Denial

Just wondering/daydreaming... I think it would be possible to use a PIC microcontroller to connect a PC USB port at one end and the Vic 20 datassette port at the other end and use the PC as a datassette emulator. I think a floppy emulator might be possible as well, but way more complex than just emu...

Mr. Hurst, you definitely have good counter examples of poor scenario in long lived games.

Netherless, I'll be stubborn here and would like to try to have both nice mechanics AND some kind of scenario.

I think the narrative is the fun part of the process. If you can't think of one, just design the mechanics of the game, and the story will form around it. It's not like Super Mario Bros. makes a whole lot of sense! The narrative should drive the mechanics, not the opposite. That's a common problem ...

That when new memory space is needed, I'll dump some memory and read from the floppy as needed, for example at level changes, etc.

Maybe the player could be the first dinausor to hatch and start looking around to find others. When they hatch, you could play as them, with different characteristics (jump, long tongue to toggle switches, fire resistance, swimming, etc)

tokra wrote:16 FARBEN (unexpanded VIC): Small BASIC-extension to make use of the extended color-mode.]

What is the "extended color mode?

Eggs like this?



My son says some cooperation like in "Lost Vikings" might be fun

Hi, I'd like my next Vis-20 project to be a platform game, in the "Super Mario" style, but with an original story, different chatracters, etc.. No gore stuff please. I'm looking for ideas about: - Scenario: While the objective is always typically to complete some kind of run with obstacles...

RobertBe wrote:... We hope to videotape the session...

I see it's not only the computers that are retro here

menu Snapshot -> Record Sound, then Stop sound Record will give you a .WAV file, which you'll need to convert next.

Done!

A switch to go "non turbo" sounds like a good idea to me if you don't want to have to remove the cart to play regular games and other time critical stuff.

GreyGhost wrote:Any more thoughts about making a CBM PRG Studio friendly version?

(PLEASE! PLEASE!)

Me too, me too!

Interesting how nobody listed their PCs, they'll be retro so soon with Microsoft fudging Windows every other month!

What about adding some buffers for the address and data bus for the 1MHz stuff, and detecting these address to launch an interrupt that would basically just wait for the data to be processed?