2 Serial Printer - Mini Thermal Receipt Printer (Serial RxD).
• Agon Utilities - MOS utilities for Agon: comp, more, memfill, various font tools, recode, nano, mc.
• Agon Utils - MOSlet Unix style utilities for the Agon Light computer: echo, grep, head, strings, tail, wc. Includes C source.
• Agon VDP installer - Web installer for VDP binaries for the Agon platform.
• calc24 - 24 bit integer calculations in both hex and decimal.
• Console8 Recover - Console8 MOS recover utility.
• eZapple - eZapple machine language monitor.
• HEXLOAD utility - Utility for the Agon platform, to load Intel HEX files over one of its serial ports.
• More Agon Utilities - MOS utilities. Includes: unzip (PK zip/windows compressed folder format), gunzip (GNU zip format), hexdump tools for interactive navigation of file or memory, strings to extract strings from a binary file. Includes ASM source.
• Tasks - Simple tasks/todo list program for the Agon Light™ 8-bit computer.

License

This list is under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Terms of the license are summarized here.