Category: Commodore VIC-20
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…
CBM prg Studio has reached version 3.9.0, bringing a ton of new features and bugfixes. CBM prg Studio is a free Windows IDE for development in BASIC and Assembler for the 8-bit family of Commodore computers. Changelog: TARGET directive. Logical operators with ‘ifdef’. Complex expressions for constants. Command window. Import SEQ files. CBM prg Studio can be downloaded directly from its…
Hat Trick is a VIC-20 port of the C64 game with the same name. Requires 16k memory expansion. The game is one-on-one hockey with space-time anomaly simulation for extra fun. Two players are supported. The second one uses the keyboard or a userport joystick (see the readme for details). This is version RC1, Which now has music. Source is included. Download: hattrick_rc1.zip Source: Homebrew Heroes
Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game, designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. It was originally released on June 6, 1984, and was the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US, where it was published by Spectrum HoloByte for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. Most of you probably remember it as a…
Ryan Liston aka R’ZO has released a new VIC20 Music Album! The album consists of 17 tracks plus 5 bonus tracks written using Basic, Fisichella and Vic Tracker. Download includes printable CD booklet and .pdf booklet. Check out the sample tracks to get you in the mood and download the whole album from the links below. Sample Tracks: R’zo – Nut, R’zo – Exoskeletal Download: The Vicious Twenty, Mirror…
