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Vic-20 load

68kMLA Hardware 4 posts Jan 25, 2009 to Jan 27, 2009

#1 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 - 16:18 68kMLA

Today I acquired a Commodore Vic-20, 8 game cassettes, Commodore Datasette reader, and a Vic-1111 16K Ram Cartridge. Everything is in good shape, except that it has no power supply ( The "newer" 7-pin one. If anyone has a spare...

) I got all of this for free.

#2 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 - 16:57 68kMLA

Cool stuff and great price. You can build your own power supply if you refer to this pinout:

http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Commodore_C64_Power_Supply

I'm pretty sure C64 and the newer VIC-20 supplies are the same pinout.

Unfortunately, common ATX supplies don't have a 9V AC output. But maybe you could rig something up.

#3 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 - 01:16 68kMLA

You may not need 9VAC. IIRC (and I'll check on this for you later), that 9V goes directly to a full-wave bridge, and then a regulator. If so, then it may very well work when fed +12VDC or thereabouts.

#4 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 - 15:39 68kMLA

Hmm, I am not good at building that stuff. Computers, yes, but when it comes to electricity, no.

Thanks a bunch anyways!