I got some more great deals on ebay, which I consider to be buried treasure, to expand on my vintage computing fun. With the earlier stuff purchased, that raises my investment to $375 total. I think I will stop there, because I now have to re-organize my playroom to make best use of my new [...]
Posts Tagged VIC20
More vintage stuff
Feb 4
Quik Death
Jan 1
As seen by this screenshot, I am still having difficulty progressing beyond the 2nd pear level. It ain’t easy anticipating the monsters’ moves at that speed, even though I have specific insight into their deterministic pursuit. Too bad, I only had this one dot left to advance to the 1st thunderbird level, where you get [...]
Programmer’s Delight
Nov 1
Earlier this morning, I had the pleasure of scratching a 24-year old itch which resulted in the 2008 completed version of Quikman for the venerable Commodore VIC20. It was just the other week I wrote about the ‘feat’ of converting a disassembled listing of my old game, reformatting it into suitable assembler source code so [...]
QUIKMAN: 1984 revisited
Oct 27
A couple of years ago, I was rejoined with my old Commodore VIC20 software library my brother had kept. Some of which were programs I wrote and saved using ordinary audio cassette tape. I decided to try and resurrect the data, because I still have my old VIC20 and datasette drive. But if the data [...]
