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by eslapion
Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:56 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, and Trade
Topic: A few more original JiffyDOS chips on eBay
Replies: 6
Views: 1376

I also have at least 20 JiffyDOS for 1581 v6.01 (latest being 6.02) which I am not sure I can ever sell...
by eslapion
Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:08 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Stupid Intergers!
Replies: 3
Views: 1251

Re: Stupid Intergers!

...Oh, wait. Is that last space used to determine if the number is positive or negative? Yup! Signed 16 bit integer range is -32768 to +32767. That's also why you get a negative number when you type the command ?FRE(0) on a commodore 64 you just turned on. Basic V2 only allows 16 bit to signify the...
by eslapion
Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:59 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, and Trade
Topic: A few more original JiffyDOS chips on eBay
Replies: 6
Views: 1376

KilrPilr wrote:Why arent you using your OTP's for those? Oops never mind...
What's THAT supposed to mean??

In case you haven't noticed, the picture says the chip has a (c)1986 die in it... you try and buy that at Digikey for the fun of it...
by eslapion
Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:54 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Help Me Fix My Vic's Keyboard!
Replies: 12
Views: 3214

ALL FIXED! That pencil eraser trick works WONDERS. I took the keyboard breadboard out of the system again and carefully polished each key with a nice soft pencil eraser then wiped them clean with a little more rubbing alcohol. I never used a VIC-20 new, but I have to imagine this is about as well a...
by eslapion
Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:49 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: ebay item - what is it ?
Replies: 8
Views: 1913

Re: ebay item - what is it ?

what could this be ? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VIC-20-COMMODORE-COMPUTER-VINTAGE-ELECTRONIC-BOARD_W0QQitemZ160150241409QQihZ006QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Judging by the type of chips on it and where the connections lead, it looks like some home made 3k RAM expansion. (6 chips ...
by eslapion
Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:28 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, and Trade
Topic: A few more original JiffyDOS chips on eBay
Replies: 6
Views: 1376

Hummm... nobody seems to like the genuine Maurice anymore...
by eslapion
Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:06 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, and Trade
Topic: OK People, Time to Buy your Brian Lyons MEGACART!
Replies: 459
Views: 89486

Check out these great trained VIC 20 Games (5 Disks): http://www.willcox.de/index2.htm (Please klick: Runterlad-Gebiet and then VC20 to find the 5 disks) :D Hey that's a nice little treasure chest! There are very interesting games for the VIC in there including some sort of Q-Bert remake and even a...
by eslapion
Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:27 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: If you could have changed one thing about the VIC...?
Replies: 90
Views: 35264

As I indicated in the past, the main thing I would have changed about the VIC is to have all communications registers located in BLK4, including the IO2 and IO3 ranges put into BLK5 and use BLK4 as another potential 8k expansion. In other words, everything that's in BLK4 put into BLK5 and BLK5's exp...
by eslapion
Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:51 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release : Frogger '07
Replies: 108
Views: 27732

My thoughts are with Victragic as he is recovering.

He spent the last 10 days at the hospital.

Come back to us quickly and in good health Glen.
by eslapion
Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:53 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Cartridge random revival request #4
Replies: 9
Views: 3458

Re: Cartridge random revival request #4

For some reason I'd been putting this off for ages, but given recently I managed to exhaust all my possible avenues to get something out of it, I figured I'd throw a request here. As many of you know, I managed to dump my Key Quest cartridge recently for posterity and inclusion into the Megacart pr...
by eslapion
Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:35 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: WANTED: Any VIC commodore computer educator cassette books
Replies: 72
Views: 54141

Thanks to Key-Quest, I have now recovered Math Book I (VT-108) and Chemistry Book I(CES-114).

Ral-Clan, would you be interested in lending me your Français Livre II (CES-121F) ?
by eslapion
Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:32 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, and Trade
Topic: A few more original JiffyDOS chips on eBay
Replies: 6
Views: 1376

A few more original JiffyDOS chips on eBay

Hello people,
I have recently recovered a few original 1571 and 1581 JiffyDOS chips from piles of chips leftover by J.C. Lachapelle, the former repair technician of Softwares Cie.

I am presently selling them on eBay. The item no. are 160149635539 and 160149636352

Thank you all.
by eslapion
Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:16 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: EasyLoad+Plus
Replies: 14
Views: 4024

I get my best and satisfying experience using the EasyLoad+ 8K ROM version [A0-BF] with the Eslapion's Ultimate Expander using the Rom option ... :D :D :D Thank you very much for this! You even put the link to the promotional page! I owe you one! Request permission to offer EasyLoad+ as an option t...
by eslapion
Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:12 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: VIC-20 Multicart
Replies: 576
Views: 76784

I thought that someone already did a complete VIC-20 in FPGA... Wouldn't this mean that someone has already reverse-engineered the VIC chip then? The answer to that, actually, would be yes. Someone did in fact reverse engineer the VIC chip. And I did contact the guy who created the FPGA VIC-20 conc...
by eslapion
Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:07 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: Vic20 guide additions
Replies: 13
Views: 3467

I noticed that the online rarity/lookup guide does not contain the Ultimate Expander.

Only 20 of them were made so far, that should technically make it extremely rare. However, unlike virtually all other VIC-20 carts, it is still in production...