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Products => Computers => Vintage Computing => Topic started by: Homer J Simpson on October 08, 2017, 12:58:59 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg04GyhS3ss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg04GyhS3ss)
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I'm watching him do a directory and thinking, I don't remember any of that. :-DD I wanted my VIC to talk so I made an interface board for it with an LPC encoder chip. I even attempted to do some speech recognition similar to what I had shown with my IBM AT but it just did not have the power to pull it off or my skill set was too lame. Fun times.
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No game players here. Interesting story. Youngster gets the VIC20 and shows the previous owners work on it.
https://youtu.be/E0yLak9X5nw
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Intro music sounds like 80's PBS, why not use some music from an 8 bit machine
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Ah. My very 1st computer that was. Absolutely magic times
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Good video from 8-bit guy as per usual - I'd like to know why his VIC-20 is missing the Orange function keys tho? It looks like a C64 keyboard to me.
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I looked through my box of VIC-20 parts. Shown is my homemade joystick (I was never much of a game player), the programmers manual and my expansion board. The DC-DC generates the programming voltage. From what I remember, I could only program the old Motorola EPROMs, not the standard 27xxx. The 5220C is an LPC used for the speech. LPC is what was used in the Speak and Spells. I wanted to use a standard Centronics based printer with it and added a port for it.
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VIC-20..... The first computer I ever used (not with the first TV in this image!)
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A sweet and simple machine. Although these days I find the BASIC terribly limited. But I'm reviving my VIC and hoping to get Programmer's Aid and a ML monitor going in there.