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There's no room to add anything extra onto the listing, as you found out. You'd have to create a basic loader to load extra stuff into non-BASIC RAM and then load the main program. Compiled BASIC is always an option too (one that I haven't tried!) As I mentioned, it may be possible to compress the B...

Telengard_vic.jpg Nobody knows who build the great underground labyrinth called TELENGARD. Some say that the souls that perish there feed some unspeakable demon. Others say that it is a testing ground for wizards and warriors. Only the knowledgeable few know that TELENGARD was built by Daniel Lawre...

No I didn't actually. Just like you I found nothing on the switches, but I figured most of them out.
I have no idea what the jumper block does either.
All I know about how it works was in that thread you found.

The port's nearly done. Just finishing up writing a character editor so you can all be rotten cheats once I'm done. The original Telengard title graphics wouldn't fit on the vic's screen width, but I did manage to get the T in at least, and it looks quite OK. I hope you like the compromise. Also, th...

My port of Telengard is nearly done. Most of the display kinks have been worked out and compromises made where appropriate. I still have enough memory to perhaps add some sound to the game. Maybe a gong sound to signify going up a level? Honestly, it doesn't have to be good. Though I only have less ...

Yes well, it won't be the best version of Telengard ever due to the screen limitations. However I have kept the gameplay untouched from the original PET version with only the graphic and text edits to get it to fit on the vic display. I've spent about a month on it already, and it plays properly - o...

more work on the Telengard port... I have something playable now. Still needs lots of messing about with the code is needed however. The main issue is of course the limited screen real-estate - half the width required by the original source code - and I am trying to cram as much information as possi...

Still working on this and making some progress. Freed up more memory by removing more stuff from the code. Still learning how the screen redrawing machine code was supposed to work so I can implement something on the vic. Only real problem is that the stats and map can't be on the screen at the same...

Actually tried to do more porting of Telengard to the VIC Ripped out the help screen and all the machine code and got it to "run" with about 256 bytes free! So it's probably possible to make a port, but the game currently doesn't work right because the screen is too small - and will requir...

I had a look into porting Telengard to the VIC. You would have to hack the PET version apart essentially... and even then I think the VIC - even with 24K expansion - still probably couldn't handle it. Even after I gave the code a bit of the chop, the size of the program *just* fits into memory,... b...

Yeah it's a PAL Vic-20 (Australia)

Are the square plugs easy to source? Or are they really rare and hard to get?

Friend picked up an older two-pronged power socketed vic-20 today, but the PSU is some after market duct-taped broken thing that the vic won't even show a power light. What are the options? Does someone sell european/Australian psus? Can you hack a converter cable to get the 9V from a c64 psu to pow...

The disk menu (and cart menu by extension, once flashed), requires a LOADER file to be present in the root directory of the SD card.
Otherwise it will simply return you to the menu if it can't find that file.

The Final Expansion manual explains how this works, and how to program the LOADER file.

Just looking at wikipedia, it does seem to suggest that there is a write protect for the cartridge ROM area, so that it behaves exactly like a cartridge.

I'll keep experimenting.

Hi, I'm new here. I picked up an attic-find Vic20 in good condition with an Avenger cartridge, and requiring a RAM expansion for some more interesting tasks, I picked up a Mosaic RAMMASTER 32K off ebay. Does anyone have any manual for this or perhaps explain to me how it's supposed to work? There's ...