Name: wAx2 Author: Jason Justian Genre: Development Tool Code: Machine Language License: M.I.T. Availability:
* For purchase on wAxpander cartridge (coming soon)
* EPROM exchange for current cartridge owners (coming soon)
* Download at https://github.com/Chysn/VIC20-wAx2/tree/main/vic
wAx2 is a significant update to 2020's wAx Assembler:
* Adoption of traditional VICmon-like commands for easy learning
* Arithmetic operations (+ and -) for address operands, including forward references
* BASIC variable interpolation for all wAx commands, including assembler operands
* State information exchange with BASIC (in the form of setting variables during program execution)
* Several new tools (including compare, file directory with name search, and help screen)
* Offers a larger selection of installable user plug-ins, along with a plug-in manager tool
* And more!
wAx2 will be distributed on the wAxpander cartridge, which will be released in the coming weeks. wAxpander is wAx + 24K, with a memory configuration plug-in on-board. A wAx2 (E)EPROM can also be installed in existing wAx cartridges, and a free (except shipping) EPROM upgrade exchange program for people who own a wAx cartridge will be announced soon.
Name: 20RDLE Author: Jason Justian Genre: Word Puzzle Game Requirements: VIC-20 + 24K expansion Code: Machine Language License: Creative Commons Availability: Free download at https://github.com/Chysn/VIC20-20RDLE/tree/main/vic. No commercial release.
20RDLE is an implementation of WORDLE for the expanded VIC-20. Your VIC is thinking of a 5-letter word. Can you guess it in six tries or less? Each word you guess will give you clues. A letter highlighted in green is in the right place, and a letter highlighted in yellow is in the wrong place.
20RLDE has an English (mixture of U.S. and UK) dictionary of 9000 words for your guesses, with the most common 3000 of those being eligible for selection as the secret word.
Name: Jovian Moon Lander
Author: EW de Villiers (Huffelduff)
Released: February 20th, 2022
Requirements: VIC-20 with +8K RAM expansion, joystick
Description: The year is 2069. The moons of Jupiter are being mined for their resources. As a Moon Lander pilot your job is to travel to the larger moons of Jupiter to deliver critical medical supplies and other rare essentials to the different moon bases. You have limited fuel which gets partially replenished with every successful landing. You have lateral thrusters (joystick left and right - X axis) and a vertical thruster (joystick fire button - Y axis). The slightest contact with walls results in an explosive fireball.
Name: Wormhole
Author: EW de Villiers (Huffelduff)
Released: February 20th, 2022
Requirements: VIC-20 with +8K RAM expansion, joystick
Description: You are an intergalactic pilot transporting passengers across thousands of light-years of space to trading stations on the edge of the known universe. You have to avoid planetoids, small moons and satellites as you navigate towards each wormhole. To get to a trading station you need to make multiple routing wormhole jumps. Close to many wormholes are teleportation stations which can transport passengers from nearby ships and moons to the station. So when there is a station near a wormhole you need to dock your ship, teleport and pick up the passengers before continuing on your journey.
Name: Flood Author: Javier Gonzalez Genre: Action game / Puzzle ? Code: ML Requirements: VIC-20 and 16k RAM expansion Description: You have to break the walls to collect the items before the flood extends and takes out your health. Different levels.
Instructions
Keyboard QAOP+ Space or Joystick. Press fire next to a wall to break it. Hurry up because in most levels flood will eventually cover everything.
Title: Galaxian Sleena Platform: Unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 Video: PAL/NTSC Interface: Joystick only (Controls: Joystick left/right + fire button) Game type: Arcade shoot-em-up Written by: W E de Villiers Release date: 3 July 2022 Download: https://huffelduff.itch.io/galaxian-sleena
Details: Galaxian Sleena is a fast paced Shoot 'em up for the whole family! Prepare to have a swollen trigger finger as you shoot down aliens and battle four Sleena Overlords while traversing the alien megastructure. You only have a single ship to combat the enemy but luckily it has been armed with a powerful laser cannon that makes quick work of the Sleena's minions. Can you beat the Galaxian Sleena?
Description: This is (tries to be) an Exidy's Crash port. Drive your car avoding cars coming in the opposite direction. Can be controlled by using the Joystick or with letter keys 'O' (Up/Right), 'K' (Down/Left) and 'A' (Throttle). To start the game, use any other key (or Joystick button). After 4 seconds in the presentation screen, game will enter into 'Attract Mode'. Hit any key (or JoyStick button) to go back to the presentation screen.
Screen can be centered (only from the presentation screen), by using the cursor keys. From that screen it is also possible to change foregrand color (from Blue/Yellow to White) by using key 'C'.
Name: Super Monza Grand Prix Author: AJ Layden Genre: Racing Code: ML Requirements: VIC-20 with 16K expansion. Joystick Description: Race around Monza for position or against the clock. Download: https://aj-layden.itch.io/super-monza-grand-prix
Re: VIC-20 Software Releases of 2022
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2022 12:08 pm
by thegg
Name: HexaVic
Genre: Puzzle
Code: ML
Requirements: VIC-20 with 8K expansion
Description: Strain the brain to find equations hidden in a grid of hexagons.
Title: 10 Basic 10 liner games [OR] 100 lines of Basic Platform: Unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 Video: PAL/NTSC Interface: Keyboard only Game type: Various Written by: W E de Villiers, core game engine: Jeffrey Daniels Language: Commodore Basic V2 Download: https://huffelduff.itch.io/10-basic-vic-10-liner-games
Description: Game collection containing the 10 Games "Zombie rush", "Fruit machine", "Commodore fish cannery", "Moon machine", "Cheesy", "Spiceworm", "I Rebel", "Pollinate", "Magic 8 ball" and "Bad plumber".
Screenshots:
Read detailed descriptions of each game and discuss the games here: link.
The Archivist is a text adventure game in the classic 8-bit style, using one- or two-word commands to explore a world, solve puzzles, and collect items of historical import.
In The Archivist, you assume the role of a steampunk-era collector working in the distant future. To you, the past and the future intermix, and you draw on your vast knowledge to attain interesting stuff, sometimes with narrow escapes and feats of ingenuity.
The Archivist takes you to six time periods with over 50 rooms and dozens of items. Talk to everyone. Examine everything. Try not to get killed.
Description: A port of the Atari 2600 version of H.E.R.O. Rescue miners trapped in caves guarded by monsters.
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Re: VIC-20 Software Releases of 2022
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:06 am
by aeb
Name: Iso Kana
Author: Aleksi Eeben
Released: 12 December 2022
Requirements: VIC 20 (or VIC-1001) with 8-35K RAM expansion
Description: 8x16 katakana and hiragana character sets
Download:
I always thought the VIC-1001 story was fascinating. After playing Japanese in Duolingo for three days I got the inspiration to check out how katakana was laid out in VIC-1001 character ROM and made a new big 8x16 katakana font in the same order.
8x16 seemed big enough even for readable hiragana, so I drew that as well. Rest of the characters are from standard VGA 8x16 font.
Both fonts come as an executable program that moves BASIC memory to 8192 ($2000) and does a soft reset. You can write and run your own programs, but the screen editor is not patched, so only top 12 lines are visible.