Category: Commodore VIC-20
Horace has always been a fan favourite among Spectrum owners, being the closest thing the machine has to a mascot. And this new game from Sunteam features not only him, but his father in a desperate bid to escape the Mega Vault. Horace and Herbert (his gigantic dad) were taking a walk one day when the evil Doctor Zorklef captured…
The episode #70 of FloppyDays has been published featuring an interview with Michael Tomczyk where he tells everything about the development of the VIC-20. Michael was with Commodore for some time, was an assistant to none other than Jack Tramiel, and was the leader of the team known as the Vic Commando Team. You can download FloppyDays following the link below or stream…
Everybody loves Horace, even if nobody is sure what he is. And he’s set to return in Horace in the Mega Vault, a fan-made game in development by Sunteam. It’s an ‘adaptation/expansion’ of Mega Vault, an Imagine title for the Vic-20 where you had to dodge the traps while collecting food and the master key to escape. This version will…
An unusual and refreshing change to see a game based on destruction of the earth! The game runs on unexpanded PAL VIC-20 with Lightpen! The lightpen needs a trigger (joy left) and calibration inside the program may be needed. You will also need a CRT-display as lightpens will not work with modern TFTs. If you don’t have a light pen,…
A new episode of Floppy Days Podcast is now available. In this episode; New Acquisitions NADSBox – http://www.club100.org/catalog.html “Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro (Platform Studies)” Hardcover by Alison Gazzard – http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262034034/?tag=flodaypod-20 Compute’s Gazette – https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette “33 challenging computer games for TRS-80/Apple/PET Paperback” by David Chance – https://www.amazon.com/challenging-computer-games-TRS-80-Apple/dp/0830612750 “Atari Playground” by Fred D’Ignazio – https://www.amazon.com/Atari-playground-Fred-DIgnazio/dp/0810457709 Fred D’Ignazio Interview…
Cask Jumper is a game created by tmy10100 from Vic-20 Denial Forums. He wrote the game together with a friend over 30 years ago! The game involves jumping over casks with a motorbike. You must be careful not to drive too fast and also not too slow, if you want to land exactly on the ramp without crashing. You have 5…
$B is a minimalist port of the game 2048 for unexpanded VIC-20. WASD to move, R to restart. Source is included in the zip. Download: $b.zip Original Game: http://git.io/2048 Source: Vic-20 Denial
The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…
The FloppyDays podcast is already well-known to dig deep into the history of many computers from the late 70s and early 80s. Episodes from the past already covered the TRS-80, the TI-88, HP-85 and many others. FloppyDays always bring the experts in the subject to participate as co-hosts or to give interviews, which enriches the content making the podcast a must…
We hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day, and for those of you that still have some holiday time off work, we have a few interesting Vic-20 games you should check out. First up we have “It Came From the Grave”, by Graham Daniels, which is a neat little memory game. You start by the computer showing you briefly…
