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Doesn't the user port have a 2400 baud limit? Or is the Comet64 38k capable? The 2400 baud limit is what I thought was set in stone. However, that limit was broken by Agent Friday and Goog of the Portland Commodore User Group earlier this year, when they demonstrated the Comet at meetings and at Co...

I have found best uIEC support using Vic-20 is with MegaCart using Easyload & SJLoad patch to enable jiffy dos equivalent speed transfers to/from SD card. Have you tried the Final Expansion yet? It already comes with SJLoad and a DOS wedge. And you can easily configure your own start menu to ru...

I saw that thread, and I probably should have posted my question there. Sorry, just wanted to make sure :) Just wondering though, has anybody here on Denial successfully used Comet64 with their VIC-20? No, I have not, but I thought I saw a report (i.e. video) of a meeting (PDUXG?) where a Vic-20 wa...

I was thinking that real assemblers (in the sense of compilers) were pointless on 8-bit computers because the length of assembler source text files, on average, is easily beyond the machine memory capacity. For example my "tetris.asm" file is 52K, which is something that a vic-20 can't ha...

This is another (older) thread discussing the Comet64.

nippur72 wrote: ... correct stuff snipped ...
What I mean is that there weren't labels or variable names!

True for most/some monitors, but at least SMON (available for C-64 & VIC-20) supports labels too.

If cyou manipulate the stack pointer (TXS), it is safer to disable interrupts, unless you take the effects of an interrupt executing just after TXS into account. For the zeropage, it depends on which location you use. $26 should be no problem, but have you tried debugging your code in an emulator? c...

Wow, So the current solutions are all user port? I'd connect the joysticks all to the standard port, and round robbin the +5v line to them, using the fire button line to toggle each successive joystick, by grounding it temporarily. Usual Joysticks don't use the +5V line, they just ground the respec...

Hmm, I have that Protovision 4-player adapter. Since the adapter plugs into the user port it also works for the Vic-20 (being a 3-player adapter in that case). Unfortunately I know of no software for the Vic-20 making use of the additional joystick ports. The Vic GUI (VIN) can use any of the three ...

Late at night on the last summer barbeque of Commodore users in Graz, we started playing a few multi-player games. There are a couple of games for C-64 and the the 4-player adapter that are a lot of fun (e.g. http://www.protovision-online.de/hardw/4_player.php?language=en ). I started thinking about...

Barney wrote:... "Untested....don't know how to hook it up". There is about an 80% change it won't work

I'd give that 99% chance

RobertBe wrote:However, is there a light pen program for the VIC-20?

Yes, there is http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ ... Artist.prg, but I remember that when I used it to test my light pen, its position was slightly off.

Just for the record:
I also got an 8K RAM expansion long before I got my hands on a disk drive for the VIC-20. Later I also got a 16K RAM, which I modified for switchable block use, but still no disk drive.
Shouldn't we start a poll on the topic (frivolous or not )?

Today on CSDB there was a great tool posted by lft which may lead to a lot more SIDs being convertable: SIDRELOC which allows to relocate SIDs in memory. Works for 91% of the HVSC apparantly. Many thanks for the link! The tool certainly comes with nice explanations and seems to be quite useful to r...

Jeff-20 wrote:Thanks! The word has gotten out, and suddenly kids are coming in the art gallery. Completely unaware that I was the author, these kids explained the finer points of how to play the game. They seemed to think I was too old to get the point of it.

"Children and fools tell the truth."