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You may want to check out the 6502 forums too. Lots of activity and great knowledge there.

http://forum.6502.org/

Everything you just said are valid points. As much as I love the Apple II (and respect Woz), I get annoyed when people claim it was the first personal computer. Or how Woz claims he invented the personal computer. At the end of the day, Apple "won". So the winners write the history, as the...

While this computer did come earlier it only managed to shift 1,300 units total which is not much when the PET shifted 4,000 PETs in '78 alone. There is of course as Wikipedia points out the MCM/70, and the Altair 8800 which sold more units than the Sphere-1. Well, the number of units sold is irrel...

Seems the world has forgotten about the Sphere-1. I know this debate will never end. How do we define "personal computer"? At any rate, I'm a huge fan of all 8/16 bit computers. Apple, VIC, Atari, etc. But it is annoying how this computer never gets more credit. I'm not saying it is the fi...

I thought using MP3 files were bad for that because of the compression.

Would you not want to use standard WAV files?

siccoyote wrote:I'm not even sure why I'm more obsessed with the vic than the c64. It's not even nostalgia, I was a speccy kid.

That's understandable...to me anyway.

I think the VIC-20 and the Speccy are similar in a lot of ways.

(/me runs and hides....)

If you put a new graphics video chip into the cartridge port, though, then there's not much left of the VIC-20. . Everyone has their own opinion on these things, but I agree with that statement. For me, much of the appeal is the minimalist systems we had 35 years ago and making the most of them. It...

Does this game work on NTSC machines?

I don't have a way to find out at the moment.

Thanks.

How are you reading these books? All I get are screenshots of the title page and no way to download them.

**EDIT**

Never mind. I see you couldn't read it all either.

Thanks.

I have an L-Star that is an Apple 1 (and others) compatible computer. It's really nice. On a different front, I have designed and produced my own 65C02 computer (Potpourri6502). While I don't have video yet, that is my next project. It's a stepping stone to my more elaborate 8-bit wonder-computer I ...

Wow! So are you planning to provide a (relatively) cheap, affordable substitute to the infamous fast-dying TED chip? I'd surely buy one for my black screen Commodore 16 :). Can't wait for your project to become a reality! The 8501 is the CPU right? I'm not aware of the TED being reproduced (althoug...

I know there are no definitive numbers on this, but what would you guess is the ratio of socketed VIC-I chips in VIC-20's?

Meaning, do you think that most are in sockets or are most soldered onto the board?

Thanks.

Can we see the robot?

bdk6 wrote:I'm building a robot with the VIC as brain

Let me be the first to welcome our VIC-20 robot overlords.

Thanks for doing this!

I haven't looked yet, but is there a way to separate PAL/NTSC games?