Denial

For your PET-style keyboard consider the possibility of replacing the entire PCB. That's not the issue - I successfully got the PCB working again. tl;dr: the problem is that I can't reattach the F7/F8 key because it doesn't fit on properly. I probably used the matching parts elsewhere by mistake bu...

Hi all, Some time ago I bought an early VIC with the PET-style keyboard, but when it arrived the keyboard's PCB had suffered a rather catastrophic fracture: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4741/39860385652_45e0b30c79_z.jpg When I finally got around to fixing it recently, I glued the board together wi...

Interesting. People did get quite worked up about the Xbox 360 'red ring of death' a while ago. I suppose we should be thankful that so much of this equipment has lasted almost 40 years for us to enjoy today!

I've been using a Sega Master System controller with my VIC-20s for a while now and it doesn't seem to have caused any problems. Is the issue to do with the second button that these controllers have? I also got a Light Phaser recently and wondered about using it with the VIC, since the light pen I a...

Hi all, I recently purchased a few brand new, never-opened VIC-20 games on eBay which I have now been enjoying. Among them was Attack of the Mutant Camels, which strangely didn't work even though I had just removed it from the original shrink wrap! It only produced a garbage screen with graphics fro...