Getting Frogger to work

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:41 am

No, not the cartridge. I've acquired a tape that says Sega Frogger on it, Vic20 version. Except I can't work out how to get the damn thing to run, so I'm turning to the better experts here. And I have tried loading it on a C64 just to make sure it wasn't mislabelled heh.

It has 33 blocks, so I'm assuming it's an +8k game. However loading it produces garble on LIST, and typing in various POKEs beforehand (to shift the memory map) doesn't work. Using LOAD"",1,1 instead produces no contents to LIST, and if there is an SYS involved afterwards, I have no clue what it might be.

So if anyone can give me an answer, go ahead! You can grab the TAP in question from here. Bon chance!

Wilson · Post by **Wilson** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:11 pm

I get a 404 on that link.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:29 am

Duh... I put TAP not ZIP as the suffix on the file. Corrected now...

Zagon · Post by **Zagon** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:41 am

Use LOAD"",1,1 to load and SYS8192 to start. It loads to $2000-$4000 so it is a +8k game.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:08 pm

I'd tried a couple of SYS there before, but not that one. Duh. Cheers heh. Now to see if I can get it self running into GB20 without having to ask someone else to do it for me

It's not a bad game really, certainly more visually impressive than any other Frogger game on the Vic20 from the era...