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Excellent! They look really snazzy, love the black.

If you're interested in designing your own PCBs, Fritzing is a decent (free, open-source) entry-level PCB design package. http://fritzing.org/ Doesn't have pro features, but it works well enough and is easy to learn.

As soon as Tom gives me the raw videos and I have a few days to edit+upload them. Hopefully within a couple of weeks.

CurtisP wrote:http://www.tpug.ca/category/meetings/

So how long has TPUG been around now?

Since 1978. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_PET_Users_Group

Bobbi you need to come to one of our monthly meetings! 3rd Thursday of every month.

http://www.tpug.ca/category/meetings/

http://www.worldofcommodore.ca
http://www.tpug.ca/world-of-commodore-2017/about/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1721070271529106/

The World of Commodore 2017 presented by TPUG, coming up in two weeks December 9-10 in Toronto (Mississauga).

Hope to see you there!

Anyone in out there in Ontario have something in good shape for sale? I'm in Toronto and have some spares, but that's still quite far away...Ontario is huge! I see you're close to Thunder Bay, do you know Robin Harbron? He's got a decent collection of Commodore equipment and is very knowledgeable, ...

Yeah, that's pretty pricey, plus this I noticed this:

COMMODORE VIC20 - CARTRIDGE CASE CLEAR - PRE PRODUCTION
THESE PRE-PRODUCTION CASES ARE PERFECTLY USABLE,
PRODUCTION UNIT CLOSES TIGHTER

When will we see the "production unit" ?

http://sharewareplus.blogspot.ca/2017/0 ... -here.html

Not much info unfortunately. The transparent one looks really cool! Anyone have any more details?

I am interested in one! 8) From what I read (I admit I just skimmed the thread so far), the approach sounds quite similar to that taken by the Vextrex32 cart: http://www.galacticstudios.org/vectrex32smartcart/ They also have dual-port RAM and have a small stub on the 6809 that communicates with the ...

groepaz wrote:sure it can be done, why not.... you'll need a small microcontroller, a bit of glue logic, and of course a VIC chip

You already have a 6502 microcontroller and glue logic inside your VIC 20

Just add MIDI with one of these: http://store.go4retro.com/vic-20-midi-cartridge/

I sold one ~7 years ago for $1100 USD.

Plus there is Jim Brain's EZ232, which has some details and schematic here: http://www.commodoredungeon.com/images/ez232-2.pdf More details here: http://jbrain.com/vicug/gallery/ez232?page=1 Works fine on the VIC, I have one in a box somewhere. Dmackey used to make and sell them, he might still have...

On the 1702, using the front connectors?

There are a couple of adjustable potentiometers that affect the video signal, under the metal RF cover. Try tweaking those!

I found I had to have quite different levels between a TV and monitor.

We have a couple of these at work. They're (relatively) inexpensive and pretty handy. In addition, since the display is on a PC already, it's easy to do captures of the waveforms or logs etc.

https://www.linkinstruments.com/mso28.html