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Here you will find the latest news about the VIC20, aka VIC-20, aka VC20 - the first home computer success of Commodore and predecessor of the C64. This ticker contains news about new game and hardware releases, latest video and podcast uploads, trivia and product information. All freshly fished from the web. RSS feed available!

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03.12.2025 - The Best VIC-20 Cart Gets Even Better? Penultimate+3dcr - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
We take a look at the latest 2025 refresh of the "penultimate" Commodore VIC-20 cartridge, the Penultimate+3dcr, developed by Tynemouth Software and produced and distributed by The Future Was 8-Bit. In addition to the existing 35K RAM expansion, a new 8-bank 280K mode has been added. More games and utilities have been added to the ROM, for a new total of 271 programs. And a full-size SD card drive has been added, completed with "Turbo Wedge" to make disk access fast and easy. We do a bit of gaming, and spend some time trying to get SuperMon working with the new 280K mode to demonstrate bank switching. We also go through many of the disk wedge commands available, and compare and contrast it against JiffyDOS.

22.11.2025 - I made a new VIC-20 Game - Quarx! - video by 'The 8-Bit Guy'
Over the years 'The 8-Bit Guy' has developed a number of  games starting back in 2017 with Planet X2 for the Commodore 64, in 2018 with Planet X3 for MS-DOS and then in 2020 the first PETSCII Robots game for the PET. Now he has decided to give it a try with a new game project on the VIC-20.

20.10.2025 - 'Video Chess' for C64 and VIC-20 released - free for download
Video Chess is a chess game for the Atari VCS (renamed Atari 2600 in 1982) programmed by Larry Wagner and Bob Whitehead and released by Atari in 1979. Now this game got ported to VIC 20 and C64. You can get the VIC-20 version here.

15.10.2025 - 'Freax' - game for C64, VIC-20 and C16 / Plus/4 released
Freax is a simple alien shootem-up game in the style of Invaders that compiles for the VIC20 (unexpanded), C64 & C16/ Plus/4. It is very playable, and yet it is only 2K in size! You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

21.09.2025 - The Slot-tastic C=64 Slot Machine for Commodore 64
The Slot-tastic C=64 Slot Machine is a C64 V2 BASIC mini-game developed by Alberto (BCO) Sgaggero in 2024. It was originally programmed by him on the Commodore VIC-20 (to participate in the Slot Machine game simulation challenge promoted by the Facebook group Retro Programmers Inside) and later converted for the Commodore 64. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

05.09.2025 - Protovision Shop: Micromys v5 – the PS/2 mouse adapater is back in stock
Protovision has restocked the supply of the PS/2 mouse adapter Micromys V5. This handy adapter allows you to use a more modern mouse device to emulate a 1351 mouse. As an added bonus, the Micromys V5 is also compatible with the Amiga, VIC-20, 8 bit Atari and Atari ST machines.

28.07.2025 - VIC-20 Diagnostics Cart & Harness Repair - video by 'Jan Beta'
Jan is troubleshooting, repairing and improving the VIC-20 Diagnostics Cartridge and Harness that turned out to be broken in the previous video.

19.07.2025 - Commodore VIC-20 CR NTSC Repair - video by 'Jan Beta'
Jan is trying to repair a badly broken and incomplete NTSC Commodore VIC-20 board.

15.07.2025 - Fixing two broken VIC-20s! - video by ' Sayaka's Digital Attic'
Sayaka got two VIC-20s from a subscriber that had been sitting in their basement for a long time. And the humidity definitely took its toll! One of them showed clear signs of corrosion. Luckily, the second one was an easy repair...

20.04.2025 - VIC-20 port of 'Ultima II' released - free for download
Following successful VIC 20 ports of Elite and Ultima III, Aleksi Eeben began now also ported 'Ultima II - The Revenge of the Enchantress', originally made in 1982 and the second game in the row of the famous RPG series by Lord British. As a by-product of the VIC 20 Ultima II port, there is also a one-disked and bugfixed for the C-64 as well.

23.03.2025 - C64 game 'Invasion Anarchy' released - free for download
'Invasion Anarchy' is a classic arcade shooter inspired by Invader Fall on the VIC-20. Made by Chris Page. It's an Invasion, and you're the only one who can stop it - prevent the aliens from reaching the bottom of the screen and capturing your fighter, as it's the only one you have.

15.03.2025 - VIC-20 game 'Formula V20 1981' released
Formula V20 '81 is a racing computer game for the 16k expanded Commodore VIC-20. It’s the prequel to Formula V20 '85. There are eight tracks, and the main goal is to beat the clock. Traverse each track while avoiding the competitor racing cars. There are tunnels where visibility is limited and sections where ice and sleet cover the track, which causes the player to skid wildly. You can get the game as digital downloads for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

09.03.2025 - 'C=64 Copycat' and 'VIC-20 Copycat' released
C=64 Copycat and VIC-20 Copycat are adaptations of the classic memory game SIMON, originally created by Ralph Baer and Howard J. Morrison and distributed in 1978 by Milton Bradley (MB). You can get the games as digital downloads for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

27.01.2025 - A Canadian VIC-20: No Big Deal, Eh? - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Robin acquires a fairly-well preserved Canadian VIC-20 from his former co-worker's sister's ex-husband's wife's deceased aunt who had fortunately saved all the boxes and other packing material, including the bilingual slip box that goes over the usual American VIC-20 box, and the very rare "Viccessories" bonus pack. We go through this haul and compare this particular VIC-20 to others in Robin's collection with a focus on the differences in keyboards and power supplies. Then we try to power up this VIC-20 for the first time in maybe 42 years - it sort of works - and play some games and do some tests on it. And of course, 10 PRINT.

26.01.2025 - VIC-20 game collection 'Goal - Hockey Soccer Football' released
This is a collection of simple sports games made many years ago, but not released until now. These are very simple games played with the keyboard. Keys shown at the top of each side of the screen. You can get the games as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.