I ran across this avid YouTube poster and retro gamer fan from Canada who was showcasing his latest find in Omega Race on the VIC 20. Great video review, so after a few emails exchanged, I shipped a couple of cassette tapes housing my homebrew video games in Berzerk MMX, Omega Fury, and Quikman+. Watch [...]
Posts Tagged VIC20
Atarileaf’s Video Review
Jul 23
New High Score!
Jul 1
Yes, it is a rare treat to surpass my typical game-playing abilities, and today I set a personal best score at my Quikman video game. I think it helped playing it on a real VIC 20, too, although it really should not matter. Perhaps there is old muscle memory kicking in from squeezing the bat-handled [...]
Running VICE
Mar 13
VICE is a conglomerate of Commodore 8-bit emulators. For the inexperienced user looking to do some retro-gaming from those wildly popular machines from the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, it can be a daunting and frustrating task to operate those “friendly” computers. Particularly because you had varying-sized game cartridges, floppy software, cassette software, and [...]
Berzerk MMX
Mar 5
Today, I release another arcade classic clone for the venerable Commodore VIC 20. This time it is based on the 1980 Stern hit, Berzerk. It did not take 24-years to complete like Quikman possessed me, just a mere couple of months between commuter rail rides and some weekend tinkering. Still, it came out pretty good [...]
During the Amiga heyday in the early 1990s, I wrote a standalone BBS program called ‘Hack & Slash’. It was a port from an Apple ][ BASIC program, but heavily customized and enhanced using C and “modern” telecommunications and protocols for color, graphics, and sound.
I thought I was really clever at the time writing my [...]
