there has been activity on the yahoo groups site

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:37 am

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vic20/

for the longest time there has been no posts, and then lately quite a bit.

do these people know of denial?

chris

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:42 am

They do now (look at your link)

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:48 am

wicked!

chris

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:55 am

Someone called smile_soccer

wrote to that group in April 2004 about the Denial forum.

Cool. Now I'm part of three VIC-20 user groups on Yahoo Groups, all rather independent of eachother. Two of them appear to be dead when it comes to activity, and the third one seems to just have awoken from a long period of coma.

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:57 am

carlsson wrote:Someone called smile_soccer wrote to that group in April 2004 about the Denial forum.

That "smile_soccer" dude is a real character, always raising hell in forums all over the place...think he has a Vic-20 mental addiction or something

What you think there Chris

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:11 pm

you were close man!

i am actually a troll from another vintage computer forum, and have just been sent here to cause problems

chris

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:51 pm

vic user wrote:you were close man!

i am actually a troll from another vintage computer forum, and have just been sent here to cause problems

chris

Ya, reak havoc with gizzmos and other mad inventions that chase the cat around the house all day

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:22 pm

Seems like this guy is an Vic-20 enthusiast (or an enthusiast that just wants to use a source of roms from any system to get his system going more likely) from that board. and I see he's posted on comp sys cbm as well:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vic20/message/184

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:29 am

Seems like our yahoo enthusiast was here at Denial but thinks we're (it's) missing something:

"What it's missing - and what I'm missing - is a copy of Secret of Bastow
Manor. This was a text adventure that ran on unexpanded VIC; a 4-part
multiload if I recall correctly.

I know there is a C64 version, but it is not the same.

It was actually impossible to complete the VIC-20 version without modifying
the program a little, due to a bug in part 3 or 4."

Guess we can't have everything

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:45 am

sounds like a neat game though, except for the glitch

chris

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:02 pm

and there sure has been a lot of acitivity in this forum recently too!

it's fun coming back to the forum and finding tons of unread posts.

chris

rexxrektal · Post by **rexxrektal** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:16 pm

Hey folks!

Recently, I have been overhauling my technical expertise, and part of it is to revisit my ancient knowledge. Unfortunately, this sparked a renewed interest in Commodore computers, as well as a few other machines.

I am a previously burned out network systems engineer, and I have reassembled my brain to function on a technical level again. Well, the knowledge started here, with the Vic, and the Timex Sinclair 1000.

At least one thing is good, the Vic and 64 are considered a quaint nostalgic trip, and people see it as cool, as opposed to me being a loon that still works with the old stuff.

Now I have a working Vic 20, SX64, and a 128. I am writing some new programs, which when finished should provide some entertainment for this (and the other) groups. I also have the 64HDD, and I will let you know how it works.

Anyway, I am here, and I will be happy keeping these systems functioning for nostalgic and practical reasons! I am having fun, and it is nice my brain is working again!

Talk to you later!

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:06 pm

Welcome to the board rexxrektal

Looking forward to your programs and input into forum discussions.

I think a lot of us are re-visiting our past passion for the Vic-20 here and you'll fit in fine. I know I always felt that I never took the Vic-20 to it's full potential back in 1982 and seek to explore what it has to offer now!

Brian

there has been activity on the yahoo groups site

there has been activity on the yahoo groups site

The recent ativity is my fault!