This was never completely finished, mostly due to the huge number of tape titles once made. A walkthrough of my vic20 port of the zx spectrum classic game manic miner. Tim has managed to archive hundreds of vic20 games, for play on emulators such as vice. It uses most of vics internal ram to provide a flickerfree experience for the doublebuffered video. The software code for the software was published in compute. So far, theres only one playlist made up of other peoples uploads of vic 20 demos. For the vic20 platform, you can choose 3 deep space, 3d maze, 3d silicon fish, 3d time trek, abductor amongst the results. The v20 emulator was first conceived back in 1996 when i noticed there was a complete lack of vic 20 emulators. Anyway, im pretty ignorant when it comes to having a nice slick online profile but i think ive managed to create a youtube channel that will show hopefully publicly. On this web page you can find the latest news about the computer brand commodore. If you dont have a color tv, you can still run the programs,buttheresults will beless spectacular. Commodore vic20 faq retro computer verzamelaar vintage. As the vw beetle was the peoples car, the commodore vic20 was a computer for the people.
The collection includes a broad range of software related materials including shareware. Efforts to archive commodore cassette tape programs. It can only display 22 characters of text per line, so its use for business applications is minimal, but people loved it for games it has good color, a joystick port, and it was cheap. These programs are often overlooked or missing from other collections of retro computer software.
Note that this is not intended to be a tutorial, but just a quick reference to refresh long unused brain cells. Attach your vicmon cartridge while your vic20 is off and then turn it on. Unfollow commodore vic 20 to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Speedscript, the word processor for the commodore 64 and. The cause of the problem was a worn or broken trace in the ras line between u26 pin 11 74ls373 and the vic pin 18. Subetha software in support of the coco and os9 since. Somewhere that is as user friendly as plus four world would be great. Interestingly, the emulator comes just before the launch of commodores own c64 mini. All software is deemed to be public domain, shareware, freeware, abandonware and freely distributable, mainly from the funet. The format will be simple in comparison to the c64 archive, but could eventually grow into something more sophisticated. The commodore vic20 sold very well in the early 80s until it was replaced by the commodore 64. The vic20 was the first computer of any description to sell one million. Another software list, similar to our cartridge list above, except that it lists tapes.
A quick sample of gridrunner on the commodore vic 20. Vicmon can be downloaded from the 4k tool roms archive and a manual is available from the funet. The vic20s video chip, the mos technology vic, was a generalpurpose color video chip designed by al charpentier in 1977 and intended for use in inexpensive display terminals and game consoles, but commodore could not find a market for the chip. The internet archive software collection is the largest vintage and historical software library in the world, providing instant access to millions of programs, cdrom images, documentation and multimedia.
The vic20 introduced millions of people to the fascinating world of personal computing. First announced at the world of commodore 2012, retro innovations said it had acquired the rights to offer click here softwares port of jiffydos for the commodore vic20, thus completing the set of jiffydos kernal replacement offerings. There is news about the first generation cbmpet the vic20, c64 and c128. Tim dennings home page, with sections on vic20 tape archiving and scans of liner artwork. Vic 20 roms having recently discovered the delights of the vic20 and sd2iec i am now looking for some roms to download and use on it.
Below are alphabetical links to the games and inlay scans i have contained in the archive so far. There are currently 2,768 programs in the collection. Vice versatile commodore emulator is the best choice to emulate a vic20 on windows, mac and linux. I started off with the main unit and added the printer and disk drive within the same year. The machines external design was later used by the commodore 64 and c16. As a consequence of this, some of it may be directed more towards emulation. Even incomplete, it contains 455 cassette software. Vic3d is based on the principle of digital image correlation. Sales were slow at first due to reliability problems and lack of software, but by the middle of 1983, the latter had turned into a flood and vic20. It was made by commodore business machines, with 5 kb ram and a mos 6502 cpu. So most of the vic20 game software is of very high interest to me.
Blue meanies from outer space commodore software commodore vic20 vic20 gameplay web20 duration. If you can help me with any vic 20 software software donations carts or tapes email me and ill let you have my snail mail address. Commodore 64 computer, programming, speedscript, vic 20 computer, word processing, software about the book speedscript was a fairly highpowered wordprocessor software written in machine language. More about magazines, competitions, music, emulators and events. As the apple ii gained momentum with the advent of visicalc in 1979. Vic20s basicis easy to learn and has a wonderful range of capabilities.
The vic20 was the first machine i ever bought well, my parents bought it for me. The vic20 was the first computer of any description to sell one million units. And also news about the c16, c116, plus4, c64 dtv, cone and the amiga. It is called cafevic complete archive for everthing vic, and is meant to be a multimedia encyclopaedia of all things pertaining to the commodore vic20 home computer. You can access rick melicks complete documentation archive by following the link at the bottom of this page. Vic1001 is an 8bit home computer which was sold by commodore business machines. Vic3d is a powerful system for measuring and visualizing of shape, displacement and strain, movements and vibrations of surfaces in three dimensions. I am happy that tim is willing to do this service for the comunity, as virtually no one else will. Tynemouth software llp old computers, new computers, bespoke web design and software development, computer repairs, it and media services uk tuesday, 3 may 2016 vic20 diagnostics cartridge and test harness kits. The vic20s basic is compatible with the pets, and the datasette format is the same. Almost every other home computer of the early 80s had at least one, and in some cases more than three or four, emulators for a single platform. There are currently 2,780 programs in the collection. Also, some of these links are to documentation on external sites.
But, when you move that letter a to different spots on the screen, it jumps 8 pixels at a time making movement quite jerky as demonstrated by all my vic20 programs. U26 pin 11 also connects to the ras pins on the ram chips pin 4 for older boards with 8 chips, pin 5 for newer boards with 2 chips, so a similar problem might appear if the same break was between the ram and u26. The vic20 was announced in 1980,4 roughly three years after commodores first personal computer, the pet. And there i left it for quite a while until i was able to get hold of a working vic 20 motherboard to do some. Vice is a program that runs on a unix, msdos, win32, os2, beos, qnx 4. The internet archive has launched a free, browserbased commodore 64 emulator with over 10,500 programs that are working and tested for at least booting properly. Power20 is the most complete commodore vic20 emulator for macintosh, running full speed on any power mac. List of almost all vic 20 cartridges ever produced, version 2. Archives of legal software for most of the nonamiga models of commodores computers. This documentation was originally part of my how to write a vic20 emulator page. It includes all necessary hardware and the most uptodate software by correlated solutions. Before the computers release, a commodore executive promised it would have enough additional documentation to enable an experienced programmerhobbyist to get inside and let his imagination work. View and download commodore vic20 user manual online.
I provide these files for historical and archival purposes because the vic 20 was my first computer. The machine was very cheap and had cheap hardware, most cassette games required the expensive 16ko addon. Here is a short summary of the commands for the built in commodore vic20 basic v2. A beginners guide to real programming discover your vic20. It comes with a modern userinterface that is superior to original debuggers on the vic20 and supports analyzing different aspects of the system e. Vic 20 games that werent welcome to a small section dedicated to unreleased games on the commodore vic 20, which hopefully will continue to grow over time. The vic had a sizable library of public domain and freeware software. Commodore vic 20 collection by ghostware internet archive. The vic20 was released in japan in 1980, and in the u. If you know what you are looking for click the coresponding letter to jump to the page containing the files.
Tynemouth software llp old computers, new computers, bespoke web design and software development, computer repairs, it and media services uk. Allfiles 20200206 171022 index of all files under this area, text version. A software api to allow the programmer to implement software sprites for video games or simple animations. If you know what you are looking for click the coresponding. The vic20 is an 8bit home computer that was sold by commodore business machines. Subjects commodore 64 computer, programming, speedscript, vic 20 computer, word processing, software. Beginning assembly programming on the commodore vic20. Vic20 listings is an archive of typein games, utilities and other programs for the commodore vic20 home computer, that were published in various books and magazines during the 1980s. Internet archive launches a commodore 64 emulator slashdot. Im releasing the list now anyway, as somewhat incomplete beats nothing at all. Commodore vic 20 games at the centre for computing history. Thirtythree years after the vic20s debut, a licensed version of jiffydos has just been released for sale. Ifyouwishtousethe programs as models for future efforts ofyour own, youwill need an.
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