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New Floppy Days Podcast #69 - The Commodore Vic-20 History, with Brian Bagnall, Michael Tomczyk, Neil Harris

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 5:07 pm
by rkindig
http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-day ... an-bagnall

A new episode of Floppy Days about the Commodore Vic-20!!

I was able to get a few notables from the Commodore & Vic-20 community to help me do this documentary-style retrospect on the history of this important machine. Some of the people you may have heard of :)

Including:
  • Michael Tomczyk - Advisor to Jack Tramiel and leader of the Vic Commando Team
  • Neil Harris - Commodore employee and key member of the Vic Commando Team, before he went to Atari with the Tramiels
  • Brian Bagnall - author of "Commodore: A Company on the Edge"
I hope you enjoy this!!

Randy Kindig, host Floppy Days Podcast floppydays.com

Re: New Floppy Days Podcast #69 - The Commodore Vic-20 History, with Brian Bagnall, Michael Tomczyk, Neil Harris

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:37 pm
by Kweepa
Thanks Randy! Sounds great.
Love the Antic podcast - will have to subscribe to this one!

Re: New Floppy Days Podcast #69 - The Commodore Vic-20 History, with Brian Bagnall, Michael Tomczyk, Neil Harris

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:39 pm
by ral-clan
Listening to this right now --- have been looking forward to this one with anticipation!

Re: New Floppy Days Podcast #69 - The Commodore Vic-20 History, with Brian Bagnall, Michael Tomczyk, Neil Harris

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 2:25 pm
by ral-clan
At 39 minutes Michael Tomczyk starts talking about the VIC having "sprites" and a SID audio chip.
What the heck? Is he confused?

He mentions the VIC having sprites again at 49:50, saying that he wrote the chapter on sprites in the VIC-20 Reference Manual.

Re: New Floppy Days Podcast #69 - The Commodore Vic-20 History, with Brian Bagnall, Michael Tomczyk, Neil Harris

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 11:31 am
by tonyrocks
interesting! I don't recall SID or Sprites...

Re: New Floppy Days Podcast #69 - The Commodore Vic-20 History, with Brian Bagnall, Michael Tomczyk, Neil Harris

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:34 pm
by rkindig
Yes, he was confused. I think he was mixing up the Vic and the C64.

Randy