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Can anyone tell me what is going on with memory 7424 to 7432? All I can find online is that it is just "User BASIC RAM". I find examples of storing assembly language programs there, too. For some reason, in one of my old games, I did this: FOR A=7424 TO 7432:POKE A,0:NEXT A I am not sure w...

Since there have only been four topics in this forum with any posts since 2009, I don't know if I will have any luck asking, but here goes anyway... I have a box of VIC-20 tapes of games I wrote, and I am trying to import them. I have used WAVPRG/AUDIOTAP to generate various files, and it has a wind...

I am trying to get my old 1982 VIC programs running in an emulator. I had some editor program that let me customize the character set (likely something I typed in from Gazette). There was some way to save it to tape so it loaded and was usable by the BASIC program. I cannot remember how this worked....

TAP = Physical transfer of the tape itself as a bundle of signals. You can re-write the TAP back to another tape and it should act as if it was the real thing. T64 = An emulator specific container, it's like a tape version of a D64 (disk) file. I heartily recommend NOT using these. PRG = A single p...

Can someone explain the differences in .tap, .t64 and .prg? I seem to have much more success converting the .wav to .prg files, but I don't understand why that would be.

Thanks!

Where is a good place to ask VICE questions?

Bombjack has some of the leaflets but not the actual tapes http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/newsletters/vixen-fox-20/vixen-fox-20.htm Thanks! I contacted him and will be getting him the tapes. There was a December 1982 issue, as well, so it will be good to see one more item on that page updated. W...

dabone converted my .wav files to .prg and those seem to work better. I tried them myself tonight. But, they auto start and some of mine are loaded in multiple parts, so I have to figure out how to get VICE to load but not auto start I guess. I also ran in to issues with keyboard emulation on the Ma...

I have the first three issues (#1 was called VIXEN, then they changed it to FOX 20).

FYI - I have documented my progress so far here:

http://subethasoftware.com/2016/02/24/b ... -software/

I have a few other tapes that haven't converted at all so they may be dead at this point.

Greetings. I recently found a cigar box of my old VIC-20 tapes and want to bring them in to an emulator. I have hooked up a home stereo tape player (the highest end model Radio Shack was selling back around 98 or so when I bought it) and have been digitizing the tapes to .wav files using Audacity on...

I recently found my old cigar box of VIC-20 tapes, including a few issues of FOX 20. Are these already archived somewhere, or is this something I should try to preserve?

I was able to track down some information on this newsletter. I also found the names of the couple that ran the FOX 20 tape magazine, and a notice in a 1984 newsletter of them shutting down due to damage from Hurricane Alicia that swept through Houston that year. (I sure remember that one; we were w...

Specifically, I am looking for a game program listing I submitted back around 1981 or 1982. I believe it was called "Eggs" and it was a "catch the falling objects" game. It was my first published program/article when I was about 12.

dragos wrote:yes, it was called Fox-20. I have several issues.

Thank you very much -- I missed this, back then, and only recently found it via a Google search.

I am still trying to track down issues of the VIC-NEW NEWS newsletter which had my first published program, back in 1981 or 1982.

In the days of the VIC-20, there was a magazine on cassette that was published in Houston. I remember going over the their house once to meet them. I think the company name had "FOX" in it.

Does anyone remember anything like this?