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by tokra
Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: Games
Topic: NEW BASIC game for 16K VIC: Castle Quest
Replies: 3
Views: 314

Re: NEW BASIC game for 16K VIC: Castle Quest

Nice, just played it. At one place it says "duengon" where it should say "dungeon" probably... At some point you get "silver coins". But "use silver" does not work. You have to "use coins". At the very last step you have to "get" the item o...
by tokra
Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:25 am
Forum: Games
Topic: New BASIC game for the unexpanded VIC: TINY QUEST
Replies: 8
Views: 368

Re: New BASIC game for the unexpanded VIC: TINY QUEST

Thanks, that was a fun 5 minutes :mrgreen:
by tokra
Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:51 am
Forum: Games
Topic: New BASIC game for the unexpanded VIC: TINY QUEST
Replies: 8
Views: 368

Re: New BASIC game for the unexpanded VIC: TINY QUEST

Would like to try it, but the link is wrong/dead.
by tokra
Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:48 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: How do I redefine characters with 8k or more RAM?
Replies: 25
Views: 3262

Re: How do I redefine characters with 8k or more RAM?

You are overwriting your BASIC-program with the chars you are reading. Essentially you are cutting down the tree you are sitting on. You need to protect your BASIC-memory from the character-definitions you are writing to memory. As mentioned earlier in this thread you need to increase the BASIC-star...
by tokra
Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:35 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Documenting the unreleased/cancelled/prototype video game "Ice Palace"
Replies: 10
Views: 1239

Re: Documenting the unreleased/cancelled/prototype video game "Ice Palace"

Update: Of course, Mike immediately called me and pointed me to this: https://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10317&start=55&hilit=bin+loader Just replace "wax2.bin" with the extracted filename (after you copied it to a d64 together with Mike's loader) Mean...
by tokra
Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Documenting the unreleased/cancelled/prototype video game "Ice Palace"
Replies: 10
Views: 1239

Re: Documenting the unreleased/cancelled/prototype video game "Ice Palace"

Here is a snap shot for Vice vic20 ... which apparently was made in a decades old VICE - and doesn't work in a recent one. Making a .crt out of it would make a lot more sense :) Hmm, in the original post there is a link to a .bin-file that you can just attach as a generic image in WinVICE 3.2 and i...
by tokra
Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:00 pm
Forum: Announcement Board
Topic: For new users - make a post or say hello
Replies: 64
Views: 22551

Re: For new users - make a post or say hello

Welcome, another german, I see? You are in good company here :mrgreen:
by tokra
Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:22 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: freezer software vic20
Replies: 4
Views: 2468

Re: freezer software vic20

The closest possible is probably Mike's MINIMON-cartridge. It "hides" in the rarely used $9800-$9fff-area, has a reset-switch that can circumvent cartridge-reset-protection and even for cartridges that use $9800-$9fff it can be deactivated with an on-board-switch.
by tokra
Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:08 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: EOR #$FF by David Youd
Replies: 2
Views: 1933

Re: EOR #$FF by David Youd

Looks cool. Free as an Ebook: https://archive.org/details/eor6502
by tokra
Tue Nov 14, 2023 12:19 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Replies: 598
Views: 149801

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Jitter seems better now. On the hiscore table I could finally enter my initials. I still have to be super careful, but at least I am able to get each letter stable now.Ingame jitter seems a little better as well. On first start at the game I got the same error as last time again, the flickering rast...
by tokra
Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:28 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, and Trade
Topic: WTB: Cardco Cardboard 6
Replies: 6
Views: 2731

Re: WTB: Cardco Cardboard 6

As I remember Jim made 100 of these, but noticed the dip-switches were to close to the cartridge slots, so you could not plug in a standard cartrdige fully. You can still buy this for $22 a piece and I got one some years ago: https://store.go4retro.com/non-functional-goodies/ See the notes at the bo...
by tokra
Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:07 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Replies: 598
Views: 149801

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

I think the hiscore music is a tad too quiet. Checked your hardware yet? Yes, it is quieter than the rest now that plays at volume 8, but at least there are not distortions anymore. Alternatively the whole game needs to be at volume 4 or 5, but as beamrider pointed out by PM some other effects depe...
by tokra
Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:24 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Replies: 598
Views: 149801

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Tried the latest version. The high-score music sounds much better now. I think the standard "Game Over"-music would also sound better with volume 4. Sadly entering a high-score with the paddle is still impossible. It still flickers between two letters mostly, although on some positions it ...
by tokra
Sat Nov 04, 2023 4:05 am
Forum: Games
Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Replies: 598
Views: 149801

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

I took a quick look and I only ever set the volume to 8 so unless it maybe getting set higher - but not intentionally at least. Btw, it sounded fine on my 1702 monitor will check again tomorrow on real hardware. edit: Checked in VICE monitor and volume only gets set to 8. You're right. Wonder where...
by tokra
Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:34 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Replies: 598
Views: 149801

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

- paddle-jitter is worse on PAL than on NTSC, but not really nice in either case. You can see the Vaus flickering in the videos. Would really appreciate the dejittering-technique reactivated - entering the high-score is impossible with paddles right now. The paddle-area from A to Z seems very small...