Recently bought a C64 VIC-20 and trying to get it up and running. I’ve bought a new psu for it (from c64psu’s) and I’ve also gotten a C64 video to RCA cable.
When connecting through RCA I get signal but no video output whatsoever. Turning the C64 on and off produces some static, and noise before it returns to a black screen.
Connecting it to a CRT TV using the antenna cable gives me nothing apart from making the static a tiny bit brighter when connected and powered on, versus powered off
Do anyone know what could’ve caused this and how I can repair it?
Thanks!
// I got it fixed \
Thanks a lot to the amazing people in the "Everthing C64" discord, couldn't have done it without them.
I turned on the C64 and let it stay on for about five minutes, I then touched every chip checking if any of them were burning hot. Lo and behold, the BASIC chip was extremely hot which possibly meant it was bad. ( 901226-01 ). Removing it made my C64 boot up to a blue screen, this confirmed it was bad. I have ordered a replacement and it should arrive in a week or so.
So a friend brought over his C64 this weekend because he couldn't get it to work with his TV... So we tried with the RF tuner and the Video output to composite input on the TV, then we tried another TV, all to no avail! Black screen on AV or nothing on channel 36... Power LED was on, still nothing. 🤔
I then went into the basement where I had a bunch of different C64's stored for several years (two GS-models, 2 brown breadboxes, one white breadbox and two C-models), some of them had been soaking in and inch of water when the basement flooded, but I tried to hook them up anyway. The breadboxes had the light come on, the GS- and C-models nothing (I don't think GS has a power LED?). I even tried different power supplies.
Did we do something wrong? Will a C64 not work on a modern TV, even on composite?
Or are they just all dead?
The reddit streams are too popular now and stutter and go down all the time so I went to look for how I can actually pay for it and got nothing. Why would NFL NOT provide something?
It has mostly clips.
I want to ditch comcast cable. It’s expensive and their streaming apps crash constantly and have been in beta for years (literally).
I know NBA league pass used to black out any local games, is that still true?
Does anyone have a reliable alternative for watching Hawks ball?
Sick of paying almost a hundred dollars a month for sh-tcast cable
I know samba tv only counts a fraction of tv viewership, but its interesting nonetheless
Hbo max has been a smaller service than disney plus, and it especially was at the time some of these numbers were coming out. Late 2020, early 2021
Disney Plus:
Mandolorian Season 2: 1.04 million
Wanda vision: 1.6 million
Falcon and winter solider: 1.7 million
Loki (5 day) : 2.5 million
Hawkeye (5 day) : 1.5 million
Book of boba fett (5 day) : 1.7 million.
Hbo max:
WW84:2.2 million
Tom and Jerry:1.2 million
ZSJL (4 day): 1.8 million
GvK (5 day): 3.6 million
Mortal Kombat: 3.8 million
Conjuring: 1.6 million
TSS (4 day*) : 2.8 million
Dune: 1.9 million
The matrix: 2.8 million
- on TSS being a 4 day because it was released at 7PM EST on the thursday
I want to know why it stopped working on that TV? Also when I buy them a new TV what does it need to have that this one doesn’t have in order for Direct Stream to work? Other apps like Pluto still work on that TV just not Direct Stream. The same thing happened on an older Sony TV they had in a different room.
Drawing of characters from vague memory, details on scenes here
I remember posting about this strange movie I saw around 2002-03 if I remember correctly, it was playing on BBC Kids Canada. It was about these two Inuit Sisters from the "North Pole" going on a journey across the world to find objects of different colors. I think it was titled "Around the World in 80 Days" as I saw on my old Bell ExpressVu Channel Guide, but it had nothing to do with the Jules Verne novel and did not take place in Victorian times (it took place in a more modern era where there were airplanes) nor does it even feature characters depicting or parodying Phileas Fogg as far as I remember. I don't know if this was some error. Around the same time, either on the same channel, or Teletoon or YTV, they played Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, so there must have been some kind of theme of playing spoofs of Around the World in 80 Days going on at the time.
For a codename sake, let's just called this "Inuit Sisters World Tour". Part of me is worried this will turn into a "Clockman" tier hunt...
I've asked about this movie before but I haven't gotten any response. Does anyone have any clue what this even was? For one reason or another this movie just keeps piercing my mind and I want to remember what it was despite its seeming "insignificance". I've looked up animations and works based off Around the World in 80 Days, nothing. I've looked up things regarding BBC Kids but they seem to only list programming that were series that broadcasted on that channel, nothing that was a one time movie. For whatever reason though, I can remember some key scenes from this so it can't be a massive Mandela effect can it?
Platform(s): Commodore 64, maybe others too
Genre: Probably sci-fi / platformer / adventure
Estimated year of release: I'm assuming mid to late 80s, possibly early 90s
Graphics/art style: C64 style, so ... mostly just pixels
Notable characters: no idea but im pretty sure one guy had a moustache?
Notable gameplay mechanics: You walk left to right, maybe up and down too, you can go up and down lifts, I think you're in a spaceship or space station. I'm pretty sure you hold some kind of TV and use that to fire at enemies. You also have a team of people I think, so when one dies you get to play as another. These last 2, the TV weapon and the fact you're in a team might help narrow it down. This is gonna be rough, I'm not expecting this to get solved but hey, worth a shot.
Other details: This is the most obscure game I can think of. I've never been able to find it. I don't know if you guys can, but I just want to know what the game is at this point. Within the game case was a little booklet with a small comic of the game, where I think someone gets melted by a TV or something.
I know the details are hazy but I can't think of anything else to say. Its most definitely set in space, you're a little person in a spacesuit, and you walk around this spaceship/station, going up and down lifts holding a square television as a weapon. I can't remember what you actually fire at. I know you can go up and down these lifts in the space station. Thanks!
Seriously it is. Once you witness his mastery of the written word you can recognize his style ANYWHERE.
What, you thought someone would actually boo him IRL, e-drone?
I've looked around quite a bit to try to figure this out. I'm sorry to be posting about something I've seen on here but I'm still not having luck.
I have my dad's Commodore 64 (along with a 1541 disk drive) and I'd like to use it with my modern TV. A web page I read suggested buying a Female to RCA Male Coaxial Cable. My plan was to use the C64's existing coaxial cable (the one my dad used to hook it up to his 80s TV) and use the adapter to fit it into the antennae hole in a modern TV. However, I discovered that the female coaxial end of the adapter is too small to fit the cable. I noticed today I bought a F-type female RCA to male coaxial.
Is there a certain type of female RCA I should buy instead? Or is using a RCA to coaxial cable the wrong way to go and if so, what else should I try?
I've attached a picture of the back of my TV to show the possible adapter options. My apologies it's so far away - I had to find it on the internet as I'm not currently home and won't be for a few weeks.
Thanks for any help you're able to provide!
Opened a letter thinking it was addressed to me to find out some random (who aren't the last owners) has a direct debit set up. This means I have been paying for something for the last 7 years that someone else has already been paying for!
I recently purchased a C64, and tried plugging it into a hdmi to av port with a av to c64 input into my modern monitor. The screen would not turn on but u occasionally hear a slight static and pop from the speakers.
However the av cable works with my dads modern TV that has an av input and our old plasma TV, but the AV also doesn’t work with another modern TV.
So it seems the c64 input only works with half of my devices. Any idea why this is the case. It’s certainly an issue that it wont work with my monitor, as I can’t exactly use my dads TV. The hdmi to av converter is fine as I use it to play my NTSC SNES, PAL PS1 and NTSC NES.
Any ideas why this is the case?
So I went down the insane world of Direct TV customer service trying to order Sunday ticket without having direct tv service. After several calls over two days I was told to just go the website and order it there. Unfortunately it kept telling me I wasn't eligible. So fast forward to yesterday morning, I was on my 3rd customer service chat when a csr mentioned that you have to ask for it as Sunday Ticket stand alone service. He provided me the phone number and low and behold I now have Sunday ticket. Direct Tv is shady AF.
Update: phone number 888-778-8806
