Commodore News Page - News: VIC-20

Dropout - VIC20

Aeb released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The features are: Super Rotation System, Hold , Wall kicks, Lock delay, Infinite spin, Shows next 6 pieces, Ghost piece and much more.

2016-10-07 - 13:10:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 5025 - Category: VIC-20, Game

R'zo (Ryan Liston) released a new VIC20 music album with 17 tracks and 5 bonus tracks. The music was created with Basic, Fisichella and Vic Tracker. Download includes printable CD booklet and .pdf booklet.

2016-10-07 - 13:03:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 5018 - Category: VIC-20, Music

VIC-20 Reloaded

Steve J. Gray is working on a new 8-bit project. He want to build a new VIC-20 cost reduced motherboard. The ideas at this moment are 32K RAM, one single ROM, extra colour RAM, SID chip and a second joystick port.

2016-09-23 - 13:05:00 - Week: 38 - Item number: 4997 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

GadgetUK164 - VIC20 Penultimate Cartridge

GadgetUK164 made a video about the new Penultimate Cartridge for the Commodore VIC20 from Tynemouth Software.

2016-08-12 - 13:05:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 4927 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

VIC MIDI cartridge - VIC-20

Kevin Casteels (Alterus) made a reviews of the VIC MIDI cartridge with ULTIMEM for the Commodore VIC 20 computer. The VIC MIDI cartridge offers a MIDI-IN, OUT and THRU support, but also 512kB FLASH ROM and 128kB RAM.

2016-07-22 - 13:03:00 - Week: 29 - Item number: 4891 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

WonderVIC

MCes is working on a modified Commodore VIC20. This modification includes a full expansion RAM (37K) and an alternative kernal. And the cartridge expansion is still available for the user. Configuration is done via the function keys, and no extra switches are required.

2016-07-08 - 13:12:00 - Week: 27 - Item number: 4870 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Micro VICious

R'zo made a synthesiser program that allows you to shift the tone, tune and the octaves of the 4 voices of the VIC20 across 2 playable octaves. Micro VICious can be used on a unexpanded VIC20.

2016-07-08 - 13:07:00 - Week: 27 - Item number: 4865 - Category: VIC-20, Program

Athanor - VIC20

Majikeyric made a new adventure game for the Commodore VIC20. The game can be played on a Commodore VIC20 with a 32K RAM expansion. In the game you are a Franciscan Monk and must discover the mysteries in the abbey.

2016-07-01 - 13:09:00 - Week: 25 - Item number: 4857 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Exit Plan Z - VIC20

Exit Plan Z is a RPG game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is made by R'zo in Basic and requires a 8 kByte memory expansion and a joystick. In the game you must escape from a secret laboratory and fly with an helicopter to a military base.

2016-06-10 - 13:11:00 - Week: 23 - Item number: 4826 - Category: VIC-20, Game

On this page you can find news items that are related to Commodore. Every week there are new news items. The items can also be viewed by category and there is a search function available.

MiniSketch - VIC20

MiniSketch is a drawing program for the Commodore VIC20 with support for a light pen. The normal light pen has a limited resolution, but the program can calculate a higher resolution with a smart algorithm. The Program needs a 8 kByte RAM expansion.

2016-05-27 - 13:09:00 - Week: 21 - Item number: 4800 - Category: VIC-20, Program

VIC20 Diagnostics Cartridge and Test Harness Kits

Tynemouth Software has new diagnostic kits available for the Commodore VIC20. The software runs through a series of tests, identifying any faults with your VIC20. You can choose between two different diagnostic cartridges.

2016-05-20 - 13:00:00 - Week: 20 - Item number: 4780 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Telengard - VIC20

Neo-Rio released a Commodore VIC20 version of the game Telengard. If you want to play the game you will need a 24 kByte RAM expansion. The game has some compromises because of the limited amount of RAM memory.

2016-04-15 - 13:07:00 - Week: 15 - Item number: 4717 - Category: VIC-20, Game

Commodore VIC 20: a visual history

Giacomo Vernoni started a Kickstarter project to make a book with high quality original pictures of the VIC 20, peripherals and Commodore games on cartridge. A few examples are: VIC 1001, VIC 20 (PAL/NTSC), VIC 1010, VIC 1020, VICmodem, VIC 1515, VIC 1525, VIC 1540, VIC 1541, C2N, 1530, paddles, joysticks, boxes and cartridges.

2016-04-01 - 13:12:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 4695 - Category: VIC-20, Web page

UltiMem VIC-20

Jim Brain has finished his work on the UltiMem cartridge for the Commodore VIC-20. The UltiMem is now available in his web store. The specifications are: 8 MBytes FLASH ROM storage and 1 MByte RAM storage. You can configure the extra RAM or ROM as you like.

2016-04-01 - 13:10:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 4693 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Mah Jongg - VIC20

Mike released the game Mah Jongg for the Commodore VIC20. In the game you must clear the board by finding matching tiles. The game has 36 groups of four tiles, flowers and seasons: Chrysanthemum, Bamboo, Orchid, Plum, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. You will need a 24 kByte RAM expansion to play the game.

2016-04-01 - 13:03:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 4686 - Category: VIC-20, Game

ColorRun Retro - VIC20

Tokra released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. In the game you must pick the lighter colour. Sounds too easy, but isn't. The game was made during the Global Game Jam 2016 in under 48 hours at the University of Bremen Jam Site.

2016-02-05 - 13:12:00 - Week: 5 - Item number: 4583 - Category: VIC-20, Game

VIC20 - The Penultimate Cartridge

Tynemouth Software LLP is working on a new cartridge for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: RAM expansion 3 kByte - 32 kByte. Read only option for RAM blocks 3 and 5. Configuration and reset switches and game cartridge emulation.

VIC20 - The Penultimate Cartridge - Part 1

2016-01-29 - 13:03:00 - Week: 4 - Item number: 4564 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

Péter és Pál & Winnetou - VIC20

Miklós Tihor & András Laczi released two games for the Commodore VIC20. The game Péter és Pál is an action game for two persons and Winnetou is a jumping game. The games were original written in 1985 and can be played on a VIC 20 with an 3 kByte RAM expansion.

2016-01-22 - 13:02:00 - Week: 3 - Item number: 4551 - Category: VIC-20, Game

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games and demos from your hard-disk.

GCart Jr. v2.1

Thomas Lövskog is developing cartridges for the Commodore VIC-20. The GCart Junior is a RAM expansion for the VIC-20. The recent changes are: PCB v2.1. 16 Mbyte internal flash. LED for SD card and USB activity. 512k SRAM for BLK5. The EEPROM is removed and single colour LEDs, instead of bi-colour LED's.

2016-01-15 - 13:12:00 - Week: 2 - Item number: 4546 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware

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

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

On this site you will find software for the AROS - Amiga Research Operating System. Feel free to post your application on The AROS Archives or browse the site for a specific application.

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

Aminet is a webpage for Amiga users where you can find freely distributable Amiga software.

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

The History of Commodore computers on a poster.

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