Denial

Dont see these that often!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/microsprout01 ... _Auction=1

First is black screen, the second has been upped to 3A and displays "Hi Rik!" on boot!

And heres the second VIC, friend is a bit dubious about turning this one on! Note the two EPROM's btw http://s8.postimg.org/4vhn9kokx/VIC_20_001.jpg http://s8.postimg.org/czprebb01/VIC_20_002.jpg http://s8.postimg.org/t9fxh7lo1/VIC_20_003.jpg http://s8.postimg.org/fjle8eyk1/VIC_20_004.jpg

Its no problem Ian, still a bit out of my league price wise, I can understand it from a persons perspective that wants to keep and use the machine but Im repairing, refurbing and then reselling, theres not much in it after initial costs, parts and labour are incurred. Thanks for the offer though!

A friend of mine got two VICs in today, both with inside mods, I wonder if anyone can tell me whats going on here?

Cheers Mike, I suspected as much sadly. Both machines are soldered in. Just had a quick browse for 6561's and of the two I found on ebay, they are commanding quite a price! £34.99!!

Ok, just typed that in to the dodgy multicolor machine, after some wait all the text was changed to yellow and Ok message displayed, just because i could i tried it on the other one, still OK but text now pink/brown combo

Sorry Mike, my basic knowledge of BASIC escaped me! I tried PEEKing and its 27 on both, 27 also on my working vic so that seems to be checking out. The pokes to display mutlicolor just give straight color, the whole range, apart from one (forgot which) which froze the machine (Run/Stop Restore got i...

Hi Mike, just tried those tests, POKE646,8 makes the READY prompt and cursor turn black, 15 turns both yellow. The PEEK command returns in a Syntax error however

And while im here, I may as well talk about another Vic thats got odd colors, this more apparent from the off. No amount of adjusting the oscillator cures this, and strangely, two games Ive tried (Starship Escape being one of them), when you die, the death sound keeps looping and the game freezes li...

Plug my working Vic in using the exact same setup and cables, everythings fine!

I only noticed it when I tried Gorf on cart, the characters are all wrong, no color! Any ideas people?

Heres a list of the games; Kaktus Bonzo Alien Blitz Spiders of Mars Cosmiads Adbuctor Chopper Skyhawk Puckman Amok Free VIC 20 Programs Penny Slot Engine Shed Cosmic Firebirds Mower Mania Caterpilla Creepers Mission Mercury Hunchback Mickey the Bricky Fatty Henry Catcha Snatcha Flight Path 737 Dodo ...

Forgot these!
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Here for sale is my own VIC 20 with a load of software. Have not played it in months and today I decided that I may as well let someone here buy it who will use it. This collection has taken YEARS to pull together, as such, and because it means a lot to me I want £300 plus shipping. Apart from the s...