new game: get-more-diamonds

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new game: get-more-diamonds

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After loading the game, do:

POKE13112,234:POKE13113,234

before RUN for infinite lives. :mrgreen:
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Its nice to see new games for the VIC20 :D
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Wow, the difficulty is just insane. Even with the trainer-POKEs this is annoying. I had to resort to VICE-save-states. No idea how to do this with just 3 lives. Technically the game is brilliant: colorful graphics, software-sprites, catchy tunes, nice level-design, making use of the full 35K. I just wish the gameplay was more rewarding. This is truly hardcore early 80s difficulty :mrgreen:

Actually the first game "Get the Diamonds" is a little more reward-friendly, it does not look like it has been posted on Denial yet:

https://reset64-magazine.itch.io/get-the-diamonds-vic20
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tokra wrote:Even with the trainer-POKEs this is annoying.
I did a condensed write-up in the Programming section how I arrived at these POKEs. This was actually a 15 minute job on original hardware when I played GMD together with a friend of mine and he asked me if it was possible to use MINIMON for this ... :D
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nice work @Mike
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Wow. Technically Cheese and Onion is a little more impressive, but this is more colorful. From the video I've seen, it looks like a more woodsy, more complex, less annoying Manic Miner.
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