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@Mike: thanks for pointing me at the old thread. I'd somehow forgotten about its existence :oops: I have no objections to writing some routines in machine code, other than I am totally green on the subject. My plan is to start with reading the old VIC 20 Programmers' Guide and move the first steps, ...

Thanks! As soon as I have the current revision figured out, I will post it in the Games section for the time being; if no bugs surface, in due time I'll post it in the Announcements section.

Looking for a way to compile a BASIC game to gain speed, I found just a single solution which is to use Austrocompiler on the VIC itself, which will generate pseudocode. I haven't found any other solution. I've found a few cross compilers for 6502, but none seems to work with CBM BASIC. Is Austrocom...

Last year I tried my hand at a little arcade game just to see if I could do it. Currently I am working at a version 1.1, so to speak. It's amateurish work (written in BASIC and then compiled, but the action is not as fluid as I hoped it would be), still I'd like to make it available here as well as ...

I've just discovered about this app and I won't be going back now that I am using It. Thanks! EDIT: unfortunately I've just stumbled upon a problem. Up until yesterday, all was fine. Today I did some minor edits to the BASIC code (in the BAS file). Now every time I try to renumber this file I get an...

Ricordo che avevo dei bei problemi perché tutto era ottimizzato per 80 colonne e io ne avevo solo 40. Erano chiamate urbane, comunque, e ai tempi si pagava solo lo scatto alla risposta, ma il telefono restava occupato per cui avevo sempre la sensazione di stare tirando troppo la corda... Ho ancora q...

Io usai un modem Commodore 6499 con il C64, per collegarmi alle BBS (FIDO) e al Videotel. Vale? =)

If I am not mistaken about your suggestion, I had kinda of figured out the same and that is why I used a token system to move the bad robots. At each loop, just one of the robots moves, then passes the token. So in a sense, I'm already kind of there. What is consuming resources, I think, is that I a...

Got it, thanks. I've identified the problem! It was indeed an overlooked circumstance in which a subroutine exited with a GOTO rather than a RETURN. It took a bit of reworking but I eliminated the glitch. Also the performance drop due to the moving "AI" is not so bad after all, when the ga...

Yes, I had found that thread and eliminated a case where this problem was happening, but the out of memory problem continues, so I will have to check again. I have used a lot of gosub statements and quite a few for... Next. Other than this, the main problem is that the pseudo AI routine for the enem...

FOR C1=2 TO LEN(S$):POKE(I+C1-2),VAL(MID$(S$,C1,1))+118:NEXT:RETURN This line parses a string (s$) one character at a time, then pokes the numeric value of the character (+118) on the screen starting from a certain location (i). This is used in my game to display numbers (score, lives, level, time r...

Yes, I haven't done any measuring but the speed increase with my game after compiling it is dramatic, to the point that it's now too fast! I will have to do something to make it more playable because the guy is all over the place like a rocket. I am thinking a little for...next cycle between the mom...

Sorry for the typo, yes it answers 1 1 in the second case, and indeed it adds that space with STR$. Took a bit to figure out. I recall something about this from when I was a kid.

Small teaser:

I'm happy! All is in working order, the graphics are fully in place (I'm just sad I had to simplify the informational screen before any level, which used to display all the characters encountered in that level, because just a few letters fit in the tape buffer). And I used a differential timer to ju...

Indeed. I called it a hack because the tape buffer was not originally meant to be used to store custom characters, therefore it's a proper hack = making the machine do something it was not originally meant to do, or in a different way =)

Thanks