Is The VIC-20 Better Second Time Round?

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• LA

  @lactobacillusprime · 2 years ago

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

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• MA

  @MarkyMarksStuff · 1 year ago

  Thanks for this! I too had the same path eg. ZX-81, VIC-20 then BBC Model B and remember Your Computer Magazine 😍<br><br>Fond memories. I loved how you could mixed 6502 assembler in with the BBC BASIC

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• BO

  @Bob_Beaky · 1 year ago

  The Vic was my first machine and I still love it to this day. &nbsp;The only thing that bothered me way back when was that memory addressing was a moveable feast when using more than an extra 3K. &nbsp;That still drives me nuts! &nbsp;I always wished that Commodore would have at least released an updated VIC-20 with that extra 3K in it. &nbsp;I really think they could&apos;ve positioned the machine as a truly great entry level machine instead of fumbling around with the C16. &nbsp;As it stood the 3.5K really hindered it as a games machine pretty quickly and switching in and out your 16K RAM pack was tiresome - at least that was my experience. &nbsp;Nowadays, the Vic has some seriously impressive games and some of the old classics still hold up pretty well. &nbsp;Jet-Pac on the Vic is better, in my opinion, than on the Speccy and there&apos;s nothing like the cacophonous bliss of playing Gridrunner and Matrix on the Vic hooked up to a loud hifi! :)

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• PA

  @palpatinewasright · 2 years ago

  Offset of the screen was a hardware register. I wrote a passable vic20 moon lander program using only a static image and the hardware screen offset for the altitude

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• VI

  @VIC-20 · 2 years ago

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

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• GO

  @GORF_EMPIRE · 4 months ago

  A total cheese ball machine that was shit tons of fun!

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• RE

  @Retrogiochiconmarco2870 · 8 months ago

  what memories nice video

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• RI

  @richardcrossley5581 · 1 year ago

  First computer I used was a VIC 20. We bought a BBC micro a ew years later and I learned programming on that.

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• MU

  @mustangj0hn · 2 years ago

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

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• CO

  @codingwithculp · 2 years ago

  I never had a Vic-20 back in the day, in fact, I thought they were not that great. &nbsp;However, my first computer probably wasn&apos;t any better and might&apos;ve actually been worse. &nbsp;I had been begging for a computer for a while and I knew I was getting one for Christmas. &nbsp;When my dad went to purchase the computer somebody somebody at the store told him the Vic-20 was not that great and convinced him to buy a TI-99/4a. &nbsp;I used it for around six months and then it broke. &nbsp;Around a year later I spent the summer mowing lawns and got a Commodore 64 and 1541 Drive which had just been released.

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• V7

  @v7bdv7bd34 · 2 years ago

  Отличный клон ZX!

• IG

  @igorperuchi2114 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m an Atari 8 bit fan, I have the XEGS and the 600XL. I think the VIC-20 is an intriguing machine, one that I am also very interested in, maybe not so much the case with the C64, which to me looks not too dissimilar to the Atari 8 bit machines. Nice video!

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