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Bought a vga converter to connect my Vic to an LCD monitor. It looks terrible.

I adjusted the pot according to the wiki (this is a cost-reduced Vic so only one pot) and it makes it brighter but that's it.
Is it because my vga converter is crappy?

So, these arrived today:
For most of the people that hang out here this is old hat, but I've never done anything like this before. I've hardly ever soldered.

To me, these things look beautiful! Creating a Vic-20 cart is kind of a bucket list thing.

My god could you please keep doing this kind of post?

This gives a noob a fighting chance.

Gosh, this is really good. The vocals in God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman are hauntingly fantastic.

I've been playing around with connecting a NodeMCU to the Vic-20 userport serial interface and building various TCP and/or HTTP clients and servers with micropython. I was thinking how cool it would be to use the ESP8266 as a serial to UDP converter for multi-user games. I've seen threads on other f...

I'm working on learning ASM serial communications and I need a convenient way to test from VICE 3.1 running in my Mac OS X Sierra environment. I came up with this method which lets programs running in VICE talk to a terminal without actually having a terminal plugged in via USB, or using VMs or what...

Floopy wrote:the edge connector was cut because the owner wanted to salvage the gold on it.

Desperate times call for desperate measures I guess.

ldx #8 LOOP ldy #1 jsr $d3a2 ; y -> FAC jsr $e094 ; rnd() jsr $d1aa ; FAC -> a, y jsr USEFULSR ; do something useful with a, y dex bne LOOP This code doesn't work because the subroutines change X. Are there cases where you take the trouble to figure out if a particular ROM subroutine leaves your re...

norm8332 wrote:The machined ones that eslapion has are more durable for repeated use.

I'm getting them from eslapion but he doesn't have any capacitors.

How do these look?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/232524021393

Okay, I just ordered up a protopack of boards. I think I will get a few sockets and make a couple dev boards for testing the eproms. If anyone has a link to a socket they would recommend please post it.

Is the idea to solder something like this to the board: https://www.ebay.com/itm/28-Pin-DIP-Machine-Pin-Socket-Lot-of-3-628MP-/162065002326?hash=item25bbd3af56 and then plug the eprom into it, or just to solder the eprom directly to the board? I'm thinking to fit it in one of those beautiful cases t...

This is an area I really want to learn about. Once one has a board like this, what's the overview on moving forward? I'm a noob with electronics but I'm thinking you get the board and then you have to find the components needed (dip socket, any switches, resistors and such) and then solder it all up...

Thanks for all the welcomes!

Thanks for making my original look like such a pig.

This is amazing! I wish I could do that kind of work.