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Gobble!

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For the past few weeks, I have been attempting to debug a VIC-20 type-in called Gobble! by Tim Parker (1983) in order to contribute to this fine forum. Unfortunately, it will not work under VICE. Also, it seems I can't add attachments. Should I post the code here? If not, where and how?[/list]
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Post by matsondawson »

Email it to me and I'll upload it to my website.

matsondawson@gmail.com
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Sent: what is the URL for your website?
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Post by matsondawson »

http://www.mdawson.net/files/gobble/

I noticed the first error is because you put zeros instead of oh's in an OR.
The second was an incomplete line.
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Post by Perseus »

Thank you! In VICE, however, I am still getting the same error:

? Syntax Error in 60

If you have any further insight, it would be most welcomed.
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Post by Mayhem »

Line 60 the two OR statements are shown as 0R (zero instead of letter O).

Also I found the original magazine with the listing, and there's a bit to add in joystick control, so that might be worth doing as well.
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Post by matsondawson »

It's all fixed now. The joystick routine has errors in it, which I fixed and now it works as both joystick and keyboard which the original would not do.

http://www.mdawson.net/vic20chrome/vic2 ... gobble.prg

Just problems with Zeros and Ohs, and you need to be space exact.
Were you using CBM Program Studio? as you need to enter text in lower case in that, otherwise it comes out as garbage on a real vic20.
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Post by Perseus »

Yes, I was using CBM Program Studio and thank you for the tips! It was truly a wonder seeing the .prg finally work! I may now attempt to enter some more type-ins from this magazine series: could you possibly act as my editor? :) If so, thank you; if not, thanks again for helping with this!
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Post by ravenxau »

Nice looking game - looks like the same maze generating algorithm I used for my mini game - Diamond Hunt (marking the intersections with @,A,B,C,D)

I had not heard of that magazine befor either, I will looking forward to looking at some scans of it.
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