Koch Media is becoming, with its distribution of updated versions of classic microcomputers, a mandatory catalog company for retro lovers. To its variants, in mini and full version, of the popular Commodore 64 (which they baptized in these new versions licensed as THEC64), the laptop that runs Evercade cartridges was recently added. Now, THEVIC20 is a new version developed by Retro Games Ltd. of the Vic-20, venerable antecedent to Commodore’s 64kb flagship, .
This early best seller It was launched in 1981 and became the first home computer to sell one million units.. It was the successor of the also very popular PET, which happened only three years apart, and it was a giant step in Commodore’s goal of computing and hardware being massified and no longer intended for engineers and mathematicians.
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VIC is an acronym for Video Interface Chip, a video chip designed for use in video game terminals, monitors and consoles, but Commodore could not find who bought it, and was overproduced with both them and some chips. 1Kbit × 4 SRAM memory. With all that, Jack Tramiel, Commodore President, ordered a computer to be developed that could be sold for less than $ 300., and instead of distributing it in specialized stores such as PET, he sent it to toy stores to compete with consoles.
The new VIC-20
THEVIC20 plays in the same league as THEC64, and its characteristics are very similar. The keyboard is functional, it has a joystick with micro-switches that connects to one of its four USB ports And, of course, it is compatible (since the games are emulated) with any modern television through HDMI. It has three modes: boot in VIC-20 BASIC, in C64 BASIC, or access a menu-carousel of games, which includes 64 pre-installed games.
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Of these games, there are some from VIC-20 (‘Arcadia’, ‘Laser Zone’), others from C64 that we already saw in THEC64 (‘California Games’, ‘Paradroid’, ‘Boulder Dash’) and even current games for these retro systems, like ‘Metagalactic Llamas’, ‘Subspace Striker’, ‘Mega Vault’ and ‘Gridrunner’ (VIC-20), or the sensational ‘Galencia’ of C64. As was the case with THEC64, new games can be introduced through one of the USB ports using a pendrive.
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The Vic20 returns, the personal computer that preceded the legendary Commodore 64
Koch Media is becoming, with its distribution of updated versions of classic microcomputers, a mandatory catalog company for retro lovers. To its variants, in mini and full version, of the popular Commodore 64 (which they baptized in these new versions licensed as THEC64), the laptop that runs Evercade cartridges was recently added. Now, THEVIC20 is a new version developed by Retro Games Ltd. of the Vic-20, venerable antecedent to Commodore’s 64kb flagship, .
This early best seller It was launched in 1981 and became the first home computer to sell one million units.. It was the successor of the also very popular PET, which happened only three years apart, and it was a giant step in Commodore’s goal of computing and hardware being massified and no longer intended for engineers and mathematicians.
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