Thread-revival!!!: After nearly 10 years I have taken up to typing in VIC-20-programs from old german magazines again. Actually I typed the first few in back in 2012 but lost interest and only typed in a few pages every few years. The programs are of earlier magazines from 1983/1984 and there were no automatic proof-readers back then and the PETSCII-characters and cursor-comands were printed as they appear on the screen, making it much more difficult to type these in and get the correct result. Add to that the poor quality of the print-outs when the magazines just started out.
I will re-start with "Compute Mit". Before this magazine was published from May, 1985 by Tronic Verlag it was actually a weekly, then bi-weekly publication by Roeske Verlag back in late 1984. They published 8 issues from week 37 to 44, then 3 more issues named 23 to 25. There were a lot more VIC-20-programs in these magazines than later, so expect about 4 programs per issue.
I will now post these as D64-images as this makes handling easier. I will add up to a D64-image until it is full and start a new image then. So, in the end you will have a few handy D64-files much like my earlier type-ins have been converted by the excellent VIC-20 Listings website, where you can also find all the other type-ins from german magazines I typed in from 2010 onwards as D64-files:
http://www.vic20listings.freeolamail.co ... mpmit.html
Let's start with
Issue of Week 37, 1984:
https://www.tokra.de/vic/computemit/Com ... 984-1a.zip
GOLDFINGER (+16K): A multi-screen game. First you need to go the house at the top left of the screen, you can use the street on the right (safe but long), go over the turtles, which may disappear though, in the middle of the screen or go straight near the guardhouse, but a guard may randomly appear and kill you. Then before you reach the house more guards may appear, but you can hide quickly under a tree (just walk into it). Once you reach the house you must choose a floor to go to, in most rooms there will be a safe with a random combination of 2 numbers for points. Usually on the last floor there will be a computer which leads to two more mini-games (Tron-lightcycle-clone and PacMan-clone). Once you solve this and have enough points you will get the Goldfinger and must return back to the first screen to get to the helicopter. Move your player with P,L,; and "."
The game sounds much better than it plays, a "classic" type-in. The listing for this was actually spread over three issues, the second part appeared in issue 38 (as mentioned in issue 37), but they missed a full part of the program and only just printed the final 3 pages in issue 44.
HOOP CATCH (+3K): A game for two players, taking turns. You need to catch the hoops coming down the screen with your joystick. The first player to get 10 points wins. A fun little game.
UEBERWEISUNGSPROGRAMM (+8K): A program to print out money-orders, just for completists.
VC-GUNNER (unexpanded): Shoot the slow, but dangerous Schwummies coming at you. Use Q and Z to move and F to fire.
