Found someone at the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) who is making his own Commodore PET games: https://www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/ Some cool games. He is working on a Lode Runner Clone at the moment. It's not uploaded yet. By the way can someone point me to some 8K PET games that I can load into the museum's Original Chiclet PET computer? Jeff Brace ========================================= Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 9:06 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
By the way can someone point me to some 8K PET games that I can load into the museum's Original Chiclet PET computer?
The trick with them is not so much the size but that they know about the reversed character set (compared to every Commodore computer that came after). There is a version of Space Invaders for the original PET. It does run in 8K and plays sound, just like it does on all the other models. I would not recommend letting people play on the original keyboard (game use wears the printing off the letter and does wear out the 3 keys - I had to replace the keyboard PCB on my 2001N because we literally wore the gold off the pads). I built an "arcade interface" with 3 buttons that tapped into the row and column lines I have original tapes from 1979 from Instant Software with several games. The label does say "PET 8K" but I don't remember if the games are smart enough to know about the char set differences. "Chimera" contains Reflex, Dragon, Dungeon, Dragon Hunt, Dropoff, Reflex 8K, and Batter-up "Hooptedoodle" contains Maze Chase, Missile, Bombs Away, Worm Turns, 31/Klinker, Land Mine, Deflection, and Slot Machine I also have an original tape from Creative Computing of "Conversational Games". No indication of what's on there, but I do remember playing Eliza from it. It's also possible to connect an Atari joystick to the User Port. Some games did support that. -ethan
Thanks for the information. Bobby On Friday, February 19, 2021, 02:03:04 AM EST, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 9:06 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
By the way can someone point me to some 8K PET games that I can load into the museum's Original Chiclet PET computer?
The trick with them is not so much the size but that they know about the reversed character set (compared to every Commodore computer that came after). There is a version of Space Invaders for the original PET. It does run in 8K and plays sound, just like it does on all the other models. I would not recommend letting people play on the original keyboard (game use wears the printing off the letter and does wear out the 3 keys - I had to replace the keyboard PCB on my 2001N because we literally wore the gold off the pads). I built an "arcade interface" with 3 buttons that tapped into the row and column lines I have original tapes from 1979 from Instant Software with several games. The label does say "PET 8K" but I don't remember if the games are smart enough to know about the char set differences. "Chimera" contains Reflex, Dragon, Dungeon, Dragon Hunt, Dropoff, Reflex 8K, and Batter-up "Hooptedoodle" contains Maze Chase, Missile, Bombs Away, Worm Turns, 31/Klinker, Land Mine, Deflection, and Slot Machine I also have an original tape from Creative Computing of "Conversational Games". No indication of what's on there, but I do remember playing Eliza from it. It's also possible to connect an Atari joystick to the User Port. Some games did support that. -ethan
On 2/19/2021 2:02 AM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 9:06 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
By the way can someone point me to some 8K PET games that I can load into the museum's Original Chiclet PET computer? The trick with them is not so much the size but that they know about the reversed character set (compared to every Commodore computer that came after).
There is a version of Space Invaders for the original PET. It does run in 8K and plays sound, just like it does on all the other models.
I would not recommend letting people play on the original keyboard (game use wears the printing off the letter and does wear out the 3 keys - I had to replace the keyboard PCB on my 2001N because we literally wore the gold off the pads). I built an "arcade interface" with 3 buttons that tapped into the row and column lines THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. I have brought my 4016 to science events and it has had a ton of use too. I think I'll do the same if I take it out again!
I have original tapes from 1979 from Instant Software with several games. The label does say "PET 8K" but I don't remember if the games are smart enough to know about the char set differences.
"Chimera" contains Reflex, Dragon, Dungeon, Dragon Hunt, Dropoff, Reflex 8K, and Batter-up "Hooptedoodle" contains Maze Chase, Missile, Bombs Away, Worm Turns, 31/Klinker, Land Mine, Deflection, and Slot Machine
I also have an original tape from Creative Computing of "Conversational Games". No indication of what's on there, but I do remember playing Eliza from it.
It's also possible to connect an Atari joystick to the User Port. Some games did support that.
-ethan
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 2:45 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 2/19/2021 2:02 AM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I would not recommend letting people play on the original keyboard (game use wears the printing off the letter and does wear out the 3 keys - I had to replace the keyboard PCB on my 2001N because we literally wore the gold off the pads). I built an "arcade interface" with 3 buttons that tapped into the row and column lines
THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. I have brought my 4016 to science events and it has had a ton of use too. I think I'll do the same if I take it out again!
I made this from a damaged Radio Shack 150-in-one frame. I cut the long sides away and left the wire tray intact. The old bottom serves to stabilize it and fits right between the feet on the PET. The buttons are real arcade buttons, bought as spares around 1980. I recycled the keyboard harness from the bad PCB for the connector. There are 4 wires coming off of my new cable - row and 'A', "4', and '6'. No programming changes required. -ethan P.S. - if there's no photo, that's because the list software stripped it off.
There is no photo. Can you share another way? On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 2:51 PM Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 2:45 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 2/19/2021 2:02 AM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I would not recommend letting people play on the original keyboard (game use wears the printing off the letter and does wear out the 3 keys - I had to replace the keyboard PCB on my 2001N because we literally wore the gold off the pads). I built an "arcade interface" with 3 buttons that tapped into the row and column lines
THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. I have brought my 4016 to science events and it has had a ton of use too. I think I'll do the same if I take it out again!
I made this from a damaged Radio Shack 150-in-one frame. I cut the long sides away and left the wire tray intact. The old bottom serves to stabilize it and fits right between the feet on the PET.
The buttons are real arcade buttons, bought as spares around 1980. I recycled the keyboard harness from the bad PCB for the connector. There are 4 wires coming off of my new cable - row and 'A', "4', and '6'. No programming changes required.
-ethan
P.S. - if there's no photo, that's because the list software stripped it off.
I use https://imgur.com, free and easy to use and share... -andy
On Feb 19, 2021, at 3:11 PM, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
There is no photo. Can you share another way?
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 2:51 PM Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 2:45 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 2/19/2021 2:02 AM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I would not recommend letting people play on the original keyboard (game use wears the printing off the letter and does wear out the 3 keys - I had to replace the keyboard PCB on my 2001N because we literally wore the gold off the pads). I built an "arcade interface" with 3 buttons that tapped into the row and column lines
THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. I have brought my 4016 to science events and it has had a ton of use too. I think I'll do the same if I take it out again!
I made this from a damaged Radio Shack 150-in-one frame. I cut the long sides away and left the wire tray intact. The old bottom serves to stabilize it and fits right between the feet on the PET.
The buttons are real arcade buttons, bought as spares around 1980. I recycled the keyboard harness from the bad PCB for the connector. There are 4 wires coming off of my new cable - row and 'A', "4', and '6'. No programming changes required.
-ethan
P.S. - if there's no photo, that's because the list software stripped it off.
There are spare arcade buttons at CDL that can be picked up during the next workshop Martin On 2/19/2021 2:45 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 2/19/2021 2:02 AM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 9:06 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
By the way can someone point me to some 8K PET games that I can load into the museum's Original Chiclet PET computer? The trick with them is not so much the size but that they know about the reversed character set (compared to every Commodore computer that came after).
There is a version of Space Invaders for the original PET. It does run in 8K and plays sound, just like it does on all the other models.
I would not recommend letting people play on the original keyboard (game use wears the printing off the letter and does wear out the 3 keys - I had to replace the keyboard PCB on my 2001N because we literally wore the gold off the pads). I built an "arcade interface" with 3 buttons that tapped into the row and column lines THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. I have brought my 4016 to science events and it has had a ton of use too. I think I'll do the same if I take it out again!
I have original tapes from 1979 from Instant Software with several games. The label does say "PET 8K" but I don't remember if the games are smart enough to know about the char set differences.
"Chimera" contains Reflex, Dragon, Dungeon, Dragon Hunt, Dropoff, Reflex 8K, and Batter-up "Hooptedoodle" contains Maze Chase, Missile, Bombs Away, Worm Turns, 31/Klinker, Land Mine, Deflection, and Slot Machine
I also have an original tape from Creative Computing of "Conversational Games". No indication of what's on there, but I do remember playing Eliza from it.
It's also possible to connect an Atari joystick to the User Port. Some games did support that.
-ethan
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