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Commodore 64 developer of Altered Beast, Rampage, Atomic Robokid releases source code after 30+ years! vintageisthenewold.com

It's always great to see how someone approaches their craft. We expect to see code in this day of easy to view, public repos, but it's even cooler that old source is being made available. Wonderful to see techniques used in these very memory and CPU constrained devices.

Last Sunday, the Commodore 64/128 Programming Facebook group was carrying on its business as usual when received an invaluable gift from Michael Archer – the source code of many Commodore 64 games he programmed between 1986-1992.

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I Don't Know What I'm Doing with the Vic-20 - Part 2

Picking up where the first episode left off. The keyboard fixes finally get finished, the power switch gets sorted out, and the memory cartridges get tested to see what actually still works. From there it's on to Vic-20 expansion options, and then into the stranger corner of the software library, where the machine offers to measure your IQ and size up your personality.

It ended up being way more involved than I intended, but I had a lot of fun making it. I also mention the ANTIC Interview with Jay Balakrishnan of HESWare. Antic is a great podcast and well worth a listen.

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I Don't Know What I'm Doing with the Vic-20 - Part 1

My first official video, in which I admit I don't really know what I'm doing with the Commodore Vic-20 and then set out to fix that. The plan is simple enough: get my hands on a Vic-20, see if it still runs, and clean the whole thing up. I get most of the way there.

A few things are still outstanding, though, along with a handful of side projects that piled up along the way, so those will have to wait for the next episode. Also included are the YouTube videos and the podcast that got me started, plus links to the replica dealer sign and dust cover I picked up.

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