The VIC 20 is brilliant thread

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16KVIC20
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The VIC 20 is brilliant thread

Post by 16KVIC20 »

I haven't been here for some time until recently, and I hadn't used my VIC much either.

Recently I fished out my Dragon 32 for curiosity, and then I bought a BBC model B. So then I looked at the C64 again, and loaded up some games, and then I turned to the VIC 20, my first, humble computer.
And just wow!

This is still an amazing little machine. In the right hands this little computer packs a punch with the rest of them.
It probably has the best versions of Space Invaders and Pac Man. TETRIS is better on the VIC than on the BBC.
Some of the recent software that I have downloaded form here we never would have dreamt possible in the 80s.

So this is a thread for the love of the VIC 20, the friendly computer.

I couldn't get any of my Spectrums to work.... That about says it for Sinclair.
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toby405
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I'm loving my Vic-20 today because it's the only area of my computing life where I don't have to worry about meltdown and spectre. The 6502 is definitely not vulnerable!

https://meltdownattack.com/
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Post by Gyro Gearloose »

And even if someone figures out how to install Skynet remotely on a VIC-20, that power switch is physical. Click. Off. No soft switches, no 32-bit micro-controllers running entire real-time operating systems to monitor a power switch, no hidden processors.... No system management, no BIOS, no legacy support, no FLASH chips.
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Post by Mike »

Gyro Gearloose wrote:even if someone figures out how to install Skynet remotely on a VIC-20
I did.
that power switch is physical. Click. Off.
Skynet is patient and will just take over your VIC-20 again as soon as you switch it on. :mrgreen:
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You can't stop it its power is unlimited :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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Post by r.cade »

Well, since the 6502 has no memory or register protection, then yes of course the 6502 is "vulnerable".

All memory and registers are always available to any other program you run. :)
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