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@Vic-2000

Thankyou Sir. I love the Atari, the A800 was my second computer right after the Vic. My dream for the A800 was an Elevator Action game! I remember when the GTIA chip came out I was all excited drawing screen levels for that game.

Wow. I'm blown away. Very impressive, and fun -- I actually want to go home and use my joystick. I can't even fathom how you accomplished this in the unexpanded vic.
I did at one point die and found my ship inside of a terrain mountain,lol I could survive there as long as I didn't move

Ok. I fixed the .org addresses so you can load with just ,8 and I seem to have improved the jumpiness on PAL. It looks like the main game loop was taking just over 1/60 second. On NTSC I was always overflowing to 2 frames and getting half speed all the time, so it looked ok. On PAL, with the more ge...

Yes, it was a PAL vic and yes it does play better under the Vice on NTSC. I always found it difficult to keep a game running at a constant speed on a machine like the vic with minimum grunt. I found that you need to limit the number of game updates per screen refresh to get a constant speed but thi...

It was the 8K version. Oh ok, perhaps the tunnel behaviour is "as designed" then. Not sure, just to me seemed a little different to the arcade to me, but I could well be wrong. I got the impression that pac-man moved a little faster sometimes because the load on the game had "reduced...

I've just tried playing this on real hardware and it looks really nice. I did spot a few little bugs however... 1) At one stage there were about three additional copies of pacman below the cage. I went to get my phone to make a video but it didn't re-occur. 2) I did also notice that sometimes pacma...

No better place, don't worry. I only had to wait a few hours, and now I'm enjoying this game, impressively similar to the original :D. I particularly liked the sounds and the overall smoothness. If I can be the only one to complain about a minor defect, color clash is quite visible compared to othe...

orion70 wrote:Damn! I can't download stuff from Google here at work

Hmm, Is there a better (free) place I could host the prg images I wonder?
That was the only place I could think of that I had an account on.

Very nice! This makes the Atarisoft version look like a kindergartener made it. Awesome! I noticed that it looks like you saved both versions from the beginning of the BASIC RAM areas ($0400 for 3k and $1200 for 8k). If you save starting at $0401 for 3k and $1201 for 8k then you won't need the ,1 a...

Looks cool - particularly like the sound effects, they sound very close to the original. My musician friend Jeff helped with the sound effects, thank goodness, otherwise I would have been lost. He was able to figure the 'notes' by ear, despite his initial distaste at the odd frequencies generated b...

rhurst wrote:

bills442 wrote:After dreaming of coding up a tribute to a very 'popular' game of the day for 30 plus years, I finally have something to upload.

It's never too late!

Your game collection was a huge inspiration to me btw!

Name : Panicman Authors : Dane Bills, Jeff Messner Released : March 2, 2014 Requirements : VIC20 with +3k or +8k, joystick ( developed on NTSC) Description : A maze game clone of a well known 80s game written in assembly ScreenShot : https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bIy54KsSK7g/UxPiY7aufvI/AAAAAA...

Amazing! Very close to the original arcade! That's two fantastic releases in just a few days. Would you care to explain the differences between the 3K and 8K version? Apart from the splash-screen I couldn't find any yet. Also, please add a post for this release to the VIC-20 Software Releases of 20...

Definitely nice looking and sounding. Any chance of being able to have a PRG file for the game instead of P00? Could I just rename the file on the download link? Is .prg the better/correct extension for it? I'm not sure why I made it a p00, I think at some point I thought that was what I had to nam...

Hi guys, I received my first vic20 for Christmas in 1981. After dreaming of coding up a tribute to a very 'popular' game of the day for 30 plus years, I finally have something to upload. I remember drawing pictures of this with just the cursor keys and the stock character set graphics when I was a k...