Denial

Thank you for your thoughts!
Would replacing the capacitors with new ones also have a chance of improving the picture?

Sounds like Ken has one!

50 hours! Goodness me!

I see, and there's a version of the VIC that doesn't have springs?

What's your opinion on the video quality you're getting with the svideo mod compared to a SCART adapter output. Currently I have the SCART cable, as my soldering skills are lacking, but the picture quality is quite lacking. I remember it was quite bad even back in the 80s with my colour tv, but I wo...

What's a springless keyboard?

Commodore 64 does exsist as an emulator for PocketPC.... how about VIC20 though? Does anyone know?

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Always a good idea is saving the zero-page in the upper memory and writing it back when the job is completely done.

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Thus forfeiting all speed advantages though?

Of course you know that Tom Griner (bless him!) when he was a teenager coded all his famous games on paper and hacked them in number by number. Apparently, because he thought about his routines so hard during school lessons, his codes used to work straight away. Given the quality of his programs, i'...

Could anyone tell me which zero page addresses one can use without problems for most projects (such as games)? As there are so many zero page commands in the 6502 set, is it correct to assume that one should make ample use of these for that very reason that they exsist and are fast?

BREAKOUT - Since i never had a pair of paddles, i could never play this game. It looks good though.... Can anyone tell me what it's like? Does it do any tricks when you hit the bricks, or do you simply clear them all and on we go?

I don't know if you guys have the same thing as I do: I have a whole cassette full of cartridge games. I'm using a 16kb memory cartridge, which some wizz kid back in the 80s made switchable, so that when I flick the switch the VIC-20 shows 3.5kb free memory, but it reserves memory for the cartridge ...

Well, folks, I don't want to tease you, but I have the joystick version (on tape, mind you), and I can tell you it's anything but slow (mindblowingly fast in fact), and it plays like a dream with joystick. That's why it's ony of my top 5 games.

I don't know....?! is my version so special? it's on that old tape full of cartridge game that someone gave me some 22 years ago, and i'll be darned, but it still loads ok as if it was yesterday! now, if anyone tells me how to transfer it to my PC i'd be happy to look into it!

Thanks for all your posts! I think I need a more hands on approach, something with sample source codes, so that I don't have to re-invent the wheel. I'm sure there are many routines that are the same for everybody who tries to do this...?