Clowns - I love it!

naujoks · Post by **naujoks** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:56 am

Why are there so many of you that don't like CLOWNS? I think it works marvellously, is really fun and hilarious when the speed is really high. It's fun to compete with a second player, and the whiny death music is very funny too. It's well programmed and has my favourite font set... I'll give it an A*!

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:42 am

One of my favorites too!

Unfortunately, I am unable to get jitter-free paddles, so I can't play Clowns or any other paddle games properly.

Mikam73 · Post by **Mikam73** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:45 pm

I have paddle problem too. Same problem on maybe 3x paddle controllers.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:10 pm

Search for the paddle thread here; I believe there is a solution to jitter.

Mikam73 · Post by **Mikam73** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:18 pm

I remember that we talk of it before, but did we ever find solution to problem..

naujoks · Post by **naujoks** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:40 pm

hmmmm i play a version for joystick, and it works brill....

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:32 am

naujoks wrote:hmmmm i play a version for joystick, and it works brill....

Don't just taunt us...where did you get this version?

Can you transfer/post a copy of it?

naujoks · Post by **naujoks** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:40 pm

I don't know....?! is my version so special? it's on that old tape full of cartridge game that someone gave me some 22 years ago, and i'll be darned, but it still loads ok as if it was yesterday! now, if anyone tells me how to transfer it to my PC i'd be happy to look into it!

Post by **Jeff-20** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:25 pm

It's probably the ol' type-in game from Compute magazine, CIRCUS.

That game was just painfully slow.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:39 pm

The entry for Clowns in the Digital Press Vic20 guide that Ward left me states that people have come across a joystick version of the game in their travels.

naujoks · Post by **naujoks** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:48 am

Well, folks, I don't want to tease you, but I have the joystick version (on tape, mind you), and I can tell you it's anything but slow (mindblowingly fast in fact), and it plays like a dream with joystick. That's why it's ony of my top 5 games.

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:43 am

naujoks wrote:Well, folks, I don't want to tease you.....

Can you make a TAP file of it and post to Arma's site????

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:04 am

naujoks is my new best friend.

naujoks · Post by **naujoks** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:47 pm

I don't know if you guys have the same thing as I do: I have a whole cassette full of cartridge games. I'm using a 16kb memory cartridge, which some wizz kid back in the 80s made switchable, so that when I flick the switch the VIC-20 shows 3.5kb free memory, but it reserves memory for the cartridge programmes. Every game has 2 parts: the first one being something like a turbo tape loader. Once that's loaded I have to type SYS4100. And - hey presto! - no 15 seconds later the programme is loaded and I can start it with SYS64802.

This is also how my version of clowns works. I haven't got the faintest idea how to convert this as a PC file!

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:00 am

Here is a joystick version:
ftp://ftp.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/vic20/roms/8k/Clowns.prg

The paddles version is a lot more fun thoug!
ftp://ftp.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/vic20/rom ... paddle.prg

One of my favourite games too!

/Anders