My VIC-20 "setup"

DavPow · Post by **DavPow** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:38 am

Hi! Since I'm new to this forum, I decided to show my VIC "setup".

Here is the VIC itself (Missing Keys :C)

Under the VIC:

Serial Number :

My Datasette:

My Datasette games:

All of my cart games + a 8K RAM Cart:

Manuals:

Another game

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And my two joysticks

:

Everthing here costed 50$. I think it's a good price. But I need to change the keyboard :/

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:56 pm

Welcome

I actually need a transfer of that Vixel tape for Gamebase20, so if there's any way you can get it on the PC, please do

DavPow · Post by **DavPow** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:20 pm

Mayhem wrote:Welcome

I actually need a transfer of that Vixel tape for Gamebase20, so if there's any way you can get it on the PC, please do

I would do it, but i'm not too sure how. Can I just record the cassette on my PC into a WAV with Audacity, then convert it in a TAP?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 6:35 pm

That can work, although it's not as good as other methods. If you can produce a working TAP, it may be good enough

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:24 pm

Great setup! The bad news is that Vic keyboards are vulnerable to losing keys. You have to be gentle with it. The good news is that spare keyboards are fairly plentiful if you don't mind having c64 gibberish on some of them.

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:18 am

I take care of my Vic, no missing keys yet

Muzz73 · Post by **Muzz73** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:00 am

Are only missing the keycaps? I can send you the two that you are missing, if you'd like.

Just send me a private message with your mailing address if you are interested.

Enjoy your VIC!

Witzo · Post by **Witzo** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:57 pm

Nice collection!

Inspires me to photograph my current set-up as well.
Last week I fixed the remote of a small old television, so now I use it as a monitor - the style it used to be! My big 2010's flatscreen somehow made it look silly.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:19 am

I like 13 inch, but I find the best size for me is 20 inch. (what she said?)

16KVIC20 · Post by **16KVIC20** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:55 am

Various Pics of my Set Up:

Apart from this I have 2 C2N units, a whole load of tapes, the usual Cartridges (Omega Race, Avenger etc), 3K RAM, 16K RAM, but since getting the Mega Cart and the SD2IEC I tend not to use any of that anymore.

Dusty · Post by **Dusty** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:39 pm

Here's my little C= collection:

DavPow · Post by **DavPow** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:19 pm

Mayhem wrote:That can work, although it's not as good as other methods. If you can produce a working TAP, it may be good enough

Here, finally, I managed to record the tape with Audacity. I tried with Audiotap, but i cant manage to get a working .TAP with it (using a Windows program on Ubuntu with Wine does not help), so, here's are the two .WAV's i made. I recorded it twice, just to be sure. Hopefully you can do something useful with these.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7x5qdi38bxmq8qi

OBSysteme · Post by **OBSysteme** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:39 pm

Oh yes! "fabriqué au Canada" ! lol

ah... my setup is in transition, I have to dismantle my vaforite monitor for it, as I have a jack connection problem.

hey DavPow! can't help but notice you're NB-er!

what city?

OBS

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:10 am

16KVIC20,

How are you powering your SD device? I can only see a cable (ribbon) going to the serial port?

EDIT: Oh, nevermind. I see the extra wire going to the cassette port now.

16KVIC20 · Post by **16KVIC20** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:16 am

ral-clan wrote:16KVIC20,

How are you powering your SD device? I can only see a cable (ribbon) going to the serial port?

EDIT: Oh, nevermind. I see the extra wire going to the cassette port now.

Yes, you spotted it right. It is only a thin cable though, so I have to be careful with it. I would have preferred real cable as opposed to ribbon cable, but it works OK.