QUIKMAN 2008 for the unexpanded VIC 20

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:08 pm

If anyone is interested in trying out a "new" game for VIC 20, I updated my 1984 version of Quikman -- only 24-years later!

Start of the project:
http://robert.hurst-ri.us/2008/10/27/qu ... revisited/

Project completion:
http://robert.hurst-ri.us/2008/11/01/pr ... s-delight/

New tribute page with all my software restored from datasette:
http://robert.hurst-ri.us/commodore/vic20.html

d0c · Post by **d0c** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:40 pm

download link to d64/prg ??

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:31 pm

d0c wrote:download link to d64/prg ??

Follow the links, read the blog entries (they're interesting) and you'll find the download links.

Thanks for the game, rhurst. Time to try it out.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:03 pm

I thought this thread said QUIKEN for the VIC. I've always wanted to do my finances on a VIC...

Smooth scrolling! This reminds me of another game that cam out around the 80s. I think it was called Pac-man or something like that. I think the sounds and speed are very accurate! The only thing Atarisoft's Ms. has to compete with this is the music interludes.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:45 am

Congratulations on this great effort. At last, a Pac-Man clone with the full original maze!
I had fun comparing the maze with the original one, and to my surprise if we scale the screenshots to the same XY ratio, they're quite the same:

I wonder if the infamous patterns still work here - I will test them soon.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:24 am

For all the other games on your page Robert, any chance of being able to supply them in PRG format for Gamebase20?

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:39 am

I can't load vsf snapshots in VICE 1.22 or 2.0

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:51 am

Very fun and smooth. Definitely captures the feeling of the arcade game with just the right pacing. Snakman was a famous commercial (machine language?) version of PacMan that could run on a standard VIC back in the day. It was good, but the motion was very fast and did not match the arcade the way yours does.

nippur72 · Post by **nippur72** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:59 am

Very good work and amazing story to read. I can definately relate to "programmers delight".

MacbthPSW · Post by **MacbthPSW** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:53 pm

Congrats on finally getting your game done, and thanks for taking the time to write everything up. I love stuff like this

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:15 am

Mayhem wrote:For all the other games on your page Robert, any chance of being able to supply them in PRG format for Gamebase20?

Yes, all programs have been converted.
http://robert.hurst-ri.us/commodore/vic20.html#Software

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:09 am

I'm sure someone (NBLA?!

) can help fix the joystick issues with "Seek and Destroy" and "Solarian"... I see you can only go right, can't go left or fire.

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:20 am

Mayhem wrote:I'm sure someone (NBLA?! ) can help fix the joystick issues with "Seek and Destroy" and "Solarian"...

Someone has called me ?

Mayhem, I've started the fix work of games that you sent me last week, i've downloaded "Seek and Destroy" and "Solarian" so after the other Formater request i will fix them too

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:45 pm

Cheers... the list of games with issues is steadily getting smaller heh...

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:53 am

"Seek and Destroy" and "Solarian" fixed and crunched.

I've sent fixed programs to Mayhem for his GB20 v2 Database.

Rhurst, send me a PM with your E-mail address if you need these files for your site too.