Shirley KnottJun 27, 2025
I bought Petscii Robots a long time ago, intending to play it on my Mini Pet, but I've only dabbled in it until this week. I've made a concerted effort over several evenings and the more I've got to know it, the more I've enjoyed it. I'm sure I can now complete the first map if I don't do anything stupid like accidentally walking into the trash compactor, as here. I wish he'd stuck to Petscii with the Vic version because there's something more classy about that than the user-defined graphics, but they're very nicely done and the colour in the Vic version probably gives it the edge over the Pet version for me. #vickytwenty #petsciirobots #AttackofthePETSCIIRobots
Show threadhkzJun 6, 2024
I have experience of the #vickytwenty not liking the first two too much, but actually, it did not like even an original DIP W65C02S6TPG-14, while it did work with a W65C02S8P-10.
It's probably just an issue with the timings of the ICs used to build that machine, hence my intention to test on an original VIC.
hkzMay 20, 2024

I have to say that the Crappy Keyboard works quite well on the #vickytwenty, and seems it is wired correctly too!
Of course it's crap to type on (hence the name), but great as a test device, and I can use the schematic to build a custom mechanical one in the future.

The only thing I wanted to improve is debouncing of the caps lock key, so I bodged an RC network for this purpose. I've integrated it in rev.1 of the board, so no need to do the same on the version I'll release.

hkzMay 4, 2024

#vickytwenty board finally booting! With a sovietic 6502 clone in it, a ridiculous stack of sockets for the ROMs (waiting for my adapters from JLCPCB to arrive to fix this) and a B/W image (I did the #svideo mod, but connected only the luma signal for testing).

The character rom has a bodge wire on it for the second /CS signal. I totally forgot this one was a 2332 and required both select signals to be handled by the VIC.

hkzMay 1, 2024

So many ZIFs!
Waiting for a package from #mouser tomorrow. Should contain some more 40pin sockets, so I can build a raised one for the VIC, and two W65C22N to use as CIAs.

Thinking if it's worth placing ZIFs for the CIAs too. I'm expecting to test those less frequently, but at this point might just go all the way, right?
#vickytwenty #homebrewcomputing #commodore

StefanSep 21, 2021

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The S-Video mod of the #VickyTwenty worked out. It is not so visible here, but it is sharper and the colors are less blurred. First, the retroTINK was set to the wrong mode and it looked shitty… phewww… VIC-20 A/V-Adapter Rev. 1 #Commodore #VIC20 #SVideo