Although BASIC was most commonly used on home computers like the Commodore VIC-20, it was possible to write programs in other languages, such as Forth. Conveniently, all it took to set up a Forth ...

In a recent episode of [The Retro Shack], a new Commodore VIC-20 is built, using a ‘Vicky Twenty’ replacement PCB by [Bob’s Bits] as the base and as many new components as could be found. The occasion ...

Anyone remember the Commodore Vic-20? The Commodore VIC-20 was an 8-bit home computer that was available back in 1980. It ran software from a cassette tape and had 5KB of RAM and a 1MHz processor.

What is old is new (and popular) again, or so it seems with recent tech trends, and particularly retro gaming. Fueled in-part by Nintendo and its NES Classic and SNES Classic systems, retro consoles ...

Whether you're a lover of all things retro or are simply someone who lived through the 1980s and wants to rekindle a little techy nostalgia, seeing the Commodore VIC-20 should send shivers down your ...

Just before Christmas, Commodore teased us with an Intel Atom-based Commodore 64 -- a regular all-in-one Ubuntu PC in the shape of the classic C64 home computer, which could also boot into a ...

I don't really want to go into much detail of where I was or what I was doing when I bought my first personal computer but it was the early 1980s. I was young and impressionable. I wanted a computer ...

What I love most about Lawrence Woodman's retrospective of Commodore VIC-20 word processors is how inappropriate its ...

The PC industry is so young that a remarkable percentage of its most significant figures are still with us. But it lost a key one on Sunday when Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, died at 83.

What links the following? #1: a best-selling home computer, #2: one of the most beloved non-console gaming machines of the 80s and 90s, and #3: the first personal computer to sell over 1 million units ...

Our first brush with Bill Gates and we didn't even know it... Let's be honest. I wasn't the one drawn to the Vic-20. It was my dad, wallet in hand, who didn't like the idea of a rubber, 'dead flesh' ...