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Hi Guys, Quick question. I am using VICE. I gave away all my classic computer stuff 4 years ago ( stupid, stupid move ). I'm trying to remember if it's possible to read from registers such as location 36869 on the vic20. Vice lets me do it and returns consistent values but as I recall you can't real...

I think interlacing was the wrong term on my part since it refers to a specific mode of the vic. I had heard the 2600 didn't have enough sprites ( players ) to do pacman so the programmers tried to have a sprite in 2 places at once, and that was why they flickered so bad .... What I was wondering is...

There is something to be said for playing to the weakness of such "fat pixel" modes. I recall a cartridge game I had ... I think by UMI for the vic. It was AMAZING. It was a defender style game with insects. Now, think about it, by choosing a side scroller, most of your ships and what not ...

Hawkmen of Dindren ... omg
I remember that, i typed it into my atari800 ( I know boo ) it was my second computer
I don't think I ever got it debugged right, it played but was always funky.

Hi, I thought I'd throw in my $.02 I just recently decided to start fullfilling a teenage dream of finishing pacman on the vic20 (think I was 12 when I got mine ). Although I had all the 6502 opcodes memorized as a kid I just didn't have the money for an assembler cart or the patience and discipline...