VIC-20 Software Releases of 2018

[DarwinNE]

Name: Cavern Explorer
Author: DarwinNE (D. Bucci)
Released: September 10th, 2018 (v1.0)
Genre: Arcade Game
Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20, PAL or NTSC
Development system: Textwrangler + ca65 + VICE xVIC + real PAL machine

Description: A spaceship is at your command to explore a vast cavern discovered on planet Zorf.
You control the spaceship with the Z,S and X keys to move it to the left, upwards and to the right, or use joystick.
You can move the ship very fast, but beware of momentum!

Advance as much as you can in the cavern, collect pulsating rings and avoid carnivorous plants shooting deadly slime.

Screenshots:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvhkRBfTAec

Download: https://github.com/DarwinNE/vic20-cavern-exp/releases
Open source GPL v.3, the source code is available.

Discuss Cavern Explorer here: http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... =10&t=9112

[Victragic]

Name: Kikstart
Author: Victragic
Released: September 13, 2018
Requirements: 16k memory expansion, PAL machine, joystick
Description: A conversion of the Commodore 16 classic Kikstart, written by Shaun Southern.



Controls:

Right - speed up
Left - slow down
Fire - jump/restart game

There are 16 levels. Land on flat surfaces only. Use springboards for extra height. Pop balloons for extra points (and red balloons for some extra time). Avoid the spinning props (apart from red ones, which are safe). And, don't get struck by lightning..

Download here : Kikstart.prg

[DarwinNE]

Name: Innuh's pyramid
Author: A. Torrelli, M. Severi, DarwinNE (D. Bucci)
Released: September 21, 2018 (version 1.0)
Genre: Text adventure
Requirements: VIC-20+16K RAM, PAL or NTSC
Development system: Textwrangler + ca65 + gcc + VICE xVIC + real PAL machine

Description: The Innuh's pyramid was built three thousand years ago, somewhere in the desert.
Ancient tales say it is full of treasures, but nobody who dared to try to
reveal its secrets could come back to tell his adventure.

I'll be your eyes and ears.
Your goal is to find all the treasures hidden in the pyramid.

Download and source code: https://github.com/DarwinNE/innuhs_pyramid/releases

Discuss Innuh's pyramid: http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... =10&t=9120

Dear all, I translated an Italian text adventure in C (I published a Java version many years ago). It was originally developed on TI99/4A by Aristide Torrelli and published in the Italian magazine MCmicrocomputer 33, sett. 1984. I based myself on the ZX Spectrum version by Manlio Severi, (MCmicrocomputer 35, nov. 1984) for the C language version that I could compile with both Cc65 and gcc.

Executables are available for the VIC-20 + 16K RAM, for the C128, C64, Plus4 and PET and the adventure is available in Italian language as well as in an English translation.

The parser is improved over the original version, but remains quite basic. It should be able to recognize phrases such as:

> take the torch
> give the torch

Good luck, you'll need it!

[majikeyric]

Name: Zombie Calavera Prologue
Author: Majikeyric (code), Na_Th_an (graphics), Uctumi (C64 sound)
Released: October 31, 2018
Requirements: 32k memory expansion, PAL machine, joystick
Description: A conversion of the ZX Spectrum classic by The Mojon Twins.



Download here :

http://majikeyric.free.fr/my-itch/commo ... eVIC20.zip

Discuss :

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9150

[leuat]

Name: Vixmas 2018
Author: Leuat
Released: November 20th, 2018
Genre: Demo
Requirements: VIC-20 with +24K RAM expansion



Made with Turbo Rascal Syntax Error (TRSE)
http://www.turborascal.com

The entire demo source code / project folder will be released within the next version of TRSE as a VIC-20 tutorial/example project.

Download from : https://demozoo.org/productions/196047/

[ops]

Name: Bomb Jack Revisited
Author: ops
Released: December 31, 2018
Requirements: 8K memory expansion, PAL machine, joystick
Description: Updated version of my Bomb Jack game from 1985

Download https://ops.github.io/BJR/ and more info at https://ops.github.io/Dusty-Tapes/



Discuss here: http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... php?t=9084