Category: Commodore VIC-20

Kweeper over at Vic-20 Denial is working on a Manic Miner port for the Vic-20. Manic Miner is a platform video game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). It is the first game in the Miner Willy series and among the early titles in the platform…

Exit Plan ZII (Channel Z) is a new top view Zombie Action Escape game. The idea of the game is to work your way through each of the levels of the Channel Z tower. Avoid the nasty flesh eating Zombies, find the key and make your way onto the next level. For each level completed you will earn points, step…

Kakemoms over at Vic-20 Denial Forum is currently working on a SuperCPU for the Commodore Vic-20! After many long hours and alot of Verilog coding, I have finally made a soft core addon to the Vic-20. What is it? Well, its a SuperCPU for the Vic-20. It currently runs at 22MHz and has a 65C02 core made by BigEd and…

It was announced by its developer, Ghislain de Blois, that his new game for the VIC-20, Realms of Quest V is under development and he hopes to finish it soon. The game looks pretty ambitious for the VIC-20, but based on the developer’s blog posts, it seems to be coming along well. On his words: 32K RAM expansion required (lesser expansion modes…

Pixel (Sven Michael Klose) over at Vic-20 Denial Forums is creating a new Arkanoid clone titled “Arukanoido” for the Commodore Vic-20. I won’t waste your time with long details about Arkanoid, as I’m sure you are all familiar with this 1986 Arcade classic from Taito. Arukanoido has 33 levels and requires at least 24k memory. Download the game from the…

The 8-Bit Guy takes a look at a very special cartridge for the Commodore VIC-20, the Super Expander. Also he takes a brief look at an EPROM programmer. Check out the video below. YouTube: The 8-Bit Guy

The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 2+ p.m., Sunday, April 9 at; Bobby Salazar’s Mexican Restaurant 2839 North Blackstone Ave. (corner of Blackstone and Michigan) Fresno, California (559) 227-1686 For discussion, we’ll talk about the May 19-21 Maker Faire in San Mateo, the preparations for the June 10-11 Pacific Commodore Expo NW, and…

Title: VICScript v0.2 Author: Bobbi Released: 2017-03-25 Requirements: C64 or VIC-20 with 32K expansion, plus disk drive / SD2IEC Description: Novel interpreted scripting language VICScript is a simple scripting language for the Commodore 64 (or VIC-20 with 32K expansion) and disk drive. VICScript includes a minimal line editor which may be used for editing program text (or editing short text…

VIChaos is a port of the Spectrum game for VIC-20. The game requires 16k memory expansion. VIChaos is a turn based wizard battle strategy game for 0-8 players. The original version by Julian Gollop was released on the Spectrum in 1985. This port is based on the GBA port sources (chaos-0.82). Source code is included in the download. Download: vichaos.zip Source:…

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