WTB: VIC-1011A

BBQedIguana · Post by **BBQedIguana** » Wed May 12, 2010 11:11 am

Hi guys,

Does anyone have one of these they'd part with? (gklinger, I'm thinking of you! LOL!)

If so, let me know the price and we'll set something up!

Thanks!

Rick Towns
Barrie, Ontario, CANADA

Diddl · Post by **Diddl** » Wed May 12, 2010 11:50 am

You want a RS232 adapter? Which reason? Do you have plans with this?

BBQedIguana · Post by **BBQedIguana** » Wed May 12, 2010 12:27 pm

Yes, I want an RS232 adapter. I'm progressing in my work to build a simple ML BBS program on the VIC (recreating my work from 1982) and I'd like to use Leif's BBS gateway program - he recommends the VIC-1011A.

BBQedIguana · Post by **BBQedIguana** » Wed May 12, 2010 12:28 pm

Sorry, I meant to include the link... (I'm sure most of you know it already)

http://home.ica.net/~leifb/bbs/

Diddl · Post by **Diddl** » Thu May 13, 2010 5:06 am

It would be nice to have an AVR (Attiny2313 or a ATmega8) on the userport of my VIC instead of a VIC-1011A. An AVR could do all RS232 simply with internal UART.

wiskow · Post by **wiskow** » Wed May 19, 2010 11:51 pm

It's not a VIC-1011A, but I currently have a "homebrew" RS-232 adapter up on eBay which may work for your project. Here's a link to the auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0534652280

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Thu May 20, 2010 8:36 am

Diddl wrote:It would be nice to have an AVR (Attiny2313 or a ATmega8) on the userport of my VIC instead of a VIC-1011A. An AVR could do all RS232 simply with internal UART.

Presumably these AVRs also support Ethernet (a lightning fast Google search suggests they do), so you could do everything on one board (no PC required!)

Userport connector on one end, R-45 Jack on the other. Writing some RS232 to serial conversion code (or port tcpser, etc) would be relatively easy.

Diddl · Post by **Diddl** » Thu May 20, 2010 11:00 am

Schema wrote:Presumably these AVRs also support Ethernet (a lightning fast Google search suggests they do), so you could do everything on one board (no PC required!)

Userport connector on one end, R-45 Jack on the other. Writing some RS232 to serial conversion code (or port tcpser, etc) would be relatively easy.

Yes, exactly this is my intention.

Not only Ethernet, USB and RS232. Many things are possible easily with an AVR on the Userport: IEEE-488. I2C, digital IO, analog in ...

BBQedIguana · Post by **BBQedIguana** » Mon May 24, 2010 3:21 pm

Hey! Just picked one up off ebay for $9. Looks good!

dabone · Post by **dabone** » Fri May 28, 2010 2:55 pm

Presumably these AVRs also support Ethernet (a lightning fast Google search suggests they do), so you could do everything on one board (no PC required!)

Userport connector on one end, R-45 Jack on the other. Writing some RS232 to serial conversion code (or port tcpser, etc) would be relatively easy.

I picked up a freeduino and a ethernet shield to make a cheap serial server, but the serial libs have NO HANDSHAKING!. Kinda put a damper on my plans. Works great on a pc, like butt on a slow computer.

Later,
dabone

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Mon May 31, 2010 9:17 am

To answer your original question: Jay a.ka. Doppleganger makes and sells RS-232 boards designed by Jim Brain. There are two versions, one which emulates a Turbo 232 on the C64 cartridge port, or one that basically performs the same as a VIC-1011A on the user port (VIC or 64). The latter is the one you want, I forget the name.

His website is here: http://www.doppleganger.org/

vicassembly · Post by **vicassembly** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:26 pm

Are you still looking for a VIC-1011A?

What would you offer for mine? I am a collector but don't really have a use for it.