VICE VIC21 arrives

[rhurst]

OK, never knew an outlet like Lechmere (back at the time) slapped stickers over the VIC 20 box and dubbed it the VIC 21, basically coupled with a 16K RAM expander. But to see it in VICE is another thing. Anything else "different" i.e., ROM version, internal timings, ... ? Or does either produce the exact same machine:

$ xvic -memory 16k
$ xvic -model vic21

[eslapion]

AFAIK, the VIC-21 is a standard VIC-20 with a 16k RAM expansion that covers BLK1 and BLK2. Nothing else differs.

Set XVIC to have 16k ram and that's all.

$ xvic -memory 16k
$ xvic -model vic21

AFAIK, the exact same thing...

[groepaz]

yes, exactly the same. we do not emulate the look of the original box yet =)

[rhurst]

On a serious note, why not? I mean, from the MESS project, we worked on getting some nice hires photos of Commodore monitors and I carved them up with bezel definitions to overlay the emulator's display nicely. I'd love to do/see the same occur with VICE.

Perhaps I should take that up on SourceForge as a new feature request. I cannot be the only one pining for this eye-candy.

[Schlowski]

Or something like this? http://www.micro64.de/ It's totally useless but fun ad very nostalgic to look at

[FD22]

Or something like this? http://www.micro64.de/ It's totally useless but fun ad very nostalgic to look at

Heh. That was entertaining to watch, but two things occurred to me; first, it was jolly clever; and second, when would you ever want to switch your emulated display to 'a bit broken'?

It did bring my memories flooding back of inventing ever more elaborate tricks and quasi-religious incantations to try to get a stable picture on a colour portable telly using an increasingly b0rked modulator back in '83, though.

[ral-clan]

I love these monitor emulation settings in the lastest batch of emulators.

That's what was missing for so long from emulators - the feeling of a 1980s monitor. The screen was too crisp and sharp to evoke a true nostalgic feeling.

The floppy drive noises really help too.