Denial

Thanks guys!
Good luck with the presentation!

Christmas 1981.
My younger brother's mate Cubso had a ZX81. The moment I played with it I knew I had found my calling - a simple page of typed instructions, and a game appeared - steering a V between scrolling *s.
Mum and dad bought me a VIC that Christmas - colour, and over three times the memory!

I typed in Fast And Furious and made a d64:

www.kweepa.com/step/vic20/FastAndFuriousVIC-20.zip

It's not exactly fast or furious, unfortunately

fgasking wrote:Right, here's the first two for now (Two car based games it seems!):

Description for Fast and Furious: Move around the platforms collecting handbags by running underneath them.

Handbags

(Thanks for posting!)

+1
I too would love to read.

Pedro Lambrini wrote:

Jeff-20 wrote:...I don't have a 64.

Now that's what I call dedication! I don't know a single person who has a Vic who doesn't also own a C64...

And now you know two!

rhurst wrote:Just a suggestion: make it run like this simply perfect machine ...

Errr... he already did that.
http://www.mdawson.net/vic20beta/vic20.php

Hey but now starting it manually (double click on jar file from windows) it autorun Whack-E ?!?! I don't know about normal, but it's expected, since I put in a load "http://www.kweepa.com/step/vic20/whack-e/whack-e.prg" to test it. Now that I know people are running it stand-alone, I'll r...

C64, Speccy, Vic, Zx81, Dragon 32, BBC B would probably feature in UK. I'd say the UK list would be (in order of release date): Speccy C64 Electron Amstrad CPC Amiga/ST The VIC was big, but not for long enough to make the top 5. [EDIT: I replaced the Beeb with it's stepchild the Electron, since it ...

I didn't mean to disparage your work!
It looks awesome.
It's like you've designed your ideal 8-bit computer! (Minus the sound.)

Hello.
I fixed JarVIC to run Whack-E.

The new jar is at http://www.kweepa.com/step/vic20/JarVIC052.jar

The problem was $90XY, X=1-F, was not mapping to $900Y. Sneaky Aleksi!

Cheers!

Very cool.

Reminds me of this:
http://www.6502asm.com/
and
http://www.hedron.org/6502emu/6502emu.html

Saving high scores from the game although not technically impossible would be very hard. Either the game and the emulator or the emulator would need to be modified to retrieve the score from the game. Then that would need to be passed to some database that the page pulls from to display the high sc...

Jeff-20 wrote: I did some research on the BBC, and it's quite impressive. Very interesting history too.

If you're interested, there is a great BBC4 dramatization of the Acorn/Sinclair "war" called Micro Men. It's "available" on-line

The iphone game looks lovely!
I don't have an iphone though.