Denial

Is it possible that Commodore had intended at one point to actually sell an EPROM burner with blank brown cartridges, then sold them burned and labeled when the burner was cancelled?

Somewhere I once saw a web site from a guy that had done oscilescope testing to produce a more accurate C-64 pallette. Same method should be aplicable to any composite-output machine.

Wow. Q-Bert on VIC20 was a piece of crap. Ayep, mostly due to colour clashes and limitations. That was partly one of the reasons why I made VIQ*Bert in c:a 2001-2002. It ain't pretty and has very low resolution graphics but at least it doesn't suffer from colour clashes. Perhaps one could come up w...

Never liked a controller that made you use the left hand to control the direction. Some early arcade machines were set up like that, because the designers knew that right handed people would die quicker and spend more quarters if they were handicapped by the controller layout. Computers and consoles...

Wow. Q-Bert on VIC20 was a piece of crap. I remember seeing screen shots back in the day, but never actual video.

Did you ever have Snackman? This was a cassette-based Pac-Man clone that was really fast, and I liked it better than any of the official versions.

I've always been told that the Atari 2600 and the Timex Sinclair generated the screen image via software control only. If that is the case, couldn't you do the same with the VIC-20? I would think you could just have the CPU control the general background color register and time it perfectly to gene...

You could use this technique in multi-color mode to change the background, border, and auxiliary colors on each line. Would it be possible to write to 22 bytes of color memory during the horizontal blanking interval? Rasterbars are not FLI. Altering the colour RAM on the fly doesn't work. A LDA/STA...

Gunshot is usually a loud short burst of white noise. An rapidly fading echo/reverb might make the gunshot sound more realistic.

FLI on the C64 creates additional "bad-lines" that stop the CPU. In that way, the VIC chip re-reads the attribute data from a different source, in thus enhances the colour-resolution, when using a hi-res screen (the text map defines two colour sources in that case). On the VIC-20, in effe...

Yes, i do not understand why a demo must be only for unexpanded vics, if someone made a good demo for 16k vics, which is the problem ? It might be an ethos from the early days of computing, when the geeks would talk up the capabilities of their favorite machine. The Apple II guys would always claim...