My blue vic20 - pictures!

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:01 am

http://user.tninet.se/~pug510w/datormus ... index.html

Doesn't it look nice?

/Anders

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:48 pm

well done man!

don't vic 20's look awesome with white keys?!

i will have to take a pic of my green vic!

chris

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:59 pm

Kinda cute. ♪ I'll have a Blue VIC-20 without you, it'll be so Blue, thinking about you...

Btw, I was looking for a German keyboard layout (VC-20), but I suppose only the localized German units had this, despite the renaming?

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:09 pm

Wow, great stuff!

This makes me think, that if Commodore were around and selling VIC20s today, would they or a third party sell colored cases for the computers, sort of like you can get for Palm Pilot PDAs today?

(i.e. http://shop.brando.com.hk/image/m100colorset01.jpg )

tlr · Post by **tlr** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:06 pm

vic user wrote:don't vic 20's look awesome with white keys?!

They sure do!

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:25 pm

Thanks for all the comments!

I have two German vic20s and none of them has a German keyboard. But you can see on this keyboard that there is some Swedish characters on keys ; : and £. Well, this was the keyboard for my dear old c64 and I put those stickers on the keys so that I would remember which characters that was replaced with å ä and ö on the printer (and on localized c64 keyboards)...

/Anders

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:40 pm

I think a VIC is a little too big for licensed modding.. but maybe those would be sold pre-manufactured in different colours like the iMac - which IIUC internally are or were keyed so parts don't fit between e.g. red and blue iMac.

Anyway, if you put a white keyboard and are looking to spray paint the case, try a medium cyan colour so the VIC will resemble the start-up screen.

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:22 pm

carlsson wrote:I think a VIC is a little too big for licensed modding.. but maybe those would be sold pre-manufactured in different colours like the iMac - which IIUC internally are or were keyed so parts don't fit between e.g. red and blue iMac.

I just remembered, there were third-party cases available for the C64. They were used to 'convert' a C64 into a 64C look-a-like. pic

Anyway, if you put a white keyboard and are looking to spray paint the case, try a medium cyan colour so the VIC will resemble the start-up screen.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:13 pm

I am looking forward to a VIC mod contest. I recall a camoflague-painted VIC in RUN magazine (circa early 90s long after its popularity).

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:25 pm

Blue Vic 20, white keys . . . I knew it seemed familiar.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:15 pm

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:44 pm

i wopnder how many different colours there are for that vic for that book?

the copy i have has an orange vic on the cover.

chris

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:53 pm

Like this?

http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/comm ... owboom.jpg

Notice that one version says "Arcade Games" while the other only says "Games".

My version of the book - "Spela VIC" is red with a pair of dice and an actual VIC-20 photo on front. On the other hand it is not "Zap! Pow! Boom!" but a fully translated combination of that book and "Symphony for a Melancholy Computer", which makes it hard for me to tell which listing comes from which book and their original titles.

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:21 pm

Notice that one version says "Arcade Games" while the other only says "Games".

neat!

chris

idrougge · Post by **idrougge** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:50 am

I see that I'm not the only one who's put a VIC-20 keyboard into his C64C.