Happy 40, Vic!

[cbmeeks]

Sounds like a fun emulation project

Why only emulation?

[joshuadenmark]

Should be a piece of cake for our community, lots of talented electronic guys here and hey let crowdfund it

[beamrider]

My spec for a Vic-40 "anniversary edition" would be:

40 Columns
40K Ram
4 Sound Voices - with independent volume control and "in-tune"
4-Mhz CPU

[majikeyric]

40 hardware sprites (40x40 pixels)

[cbmeeks]

40 colors.

4 colors per char.

40 increments in volume.

We can on and on...lol

[lance.ewing]

Sounds like a fun emulation project

Why only emulation?

I guess because this might be something I personally could achieve by the end of September. My VIC 40 specs are limited enough that it might only take a few tweaks to an existing emulator. The biggest effort might be hacking the ROMs so that they work with that spec.

It did cross my mind that since the recent The C64 machine is based on VICE that maybe a hacked "VIC 40" The C64 could be produced.

[lance.ewing]

4 colors per char.

Maybe not 4, but 2 is something I was thinking of. What if the colour RAM were 8 bit instead of 4 bit, and what if the VIC chip had 8 pins dedicated to fetching from the colour RAM, where 4 feed into the foreground/mode as normal and 4 into the background. That obviously wouldn't be a 6562/3 though.

[Gyro Gearloose]

So will it divorce its wife, gain 50 pounds, and think 20 year old computers are attracted to it?

[Jeff-20]

I feel old.