Is The 8-Bit VIC-20 Better Second Time Round?

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Pixel Fandango

Күн бұрын

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@lactobacillusprime 3 ай бұрын

The cartridges like the penultimate really make life on the Vic a whole lot better these days.

@pixel_fandango 3 ай бұрын

It's really good. Apart from the great content, it's useful not to have to keep swapping cartridges. I worry about stressing the components too much.

@mustangj0hn Ай бұрын

The Vic was my first computer, had a Downsway 16K RAM pack. The sound was great for me, especially the Llamasoft games, like LaserZone and HellGate. Happy memories.😃

@pixel_fandango Ай бұрын

I do remember plugging a 16k ram pack into a VIC was much less nerve wracking than doing the same with a ZX81.

@VIC-20 2 ай бұрын

Give the Super Expander cart language extensions a go! Lots of great graphics and sound commands like the ZX81 & BBC

@pixel_fandango 2 ай бұрын

Interesting. Cheers.

@enverhaase8562 2 ай бұрын

3:15 This is crazy, adjusting cartridge screen positioning using cursor keys. It was just some "agreed contract' , most cartridges would allow for that. Pinball Spectacular only allows this in attract mode, not when the instructions are scrolling by. The reason is different X/Y default offset values in the PAL/NTSC VIC chip registers. Unbelievable how crude the user experiences at the time were, what developers could get away with. I mean, same default values for the VIC chips should have been a priority and if you do need a workaround, then make PAL/NTSC detection and auto-adjustment the norm. Shaking my head... and appreciating how much more brushed-up the C64 turned out. No more crazy memory layout variants depending on the available memory. Just fully-loaded with 64kB, perfect for loading the software into RAM rather than just the program's state. Perfect for pirating software, too.

@v7bdv7bd34 8 күн бұрын

Отличный клон ZX!

@CallousCoder Ай бұрын

This was my first computer and I had a love hate relationship with it. I loved it because I had a computer and could learn to program. I hated it because it was such a useless machine compared to the C64. Later I luckily got a C64 and for me that always feels as the first "Real" computer.

@pixel_fandango Ай бұрын

I completely understand that.

@ms-ex8em 10 күн бұрын

any 1 know how to make donkey kong work on the vic 20 emulator? using winvice or other program ?? thanks................

@tarstarkusz 18 күн бұрын

How could you have possibly been disappointed by the Vic if you got the Vic after having a zx81?

@pixel_fandango 17 күн бұрын

There's no doubt it was a big step up from a ZX81 in almost every way - but I think the not particularly crisp 22 column text was my first on-screen impression of the VIC and it was a bit underwhelming.