Denial

A puzzle game.
Requires 8k+ memory.
Info included in download.

Looks like each machine had its own load/save routines.
This item is on ebay at the moment.

ebay listing

No, no magic...

...and yet it works.

Tap-Clean reports errors after cleaning but it still works.

Using load will produce a 'LOAD ERROR'.
Using 'shift RUN/STOP' works.

Don't ask me why.

Sure....

I had the same problem.
Used Tap-Clean on the file and that did the trick.
Now loads OK at warp in vice.

Page 8 - needs an 8

Screen horizontal origin:
POKE 36864, PEEK(36B64) AND 128 OR X

Brilliant reference material.

AFAICT the data looks correct - the listing is hard to read.
I have changed some of the graphics. Does this look better?


Give it a try and see if anything looks messed up.

A one-file version below...


...but you will miss out on the loading graphics.

Hi Daroou, welcome to the forum. $FFD2 prints characters to the screen so 'a' would be 65 not 1. Adding 128 would only shift the character. The ROM characters are accessed by inverse printing them. Printing chr$(18) before the characters would do the trick. E.G. msg !byte $12, $41, $42, $43, $00

Some of these games may be available from VIC-20 Listings . I did find that resource but did not see anything from Compute Gazette specifically on it. That's why i figured i would do this. There are several game books from Compute! on the site. Skydiver is in Compute!'s First Book of VIC Games. Nev...

Some of these games may be available from VIC-20 Listings.

I prefer $0000 at the top and $ffff at the bottom.
Like how the screen and colour memory is laid out, lowest value - top left, highest value - bottom right.

Still, neither format is wrong, just personal preference.

Love & Peace

If you select 1 at the 'how many spirals' prompt, you may enter your own parameters into the following prompts. If you select 2-4 at the first prompt, you have to keep pressing return at every other prompt until the second prompt (spriral figure #) equals the number you chose at the first prompt, th...

This is also possible in VICE.
You could write an entire program in notepad if you wish, copy the whole thing and paste it into a running emulator. The entire program is rendered on screen and you just have to press return to enter the last line. Type run and watch it go. Simple.