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It's rather massively self modifying really Hold that thought. ;) Just looking quickly, looks like you can save 3 bytes on the ;- oscillator switch o1wav_: jmp o1off since this is always preceded by the and #$1f which will set N appropriately, so this could be changed to: ;- oscillator switch o1wav...

Kweepa wrote:Which would save 14 more bytes.

And used 12 additional cycles for an NMI routine that is called every 177 cycles.

The Martin Galway Parallax uses 30 ZP locations, but only 24 are free. Not easy to resolve that clash , at least not without recompiling the SID. Mike said earlier that 32 locations ($30-$4F) are free...? Not in the version I got and ZP area should be almost identical to the original (+ two bytes a...

Since Mike did not reply I will give it a try. I'm near the end of the listing, and I make a typo. I reach for DEL but accidentally hit Restore instead. And the game boots up. WTF?! :shock: :lol: :twisted: Not unusual for a BLK5 cartridge. In BLK5 with autostart signature you hook into reset & N...

I quick-checked the PSID of Parallax, and it is located between $A400...$BFFF, i.e. BLK5 - and no relocation necessary. That's the good thing. There are clashes in the ZP. Which means, it'll take a little more time. Bad news: The Martin Galway Parallax uses 30 ZP locations, but only 24 are free. No...

Would be interested in taking a look and seeing if there's anything that can be done to speed up and/or improve the emulation a bit.. Was on my list of things to do, which is ever growing :) Unfortunately, the original source code apparently disappeared from the net. I will release a version with &...

Boray wrote:I made a youtube video of Cybernoid 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNgWU99iVIE

I hope you approve?

Nice video! Not much happening on the screen though...

Splash screens with Mini/maxigrafik display and SID-like music would be another step up for our VIC :D . Splash screen with Minigrafik is no problem and I already combined the cybernoid2 SID with one of Mike's pictures for a demo on our last C= meeting in Graz. The converter takes a prg with the SI...

Name: Vicious SID Pack 1
Editor: Kananga
Released: January 9, 2012
Requirements: VIC-20 (8k memory expansion required)
Description: A collection of SIDs converted for the Vic-20.

Download: http://vic20emu.googlecode.com/files/VicSidPack1.zip

You can discuss the SID Pack here.

After having ported Aleksi Eeben's SID Emu to ca65 I decided that we need more SIDs to play than just Zoids, Upside-Down, and Cybernoid-II (Although they are great!). So I started to write a SID converter and the first result is a small selection of SIDs converted for the Vic-20+8K. Not all of them ...

RJBowman wrote:...and they set about to first kill OS/2 Warp...

Actuall OS/2 was killed by IBM. First they spent a lot of money on developing and advertising warp 3, then they didn't sell it. Obviously IBM could afford to lose money.

Yet, back then, far more people had ram expansions on the VIC than 1541 drives... complete nonsense. Just to add one more opinion: I also never had a disk drive back then, but of course 8K (first one was quite expensive) and 16K switchable later. So for true VIC-20 experience don't use a disk drive...

eslapion wrote:I guess they're too busy chatting with the psychiatrist and discussing the change in medication.

Actually I wouldn't mind discussing their medication with some of them. Of course I am not a psychiatrist. I could read answers off Eliza though.

BTW, there is another Internet-modem out now, also implementing a cloud-storage protocol: Flyer
It is a custom-made IEC device with user-controllable tcp-connections and http-requests and not just a plain serial-to-tcp device like the V-1541.
(Wasn't it mentioned in another thread?)

Nice, it reminds me of the ZX-81 "graphics" mode.