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Sunset Days VIC 20 TPUG Feb 1985

"The one to grow on". That's what the ads said. A lot of us believed it, too - maybe a million of us, or so. If you couldn't trust Captain Kirk, who could you trust? For many of us, it became"the one to grow tired of"; or"the one to grow out of". Only a very few of us decided that it was"the one to grow old with"...

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R.I.P. Commodore 1954-1994

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The Story of the VIC

Michael S. Tomczyk Product Marketing Manager, Commodore International COMPUTE!’s First Book of VIC, 1982

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VIC 20 Programmer's Reference Guide

From Asbjorn Djupdal, "Here you have the complete VIC 20 Programmer's Reference Guide. I wanted to have this book as an etext, but couldn't find more than a few sections on the Internet. That is why I typed it in myself. I have (of course) used the sections that already were available, but I proofread them and changed the layout to match the rest of the book. The 6502 instruction set descriptio...

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Boris van Schooten: On the PCVIC Emulator

I live in Enschede, Holland. I am currently working on my master's thesis in computer science on the subject of neural networks...

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Corey Ostman Remembers the VIC-20

All of us met through our use of the Ohio Scientific personal computer. I had both an OSI C1P and an OSI C4P. Jim Lin, Hal Lafferty, Jimmy Huey, myself and my mom were all involved in Interesting Software. It was run out of my living room as a mail order business, specializing in OSI, VIC-20 and CBM-64 software...

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Jeff Minter Remembers the VIC-20

ohhh, *anywhere*... play mechanic was quite simple in those days, largely coz of the constraints of memory and proc speed... I used to be into the idea of introducing new styles of control that hadn't been done before - like controlling multiple shooters at once in Laserzone and Hellgate, or the Llama/force field combination in Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time...

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Jimmy Huey Remembers the VIC-20

Most of my vic 20 stuff were either complete rip-offs or heavily influenced by coin-op games. Really not much imagination involved here. I programmed a little bit, looked at the results and just followed the flow. I was pretty fanatical about making a game play well, though...

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Tom Griner Remembers the VIC-20

Many of my best Vic20 games (such as Astroblitz or Predator) were done based (roughly) on the general game play of their arcade games. Some of the last games I did were "ports" (conversions/reimplementations) of Robotron and Stargate for the Commodore C64 computer...

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Jim Butterfield Remembers the VIC-20

I had no business relationship with Commodore, which freed me to tell of anything I discovered (Commodore itself was inhibited by nondisclosure agreements). But I found Commodore personnel to be very supportive and helpful when I had questions...

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Paul Higginbottom Remembers the VIC-20

I worked for Commodore from 1979 to the end of 1991 in a variety of roles in development, marketing, support and even training. The variety of work was what made working at Commodore so great. You could definitely make a job and go and do it if you had initiative...

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Michael Tomczyk Remembers the VIC-20

I joined Commodore in 1980 as assistant to the president, founder Jack Tramiel. I had two business cards. One said "assistant to the president" and the other said "market strategist." I wore both hats...but the title I quickly came to be known by was "VIC Czar" (named after the "energy czar" in Washington, D.C.). Later, I was in charge of international product marketing...

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Neil Harris Remembers the VIC-20

I was hired as a member of the VIC-20 product launch team in January, 1981. I reported to Mike Tomczyk, the product manager. I had learned to program in BASIC during high school in the early 1970's. In the mid-70's, after dropping out of Cornell University, I was earning a living as a programmer, writing accounting software in BASIC. It was very dull work...

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Andy Finkel Remembers the VIC-20

I joined Commodore in 1980 or so, as part of the VIC-20 launch team ... so I actually worked at Commodore US in the marketing department. I was one of the two programmers on the team. In the beginning I was one of the people responsible for writing the demos, fixing up the Japanese cartridge software so we could sell them in the US, for testing the hardware and software from Engineering, for wo...

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John Feagans Remembers the VIC-20

Peddle never had any involvement with the VIC-20. The Yannes prototype was shown at the June 1980 CES in Chicago. Peddle left Commodore to start Sirius/Victor in August, 1980. ..

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Bill Seiler Remembers the VIC-20

Yes the VIC-20. That was a strange project. It was a G-job really. G-job means fun projects that we (engineers at Commodore) did on our own time...

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The History of the Commodore VIC-20

Welcome to those who may be new to the VIC-20, or for those who want to relive some old memories! The Commodore VIC-20 was an important computer in the history of personal computing. The VIC-20 Tribute web pages, in total, attempt to illustrate the VIC-20's importance, and record its legacy for future generations of historical computer enthusiasts...

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