Vic 20 bits discovered
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Vic 20 bits discovered
Whilst porting some unknown tapes to check what was on them, I encountered some tapes which brought up two Vic 20 titles i've not seen before:
Star Treck
and
Tiny Tutor - Computer Software Associates (Distributed exclusively in the United States by Micro Software International inc."
Please find the tape files here... http://gtw64.retro-net.de/Vic20bits.rar
The second 2 labeled files were from the Tiny Tutor tape, which I think has several versions. The C64 version is in Gamebase 64 Currently.
Star Treck
and
Tiny Tutor - Computer Software Associates (Distributed exclusively in the United States by Micro Software International inc."
Please find the tape files here... http://gtw64.retro-net.de/Vic20bits.rar
The second 2 labeled files were from the Tiny Tutor tape, which I think has several versions. The C64 version is in Gamebase 64 Currently.
I dumped Tiny Tutor to TAP file and sent it to Arma back in March 2006, but it did not get added to site as an update.
I have an orginal cassette of this, but no inlay cover to scan.
I will add it sometime this week.
I have an orginal cassette of this, but no inlay cover to scan.
I will add it sometime this week.
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Tiny Tutor is now posted on Arma restoration site -
http://www.6502dude.com/cbm/vic20/arma/ttaps.html
While not a cassette insert, I scanned a copy of the box.
This potentially could be used to make an insert.
Screen shot and TAP file are posted.
http://www.6502dude.com/cbm/vic20/arma/ttaps.html
While not a cassette insert, I scanned a copy of the box.
This potentially could be used to make an insert.
Screen shot and TAP file are posted.
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Sorry, I do not have that one.fgasking wrote:Long shot, but I don't suppose you have an original of Star Frog by Mikrogen?
However I do have HES Software's Raid On Isram
This was a donation from Centallica, who (back in Feb 2007 ) asked that I dump it to a TAP file.
I have finally gotten around to this. It can be downloaded from here:
http://www.6502dude.com/cbm/vic20/arma/rtaps.html
Now I need to get back to MegaCart project.
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It's actually just a graphics changed version of Rabbit's Skramble. The company did license a few of its titles to the US (another being Myriad which was turned into Robot Panic on cartridge by HES) and bought a few titles from the US to release in the UK (such as games by Nufekop).
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He didn't say why, but he said the following:Mayhem wrote:Given you've brought that up, I can perhaps ask... how did he get away with selling the same game essentially (different graphics) to both Rabbit and Terminal?
(and yes I had linked all three together in GB20 already)
"The Rabbit version you mentioned was really the Mark 1 Skramble!, the Terminal version had some improvements. It was also sold in the US by a company called MicroDigital- they licensed a lot of my stuff from Terminal. Skramble was also pirated, with thinly veiled changed graphics, by another UK company and markets as "Flight from Isram" or something like that- I've forgotten exactly; probably a good thing."
Just to confirm, he mentions that he did the following games:
"For the VIC20 I remember writing; Skramble!, Maze Muncher (an awful Pacman clone), Get Lost! (a quite good 3D Maze), Meteor Blaster, Gridder, and Reversi (terrible)."
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It's a great game if you can get far into it (I use to be very good at it in the day but older now I can't get as far)6502dude wrote:Sorry, I do not have that one.fgasking wrote:Long shot, but I don't suppose you have an original of Star Frog by Mikrogen?
However I do have HES Software's Raid On Isram
This was a donation from Centallica, who (back in Feb 2007 ) asked that I dump it to a TAP file.
I have finally gotten around to this. It can be downloaded from here:
http://www.6502dude.com/cbm/vic20/arma/rtaps.html
Now I need to get back to MegaCart project.
There was a thread discussion of Raid on Isram that I was discussing this game, so I wanted to share with everyone and thanks Brian