✋ Spending 3 minutes cutting into the plastics of my VIC-20
👉 Spending hours 3D printing replacement parts so I don't have to mod anything
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Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:05:01 JST Veronica Explains
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Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:04:57 JST Veronica Explains
Anyway, I'm printing a plastic control plate now for the VIC-20 so that I can drill a hole in this for the video output (which is an RCA-style jack).
At least this way I won't have to drill into the case plastic or 3D print an entire chassis to hold the VIC-20 while I'm using it.
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Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:04:58 JST Veronica Explains
Lumacode is a project that uses FPGA-based modification boards created by the legendary C0pperdragon. In this case, it slots in between the VIC chip (video chip) and its socket on the VIC-20.
It then outputs a signal which another upscaler (in my case, an RGBtoHDMI on a Raspberry Pi) can use to generate *pixel perfect* video from the original chips. No emulation.
The GitHub: https://github.com/c0pperdragon/LumaCode/wiki/VIC20digitizer-(for-VIC-20)
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Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:04:58 JST Veronica Explains
Now, I know some of you are going to say "what's the point, don't you know the Raspberry Pi is more powerful than the VIC-20? Why not just emulate?"
To that I say: quit raining on my parade, jerk.
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Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:04:59 JST Veronica Explains
This is now a #commodore #vic20 #lumacode thread. Hope you like sharp pixels on computers older than me.
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Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:05:00 JST Veronica Explains
Oooo wait, maybe I could just print a new control plate for this one...
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