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GCart - VIC20 | The project of Thomas Lövskog the GCart is one step further. After a long time the proto-type circuit boards have arrived. The GCart will have the following features: 64k - 1024k SRAM, 8k Kernal, Disk-management and Basic extensions with full screen editor, SD card, Audio decoder for MIDI, MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, etc, RTC with battery backup, WiFi, 3 buttons (RESET, NMI, DISK) and a display for text, icons etc.

VIC20 - Game Compilation B | Vicman has made a compilation of games. You can watch videos of games for the Commodore VIC20. This time you can see the games that start with the letter B: Backfire, Balloon Dodger, Barrier Battle, Battleship, Bee Trap, Bewitched, Birds, Black Max, Blam!, Blitzkrieg, Blue Star, Bomber, Bombs Away and many more.

Vicious SID Converter | Kananga is working on a conversion program that will make VIC-20 versions of SID music. The converter is based on the Aleksi Eeben's SID Emu and will work on a Commodore VIC-20 with an 8 kB memory expansion. You can now listen to examples he already made, such as Commando, Cybernoid, IK and Zoids.

Cometfall - VIC20 | Cometfall is a new adventure game for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Kweepa. To play the game you need a real VIC-20 with a 16 kB expansion or an emulator. You can also play the game on-line. The game is a science fiction text game. With help you will get a list of possible commands and you can also use the Infocom short-keys (n,s,e,w,u,d,i,z,x).

Rethinking Art and the Machine | Schema (Leif Bloomquist) made a new music track. The music is made on a VIC-20 and was optimized with FL Studio (phaser/reverb/equalizer, mild overdrive). The music was made for the Art and the Machine (RAM) presentation. RAM is a showcase for artists who work with art and electronic technology, light, graphics, robots and virtual reality.

Fickle - VIC20 | Malcolm Tyrrell made a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game Fickle is a real-time one-button puzzle game and is an entry for the Minigame Compo 2011. Malcom is also working on a NTSC version of the game and he wants to add a teleporter to the game in the future.

Theater of War III: Western Front 1918 - VIC20 | Theater of War II: The Pacific is a strategy game for the Commodore VC-20 made by Ghislain. To play the game you need a (unexpanded) VIC-20 and a disk drive or an emulator. In the game you are a commander of the German Empire's army. Your task will be to take on the French forces as you advance to the Marne river, and then onwards to Paris. There is also a two-player option.

FE3 Task Switcher | Kananga released a new program for the Final Expansion 3. This program allows you to have up to eight virtual environments (tasks) on your VIC-20 with a FE3 simultaneously. The supervisor and SJLoad will be loaded at start up. You can create and reset tasks, switch between them by using the restore key or a SYS call, and you can save or load a task.

FE3 RAM Disk v0.8 | Kananga has released an update for the FE3 RAM disk for the Commodore VIC-20. Change in this versions: Improvements for loading and saving data. The commands Scratch and Rename are now stable. Experimental support for REL files.

Theater of War II: The Pacific - VIC20 | Theater of War II: The Pacific is a strategy game for the Commodore VC-20 made by Ghislain. To play the game you need a (unexpanded) VIC-20 and a disk drive or an emulator. In the game you are in the Pacific Ocean where you command the Imperial Japanese Navy against the American forces. You can achieve the ultimate victory if you complete all five levels. There is also a two-player option.

The Last VIC - VIC-20 | Orion70 made a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game The Last VIC is an conversion from the Commodore C16 game Earth Defender, made by R. Adling. The game uses the hi-res 160x192 graphics from Mike's Minigrafik extension. In the game you need to defend your home planet. You must destroy all the bombs with your canon. The game can be played on a real VIC-20 with 8KByte extra RAM or an emulator.

Blitz - Andriod | Caffeine Kid released a classic Commodore VIC-20 game for Andriod. The game Blitz was original written by Peter Calver for the Commodore PET and was named Air Attack. The game was later converted by Simon Taylor and published under the name Blitz. In the game you need to destroy a city with a small airplane. You can use your bombs to destroy the building but don not fly into the buildings.

FE3 RAM Disk v0.7 | Kananga has released an update for the FE3 RAM disk for the Commodore VIC-20. Changes: Support for the wildcards ? and *. You can now replace a file with SAVE @:name,13. Support for the command channel (15) with status, scratch and rename.

FE3 RAM Disk | Kananga is working on a RAM disk for the Commodore VIC-20 and the Final Expansion 3. This RAM disk makes use of the 512 kByte of extra RAM from the FE3 and will give you a virtual disk with 1651 blocks free. At the moment Kananga is working on making the RAM disk faster, but you can try the beta version.

Takeover - VIC20 | Takeover is a game for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Orion70. The game is a conversion of the C64 version made by Humphrey Walwyn in 1984. In this strategy game you must try to take over the government. You must defeat the evil president Xerxes by taking over as many buildings as you can. To play the game you need a VIC-20 with 16 kByte extra RAM or an emulator.

Diamond Hunt 2 | Greyhost (Rob) has released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. He wrote the game many years ago in BASIC, but he now re-wrote the game in machine language with the help of CBMprg Studio. It is an arcade/maze type of game. Grab the diamonds and escape before the monsters get you. Increasing difficulty as you progress (more, faster, and smarter monsters).

Realms of Quest I: Anniversary Edition | Ghislain released a special edition of Realms of Quest I. In this version the following changes: User-friendly instructions, Unique names for each of the 36 magic spells, Better interface, display and text. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 + disk drive or with a Commodore VIC-20 emulator. Instructions and a Book of Beasts can be read from the main game menu.

GCart - VIC-20 | Thomas Lövskog is working on a new cartridge for the Commodore VIC-20. The cartridge will have the following features: 64k - 1024k SRAM, 8k Kernal, Diskmanagement and Basic extensions with fullscreen editor, SD card, Audio decoder for MIDI, MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, etc, RTC with battery backup, WiFi, 3 buttons (RESET, NMI, DISK) and a 0.96 display for text, icons etc. At the moment Thomas is working on the design of the printed circuit board, after that he wants to make the first proto-types.

Vic20 - Game Compilation A | Vicman has made a compilation of games. He shows in his video games for the Commodore VIC-20. This time you can see the games that start with the letter A: Aardvark Attack, Aavelabyrintti, A-B-C legen, Abductor, ACE, Acey Ducey and Acrobat.

Realms of Quest II - VIC20 | Ghislain released an enhanced version of Realms of Quest II. It is now 20 years ago that the original Realms of Quest I computer role-playing game was released. This anniversary version has new graphics and a mini game. Instructions on how to play the game can be accessed from the main game menu.

The Keep - VIC20 | The Keep is a new First Person game for the Commodore Vic 20. Make your way to floor 256 before your lamp expires! Choose from a fixed series of maps, or random maps. The game can be played on a un-expanded VIC-20 with the keyboard or the joystick.

Vic20 - Game Compilation Part 1 | Vicman has made a compilation of games. He shows in his video games for the Commodore VIC-20. This time you can see the games that start with numbers. A few examples are: 3 Deep Space, 3D Labyrinth (Llamasoft), 3D Maze (Galactic Software), 3D Tic Tac Toe, 4 op een Rij and more.

Yes VIC can | Tokra released a demo for the Commodore VIC-20 on the Revision 2011 party in Germany, and it reached the 5th place in the wild category . The demo is a slide show that uses a new graphics-mode. This mode offers 104 x 256 pixels and 3 fixed colors in each of the 256 lines plus 1 color per 4 x 8 block. The hardware requirements are a VIC-20 (PAL) with a 16K RAM expansion.

CardSwipe | CardSwipe is a game for the Commodore VIC-20 and the C64. In the game you must collect one card of each type (Ace, King, Queen and Jack) from a 4 x 4 matrix of colored cards. You can play with four players and you can earn more points if you collect cards with the same color.

Theater of War - VIC20 | Ghislain released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. It is a tactical strategy game where you play the role of a German general on the Eastern Front in Russia. It is 1943 and the Germans lost the battle for Stalingrad. The German troops are regrouping for the next battle. You have to plan your strategy carefully, because your units have strengths and weaknesses. The game has a two-player option.

Sprite Invaders - VIC20 | Robert Hurst released a clone of a classic arcade hit. The game is written in ca65 assembler and uses the VIC Software Sprite Stack. To play the game you need a Commodore VIC 20 with 8k RAM expansion and a joystick. You can download the game including the sources from Robert's web page.

Break-Out! - VIC-20 | Robert Hurst has released a Commodore VIC-20 version of the classic Atari classic game BREAKOUT. The game is written machine language and requires a VIC-20 with a 8 kByte RAM expansion. You can play the game with a paddle but it can also be played with a joystick (auto-detection). The game has also a two player mode. You can read more about the game on the Denial web page.

Balls to the Walls | Jonathan Andrews (DrewSoft) released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. Balls to the Walls is an action game where you break through barriers. The game has 34 screens and can be played with a VIC-20 and a 16 kByte expansion or a emulator. If you succeed to get all 34 levels you can play them again at greater speed.

MAXIGRAFIK | MAXIGRAFIK is a BASIC extension which provides true 208x256 pixel high-resolution graphics on a PAL VIC-20. The program is made by Mike and tokra and requires a Commodore VIC-20 with a 24 kByte RAM expansion. The new commands are CLEAR, SHOW, DRAW, CIRCLE, COLOR, MULTI, GSAVE, GLOAD and the new functions POINT() and ADR(). You can read more about MAXIGRAFIK on the VIC-20 Denial forum.

Pillow Fight | Jeffrey Daniels released another BASIC game for the Commodore VIC-20. This time an action game where you bounce off the boundaries. You can play the game on a un-expanded VIC-20 with a joystick.

The Great Adventure | TGA (The Great Adventure) is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is a conversion of the C64 game from 1983 by Alessandro Castellari and can be played on a VIC-20 with a 24 kByte memory expansion. The conversion of TGA was done by Orion70 and Mike did the graphics and bootloader.

ODI EST AMO | Jeffrey Daniels released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. This time Jeffrey created a puzzle game. There is no manual so you have to find out yourself how the game works. The game can be played with a non-expanded VIC-20 or with an emulator.

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