As part of our Christmas updates, we present a set of preservations of various titles for the Commodore VIC-20 and ZX Spectrum. Many of the VIC-20 titles have already been preserved, but there are quite a few bits and pieces not yet preserved until now.
This was part of a lot preserved when we backed up and saved Monster Muncher on the VIC-20. It is a huge thank you to the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester, who kindly allowed us to borrow the tapes to preserve.
First up, a long lost ZX Spectrum utility:
Marks Book
Wasn’t 100% sure what this was going to be, or the format – but it turned out to be a ZX Spectrum utility for recording marks. Written in BASIC in 1983 and currently listed as Missing In Action.
Downloads
- ZX-MarksBookTZX (see below for tape photo and scans)
- ZX-MarksBookWAV
Various VIC-20 titles (including some missing)
Then we have the VIC-20 games, which I have archived all together. From what I can see, the following titles are missing:
- Boggle (Runs corrupted unfortunately)
- Compile (A puzzle game – possibly only sold via mail order?)
- Indy’s 500 (Racing game)
- Metrics (Educational)
- Pascal (Educational)
- Inkosi (Educational trading game)
- Log Book (Amateur Radio utility)
The rest are a combination of released titles, but also what seems to be type ins that have errors. Some tapes had loading errors and would not run, even after many attempts – but I have saved what I can and the DMP files are present if you want to take a look.
Downloads
- VIC20-TAPs
- VIC20-DMPFiles
- Raw Scans and Photos (due to our hosting, we have split the download into several parts. Please use 7-Zip to unzip fully)
- SRowe from the Denial forums very kindly checked through and produced a set of checked/fixed version of the TAP files which you can download here.
Gallery
With a huge thank you to the kindness and generosity of the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester for the loan of the tapes. If you haven’t visited them before, then please do consider it – its a fantastic place! Also thank you to SRowe from the Denial forums for checking through and producing some fixed TAP images.
