Despite this, everything I have loaded from my SD2IEC so far, works just fine.
For my personal requirements, it seems like a (near; given your comments) perfect solution.
I'd much rather use the PUII+ than manually re-configure RAM pack dip-settings on a per-game basis.
Each to their own, I guess.
Search found 23 matches
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Penultimate II+ Auto-configures RAM for all programs.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2273
- Sat May 18, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: New penultimate-plus-2-cartridge
- Replies: 61
- Views: 37130
Re: New penultimate-plus-2-cartridge
Did this issue get resolved? I am considering ordering this. I can confirm the file-browser issue appears to be resolved. Certainly on mine, with folders listed A-Z, moving from O at the bottom of page one to the next, P is the next folder listed. According to 8-bit Show and Tell's video, there has...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:56 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: New Game: Emu's Massive Hunt (Released)
- Replies: 91
- Views: 47518
Re: New Game: Emu's Massive Hunt (WIP)
Hi Andy
I’m looking forward to trying Emu’s Massive Hunt but I don’t have a cassette unit.
Any news on when the download will be available?
I’m looking forward to trying Emu’s Massive Hunt but I don’t have a cassette unit.
Any news on when the download will be available?
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Penultimate II+ Auto-configures RAM for all programs.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2273
Penultimate II+ Auto-configures RAM for all programs.
Something pretty cool I discovered about the new future was 8-bit PUII+ cart, is that - while it’s known it will auto-configure RAM for its INTERNALLY held games - it also auto-configures for any games loaded from an SD2IEC. For example, booting the cart and pressing F8 to load “*” boots up the 8k+ ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Switchless JiffyDOS kernal switcher?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5890
Re: Switchless JiffyDOS kernal switcher?
Having received my PAL JiffyDOS ROM from retrorewind and finding I needed to fit a turned-pin socket, I went the whole 9 yards and re-capped my Vic-20, while I had the soldering iron out. Video quality improved slightly and JiffyDOS works a treat. When paired with an SD2IEC, it loads games blazingly...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Pixel's Harvester and a corrupt wetware memory.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4656
Re: Pixel's Harvester and a corrupt wetware memory.
Anyway, those are only limitations if you go by the respective data sheets (and you missed out on the multi-colour capability of VIC-I, BTW) - both computers have demonstrated their video chips are much more flexible than that: see Ultraviolet on ZX Spectrum, FLInale on VIC-20. I own a Bytedelight ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Switchless JiffyDOS kernal switcher?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5890
Re: Switchless JiffyDOS kernal switcher?
Thank you.
I'll check and upload a photo.
I'll check and upload a photo.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Switchless JiffyDOS kernal switcher?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5890
Switchless JiffyDOS kernal switcher?
My C64 was bought from the same seller as my recent Vic-20 purchase. However, the 64 came fitted with a switch-less kernal switcher which starts the C64 in JiffyDOS, but changes to the standard kernal if powered on with the Restore key held down. I purchased the Vic-20 JiffyDOS kernal overlay images...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: Collecting and History
- Topic: 2024 eBay pricing, What the actual?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4549
Re: 2024 eBay pricing, What the actual?
I've owned a MiSTer FPGA since a little before COVID hit and the ensuing chip famine. There's a stable Vic-20 core for this.
Wouldn't this rely on an FPGA implementation of the VIC chip?
I don't know enough about the MiSTer's many cores; I just enjoy them.
Wouldn't this rely on an FPGA implementation of the VIC chip?
I don't know enough about the MiSTer's many cores; I just enjoy them.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Pixel's Harvester and a corrupt wetware memory.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4656
Re: Pixel's Harvester and a corrupt wetware memory.
The ZX Spectrum has a display resolution of 256 x 192 pixels. or 24 character rows, by 32 columns, with only a single background and foreground colour per 8x8 character square. As with the Vic-20, if you moved a character smoothly to an adjacent grid, there was noticeable colour clash. It's what the...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Pixel's Harvester and a corrupt wetware memory.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4656
Pixel's Harvester and a corrupt wetware memory.
I don't remember owning Pixel Productions Harvester when I still owned my original Vic-20 back in 1982/83 but I must've played it, as I re-wrote it entirely from memory for the ZX Spectrum. I sent my Speccy conversion in to Sinclair User magazine, who published it in their December 1986 type-in sect...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Collecting and History
- Topic: 2024 eBay pricing, What the actual?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4549
2024 eBay pricing, What the actual?
The Vic-20 was my second computer back in the day. I started my voyage into computing with a 1K ZX81 (for which I promptly bought a 64K Memotech RAM expansion; which absolutely NOTHING took advantage of), before deciding I needed a colour computer to plug-into into my (even then) ancient Black and W...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Late (not actually) to the FE3 party. Operational Queries.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9902
Re: Late (not actually) to the FE3 party. Operational Queries.
Updated FE3 firmware. Now displays v1.8p RENumbered the Utilities menu of the Software Collection and successfully added the wAx2 toolkit (running it from a .prg file I added to a .d64 image), as the first menu option in the Utilities menu. I've yet to work out how to load the CRT image of wAx2, whi...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Late (not actually) to the FE3 party. Operational Queries.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9902
Re: Late (not actually) to the FE3 party. Operational Queries.
@srowe The REN function works great. Thank you for adding it. “REN start, step” renumbers just as I’d expect. It doesn’t matter to me that it doesn’t handle GOTO/GOSUBs, just creating space to insert more entries into the LOADER files is enough. Incidentally, the firmware revision, shown top-right, ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: Late (not actually) to the FE3 party. Operational Queries.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9902
Re: Late (not actually) to the FE3 party. Operational Queries.
A nice RENUM command may come in useful, though I guess there’d already be a separate program/routine for this already, which I can add into the program loader, assuming I can ever create a working one… :roll: I've released a new version, 1.8, which has a REN command in the wedge. This can be used ...