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orion70
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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
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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....
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tokra
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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
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Mayhem
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by Mayhem » Tue May 04, 2010 8:36 pm
Can't grab it, says all download slots for my country gone :p
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Kananga
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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
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nbla000
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by nbla000 » Wed May 05, 2010 3:00 am
WOW, Very well done conversion !
Someone need the crunched autostarting files ?
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Ivanhoe76
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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...
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nbla000
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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
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Ivanhoe76
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by Ivanhoe76 » Wed May 05, 2010 11:09 am
Thanks Nbla000....
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Vic20-Ian
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by Vic20-Ian » Wed May 05, 2010 11:14 am
pretty fast, not bad
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Ivanhoe76
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by Ivanhoe76 » Wed May 05, 2010 11:39 am
Really a good game.... Maybe the best Pengo-clone on the vic!!!
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Mayhem
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by Mayhem » Wed May 05, 2010 5:25 pm
If anyone has credits for it, I can flesh it out better...
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