Vintage photos of Vic20 set-ups wanted

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Vintage photos of Vic20 set-ups wanted

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Hi guys,

Would those of you with pictures of your Vic20 set-ups from the 80's, please post your pics. I want to fill in the white-space in my emulator, and want to see what sort of things kids had round their machines in the good old days.
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matsondawson wrote:Hi guys,

Would those of you with pictures of your Vic20 set-ups from the 80's, please post your pics. I want to fill in the white-space in my emulator, and want to see what sort of things kids had round their machines in the good old days.
A datasette, piles of old 60 minutes tapes with handwritten indexes and a ghettoblaster... some cheap carpet too.
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You might enjoy this. Virtual rendition of a classic 80s bedroom, complete with C64.

http://ovine.net/153/80s-bedroom-xmas-2010/


Or on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jis13zfEOA8
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(maybe not an average kid's setup :) )
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Back when I was 12, the Sorel VIC-20 computer club, headed by Jean-François Lefebvre had a very similar setup.

Just replace the VIC-1010 by a Ramax and that was pretty much the only difference.

Only thing is, he was about 40 y.o.
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I used to have a rotating selection of them on the front page of this website, but I didn't get everyone's permission and had to take them down. There are plenty out there.
High Scores, Links, and Jeff's Basic Games page.
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Schema wrote:You might enjoy this. Virtual rendition of a classic 80s bedroom, complete with C64.

http://ovine.net/153/80s-bedroom-xmas-2010/


Or on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jis13zfEOA8
On the 80s room executable Adaware found "Backdoor.Win32.Bifrose.gnt (v)"....malware.
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Odd, Microsoft Security Essentials and Symantec have both failed to detect a virus. What are you using? Do you have to run it for it to be detected?
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matsondawson wrote:Odd, Microsoft Security Essentials and Symantec have both failed to detect a virus. What are you using? Do you have to run it for it to be detected?
I unzip the archive and extract to a folder on the desktop.
I then open the folder, highlight all the files, right click and select "Scan with AdAware" (well known spyware detector).

It returns a report that the malware has been detected in the .exe file.

Might be a false positive but not worth taking chances on.
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