{"author_link":"\/author\/misfit\/","author_name":"Misfit","author_uid":"10677","comments":[{"author_name":"Waave","author_uid":"21500","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:05am","epoch":1377486000,"text":"I really want to play this but I can't :("},{"author_name":"PoV","author_uid":"19","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:30am","epoch":1377487500,"text":"You rock!"},{"author_name":"BleuLlama","author_uid":"1591","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:05am","epoch":1377489600,"text":"This is so freaking awesome. Well worth the time to download VICE and get that running. It feels like a classic Vic game. Megacheers! :D"},{"author_name":"lesterpig","author_uid":"8433","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1377536940,"text":"Whoooa nice challenge to do a game on commodore ! You have my votes :D"},{"author_name":"Jhelle","author_uid":"2232","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1377536940,"text":"Didn't play it but it looks awesome and extra kudos for making something for an old commodore"},{"author_name":"Jools64","author_uid":"17060","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:17pm","epoch":1377537120,"text":"Took a little time to setup but it was worth it.\rThis is incredibly cool, very nice fitting graphics and classic sounds. It was a little too simple on the game-play front but considering the platform, hugely impressive."},{"author_name":"andreyin","author_uid":"15858","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1377537420,"text":"I tried downloading Vice 2.2 and I went to "File -> Autostart Disk\/Tape image" and picked ld27.d64 but after the "run" command it says ready.. am I doing something wrong? I'm sorry, I've never played anything on C64 before."},{"author_name":"Latcarf","author_uid":"19457","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:23pm","epoch":1377537480,"text":"I didn't managed to play it. I downloaded Vice (2.4) then ran `xvic vic20_fastboy_ld27.zip' (I'm using ArchLinux, in case it matters).\rI can see the first screen and hear the music. When I press space, the text "loading" is displayed, and then is replaced by "press fire" after a few seconds, but then nothing happens if I press space again (or any other key)."},{"author_name":"Zerkruemler","author_uid":"27446","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:25pm","epoch":1377537600,"text":"Oh my god! I am to old to get my hands on the VIC-20. The C=64 was already affordable when I was young, and all of my friends had one, so I have never seen the VIC-20 computer in action.\rThank you for creating this game. It is a quality like one of my first games on the C=64. But I think this game is more about the retro feeling."},{"author_name":"Kragnir","author_uid":"26709","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:32pm","epoch":1377538020,"text":"I got a tip of changing the joystick controls in the settings menu and it worked."},{"author_name":"Misfit","author_uid":"10677","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:05pm","epoch":1377540000,"text":"Few tips.. VICE has several emulators and vic-emulator is xvic.exe. Do not open C64 emulator. (See last screenshot which has VIC screen). And game needs joystick. Remember configure joystick buttons. \r\r..and remember VIC was a "father" of C64. It has only 3.5k RAM memory for games and no real bitmap graphics. :D"},{"author_name":"Latcarf","author_uid":"19457","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:33pm","epoch":1377559680,"text":"@Misfit: Thanks, it worked.\rNice little game :-)"},{"author_name":"Feysoura","author_uid":"25882","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:15pm","epoch":1377616200,"text":"Awesome"},{"author_name":"nintendoeats","author_uid":"22819","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 7:42pm","epoch":1377632220,"text":"Very cool of you to do that. The game itself is neither here nor there, but good job.\r\rLoad "*" ,8,1\r\rLoading\rReady.\rRun"},{"author_name":"Starspell","author_uid":"1791","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 7:46pm","epoch":1377632460,"text":"Can't get it going on my computer, it has an integrated num pad which is a real hassle. Props for making a game on the Commodore though!"},{"author_name":"superfrog","author_uid":"26075","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:24am","epoch":1377677940,"text":"I played with your game, and you deserve 5 stars."},{"author_name":"madk","author_uid":"1540","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1377707160,"text":"Awesome! The game is cool and that it's for the Commodore just makes it that much cooler."},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 7:09pm","epoch":1377716640,"text":"Gots to get a VIC-20!"},{"author_name":"Venturelli","author_uid":"26269","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 1:48pm","epoch":1377783780,"text":"Haha this has some serious style!"},{"author_name":"Thermite","author_uid":"27791","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 1:34am","epoch":1377826140,"text":"Amazing work! Kicking it old school :)"},{"author_name":"naufr4g0","author_uid":"4310","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 2:08pm","epoch":1377871380,"text":"You made an awesome game for a VIC-20!\rScrolling background is a real gem.\rNext time code a game in ASM: it's more oldschool! ;)"},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 7:14pm","epoch":1377889740,"text":"Nice! Maybe next time I should go for C64 ;)\r\rDownload VICE, start xvic and drag the .d64 image onto it. Configure a joystick (Numpad and RCtrl is fine)."},{"author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 10:01am","epoch":1377942960,"text":"This looks like fun. I can run your game through vice 2.3 on Linux, the music plays and pressing fire start Loading. Pressing fire the second time does nothing, sadly. There are no error messages in output. Yes I am using xvic with 2583 bytes free :] Anyone has a tip I can follow to get playing?"},{"author_name":"Misfit","author_uid":"10677","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 10:34am","epoch":1377944940,"text":"Hi kbmonkey!\rI tested it with vice 2.4 (OSX) and 2.2 and real VIC and it works ok. Remember that fire button is joystick fire button (no space). Check your joystick configuration. (space starts loading when music plays but it need joystick button before game)"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1377961560,"text":"Bold platform-choice!"},{"author_name":"haloflooder","author_uid":"18514","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 8:51pm","epoch":1377981960,"text":"Oh boy, this is just very cool. This inspires me to make a game for a TI calculator for some reason."},{"author_name":"jomomomo","author_uid":"4914","time":"Sep 2, 2013 @ 2:55am","epoch":1378090200,"text":"NO FREAKING WAY. \r\rTook me a minute to figure out VICE's key mapping.\r(Settings -> Joystick -> Select Keyset A -> make sure to map keyset a to arrow keys or something. The middle spot maps to the joystick button)\r\rDifficulty ramps up quickly. Load times on this mac book pro are pretty quick tho. \r\r\/Tip of the hat"},{"author_name":"DanteZack93","author_uid":"12548","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 9:21am","epoch":1378199760,"text":"This game is awesome, you managed to make a vic game and make it awesome. It really feels like a vic game, it feels like a classic old game really well made."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 11:20am","epoch":1378206900,"text":"A commodore-game? AMazing"},{"author_name":"udo","author_uid":"6821","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1378240860,"text":"Okay, I got the VC20 emulator running inside a VirtualBox Windows instance now, but I got no joystick. Is there any way you could just add keybindings?"},{"author_name":"Misfit","author_uid":"10677","time":"Sep 4, 2013 @ 3:59am","epoch":1378266840,"text":"@udo\rWindows VICE version : Settings -> Joystick settings... \ropens a window which provides joystick key configuration"},{"author_name":"Entity2D","author_uid":"10301","time":"Sep 4, 2013 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1378320960,"text":"Awesome VIC-20 game!"},{"author_name":"danhett","author_uid":"3764","time":"Sep 7, 2013 @ 11:18am","epoch":1378552380,"text":"This is insane! I couldn't get it working (booo) but it's a killer idea."},{"author_name":"myachin","author_uid":"10579","time":"Sep 13, 2013 @ 5:24am","epoch":1379049540,"text":"RESPECT!!!"},{"author_name":"Eelfroth","author_uid":"7288","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1379357460,"text":"Hell yes!\rThis game is awesome. Hats off to you, man!"},{"author_name":"jay griffin","author_uid":"26325","time":"Sep 17, 2013 @ 12:35am","epoch":1379377800,"text":"Man, and I thought I was retro growing up with a '64. VIC-20, that's pretty hardcore :p. Awesome stuff, really enjoyed it, and an impressive piece of work for 48 hours."}],"images":["ld27\/10677-d2b3b448ee43942eabec976a5f2943c9.jpg","ld27\/10677-590c164962cb5beb9fbb10715738c097.jpg","ld27\/10677-58313e6bc653518dfdc180f8f1221ee3.jpg","ld27\/10677-1015d8c681d06166cd3fe2dba23ba1cb.jpg","ld27\/10677-5a575e7d1832470b352eee8cc76186dd.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.riimukivi.net\/data\/fastboy\/vic20_fastboy_ld27.zip","text":"VIC-20 (DISK)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.riimukivi.net\/data\/fastboy\/vic20_fastboy_ld27_src.zip","text":"Sources (cc65)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"23052","g_author":"10677","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"23082","g_title":"Fastboy","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"36","g_commentcount":"36","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/10677-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/10677-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/10677-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/10677-shot3.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/10677-shot4.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Fastboy is a retro game for unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 (3583 bytes free).\r\n\r\nYou have 10 seconds, and you need to collect at least one diamond before the next level.\r\n\r\nRead more : http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commodore_VIC-20\r\n\r\nTested : VICE 2.2 and real VIC-20 (PAL)\r\n\r\nDownload VICE emulator : http:\/\/www.viceteam.org\/\r\n\r\nUPDATED: Few tips..\r\nIf you use VICE, xvic.exe is a VIC-20 emulator. Configure joystick and open my D64 disc image. \r\nLOAD\"*\",8,1 command loads a program if emulator does not run it automatically.\r\nRUN command starts the game (if emulator does not start it automatically)\r\nFirst you see start screen. Push joystick fire button (or space)\r\nwait.. it loads...\r\nPush joystick fire button to start the game.\r\nThanks!!","title":"Fastboy"}