Monopole (Monopoly) VIC + 24K

[Victragic]

I'm developing something of an interest in ambitious early BASIC games. Don't know if anyone else remembers this one?

It's a 2-player only Monopoly game written in BASIC. From what little I know, it was originally written for the PET 2001 in 1978 by someone called John O'Hare, then later converted to the C64. It may also have been distributed by Rabbit Software for some time (possibly illegally, not sure).

Somehow my primary school ended up with a copy of the game, I guess because it was broadly educational. We would wait an eternity for it to load (one 1541 drive to 8 C64s!) but it was quite fun - colourful, quirky, and fast-paced. More fun than 'Lemonade stand' anyway.

Anyway, I thought it might be a fun little project to convert it to the Vic... the fun part was using a real VIC to do this. Tough on the eyes, but easier to enter PETSCII graphics.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QUH1bI ... sp=sharing

It seems the program was targeted for a 32k machine, however it has to be said the code is not particularly tight - there's a lot of duplicated code in there. Quite a luxury to have so much memory back in 1978, I would think.

The usual fun of trying to cram a lot of information into 22 columns ensued. In particular for property names I ended up with eight characters, so there are some painful abbreviations. Also, not being able to print orange text was annoying. Overall though, I think it plays more or less like the C64 game.

--UPDATE--
2018/11/26 Fixed some errant $ signs back to pound signs

[ka20]

My dad bought our Commodore 64 in 1982 when it first came out, so there wasn't much in the way of software at the time, and this was the first game we got for our C64. My brother and I spent countless hours playing it. This brings back great memories.

This is a great port of the game. It's very true to the C64 version. Thanks your work on this. I tried it out in VICE and I look forward to running it on my real VIC.

[Victragic]

Glad you remember this game fondly too, ka20.

[vicist]

Love the implementation of this game. Marvelous.

Trying to sell your houses to avoid bankruptcy breaks the game.

Also, the board is the London version and all currency should be in £'s (Super Tax and Income tax).

[Victragic]

Love the implementation of this game. Marvelous.

Trying to sell your houses to avoid bankruptcy breaks the game.

Also, the board is the London version and all currency should be in £'s (Super Tax and Income tax).

Ha - force of habit entering those dollar signs.

I hadn't encountered that problem when selling properties. If you can describe the problem a bit more it should be easily fixed.

--edit - oh, selling houses, not properties. Sorry I misread. Will look at this tonight.

Cheers

[Victragic]

Fixed some stray dollar signs, but can't seem to make the game crash when selling properties.

[vicist]

As you mentioned in your edit of previous post...

oh, selling houses, not properties. Sorry I misread.

When you try to sell a house, a 'redo from start' error occurs and no matter what you type, you can't get out of it.

[Victragic]

As you mentioned in your edit of previous post...

oh, selling houses, not properties. Sorry I misread.

When you try to sell a house, a 'redo from start' error occurs and no matter what you type, you can't get out of it.

Yeah, unfortunately there's no function in the original Pet Monopole game that allows you to sell houses. You can also only sell properties without houses on them.

[vicist]

The function to sell houses comes under the 'Mortgage' menu category.
It was broken because of the INPUT statements being longer than 22 characters (this would have been OK on a 40-column PET).

I have fixed this problem and it seems to work as it should now.

monopole.zip

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[Victragic]

The function to sell houses comes under the 'Mortgage' menu category.
It was broken because of the INPUT statements being longer than 22 characters (this would have been OK on a 40-column PET).

I have fixed this problem and it seems to work as it should now.

monopole.zip

Aha! Thanks for that - that input issue came up numerous times in the conversion.

[Neo-Rio]

Nice attempt at porting BASIC V2 goodies to the Vic 20!

Porting this would have been like my Telengard port - the screen size and slightly tighter basic RAM will stretch you to rework the program fairly considerably. I used the C64 PRG Studio to mangle the BASIC code for Telengard. I have to say that it made things so much easier.

Will you post this in the announcements thread of the forum?

It might be fun to try porting another large BASIC V2 game over to the Vic. Any ideas for a candidate program anyone?
"Lord of the Balrogs" might be worth it...

[Victragic]

Yes, the fun(?) of converting anything text-based to a Vic has to be the odd screen size. I used to do this with type-in games from magazines back when that was a thing, it could be really frustrating at times..!

I've thought of doing a conversion of the C64 game 'Kaiser', though I can't seem to find an English version of it anywhere. It was a great resource-management game, though it would often crash at the 'battle' scene.

Must check out your Telengard conversion too.

[Mayhem]

I've thought of doing a conversion of the C64 game 'Kaiser', though I can't seem to find an English version of it anywhere. It was a great resource-management game, though it would often crash at the 'battle' scene.

English version of Kaiser should be in Gamebase64, I was the one who actually backed up an original disk of it for the preservation project.

[Victragic]

Much appreciated Mayhem! Yes, of course I should have searched Gamebase first..

[Neo-Rio]

Must check out your Telengard conversion too.

It's over here:
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... =telengard