Denial

That's why I like the older games. Over in five to ten minutes.... I've never got into any of the new game systems, MUDs, or games such as Ultima: Online, the Star Wars on-line universe or whatever. I can totally see how they would be addictive and an (unhealthy) substitute for reality. I'm afraid i...

Thanks to everyone for thier quick replies in showing me where to get this manual! Looks like I will finally be able to get some use out of what looks like a very handy cartridge!

Alan wrote:http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ ... index.html

That page has the manual for the Super Expander and a copy of the Programmer's Reference Manual, but I don't see any instructions for the Programmer's AID cartridge.

Hi, does anyone have a scan or OCR'd version of the manual for the Programmer's Aid Cart? It seems like it would be so helpful but I don't know what it can do or how to use it. Thanks!

Unfortunately, the Battlezone loader did not work. After the cartridge images are loaded all I get is a screen reset where the words READY and the cursor are changed to @ signs.

nbla000 wrote:I load successfully from the floppy Battlezone using images of Zimmers and 16k ram switched to bank 3 and 5

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

I'd love to see a cart-to-disk conversion of Battlezone for the VIC. I have the cart images, but it doesn't run properly on a real VIC-20. The game starts but crashed (always in different places).

6502dude wrote:

vic user wrote:those guys scared the hell out of me when i was a kiddie!

I thought the show was funny.

It seemed every week there was another reason to go into the caves.

Hey 6502dude! I love your new avatar (SSSssssss.....). Land of the Lost is one of my favourite shows and I have all the episodes on DVD!

Reading old Compute! magazines does that to me too! When I close the magazine I have to come back to earth and realize its nearly impossible to get those things... :cry: I agree. When I read those magazines I wish I could get in some sort of time machine and go back and buy some of that stuff (but ...

Commodore actually knew how to advertise in those days.....

Is the Data-20 board driven by a 6545/6845 chip? In that case, code from the CBM-II emulator (perhaps 80-column PET too) could be reused, since it uses a such chip. Maybe not in the same fashion, but at least a beginning. The EPROM for the Data-20 board also holds a built-in terminal program, plus ...

I have one of these cards and will find this useful. Thanks for sharing! Looking through your comments in the read-me.txt...I wonder how hard it would be to emulate the Data20 in (say) VICE? Maybe reuse something from the 128's 80-column separate VDC window? Yeah, the thought that an emulator for t...

You may want to try Fisichella too, it is not as extensive as vic-tracker but maybe easier to use and you can get some interesting effects out of it. I downloaded some of the files from Aleksi Eeben's web-site. Holy crap! Some of those things I didn't even know were possible on a VIC-20! The loop e...

The VIC sound chip (actually part of the VIC chip which does a lot of other things) only produces square waveforms (and noise). (Actually it can produce some other strange waveforms but this is more complicated - and not discovered until recently). Still, the square waves can sound pretty cool if yo...

Hi, I found a really old tape in my collection. It was a 20+ year old tape, not an original, and not even a high quality tape to begin with (it was a Canadian Tire brand bargain blank tape). Lo-and-behold it had some software for the DATA-20 display board (40/80 column board) on it! It appears to ha...