Denial

Probably clutching at straws with this one..

there was a one-off (or two-off) magazine released in Australia around 1984/5 with nothing but type-ins. It was on really cheap paper, kind of quality like 'Home Computing Weekly' from the UK, but I forget what it was called

Anyway, it had type-ins for many computers, and one of the type-ins claimed to be a cricket game for the C64.. except it was actually a Vic game, and not a bad game at that.

I've tried hunting for this game or the magazine, but absolutely no trace..

Ring a bell for anyone..?

I've got one cricket game in GB20, Test Match published on Vic Computing issue #7. Dunno if this is the same game or not.

Thanks for the response guys,

no it wasn't that one - the game I am referring to was vertical, rather than horizontal. The ball traveled up the screen, and sometimes would break left or right. You swung at it, your bat going in a 'circle' of sorts around you.

It didn't have user defined graphics either.

There is a Cricket game in this C&VG magazine You can download here
https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/mag ... 0/1984/7/0

It says it's a Spectrum game but has a poke command at the top of the listing, and I have no idea if poke commands apply
to Speccies.

If it's not that then all the other issues of these type-in magazines are also available for free download.

I have the 2nd edition of this type-in game collection magazine which got me on a bit of a search to see if I could find the
game You are after.

Imperious wrote:It says it's a Spectrum game ...

... and it is correct in doing so. The POKE command also exists on the ZX Spectrum and does not serve as useful hint here to discriminate the BASIC dialect. Apart from the introductory text which says "For 48K Spectrum", you find explicit LET assignments in the listing as well as "INK" and "PAPER" statements, all of which pretty much give away this truly is intended to run on a Sinclair Spectrum. Case closed.

Yeah, thanks again - it was definitely an Australian publication, and I even remember the author wrote in (in the second such publication) to explain that the listing wasn't for C64 but Vic-20 - which he 'forgot to stipulate'.

I have a feeling this one may be lost to time, sadly.

People collect and scan old magazines.

Try Bombjack.org or archive.org for the publication?