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There seems to be an odd contradiction, as more people find Dad's box of computer stuff in the loft and flog it there are more people wanting to reminisce about their first computer. Or the sellers simply count on uninformed buyers. For example, nearly all cartridges had their ROMs being dumped so ...

I struggled with those double irqs If the purpose of those "double IRQs" is to set up a stable raster IRQ, you might want to take a sharp look at this: ** Stable rasters on the VIC-20 . That is the canonical way to do this on the VIC-20, with a cycle exact timer interrupt once per frame, ...

It would have been preferable to raise that kind of question in PM: Amused disbelief, I suppose; my apologies if that approach to fostering discussion instead generates discontent on anyone's part ... That is the issue with any one-word comment placed in public that leaves the one being addressed in...

CGA? Yes. Do you not know what CGA is or is that question mark intended to convey disbelief? I have seen that VIC20 on the table. What hardware was attached to it? The VIC-2020 MINIMON cartridge with Mega-Cart as secondary cartridge. Plus a Manosoft C64SD V2 SD2IEC drive. And on the monitor I have ...

On this year's Revision party, I converted an entry of the Oldskool Graphics Compo (Saphron by skrzyp / INBA Systems) to the VIC-20:



Here's the converted picture for download (use the displayer in the OP!).

There's also a RENUMBER command in the Programmer's Aid cartridge, the dump of which could easily be installed with the cartridge menu of FE3 ...

So we can meet there :) For the record, tokra had his VIC-20 set up and running on a table right next to the central corridor. ... BTW, tokra and I had a nice meetup with two graphicians from Poland (skrzyp and Erick Elis of INBA Systems) who were amazed seeing skrzyp's entry to the Oldskool Graphi...

Did converting this game to load from disk force the use of a RAM expander? Those are just bad "cracks" - not that the game actually had a copy protection of any noteworthiness. However, bringing all the data into place from disk instead of tape might require some extra memory, because ta...

Thank you!

wrote:You should seriously consider giving it again, or even doing a YouTube version for us!

Edit: The video is up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPrL9788wU. Enjoy!

Greetings,

Michael

To those interested,

I will give a seminar lecture on the topic of Machine Language Monitors on Revision 2024.

The seminar is scheduled on Friday, Mar. 29th, 6 P.M. CET (1 P.M. EST, 10 A.M. PST).

Greetings,

Michael

In this thread here, another recent thread about " Recommendations for VIC-20 assembly tutorial[s], tools " already had been mentioned. In that other thread you will find the link to my VICMON primer . That one specifically aims to make the bridge between a high level language (here, BASIC...

Do the tables get generated each time the routine is called or only once on initialisation? I suppose you mean the tables that are written in lines 20..27 of the test rig: these of course need only be written once, at program start. The main loop of the test rig just sets random co-ordinates for th...

pixel wrote:Now for chasing zombies… how did printing decimals work again?

See the thread "Printing (unsigned) 16-bit numbers in Assembly, how?".

I'm curious: what if you had y2>y1, so lines were always drawn in one direction vertically as well? You can't have both. Given x2>x1 and y2>y1, a line on screen looks like a backslash, "\", assuming a left-handed co-ordinate system. You can't enforce y2>y1 though when the endpoints alread...

Warning, longer post. Before I posted my own version of the "20000 pixels/second" line routine on the previous page, I also had a PM exchange with Merytsetesh about MrSterlingBS's original implementation: I'll take a look into this the next days whether I can derive a version of the routi...