And of course we also need brand new 6522 VIAs. These are drop in replacements. Which is great news for all #c1541 and #vic20 users (and of course PET users, too!). #retrocomputing
Last week my #VIC20, my first computer and still one of my favourite retrocomputers fell on the floor from a shelf. The 40-year old ABS case is brittle and broke right on top of the user and cassette ports. The Run Stop key also fell off 😩 #retrocomputing#repair#thread#commodore
Fortunately, I could find the broken pieces (only two big chunks, plus a small one) and glue them back in place. I'm happy as the repair is barely visible. I used in the past cyanoacrylate glue for ABS with good results, it seems to work quite well in this repair, too. #VIC20#retrocomputing
The box hinges broke many years ago. I tried to repair them 7 years ago but they broke again. I decided to print a replacement to glue in place. It seems to work well. I will see how it will stand the test of time. #vic20#retrocomputing The case is yellowed, but it is bearable and I think I will not retrobright it again.
Even in 1982, you’d have felt shortchanged by this endless shooter. You as Gandalf, riding Shadowfax, had to take down Nazgûl with lightning blasts. Until you died. And that was it. Still, at least the horse animation looked lovely on the VIC.
Creator Mike Singleton would a few years later go on to much bigger and better LOTRish things, with Lords of Midnight and Doomdark’s Revenge.
INTV has hands-down the best gameplay content. It's a toss-up between A26 and VIC as to which is the prettiest. The A8 version is - disappointingly - barely distinguishable from the A26.
The later C64 version is pretty poor. It's missing nearly all of the visual charm of earlier versions, especially the VIC one.
At the start of December last year, yet another full #Commodore#VIC20 game was found in the form of Ice Palace thanks to Dougmanct on AtariAge. A cute 3 screen game by Xonox that has been missing for just over 40 years. Now you can play the full game!
A latency-hating emulator of 8- and 16-bit platforms: the Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum....
@davidtheeviloverlord@evelynefoerster 5 KB, not 20.
16 KB was ROM (8 KB BASIC ROM and 8 KB Kernal ROM).
3.5 KB RAM were available for BASIC and 1 KB for the screen.
An unexpanded #VIC20 reports 3581 bytes free when switched on.
Folks! My friend was at a “junk” shop and found an old computer he thought I might like (a Vic 20? Uh yeah) so he bought it and sent it to me. It works straight away. But the amazing thing? See next post in this thread
After a day waiting for the glue to dry on the felt backing of the Vic 20 game tape labeled Paratrooper it is now loading via the tape. Let’s see what it has.
Success! Credits load and then before the game starts it has this message saying that as the game loads the characters will change. I guess it’s updating something in the display that changes the characters for the game.
One of the more fun games in this set of tapes. I must have played this game back in the day, would have been on the c64 though because I never had access to a vic20.
35 Years Later, Prince Of Persia Has Just Got An (Unofficial) Port For The Vic-20 -- Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
"The port was inspired by Nicodim's unofficial ZX Spectrum port"
CLK (github.com)
A latency-hating emulator of 8- and 16-bit platforms: the Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum....