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 [...]
Posts Tagged VIC20
Running VICE
Mar 13
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 a span of 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 [...]
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 [...]
OpenCBM
Jan 3
With it freezing and snowing today, I decided to make use of the idle time by hooking up my pristine VIC-1541 floppy disk drive to my workstation and do some file archiving to real 5-1/4″ media using OpenCBM under Linux. OpenCBM provides an API library and some useful command-line tools. The following is an example [...]
Mega-Cart ROM dump
Dec 23
A clever programmer (Daniel) created this special tool for Mega-Cart that does appropriate bank-switching and dumps the memory blocks to an IEC-based device — such as a Commodore 1581 floppy at .5mb chunks or the full 2mb dump of the cartridge to a more modern uIEC/SD device. There were some failure issues on every attempt, [...]
