Denial

Another possibility is that the play head needs aligning. It only requires a small screwdriver a bought tape program and alot of patience. If you have a 64, the program HEAD TESTER here might help. http://sta.c64.org/c64utils.html

I have downloaded it but not tried it yet.

OOoops yes!!

The last 2 should be the pointers to the top of BASIC (45,46). This is also the easiest way to have your BASIC line 1 SYS4118 with ML. Just adjust the top of BASIC to the end of your ML and save.

This works as well (and is what I usually do) although it is a bit of typing. From the direct mode I change all the pointers for BASIC to the bottom and top of my ML. For example if my program was from 6566 to7168 I would POKE43,0:POKE44,26:POKE55,0:POKE56,28 then just SAVE it regularly. This only a...

It appears my main computer has died, so after pacing around the house for a few hours I thought maybe I should dig out my Real Vic and hook it up! So it took several hours to find enough bits and make some (I no longer have a cord that goes from RCA to COAX) to get it all up and running. I finally ...

I actually have an old page that links(ed) to it. It was : http://www.geocities.com/denialgames/ I also have a logo you made (I will leave it up for a while):

I guess I have decided to come out of the dark, so I will introduce myself. I am a musician who has always loved the Vic 20 and have dabbled in programming. Being in an isolated community I thought that there wasn't anyone in the world who still did anything with a Vic. Then I found Jeff's Denial pa...

Just a note. The MSD SD-1 is a dual disk drive that uses the serial line. I only mention this because I own one.

Just to clarify, I had problems when I stored stuff right at 673. When I left that byte and the next zeroed, and stored a little ML at 675, it SEEMED to be OK. I just want to be certain this area wasn't used. I think these two responces make me feel confident this area is safe. Thank you both so muc...

I was looking for another place in RAM that one could store 40 or 50 bytes (aside from the cassette buffer), and found Program Indirects at 673 to 767. I was wondering what these actually hold. Are they for GOSUBS and the like, or do they just hold operations during Cassette LOADing. I found that us...

Ok, I understand what I did now. Looking at your autoloader, my idea was very similar. What I ended up doing, to solve the overwriting of the IRQ, was that the "program" was just the first bit of the vectors (770-780) up to the accumulator. Just like yours, the actual ML is in the header, ...

I was overwriting the vectors @ 770 and up (because for the disk version the program started @ 820). This worked fine for my disk autoloader, but the cassette version didn't like it. It works now, and what I think was happening was I was overwriting the Program Counter and then problems would ensue....

I am trying to make an auto tape loader. I made a disk autoloader using the basic warm start vector @ 770-771 and am using that to jump to a ML program (that loads in the header) @ 843. For some reason it jumps to $0002 and crashes. Using the xvic monitor, the vector is right (it points to 843) and ...

A couple of years ago I was at a small bar and saw this pathetic lonely looking synth lying on a back shelf. I inquired about it, and the owner said if I could make it work I could have it. So I got a power cord and then there was sound !!! There were several issues with it, but I felt bad just taki...

This is all really cool! I remember seeing your games listed on eBay and went to your site on geocities, but it never changed, and I felt sad. But I just got the digest from the Vic20 Yahoo group and ran over here. I pulled out my vic for a couple days but couldn't get motivated to do much so I put ...