Denial

I was just doing a little research on Ray Carlsen's site and he points to the bridge rectifier or voltage regulator in these cases. These make sense, I may look at re-caping as well if I'm in removing stuff anyway. I'm hoping because the fuse didn't blow that maybe I haven't caused any damage to any...

This is my first post (other than the intro) and I am very new to the VIC-20. I have a 2-prong unit with a 1981 board build date. Power brick measures 10.65VAC. Everything was working fine, I was playing some games with the kids, about 45 minutes of use. I powered down to swap cartridges and when I ...

I wish I had a nifty VIC-20 username but mine is simply my initials and the year I graduated from Villanova. I've been big into vintage video game systems, decided these old 8-bit computers would be fun. So I picked up a Vic-20 a few weeks ago (and C64), been having fun with it, but now it's got iss...