Kerosene
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I found this forum while looking for information on running US VIC-20s in Australia... Nice to know I'm not the only one that likes to do things the hard way.
The VIC-20 was my first computer. My neighbours had a C64, and I was constantly reminded of how inferior the VIC-20 was compared to the 64. My VIC-20 couldn't play the same games as the 64 - but I liked it anyway, and in my mind there was always something special about it. Unfortunately, by around 1989 the VIC-20 had started gathering dust, and I eventually gave my parents permission to pass it onto someone else. I wouldn't realize what I'd done for another 10 years...
In the early 90s, I discovered MIDI, and the Atari ST. I spent a few years playing around with (now vintage) Roland analog synthesizers hooked up to the Atari (running Cubase), but again... lost interest and eventually sold everything to buy my first PC. I naively sold all my hardware synthesizers, but I quietly wrapped the Atari in a blanket, and put it away in storage.
Until yesterday...
Long story short... 10+ years later, the Atari is back in action. I'm hunting through boxes of junk looking for old Atari disks. I'm going to get my NES working again. I might even clean up my old Texas Instruments Little Professor that I found in a box of books.
And ... I've just bought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum+, and a US VIC-20 (both still in eBay transit).
The nostalgia bug has bitten hard ;-)
The VIC-20 was my first computer. My neighbours had a C64, and I was constantly reminded of how inferior the VIC-20 was compared to the 64. My VIC-20 couldn't play the same games as the 64 - but I liked it anyway, and in my mind there was always something special about it. Unfortunately, by around 1989 the VIC-20 had started gathering dust, and I eventually gave my parents permission to pass it onto someone else. I wouldn't realize what I'd done for another 10 years...
In the early 90s, I discovered MIDI, and the Atari ST. I spent a few years playing around with (now vintage) Roland analog synthesizers hooked up to the Atari (running Cubase), but again... lost interest and eventually sold everything to buy my first PC. I naively sold all my hardware synthesizers, but I quietly wrapped the Atari in a blanket, and put it away in storage.
Until yesterday...
Long story short... 10+ years later, the Atari is back in action. I'm hunting through boxes of junk looking for old Atari disks. I'm going to get my NES working again. I might even clean up my old Texas Instruments Little Professor that I found in a box of books.
And ... I've just bought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum+, and a US VIC-20 (both still in eBay transit).
The nostalgia bug has bitten hard ;-)
