Gamebase20 version 2!

C16 · Post by **C16** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:04 am

Just a general question. I've been looking to download the Gamebase Vic 20, but it doesn't seem to have a permanent home. Is this right? If so can we give it a permanent home/host, rather than these fileshare/torrent sites?

Sorry I've been on the site for some time, but looks like this is my first post

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:50 am

You can get it here from http://robert.hurst-ri.us/downloads/?did=94 off my downloads page.

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:08 pm

I finally downloaded Gamebase and Gamebase20.
Awesome stuff!
Thanks!

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:00 am

Gamebase20 is now well over 2,000 entries in total, bolstered mostly by all the German magazine type-ins and discovering a fistful of missing Compute listings. There's still much more out there, I discovered two new commercial games just this week and am negotiating to obtain them from the owner. I reckon 2,500 is easily possible, probably 3,000 overall given enough time.

What about another release, I hear some of your cry. Well, given v0.2 came out at the end of 2009, then the plan is to release something by the end of this year... so v0.3 approaches shortly

llcameron · Post by **llcameron** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:28 am

Thats awesome Mayhem, I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks for all your work on this!

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:20 am

Let's hope the VICE team can repair the VIC paddle regression introduced in 2.3.x development branch... glad you reported the bug, too. It would be nice to see your Gamebase coupled with a VICE 2.4 release.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:19 am

I only discovered the issue while going through this batch of CUON disks and finding a couple of games that supported paddles, so I decided to try them out. Cue finding nothing moved. Tried them in 2.2 and they worked, so deduced something happened in the move in 2.3.

I did have a quick scan through the bug lists before adding that report, didn't realise you had already submitted it. So yeah, things haven't been so great in the last two releases; 2.2 nuked cartridge loading, and 2.3 somehow borked the paddle support. Hopefully 2.4 will have nothing obviously at fault

Vicman *1970 · Post by **Vicman *1970** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:15 pm

Hi Mayhem,
just a short note to the Game Night Driver [CRC: 68C8CAA8] in GB 0.2 :
"real name" : Night Racer
publisher : "Your Computer" issue November 1982 (side 44)
coder : Dirk Lampe

http://www.archive.org/stream/your-comp ... 3/mode/2up

EDIT:
o.k. , Title "NightDriver" is correct, too...
the word is in the listing...

another edit :
Game "Dots" = Compute! , Sep.1983 , by Eric K. Evans
(or do you already have the infos in GB 0.3 ? )

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:04 pm

I had Dots down, but not Night Racer, so cheers for that, corrected.

bittin · Post by **bittin** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:11 am

Nice with gamebase, downloaded the latest one i found on UG and played some Jetpack yesterday =)

Vicman *1970 · Post by **Vicman *1970** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:49 am

another game :
Earth Invaders [crc32: 761a5ea3]
publisher : Your Computer 1982-08
coder : Bharat Patel

http://www.archive.org/stream/your-comp ... 7/mode/2up

and another :
Nibblers [crc32 : 4bde2a50]
publisher : Your Computer 1982-09
coder : Dave Shambrook

http://www.archive.org/stream/your-comp ... 1/mode/2up

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:40 am

Cheers... I am planning v0.3 of GB20 before the end of the year (fingers crossed), so might benefit waiting until that is out, but if you have more credits for Your Computer, I'll take them as I don't have many here.

Vicman *1970 · Post by **Vicman *1970** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:22 pm

i'm glad to help a little

Minotaur [crc32 :6beef015]
Your Computer 1983-02
Roger Miah
http://www.archive.org/stream/your-comp ... 3/mode/2up

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:36 pm

Cheers for that... the program is only half complete in GB20, probably cut due to trying to fit it into unexpanded memory. I'll have to type out the missing parts to make it complete for +3k RAM.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:17 am

As it turns out, the bit cut was the introduction graphics screen and the instructions. Not vital, but still, nice to have it 100% for the archive. Should be present and correct now, after bug hunting the title page for the correct graphics characters, and noting the READ loop was two bytes short...