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commodorez · 1 year
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Cool patterns on the VIC-20
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heyyallitsbeth · 3 months
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its so wild to me how some of the most important brands in computer history just.
dont exist anymore.
Commodore was responsible for introducing low cost computers to generations of people with it's Vic 20 and C64, and taught countless people with Commodore Pets in classrooms. Now all their assets are just names split between different businesses.
Atari brought gaming home, and some of the first 8 Bit computers as well. Now their name is just a stain on the box of Plug and Play consoles.
Compaq was responsible for the first ever IBM clones, bringing upon the dawn of the modern personal computer and at much cheaper prices than IBM. Now they're a defunct subsidiary of HP.
Tandy was huge in the 8 Bit era, and they popularized a graphics processer that was so much better than any prior graphical solution on MS-DOS computers so much that it became known as Tandy Graphics and Sound, even though it wasnt made by them. Now Radio Shack entirely is gone.
eMachines is pretty much the entire reason computers are mostly cheap now, their aggressive pricing against the market's competition forced the entire industry to cut their prices. Now all they are is a footnote in Apple documentaries about brands that copied the iMac G3.
And like, you'll never have brands like this again. There's no such thing as an "iconic" computer anymore, theyre all reskins of eachother. Commodore had the Vic 20, the C64, the 128, the Amiga, all icons. Atari had the 2600 console and the 400 and 800 computers. Tandy had the TRS 80, Color Computers. Compaq had their portable series. eMachines had the eOne. All icons in their own right, all unique, all special.
I cant think of a tech brand today that anyone would notice was gone. But these. These were special to people. And now theyre gone. Nothing remains.
[i also just realized. Commodore AMIGA. Its the commodore friend. this computer was your friend. and the box of every computer commodore made said welcome to the world of friendly computing. :( ]
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oldcomputerhardware · 10 months
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Commodore Vic 20 Print Ad, C+VG Magazine issue 18. April 1983
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atomic-chronoscaph · 2 years
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Q*bert (1984)
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puffers-atelier · 9 months
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Vicky, my VIC-20 gijinka / os-tan 👀
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retrogamingloft · 7 months
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Bonus Video - Forest Glider (Commodore Vic-20 Game) Another "too-short-to-be-a-longplay" video, but the game is hard and you only have one life. Scoring more than 20 points is a good achievement.
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maklarr7000 · 9 months
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Here's an early model Commodore VIC-20 Computer that found it's way to the Wisconsin Computer Club. Not sure it works or not yet as of this writing. The early models placed a good chunk of the power supply onto the main board (under the black metal parts) rather than in the external power bricks Commodore employed later. While not super unusual, there are far fewer of these early machines left out there today.
I believe that this machine was repaired or retrofitted at some point- the yellowing on the case halves is very uneven as seen in photo 2. This indicates to me that at some point the original "foam and foil" keyboard died, and was swapped with a working keyboard from a much later VIC-20.
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boredtechnologist · 3 months
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HES's "Raid on Isram" for the Commodore VIC-20 computer
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This is beautiful
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So pretty
The commodore VIC-20
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hydralisk98 · 2 years
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I updated my internal-use Servitor machine specifications and prepared some assets for such.
And yes, it does have some inclusive PETSCII [+ DECmate III] vibe to such as I legit wanna try out tribble-based hardware. ^*^
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commodorez · 8 months
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My attempt at Mystify on the VIC-20 with a Super Expander cartridge. Source code after the break.
10 GRAPHIC1 20 COLOR0,2,5,6 30 C=1 40 DA=32:DB=32:DX=32:DY=32 50 A=INT(RND(1)959)+32 60 B=INT(RND(1)959)+32 70 X=INT(RND(1)959)+32 80 Y=INT(RND(1)959)+32 90 IF A<32 THEN DA=-DA 100 IF A>991 THEN DA=-DA 110 A=A+DA 120 IF B<32 THEN DB=-DB 130 IF B>991 THEN DB=-DB 140 B=B+DB 150 IF X<32 THEN DX=-DX 160 IF X>991 THEN DX=-DX 170 X=X+DX 180 IF Y<32 THEN DY=-DY 190 IF Y>991 THEN DY=-DY 200 Y=Y+DY 210 C=C+1 220 IFC>3THENC=1 230 DRAW C,A,B TO X,Y 240 Q=Q+1 250 IF Q<160 GOTO 290 260 Q=0 270 SCNCLR 280 GOTO 50 290 GETA$:IFA$<>""THEN 310 300 GOTO90 310 COLOR1,5,0,2 320 GRAPHIC0 330 END
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yodaprod · 4 months
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1981
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gameraboy2 · 10 months
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William Shatner for the Commodore VIC-20 computer
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atomic-chronoscaph · 26 days
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"Is this the most challenging game in the galaxy?" - Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator commercial (1983)
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mingos-commodoreblog · 7 months
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Online with the Commodore VIC-20 (and WIC20 Module)
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retrogamingloft · 7 months
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Fifteen Longplay (Commodore Vic-20 Game) The ultra-famous sliding puzzle...
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