Commodore News Page - News: VIC-20

R'zos - VIC20 games collection

R'zos has published the games on the Denial forum, that he made in 2015 for the Commodore VIC-20. The games are: The Call of the Vicious, Drone X, Vicious Access / Enter the Vic and Vicious Synths.

2015-12-18 - 13:07:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 4490 - Category: VIC-20, Game

GadgetUK164 - VIC20 repair video

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Commodore VIC20. During this repair the 6522 was replaced with a new 6522. But if you want to use an 6522 from the company Rockwell a small modification needs to be to the 6522.

All the repair videos from GadgetUK164.

2015-12-04 - 13:13:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 4470 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Popeye - VIC20

Beamrider released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is an conversion of the 1982 Arcade game Popeye (by Nintendo and King Syndicate Features). You can get an extra life at 20,000 points, but the game gets more difficult after 3 stages. To play the game you must use an 32K RAM expansion.

2015-11-20 - 13:06:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 4442 - Category: VIC-20, Game

GadgetUK164 - VIC20 repair video

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Commodore VIC20. The VIC chip was replaced and the new chip has now extra cooling. And a small modification was implemented to improve the composite video.

All the repair videos from GadgetUK164.

2015-11-20 - 13:04:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 4440 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

VIC20 +123K REU

MCes has developed an adaptive RAM expansion for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: +3K, +16K, +24k, 12 x 8K = 96K, write protect and you can configure or disable the cartridge with pokes. The price is 44 Euros.

2015-11-13 - 13:07:00 - Week: 46 - Item number: 4429 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Mine Sweep Mini - VIC20

Mine Sweep Mini is a new game for the Commodore VIC20, developed by Shaun Bebbington. The game is written in Basic and you can use the keyboard to place your flags. After placing the flags the computer will check whether you are a winner or not.

2015-10-23 - 13:07:00 - Week: 43 - Item number: 4387 - Category: VIC-20, Game

The Denial forum is a forum for the Commodore VIC20 computer.

The forum at C64forum.com is all about the Commodore C64 computer.

Vicmine - VIC20

Litody is working on a new minesweeper game for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: Selectable difficulty level, custom size minefield and you can select the number of mines in the minefield. You can use the keyboard to control the game.

2015-10-23 - 13:02:00 - Week: 43 - Item number: 4382 - Category: VIC-20, Game

shadowVIC

Pixel is working on a lightweight VIC20 emulator. The emulator shadowVIC can be used on low-power devices such as the Raspberry Pi. At the moment the following is emulated: 6502 CPU, 6560/6561 graphics display and the VIA joystick status. The rest for example the keyboard and sound are not implemented yet.

2015-10-16 - 13:11:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 4377 - Category: VIC-20, Emulator

Demons of Dex - VIC20

Demons of Dex is a new game for the Commodore VIC20 made by phvic. In this game you are Eino and you must travel through a mysterious labyrinth and defeat the monsters and the three demon lords. Features: 15 levels, 10 monsters and 5 items including a magical artefact. The music in the game is from Mikko Kallinen.

2015-10-02 - 13:08:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 4348 - Category: VIC-20, Game

UltiMem - VIC20

Jim Brain is working on a new memory expansion for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: The memory is organized in 5 "windows": RAM1/2/3, BLK1, BLK2, BLK3, and BLK5. Each "window" can be configured to show any 8kB RAM or FLASH ROM page in the memory space. There are 1024 8kB pages of FLASH RAM, and 128 8kB pages of RAM.

2015-10-02 - 13:06:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 4346 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

VIC-20 IEEE interface

Mark Gladson started an Kickstarter project to make replicas of the VIC-20 IEEE interface cartridge (VIC-1112). The project will produce fully assembled cartridges with case and label included.

2015-09-18 - 13:04:00 - Week: 38 - Item number: 4320 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

The System IIII game catalog - VIC20

Ghislain has released 8 games for the Commodore VIC-20. The games were made between 1986 and 1990. The games are: Adventure World, Ms. VIC-Man, Operation: NATO, Space Destructor, SUMO Smasher, VIC Boxing Association, Punch-Out (PETSCII version) and VICeye.

2015-08-28 - 17:08:00 - Week: 35 - Item number: 4292 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Serpent Caves - VIC20

Ravenxau released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. This is the Retro Edition and can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with the keyboard. The game has 9 levels with 3 serpents on level 1. The levels 7, 8 and 9 are a real challenge.

2015-08-21 - 17:11:00 - Week: 34 - Item number: 4282 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Mini 32K RAM expansion - VIC20

k3ys developed an mini 32K RAM expansion that hides in the Commodore VIC20 cartridge port. The RAM expansion is based on the design from Adam Bergström. You can select how much RAM is active, enable or disable the cartridge and make the RAM read-only.

2015-07-24 - 17:03:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 4222 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

VIC20 - K9

Chris Adams built a robot in 1982 that looked like a dog and he called it K9. After many years he decided to restore the K9 to its former glory. The K9 is controlled by a Commodore VIC20 with a speech synthesizer. You can read more about the K9 on his blog.

2015-07-17 - 17:06:00 - Week: 29 - Item number: 4213 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

GCart Jr

Thomas Lövskog is developing cartridges for the Commodore VIC-20. The GCart Junior is a RAM expansion for the VIC-20. The features are: RAM expansion for Block 1, 2, 3 & 5 and RAM 1, 2 & 3. Memory enable, disable and write protect. RAM at IO#2 and IO#3. 16 MB Flash with super fast loading and a 3D printed casing.

2015-07-03 - 17:05:00 - Week: 27 - Item number: 4189 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Boray Gammon - VIC20

Anders Persson released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. With the game Boray Gammon you can play backgammon against the computer or with two persons. You can either use the internal random generator for dice, or use real dice. To play the game you will need a 16K RAM expansion.

2015-06-19 - 17:10:00 - Week: 25 - Item number: 4165 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Chiptunes Volume 1 - VIC20

R'zo released Chiptunes volume 1 for the unexpanded VIC 20 with SD2IEC or VICE emulation. You can listen to 10 tunes: Looper, Ressurection, Revenge, Viral, Redemption, Return, TVC, Movement, Mindstroyer and AD.

2015-05-01 - 17:09:00 - Week: 18 - Item number: 4076 - Category: VIC-20, Music

Cygnis - VIC20

Cygnis is a new text adventure for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Kurt Johns. In the game you must land on planets and receive your mission. Danger and excitement lie in the solutions to the quests on these strange far away planets.

2015-04-24 - 17:07:00 - Week: 17 - Item number: 4063 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Scrap Yard Scrapes - VIC20

Kweepa made an new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is the VIC20 version of the Scrap Yard Scrapes game in in the 2013 Comp Sys Sinclair Crap Games Competition. A simple music player is added in this version. The game can be played on a standard Commodore VIC20.

2015-02-06 - 17:07:00 - Week: 6 - Item number: 3928 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Bluetooth speech synthesis

VIC-20 Scott Adams adventure games have the option to connect a Votrax type 'n talk speech synthesizer. A rare and expensive device, but now it is also possible to use your smartphone to make the famous adventure games talk. Jan Derogee made an app to make this possible.

The Bluetooth speech synthesis video.

2015-01-30 - 17:10:00 - Week: 5 - Item number: 3920 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Tau Ceti - VIC20

Kurt Johns made a set of text adventures for the Commodore VIC-20. In the adventures you must explore the planets around Tau Ceti. You can download the game or you can buy the game on a real cassette. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20.

2015-01-30 - 17:06:00 - Week: 5 - Item number: 3916 - Category: VIC-20, Game

KNOSSOSS - VIC-20

Kweepa release a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game KNOSSOSS is written in BASIC and is a maze game. The game has 4 unique mazes, and can be played on a unexpanded Commodore VIC-20.

2015-01-30 - 17:04:00 - Week: 5 - Item number: 3914 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Tank Battalion - VIC20

Beamrider released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is a port of the tank arcade game from Namco. In the game you must destroy all the other 20 tanks and protect the base. For this game you need a Commodore VIC20 (PAL), a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

2014-12-12 - 17:16:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3825 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Super Starship Space Attack - VIC20

Misfit released a new game for the Commodore VIC 20. In this game you must find 3 power units and escape from the spaceship. The game has three levels: easy, normal and difficult. The game can be played on a VIC20 with a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

The Youtube video of Super Starship Space Attack.

2014-12-05 - 17:06:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3809 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Cassiopei - VIC-20

The Cassiopei now supports VIC-20's that have a memory expansion. The menu program does a small analysis regarding the load-ability of the selected program and relocates the BASIC program where possible. Available are the firmware update (v20141018.hex), a menu program and a user manual.

2014-11-14 - 17:18:00 - Week: 46 - Item number: 3784 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

FIFA 2014 - VIC20

Jeff made a 2014 version of his FIFA football game. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 (keyboard). All the 32 national teams are available. There is a one player elimination mode (knock-out) and a two player mode available. Adjustable skill levels. And the vuvuzela is removed from the 2010 edition.

Hockey 2014 - VIC20

2014-06-06 - 17:14:00 - Week: 23 - Item number: 3528 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Threes - VIC20

Schlowski made the game Threes for the Commodore VIC-20. In this game you must shift the tiles with numbers. When two tiles with the same number come together they will merge into one. The game can be played on a unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 or with the VICE emulator.

2014-04-25 - 17:06:00 - Week: 17 - Item number: 3443 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Bertie the Ball - VIC20

Misfit released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game can be played with a PAL VIC with a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick. Bertie the Ball is an action-adventure / platform game and is a tribute to the C64 game "Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back".

The YouTube video of Bertie the Ball.

2014-04-18 - 17:20:00 - Week: 16 - Item number: 3438 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Get the Cat - VIC20

Peter van der Woude release a game for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you must rescue your cat. You can place bricks on the floor to reach the level of your cat. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with the joystick.

2014-04-18 - 17:16:00 - Week: 16 - Item number: 3436 - Category: VIC-20, Game

ViccyBird - VIC20

Misfit released the game ViccyBird for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is a clone of the very popular game Flappy Bird. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL) and a joystick or with the VICE emulator.

The video of ViccyBird on YouTube.

2014-03-14 - 17:14:00 - Week: 11 - Item number: 3372 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Pulse - VIC20

Pixel released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is a fast and smooth scrolling shoot em up game for the unexpanded Commodore VIC-20. The game is inspired by the classic arcade game "Gradius" from Konami from the year 1985.

2014-03-14 - 17:04:00 - Week: 11 - Item number: 3367 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Panicman - VIC20

Dane Bills released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is based on a well known 80s game and is written in assembly. The music in the game is from Jeff Messner. The game can be played on a Commodore VIC20 with an 3 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

The video of Panicman on YouTube.

2014-03-07 - 17:16:00 - Week: 10 - Item number: 3362 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Victorian Era VIC 20 Sound Chip Emulator

Aleksi Eeben has made an program for the Commodore 64 that can emulate the sound of the Commodore VIC-20. The player can be used to play all the VIC-20 music, and 35 examples from 4-mat, Britelite, Viznut, Mermaid and Aleksi Eeben are included.

2014-02-28 - 17:12:00 - Week: 9 - Item number: 3349 - Category: VIC-20, Emulator

VIC-20 flash memory expansion

Petri Häkkinen is developing a flash memory expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. At this moment he has a working prototype. He uses a 256K x 8 flash memory chip, three 74HC541 8-bit tri-state buffers and an ATMega32A micro controller. You can follow the progress of this project on Petri's blog.

2014-01-24 - 17:14:00 - Week: 4 - Item number: 3289 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Pooyan VIC-20

Beamrider (Adrian F) released a Commodore VIC20 version of the arcade classic Pooyan. If you want to play the game you will need an Commodore VIC20 (PAL), a 16KB memory expansion and a joystick. This is not the final version and you can give your feedback about the game.

2013-12-20 - 17:36:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 3219 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Doom - VIC20

Kweepa released the game Doom for the Commodore VIC20. For the game you will need an Commodore VIC-20, a 35 KB memory expansion and a disk drive. The game has 8 levels, 4 enemies, 5 weapons, 11 music tracks, 20 sound effects, cheat codes, a map screen, corpses, secrets, pick-ups, exploding barrels, intermission and victory screens, and more!

2013-12-20 - 17:20:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 3211 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Gamebase20 v0.3

A new version of the Commodore VIC-20 Gamebase is now available. In this package you will find: Gamebase front-end, Games, Screen-shots, Extras and the VICE emulator. This version has 1485 games, 1993 screen-shot, 166 cartridges, 1136 scans, 127 manuals and 727 .tap files.

2013-12-20 - 17:02:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 3202 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Bolder Dan - VIC20

Bolder Dan is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Misfit. The game is based on the classic game of Boulderdash. For the game you need an unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL), a disk drive and a joystick. The game is developed with the help of cc65 and CBM prg Studio.

2013-12-06 - 17:20:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3182 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Fastboy - VIC20

Fastboy is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20, made by Misfit. The game was made for the LudumDare 48h competition. In this competition you have only 48 hours to make a complete game. For the game you need an unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL), a disk drive and a joystick.

2013-12-06 - 17:16:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3180 - Category: VIC-20, Game

VIC-20 flash memory expansion

Phvic is developing a flash memory expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. The following features are planned: The VIC will see the flash memory as a ROM. Auto booting from the flash memory. A micro-controller will control the memory and the expansion port. At the moment the device is still in development. You can follow the progress on the Denial forum.

2013-12-06 - 17:06:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3175 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Tunnel - VIC20

Tunnel is a new game for the Commodore VIC20, made by Andrea Gasparrini. The game is written in Basic. You will need an 8 kByte RAM memory expansion to play the game. You can download the game from Andrea's web page.

2013-11-29 - 17:08:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3166 - Category: VIC-20, Game

FCBPaint v0.6 - VIC20

TLR released a new version of the paint program FCBPaint for the Commodore VIC20. New in this version: Pictures can now be exported as runnable binaries. Colours for the upper and lower border. Directory function. Selectable direct colour mode and a few errors were removed.

2013-11-08 - 17:24:00 - Week: 45 - Item number: 3135 - Category: VIC-20, Program

Levi's Maze - VIC20

Victragic released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is based on the Atari VCS game "Maze Craze" and others. You must get to the exit on the right side of the screen, then back to either exit on the top-left or bottom-left before your time runs out. Avoid the black hounds, hitting one will knock 10 seconds off your time.

2013-10-11 - 17:08:00 - Week: 41 - Item number: 3076 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Yoho - Scott Adams interpreter - VIC20

Kweepa made two compilation diskettes with adventure games for the Commodore VIC-20. He put eighteen classic Scott Adams onto one diskette, and the eleven Brian Howarth Mysterious Adventures on another diskette. You will need an VIC-20, disk-drive and a 24 KB memory expansion.

2013-10-04 - 17:16:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 3070 - Category: VIC-20, Game

How Many - VIC20

Boray made a game for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you must guess how many hearts or on the screen. The scores are 76-79%: 70 points, 80-89%: 80 points, 90-99%: 90 points and 100%: 100 points. The game continues as long as you have any "energy" left.

2013-09-20 - 17:14:00 - Week: 38 - Item number: 3048 - Category: VIC-20, Game

SD2IEC music player - VIC-20

Boray made a music player for the Commodore VIC-20. If you have an SD2IEC card reader you can listen to about 60 minutes of digitized music. The audio is 4 bit 4kHz mono, so don't expect great sound quality. (~ old AM radio). You can read more about this player on Boray's web page.

2013-09-20 - 17:06:00 - Week: 38 - Item number: 3044 - Category: VIC-20, Music

Pitfall - VIC20

Victragic is working on a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. He is making a VIC-20 version of the Atari 2600 version of the game. If you want to play the game you need an PAL version of the VIC-20 with a memory expansion. You can follow the progress on the Denial forum.

2013-09-13 - 17:04:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 3029 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Realms of Quest IV: 4-Level Demo Version

Ghislain released a demo version of the game Realms of Quest IV for the Commodore VIC-20. To play the game you need a memory expansion (16kB or 24kB) and a disk drive. In the game you must find your way through a large labyrinth and battle with the evil time lords. The game has 10 levels, 10 races, 12 classes, 60 magic spells and 135 weapons.

2013-09-06 - 17:28:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 3023 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Theater of War Trilogy - VIC20

Psytronik and System IIII present the Theater of War Trilogy for the unexpanded Commodore VIC-20. This game lets you recreate battles from the First or Second World War. This commercial release includes 12 games and programs: Theater of War I, Theater of War II, Theater of War III, Break-Fast II, Face VS Heel, magiTOOL, Olympic Dash, Space Warz, Street Battle, VICroLeague Wrestling I, VICroLeague Wrestling II and Worm-Out.

2013-09-06 - 17:10:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 3014 - Category: VIC-20, Game