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Scrap Yard Scrapes - VIC20 | Kweepa made an new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is the VIC20 version of the Scrap Yard Scrapes game in in the 2013 Comp Sys Sinclair Crap Games Competition. A simple music player is added in this version. The game can be played on a standard Commodore VIC20.

Bluetooth speech synthesis | VIC-20 Scott Adams adventure games have the option to connect a Votrax type 'n talk speech synthesizer. A rare and expensive device, but now it is also possible to use your smartphone to make the famous adventure games talk. Jan Derogee made an app to make this possible.

Tau Ceti - VIC20 | Kurt Johns made a set of text adventures for the Commodore VIC-20. In the adventures you must explore the planets around Tau Ceti. You can download the game or you can buy the game on a real cassette. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20.

KNOSSOSS - VIC-20 | Kweepa release a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game KNOSSOSS is written in BASIC and is a maze game. The game has 4 unique mazes, and can be played on a unexpanded Commodore VIC-20.

Tank Battalion - VIC20 | Beamrider released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is a port of the tank arcade game from Namco. In the game you must destroy all the other 20 tanks and protect the base. For this game you need a Commodore VIC20 (PAL), a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

Super Starship Space Attack - VIC20 | Misfit released a new game for the Commodore VIC 20. In this game you must find 3 power units and escape from the spaceship. The game has three levels: easy, normal and difficult. The game can be played on a VIC20 with a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

Cassiopei - VIC-20 | The Cassiopei now supports VIC-20's that have a memory expansion. The menu program does a small analysis regarding the load-ability of the selected program and relocates the BASIC program where possible. Available are the firmware update (v20141018.hex), a menu program and a user manual.

FIFA 2014 - VIC20 | Jeff made a 2014 version of his FIFA football game. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 (keyboard). All the 32 national teams are available. There is a one player elimination mode (knock-out) and a two player mode available. Adjustable skill levels. And the vuvuzela is removed from the 2010 edition.

Threes - VIC20 | Schlowski made the game Threes for the Commodore VIC-20. In this game you must shift the tiles with numbers. When two tiles with the same number come together they will merge into one. The game can be played on a unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 or with the VICE emulator.

Bertie the Ball - VIC20 | Misfit released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game can be played with a PAL VIC with a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick. Bertie the Ball is an action-adventure / platform game and is a tribute to the C64 game Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back.

Get the Cat - VIC20 | Peter van der Woude release a game for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you must rescue your cat. You can place bricks on the floor to reach the level of your cat. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with the joystick.

ViccyBird - VIC20 | Misfit released the game ViccyBird for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is a clone of the very popular game Flappy Bird. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL) and a joystick or with the VICE emulator.

Pulse - VIC20 | Pixel released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is a fast and smooth scrolling shoot em up game for the unexpanded Commodore VIC-20. The game is inspired by the classic arcade game Gradius from Konami from the year 1985.

Panicman - VIC20 | Dane Bills released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is based on a well known 80s game and is written in assembly. The music in the game is from Jeff Messner. The game can be played on a Commodore VIC20 with an 3 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

Victorian Era VIC 20 Sound Chip Emulator | Aleksi Eeben has made an program for the Commodore 64 that can emulate the sound of the Commodore VIC-20. The player can be used to play all the VIC-20 music, and 35 examples from 4-mat, Britelite, Viznut, Mermaid and Aleksi Eeben are included.

VIC-20 flash memory expansion | Petri Häkkinen is developing a flash memory expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. At this moment he has a working prototype. He uses a 256K x 8 flash memory chip, three 74HC541 8-bit tri-state buffers and an ATMega32A micro controller. You can follow the progress of this project on Petri's blog.

Pooyan VIC-20 | Beamrider (Adrian F) released a Commodore VIC20 version of the arcade classic Pooyan. If you want to play the game you will need an Commodore VIC20 (PAL), a 16KB memory expansion and a joystick. This is not the final version and you can give your feedback about the game.

Doom - VIC20 | Kweepa released the game Doom for the Commodore VIC20. For the game you will need an Commodore VIC-20, a 35 KB memory expansion and a disk drive. The game has 8 levels, 4 enemies, 5 weapons, 11 music tracks, 20 sound effects, cheat codes, a map screen, corpses, secrets, pick-ups, exploding barrels, intermission and victory screens, and more!

Gamebase20 v0.3 | A new version of the Commodore VIC-20 Gamebase is now available. In this package you will find: Gamebase front-end, Games, Screen-shots, Extras and the VICE emulator. This version has 1485 games, 1993 screen-shot, 166 cartridges, 1136 scans, 127 manuals and 727 .tap files.

Bolder Dan - VIC20 | Bolder Dan is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Misfit. The game is based on the classic game of Boulderdash. For the game you need an unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL), a disk drive and a joystick. The game is developed with the help of cc65 and CBM prg Studio.

Fastboy - VIC20 | Fastboy is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20, made by Misfit. The game was made for the LudumDare 48h competition. In this competition you have only 48 hours to make a complete game. For the game you need an unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL), a disk drive and a joystick.

VIC-20 flash memory expansion | Phvic is developing a flash memory expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. The following features are planned: The VIC will see the flash memory as a ROM. Auto booting from the flash memory. A micro-controller will control the memory and the expansion port. At the moment the device is still in development. You can follow the progress on the Denial forum.

Tunnel - VIC20 | Tunnel is a new game for the Commodore VIC20, made by Andrea Gasparrini. The game is written in Basic. You will need an 8 kByte RAM memory expansion to play the game. You can download the game from Andrea's web page.

FCBPaint v0.6 - VIC20 | TLR released a new version of the paint program FCBPaint for the Commodore VIC20. New in this version: Pictures can now be exported as runnable binaries. Colours for the upper and lower border. Directory function. Selectable direct colour mode and a few errors were removed.

Levi's Maze - VIC20 | Victragic released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is based on the Atari VCS game Maze Craze and others. You must get to the exit on the right side of the screen, then back to either exit on the top-left or bottom-left before your time runs out. Avoid the black hounds, hitting one will knock 10 seconds off your time.

Yoho - Scott Adams interpreter - VIC20 | Kweepa made two compilation diskettes with adventure games for the Commodore VIC-20. He put eighteen classic Scott Adams onto one diskette, and the eleven Brian Howarth Mysterious Adventures on another diskette. You will need an VIC-20, disk-drive and a 24 KB memory expansion.

How Many - VIC20 | Boray made a game for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you must guess how many hearts or on the screen. The scores are 76-79%: 70 points, 80-89%: 80 points, 90-99%: 90 points and 100%: 100 points. The game continues as long as you have any energy left.

SD2IEC music player - VIC-20 | Boray made a music player for the Commodore VIC-20. If you have an SD2IEC card reader you can listen to about 60 minutes of digitized music. The audio is 4 bit 4kHz mono, so don't expect great sound quality. (~ old AM radio). You can read more about this player on Boray's web page.

Pitfall - VIC20 | Victragic is working on a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. He is making a VIC-20 version of the Atari 2600 version of the game. If you want to play the game you need an PAL version of the VIC-20 with a memory expansion. You can follow the progress on the Denial forum.

Realms of Quest IV: 4-Level Demo Version | Ghislain released a demo version of the game Realms of Quest IV for the Commodore VIC-20. To play the game you need a memory expansion (16kB or 24kB) and a disk drive. In the game you must find your way through a large labyrinth and battle with the evil time lords. The game has 10 levels, 10 races, 12 classes, 60 magic spells and 135 weapons.

Theater of War Trilogy - VIC20 | Psytronik and System IIII present the Theater of War Trilogy for the unexpanded Commodore VIC-20. This game lets you recreate battles from the First or Second World War. This commercial release includes 12 games and programs: Theater of War I, Theater of War II, Theater of War III, Break-Fast II, Face VS Heel, magiTOOL, Olympic Dash, Space Warz, Street Battle, VICroLeague Wrestling I, VICroLeague Wrestling II and Worm-Out.

Vic Menu V26 - VIC20 | Boray released a new version of Vic Menu for the Commodore VIC-20. This program can be used with a VIC-20 and original disk drive or an IEC device. The JSLOAD option will require a memory expansion. Recent changes: Improved menu, cursor keys for page changes and //:S can be used to show the current directory or sub directory.

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