Author: Andy Hewitt - HEWCO
Released: 1st January 2021
Genre: Action maze explorer
Code: Machine Code (Turbo Rascal)
Requirements: unexpanded VIC-20 with joystick
Description:
It is 2020. It has been 2020 forever. It will be 2020 forever more. You must escape 2020.
Collect all 44 keys from the rooms of 2020 and find the exit to escape. Your task won't be easy.
There are monsters roaming the many rooms and they aren't looking to be your friend. Blast them
before you become their dinner. Oh, did I say they have acid for blood? Well of course they do,
this is 2020 afterall.
Use the joystick to run around and shoot. Watch out when entering a room - you'll only get a second
to avoid any monsters that are close by.
Read more and discuss Underwater Basket Weaving HERE.
Re: VIC-20 Software Releases of 2021
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:41 am
by Boray
Release: DirPlus V4.1.1
Author: Boray (Anders Persson)
Released: 1st January 2021
Genre: Program starter / File Manager
Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20. Recommended: Fully expanded Vic-20. (Also works on C64 and Plus/4)
Description:
DIRPLUS is a SD2IEC file browser, program starter and file manager solution for your Commodore 8 bit home computer.
This is an update only affecting the Vic-20. The routine to detect and locate sjload in memory was moved from basic to machine language and now works 100 times better. (It now makes a checksum from all bytes in question instead of only 1/100 of them).
You can also remove sjload from memory at startup by holding down the Shift key while DirPlus is loading/starting. Holding down Shift will in other words show you the start menu even if sjload previously was loaded. This way you can more easily disable or change the position of sjload.
After 25 years I dug up my VIC from the basement to teach my kids about programming. After that I just kept going for a while, and a small game of Yatzy was implemented.
After teaching the kids about the art of swapping (I was never much of a coder, but I spent many hours duplicating cassettes), they helped me finish a cassette cover. My son misspelled the name when doing the cover art, so we re-branded the game to the somewhat unique title "Yatzee".
We have a small number of physical cassettes, and we would love to send them to someone like in the good old days. If you send us a postcard, we'll send you a cassette back. PM me for the postal address.
Release: Boray's SD2IEC music V1 with the V3 player
Author: Boray (Anders Persson)
Released: January 7th 2021
Genre: Music/Demo
Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20 + SD2IEC (or the VICE emulator).
Description:
This is the original Boray player V1 music tracks from 2013 but using the better V3 player instead. (I had the tracks on my SD card and wanted to listen in better quality )
Supplementary notes:
- the 2-player-mode supports the protovision 4 player interface to play with two joysticks
- load with LOAD"*",8
- This game doesn't work with an plugged-in RAM expansion
Name: Trolley Problem Author: Jason Justian Genre: Puzzle/Arcade Game Code: Machine Language Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20, Joystick License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Availability:
* Purchase on cassette tape - https://www.etsy.com/listing/940756962/ ... for-vic-20
* Download - https://github.com/Chysn/VIC20-TrolleyProblem/releases Description: Switches guide the trolley to pick up riders, and drop them off at the depot on time. Trolley Problem has 12 levels of increasing difficulty. The STOP key restarts the current level.
Name: Attack of the PETSCII Robots Released: February 2021 Author: David Murray (The 8-Bit Guy) Genre: Puzzle/Arcade Game Code: Machine Language Requirements: VIC-20 with 35K expansion Availability:
Purchase here: http://www.the8bitguy.com/product/petscii-robots/ Description: Sometime in the future, robots will attempt to take over human settlements on a series of planets not too far from us. Your goal is to infiltrate these settlements and destroy all the robots.
Screenshot:
I thought I'd post this commercial release here, since it is a very interesting and complex game. Also it is one of the few games to require a 35K-expansion and the boxed-version also comes with a userport-adapter that allows to connect a SNES-gamepad which is made full use of, shoulder-buttons and start/select-buttons included. Keyboard control is available as well.
Re: VIC-20 Software Releases of 2021
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:00 pm
by aeb
Name: TypeFile, TypeWriter (using 64text) Released: March 2021 Author: Aleksi Eeben Requirements: VIC 20 with 8K expansion or more
Almost 2 years ago, I wrote quick 64x32 text (and plotting) routines for use in VIC 20 port of the PLATO terminal. The author has been busy with other projects, so VIC 20 version of PLATO has not materialized yet.
I wanted to use the text routines for something, so here's a simple ASCII text file displayer for VIC 20 with memory expansion of at least 8K. Full 7-bit ASCII is defined. Text is not buffered, so you can't scroll up. The characters are minuscule, but almost readable
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typewriter.prg is another small program that just reads the keyboard and outputs text to the 64x32 character screen.
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