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Wow, that's all there is to it? That's awesome! :) I once decided to build my own 8-bit-OS-in-a-browser (kind of like the Commander X16 project, except idk what I'm doing w/hardware so it's just an "emulator"). I spent waaaaay too much time trying to understand cc65's config language so I'...

Wow, thanks a lot everyone! :) There's a lot to go over but I can't wait to dive in! Interesting stuff, and potentially game-changing (cheesy pun not intended... at first :D). In all my games up till now, I've had to use a password system for loading/saving data (think Castlevania, only 2-4 characte...

Dumb question: what's TGI? Just curious cuz cc65 is kind of my goto (cheesy pun intended ) for most VIC-20 projects.

Hey guys, So in BASIC, I can use commands like OPEN, PRINT#, INPUT# and CLOSE to read/write files on disk; but how would this work in Assembly? I've done some research and it looks like there are some memory addresses in the Kernal I can work with for this, but the only examples I've been able to fi...

Hey, hope you guys are having a great weekend so far! :) So I'm building a game, and originally I was thinking target the full 40K (cuz why not?). I'm building it in C using cc65 (and the 35K .cfg file), but it turns out I might be able to get it working less RAM than that (making it available to mo...

Granted I don't own a real Vic (yet), but I have had this same question many times, and as someone who has built a few games now, I think I'm in a position to answer it. No matter what the current trend may be, I would say "go with what your game needs, but try to keep it small if possible"...

wait, really? SO (with an 0 instead of a zero) seemed to work for me that night. I figured "SO" must be "scratch out" or something. But still, thanks for letting me know.

Man, thanks for all your hard work on this, everyone! I've been dealing with a WEIRD graphics bug / code generally getting overwritten whenever I compile my code for 8k+. In fact that was a big part of why the game I'm building is currently for the unexpanded VIC; but I'm sure the more I look at all...

Granted I'm still basically a noob, and I mainly program in C or BASIC, but one thing I do when I need "multi-tasking" is to have a "step" function. So for example, one thing I'm doing in the game I'm building is something like this: uint8_t musicTimer = 0; // A timer causing a d...

Last night I fired up my TheVIC20 and put those CBM DOS commands to the test. Sure enough, they worked like a charm. In case anyone's interested, here's how to edit: 1. Load your program the usual way (i.e. LOAD "my-code",8) 2. Edit your code how you want (in memory). 3. Scratch (delete) t...

Thanks for the feedback, and also for the link to that other game! I'm definitely going to check it out. I did some work on it today, mostly reworking the drawing logic (I was getting a lot of artifacts for when the opponents went off-screen, a problem which I'm close to solving - maybe next weekend...

Quieres jugar un juego de ajedrez? :D lol I speak Spanish and that War Games quote is hysterical! Of course, what else would a voice synthesizer for the VIC-20 be programmed to say? :) Seriously tho, this is incredible! I knew numerous synths were built for the C64, but never saw one for the VIC bef...

CBM DOS at first does not allow two files with the same name on a storage medium, that is why your attempt to save a new file under the same name is faulted. You need to delete the old file first - in CBM DOS parlance, "scratch" it - with a command sent over the CBM DOS command channel: O...

When I first got a VIC-20 one of the first things I was told was to get a 32k switching expander. Unfortunately, they were a little out of my price range at the time and I ended up (recently) getting a 16k instead. From what I've seen of modern games and software developed for the platform, much of...

lol wow this is embarrassing... I had way, way too many tabs open! :D The title of this was going to be "best place to learn about coding in C using cc65" or something like that; then I found there is a section specifically about cross-compiling and asked it there. When I wrote the message...