Type-In "Toads" - Help needed !

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Vicman *1970
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Type-In "Toads" - Help needed !

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Wish you all a Happy New Year.

A few weeks ago i found a superb website by Richard M. Smedley :
VIC-20 Listings

I asked Richard, if he also typed in the Game "Toads" from Your Computer Magazine 1984-12
Quote : "At the moment I do not have a copy of Toads, but it is a program that I would like to add. When I get time, I will look at the program listing and perhaps see if I can get it working."

Now, he typed in the listing, but unfortunately the program don't work correctly.
Quote : "I have typed in Toads from Your Computer 1984-12 and spent some time checking everything, but I cannot get it working. There appears to be a problem with the machine code routines, which crash the game when SYS673 is executed. If you ever find a working version then please let me know."

I asked him to give me his typed in version of "Toads", so i can share it here on Denial.
I told him the guys on Denial should have the know-how to get the game working 8)
Quote : "It would be fantastic you could ask the Denial forum members to look at Toads and see if they can get it working. I have attached a ZIP file containing the PRG files, source code in TXT format, and the scanned listing."

I uploaded it to my dropbox
It would be great, if you can help here, to find the errors & make the game playable :wink:
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Re: Type-In "Toads" - Help needed !

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I see, Richard has changed the program "number 3" to run/start the game as disk-image. (lines 4010-9080 are missing in prg 3)
i put the prg-files to a *.tap - image, but this don't work correctly....
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o.k. small update :
Richard just informed me, that he hasn't noticed line 4010-9080 from prg nr.3 of this listing.
He will retype the missing section. So, let's hope the best ;-)
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Big update :
All is fine. A working version is now available 8)
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That is a fantastic collection! 1061 listings!
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Kweepa wrote:That is a fantastic collection! 1061 listings!
Yeah, I shudder to think how long it's going to take me to go through them all to check if they are in GB20, and if not, add them :twisted: :shock:
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