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by oldcomputr
Tue May 12, 2020 8:01 am
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: VIC serial number registry
Replies: 26
Views: 22861

Re: VIC serial number registry

In my (very scarce!) free time I have completely rewritten the site that hosts the registry for the VIC 1001 and VIC 20. If you’re interested in the technical details, the previous site was written from scratch in php, while now it’s based on the Laravel framework. Besides the different “engine”, th...
by oldcomputr
Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:26 am
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Cartridge and box variants - help needed
Replies: 14
Views: 8922

Re: Cartridge and box variants - help needed

I have the following English/French Canadian cartridge boxes: Clowns Supersmash Pinball Spectacular Draw Poker Personal Finance and Visible Solar System - NOTE: These are a "flip-able" instruction books / box covers. Half the book is French, half English. So depending on which way the boo...
by oldcomputr
Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:57 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Cartridge and box variants - help needed
Replies: 14
Views: 8922

Re: Cartridge and box variants - help needed

ral-clan wrote:I think I might have some of the Canadian English/French boxes you need, according to that list above. Is the list still current?
Yes, if you can confirm more En+Fr titles it would be great.
by oldcomputr
Wed Jan 09, 2019 12:42 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Cartridge and box variants - help needed
Replies: 14
Views: 8922

Re: Cartridge and box variants - help needed

B-1. Japanese small boxes (blue and red "square root" graphics). Always generic, with a label containing name and code of the game. Sometimes the label is professionally printed, other times it's a simple label printed on a dot matrix printer. I'm sure about Avenger, Rally-X, Pacman, Nigh...
by oldcomputr
Wed Jan 09, 2019 12:36 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Cartridge and box variants - help needed
Replies: 14
Views: 8922

Re: Cartridge and box variants - help needed

CARTRIDGE LABELS There are three types of labels: 1. Metal label with big text. Only a handful of games have this one. 2. Metal label with "three arrows" graphics. 3. Paper label. I would say Commodore used 8 types of labels for VIC-20 carts, although you may consider some of these except...
by oldcomputr
Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:59 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Cartridge and box variants - help needed
Replies: 14
Views: 8922

Re: Cartridge and box variants - help needed

I was going to ask, just interested in the box type, and not the artwork as I've got several variations from Australia for example. Will see if anything I have differs to the table below ;) In my article draft I mention the Australian versions, some other country specific version (I have a couple o...
by oldcomputr
Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:34 am
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Cartridge and box variants - help needed
Replies: 14
Views: 8922

Cartridge and box variants - help needed

Hi all, I'm writing an article about all the box and cart label variants of the cartridge games made by Commodore for our beloved VIC 20. Can you help me complete the table below? I own or have photographic proof of every variant I listed, so you can focus on missing entries. BOXES For now I'm focus...
by oldcomputr
Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:59 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: VIC serial number registry
Replies: 26
Views: 22861

Re: VIC serial number registry

crock wrote:Finally got round to adding my 1001 and non-CR VIC's. They're under my full name of Rob Clarke

Rob
Yesterday I added a VIC myself and today I noticed that the total number increased :-)
by oldcomputr
Wed Jun 20, 2018 1:08 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: VIC serial number registry
Replies: 26
Views: 22861

Re: VIC serial number registry

Kakemoms wrote:Well, I ended up buying this Vic1001 myself as the seller relisted it. So now its here, and I'm going to add it :mrgreen:
Well done! I saved all the pictures from the first auction just in case I had to add the 1001 myself :-)
by oldcomputr
Fri May 25, 2018 12:53 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: VIC serial number registry
Replies: 26
Views: 22861

Re: VIC serial number registry

Now I remember why I didn't develop the option of adding VICs from eBay. 1) I must add a way to "claim" the eBay VIC if the buyer would like to add it himself; 2) The goal of the registry (I'm open to other opinions) is to have as more as possible information on a machine, especially datec...
by oldcomputr
Fri May 25, 2018 12:22 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: VIC serial number registry
Replies: 26
Views: 22861

Re: VIC serial number registry

Any way to add Vic-20's that belong to other people? E.g. there is a Vic-1001 on ebay now that is not in the registry. Not at the moment but I’ve saved many eBay VIC pictures myself on my hard drive. I thought about making a “seen online” account, I will try to figure out a nice solution as soon as...
by oldcomputr
Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:37 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: is this plunger uncommon?
Replies: 7
Views: 2224

Re: is this plunger uncommon?

I am wondering if I had a euro style key and stem and spring would it work with this keyboard? The default Eurostile stem is completely different -- see my earlier post. Eurostile keyboards don't have springs. Another strange thing about your keyboard is that it "almost" has a numeric key...
by oldcomputr
Wed Dec 06, 2017 2:00 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: is this plunger uncommon?
Replies: 7
Views: 2224

Re: is this plunger uncommon?

I made a quick image with all the key types from different VIC 20 keyboards (the PET one is actually from a PET, but it's identical on the VIC): pet-64-eurostile.jpg What you got as a spare is an Eurostile stem. For a short period Commodore had Eurostile mechanics with the 64 font on the top - and s...
by oldcomputr
Sat Oct 14, 2017 8:55 am
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: VIC serial number registry
Replies: 26
Views: 22861

Re: VIC serial number registry

Hi http://vic20.de/html/seriennummern.html Best regards Jogi Hi Jogi, I was thinking about the easiest way to add the VICs in your list to the registry (at least your VICs). If you have a txt/csv/excel/etc file I could import it. But some information is missing (motherboard, case type and optional ...
by oldcomputr
Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:11 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: VIC serial number registry
Replies: 26
Views: 22861

Re: VIC serial number registry

vicist wrote:Info to enter:
WGB 1606 W. Germany Tall / 1 324003 PET style PAL 4181 UK vicist
Thanks.
Done!