Denial

How did I miss this thread?! I've been away too long! Hi Jeff! I hope to start a new campaign by the end of May: I want to better plan the written contributions of the VIC team, make a presentation video, have more spreads for the description, think about rewards and stretch goals, have more quotes...

I think it's better to leave out any language except English for now.
As rgrocha says, the VIC 20 community is too small to put another campaign at risk by proposing pdf localizations. I'll think about translations at a later time.

mrr19121970 wrote:I did mean Italian as the local language. I only speak English.

Sorry, I meant a generic "you"... just to express my thoughts. Because if I do the extra pdf in Italian, why not doing it in other languages too? but I think that's just going to make everything too complicated.

I guess the PDF version will be available in local languages too? That's an option I'm thinking about. Volunteer work in exchange for a few copies of the book? Who? Quality of translation? -> free additional pdf with the book Paid translations? -> faster, safer, but... -> pdf other than English wil...

Excellent! Giacomo, you put a lot of effort and passion in this project. Good luck on the English only version. I'll be one of the Italian backers to buy it instead of giving up because of no ITA version. The lesson learned is sad: in the whole Bel Paese, only a bunch of VIC enthusiasts resist :(. ...

Hi! this is the message I sent to my backers to let them know that I will be running another campaign in a month or so. I'm not giving up :-) Hi all, the Kickstarter campaign for my VIC 20 book is over and by now you should have received the message that it didn't reach the goal. This was my first e...

Hi, Does it has actually a silver label or a golden one like the USA model? I scored some time ago a PET-keyboard VIC on Australia and it has a silver/golden label, t's made in Japan, serial number 532068. The motherboard is the second model, not the first VIC20-E nor the third VIC20-CR and the VIC...

I have thought many times about new boxes for the VIC 20 and C64. No polys, all made in cardboard; I have one supplier at work that is perfect for the job. I already have some ideas for the outside, but I still need to design the inside of the box to keep the VIC/64 (with two "breadbin" ca...

Hi all! You know I have a VIC 20 book on Kickstarter (Denial thread here ), but even if you're not interested in the book I think I have something nice for any serious VIC 20 collector! Here's a mock-up that I printed, cutted and assembled; https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/005/716/145/ed0be0ce0a8544...

Hello, This book is a good idea. I'm contributor ;) ps: if you wan't some help to translate in French, i'll be here ! Thank you! I think that I will not publish the book in more languages - I already made that mistake with Italian :-) The problem is the printing cost and quantity, the minimum is 20...

Anyone seen this ? http://m.ebay.de/itm/182083150787 I know oldcomputr fancied it. Is it for real ? I was not aware there was a PAL model (not on jogis page) with a silver label. Also the serial number, made in Japan made me think it was an NTSC model. But the kernel and 6561 are PAL. Also the psu ...

I chose Italian because it would be the one and only recent publication about the VIC in our neglected native language 8) . But should you find it difficult to publish both versions, please count me in for an English one. Thanks. That would really be the worst case scenario, I really hope to publis...

Do you know how many copies would make hardcover versions viable? If you do and the existing price is still adequate, you could make it a stretch goal. It's a bit difficult to decide that because I chose to publish two different versions of the book (English and Italian). I will update the campaign...

merman wrote:If you are interested I have contact with some ex-Commodore people including Michael Tomczyk and Albert Charpentier.

I'm already in touch with Michael Tomczyk, but I'd love to ask Al Charpentier if he'd like to contribute to the book.

Is this book going to be hardcover or paperback? I haven't found this question asked or answered anywhere. It depends on the total of English + Italian copies. Most probably, the Italian version will be paperback and the English version will be Hardback, but I'm not 100% sure so I haven't specified...