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to: ARCADEAGE
from: SHAUN BEBBINGTON
date: 2018-04-21 12:30:00
subject: Re: Manic Miner review, b

On Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:44:41 UTC+1, ArcadeAge  wrote:
> Fans of Edvard Grieg or Monty Python will be delighted to hear or see one
thing or other that seems familiar. Btw., if you don't own a VIC-20 (I don't)
and like me don't succeed immediately trying to get the game running in VICE,
here's what I did:
> - Create an empty D64 file (I used x64, but this should work with the VIC-20
emulator as well)
> - use Starcommander in DOSBOX to copy (F5) the PRG to the D64 image
> - enable an additional 16K of RAM in the emulator
> - enable emulation of a 1541
> - autostart/mount the D64 to run the game
>
> Many thanks to Shaun Bebbington for bringing this newsgroup back to life!
>
> Chris

Thanks for the feedback. When I'm inclined to write reviews of Commodore games,
I'll post them here for people's consumption.

Regards,

Shaun.

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