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I could probably squeeze in joystick control (I'm tight on memory though - more inlining of functions required)... the problem is that I need two "action" buttons, for jump and ???. Presumably up on the joystick doesn't work very well as a jump action.

BLUE STAR A game for the unexpanded Vic 20. http://www.kweepa.com/step/games/BlueStar.png Infiltrate the alien base and take out the CPU! Find equipment to help you on your quest! Keys X, V, N, < ... left C, B, M, > ... right A - L ... jump Q - P ... ??? Joystick Button ... jump Up ... ??? See if yo...

I'm knee deep in finishing up my game, so I won't be able to get to it for a few days, but I can certainly add shifting/rolling, 8x8 mode, and some limited animation facilities. Maybe next weekend?

My randomly wandering creatures were behaving distinctly non-randomly, so it was easy to see

It doesn't look like he's updated his website in a couple of years, but I'll send him an email.

Since I didn't find anything on the internet, I just did an exhaustive search of the a and c parameters for a mod 256 Linear Congruential Generator, feeding the results into Monte Carlo Pi (PI) and Serial Correlation Coefficient (SCC) tests from "ent" (http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/). The...

I think
(a) it's a cute chicken sprite.
(b) the character color should contrast more with the screen color
(c) you should use png!

The Fridge at Stephen L. Judd's ffd2.com site has some good stuff, like this random routine. I found a bug in the LCG in rand1.s (by comparing with the output from a C version): the carry bit should be cleared before adding $3611. So the code should be: GETRAND LDA RANDOM+1 STA TEMP1 LDA RANDOM ASL...

Unfortunately, though, i use Linux, not windows, and i can't get it to run in Wine. :( If you're using Ubuntu, you might want to try this, which would allow you to run the Character Editor in Linux: http://new.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=29886.0 It may not be worth the effort though :) On a...

Welcome! Is this game still in development? Tell us more :) It sure is. I'm writing it with Acme and Vice for the unexpanded Vic. It's a platformer. I don't want to say too much beyond that... :shock: Awesome! I can't wait to try it. I would love to have DEC instead of HEX, but I may be the only on...

Hi, While developing my game I wrote a Windows-based editor to create multi-color mode graphics characters. http://www.kweepa.com/step/games/Vic20CharEd.png Clicking "Save" appends hex bytes to "chardef.txt." Download here (691k): http://www.kweepa.com/step/games/Vic20CharEd.zip