Denial

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2903/spidermountain.png All done. Not bad, and I'm pleasantly surprised how well it runs for a BASIC game. The story could do with a bit of sprucing up though... half of it is cooking a rabbit so you don't starve to death! Boring! :lol: Of course I turned off the st...

Here you have Spider Mountain , a text adventure for the VIC-20 +8/16K. There doesn't seem to be much "verbosity" in those location descriptions. :lol: Can't light the newspaper? Hmm, I'm hooked. Though I never finished the text adventure I started playing last year... EDIT: You have to &...

Lucky you. I wish I could join in the fun.

Holy JC, lines 6 and 7 are the most divinely cryptic lines of code I've ever seen. Do they store the shapes of the various blocks in little 4x4 arrays?

carlsson wrote:It may sound insane, but a movie about humans trying to save the planet by destroying asteroids.. then in the end it zooms out and turns out the whole movie was inside a computer game. Game Over. Insert coin to play again.

That all sounds a bit Tron/Matrix to me. I'll call my lawyer.

saehn wrote:

Awesome
I'd love to see those animated in a C64 version.

Don't listen to Luzur... that's pure perfection as it is. Though the Atari joysticks suck big time even if they look like retro nirvana.

@carlsson: It would've been nice if they did, because now we have no idea how many of an item existed just based on the serials.

How rare is the VC1001 and VC1010 exactly when the serials are in the 100,000's?

I thought this might be of interest to any Asteroids fans out there. By which I mean it'll make you

Ghislain wrote:

Inspired by this perhaps? Don't worry, I'm not telling...

Did they agree to post the whole lot to the UK, or were you using an "agent"? A very nice lot.

Could you use a DC2N in one of those?

Very nice. This makes the movement a bit less flickery... (copied from VICE)

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ravenxau wrote:Ok, here is my first offering, just to get rid of the programming rust:-

Diamond Dash

Can you makes the letter used in the maze generation black? Or even turn off the screen? It would add to the mystique a bit!