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It's $70? I paid I think $35 on Amazon to preorder it back in July.

If it is released. The release date has been pushed back 3 or 4 times.

This arrived today. It's a Apple ][ + clone. I'm waiting on my floppy drive so I can test some of my disks I have. It's missing 2 key caps but the keys work, so ill have to pick up them here in the future.

It might be best if you replaced it. Monitors like CRT tv's hold a great deal of high voltage and if not worked on properly can cause injury and even death. If you don't have experience in soldering and General electronic work I would hesitate to suggest working on it. It does however sound like something that controls the vertical portion of the monitor has gone bad. It unfortunately could be a number of things which requires a bit of trial and error. My suggestion is if you are dead set on repairing it you should find a schematic and learn about the different components. From there you can figure out what you might think the issue is. I can't say What a good replacement is for that particular monitor, but if the signal is component you should be able to use anything that has component even a tv. Again I'm not an expert on the Apple III but you could try a tv and see if it works

It's worth $1 billion *pinky to side of mouth*

Modern tech also allows the use of WiFi on some computers such as The Commodore 8 bit line, which might be more lucrative. There are also many who don't have a landline anymore so that limits use as well.

Wait... This is a thing?!? My God the next step after that is to rule the world!... Or something like that. Still sounds really cool... Would you be able to adjust speeds of the tape recording? Ok back to the actual post topic.

So I got it up and running over the weekend. I wanted to write down what I did so if anyone in the future needs to figure it out they can follow this. As the previous message my me stated, I run my Vic 20 with a 32K cart by dorktronic and am using a WiModem from CBMSTUFF.COM. I use a SD2IEC from TFW8B which I have loaded Mighty Term on it as my terminal program. Once you have you stuff plugged in and you Vic 20 turned on. Load your terminal program from your SD card. Once in the terminal hit CTRL+1 to bring up the options menu. You need to change your baud rate to 2400. The WiModem is defaulted to that rate, but the Vic 20 cannot work in that rate, hit return to go back to the terminal and type in AT*B 1200. This will change the baud rate to 1200 on The modem. Once you have done that go back to the options menus and change the baud rate to 1200 on the terminal. Doing this first is important as it will allow the Vic to display actual words and not gibberish. Next you need to set up the modem to the router. I believe the easiest way to do this is with WPS, simply hit the WSP button on the router and type in ATWSP into your terminal and hit enter. The modem picks it up and BAM you're connected. If you don't have WPS then using AT*N you can scan for your router and connect to it that way as well. You will just have to enter your network password in after you choose your router from the list displayed.Your modem has an LCD built into it. If you see your network name on it that means it is connected. Once you're connected you can start connecting to BBSes. A list of them can be found here : cbbsoutpost.servers.com To connect you put in ATDT(BBS address):(port) I hope that was clear enough. One last thing. Once you have you modem set up as you like it type AT&W which will save the setting so when you power off and back on you don't have to do all of this over again.

I just picked up a WiModem for my Vic-20. I was wondering if anyone could help me with this little project of mine. So far I have loaded up Mighty Term and tried setting up the modem on it. However, when I tried using the AT commands to set the modem up all I receive is lines of garbage. (See images). I have the Mighty Term on an SD2IEC and I have a dorktronics 32k cart in the cartridge slot for expanded memory. Any help would be appreciated.

Perhaps picking up a cheap cart such as slots or poker might allow you to check to make sure its not the game itself.

[quote name="Hank Rearden" post="3726188" timestamp="1490402463" And would I put the non-working chips into the working unit to test or vice versa? I would be hesitant on doing that. You could damage a good chip or even your good machine.

Perhaps a contact cleaner on the pins of the cart slot might also help, you can put it on a q tip and do the same thing that was suggested with alcohol. I would then use alcohol to dry It faster. Also helps cut the smell from lingering.

See I knew someone smarter than me could explain it better lol

I can write to my SD card via my SD2IEC, however it's apparently not a 100% emulation, so there are some programs that if they require 100& emulation will not function correctly. There is a device called the 1541 Ultimate- II that is a 100% emulation, but it costs a lot more (150€ plus shipping I believe)