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The WSW one in the second picture looks fairly standard 2 pin Vic20 psu. The riveted one is indeed unusual but made in England - it looks like one of the old Scalextrix or Hornby transformers which would likely be UK sourced. Yes, I was going to say Scalextric. It reminds me of the one I had in the...

I didn't know about that wimoos, I shall certainly be trying it now.
Hertelijk bedanken!

I dusted off my old Fidelity Excellence, and pit it against Sargon II this afternoon. I won't publish the game here because it was frustrating. Excellence is actually a 6502 machine at 3MHz running Sargon, and the position was ridiculously symmetrical. Both machines are pretty aimless that their lo...

srowe wrote: ↑Thu Nov 26, 2020 5:56 am

16KVIC20 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 26, 2020 5:39 am I have already secured a copy of BOSS Chess ready for the Grudge match replay against the Dragon 32.

Which version is it? In another thread we're trying to rescue a copy of 1.5 from a .tap

Unfortunately nothing to get excited about, only the one from Zimmers.

Get Ready! I have already secured a copy of BOSS Chess ready for the Grudge match replay against the Dragon 32. I expect this match to take place by Monday. I am hoping to also get in a match between the VIC 20 and the ZX Spectrum, and then if the Spectrum wins (it might) play that against the Drago...

Vic20-Ian wrote: ↑Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:20 am It should be much quicker with an SD2IEC

This is what I had hoped, also the MegaCart has that SJ loading thing, if I recall, which speeds things up even more.

OK, so that BitShifter interpreter, if I have understood correctly, requires 32K +3K expansion, which I believe I can achieve with my MEGA CART.
If I have also understood, the disk operates really slowly though, if used on real hardware. Would this also apply to SD2IEC?

The top one looks almost the same as the PSU for my Dragon 32, the only difference being that the D32 PSU is white (well it was once!)

LOL, good suggestion beamrider. Th eproblem is she isn't genuine 8 bit hardware, therefore she can't play!

Bitshifter developed a Z-code interpreter for Infocom format adventures, and gave us the most famous IF ported to the VIC. He says The source code is available at personal request. Try contacting him. With this, you may program your own adventures in Z-code, and play them on a VIC-20. Of course, it...

I developed a tool called AWS2C that allows to generate a C source code obtained by parsing a language called AWS: https://github.com/DarwinNE/aws2c The language has been created by Aristide Torrelli and it is inspired by GAC. I used it to write The Queen's Footsteps and Two Days to the Race. The C...

I'm using The Graphical Adventure Creator, which also had a C64 version. There was also the simpler The Adventure Creator, which was the same, without graphics option.

Other systems, including the C64 were lucky enough to get The Graphical Adventure Creator , or The Quill to help users less able in programming to write their own text adventure. I certainly fall into this category, my coding is awful, and I don't have the time or inclination to improve at this poin...

Time to resurrect a 5 year old thread. I can see that I never got to the bottom of this. It seems that I need a re match between the Dragon and the VIC 20, but with the VIC using BOSS. Also I can't remember if I ever set the VIC 20 against that abomination made by Sinclair. I fancy Sargon in that ma...

This is certainly of interest to me, so thank you Orion70.
I suppose the ones for C64 and VIC20CR combined must be based on the C64 original, or there would be dead C64s appearing!