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Rick-T137 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 6:16 am WOW! I had no idea a KIM-1 would hook up to a datasette....

Well, no - my KIM-1 replica does not use the datasette, rather a Radio Shack CRR-81. But it DOES run just as slowly! Time to get a pop and some cookies!

Same here. The first 4-5 years in the mid Eighties, it was all Datasette....there was no way I could afford a disk drive as a teenager. In the past 3-4 years I've pulled everything off my original cassettes, and have the usual PC/Linux tools to make tapes, if I need to. I totally agree with the &quo...

Hi, folks. I recently finished "VIC-ifying" another card game I found on some archived 6800 FLEX disks. This one is called "Hate", runs with 8K RAM expansion, and is offered with my humble apologies to the ghost of Gustav Holst. :D Enjoy, and let me know if you find a bug or typo...

I had never heard of the K-TEK software company before today, but there are a few game manuals on Archive.org that are a little confusing. The same K-TEK logo on the booklet, but different attribution in the copyright notice: From the back of the booklet for "Fire & Flood": Package, Pr...

Thanks, Andy. It was a lot of fun to make, and I learned a few things in the process, so win-win!

Hi Folks. I finally finished Borg Attack! for VIC-20 with 3K RAM expansion. It's essentially a search-the-grid-for-the-target game, but in this case the "target" is an erratically moving, cloaked Borg cube with three levels of play, and It's my homage to the old "type-in" games w...

Back in the "long, long ago time," my VIC would occasionally drop data at 2400 baud just relying on the onboard 6522s (my SupraModem from then still works fine), and only 1200 baud was reliable. 9600 would be a big step up, indeed. At US$30, it might be worth a gamble.

After four days of "tinkering," I am no farther along than where I was last week. Sometimes the color map is right, sometimes the bitmap, but never both at the same time. This is with images generated from both minipaint and multipaint, and tested on my real VIC-20 and four different versi...

The fact that it booted is amazing, judging from the pictures! Nice find, and best of luck on the restoration.

Hi, Micheal. WOW - a lot to think about, explore, and learn. Thanks for the info, clues, and such wonderful tools to make graphics, all of which should keep me occupied for the weekend (as long as "my other half" says I can! :D ) The @LOAD of MG would, indeed, be perfect in +8K, but one of...

Hi, Folks. I'm working on a little game that sits in the 3K RAM expansion space ("Block 0") to start getting back into the VIC-20 and 6502 programming, and I'm having a terrible time with integrating a MG-format splash screen for the initial display. I can verify that the initial loading p...

Hi, folks. Long-time reader, first-time poster. I'm also a long-time VIC-20 owner - it was my very first machine back in '82, and it's still operational. Once K-Mart had them down to $99 I could make it work on summer job money (that, and an electric guitar...it was a great year!). The last thing I ...