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by craftsman1234
Sat Apr 28, 2018 1:15 am
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Vic 20 Issues
Replies: 2
Views: 4277

Re: Vic 20 Issues

Follow up to this . I ended up removing the kernel character set basic and the 555. It turned out the biggest problem was the Vic chip. Now I can get a boot up screen but all the characters are the @ symbol. stays this way for about 30 seconds or until the computer starts to warm up . Check out the ...
by craftsman1234
Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:50 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Vic 20 Issues
Replies: 2
Views: 4277

Vic 20 Issues

Hey got another Vic-20 in bin of other Commodore stuff. Cleaned it up and tested it out. Worked great. Even hooked up to a test harness no issues. Ran for two days straight. Then the screen went blank. Well almost. See the below videos. One is stock on a 1902. Running Avenger, I've also ran Radar Ra...
by craftsman1234
Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:55 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Composite Mod for Atari Pong
Replies: 7
Views: 9243

Re: Composite Mod for Atari Pong

Hey I know this is an older thread but was anyone successful in doing this ?
by craftsman1234
Thu Sep 14, 2017 10:42 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Introducing NinjaTerm 2.0
Replies: 22
Views: 13612

Re: Introducing NinjaTerm 2.0

Been testing this out on ParticlesBBS. With my set up 2400 bauds works great with no errors. The address book does work but Iong names can not be entered. Particlesbbs.dyndns.org will not fit. Luckily TCPSER has an address feature so I have the BBS names as "1". So the address book works t...
by craftsman1234
Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:44 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Introducing NinjaTerm 2.0
Replies: 22
Views: 13612

Re: Introducing NinjaTerm 2.0

This is really nice and I am currently testing it out with a GGlabs card to a Raspberry PI set-up.

Can't get the address book to add new entries but am still fiddling around with it.
by craftsman1234
Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:49 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Introducing NinjaTerm 2.0
Replies: 22
Views: 13612

Introducing NinjaTerm 2.0

Name: NinjaTerm Author: The Sharp Ninja (Payton Byrd) Released: September 2, 2017 Genre: Communications Requirements: VIC-20 16k+ Description: Communications terminal to get your VIC 20 online. Works with any userport modem, including WIFI modems and tcpser. Screenshot: ninjaterm-options.png Projec...
by craftsman1234
Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:48 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)
Replies: 56
Views: 7215

Re: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)

bobbi and updates?
by craftsman1234
Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:24 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)
Replies: 56
Views: 7215

Re: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)

craftsman1234 wrote:
craftsman1234 wrote:
Bobbi wrote:Yay :)
Still going. Where is that bunny?
It ended up going all night no crash. I stopped it at 9:35am. 22 hours.

I'm running CSDb now.
And CSDb fail after the first round?
by craftsman1234
Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:40 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)
Replies: 56
Views: 7215

Re: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)

craftsman1234 wrote:
Bobbi wrote:Yay :)
Still going. Where is that bunny?
It ended up going all night no crash. I stopped it at 9:35am. 22 hours.

I'm running CSDb now.
by craftsman1234
Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:13 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)
Replies: 56
Views: 7215

Re: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)

Bobbi wrote:Yay :)
Still going. Where is that bunny?
by craftsman1234
Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:32 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)
Replies: 56
Views: 7215

Re: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)

Just a quick update. Vic version running the NASA feeds has been going for over 6.5 hours,
by craftsman1234
Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:59 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)
Replies: 56
Views: 7215

Re: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)

Is there a way to exit of of the feed while it is loading or if it locks up short of resetting?
by craftsman1234
Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:37 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)
Replies: 56
Views: 7215

Re: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)

Bobbi wrote:Right after I posted this it locked up on C64 (on a CBC feed).

Still, it seems pretty reliable on (NTSC) VIC-20 with WiModem now.
On the Vic-20 version with wedge (working now) it ran for over an hour going through the all the feeds in Kiosk mode. Failed during a BBC feed.
by craftsman1234
Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:37 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)
Replies: 56
Views: 7215

Re: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)

Looking at the XML for the Reuters feed, there is masses of HTML included in the <description> tag. The RSS Reader is never really going to be able to deal with this in any useful way. I have some heuristic code to discard unicode characters (which is why some feeds do not have apostrophes and acce...
by craftsman1234
Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:25 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)
Replies: 56
Views: 7215

Re: Release: CBC News App (RSS Reader)

It is good to know that the RSS Reader works with other user port Internet solutions :) Yes it is great to see it works with my hack jobs... I have seen the same overflow (ST rx) issue but is has never seemed to cause the freeze up. This is mainly in the Reuters feed and other newsgroups that I add...