VIC-20 Cartridge Case Reproduction Plans

saehn · Post by **saehn** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:53 am

Jim, what would the price difference be on the final cart if you were to use black/beige/white/clear etc.?

English Invader · Post by **English Invader** » Mon May 11, 2009 11:57 am

English Invader wrote:Black. The colour of Spectrum. The colour of death.

Just kidding, by the way.

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Mon May 11, 2009 12:31 pm

orion70 wrote:Beige is the only right colour for VIC carts.

Yet your pictures shows carts with brown cases

brain · Post by **brain** » Mon May 11, 2009 10:16 pm

saehn wrote:Jim, what would the price difference be on the final cart if you were to use black/beige/white/clear etc.?

I have no idea at this point. First step is a 3-D model, then a tooling quote, then a material quote.

Jim

Gary_Leeds · Post by **Gary_Leeds** » Tue May 12, 2009 2:58 am

Stick with the Commodore convention

White/beige = recreational software
Brown = programming/hardware expansion

Now Jim, what does the software going in the carts do?

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Tue May 12, 2009 3:05 am

Schema wrote:
orion70 wrote:Beige is the only right colour for VIC carts.
Yet your pictures shows carts with brown cases

Touché

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matsondawson · Post by **matsondawson** » Wed May 27, 2009 6:52 pm

I've been thinking, as I want to make some carts too, that it may be cheaper if you make a design that has two halves that are exactly the same, thus requiring only one mold.

i.e. on the left side you have a clip and on the right a socket, such that if you flip it over the clip and socket line up on either side.
Any special differences between the sides could be implemented with break off bits.

brain · Post by **brain** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:36 am

As a quick update, a forum member here has been helping me by creating a 3-D CAD model of a case. His first attempt would not export in the right format for the molding company, but a second try appears to be coming along better.

It's still a long ways off, as the 3D model is needed to get a quote, and then one has to decide how to finance this.

Jim