A raycasting demo and maze generator for PalmOS
Maze Hiker is a maze generator / solver with a 3D raycasting engine (think Wolfenstein 3D). It's intended for older m68k-based PalmOS devices, but should run on newer ones too.
The demo was written for CodeJedi's Old School PalmOS Coding Contest 2003. There was never a plan to develop the raycasting engine into a game - it was just a demo to show what was possible on low-end Palm hardware at the time.
The raycasting engine is written in 68k assembly while the maze generator and other setup code is in C.
Maze Hiker is free software as described by the GNU General Public License (v3). See LICENSE.md for details.
A device that supports 8-bit color (OS 3.5+).
Maze Hiker was originally developed with PRC Tools, which unfortunately has not been maintained for modern operating systems. An easy alternative to build it is to use prc-tools-remix. The project offers pre-built binaries for 64-bit Ubuntu/Debian systems and a convenient setup script to install the Palm SDK.
Run make all to build a .prc file. Transfer it to a device that meets the
system requirements or the Palm OS Emulator.
Note that the source contains support for high resolution (320x320) Sony Clie
devices that predate PalmOS 5's high resolution API. This has been disabled
since Sony's SDK is no longer publicly available, but if you somehow obtain a
a copy, use make all -DSONY_CLIE=1 to activate it.