where and how to get vic 20 games online?

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where and how to get vic 20 games online?

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I have to apologize, im a total newby to the vic 20, but love it.

So how do I download games for my vic? I have both the 1541 disk drives and the audio cassette. Can I download games somewhere for it and transfer them to a disk or cassette?

How would i do this?

If you know where i should look for this info, please post a link. Id be really gratefull. As is, ive only one game and am tired of Blast!
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Re: where and how to get vic 20 games online?

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It's possible to transfer disk images to 1541 with a program called Star Commander, but it requires a special cable called an x1541 and a PC/laptop old enough to have a parallel port. It's quite a time-consuming and complicated procedure (I've never done it myself).

The Star Commander method has been superseded by the uIEC/SD, SD2IEC and 1541u devices which just involve copying files onto an SD card and inserting the SD card into said device. The uIEC and SD2IEC are more or less the same and go for about £50. The 1541u devices are about £200 but offer a lot more functionality which only comes into play if you want to run multi-file C64 games. For the VIC, an SD2IEC will do just fine.
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Re: where and how to get vic 20 games online?

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You can buy a xu1541 from Retrodonald and transfer from a modern pc to the diskdrive.

http://www.sinchai.de/index.php?main_pa ... ducts_id=4
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Download Gamebase20 and you'll have a LOT of games immediately to hand.

http://robert.hurst-ri.us/downloads/
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