Anyone recognise these two?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:54 pm

Got two games I'm processing and they have no titles... does anyone recognise them so I can give them a name?

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:50 pm

The first looks like a hacked Skramble? It looks vaguely familiar.

Number two is a COMPUTE! listing.. Moving Maze by Matt Giwer (October 1983). Actually Matt wrote the original Atari 8-bit version, and it was converted to VIC-20 by Marc Sugiyama, Programming Assistant.

VIC Notes
The VIC version of "Moving Maze" (Program 2) uses the same game layout as the Atari version, but the rules of the game have been changed. Whenever you run into a wall or the Rover, you are sent back to the beginning of the maze, without exception. You maneuver through the maze using the I, J, K and M keys or a joystick. Pressing the space bar or the fire button on the joystick causes the maze to speed up, but you lose one point every time the maze moves. You cannot move while the joystick button or the space bar is depressed. When you complete a maze, another will appear, but the openings in the walls will be smaller. The game ends when you lose all five lives.

Moving Maze uses up almost all of the memory of an unexpanded VIC, so do not enter any extra spaces or REMs. Also, the program will not handle VIC's floating memory, so remove any expansion memory cartridges.

There, at least 1/2 solved.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:28 pm

Ah, moving maze. I remember that. I loved when games could be that simple. My goal is to create the ultimate type-in style game.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:16 am

Cheers Carlsson... I imagine there's quite a few more Compute listings here in GB20 without credit so far, hopefully when things are released people can fill in some gaps for me

bokvamme · Post by **bokvamme** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:07 pm

Did you check the image with a hexeditor for 'hidden' clues to it's name/title?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:05 pm

Yep, nothing inside either to suggest anything sadly.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:37 pm

Arma, were are you? I'm quite certain #1 can be found among his in-game screenshots and thus locate the name of the game. As I wrote above, something Skramble.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Thu May 08, 2008 12:38 pm

Just a bump in case anyone has any other further thoughts. The first game certainly doesn't match anything I currently have in GB20 to my knowledge.

ravenxau · Post by **ravenxau** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:28 pm

the purple ship in game 1 looks disturbingly like the Voyager from Star Trek

Vicman *1970 · Post by **Vicman *1970** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:56 am

I'am shure at 100% , that I had this Game on a Datasette in 1983.... , sorry can't remember the Title....and the Tape doesn't exist anymore

But I've bought some Tapes at Ebay, maybe this game in somewhere...I'll take a look

(this can take some Day's, 'cause very busy) !

Vicman *1970 · Post by **Vicman *1970** » Mon May 19, 2008 12:22 pm

The second Picture is called "Death Maze"

"TOSEC" says this

Death Maze (19xx)(-).prg

And your VicGamebase v1, too

(also Zimmer's.net)

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon May 19, 2008 12:29 pm

Actually that's a good point... somehow I failed to spot it was already in there, but there's over 1,300 games listed, so I figure I can cut myself some slack

The start of each program is slightly different, anyone got the original listing somewhere for me to compare which is the "correct" true one?

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue May 20, 2008 2:21 am

You mean the listing for Moving Maze, which some funny person has renamed as Death Maze? Sure, I can scan the listing or part of it.

Vicman *1970 · Post by **Vicman *1970** » Tue May 20, 2008 2:56 am

carlsson wrote:You mean the listing for Moving Maze, which some funny person has renamed as Death Maze? Sure, I can scan the listing or part of it.

not necessarily....

I believe you

I don't wanted "rename" the Game....just had wrote, what i red....!

no problem, I'll rename my Files to "Moving Maze"

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue May 20, 2008 4:25 am

That would be handy Carlsson... just so I know which listing I have is the correct one for Moving Maze as per publication