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Wow, I do use Speedscript from time to time - also managed to find a copy of the original manual published by Compute! back then. Will test it in all its 32 column glory ASAP. Thank for this :D OK, some people in their right mind might use it! I found various articles for Speedscript, was there a d...

I promise I'll stop bumping my own thread, however have added a few items to the disk. Speedscript 3.2 . I'm sure no-one in their right mind would use a Vic for word-processing in 2021, however I couldn't resist seeing what Compute!'s killer app would look like in 32 columns. The conversion was fair...

Hi all, I have added an NTSC version of my conversion of Kikstart, and this is within the zip file attached to the first post of this thread. Awesome! Thanks for adding NTSC support. I remember playing this game on an Atari XL, very cool to be able to play this on the VIC. Thanks. I'm guessing the ...

Hi all, I have added an NTSC version of my conversion of Kikstart, and this is within the zip file attached to the first post of this thread. The screen is 25 characters wide, so my apologies if there is any clipping of the image - it shouldn't affect gameplay though. Also, am aware of a minor graph...

Haha, a cheat for Pitfall.. love it.

Sorry there's no free sew-on patch if you get above 20,000 points

Updated, extending the 'reach' of the redraw before scroll appears to have rectified the problem. Also have disabled Shift/Commodore combination rather than continually forcing the value back in $9005. If a user really wants to change the display, who am I to stop them

Thanks - it does help. Will fix later, cheers.

Any idea what might cause this? I can reproduce this error also on my setup. That seems to be a race condition, where the screen update is 'caught' during a scroll and when the new line has been opened but not yet been written fully. The algorithm takes the original screen data of the editor and co...

Hi, great work as ever Victragic! I've noticed then you cannot switch case but there is a small screen glitch if you try CBM+Shift, this POKE could be useful. ;Disable switching case using CBM+Shift LDA #$80 ; (#0 Enabled, #128 Disabled) STA $0291 ; lock CBM+shift key *0291 657 Shift mode switch (0...

I've made a few updates, as indicated in the initial post for this thread. The project is fairly close to completion now - save for the endless tinkering to try to gain efficiency. Source code is in no way presentable, so I'll tidy it up in case anyone wants to tinker further. (This may take some ti...

Would a 20-line screen affect readability? Isn't it just 'extending' the vertical screen-height by 4 more rows? (and obviously using-up more RAM) I remember, back in the day, POKEing around in BASIC to get the VIC screen as big as possible. It was a bit like good-old Amiga overscan and I often wond...

What would be the maximum theoretical (text) screen size you could manage on a Vic? Cheers, Mike. Hi Mike, short answer is it depends what you are able/ willing to sacrifice.. I once had a project called 'Sentoria' that could display up to 56 character glyphs per line on a Pal screen, but it was sl...

Nice one. There's a few decent titles in there, Crazy Cavey and Rockman probably my favourites.

This updated version does not address my other suggestion regarding a warmstart capability though. It shouldn't be that hard to implement either - just a clear distinction/sequence of: memory (re-)allocation (for the bitmap), set-up of the new editor and calling the start-up banner would be needed....

New version uploaded with .d64 as per Mike and Mingle's suggestion. Just load and RUN.. I've managed to successfully test this with Programmer's Aid cartridge at $7000, and Vicmon at $6000 - but not at the same time. (I can't seem get them to work together with just a normal Vic configuration, so I'...