Denial

Most likely the reason is that older keyboards had the letters and symbols molded into the plastic, while today's keyboards have the letters and symbols painted/silk-screened on. If you pop off one of the key caps off a Commodore keyboard, (I don't suggest you do this!) you'll probably notice that t...

First video game: Don't know if it counts, but in the mid 1970's, there was a mechanical version of pong that was sold at Montgomery Ward, with a moving light that shined onto the back of a translucent plastic screen. The light moved back and forth between two tennis rackets silk-screened onto the ...

EVER: 1980, Dungeon, on the PET at school (10th grade), it was a type-in from a book. Took me about 2 weeks to type it in. HOME: 1982, Atari 2600 Asteroids. A friend brought his system to my house, I didn't have one yet. But I got one the next day! :) ARCADE: 1982, Asteroids. Always has been my favo...

brain wrote:Yes, I am in production now on a slightly newer version of the PCB (same functionality, but buttons are on the back of the case, and minor other changes)

Prices are $59.99 for the uncased version, $64.99 for one with a case.

Jim

Do you have an ETA?
I'm very interested in getting one.

Thanks.

As long as it's labeled as a "Patched" version, I don't see any harm.

It seems there is also an easter egg/hidden text in this cartridge: RECRUIT BEACON COSMOS SWAP AVER WARRANTYDISK HEXAGON GAZEBO 1982 CHARLES GOLDMAN This is a text sequence at the end of $600 bytes in rom and it sounds strange to me, what do you think ? Maybe Charles Goldman is the Programmer and 1...

Here is the word list that I copied from the ROM image for testing.

http://www.mediafire.com/?v7wpswcd7khikxk

I'm attempting to write a program that will allow you to create/edit word lists on the VIC but it's late here, 1:30am, if someone else want to take a stab at it, I don't mind.

Thanks nbla000, I suspected it was just a mistake. I've been playing around with this, and I really don't think it was meant to be an auto-starting cartridge. When you select option 5 "Load from cassette" (in the patched version) it seems to return to BASIC and lock-up, probably because th...

Back in the day, I was mostly into adventure/puzzle games such as the Zork series, I wasn't a big fan of platformers like Mario or Sonic. I remember when Wolfenstein 3D came out, I was hooked, along with the Doom and Quake series. The Half-Life series was great, maybe someday they'll finish it. As w...

Nice job e5frog, the 4k version works great!

I noticed that you set the RESET vector to $AFA2 but your patch is actually at $AFAE, was there a reason for that?

Good choice! Every VIC should have a Megacart.
Most awsome device ever devise for the VIC!!!!

Sounds like you have either a stuck C= (commodore key) or you held the number 6 key once when you booted up.

With the MC inserted try holding the number 0 key then power up, that should reset to the main menu.

You might also try holding the CTRL key on power up, and select "RESET PREFS".

I really don't see a problem with extending the N.C. lines into the expander. It seems that if they were going to cause a problem, they would have done so on other expanders by now. I have a hesware 5 port expander and it has all lines including 20 & Y connected to all 5 ports. I've had no probl...

eslapion is correct. Here is a link to a picture of a VIC-1111 (16k cartridge) and you can see the large gap between the right edge of the pcb edge connector and the edge of the case is approximately 2.5cm or about 1 inch. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/4853_-_VIC-1111_16K_...

With a 16K ram from Commodore, you can't put ram in block 5 and then you can't play copied plugin games. That's not true. The VIC-1111 16k cart is like having 2 VIC-1110 8k carts in one. Just open the cartridge and in the lower center of the board cut the jumper that's marked with a 5 and put a dro...