Denial

Looks like it's down again. :/

It really is great news. Now I just 'need' a memory expander cartridge of some kind.

Jim, would this cartridge theoretically be able to be used as a printer interface and a switchable RAM expansion?

It's a made-in-Canada NTSC machine, so it's channel 3 or 4; and I had the same colour issues, just a less clear picture using the RF. I will try the slight tweak.

EDIT: Small tweak = great success. All colours working. Lovely to see a VIC20 on a 1802C monitor.

I have to pry the metal shielding off to do that, yes? Just a flat-head screwdriver to open up the compartment?

I just got a physical VIC, as noted elsewhere in the forums, and picked up a 5-pin to RCA plugs cable, which seems to work, except that on boot up I'm getting white with yellow border instead of blue! I wasn't able to get much of a picture at all with the RF adaptor that came with the system. But th...

Another World (aka Out of this World) was one of the best Amiga games I ever played.

Yeah, Win7 is very stable. I have yet to bluescreen it after 3 1/2 yrs, including having my kids throw my laptop on the floor *while on*. Lubuntu works really well on the older computer I put it on at work. So I'd vote in favour of it.

I do have a Datasette (actually, two of them, come to think of it). I just remember tape being a much more frustrating load device than disk. Thanks for putting up with my questions! :) I love Commodore computers and it does my inner 12-year-old well to have a complete complement of the computers fe...

Thanks for this; but should you really need to worry too much about tape loading address issues in the SD2IEC era? Genuine question. Should you really need too worry too much about VIC-20 in the PC-era ? Genuine answer! :mrgreen: Fair enough; but I'm thinking in terms of stability of storage and th...

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Thanks for this; but should you really need to worry too much about tape loading address issues in the SD2IEC era? Genuine question.

Small routines for saving and loading blocks of memory: SAVE memory block: SYS57809(N$),8,1:POKE193,start_lo:POKE194,start_hi POKE780,193:POKE781,end_lo:POKE782,end_hi:SYS65496 'start' is inclusive, 'end' is exclusive. 'N$' contains the file name. Other device numbers than 8 can be used (also 1 for...

The day I bought my C16 locally, the same retrogaming store had a VIC-20 but the VIC was missing keys and definitely looked beat up, but the 16 was fine. So I guess it depends where you're looking?

Well... I'd love a VIC, it's the only 8-bit Commodore I don't have in my collection that I'd like to have (I have 2 64Cs, a 128, and a 16, all NTSC). Hmmm... it seems to be missing a few Commodore 8-bitters in your collection. ;-) Plus/4, C116, all of the PETs, the B128 and its cousins, the Ultimax...

Found a $4 connector at the local hobby/electronics shop to hook my TV up to the VIC. Works great.

Now I just need a memory expansion.