Vic-20 Top down U.S. RPG that needed 16k expansion.....
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Vic-20 Top down U.S. RPG that needed 16k expansion.....
Any idea what it may have been? It was the first game I bought for my Vic-20 here in the UK and I had to pay another $200 for a 16k expansion to play it!
It was top down with a stick figure as your character and maze like screens. It was huge and I remember the game came with a20+ page manual. Any ideas?
I registered here just to ask this, as I remember most of the other, more arcade type games I bought. But given RPG's are my favourite genre, this game got me started, and I am hoping I can find out what it was! I may be wrong, but not many fantasy RPG's came out for the VIC-20 compared to the more simple arcade type games.
I still have my Vic-20 motherboard, and a couple Commodore 64's (which the Vic-20 M/Board could fit inside the casing of!), and I still own about 70 of my C64 games (but none of my Vic-20 games!) and still play them quite a bit! I am also a retro PC gamer with a collection of over 800 PC games going back 20 years!
With modern PC gaming as it is today, I doubt I will buy more than 2 PC games this year. I bought 2 last year too. So am using the extra spare gaming time I have to play my old PC games. 10 years ago I would have been buying 6-10 PC games a year. If I can find out what this RPG was I played, I may look for it and give it another go, because I don't remember getting far with it when I fist had it! I've had 20 years to learn how to play RPG's since then!
It was top down with a stick figure as your character and maze like screens. It was huge and I remember the game came with a20+ page manual. Any ideas?
I registered here just to ask this, as I remember most of the other, more arcade type games I bought. But given RPG's are my favourite genre, this game got me started, and I am hoping I can find out what it was! I may be wrong, but not many fantasy RPG's came out for the VIC-20 compared to the more simple arcade type games.
I still have my Vic-20 motherboard, and a couple Commodore 64's (which the Vic-20 M/Board could fit inside the casing of!), and I still own about 70 of my C64 games (but none of my Vic-20 games!) and still play them quite a bit! I am also a retro PC gamer with a collection of over 800 PC games going back 20 years!
With modern PC gaming as it is today, I doubt I will buy more than 2 PC games this year. I bought 2 last year too. So am using the extra spare gaming time I have to play my old PC games. 10 years ago I would have been buying 6-10 PC games a year. If I can find out what this RPG was I played, I may look for it and give it another go, because I don't remember getting far with it when I fist had it! I've had 20 years to learn how to play RPG's since then!
Modern gaming is dying - retro is taking over - get over it!
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Why not download a VICE emulator and look in the 16k ROM section in either Zimmers or www.theoldcomputer.com? You'll probably recognise the title when you see it.
I don't know what you see in the Commodore 64. The only game I've ever liked on it is Ghostbusters (for obvious reasons).
I don't know what you see in the Commodore 64. The only game I've ever liked on it is Ghostbusters (for obvious reasons).
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Yes, looked in the Vice folder and found it,because the file started with an 'X', not a 'V' - apologies all around!English Invader wrote:VICE emulates the VIC-20, the C64, the C128 and the PET.
I think you're the one who's confused, mate.
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Sword of Fargoal or Temple of Apshai. Both awesome.
For future reference, MobyGames isn't very complete, but it finds these easily enough.
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/v ... aying-rpg/
For future reference, MobyGames isn't very complete, but it finds these easily enough.
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/v ... aying-rpg/
Thanks. Just came from Moby and cannot find a download for the vic20 Temple of Apshai.
Found Sword of Fargoal and that wasn't it. If I can find ToA and that's not it, then it must have been a one off game by a one man company long disappeared.
Will keep trying to find a download for ToA though.
Thanks for your help though! Most welcome!
Found Sword of Fargoal and that wasn't it. If I can find ToA and that's not it, then it must have been a one off game by a one man company long disappeared.
Will keep trying to find a download for ToA though.
Thanks for your help though! Most welcome!
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Try here: http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ ... index.htmlUK_John wrote:Will keep trying to find a download for ToA though.
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Thanks for all the help guys! I have tried Tomb of Drewan, so that, by all accounts, just leaves ToA, or as you say Mayhem, really rare titles like Baldor's Castle.
I have decided I will also try early C64 RPG's in case a title was a bigger hit when it was converted from Vic-20 to C64 and so will be easier to find and may be the same game I remember.
I just want to say thanks again for all the help guys. Appreciate it!
I have decided I will also try early C64 RPG's in case a title was a bigger hit when it was converted from Vic-20 to C64 and so will be easier to find and may be the same game I remember.
I just want to say thanks again for all the help guys. Appreciate it!
Modern gaming is dying - retro is taking over - get over it!
I did download Apshai from Zimmers, but the Vic-20 one wouldn't work in Vice (I downloaded some more from Zimmers and half of them didn't work!).
I downloaded ToA for C64 and played a little. It was closer to what I remember, in terms of character data being shown on screen, but the game I am thinking of had the whole maze for that level on the screen, not just a small part, and had the character data (or data anyway) I believe it had outside areas too and wasn't just dungeon based.
I am beginning to think more and more that I got the game from a U.S. one man company that went out of business quickly and the game has disappeared into the mists of time! After all MOBY only lists 4 Vic-20 RPG's and I am sure there must have been more than that!
I downloaded ToA for C64 and played a little. It was closer to what I remember, in terms of character data being shown on screen, but the game I am thinking of had the whole maze for that level on the screen, not just a small part, and had the character data (or data anyway) I believe it had outside areas too and wasn't just dungeon based.
I am beginning to think more and more that I got the game from a U.S. one man company that went out of business quickly and the game has disappeared into the mists of time! After all MOBY only lists 4 Vic-20 RPG's and I am sure there must have been more than that!
Modern gaming is dying - retro is taking over - get over it!
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Makes me wonder. Did you make the correct memory settings?UK_John wrote:I did download Apshai from Zimmers, but the Vic-20 one wouldn't work in Vice (I downloaded some more from Zimmers and half of them didn't work!).
Most games written for unexpanded VIC-20 will not work when +8K, or more expansion is enabled, as the addresses of screen, and colour RAM change, which is not taken into account by these programs.
Also the start of BASIC changes from $1000 to $0400 for a +3K expansion, and to $1200 for +8K, or more, which gives problems for programs that use a single line with a SYS command inside to start ML code inside.
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