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Thank you! :) Update: last night I cleaned the board and the keys, even if they were already clean. Moral of the story: the board was the responsible for the non responding keys and now I can type on the Vic-20 without being Hulk. The seller wasn't aware of the situation since he didn't check them. ...

for 70 euro you could expect a very nice boxed vic-20. I think you may have a case to complain to the seller then take it up with ebay if not resolved. @Vic20-Ian exactly: at that price that's another reason why I've been surprised after seeing the actual condition of the unit. Anyway I'll try to c...

Thank you. Some more details are: he sold the machine as "WORKING" (with capital letters), without mentioning that he previously swapped the keyboard of the good/"working" unit with the one of the dead Vic which is really in awful conditions, e.g. the case is dark yellow-orange ....

Today I just received the new "working" Vic-20 I purchased on Ebay. My joy vanished after some minutes when I realized that the machine is fully working except for the keyboard: 4 non responding keys and the others needs a lot of pressure and patience to produce a character. Since in my pu...

Hi! :) While removing some "dust" from my brain, I'm speaking about 6502 asm coding, I found something that I think that could be useful, as a short summary (it's just about 20 minutes), to some others as well who are doing the same thing, so that's why I'm posting here. The video is THIS ...

saver71 wrote:Goditi il tuo nuovo Vic!

Grazie per il tuo parere

ho optato per l'acquisto, in modo da avere una fedeltà di risposta assoluta e poter fare raffronti con l'emulazione, interessandomi essenzialmente lo sviluppo.

Sì sì Jeff!

Dai che presto arriva il "nuovo" bimbo: è deciso!

Grazie mille per il tuo parere!

A questo punto... credo non manchi molto prima di sentire nuovamente il suono caratteristico dei tasti Commodore

Ciao a tutti, :) come da oggetto sto per cedere alla tentazione di ricomperarmi - dopo quasi 32 anni - un Vic 20 funzionante. Il mio interesse al 90% è tornare a sviluppare software su questa macchina; mi piacerebbe, possibilmente, sentire qualche vostro parere sul beneficio o meno di possedere ques...

Thanks Mike! I'll take a look at them one by one. Really appreciated!

Btw this forum is definitely cool: friendly people and plenty of tech info.

Shouts!

Resurrecting this thread, that I've seen by chance, just to confirm to Orion70 what he said: I remember that in the mid 80s "Radio Rai" (Italy) broadcasted some code for the Commodore machines. I even heard it, but never recorded anything.

Thank you! It's great to see this kind of friendship in this community, cool! Glad to become a part of it. @RobertBe: yours is a really nice idea, you'll enjoy Venice (btw: yes, to me it's just "behind the corner", living in Vicenza); just let me know when you'll come so we'll certainly me...

Perfect! So here is the site where I found the pdf version: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books-kim-pet-vic.htm I've seen that there are many other pdf books there. I hope it helps. Btw in case that someone of you has some pointers about the subjects I mentioned in my previous list, they are rea...

@Orion70: thanks :) well, speaking about a new game, it will depend most of all on the amount of spare time and on how quickly I'll be able to find the info about those subjects, missing pieces of the puzzle; it seems that the books cover the "basics", so I suspect that I'll have to disass...

Thank you all for your kind words! :) The Vic-20 was my first "love" but I like it most of all because of its complete and at the same time simple system architecture, manageable staying at a low level (asm, kernal, etc). I've already some homeworks :) Last night I finished some books (the...