1981 Commodore VIC-1010 Review, Cartridge RAM and Utility ROM Testing

Join me on this retro journey where we explore the Commodore VIC-1010, an expansion module which housed up to six VIC-20 cartridges. We look inside, clean it up, create replacement slot covers and test how multiple RAM and utility ROM cartridges work together before using all the RAM cartridge slots to play a recently created 35K game.

00:00 Introducing the VIC-1010
00:45 Retro Relix Title
00:57 Inside
03:04 Deep Clean
03:54 Replacement Covers
04:50 RAM Pack Testing
05:50 RAM Configuration
06:54 Single RAM Packs
09:44 Switched RAM Pack
10:24 Multiple RAM Packs
11:30 RAM Expansion
12:18 Penultimate+ Cartridge
12:50 Utility ROM Packs
16:28 35K Game (H3LP B0DG3)

Links
Cartridge Slot Cover 3D Print Files
https://www.thingiverse.com/retroreli...

Memory Expander Documentation
https://archive.org/details/VIC-1210-...

H3LP B0DG3
https://reset64-magazine.itch.io/h3lp...

Music Credit
Digital Voyage and Funky (Sting) by Twin Musicom. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
http://www.twinmusicom.org/

Retro by Wayne Jones.

Press Fuse by French Fuse

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Emulation via VICE 2.2, The Versatile Commodore 8-bit Emulator

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