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Title : Hearts Author : Victragic Genre : Card Games Requirements : Unexpanded Vic-20 Code : BASIC Released : 25 May, 2020 Throw away your desktop PC! Now you can play the classic card game, 'Hearts' on your Vic-20. Presented in glorious PETSCII and BASIC, in the style of Commodore's most popular B...

I’m an incredibly mean Hearts player, so interested to see how this looks heh. You'll probably beat the computer players quite regularly, I'd think :) The latest version is *just* good enough for a casual player like me though, I just played it twice and didn't win either time. (A computer player s...

Thanks - I'm still tinkering a little with it before I post on the announcement board. I can make the computer play a wee bit more efficiently.

Welcome cTrix!

Yes, the Vic certainly has a ton of 'character'.. quirky bordering on eccentric. Which is partly what makes it so darn endearing..

beamrider wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 2:15 am I knew I'd seen the title screen style before so I had to find it - it's similar to the Blue Meanies opening screen.

Yes a bit of a nod to Commodore's Vic-21 too..

Hi all, well it's - 'Hearts', the card game that you play when you are pretending to work, now for unexpanded Vic-20. Written entirely in BASIC. (I'm wondering if someone has already done this, but I just spent the better part of an hour searching, apparently no..) The game includes the following ru...

I haven't looked at the program, but some general advice - all it really takes is a clear understanding of something you want to achieve, and a will to make it happen. You then break down the program into smaller subparts, and work through these until you get them working. There are plenty of Basic ...

Old post, but congrats. I have a lot of time for those TED machines, even though my Plus/4 died many many moons ago. A C16 is probably similar to a Vic + 8k with Super Expander, Programmer's Aid, VicMon, Basic 4.0 and 40 column card all in one. It was quite the upgrade from a Vic. The extra colours ...

I’d like to think that more efficient, newer programming techniques would get it down to somewhere near 35k. Yeah, I agree you could fit something under 40k, with help of some look up tables for mirroring and calculating the X position of the sprites. You might also be able to compress background g...

Looking forward to seeing this completed, sounds like a unique project. I think your comments re the C16 version of FIst are much too tactful - that was a woeful conversion, in my opinion! For a start, most of the 'in-between' animations were missing, which meant you had no chance to react to any mo...

Encountered the same thing recently when trying to convert a text game 'Oasis of Shalimar' from C64 to Vic. In that instance, the author repeatedly put the 'CLR' code in a REM statement through the listing, followed by his initials. Annoying? Yep. Effective? Nope. But it might just have been to stop...

Ah yes, I'm forgetting that there are now true 8k Vics in the world as well.. the way they should always have been

A long way to go from just a flexible screen layout to have programs that take this into account and can adapt. Tell me a single program that used JSR $FFED to read the current screen (or window?) dimensions. :wink: Case in point - Pet Loader cartridge. Was there *anything* written that was compati...

This is excellent work, Tokra. (Apologies for basically doing the same thing 3 years later, I should have searched more thoroughly first!) I can only think the reason this wasn't done back in 'the day' was the fact it is quite an expensive solution in regards to memory, when memory was at an absolut...

I really like the way Maxi-edit can relocate itself in RAM, that's a clever feature. Maxi-edit can also be more compact than this, as trying to be 'dynamic' I have to clear more memory. And Maxi-edit is indeed excellent. I pondered whether I might discontinue my efforts, however decided I might as w...