Denial

As I wrote in another thread, I tested three VIC-20s with a long cable (around 2 m) and none functioned (though it worked with the C64), and when I shortened the cable to 1 m, it suddenly worked.

It's rather amazing how many game programmers go through sex changes.

Dishwashers are good for modern computer keyboards; just stick the whole thing in. That's not true; it depends on the construction of your keyboards. Modern Apple keyboards use circuits printed on plastic films, and any liquid in the keyboard will mean that those sheets will stick together and ulti...

You look very nice, Nippur!

The only good designers Commodore had were chip designers.

Thomas Hechelhammer wrote:But pixel-soft-scrolling of the map-image would be impossible.

Aleksi Eeben's Dragonwing (my favourite VIC game) scrolls very softly, but then again it uses very few characters to build up its screen.

Hey - I'm back in Canada again. Surprisingly, I found it very difficult to find Internet "cafes" in Japan. Many eating establishments had Wifi, but no computers. Fortunately, one of the ryokan (Japanese Inn) we stayed in had a computer in the lobby so I could at least do a quick email che...

orion70 wrote:Here you are: previews of Play on Tape issues 1-2 (cover and cassette).
Poor design, isn't it?

Well, it looks like Commodore designed it.

I'd love to see some pictures of the magazine and its cassettes. Do you have any scanner or camera?

So I, who have my own (27c256) EPROM burner, can skip the ROM option and add my own monitor or DOS wedge? I so, I'm interested.

I don't get this ROM option feature. Does the board have sockets for ROMs, or is it a surface-mounted ROM or flash chip?

After buying another VIC-20, and getting the same results, and putting both computers away again, I think I finally found the problem last weekend. I had thought that I had had extremely bad luck, getting two bad VIC-20s, with a fault that couldn't be easily diagnosed. I suspected that the LM counte...

An impostor, starting out as a friend but more and more copying the victim? :wink: Think Single White Female . There were four Archimedes in the big auction: 3000, 3010, 3020, 4000 selling between 36 and 56 Euro, all unboxed. Another kind of computer I had never heard about until a few years ago. I...

Do you know of Mobygames? It is a database of games for a lot of platforms. They have a VIC-20 section, but its selection of games is sparse. It would be great if the community could "represent", so to say.

carlsson wrote:Documentation? Manuals? Magazines? He had a small pile of Swedish PET magazines and the early issues of VIC=Nytt and VIC=Rapport.

I'd love some.