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Offline Homer J SimpsonTopic starter

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Commodore History Part 2 - The VIC 20
« on: October 08, 2017, 12:58:59 am »

 

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Re: Commodore History Part 2 - The VIC 20
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2017, 02:52:32 am »
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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Re: Commodore History Part 2 - The VIC 20
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2017, 05:31:06 pm »
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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Re: Commodore History Part 2 - The VIC 20
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2017, 10:43:49 pm »



Intro music sounds like 80's PBS, why not use some music from an 8 bit machine
 

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Re: Commodore History Part 2 - The VIC 20
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2017, 02:16:12 pm »
Ah. My very 1st computer that was. Absolutely magic times
 
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Re: Commodore History Part 2 - The VIC 20
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2017, 06:46:33 am »
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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Re: Commodore History Part 2 - The VIC 20
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2017, 05:42:09 pm »
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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Re: Commodore History Part 2 - The VIC 20
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2018, 12:47:19 am »
VIC-20.....  The first computer I ever used (not with the first TV in this image!)
 

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Re: Commodore History Part 2 - The VIC 20
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2018, 04:04:59 am »
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.
Hoarder of 8-bit Commodore relics and 1960s Tektronix 500-series stuff. Unconventional interior decorator.
 


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