
My C64 Games


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As a kid the first computer I owned was a Commodore 64, released 30 years ago.
I started learning programming by reading magazines with type-in programs,
then went on to read books on BASIC. One Christmas I asked for the Commodore
64 Programmer's Reference Guide, and quickly began learning machine language,
what each graphics or sound register was for, etc. With the help of a BASIC
assembler called BASSEM that I got from one of those magazines, I wrote faster
and more sophisticated games in 6510 assembly language. Most of my games were
ports of existing games. Even though I lacked game design skills the fun was
in programming them, and I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I enjoyed
making them. They are roughly in chronological order starting from 1986.

Phil, thanks for transferring these to CD for me all those years ago.


-Donnie Russell II


Notes:

I modified the BOOT.PRG files in the Adventure and Lemmings D64 images to work
with the VICE emulator. The listings in the PDFs are as I originally wrote
them on my hardware.

The method I used to load PRGs was to PRINT commands on the screen in a
particular format, then fill the keyboard buffer with carriage returns so that
the commands were executed automatically. The placement of commands that VICE
requires are different from what worked on my hardware.

Q-BERT.D64 was converted from a Datasette tape.

