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by Victragic
Mon Oct 17, 2022 9:38 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Upcoming H.E.R.O. game
Replies: 74
Views: 37932

Re: Upcoming H.E.R.O. game

Really excellent work, looks good on the Vic and the coloured sprite(s) look especially great (and would have been a pain to implement, no doubt!).

Haven't played yet but just watched the YouTube video and can see it is a very faithful port.
by Victragic
Thu Oct 28, 2021 9:28 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Vic chip 6561E
Replies: 1
Views: 296

Re: Vic chip 6561E

I haven't seen one like that. I would be guessing that it was manufactured in August 1982, so it may be less common but not particularly early.
by Victragic
Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:30 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Boulder Dash Preview
Replies: 19
Views: 4972

Re: Boulder Dash Preview

Looks great, the sort of game that suits the PAL Vic very nicely. Would have loved this on a cartridge back in the early 80s! I'm guessing the horizontal scrolling is a combination of changing the value in $9000, as well as having characters offset by one mc pixel.. there really aren't that many ele...
by Victragic
Thu Jul 22, 2021 5:04 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Five Column Mode!
Replies: 1
Views: 533

Re: Five Column Mode!

Finally, a large-print version of the Vic for those of us with failing eyesight..!
by Victragic
Wed Jun 02, 2021 4:25 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Australian type-in cricket game?
Replies: 7
Views: 514

Re: Australian type-in cricket game?

Yeah, thanks again - it was definitely an Australian publication, and I even remember the author wrote in (in the second such publication) to explain that the listing wasn't for C64 but Vic-20 - which he 'forgot to stipulate'.

I have a feeling this one may be lost to time, sadly.
by Victragic
Wed May 19, 2021 1:18 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Australian type-in cricket game?
Replies: 7
Views: 514

Re: Australian type-in cricket game?

Thanks for the response guys, no it wasn't that one - the game I am referring to was vertical, rather than horizontal. The ball traveled up the screen, and sometimes would break left or right. You swung at it, your bat going in a 'circle' of sorts around you. It didn't have user defined graphics eit...
by Victragic
Tue May 18, 2021 3:52 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Australian type-in cricket game?
Replies: 7
Views: 514

Australian type-in cricket game?

Probably clutching at straws with this one.. there was a one-off (or two-off) magazine released in Australia around 1984/5 with nothing but type-ins. It was on really cheap paper, kind of quality like 'Home Computing Weekly' from the UK, but I forget what it was called Anyway, it had type-ins for ma...
by Victragic
Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:32 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Advice needed -c128d PSU
Replies: 4
Views: 2258

Re: Advice needed -c128d PSU

Actually it turned out that it was only the inline power filter, so no serious repair work required.. yet!
by Victragic
Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:22 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: WIP VIC32 - 32-column 'pet loader' style program
Replies: 45
Views: 2306

Re: WIP VIC32 - 32-column 'pet loader' style program

..and in original CRT glory too..! :D
by Victragic
Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:16 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Advice needed -c128d PSU
Replies: 4
Views: 2258

Re: Advice needed -c128d PSU

Thanks, I'm not too keen on repairing the power supply itself, but actually the circuitry looks fairly accessible compared to some.

More my lack of ability here being the issue, so I thought a drop in replacement might be a safer bet.
by Victragic
Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:04 am
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Advice needed -c128d PSU
Replies: 4
Views: 2258

Advice needed -c128d PSU

I've got a C128D (not DCR) that went bang last time I tried it, after running for about half an hour, tripping my main fuse at the same time. From some research, it is either likely to be the inline power filter, or some capacitor in the PSU has shorted. Frustratingly there is no visual (or sniff) c...
by Victragic
Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:18 am
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Commodores in Wonder Woman 1984
Replies: 1
Views: 1975

Re: Commodores in Wonder Woman 1984

Nice spot. I've often wondered how common the PET/CBM series was for those last models, they must be pretty rare. The 8096SK is a particularly nice looking machine though, I understand why they would use it as a prop. Unless I'm mistaken, there was also a Commodore Pet recently in the last Netflix s...
by Victragic
Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:11 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: WIP VIC32 - 32-column 'pet loader' style program
Replies: 45
Views: 2306

Re: WIP VIC32 - 32-column 'pet loader' style program

orion70 wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:38 pm Here we are: https://archive.org/details/Computes_Speedscript
Many thanks. Face-palm moment as I now realise the source code was available the whole time :roll:
by Victragic
Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:42 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: WIP VIC32 - 32-column 'pet loader' style program
Replies: 45
Views: 2306

Re: WIP VIC32 - 32-column 'pet loader' style program

When saving a font, it will add the '@0:' for replace at the start of the filename, so you don't need to include this. You know the implementation of 'save-and-replace' is bugged on many CBM disk drives and can corrupt the disk's contents? That is not something you want to include in a program, an ...