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Thanks for this.

It looks very faithful to the original and plays great. I hadn't seen this game before, or taken any notice of it at least. Seems these early games translate quite well to the Vic in your hands.

Another quality conversion from the LeChuck stable.

That's awesome, especially the dance tune.

Is there by any chance, a player so these tunes can be played on real hardware?

For ballpark you'll get about 6 2x2 sprites chugging along nicely. I don't think multi-color slows it down much. You'll notice most that the sprites tend to slow down when they transit non-empty background graphics. If you can do stuff without them as well it helps, for instance in Pooyan, the chair...

Here are my mods from Popeye: a few LUTs in the inner most loops for speed improvements and multi-color support (introduction of sssSPRITEDDEF2 for increased height 3x2).

You may need to add conditionals for non MC use as I wasn't interested in that.

The API as it stands doesn't really support multi-color sprites per se, they unexpectedly disappear behind background graphics because of the simple XOR. See the original 2013 Pooyan. I made some changes for Pooyan 2015. http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?p=80327#p80327 Al...

Thanks for this.

I guess there's only one Poland based Commodore PSU supplier on E-Bay, so it's worth spreading the word that these are not suitable for the Vic-20.

Assuming it works okay on the C64?

Nice video. Thanks.

Looking forward to future episodes...

https://github.com/danwerner21/vic2020

If you were so inclined, you could modify the above and join two halves with a ribbon connector?

Okay - sounds like it may be the Vic chip and the BASIC ROM in that case, but honestly, it could be a lot of things. You really need a known working machine into which you can try the suspect ICs.

Since you can hear sound with the cartridge, switch it on and type: poke 36876, 220 : poke 36878,15 <Press return> If you can here a sound then the KERNEL ROM and BASIC are working otherwise they are good candidates to swap. But most likely it's the Vic chip since you get no display running the game...

There is also a software only version of SAM. Download VicSAM7-sfx.zip

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... 6&start=15

[...] I'm still getting a little bit of fuzz though, [...] You should check out the plethora of threads regarding a S-Video mod on the VIC-20 here in Denial. :wink: I will do that, maybe a future mini project for me. The picture quality is acceptable but there's room for improvement. I actually pre...

I've got Bewitched to work! One important thing I didn't mention was I had a Simplex Data 16k memory pack plugged in, it hadn't occurred to me it could affect a cassette drive motor control! Removing the memory expansion allowed the game to load fully. I've now read that having too much ram can sto...

Welcome to the forum and the world of the Vic. I'd start by cleaning the tape heads and moving the cassette away from the TV if that doesn't work it could be the tape itself or even your Vic. Unless you have access to other hardware it's difficult to determine the issue. To enjoy the Vic-20 without ...

I find this very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

p.s. looking forward to you using it to implement Sabre-Wolf on the 35k Vic