Denial

I own several IIe's. I just bought some more prototype boards for the IIe. I hope to build another Mockingboard board soon. In fact, I'm working on an experimental audio board for the VIC-20. If that works out, I'm going to take the same technique over to the IIe.

The other day I was looking for a HDD for my portable, but why does a 25 year old HDD cost 3x as much as a new one??? I have a x86 motherboard from 1997 but I'm having tough luck finding parts for it. I'm in the same situation. I'm having a hard time finding some basic parts for my 486 that I want ...

I finally got around to assembling mine this last weekend. It feels great knowing that my precious VIC/C64 are now protected.

Are you going to do another round?

Was Grand Prix ever ported to the VIC-20? I'm talking about the horizontal scrolling version from the Atari 2600.

I've looked but can't find it. Seems like a great game for the VIC and a personal classic for me.

People who didn't know better blamed Microsoft for that. I worked for a company once and my boss used to yell at Bill Gates every time his MS Word would crash or do something he didn't like. I guess you could say that Gates (at the time) was ultimately responsible for all things MS but come on....lol

Since Windows NT did not run well on pre 486DX machines, I never had any interest in them. I worked for a networking company years ago and we installed Windows NT (4) on many customers' servers. We had mixed feelings for it. We had one server actually blue-screen because we swapped out the keyboard...

Maybe there is something I don't get but I have a hard time understanding the relevance of going for a '486 machine. I maintain an old P3-600MHz Win98SE machine because it has a 3dfx Voodoo 4 AGP card and some games only run with this brand (3dfx - GLIDE) of video card. However, this machine can ru...

Thanks for the suggestions!

Perhaps the most impressive and hardware-sprite-like game is Victragic's Pitfall conversion. Hi-res character of many colors against a background of many colors

Is there a link to this game? I've tried searching but I'm not finding it.

I love Pitfall!

Yeah, it seems to be getting worse by the day. Have any of you seen that guy that sells "vintage" hard drives for $191? Drives me insane.

So, I'm trolling eBay looking for a 486 motherboard to complete a gaming PC I want to build. And as usual, the scalpers have taken over. I'm seeing tons of boards in the $150 USD to $500 range! Really? We used to toss them in the trash (boy, if I had only known!). What do you guys think a descent 48...

I somehow lost the file browser that I was using on my SD2IEC drive.

When searching online for it, I find this link a lot (http://www.vic20.it/cbmfilebrowser/) however, it appears to go to a parked domain.

Where can I find the newest file browser for my VIC-20 to read the SD card?

Thanks!

eslapion wrote:I started this project having in mind to develop my abilities and skills mostly but there are 2 units sold already... not bad.

That's awesome. Congrats on that. I do like seeing these retro-based projects take off.

I didn't mean to make this topic get out of focus. My apologies on that. For the record, I do understand the difference in FPGA design and software emulation. In fact, I've built several circuits around FPGA's. My original point was that I was surprised that a drop-in replacement for the VIC-1 or VI...

I admit, I'm still not an expert on the screen modes of the VIC-20. I've played several games but they have mostly been text based or really simple board-type games. So I was thinking...what are some of the best games out there with lots of moving sprites (and maybe even scrolling) that have the lea...

Yes, you should certainly fix it or have it fixed if you can.

Could you post some pics?