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by cbmeeks
Fri May 03, 2019 11:58 am
Forum: Games
Topic: WIP: VicroLeague Wrestling III (with multicolor graphics!)
Replies: 2
Views: 2637

Re: WIP: VicroLeague Wrestling III (with multicolor graphics!)

This looks awesome.

Maybe you could hold some contest or something here where the winner gets his face digitized and put in the game as a wrestler. Of course, he would have to have a great name like "VIC-Thundar" or "Macho Man VIC".

:-)
by cbmeeks
Mon Apr 22, 2019 2:29 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: "vi" for the VIC-20!
Replies: 11
Views: 7178

Re: "vi" for the VIC-20!

Resisting urge to ask about Emacs version.....LMAO.
by cbmeeks
Thu Apr 18, 2019 2:24 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: VIC prototyping boards
Replies: 18
Views: 8965

Re: VIC prototyping boards

Nice! My wife and I both grew up in the Chattanooga / north Georgia area. Our families are still there. I escaped when I was 18 and went back and rescued her later. I know Chattanooga quite well... or used to. In fact, my VIC 20 was bought at the K-Mart in East Ridge (gone now, i think), '82 or '83...
by cbmeeks
Thu Apr 18, 2019 1:27 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: VIC prototyping boards
Replies: 18
Views: 8965

Re: VIC prototyping boards

Ah, cool. I'm in Chattanooga myself.
by cbmeeks
Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:28 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: VIC prototyping boards
Replies: 18
Views: 8965

Re: VIC prototyping boards

Those do look nice.

Where are you located in TN?
by cbmeeks
Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:20 pm
Forum: Announcement Board
Topic: Introduce Yourself: What's your User Name based on?
Replies: 656
Views: 353679

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

orion70 wrote:I always thought you were CBM-eeks (whatever the meaning of eeks) :D
Well, I've walked into a room and made a few women yell "EEK!" from time to time. lol
by cbmeeks
Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:06 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Robots Rumble released
Replies: 12
Views: 8636

Re: Coming soon : Robots Rumble

This looks great. Seems like an original idea for the VIC too. Can't wait to play this. Suggestion for a sequel: You play a robot overlord who takes revenge on all humans and the goal is to push humans into lava if they don't provide manual labor (such as cranking wheels to generate electricity). lo...
by cbmeeks
Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:48 am
Forum: Announcement Board
Topic: Introduce Yourself: What's your User Name based on?
Replies: 656
Views: 353679

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

My username is based on my nickname and real name. My given name is Cecil. My middle name starts with a "B" (and is private) and my last name is Meeks. As a kid, my friends and family just called me "CB". So, "cbmeeks" is what I am known as online (I tried to maintain t...
by cbmeeks
Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:53 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, and Trade
Topic: Shift-Clr/Home: More 8 Bit Thoughts... (fwd)
Replies: 1
Views: 4281

Re: Shift-Clr/Home: More 8 Bit Thoughts... (fwd)

Added to my wish-list (I have a birthday coming up so I'll nudge the wife).
by cbmeeks
Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:43 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: VIC 20 Hardware Prototype
Replies: 15
Views: 12222

Re: VIC 20 Hardware Prototype

Attention: I will gladly donate my left kidney for that prototype.


LOL
by cbmeeks
Tue Mar 12, 2019 1:19 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: My PET 4032 is dead
Replies: 36
Views: 25448

Re: My PET 4032 is dead

My PET 8032 died a while back. I buried it in the pet cemetery and it came back to life as a ZX Spectrum.
by cbmeeks
Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:54 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: What colour is the VIC-20 case originally before yellowing?
Replies: 23
Views: 13872

Re: What colour is the VIC-20 case originally before yellowing?

I can open up the case to get a shot of the insides which were obviously well protected from UV. Unfortunately, UV exposure is only a part of the problem. The ratio of bromine, quality of plastic, age, etc. all factor in. For example, I had a C128 that was "whiter than white" when I put i...
by cbmeeks
Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:48 am
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: If you can spare a dollar or two
Replies: 36
Views: 27333

Re: If you can spare a dollar or two

Not sure if this has been asked, but does this forum have a Patreon account? I give to several YouTubers (and a developer) each month via Patreon and would be glad to send a buck or two this way each month.
by cbmeeks
Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:20 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Dummy trying to understand the VIC-20
Replies: 2
Views: 4359

Dummy trying to understand the VIC-20

I'm looking over the 6560/61 datasheet over at http://archive.6502.org/datasheets/mos_6560_6561_vic.pdf Some of it is making sense but some of it is not. Especially the parts around multi-color mode and hi-res modes. So, is there some type of visual guide representing how the different video modes l...
by cbmeeks
Tue Dec 04, 2018 3:51 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Games we want to see
Replies: 323
Views: 202003

Re: Games we want to see

I second Chuckie Egg for the VIC-20. I have fond memories of that game on the C64 and would love to see it on the VIC.