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Please forgive me the lack of modesty, but I believe this is one of the most important findings on the VIC-20 over the last years!!

After checking some books about photon waveform reconstruction I found out, that using both CPUs of the VIC-20 and the 1541 disk drive it must be possible to detect what's before the monitor and then program the VIC chip in a way to re-display what's in front of it.

In short, this program turns your monitor into a mirror! For obvious reasons, I can't provide a screenshot. You'll need to run this on a real VIC-20 with +8K RAM expansion (or more) and a disk drive.

Here's the download (mirror.zip).

Thanks for tokra and orion70 for inspiration and moral support to get this one through.

Together with "gmail blue", this is the best news of today (so far)
Keep up the excellent work!

Thanks Mike for another great achievement, comparable only to the newly announced Google nose!

Thanks Mike

It really works

Kind Regards
Loof Lirpa - Denmark

Hey, that's pretty cool. I managed to get a screen grab with my smartphone:




However I seem to get higher resolution with the power off, even though the picture's a bit darker??

Schema wrote:Hey, that's pretty cool. I managed to get a screen grab with my smartphone: [...]

Hey, cool idea! I should have tried this out first before writing the original post in a hurry without providing a similar screenshot - and even stating it was not possible to provide one.

However I seem to get higher resolution with the power off, even though the picture's a bit darker??

Now THAT is strange. Maybe this has something to do with tokra's recent findings of the new 720p, 1080i and 1080p HD modes on the VIC-20?

I'll have to investigate further ...

To all those, who were somehow disconcerted because the program just seemed to show some flickering letters and then only a 'black' screen afterwards: run MINIPAINT, load the file 'MIRROR' into MP with Shift-L, change the background colour with Ctrl-1 and finally press SPACE to toggle to the fullscreen preview.