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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Prince of Persia
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11189
Re: Prince of Persia
I guess I can do both. I will initialize it with the correct values depending whether it is PAL or NTSC (for NTSC, I'll use the values you mentioned in a previous post) but can also provide the option to center the screen by using cursor keys (that is already available, but only from the presentati...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Prince of Persia
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11189
Re: Prince of Persia
Thanks for that. As the game is using 27 columns, I was asuming it wouldn't look OK in NTSC and was initializing it just for PAL (my bad...). Good to see it might be also 'playable' (to some extent) in NTSC. Cheers No problem! Based on the photo I posted of your game being played on my TV, do you f...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Prince of Persia
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11189
Re: Prince of Persia
I just found out about this game on Youtube... thank you! WHAT AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT I was able to convert the screen centering to NTSC as follows: LOAD"LOADER.PRG",8 POKE 7169,0 POKE 7174,13 SAVE"@0:LOADER.PRG",8 While the the size of the screen is just a little bit too big for...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: New penultimate-plus-2-cartridge
- Replies: 57
- Views: 15579
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Jeff's VIC 20 Book
- Replies: 268
- Views: 34653
Re: Jeff's VIC 20 Book
I just ordered a copy from Amazon. I can't wait to get it!
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:09 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Yoho - Scott Adams interpreter
- Replies: 75
- Views: 38210
Re: Yoho - Scott Adams interpreter
Thanks to Ghislain, I have updated Yoho and Howay so that timers now work :) https://github.com/Kweepa/Yoho/blob/master/yoho.d64 https://github.com/Kweepa/Yoho/blob/master/howay.d64 You're welcome -- I am happy to help. As I wind down from games development on the VIC-20, I think I am ready to bein...
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:28 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Yoho - Scott Adams interpreter
- Replies: 75
- Views: 38210
Re: Yoho - Scott Adams interpreter
I fixed the issue with this, finally. All counter-related operations need to be 16 bit, so I added a small 16 bit lookup table to convert the bytes stored in the instructions to shorts. But... I had to download cc65 again and Yoho doesn't compile with it any more :| Will try to find an old version ...
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Realms of Quest VI progress thread (currently in early planning stages, or I wish I had more free time)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2579
Re: Realms of Quest VI progress thread (currently in early planning stages, or I wish I had more free time)
At least from an ethical standpoint, it's better that I source images from an AI art generator than from scouring Google Images for perfect images to convert to the VIC-20 graphics format (as I did a lot in the previous game). But still, even though Midjourney helped a lot here for the following exa...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 3:05 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Realms of Quest VI progress thread (currently in early planning stages, or I wish I had more free time)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2579
Re: Realms of Quest VI progress thread (currently in early planning stages, or I wish I had more free time)
I'm using an AI called Midjourney to generate some potential cover artwork (featuring Wandauvial). I know I'm putting a cart before the horse, but this technology generates high quality images in mere minutes. I wish I had this tool five years ago!
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 12:22 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Realms of Quest VI progress thread (currently in early planning stages, or I wish I had more free time)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2579
Re: Realms of Quest VI progress thread (currently in early planning stages, or I wish I had more free time)
That works out perfectly. I retire in 10 years and by then, I will have time to play it. :D :D :D I've a feeling that I won't be finished until I retire myself! For my part, I loved the solid systems and mechanics in ROQV, but ultimately I set it aside because the themes and creatures were too dark...
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 12:49 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Realms of Quest VI progress thread (currently in early planning stages, or I wish I had more free time)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2579
Realms of Quest VI progress thread (currently in early planning stages, or I wish I had more free time)
1.jpg (this is just a mockup) Dislcaimer : I haven't officially started working on this game yet. I'm mostly dabbling, working on a font (inspired from Diablo, but with some differences) and graphics. Regarding the graphics--I've decided that I want to go for a more authentic feeling where I will w...
- Tue May 11, 2021 2:03 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Vic 20 user port at no more than 1200 baud?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6727
Re: Vic 20 user port at no more than 1200 baud?
Good work chaps. Any recommendations of boards to connect to? I find Mighty Term to be the most useful terminal program for the VIC-20. It's quite versatile, and it works very well at displaying Commodore graphics in 40 columns (albeit in a single color). And there is also a simulated 80 column mod...
- Mon May 10, 2021 11:14 pm
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Vic 20 user port at no more than 1200 baud?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6727
- Sun May 09, 2021 1:29 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Vic 20 user port at no more than 1200 baud?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6727
Re: Vic 20 user port at no more than 1200 baud?
Did this not work at all for you? If I SYS 45071, it brings me back to the startup screen: **** cbm basic v2 **** 28159 bytes free ready. This works fine if I run this manually--but only with PLUS/TERM and NINJATERM. Is there an SYS or JSR entry point that will not reset the VIC-20 to the startup s...
- Sat May 08, 2021 10:55 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Vic 20 user port at no more than 1200 baud?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6727
Re: Vic 20 user port at no more than 1200 baud?
realms3.jpg I made a disk image that contains VIC-20 terminal programs that will work with srowe's rs232 fix at 2400 baud. Most notably, the versions of Mighty Term and VICTERM have been modified to enable the fix if you choose options 2 and 6 from the menu (I had to JSR to the rs232 fix when the t...