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by Groovydrifter
Thu Jul 17, 2014 1:23 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: VIC 20 Logo font
Replies: 36
Views: 13641

Re: VIC 20 Logo font

I've been looking @ dafont.com and this is the closest I've found http://i60.tinypic.com/67uy3o.jpg The font for the "VI" and the "20" is "Gobold", to be exact "Gobold Lowplus" and the C= logo is the "Commodore 64" font. Both fonts have all the chars...
by Groovydrifter
Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:01 am
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Vic 20 color strangeness
Replies: 16
Views: 2553

Re: Vic 20 color strangeness

Well guys... repair report: After and amazing two day travel from UK to Spain, I received Spirantho's VIC-I's (amazingly short, I mean). I checked before other possible suspects but after testing the chips in the Willem programmer all passed OK, so I replaced both VIC-I and tada! both VIC-20's worke...
by Groovydrifter
Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:12 pm
Forum: Announcement Board
Topic: Introduce Yourself: What's your User Name based on?
Replies: 656
Views: 363154

Re: Introduce Yourself: What's your User Name based on?

I choosed GroovyDrifter when I joined a large spanish BMW owners forum I used to moderate... and you can imagine why............... no you can't. It is Groovy in the sense of marvelous and Drifter in the sense of floating thing, so it is "The marvelous floating thing" that means yeah, I'm ...
by Groovydrifter
Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:17 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Vic 20 color strangeness
Replies: 16
Views: 2553

Re: Vic 20 color strangeness

How cool is this, I've just bought from ebay two "untested due to lack of power supply" VIC-20s with this exact same problems on both. What a marvelous coincidence. So then both VIC's are dead? I will do the test anyway to confirm but the symptoms are exactly the same and guess what... I a...