Vic 20 listing scans

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GreyGhost
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Ok, I've checked it over twice and done all I can. Something is still wrong. Maybe someone else can find the errors. Here is the file.

http://www.freedrive.com/file/1151306,egg-eater.zip
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Why, where are the issues?
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Seems something in the program itself is wrong. The title screen is fine, but when you start the game, the play field displays and the score starts printing at the bottom of the screen making the whole screen scroll upwards.

I have checked the listing twice and I see no errors, maybe I'm over looking something simple. As far as I know, it is typed in correctly as listed.

I am beginning to think there are characters missing from lines 100-290. Perhaps color and cursour characters.
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Post by fgasking »

Right, been a long time coming - but here are the various Vic 20 listings and game/program mentions/ads/reviews extracted from all the issues of UK magazine "Home Computer Weekly" that I mentioned very briefly earlier in the year. Please note that all the scans were result of Acorn Electron World's hard work and not mine: http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/hcw/top_lvl.html

(Link 1) http://www.gtw64.co.uk/viclistings.zip (269mb)

First file here contains all the Vic 20 listings I could find. Mostly games, though some utils in there too.

(Link 2) http://www.gtw64.co.uk/vicadsrevs.zip (147mb)

Second file here contains various mentions of games/programs and also reviews for particular titles I was not sure had yet been found/preserved. These may be of interest to Mat Allen to create some GB20 entries. I haven't fully sorted through, done any cutting up or checked what is in and what isn't in GB20, i've literally grabbed anything which wasn't familiar
I think there are even some unreleased Vic 20 games in there, and may well do a GTW Vic 20 write up for my site before Christmas. Labelling is slightly inconsistent i'm afraid, as I have been doing the combing through over the last 10 months or so on and off.

One interesting thing I found was mention of two Micro Antics games "Brain Pain" and "Chicken Challenge". which i've never seen before.

Is there a better place I can host these though?.... as I fear I won't be able to host them for too long (So be prepared for the links to disappear at somepoint). Any suggestions would be great :-)
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