Pengo for VIC-20?

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:05 am

Unfortunately, if you don't have the original mag and cassette, it's nearly impossible to find out the game's original name.

The only two Playgames numbers I know of are HERE, but there's only a Pengo version (with the original name?) for ZX Spectrum.

Ivanhoe76 · Post by **Ivanhoe76** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:15 pm

Yes orion, you're right... I couldn't excpect that someone might understand what i was saying just reading my fairly poor description. I should go down to my parents basement to try to find out my old cassette, wishing they didn't get it away!!!! Keep in touch....

tokra · Post by **tokra** » Tue May 04, 2010 8:03 pm

Stumbled upon this thread recently. I remember one of my favorite VIC-20 games back in 1986 was "Penco" - a Pengo clone from the german "64er Sonderheft 3/1986" (Commodore 64 paper mag special issue)

A disk image of the programs of that issue can be found here and it includes Penco:

http://roms.zophar.net/commodore-64/mag ... ide-a-.d64

8K Expansion required.

LOAD"PENCO",8,1

SYS9508

Strange way to start a game, but worth it!

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue May 04, 2010 8:36 pm

Can't grab it, says all download slots for my country gone :p

Kananga · Post by **Kananga** » Wed May 05, 2010 1:44 am

tokra wrote: Strange way to start a game, but worth it!

So true!
My brother and I typed it in (an almost infinite number of hex numbers) and played it for hours/days/month...
And it's also nice in green

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Wed May 05, 2010 3:00 am

WOW, Very well done conversion !

Someone need the crunched autostarting files ?

Ivanhoe76 · Post by **Ivanhoe76** » Wed May 05, 2010 4:05 am

nbla000 wrote:Someone need the crunched autostarting files ?

Yes I'd really love it.... I cannot download it from the link by tokra...

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Wed May 05, 2010 4:31 am

Ivanhoe76 wrote:
nbla000 wrote:Someone need the crunched autostarting files ?
Yes I'd really love it.... I cannot download it from the link by tokra...

OK, you may download the crunched autostarting prg file here.

Please note that at the first play the border below has some strange garbage chars, all is ok from the second play

Maybe the program assumes value 0 in some memory location btw after the first play the game is fully playable.

PS: If at the first play you get the 3 special block, it will fix the border garbage problem

Ivanhoe76 · Post by **Ivanhoe76** » Wed May 05, 2010 11:09 am

Thanks Nbla000....

Vic20-Ian · Post by **Vic20-Ian** » Wed May 05, 2010 11:14 am

pretty fast, not bad

Ivanhoe76 · Post by **Ivanhoe76** » Wed May 05, 2010 11:39 am

Really a good game.... Maybe the best Pengo-clone on the vic!!!

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed May 05, 2010 5:25 pm

If anyone has credits for it, I can flesh it out better...