New video! Trying to repair a badly broken and incomplete NTSC Commodore VIC-20 board.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/2mWqV9K_0cI
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/og7NXbn5K2QL2ts1go6jU2
New video! Trying to repair a badly broken and incomplete NTSC Commodore VIC-20 board.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/2mWqV9K_0cI
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/og7NXbn5K2QL2ts1go6jU2
"New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities, usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts. For example the first computers in the 1940s and 1950s, often little more than glorified electric adding machines, were nevertheless described as “electronic brains”. More recently, large language models (LLMs) have been touted as “artificial intelligence”, and complex physics experiments have been touted as “quantum computers”. In order to avoid any confusion with actual computers like the VIC-20 with which they have nothing in common, we refer to them here as “physics experiments”."
Not 5 Random ZX Spectrum Games: Shamus, Bolder Dan, Squish'em, Two Sheds & Gold Fever - #vic20rulez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlE-DdYLKbI
#Commodore #VIC20 #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #8bit
And we‘re back up and running #Pentagorat (which is a brilliant game)! #VIC20 #Commodore #Repair #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
Earlier this week, Peter Gutmann and @sten published a bombshell paper: The looked at all the reported factorization "breakthroughs" in quantum computing. And found that all of them essentially were magician's tricks, "sleight of hand".
The two reconstructed the algorithms used on a 1981 home computer (a million times less powerful than what you hold in your hand now), an #Abacus and with a #dog.
#VIC20 #VC20
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237
Question for the #VIC20 savvy human beings: can I just desolder the TIP29 transistor from one of my C64 spares boards and use it to replace Q4 on the VIC-20 (originally an 2SD880)? I believe they originally used the 2SD880 on the C64, too? (Too tired to dig out another C64 board to have a look currently…)
Multi-ROM Retro Upgrade with Software Defined ROM
#C64 #VIC20 #RetroComputing #SoftwareDefinedROM #MultiROM #Eprom
https://theoasisbbs.com/multi-rom-retro-upgrade-with-software-defined-rom/?feed_id=4324&_unique_id=6877a782bea85
For those of you #Commodore #VIC20 users, or potential future ones, the only VIC20 cartridge you will ever need has arrived: RAM expansion (280K!), SD-card interface, and 271 in-ROM games and programs: http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2025/07/vic20-penultimate-3-dcr.html
Rod Hull Demonstrates: Penultimate+3dcr TurboLoad & DOS Wedge for the Commodore VIC20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16HUPT5f5Q
#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #8bit #Commodore #VIC20
5 Random VIC20 Games - Two Sheds, Kwazy Kwaks, Cyclons, Danica's Panic & Bertie the Ball #VICNOISES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQa_00pAGv0
#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Commodore #VIC20 #88it
#GOODNEWS! The Best VIC20 Cartridge Just Got Better!
Penultimate+3dcr 0-280k, Full Sized SD2IEC + TurboLoader & DOS Wedge. And not forgetting a shed load of games!!
Experiment 26, note that down in your copy book. - Penultimate+3dcr Case Cut - #Commodore #VIC20 #CNC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nZu-NvViJ8
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PiVIC -- replacement for the video chip in #Commodore #VIC20 computer www.commodore-news.com/news/item/13... #retrodev #retrogaming #retrocomputing
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Nie pisalem o tym juz wczoraj wieczorem bo bylo za pozno, a ten news powinien sie rozniesc bardzo, bardzo szeroko.
Rewolucja w swiecie #retro komputerow i gamingu! Prawdziwa rewolucja, nie zaden clickbait.
Pamietacie jak pisalem o planach Christiana "#Perifractic" Simpsona odnosnie marki #Commodore?
ZROBIL TO! Podpisal umowe z obecnymi wlascicielami praw do marki by ja na nowo ozywic... jeszcze raz:
#COMMODORE WRACA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-Ao-CpI7E
W zespole, ktory zbudowal Christian sa m.in.:
Bil Herd - tworca Commodore 128
Albert Charpentier - VP of Engineering, szef zespolu, ktory rozwijal projekt #C64
Michael Tomczyk - szef zespolu odpowiedzialnego za rozwoj #VIC20
James Harrison - szef dzialu wsparcia Commodore
David Pleasance - szef brytyjskiego oddzialu Commodore, autor ksiazki The Inside Story
Hans Olsen - "demo technician" w Commodore
Tim Morgan - PR Commodore
Jeri Ellsworth - twórczyni konsoli Commodore Direct-To-Tv
Cem Tezcan - twórca projektu Commodore Handheld (https://cemtezcan.com/projects/dOqA8K)
Dan Tootill - artysta grafik i muzyk (ma konto na Masto: @dan )
Marvin Droogsma - twórca Retro8bitshop
Gideon Waitser - tworca cartridge'a Ultimate II+
Jim Drew - pomysłodawca i twórca Emplant Mac Emulation Card
Jake Young - twórca sklepu Retro Fuzion
Euan Wilcox - twórca sklepu mini-itx.com
Matt Grandis - webmaster
Thomas Middleditch - aktor filmowy, grał w "Dolinie Krzemowej"
Wraz z wskrzeszeniem marki pojawi sie tez Compute!'s Gazette - cyfrowo i w druku - popularna w latach 80 w USA gazeta o 8-bitowych komputerach domowych.
Na koniec filmu Christian wspomina o tym, kogo jeszcze szukaja - tworcow merchu, artystow, managerow social media, posiadaczy licencji do klasycznych gier z lat 90 i tworcow gier indie.
Wspomina tez o tajemniczym "produkcie startowym", ale o nim ma byc wiecej w kolejnym odcinku... Czyzby C65 albo 129 albo 256? ;)
Jak to wyjdzie... alez ja bede rzucal w nich pieniedzmi
Tak na koniec - jesli Perifractic nie zostanie zaproszony na #PixelHeaven to ja nie wiem...
5 Random VIC20 Games - JetPac, Krazy Kong, Frantic, Super VIC Robber & Cosmic Combat - #VIC20Rulez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnIydm4tiOg
#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #8bit #Commodore #VIC20 etc
Coming Soon: Penultimate+3dcr for the Commodore VIC20 - ROM/RAM Expansion with SD2IEC & TurboLoader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUOJuh81uhk
#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Commodore #VIC20 #8bit #Koolkidz
5 Random VIC20 Games - Android Attack, Dimond Hunt, Mission Mercury, Omnitron & Rat Man #VIC20Rulez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjdL-cauwBE
#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #8bit #Commodore #VIC20
VIC-20 image quality comparison with and without the TheRetroChannel video mod. The improvement is quite dramatic in most cases.
Although the comparison here shows SVideo, the improvement over composite is almost as substantial.
Note: this post was NOT sponsored by @futurewas8bit