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by ravenxau
Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:55 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Why I Developed an Aversion to Machine Language
Replies: 20
Views: 2639

I can't sit with the VICMON for longer than 10 seconds without getting annoyed! I've had far more success just poking decimal numbers into memory and SYSing. Jeff, If you've not seen it, have a look at Usborne's Machine Code For Beginners - I first read it when i was about 12 years old, and managed...
by ravenxau
Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:31 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: What is happening here?
Replies: 33
Views: 10320

I too have only one working VIC and I am not willing to modify it in any way (except hardware projects that can be plugged into the external sockets). I did find your project facinating from a technical standpoint and followed the develeopment with interest. Denial is a small and tight community, ne...
by ravenxau
Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:28 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Commodore 64 Boulderdash
Replies: 2
Views: 736

Jeff-20 wrote:Interesting that it's only focused on one version/system. Just the C64 game? How many other platforms were there?
Sorry, I meant the majority of the stuff on the site is C64 based, there is some Atari 400/800 stuff, windows ports/re-makes,etc....
by ravenxau
Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:58 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Commodore 64 Boulderdash
Replies: 2
Views: 736

Commodore 64 Boulderdash

I came across this site dewvoted to boulderdash on the C64, there are great articles and plenty of fan games to download.

http://www.boulder-dash.nl
by ravenxau
Mon Oct 08, 2012 3:57 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ganymede
Replies: 7
Views: 1683

The programming book "Innovative Computing" by Clifford Ramshaw had a game listing called Ganymede - The game was a mining simulation, if i remember correctly Thank you ravenxau that does sound somewhat familiar. I have now ordered the book from Amazon, so some fun and nostalgic times now...
by ravenxau
Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:38 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ganymede
Replies: 7
Views: 1683

The programming book "Innovative Computing" by Clifford Ramshaw had a game listing called Ganymede - The game was a mining simulation, if i remember correctly
by ravenxau
Sat Aug 04, 2012 2:53 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: How many of you still have your origional perchased new VIC?
Replies: 50
Views: 7314

Sadly, my original 'died' in about 1995, it's replacement is still working fine :)
by ravenxau
Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:41 am
Forum: Games
Topic: found a game
Replies: 0
Views: 968

found a game

is this a creation of any of the Denial members??


http://globalgamejam.org/2012/snake-shoot
by ravenxau
Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:55 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Gobble!
Replies: 8
Views: 2663

Nice looking game - looks like the same maze generating algorithm I used for my mini game - Diamond Hunt (marking the intersections with @,A,B,C,D)

I had not heard of that magazine befor either, I will looking forward to looking at some scans of it.
by ravenxau
Sat Jun 02, 2012 12:14 am
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: The Explorer
Replies: 7
Views: 3299

i made my way over to the left hand side of the screen in 'bitmap land' and the program crashed to a flashing cursor - typed poke36869,240 to go back to text mode and this did nothing - have i found a 'bug'?
by ravenxau
Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:48 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: The Explorer
Replies: 7
Views: 3299

Jeff-20 wrote:Hahaha Did you win? You have to get the red to win.
I did end up in bizzaro bitmap land :)
by ravenxau
Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:44 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Atari 2600
Replies: 20
Views: 3169

Galaxain, Jr Pac Man, Asteroids, Defender, Berzerk, Enduro, Centipede, Missile Command, Dig Dug, Phoenix and Moon Patrol are all great additions to the collection and most of those are quite common and can be found on ebay at a good price Also, although I am in the minority for this one - I like Pac...
by ravenxau
Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:03 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: The Explorer
Replies: 7
Views: 3299

nice on, Jeff - were you smoking pot when the inspiration for this one came to you??? - :D
by ravenxau
Tue May 08, 2012 4:27 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Reading disk directory to screen
Replies: 16
Views: 3571

A bunch of questions ... 1. Channel 1 is 'reserved' by the kernal for LOAD and SAVE operations. In this case here, it doesn't matter, but if you have a file open on channel 1 and do an inbetween load or save operation, the kernal takes over (read: steals) your channel 1, you can't anymore access wh...
by ravenxau
Mon May 07, 2012 5:15 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Reading disk directory to screen
Replies: 16
Views: 3571

dabbling in a bit of ML there, Jeff? :wink: