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[...] PacMan [...] still needs some work, but it's coming along. Please comment. You should at least add a detection for "PacMan got eaten" and "All pills are eaten -> next level". ;) Also, sometimes the scoring seems to 'drop'/'forget' pills. That being said, continuing a journ...

Back in the day I cut my teeth writing different versions of PacMan on the Vic 20. Recently I downloaded the emulator and starting working on this. It still needs some work, but it's coming along. Please comment.

That's a valid point.
When I was a kid all I had was an unexpanded Vic-20, all these options make my head spin!

When I declare a string of bytes in vasm, using the .byte directive, it assumes the characters are ascii .byte “HELLOWORLD”, $00 ; 11 bytes but, I obviously want petscii codes, so everything has to be encoded: ; H E L L O W O R L D .byte $08, $05, $0C, $0C, $0F, $17, $0F, $12, $0C, $04, $00 ; 11 byt...

Until I load a program to a specific place in memory, I still lack a valid pointer to my reserved data. For instance, if I want to load a file, I need to have the filename to load. I declared the filename following the bootstrap, so I just need to add the filename length to the bootstrap jump, and t...

I think I have it worked out using the kernel functions to load binary files.
So, build a loader in assembly, with the basic boot strap to start.
Then, that loader will load files into specific memory addresses, into program, graphics and sounds.
I’ll post my findings soon!

Thank you all for you input.
When you talk about writing a loader, I assume it will pull a binary file from the disk and write it to a specific memory address.
Is this done in a BASIC program, or ML? How do you build this on a disk?

I've the program below. It's my first assembly program for the Vic-20 I'm trying to make it work with all memory configurations. It reads the screen page and saves it to zero page for indirect index addressing. I know it's still using a hard-coded color address, but I haven't worked that out yet. It...