My name is Josh, I'm almost 23 and I live in Texas.
I just recently got a VIC-20 along with a C=64 for my birthday from my cousin. The VIC-20 works perfectly and I'm loving it. The C=64 is not working. - But that's all right, I have quite a few cartridges for my VIC and I'm a BASIC programmer. I preferre it anyway too!
Does anyone know if the 1541 diskette drive for the C=64 works with the VIC-20? - I have one, and it's my only drive.
Thanks!
Josh
Joshua Horn
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"Just because YOU think it's old, does not me it's useless to ME!" -- Joshua Horn
Welcome to Denial. That 64 of yours is pretty badly yellowed. Once you get it fixed you should think about giving it an oxy-peroxide bath to make it look new again. Your VIC-20, on the other hand, looks great.
I know you from Lemon so I'm familiar with your BASIC programming plans so I thought I'd mention that while the 64 and VIC-20 share the same BASIC (v2.0), the VIC-20 has less memory to work with and the memory locations differ. For example, pokes to change screen colour are different. You might want to download a copy of the VIC-20 Programmer's Reference Guide. It's quite informative.
In the end it will be as if nothing ever happened.
JoshuaHorn wrote:know if the 1541 diskette drive for the C=64 works with the VIC-20? - I have one, and it's my only drive.
Thanks!
Josh
As others have answered, yes it does. However, I wouldn't keep your box of disks on top of it like that and in between the two monitors (both with speakers on their sides as well). That's a lot of magnetic fields you're surrounding the disks with. The magnetic field from the speakers, the CRT magnets, and the disk drive's power supply.
If you don't like read-write errors, you might want to store your disks elsewhere.
Not to mention, you're blocking the 1541's only way of cooling down.
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