Commodore VIC-20 Documentary Chapter 1

Relive the experience of the VIC-20 or learn about it for the first time in this documentary. In this chapter, see how the hardware interfaces, like a 1541 disk drive, okimate printer, cassette drive, joystick, and more.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• commodore
• vic-20
• vic
• 1541
• datasette

[tfinder]

Ah, the good old days of PEEK and POKE. :p

[UL439]

@DracoXul the inverted heart! here's another nerd :)

[hankaaron1961]

I went a few months without a storage drive. It was a bummer having to type in programs (in machine language at that!) from the old Compute magazines.

[Diskoboy1974]

Okimate 20 color printer FTW!! I still have mine!

I remember printing a color image took an eternity, because the cartridges had red, yellow, and blue on one cartridge. So to create secondary colors, the ribbon would overlap.

[Derpdatherp]

I just got one off of ebay for 10 bucks...

God I've been blessed.

[obewong]

wow, i only had the 8k expander pack.....

[EgoShredder]

Ouch! The way the cartridge was inserted at an angle and the joystick plug were waggled forcibly, made me wince. The main cause of sockets failing was due to this.

[andy7666]

Hold on.. Joystick? Printer? DISC DRIVE?!? You flashy gits! XD

[andy7666]

PLEASE help me if you can lads - I need to know the name of a certain game. Just comment on my page: My first games were "Perils of Willy" (only recently discovered it was a Manic Miner!), "Frogger", "Pirate Adventure" ("You are whisked away to a desert island" with that sodding Mongoose - it was more like "whats a Mongoose?" for me & my kid bro - I was 5, him 4!), lastly this game where you bombed cities, leveling buildings on each pass - a golden Doubloon to anyone who knows the answer! ^_^

[vienna73uk]

Take your fingers of your nose when speaking

[UL439]

an unlikely setup, since the firepower behind that keyboard was as expensive as ten Vic20s, easily :)