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by bills442
Fri Nov 25, 2022 5:45 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Space Invaders / Connect-4
Replies: 94
Views: 5539

Re: Space Invaders / Connect-4

Space Invaders plays amazing! Thank you for your hard work.
by bills442
Fri Sep 10, 2021 5:58 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: missile command
Replies: 5
Views: 561

Re: missile command

It's something I've been working on. Explosions and line drawings routines are mostly there and near fast enough to handle the action for 20 active ICBMs at 60fps. I haven't been able to make the time to work on it. I need to accelerate my time schedule for retirement :).
by bills442
Sat May 01, 2021 9:20 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: missile command
Replies: 5
Views: 561

missile command

Playing atari missile command, and some side by side screen shots with unreleased vic version, just thought I'd share because it was a good time with a friend today and that trash pic TV is sure putting a nice picture out for the vic
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by bills442
Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:33 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Does Pi1541 run with a VIC-20? (split/OT from: SD2IEC and Penultimate [...])
Replies: 12
Views: 8191

Re: Does Pi1541 run with a VIC-20? (split/OT from: SD2IEC and Penultimate [...])

Hello. I too am curious if the pi1541 works with the vic20. I ordered a PCB kit from ebay and built my own. I can certainly post all the gory details, but will be brief here, curious if anyone has any suggestions for troubleshooting. I understand I should probably reach out on lemon64 as that is whe...
by bills442
Sat Dec 21, 2019 4:52 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Chuck Peddle passes away
Replies: 9
Views: 3903

Re: Chuck Peddle passes away

Wow. I hopped on denial to scratch a little social itch on this cold winter evening and this was what I found first :( To say the 6502 was a huge part of my life would be an understatement. I regard these larger than life heroes of the personal computer revolution that I was so amazingly lucky to ha...
by bills442
Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:23 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Hardware assisted Games (split/OT from: Path to Wizard of Wor)
Replies: 31
Views: 22032

Re: Hardware assisted Games

I pretty much agree with everyone's points; although It does make me think. Someone here, or somewhere, made a wise point that anyone that even programs these old machines is doing so out of nostalgia or 'sport'. The sport comment I really loved. As a 'sport' I could see it being fascinating to abus...
by bills442
Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:25 am
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Hardware assisted Games (split/OT from: Path to Wizard of Wor)
Replies: 31
Views: 22032

Re: Hardware assisted Games

Goodness, that's impressive. That racing the beam style programming can do so much, if you can do it. When multiple sprites are on the same horizontal line ( I think 2600 only has 2 right? ), there is of course some flicker, but the nature of the game seems to make that not so common, so it really l...
by bills442
Sat Nov 25, 2017 5:06 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Panicman for 3k and 8k vic
Replies: 55
Views: 26576

Re: Panicman for 3k and 8k vic

I've been reworking the speeds to be as accurate to the arcade as possible now that I have the capability to run a full 60fps ( ntsc ). One thing I've been having questions about is the "Cruise Elroy" feature of blinky. Using the awesome Pacman Dossier as reference once again: https://www....
by bills442
Sat Nov 11, 2017 5:17 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Panicman for 3k and 8k vic
Replies: 55
Views: 26576

Re: Panicman for 3k and 8k vic

Thanks guys. I'm actually working on the code a bit now, so maybe I'll get a new version out and include pause and intermissions which I wanted. Apparently Jeff ( the music guy ) saw the cover and ordered a cassette drive off ebay because he wants a cassette now, lol. Nice job.
by bills442
Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:45 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Panicman for 3k and 8k vic
Replies: 55
Views: 26576

Re: Panicman for 3k and 8k vic

I think the vic + 3k jmp instruction to the main loop was at $40e 82 040b endif 83 040b 00 00 00 HEX 00 00 00 84 040e 4c c7 0c jmp main 85 0411 - else ;not basic startup 86 0411 - jmp main .... I can't remember what I put up on google drive, I'm assuming it was the version that was supposed to load ...
by bills442
Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:11 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Odyssey 2 Speedway random thoughts
Replies: 1
Views: 1399

Odyssey 2 Speedway random thoughts

Does anyone remember the game "speedway" for the Odyssey 2? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA0ySQhzUeg My friend and I during a bout of nostalgia in the mid 90s played the heck out of this game. There was in theory a 'perfect' game. The perfect game was where you held full throttle immedi...
by bills442
Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:57 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: Tank Battalion
Replies: 46
Views: 20827

Re: New Release: Tank Battalion

beamrider wrote:I just remembered, it looks like it's payback time for when I reported that bug in Panicman, that only occured under Vic+Megacart...
heh maybe so. I am still thankful for all the help you gave me on that one.
by bills442
Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:46 am
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: Tank Battalion
Replies: 46
Views: 20827

Re: New Release: Tank Battalion

I feel like a kid again destroying 8 bit tanks over the christmas holidays ; too bad this cool game didn't come with my VIC which I got for Christmas in 1982, lol. Nope, it was tank vs UFO after typing it in;ha. I saved a snapshot of the game; which ( I assume ) is just a memory dump and restores th...
by bills442
Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:37 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: Tank Battalion
Replies: 46
Views: 20827

Re: New Release: Tank Battalion

I got addicted playing your game tonight :) One odd thing happened; I don't know if VICE got mad at me, or something, but I'd been playing the game _quite_ a while and it seems like it ended up in a loop? The screen stopped mid game The monitor says it's looping in 25f8,25fb something like: .loop LD...
by bills442
Thu Dec 25, 2014 7:12 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: Tank Battalion
Replies: 46
Views: 20827

Re: New Release: Tank Battalion

Ok, this got me going; on VICE under linux with my core two duo at 2.6GHZ which claims full frame rate I got to level 4 with 18xxx darnit the screen flashed over before I could read it, is there no way to see the running high score? boy was level 3 hard, then it went back to the bricks on 4 and I go...