Hi Stuart, I'm the guy that lent you the Beeb for the film. It wasn't a Master, sadly - it was a BBC Model B (actually converted from an A in-house) and it was used by my Grandad at the BBC Research Lab at Kingswood. He was at the BBC for a long, long time (retired around 1987) and worked testing and implementing colour TV in the 60s, energy-efficient stage lighting, radio transmission and acoustics and early holograms. His research papers are online on the BBC archive - some of which were probably written on the Model B that was used in Gamechild. I did pick it up in the end! It took me a long time to get around to it. Was a difficult time! Thanks!

@ourDreamcatcher

6 жыл бұрын

An interesting anecdote from an interesting anecdote. Love it!

@WhiteboyUltima

6 жыл бұрын

Lovely story you shared :)

@peterobinson3678

6 жыл бұрын

Thank him for his service... :-)

@mediocrefunkybeat

3 жыл бұрын

@The SNES Man And I've had a set of capacitors for the power supply sitting in a drawer for over a year now... need to get on that...

@olly_1558

2 жыл бұрын

An excellent anecdote..

Fun Fact: Every single one of the computers shown in this video will be getting a Skyrim port in 2019.

@FictualKyle

6 жыл бұрын

TheLegend1800 they going to charge full price or nah?

@andreiferariu

6 жыл бұрын

Of course

@TomTheSaintsGuy

6 жыл бұрын

Does that include Creation Club content?

@mhfiver2441

6 жыл бұрын

Playing at a full 60 frames per month, I expect.

@theyamo7219

5 жыл бұрын

But can they run Crysis?

I like how the ad is pretty decent Ashens content itself.

@lasarousi

6 жыл бұрын

Stink Terios that's what ads would be always on a perfect world

@evilemu2599

6 жыл бұрын

Stink Terios it's far to true

@Zontar82

6 жыл бұрын

that's what happens, that's how you feel when someone pays you for advertising something

@underbutlers

6 жыл бұрын

Nicer still is he actually answers some questions and interacts with us on it

@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge

6 жыл бұрын

I was so infused in the ad I forgot I was waiting for the actual episode to begin.

Back in the monochrome days, I opted for an amber monitor. It was really easy on my eyes, no matter what went on with the room lighting.

3.5 years later Snupps deader than a doornail but Ashens is still going strong.

Fun fact: the ti-99/4A gets so hot under the plastic that leads to the cart slot, that you can keep your coffee/tea warm by placing the mug into the cart tray.

CPC 664's are also rare as all hell, Amstrad only sold them for six months before dropping them in favour of the CPC6128.

@Gayestskijumpever

6 жыл бұрын

It's okay to poop the bed.

@chinnyvision

6 жыл бұрын

70,000 produced according to The Amstrad Story. So approx 2% of all CPC's sold.

@MareCat31

6 жыл бұрын

Hi guru Larry! How is your holiday season going?

@Larry

6 жыл бұрын

miserable, i got the flu :(

@bryanadkins6776

6 жыл бұрын

That sucks, man. Here's hoping you get over it soon and nothing else shits on your Christmas.

Cassette Man is the original Japanese product that was turned into Soundwave when consolidated into the Transformers line.

@SolidBedunga

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad I found this comment and didn't have to scream into the void that is the comment section of a video uploaded in 2017 about microman.

Fun Fact: Cassette man actually ISN'T a knockoff Soundwave. It's actually the other way around. The original TRANSFORMERS toyline was sort of an unholy amalgamation of various unrelated transforming toys from Takara's Diaclone and Micro Change series, along with several from Takatoku toys. Micro Change was the source of not only Soundwave (A.K.A. "Cassette Man") but also Megatron (A.K.A. "Gun Robo Walther P-38 U.N.C.L.E.). The toys were later brought over to America, and re-branded as "The Transformers". The cartoon actually released before the toys, because of a law that a cartoon couldn't exist solely as a 22-minute commercial.

@ShadowLady1

6 жыл бұрын

Is this true

@_Piers_

6 жыл бұрын

Megatron, is a **slightly** catchier name :)

@gibbie80s61

6 жыл бұрын

This was made by a company in Taiwan rather than Takara so it is still a KO. It's just one that pre dates transformers.

@GoredonTheDestroyer

5 жыл бұрын

IIRC Jet/Skyfire was originally a Macross toy.

@Silver_wind_1987_

5 жыл бұрын

Uncle.......MEGATRON WAS CALLED UNCLE!?!?!?!? 0.0 well shit

That couch has seen some stuff

@h-6191

6 жыл бұрын

justin, why?

@jasontmb3650

6 жыл бұрын

I agree

@internet__explorer

6 жыл бұрын

Justin Y. You have seen some stuff. I see your comments everywhere.

@IgorWelkenbach

6 жыл бұрын

I know brits are prudes but someone's got to have had sex on that thing. It looks so velvetish and soft to the touch

@Okurka.

6 жыл бұрын

It looks leathery.

That portable Amstrad makes me want to write a cyberpunk story.

I remember using a BBC master at school. We used it to program a little wheeled robot thing that drew on the ground. We were only 8 so I'm guessing the teacher did most of the programming.

Are you implying modern computers can run PUBG well?

@penatio

3 жыл бұрын

The OG Xbox version is the best way to play PUBG.

The "joystick port" on the back of the TI99/4A is actually for hooking up a cassette player to save/load data. You need a special cable for it. Also, the video cable is the same as the commodore 64 and model 1 mega drive.

@MrJohndoakes

6 жыл бұрын

What about the voice module that plugs into the side where you can get the thing to curse because it pronounces words funny?

@slipangle3027

6 жыл бұрын

That goes into the slot on the side.

"Incapable of playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" I'd see that as a positive boon, not a downside.

This kind of sponsorship, all about, it's relevant and the fact that most of the video isn't about it is brilliant.

The Ten Car Marty sounds like it only owns Daihatsu nuggets and Subaru wagons

Stuart could you do more videos on retro computers and gaming consoles that you own.

This is the ashens i love. Just a man talking about old tech in a very knowledgeable way. These computer videos as well as your old one on joy sticks are by far my favourite. Thankyou for these lovely videos.

I love these kinds of videos. I grew up using a Compaq running DOS and Windows 3.1 but I find these older computers absolutely fascinating.

The first computer, when folded up, looks like a Star Trek TNG prop.

I had a speech synthesizer for my TI 99/4A growing up. It was great, especially in the game parsec.

Snupps is actually an app I'm interested in. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. 👍👍

@KimiFan2002

2 жыл бұрын

It’s long since died…

That TI-99/4A is a thing of beauty.

That Amstrad portable computer is so awesome!

I would like them to be shown working. Thanks for your review!

I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would! I remember that virtual museum!! It was so cool it blew my mind!

I remember the Domesday project. It 'toured' the schools in the area. Expanded BBC Master and a Laserdisc drive that looked so futuristic. There was a bit where you could walk around a virtual tour of a village or something, and it blew our minds. Then it was gone, and we were back to Granny's Garden and the RM Nimbus.

Great job making a ad spot actually interesting.

If you want to see just how terrible _Deep Fear_ for the Sega Saturn is, Retsupurae did a great video on it. Just look for _'Resident Seavil'._ Ashen's remarks do not do justice as to how hilariously awful it is. One of the characters was court-martialled for firing torpedoes on what was eventually revealed to be a passenger cruiser, and *he won't stop complaining about how unfair it was that he faced disciplinary action.* Like the fact that he lost his job dishonourably was worse than the massive and tragic collateral damage. It's a hoot. Please go and see a _Deep Fear_ LP when you finish watching this video.

Honestly, if I gotta watch an ad to see the content I love from this guy, I don't mind at all.

Thank you Stewart for this very video! I did always want to learn about those computer systems!

You need to check out The Oddity Archive. The chap is really learned and has loads of old tech you'd find interesting! Thought I'd share, mate. :)

@ddvsgd9508

6 жыл бұрын

MasakoX Insert DBZA quote.

@slurpymcasian1023

6 жыл бұрын

Try advertising somewhere else please

@Songgohard

6 жыл бұрын

Slurpy McAsian he's not even promoting his own account. Just trying to do something nice, stop being so negative

@matthewbertrand4139

6 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here, MasakoX! How about that Mastered Ultra Instinct, amirite?

@ThatOneGuy0006

6 жыл бұрын

MasakoX Holy shit, yes! That guy has been too obscure for too long!

Why is the sofa still here? Is it just to suffer!?

@_Piers_

6 жыл бұрын

Mr.Dr.Professor Toaster It's battle hardened, what it goes through would destroy any other sofa in an instant!

Back in the late 80's I used to work at the Amstrad User Group. On the odd occasions we actually sold one of those portables we used to do a whole 24 hour "Soak test". Switch it on then check it was still on the next day.

Great stuff,mate.Love to see more!

It is 2017, and there is time for Klax.

@asilva5021

6 жыл бұрын

acidhelm Klax Let's play

I really love this type of content from you more than the food and tat reviews. That joystick video you did might be your best one ever

@chiefmaster622

6 жыл бұрын

I still like the tat videos to be honest

@minihjalte

6 жыл бұрын

Different strokes for different folks

@unlokia

6 жыл бұрын

I beg to differ; the food videos are unique in his style - there are a zillion and one monkeys and their pet dog doing "tech" videos....

@Clay3613

6 жыл бұрын

I watch the joystick video about five times a year.

@DominicMGeehan

6 жыл бұрын

Clay3613 I do the same thing and I don’t even know why! I have 0 connection to 70s and 80s computer game controllers yet it’s such a soothing video for me.

My old school (in the 80's) was part of the BBC's computer literacy programme, we played story games on an Acorn computer and loved it, it was my first introduction to computers and remember it well! Great video Stuart👍👏

Don't worry about those whinging about the sponsored content, they majority of us know that you have to make a living and appreciate what you do. It's great that you found something applicable to your job to advertise. That White couch however....

Hey Ashens, it would be cool if you showed some games and/or programs like you did last vintage go-around. Thanks for the great vids.

I think that’s probably the first advertisement on YT that made me look at the thing lol. Good idea that.

I love these videos. I'd love to see more like this.

I had an Amstrad PPC in the early Nineties, it was my first MS-DOS compatible PC - many happy hours playing Commander Keen and learning Assembly Language... thanks for covering it! :-)

Those sure are some computers. Maybe you should plug them in and show them in use.

Look guys, life ain't free, but these videos are. So unless you want to start buying KZread RED I suggest you get used to content creators having some sponsored content. We need to keep in mind that content creators are people just like us who want to make money for their efforts. It's not 'selling out', it's survival. If listening to 4 minutes about an app is the only price I have to pay for more entertainment, then I consider that a bargain.

@user-pi5xz5je4y

6 жыл бұрын

I _do_ pay for KZread red. Having said that, I'm not complaining.

@faenethlorhalien

Жыл бұрын

It’s so easy to skip too

Lovely, thank you, Ashens!

Cheers for the honestly on the sponsorship

Love old and retro tech

"It can't play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" neither can modern ones!

YES!!! A TI99-4A! That was my first computer, but I hardly see one today. I actually owned most of the games for it, and wrote a ton of games for it as well. It actually was one of the first computers I learned how to code on. That one seems to be in immaculate condition. Basically, your video out hooked up to your TV, just like an old Atari console. I had a cassette drive for mine and a speech synthesizer, so it could "talk" in a very odd digital voice. I remember that it did also have a modem available, but my parents wouldn't get it because they said "why would you want to connect to another computer?" Plus, nobody else I knew had one. Now, I run an IT company, build computers, and do coding all the time. I have even reprogrammed Windows 10... sans all the bugs and bloatware, plus many other features. But, it was all due to that machine right there. Still want to get one to add to my collection... mine died back in the 80s. Oh, one last thing, there was a magazine devoted to it, but I can't recall the name of it, and a catalog to buy all the games. Some where cartridges, but a lot also came on cassette. You should really check them out.

Great video as always, working in IT, these make you think. Was in the movie and tv shop on Saturday, saw the mystery boxes, was tempted.

I cannot abide by this sacrilegious couch colour! I only can look at cool old stuff and shit tat on a brown sofa.

@Chaos89P

6 жыл бұрын

I'd give him a pass because most computers, even today, are kinda heavy and difficult to cart around _en masse._

Ashens did sponsoring right, about 1 minute in i forgot i was still in the sponsor bit, i have seen some terrible videos lately where people whoring out their channel have done a terrible job integrating the sponsor bit into their video, "Alpha m" for example and its completely destroyed the video as every actual video is built around the sponsor.

@TOPOFTHEBOBS

6 жыл бұрын

Dan Bana like the avgn paid advert where he sounds like he had a gun to his head

@brandonmartin-moore5302

5 жыл бұрын

Some channels do a brilliant job of it, like Jay Foreman or Film Riot.

Very nice, I've always wanted an MSX, looks like the Sony model is the one to get!

Congratulationson on the new sponsorship:)

That side port on the TI99/4A is for the mighty VOICE SYNTHESIZER MODULE. Which you should get and play some of the games that used it because they're great and quite funny.

@jubuttib

6 жыл бұрын

Surprising he hasn't already, Ashens has a well documented penchant for voice synthesizers.

@6581punk

6 жыл бұрын

I've got the TI99/4A and the Voice synthesizer. I bought a TI99 bundle at a car boot in the 1990s for about £5-10 and got a load of game carts with it too.

"Portable Computers" at least looked real cool and techy back in the day. Nowadays they all look the same. lol

@sallovic5890

6 жыл бұрын

I know right? The first one looked like something the military would use as a worst case scenario machine that's really reliable. Probably because it reminds me of the tech in the original alien films

@ShadowLady1

6 жыл бұрын

I think stuff like the Surface book or other tablet laptop hybrids look pretty unique

@DziugasTrollfacas

6 жыл бұрын

At least they're usable now

@IanC14

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know, my Chromebook doesn't look like the average metallic slab that most posh laptops look like. It's an Asus C202 model, aimed at schools and has a really lovely rubber bumper all round it which gives it a nice look.

The fact that I share a birthday with this special youtube human makes me feel special (December 16)

I had a Ti-99 4a when I was young. I have fond memories of Mash, Chisholm Trail, Hunt the Wumpus, Parsec, and Microsurgeon. If you can get your hands on the speech synthesizer, Mash and Parsec have actually some clear speech. Which was pretty crazy for the time. Also of note the expansions all sort of daisy chain off that port on the right hand side of the system.

You know KZread is going down hill when ashens accepts a sponsorship

@Lazy_eye_blobFish

6 жыл бұрын

Cyntikka agreed, somebody said actions are better than this but the way KZread's going with the adpocalypse I don't blame people for having ads. But if you're going to have an ad at least make it entertaining like ashens does.

@mathematics117

6 жыл бұрын

he's accepted sponsorships before.. and honestly, I don't think it's that bad. it's a little informative in the same style of what he normally does.

@Lazy_eye_blobFish

6 жыл бұрын

mathematics117 again I agree oh, I see no issues with people having an attitude. It's better than TV where you have about 5 minutes worth of ads and 3 minutes worth of television show lol!

@MareCat31

6 жыл бұрын

Snupps is actually really good

@AgentTasmania

6 жыл бұрын

Not his first sponsored vid, even for this sponsor. He's choosey, won't just take money to shill any random gits.

Hooray! Vintage computer time!

@unlokia

6 жыл бұрын

Oh boy, the _"vintage"_ obsessives have arrived... It's called OLD STUFF - _"vintage"_ implies ALL OLD STUFF has equal value and merit; not the case.

@bencockerill42

6 жыл бұрын

He says "vintage computer time" in literally the first 5 seconds of the video. The hell is your problem?

@unlokia

6 жыл бұрын

You took it personally? #insecurepersonalitydisorder

People throwing tantrums about sponsored content, I have to wonder if they remember "The Proxy". This is Ashen's job, he's entitled to make a living, particularly given he is pretty upfront with sponsorships.

Man I love your channel

Who cares if it’s sponsored? He’s hardly ‘selling out’ in this video.

3 and a quarter inch disks?!?!?! I think you'll find those are 3.5 inch disks. Good day sir!

@unlokia

6 жыл бұрын

Uh oh, the weights and measures police are on patrol...

@runescapefan0001

6 жыл бұрын

Stuart has a small disc :(

@swanningabout

6 жыл бұрын

unlokia no. He just got it wrong....

@robinburt5735

6 жыл бұрын

He merely got the 3.5 and 5.25 inch formats muddled up.... DISGRACEFUL! :P

This is one worth an upvote.

Im so happy this is recommended to me!😄

It's great to ashes get sponsorships where nearly all his videos get claimed I don't want to see his channel disappear maybe consider a patreon ashens.

@webchimp

6 жыл бұрын

Have you seen the furore going on at the moment about patreon?

I have that amstrad in my loft complete with horrible vinyl carry case lol

@oscarlupton

6 жыл бұрын

SilverRook Now, I regret selling mine on eBay..

@unlokia

6 жыл бұрын

I had one given to me by my first boss, back in 1991 - it was our stocktaking/ordering computer. I sold it to Trash Converters, wish I hadn't *in some way* - but then... what ON EARTH would I use it for?

@logan1963uk

6 жыл бұрын

With the brick of the PSU too? Loved my PPC640 I build myself one from scrap returns when I worked for Amstrad between '87- 96. Happy times!

@TheTurnipKing

6 жыл бұрын

You shouldn't, it's seriously rubbish ;)

@TheTurnipKing

6 жыл бұрын

About all it's good for is running Infocom text adventures. It's all that'll work halfway well on the built-in screen.(I assume it might work with the monitors for the desktops? But even then the best you'll get it EGA)

It cracks me up that you collect those old computers. I am getting into restoring older RC planes so thats my hobby. I fix small engines to pay for my hobby. Thanks for the blast from the past. Does it mean I am old when I can say I remember when a caculator was considered the newest technology.

My boyfriend managed to find his old TI-99/4A today, actually, and spent the better part of the afternoon repairing it. We dunno if it works, and we know that there's a damaged key in it, but it does turn on, so that's good. Hope he can get it up and running; he was literally making simple programs on it at 3 years old, and even has the voice synthesizer unit for it, so that's all funky.

Why the heck don't modern computers have built-in MIDI.

@_Piers_

6 жыл бұрын

Because it saves about 12p in manufacturing costs and incredibly few people want it. The last time PC's regularly had midi ports, was before motherboards had built in sound. Soundcards used to have a weird joystick/midi connector, you needed an adapter to connect it to anything though.

@DaveLennonCopeland

6 жыл бұрын

Pook365 - Yeah, I knew all that apart from the 12p saving. It would be good to have back. My old Amiga 1200 had an adapter for a MIDI keyboard, also my old sound sampler could be connected too. I used OctaMED and (I think) SoundStudio. :)

@brainndamage

6 жыл бұрын

Pook365 It would be more than 12p if you account for the design, board layout, parts, assembly and testing costs. Plus you'd lose 2 to 4 USB ports. Better for the .1% of people who need it to buy an external converter.

@DaveLennonCopeland

6 жыл бұрын

Jernej Jakob - A USB adapter is what I use now, I guess the U in USB really is universal. USB rules peripheral connectivity. :-)

@manictiger

6 жыл бұрын

Because USB ports exist.

That's not a pop station. ... Jesus Christ a lot of time has passed.

I have a Ti-99/4a right next to me that I still plug in and use, I freaking love it. Found some magazines online with programs I can type in, troubleshoot, then save to a cassette. Not sure if youtube flags imgur links but I have an album I can share.

@DeadBaron

6 жыл бұрын

Nevermind, created a Snupps page for it. I can add more to it if people ask.

Always love to see videos on old or rare hardware! I have a couple of Ti-99/4a computers (one like yours, and the other is a rather ugly beige. That slot at the side I recall is where you can plug in a voice modulator to the unit. I've seen the modulators but have not owned one. There were also plenty of cartridge games, including some Nintendo and Namco ports by Atarisoft! I own two of those (Donkey Kong and Dig Dug) as well as 12 other games and odd programs. All in all, a fun little system from when I was just starting to get into computers (early 80s), though back then I was principally into Commodores.

6:11 "Three and a quarter inch floppy disks" You wot mate?

@unlokia

6 жыл бұрын

I doubt he's your "mate", and if he WAS, that'd mean you'd be pro-creating together... wow! :/

@schalkespringer

6 жыл бұрын

You realise words can have multiple usages, right? Language being a flexible thing and all.

@TomTheSaintsGuy

6 жыл бұрын

Well done. Your attempt at being funny failed miserably.

@2thinkcritically

6 жыл бұрын

Family Guy was right: we really do live in a post-joke world!

@2thinkcritically

6 жыл бұрын

So was I lol

Apparently Deep Fear wasn't bad. Gamespot gave it an 8.1 and it had the composer from Ghost in the Shell doing the music.

We owned a TI-99 4A when I was a kid. It was a pretty great computer for games. We even had the voice modulator for that port on the side.

Those retro computers are so shiny and clean :o

If memory serves, the TI machines used TI’s own microprocessor that had almost no on-board registers but instead used blocks of memory as big, versatile, and rather slow sets of registers. More interesting than practical...

@MrJohndoakes

6 жыл бұрын

It was a matter of corporate pride to have the machines run on TI chips while the TI/94s competed with the Apple II and Rat Shack's TRS-80 machines.

He was really annoyed he got MB and KB mixed up, then immediately says 3 1/4 inch floppy disk. Sorry Stuart, had to mention it. Nerds eh :)

@unlokia

6 жыл бұрын

You tell him! He's human, how dare he make human mistakes... BAAAAH!

@_Piers_

6 жыл бұрын

I had to jump back and look at the disk, to see in which way he was wrong. I had a vague recollection, that Amstrad had 3inch disks on some of their computers. He was going to be off by quarter of an inch either way :) *edit* Ahh, there's the horrible 3inch disks!

@Kolkritan

6 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed I had to scroll this far down to find this comment :p

The TI99 is a heck of a gaming machine. There are some fantastic titles, and it runs fantastically for it's era. Totally underrated

I love when you do these vintage computer videos Stuart. In Canada we didn’t get a lot of those computers and the ones we did get we didn’t get the same games as you guys in Britain. I’m definitely going to get every vintage computer I can if I ever win the Lottery. I’m slowly collecting all the vintage games consoles now and once I’m done or along with collecting them I’m getting all the vintage computers I can with the limited income I have towards them. I get what I can in my area which means I only have a c128 coming so far.

Snupps. The Argos catalogue for burglars.

#CONEHYPE

It always felt good at school when you managed to bagsy the BBC Master in the computer room (well the corridor which had a few BBCs lined up so all the teachers could keep an eye on you). I still remember the peripherals and writing programs to control traffic lights for a model town.

In the 1980s I worked for an industrial control company using Texas 9900 microprocessors. Beautiful 16 bit instruction set and very nice to program.

LGR vibes from this

@ShadowLady1

6 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be the other way round?

@powder-phun949

6 жыл бұрын

May be all the old computers

@MrBanchiniOfficial

6 жыл бұрын

Powder-phun maybe so xD

@appelelle

6 жыл бұрын

Ashens Food is a bit different.

3:53 edit: I'm not against sponsorship, I'm for better integration.

@adamwalker5336

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@jasperdiscovers

6 жыл бұрын

doing god's work son.

@wormspeaker

6 жыл бұрын

Meh, I enjoyed the sponsored part. It had some interesting bits.

@adamwalker5336

6 жыл бұрын

wormspeaker I’ll watch it once because he’s paid for it, but for future reference a marker is nice.

@SpookySkeleton738

6 жыл бұрын

+Adam Walker There's no way for the sponsor to know how many people skipped through the ad when it's actually part of the video, he's probably being paid on a per-video basis.

OMG a Ti-99/4A. I have not seen one of those since I was about 10. Awesome! That first expansion port was for a speech synthesizer.

Had one of those TI computers in 82. I was about 9. We got I free for buying a house full of carpet. I really enjoyed it as we bought a few cartridge games for it and it came with an extensive manual that taught you to write very rudimentary programs for it. Àt the time at school we were already working on Apple II computers so I loved the fact I could come home and work on the computer for longer than the 45 minutes we had in computer lab. Plus, my buddy on the other side of the woods from me got a TI also so we swapped games periodically.

'Tube' on the BBC was like an intranet, well more like a remote desktop used for schools, the teacher could connect to any students computer to assist with learning (That's what i understand, i may be wrong)

@Gambit771

6 жыл бұрын

That seems to ring a bell to how we were taught on them in high school.

@vurpo7080

6 жыл бұрын

That was actually their "econet" port. The Tube was for attaching an extra processor.

@jarthurs

6 жыл бұрын

It was an external co-processor. You could get Z80, 6502 and ARM7 external processors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_(BBC_Micro)

@sparkyprojects

6 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, econet, i should have got the manual out to check (i have the BBCB+) Thanks for correcting me.

To all those complaining about the paid promotion. I doubt ashens gives a flying fig.

@unlokia

6 жыл бұрын

I doubt he is even aware of the level of caring expressed or felt, nor cares a horse's hoof about the outcry. :)

One thing for the very geeky it’s worth hunting out is the CP/M disk for the Amstrad 664. The extra power cable was for the built in monitor unit you could get with it. (My mate had a 664 - and he also had a tuner module too which turned the dodgy monitor into a TV).

Had that CPC640, it was my first Dos PC, upgrading from my old C64 I used for word processing in my first few years of grade school. I got it from a liquidation reseller. I eventually got a printer-port hard drive for it. I did a lot of programming for my dissertation on it, in C (a maximum entropy estimator ~ the program took forever to run). I did use it sometimes as a "portable" (or, as they would say of some of the older CP/M suitcase units, "luggable") ... plugging it into the car cigarette lighter to get work done while the kids were at football (aka gridiron) practice.

But will it run Crysis?

@jkeeler8286

6 жыл бұрын

HASEnoncorperated iyeven would from it out of utter fear

@somerandomladontheinternet533

6 жыл бұрын

No it can't run crysis

@MarilynMalkovich

6 жыл бұрын

Sure is cOLD in here.

@OlegUstimenko

6 жыл бұрын

its 2017 dude jesus christ

@FiddlesticksDraws

6 жыл бұрын

The real question is if it can run Doom

Wow, first view. Also, the paid promotion finishes at 03:54 for those who just don't care one bit about Snupps.

@Enkarashaddam

6 жыл бұрын

Sppuns

@blunderingfool

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@Noxedwin

6 жыл бұрын

Looks like the ad just got Snubb'd.

@cameraobscura5503

6 жыл бұрын

An excellent sellout

It’s videos like this that make me nostalgic for my old Macintosh Performa I wish I still had and my old Commodore 64 I wish I still had and I even had an old Atari computer but I forgot which one it was none of which I still have sadly

That was a nice bit of random trivia in the sponsored part. As someone who works for Fujitsu (Services) the Car Marty was interesting to me.