JVIC - Java VIC 20 emulator from 2003/2004
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 10:41 am
Hi all,
I introduced myself in the announcement forum. I mentioned something there regarding my emulation efforts that I thought I would continue to elaborate on here in the emulation forum.
I said in my introduction that I wrote JVIC, a VIC 20 emulator written in Java, in 2004. I was feeling nostalgic today and decided to track it down in my collection of old files. What I found has brought back a few more memories. It seems that I was working on JVIC in 2003 and wrote most of it then. And it turns out that I did release it on the Internet, if only for a short time. I've found the HTML files for "The Ultimate VIC 20 Website" (the unoriginal name I gave my old VIC 20 web site) which included the old 1997 version with changes made in 2004 that included the applet running on a web page with about 20 games selectable from a drop down list. I had forgotten that I got that far with it.
I think that version of the web site must have disappeared at the end of 2004 when I moved from New Zealand to the UK and shut down the account I had with my ISP, which included the web hosting. So that version of the web site would have been up for only 6 months I guess. The Way Back machine didn't grab much from it, but it seems to confirm that it was on the Internet between July 2004 and December 2004.
Now I wish that I'd advertised it more. I guess I thought that with the Windows VIC 20 emulators being well established that there wouldn't be much interest in a Java version. I didn't realise that there was such a big VIC 20 community still active at that time.
Lance
I introduced myself in the announcement forum. I mentioned something there regarding my emulation efforts that I thought I would continue to elaborate on here in the emulation forum.
I said in my introduction that I wrote JVIC, a VIC 20 emulator written in Java, in 2004. I was feeling nostalgic today and decided to track it down in my collection of old files. What I found has brought back a few more memories. It seems that I was working on JVIC in 2003 and wrote most of it then. And it turns out that I did release it on the Internet, if only for a short time. I've found the HTML files for "The Ultimate VIC 20 Website" (the unoriginal name I gave my old VIC 20 web site) which included the old 1997 version with changes made in 2004 that included the applet running on a web page with about 20 games selectable from a drop down list. I had forgotten that I got that far with it.
I think that version of the web site must have disappeared at the end of 2004 when I moved from New Zealand to the UK and shut down the account I had with my ISP, which included the web hosting. So that version of the web site would have been up for only 6 months I guess. The Way Back machine didn't grab much from it, but it seems to confirm that it was on the Internet between July 2004 and December 2004.
Now I wish that I'd advertised it more. I guess I thought that with the Windows VIC 20 emulators being well established that there wouldn't be much interest in a Java version. I didn't realise that there was such a big VIC 20 community still active at that time.
Lance