so damn close...

Tred · Post by **Tred** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:47 am 0

The Vic-20 is still my favourite computer of all time. Of course most of that is down to nostalgia with a capital 'F' but the thought of being able to play a new vic game after all this time is well cool. Got to love the Floyd hammers too - what are the sfx like?

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:47 am 0

here's that little Breakout, not sure if anyone has this archived...

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:50 am 0

You really should do a collection of all the VIC20 stuff.

You could call it "Yak's Progress" or something

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:52 am 0

Yak wrote:here's that little Breakout, not sure if anyone has this archived...

Nope.

All donations gratefully accepted next Saturday.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:10 pm 0

Remember Rox III? For 8K Vic, right?

Well, about that "III"... it originally started as a 3.5K game that me and my Dad played during Christmas of 1981. The unexpanded version had no fancy redefined chars or aught, and was just made with Vic characters, and the "deltiod" wave and hi-score tables and stuff didn't exist.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:27 pm 0

OK, now here's a true curiosity.

Back in the bad old days when Llamasoft was still affiliated with Richard Paul Jones (who went on to start Interceptor Micro's after the split with Llamasoft), his squeaky dad ran a video shop, and RPJ decided he was going to get rich quick by selling "video titling systems" to video shop owners - which would consist of a Vic-20 and a poxy little 3.5k program he had me write to generate colour bars.

Of course that was a rubbish idea and it never got anywhere.

However here is the poxy little 3.5K program!

adam · Post by **adam** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:58 pm 0

i had a little phase of buying straight to video movies from the pound shop, i remember one of them had a title card at the start.. it was a US film but for some reason had "videos of tadcaster, weddings, duplication super 8 transfer" or something at the start... & the running time on the box was 79 minutes... when 79 minutes came on the counter, that was the end of the tape.... it was exact to the second... some economising there i think

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:28 pm 0

I've had a check and I can't find any record of anything archived you've posted so far Jeff, so all donations gratefully received for GB20 next weekend

I've got the Breakout version that you wrote for DK'tronics (on the 10 games tape) but not Micro-Breakout.

Kon-Tiki · Post by **Kon-Tiki** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:52 pm 0

Yak wrote:here's that little Breakout, not sure if anyone has this archived...

"JCM"... "Jeff Cunt Minter"?

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:53 pm 0

Kon-Tiki wrote: "JCM"... "Jeff Cunt Minter"?

Nah, it's Carlos

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:56 pm 0

Do we have Bomb Buenos Aires archived?

I have a tape here but there's a glitch in the very last data block... gnnn..

adam · Post by **adam** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:03 pm 0

patch it

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:06 pm 0

Not one of mine, but an ancient C&VG type-in!

piku · Post by **piku** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:07 pm 0

This is fascinating

It's like watching Time Team, only with less walls and trenches

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:18 pm 0

Digital archaeology, innit

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Here's one I completely don't remember writing. It takes an input phrase and then generates text based on the probability of one letter following another. I think

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