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Readers Write
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by Brian Grainger: 
brian@grainger1.freeserve.co.uk
| Andreos
Tryphonos wrote: Can you help, I need a video chip for my Vic 20 and I have no Idea where to buy one, do you have any Ideas ?? My Reply: The VIC chip has long since ceased being manufactured.
Your best bet is to get yourself another VIC from the
second hand market. The last advert carried for such an
item on the ICPUG For Sale/Wanted page (www.icpug.org.uk/national/sale.htm)
is reproduced below. Why not get in contact with Nigel
and see if he still has the spare VIC? hope you are
successful. A little while later Andreos replied: Thank you for your advice on purchasing a vic 20 I would like to ask you one more question. I would like to transfer the programs I have written from tape to a PC. I have tried to use a program called VTR with no luck. Do you know of any other software, or any publications which explain the data format which is stored on the tape? I passed this query to Ken Ross, our 8-bit expert and relayed the following reply: 'Shifting stuff to a PC from any Commodore machine can be done with wires or without. Without wires is getting onto a disk that both can read somehow or other. With wires means hooking up your Commodore to the PC. There are various claims to this but the 3 main ones I've seen mentioned are: prlink & its prg These can be found on the www.funet.fi/pub/cbm server Another good bet is http://www.fairlight.to The creator of star commander can be reached at Joe Forster/STA <sta@c64.org> for more precise details about it . If there is only a tape deck for the VIC, (i.e. no floppy drive), it could be possible to read tape into the PC via the sound card ? - I have no info other than that some people have done it . If you want to do things through snail mail etc.
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