Commodore Vic20 Commercial - William Shatner

i neva had a vic 20 in mi day. nope. but i always have respekt 4 dem. i woz a texas instruments ti994a man miself. i had a fite wif mi mate dave once cos he said it couldn run pacman. but it could dave. yep. those wer de days people. i lost touch wif mi mate dave. an i dunno wot he's doin now. yep those were de days people.
an mi computer could run pacman dave. theres no doubt wotever

Come on William, say it like Captain Kirk would say it: THE COMMODORE - VIC - 20.

Ah the VIC-20. I loved making copies of cassette software: just put it into the home double audio tape deck. Play on original; record on the duplicate.....was beautiful. And the VIC-Modem (Model 1600 I believe) 300 baud....talk about waiting for the data to appear...man that was rough. Can't believe that is almost 30 years ago.

There were some good games. But it had such a crappy cartridge slot. You either had to yank it out, risking knocking the whole thing on the floor, or shimmy it out back and forth. I had one and it was fun. Omega race and Gorf were great. The only thing that really annoyed me was that the sound chip would run out of memory and be all static if ye played for more than like 15 minutes at a time.

plays great games too! space invaders...! which sucked until things heated up.  gorf was kick ass, and so was omega race, and radar rat race. and scott adam's adventure land, if you figured out to cut down three, look at the ground, go down under the stump, and then down one level further to an entire subterranean underground. most of the pictures on the back of the box of the VIC-20 were propaganda vaporware junk however, laughable pics of stock exchange data coming over a 300baudmodem

GORF.... man I loved that game

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WOW!! I remember when I was a kid my old man bought the VIC20 back in the day & he also bought the Commodore cassette drive. Some programs took as much as 20 minutes to load up on tape. Then he got a C-64 the following year or two with a floppy drive. What a huge difference.

We had the C-64 with the tape drive. You're right, it would take forever to load stuff on tape. And to think of what those file sizes must have been... Mere kilobytes. Imagine what it would take to store one of today's games like Grand Theft Auto San Andreas on a tape.

I don't think you would be able to store GTA on a cassette tape.

according to my calculations, it would take 120 cassettes and three days to load.