What was the first thing you typed into your new VIC 20?

16KVIC20 · Post by **16KVIC20** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 12:22 pm

I did wonder if it was that one. I must try to remember that one. Thanks for clearing that up.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:03 pm

I probably typed something like

LOAD "",2

...or something because I had been using the PET computer at school. Wasn't the datasette device 2 on the PET? Not sure if that worked on the VIC-20 though.

SparkyNZ · Post by **SparkyNZ** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:23 am

The first thing I typed in was more of a drawing. My uncle showed let how to make reverse bars and change colours on his (WOW!) C64.. Soon as my Vic 20 was powered up on Xmas day I was making reverse spaces and colours and trying to figure out why I couldn't get the same shades that the C64 could get with the Commodore key..

Navvarr · Post by **Navvarr** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:31 pm

Load"Vic Panic" (Enter)

was probably my first typing on a Vic20

-Remember sitting one day, all day and typing in the whole of Killer Comet from the back of the Vic20 manual.

rwv01 · Post by **rwv01** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:54 pm

The first thing we typed in was the first program in the manual.
But later I got the Zap! Pow! Boom! type in game book and spent hours
typing in games like "Pole Position" and "Tail Gunner" with no way to save them before turning off the computer. It was at least a year before we got a Datasette.

SparkyNZ · Post by **SparkyNZ** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:41 am

rwv01 wrote:The first thing we typed in was the first program in the manual.
But later I got the Zap! Pow! Boom! type in game book and spent hours
typing in games like "Pole Position" and "Tail Gunner" with no way to save them before turning off the computer. It was at least a year before we got a Datasette.

If you'd like to relive our past.. check out this link:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/55357327/ZAP- ... the-VIC-20

FD22 · Post by **FD22** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:43 pm

SYS 1024

I was expecting the monitor to start, as it did on the PETs I'd been using to that point.

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:29 am

? 2+2
4
READY

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:56 am

It seems like most of you knew a little about programming. All I knew came from the movie War Games (which I hadn't actually seen, just knew from commercial previews).

rwv01 · Post by **rwv01** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:42 am

SparkyNZ wrote:
rwv01 wrote:The first thing we typed in was the first program in the manual.
But later I got the Zap! Pow! Boom! type in game book and spent hours
typing in games like "Pole Position" and "Tail Gunner" with no way to save them before turning off the computer. It was at least a year before we got a Datasette.
If you'd like to relive our past.. check out this link:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/55357327/ZAP- ... the-VIC-20

Neat!
That's a pretty good conversion. I've still got my copy with my commodore books. The dot matrix print took some getting used to.