Denial

As far as I know the VIC can't read or write PC formatted 1581 disks and a PC can't read or write Commodore formatted 1581 disks, at least not without a Catweasel disk controller, so you'd have to use Big Blue Reader (or Little Red Reader ). Another option is of course to get a SD2IEC or uIEC and tr...

thanks to Eslapion's kind generosity I now have reverted my long-board 1541 to a 1540 with the appropriate firmware modification. That's interesting. I have a couple of white VIC-1541s, and I never thought about any conversion for them. I think there are different versions of the VIC-1541. The one ...

Cool, the museum is in Brantford, Ontario. My uncle and his family lived there in 1979-1986 and we went there to visit them in 1980.

Funny thing was, NO ONE I knew had a Vic in the 80's. I'd barely heard of it. I had friends into TI, Apple II, even a kid with a Radio Shack Color Computer 3, but no Vic. Later, all my friends had C64's. In Sweden Commodore was big from the PET onwards so the VIC 20 was an obvious choice for a firs...

Jeff-20 wrote:Just press any key on the start screen to switch it on and off. The word "EASY" will show.

I've been looking for the any key for years on every computer keyboard I've come across but I've never found it. Where is it? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

The original program is available at Craig Bruce's excellent archive of Transactor issues here http://www.csbruce.com/~csbruce/cbm/transactor/v6/i1/p037.html while my ports are here http://www.csbruce.com/~csbruce/cbm/transactor/v9/i5/p037.html They are unfortunately in the form of jpgs or png file...

I have completed the manual conversion and created a d64. I will try and test later. Someone please PM me where we can store this document and the D64 for Adman and Currah Chatterbox. zimmers.net is the best place to store these things imo. If the manual is too big for Bo's server, you could send i...

Christmas 1982. My older brother had nagged my parents to get a home computer, and they knew someone who worked for Handic/Datatronic (Commodore's Swedish distributor) so they could buy a VIC 20 at a very low price - the VIC was pretty inexpensive already as computers went, but my parents couldn't a...

Kiddies use Ubuntu; engineers use Red Hat; and hard-core nerds use Gentoo and Slackware. A good example of a statement that makes it so very difficult for Linux to be taken seriously. You realize that those silly distro arguments boil down to a person's preference of a package manager right? Note q...

Thanks, I also just found that in the 65c22 datasheet, and this other tid bit of the internet. >> From: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/MOS+Technologies The PET was an idea of the of the 6500 developers. It was completly developed by MOS, but was manufactured and marketed by Commodore. B...

He hasn't been active here since 2005 so there's not much of a chance he'll see your post, Vic20-Ian.

Some of us created a new format that reduce file size to a minimum and still makes it possible to write mages back to tape. It was created as a replacement for TAP. The point being: a format to be used for preservation (and playback in emulators) and no need to use external programs to compress the...

Now, if only I could find Rescue at Rigel... My quest is never-ending! :P Purchased a shrink-wrapped copy of that one about seven years ago from an old software dealer online. It cost about $29 plus postage but was worth it. Mint condition of course. Since I was archiving these games for the VIC co...

And the private disk copy sessions, yes, I served a lot of KFC to get my greasy hands on some C64 titles, particularly broken copy protected games that I already owned in fear that the original media would go bad or promote misalignment of my precious disk heads. And the not-so-private Commodore Us...

the Macs still crashed (but with a cute picture of a bomb whenever they did). I don't believe this is correct. Didn't the Mac crash with a picture of the Mac with an unhappy face? Because the Atari ST line crashed with bombs across the screen, later revisions crashed with mushroom clouds. There was...