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- Sun May 11, 2025 12:37 pm
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Future-proofing the forum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 155
Future-proofing the forum
I have noticed the forum being sluggish/slow the last few days and sometimes I even get a "429 Too Many Requests" error. I emailed joshuadenmark who is the admin and he mentioned needing to ask Jeff for login details. This got me thinking: Right now the forum seems to depend on quite some ...
- Sun May 04, 2025 11:52 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Boulder Dash Preview
- Replies: 42
- Views: 18440
Re: Boulder Dash Preview
Ulli just mentioned he put one of the cartridges for sale on Ebay:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/156955408571
Happy bidding. EU-shipping only as far as I see.
https://www.ebay.de/itm/156955408571
Happy bidding. EU-shipping only as far as I see.
- Thu May 01, 2025 2:46 am
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Live Wire VIC-20 BBS
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7084
Re: Live Wire VIC-20 BBS
I was daring. Just your standard porn-crap. I'd say moderate the bad link away and all is fine.
- Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:25 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Beta Testers Needed
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2037
Re: Beta Testers Needed
Cheers, also for the sourcecode to analyze and maybe even fix/improve the end-product even further 

- Fri Apr 25, 2025 7:49 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Beta Testers Needed
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2037
Re: Beta Testers Needed
Is there a demand for this? It would be interesting to implement (as well as the PLOT command) but is anyone ever likely to make use of it? As a general rule: Do not expect people to ever use any tool you provide for an actual product, other than tinkering with it for the fun of it. While Mike and ...
- Fri Apr 25, 2025 3:58 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Beta Testers Needed
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2037
Re: Beta Testers Needed
I didn't actually mean hires-plot but just poking to the 40-column screen-RAM. So on a usually VIC-20 with 8K expansion you do POKE 4096,1 and an "A" is shown at the top left corner. You must have some shadow-screen-RAM for your 40 column-screen I suppose, so there should be a way to displ...
- Thu Apr 24, 2025 12:04 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Beta Testers Needed
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2037
Re: Beta Testers Needed
Of the original pack I think FAT-40 (aka VIC-40) is the best yet. It provides 40x25, emulates the PET-video-RAM at 32768 ($8000) so you can POKE directly to it and even emulates the PET sound-hack that was done through its user port and later supported by Commodore as well. Some time ago I "ocr...
- Wed Apr 23, 2025 9:26 am
- Forum: Emulation and Cross Development
- Topic: Conversion of VIC-SSS-MMX to CBM prg Studio
- Replies: 39
- Views: 21854
Re: Conversion of VIC-SSS-MMX to CBM prg Studio
$0300 != $30TYA/STA $0300,X can be changed to STY $30,X
or in other words
page 3 != zeropage
- Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:07 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Boulder Dash Preview
- Replies: 42
- Views: 18440
Re: Boulder Dash Preview
There is news about this. Svolli made the hardware and produced a total of 8 officially licensed and numbered Boulder Dash-cartridges for sale. The 10 EUR licensing fee are a fact and in my opinion seem ok-ish for a cartridge-release. Mike and myself both got a cartridge for 60 EUR at the Revision-d...
- Sun Apr 13, 2025 4:05 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Unclear bug in FOR loop (was: Bugs & Quirks in the [...] ROMs)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 637
Re: Unclear bug in FOR loop (was: Bugs & Quirks in the [...] ROMs)
So? What went wrong? Your code-snippet looked fine. And the STEP -1 command was fine as well.
- Sun Apr 13, 2025 3:24 am
- Forum: Emulation and Cross Development
- Topic: BASIC Program on Cartridge
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2892
Re: BASIC Program on Cartridge
Maybe the help-screen that pops up when you start cartconv without parameters should clarify this. RIght now it just says:
-l <addr> load address
while it could say:
-l <addr> load address (decimal, use 0x-prefix for hexadecimal, e.g. 0xc000)
-l <addr> load address
while it could say:
-l <addr> load address (decimal, use 0x-prefix for hexadecimal, e.g. 0xc000)
- Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:16 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Max cartridge capacity
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1241
Re: Max cartridge capacity
Or just pop up a simple text-screen saying "Booting..." and maybe flashing the border to acknowledge to the user that the system is starting. For 2 seconds though this seems like overkill.
- Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:28 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Beta Testers Needed
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2037
Re: Beta Testers Needed
You should also have a look at these programs for inspiration: https://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10026&hilit=maxiedit A 32x16 extension by VIctragic https://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=8375&hilit=maxiedit My very own Maxi-/Uberedit ...
- Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:45 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Beta Testers Needed
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2037
Re: Beta Testers Needed
Is this the same as this? https://web.archive.org/web/20151028171029/https://vicpp.blogspot.com/p/this-is-test-page_8.html which has been discussed here? https://sleepingelephant.com/~sleeping/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6835 Either way, I'd for sure like to test-drive this and maybe compare...
- Wed Apr 02, 2025 2:46 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: PAL CR VIC-20 With Dot Crawl & Ringing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 326
Re: PAL CR VIC-20 With Dot Crawl & Ringing
The first step should always be the S-Video mod. Most likely this will "fix" the issue.