Denial

Mayhem wrote:Yeah, that's an interesting choice. Still, you could frig it if you worked out the code. And I already found two bugs in the game just from one playthrough; I tried to open a door after listening to it and the game just immediately dropped me out to a READY prompt!

Anybody up for a little debugging?

English Invader wrote:I'm certainly looking forward to this one. I hope "The Masque of the Red Death" gets in there somewhere.

Great movie that too!
I'd prefer more HP Lovecraft games myself. Much creepier that EAP in my eyes.

Gameplay very like the old "Lightbikes" or "Snake" I guess. I used to hate playing those on a joystick TBH!
I like it.

Well, eventually I did with infinite lives. It moves astoundingly fast for a BASIC game. Well done on da skillz! On the last level you basically need at least 4 of the baddies to be in the central area to have a chance. Also, the bonus key never appears in the area you can reach, so you can't even r...

Let me see, I think I'll remove that M=M-1 if that's OK with you Jeff.

EDIT: Night 16 is so unfair.

It certainly has worked fine on the C64 with everything I bought up until about 2 or 3 years ago when they stopped selling them in my town.

I've got one here somewhere, and I'd be surprised if there's more than a handful within 100 miles. I have the RF converter thing but I don't have a power adapter for it .

I couldn't see a lot of C= in those photos at all? What were all the PCs for?

The three games she chooses as examples do not raise my hopes for a video game that will deserve my attention long enough to play it. The guy just doesn't like video games. He is really letting that get in the way of his conclusions on whether games are art. Jackson Pollock doesn't deserve my atten...

ravenxau wrote:Credit for some of the code must go to a one-line space trader game i found on a zx-spectrum website, thank you to who ever the author is.

Hi there. Great game!
Can you link me to this original one-liner?

EDIT: OK, found it.
http://reptonix.awardspace.co.uk/sincla ... trader.htm

Ever heard of OCR? Might save you a few broken nails!
Thought the "special characters" can be a pain...

The "Write Your Own Fantasy Games for Your Microcomputer" apparently has a VIC20 version, though I can only find the C64 one available at GB64.
http://www.btinternet.com/~pweighill/music/books/

orion70 wrote:I wouldn't buy it even if it was the last VIC on Earth.

Maybe if it was the first VIC on Earth!

Does anybody know if the VICE "netplay" function works to help our friend?

I don't think it's a patch on Hellgate, but great nonetheless.