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VIC-20 Software Releases of 2021

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Author: Andy Hewitt - HEWCO
Released: 1st January 2021
Genre: Action maze explorer
Code: Machine Code (Turbo Rascal)
Requirements: unexpanded VIC-20 with joystick

Description:

It is 2020. It has been 2020 forever. It will be 2020 forever more. You must escape 2020.

Collect all 44 keys from the rooms of 2020 and find the exit to escape. Your task won't be easy.
There are monsters roaming the many rooms and they aren't looking to be your friend. Blast them
before you become their dinner. Oh, did I say they have acid for blood? Well of course they do,
this is 2020 afterall.

Use the joystick to run around and shoot. Watch out when entering a room - you'll only get a second
to avoid any monsters that are close by.

Screenshots:
cover.png
escape2 73.png
Animated GIF:
escape2020-release.gif
(Click to play GIF)

Download (tape and disk):

Download for free (donations also welcome)


Read more about it here.
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Author: Jeffrey Daniels
Genre: Casual Puzzle game
Code: BASIC
Requirements: unexpanded VIC-20 (joystick optional)

Description: a pick-up-and-play puzzle game using the number keys or joystick to play.

Screenshot:
Image

Download (now on itch): DOWNLOAD

Read more and discuss Underwater Basket Weaving HERE.
High Scores, Links, and Jeff's Basic Games page.
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Release: DirPlus V4.1.1
Author: Boray (Anders Persson)
Released: 1st January 2021
Genre: Program starter / File Manager
Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20. Recommended: Fully expanded Vic-20. (Also works on C64 and Plus/4)

Description:
DIRPLUS is a SD2IEC file browser, program starter and file manager solution for your Commodore 8 bit home computer.

This is an update only affecting the Vic-20. The routine to detect and locate sjload in memory was moved from basic to machine language and now works 100 times better. (It now makes a checksum from all bytes in question instead of only 1/100 of them).

You can also remove sjload from memory at startup by holding down the Shift key while DirPlus is loading/starting. Holding down Shift will in other words show you the start menu even if sjload previously was loaded. This way you can more easily disable or change the position of sjload.

Download from web page:
http://www.boray.se/commodore/dirplus/

Discussion:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=216
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Author: Kalle Lundberg, Arvid and Irma Green
Released: 5th January 2021
Genre: Game of Dices, Yatzy
Code: BASIC
Requirements: none

Full story and downloads: http://techblog.se/retro/yatzee/
Youtube demo: https://youtu.be/L9DIVweizrc

Description:

After 25 years I dug up my VIC from the basement to teach my kids about programming. After that I just kept going for a while, and a small game of Yatzy was implemented.

After teaching the kids about the art of swapping (I was never much of a coder, but I spent many hours duplicating cassettes), they helped me finish a cassette cover. My son misspelled the name when doing the cover art, so we re-branded the game to the somewhat unique title "Yatzee".

We have a small number of physical cassettes, and we would love to send them to someone like in the good old days. If you send us a postcard, we'll send you a cassette back. PM me for the postal address.

Physical Cassette:
Yatzee.jpg


Screenshot (a REAL screenshot, photo of a CRT!):
Yatzee-screenshot.jpg

Read more and discuss Yatzee here.
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Release: Boray's SD2IEC music V1 with the V3 player
Author: Boray (Anders Persson)
Released: January 7th 2021
Genre: Music/Demo
Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20 + SD2IEC (or the VICE emulator).

Description:
This is the original Boray player V1 music tracks from 2013 but using the better V3 player instead. (I had the tracks on my SD card and wanted to listen in better quality :) )

Download:
http://www.boray.se/commodore/v1-music-v3-play.zip

Web page:
http://www.boray.se/commodore/boraysd2iecplayer.html
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Title: VICARATE 3.5
Requirements: PAL/NTSC VIC20 (unexpanded), Joystick
Code: Assembly
Author: Henner Kessler
Grafic: PAC-MAN-RED
Released: 07.01.2021
Genre: Fighting game

Supplementary notes:
- the 2-player-mode supports the protovision 4 player interface to play with two joysticks
- load with LOAD"*",8
- This game doesn't work with an plugged-in RAM expansion



discuss here:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9983

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Title: Nyan cat meme
Author: Javier Gonzalez
Released: 14th January 2021
Genre: Demo
Code: Assembly
Requirements: +8k

Tested on VICE emulator in PAL and NTSC.
It uses 26 columns, so I'm not sure how it fits real monitors, specially NTSC.

Discuss:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9995

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Title: VIC Terminal
Author: Francesco Sblendorio
Released: Jan 10, 2021
Genre: Application
Code: C
Requirements: no

https://github.com/sblendorio/victerm300

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Title: Flight
Author: Gianluca Prato
Retrieved and published online: Astrocity
Debugged: Srowe, Tokra
Released: Apr, 1986
Listing and Italian instructions
Genre: flight simulator
Code: BASIC
Requirements: +16 Kb

Discuss and download game + English instructions HERE
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Title: Saturn Caves
Author: Fabio Siani
Retrieved and published online: Astrocity
Debugged: Noizer, Vicist
Released: Dec, 1985
Listing and Italian instructions
Genre: arcade adventure
Code: BASIC
Requirements: +16 Kb

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Name: Trolley Problem
Author: Jason Justian
Genre: Puzzle/Arcade Game
Code: Machine Language
Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20, Joystick
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
Availability:
* Purchase on cassette tape - https://www.etsy.com/listing/940756962/ ... for-vic-20
* Download - https://github.com/Chysn/VIC20-TrolleyProblem/releases
Description: Switches guide the trolley to pick up riders, and drop them off at the depot on time. Trolley Problem has 12 levels of increasing difficulty. The STOP key restarts the current level.

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For more info and download, see viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10006
VIC-20 Projects: wAx Assembler, TRBo: Turtle RescueBot, Helix Colony, Sub Med, Trolley Problem, Dungeon of Dance, ZEPTOPOLIS, MIDI KERNAL, The Archivist, Ed for Prophet-5

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Name: Attack of the PETSCII Robots
Released: February 2021
Author: David Murray (The 8-Bit Guy)
Genre: Puzzle/Arcade Game
Code: Machine Language
Requirements: VIC-20 with 35K expansion
Availability:
Purchase here: http://www.the8bitguy.com/product/petscii-robots/
Description: Sometime in the future, robots will attempt to take over human settlements on a series of planets not too far from us. Your goal is to infiltrate these settlements and destroy all the robots.

Screenshot:
box-shot04-vic20.png

I thought I'd post this commercial release here, since it is a very interesting and complex game. Also it is one of the few games to require a 35K-expansion and the boxed-version also comes with a userport-adapter that allows to connect a SNES-gamepad which is made full use of, shoulder-buttons and start/select-buttons included. Keyboard control is available as well.
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Name: TypeFile, TypeWriter (using 64text)
Released: March 2021
Author: Aleksi Eeben
Requirements: VIC 20 with 8K expansion or more

Almost 2 years ago, I wrote quick 64x32 text (and plotting) routines for use in VIC 20 port of the PLATO terminal. The author has been busy with other projects, so VIC 20 version of PLATO has not materialized yet.

I wanted to use the text routines for something, so here's a simple ASCII text file displayer for VIC 20 with memory expansion of at least 8K. Full 7-bit ASCII is defined. Text is not buffered, so you can't scroll up. The characters are minuscule, but almost readable :)

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typewriter.prg is another small program that just reads the keyboard and outputs text to the 64x32 character screen.

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Name: Vicships
Author: vicist
Genre: Puzzle
Code: BASIC + mc
Requirements: VIC-20 + 8K RAM

Description: Grid based puzzle. Replicate the enemy fleet using given clues.
Control: Keys or Joystick.
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Discuss and download:
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Post by huffelduff »

Three new games:

JAB (Just Another Breakout)
SIOUX CITY SHOWDOWN
SUPA VIDYA POKER

You can get them in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10074

Greetings
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