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Today I went to log onto a BBS using my beloved VIC-20 and wifi modem in its user port. I booted up my terminal software and typed ADTS=1 but got no local echo on screen. Uh oh. Looked at the WiModem and its OLED screen was black. Double Uh oh. Dead WiModem or bad power lines on the user port...

Hi, It seems the "DENIAL" forum - probably the most recognized and popular forum for VIC-20 users - is down. I haven't been able to access it since the middle of last week. Does anyone have news on whether the forum is actually undergoing maintenance, has been hacked, is shut down, or whatever...

Hi have a weird datasette problem. I have two C2N datasettes. These are the kind that are shaped like the original model came with the PET, NOT the later 1530 kind that wider with rounded corners and came with the VIC-20. One is the original black kind with no tape counter, the other is the...

Have for sale or trade a book: "Inside the IBM PC: Access to Advanced Features and Programming" by Peter Norton, 1986. Quite a thick book. In very good condition. The "Revised and Enlarged" edition. It's this edition: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL65480W/Inside_the_IBM_PC Interesting in...

I have a Sharp CE-122 printer and cassette interface available for sale or trade. I believe this also works with the Sharp PC-1211 pocket computer and the Radio Shack TRS-80 PC-1 pocket computer, as they seem to be identical. It has a 9-pin (male) connector. It comes with the following: -...

Hi, I recently hooked up two datasettes to my 8032 PET with built in piezo speaker. I noticed when I load from Datasette 2 (load "",2) that games with built in sound often do not work right (i.e. Space Invaders). They play fine but there is no sound. Is this known behaviour? If loaded from...

I don't understand why Commodore complicated things by making some PETs that had graphics keyboard and some that had business keyboards. I'm not including the original chiclet keyboard. I'm talking about the two different full-stroke keyboard used on the PET/CBM line. In some instances the same...

Hi, I find it surprising that there is a lot of enthusiasm in getting vintage computers online, either via wifi modems, real telephone modems, or connecting to a LAN, yet the PET community doesn't seem to have joined in with this. The PET would seem like a great candidate for modern day BBSing...

I am suspecting a RAM fault somewhere on my VIC-20. I also need to test all expansion RAM areas. Is there a RAM test utility I can load from disk or tape? I know that it's difficult because I need to eventually test the area where the RAM test program occupies, but I have many RAM expansions...

On my VIC-20, I can enter a "directory" (really a D64 image) by typing the following: open 15,8,15,"cd:diskname.d64":close15 Then I can exit it like this: open 15,8,15,"cd<left arrow>" How do I do this on my PET 8032? The only way I can access directories and get out of them that I have...

Hi! I just bought one of Jim Drew's wireless WiModem232's. This is a wifi-modem that has a standard 25-pin RS-232 port connector. These work with any computer that has a standard RS-232 port. review web-site: https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=464 My hope is to use it with my SuperPET...

Hi, I'm looking for a black datasette, like the kind usually used with a Commodore PET. Not the later, C16 / +4 / TED chip Commodore datasette which was also black. Looks like this: http://scacom.bplaced.net/Collection/c2n/c2n2.jpg Please PM me if you have one for sale. I'm located in Canada.

Hi, Online information that talks about working on computers / etc. says to connect the ground of an antistatic mat / wristband to the computer's case. However, with these old machines, I'm often working on a bare motherboard / circuitboard out of the case. There's no computer case to ground...

One of the things I love about the PET is the look of the built in monitor. I love the way it is attached to the chassis (in most models) and has that wonderful white or green phosphor glow. What happens when the actual tubes of these monitors fail or die? What if the circuit boards are...

Hi, I'm reading about the certain keyboard shortcuts and CHR$ codes on the PET computer, and found this table from "The Complete Commodore Innerspace Anthology": (click to zoom) I understand how to what the CHR$ and "keyboard combination" columns mean and can invoke those functions that way...

Hi, I came across this PET game "spelunker" on a Toronto Pet User's Group library disk. It looks like a text adventure of sorts, so I loaded it onto my 8032. Although it displays fine in an emulator, It does some very weird things to the monitor of my real 8032 PET. Soon after starting, it...

Hi, does anyone else here own a C2n232 designed by Marko Makela? http://www.ktverkko.fi/~msmakela/8bit/c2n232/index.en.html I bought one about ten years ago, but didn't really need it at the time. Now that I have a working PET, I've been successful transferring with datasette and sneaker-net...

Hi, I picked up a SuperPET with some problems. It has a 8032089 Universal Dynamic PET motherboard (click on any of the images below to enlarge them). When started in 6809 mode, sometimes I get the language startup menu, with some corrupted characters, and no ability to do or choose...