Category: Commodore VIC-20

Fastboy is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20, made by Misfit. The game was made for the LudumDare 48h competition. In this competition you have only 48 hours to make a complete game. For the game you need an unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL), a disk drive and a joystick. Website: Vic-20 Denial

Phvic is developing a flash memory expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. The following features are planned: The VIC will see the flash memory as a ROM. Auto booting from the flash memory. A micro-controller will control the memory and the expansion port. At the moment the device is still in development. You can follow the progress on the Denial forum….

Tunnel is a new game for the Commodore VIC20, made by Andrea Gasparrini. The game is written in Basic. You will need an 8 kByte RAM memory expansion to play the game. You can download the game from Andrea’s web page. Website: http://downloadgamecast.altervista.org

TLR released a new version of the paint program FCBPaint for the Commodore VIC20. New in this version: Pictures can now be exported as runnable binaries. Colours for the upper and lower border. Directory function. Selectable direct colour mode and a few errors were removed. Download: FCBPaint_v0.6

[youtube Oof1uryV-bo#t=32 nolink] André Fachat is working on a USB interface for the Commodore user port. The interface can be used on a PET, VIC20 and the C64. The interface is a client and a host. The parts are a MAX3421 USB interface chip and some small parts. You can follow the progress on the 6502.org web page. Website: http://www.6502.org

[youtube pqrgx88H_Wk nolink] Payton Byrd released a new version of CBM Command. The recent changes are: Side-By-Side panels or Top-And-Bottom panels (40-column), Batch diskette image creation, Selection of drive or partition number. The diskette includes a program to update your configuration files. Website: http://cbmcommand.codeplex.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Victragic released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is based on the Atari VCS game “Maze Craze” and others. You must get to the exit on the right side of the screen, then back to either exit on the top-left or bottom-left before your time runs out. Avoid the black hounds, hitting one will knock 10 seconds off…

Jan Derogee demonstrates in this video that the Cassiopei is also a TAP player. When loading games from tape, lot’s of things can go wrong. Fortunately, the Cassiopei saves the day. In this demonstration Jan uses the C16, but all other Commodore computers with a cassette port can use the Cassiopei for loading TAP files. The project will be presented…

Kweepa made two compilation diskettes with adventure games for the Commodore VIC-20. He put eighteen classic Scott Adams onto one diskette, and the eleven Brian Howarth Mysterious Adventures on another diskette. You will need an VIC-20, disk-drive and a 24 KB memory expansion. Website: http://sleepingelephant.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

[youtube Y2PIxOuk3IU nolink]The inventor of the Cassiopei likes M&M’s, but doesn’t like them all mixed up. So he has build a Commodore 64 controlled machine to sort this out… really, he sorts them. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (the Netherlands). Website: http://jderogee.tripod.com