Well.. thanks to Dan's video, I am out of stock of the WiModem232! I do have plenty of stock of the WiModem (for the C64/128). I didn't plan (or even know) about Dan's great video coming or I would have increased inventory. This caught me off guard for sure. I am ordering more boards right now, but it will be several weeks before they are available again. Thank you for your support. - Jim

@jdryyz

5 жыл бұрын

I had originally planned to get Paul Rickards WiFi232 but they sold out rather quickly. I know yours has the OLED display as well. The wait will be difficult. :)

@keithshirley4452

5 жыл бұрын

Glad I purchased mine 2 weeks ago. Great product btw. I have several different kinds of WiFi modems for my vintage computer collection and by far the WiModem232 is the best and easiest to set up. Keep up the great work.

@CBMSTUFF

5 жыл бұрын

@@keithshirley4452 Thanks! The WiModem232 is something that I am actively developing new features for. If you have idea, please drop me a note via my website.

@APAC2002

3 жыл бұрын

You can thank Dan again, I just bought one from you without the LCD screen since you are out of stock of that model. I am very much looking forward to using it next to my newly wifi connected Commodore 64C up here in Northern Ontario Canada.

@jukkajylanki4769

3 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to get a piezo speaker to output the modem activity sound at handshake? Should that happen the same as in the olden days with this device? :D

There's just something peaceful and warm about seeing BBS screens render on an old CRT. I really miss those days! As others have said here - so much to learn and enjoy when you're a child!

@nanettemccrone25

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. It brings some real memories flooding back.

Fantastic vlog. I was the sysop of Metnet BBS - Jon Witty - from 1988 til 1997 , before that was Metnet on Compunet. It was operated on an Amiga 4000 68060 with an A2232 and many hard drives. Ten phone lines ran into it from my little flat in Hull, UK. There was also an ISDN line in later years with telnet accessibility to it. It was the largest free system in the UK and no piracy was allowed. Those ANSI menus took a long time to create, especially the same space invaders animation for the games section. Metnet operated on Mebbsnet software and was the UK support and also support for MUD systems. Later became support BBS for Son of Spong that was the Amiga Format magazine. I recall they gave me a free hard drive for the privilige. Lots of stories and history. I have decided to create a website telling the story and hopefully to recreate the system (at least on a small scale) . You have inspired me today... Thanks..

BBS Days, brings back good memories :D

It's always nice teaching old tech new tricks :). It's why I have a rotary dial phone that can call over VoIP lines and a black-and-white TV that can display digital television.

I'm going to have to get one of these sooner than later. I love the fact this one has a display on it. I started dialing BBSes in 1990 I suppose (even ran a couple of boards), and those are some of my most cherished memories of computing as a kid. Great video!

Great to have you back Dan. 😎👍🏻

best amiga specialist in the world by far big up dan dj as well!!!!!!!!!

Nice to see you again, was starting to wonder if something's happened.

Thank's for the blast from the past. I remember have a commodore 64 way back in 1980 it was one of my very first computers. It's was nice to see that the old classics PC's still has what it takes get in the modern web. I appreciate your time and effort in making this video and I'm glad I found your channel and yes I did subscribe. Please keep up the great work and I'll keep coming back for more.

@RMoocher

5 жыл бұрын

C64's weren't out until 1982. 1983 outside of the U.S

@randallcromer66

5 жыл бұрын

@@RMoocher then it probably was in 1982 I don't have as good as a memory as I use to have. As I remember it was because I just went to middle school at the time. Wow how time flies by. Just seems like yesterday.

Good to see you again, it's been a long time! Great video!

Love your videos Dan. More please : )

NComm!!! There's a blast from the past! I too missed out on the BBS days for the most part. Eventually I moved to a large enough city where I could dial in to GEnie on my 1200 and not have to pay for long-distance.

Nice to see you back! There are a lot of highly polished, well produced channels these days, all of which I love. But I missed your casual style just hanging out in the computer room. Few people can do that style well. Usually its just someone rambling, with a lot of "umm" "ahh..." in a dark room. awkward jump cuts, etc. It takes practice to make scripted feel unscripted but still engaging, seem-less and fluid. I know its simple skills. But obviously practiced well.

Damn. I miss those Bulletin Board days. Such a sense of wonder. I was sooo young back then.

@MalhaIIa

5 жыл бұрын

o.o you got my old avatar

@grubby124

5 жыл бұрын

@@MalhaIIa Yeah, I switched to that one the night Donald Trump won the presidency. Appropriate then, even more so today. Sorry - no politics on the channel, please.

My Amiga days, don't want to know the hours I've spend on them, from the 500 until the mighty 4000. You've done a great job showing and describing the BBS emotions, not being owned by big corporate dollars yet, I miss it. Subscribed!

So much cool retro hardware sooo little time. Great video as always!

Welcome back dude, can't wait to see more

Great video, as usual. Glad you back. BTW I heard a guy on the radio in the works van, I thought I know that voice lol very cool

I remember playing Populus and Falcon on my Atari ST with my friend by linking them up together. It was awesome and had hours of fun, would have been around 1988.

Good to see you back Dan. Hope you're well.

Great to see you back Dan 👍

I got a similar device like this, and is amazing! Calling the BBS-es with my real AMIGA 1200 is such a blast from the past!

Nice to see you back

Hey Dan , Looking forward to seeing a video on the first Amiga I bought , the 1500 , I believe you have just become the proud owner of one :)

That flashing display on the chip looks awesome !!. I'd turn my light out just for this alone.

I connected my A1200 to the net back in 1993. I remember the early web browser pointed its temp directory to the RAM disk. It would fill up and crash so I had to remap it to my hard drive which worked but blimey it was slow and pounded the snot out of my 80mb hard drive. I still remember the first BBS I called. It was in Ireland and I downloaded the “Jesus on E’s” demo as my trader friend somehow never got hold of it. For that reason it’ll always be my favourite demo.

I love your videos Dan.

I remember using this computer as well as my Vic20. These were the early days of personal computing and Internet before the masses. We lived on public assistance and all my well off relatives gave me money for Christmas and I was able to buy one. This computer felt like some magical alien technology from across the universe which had the power to transport me to other worlds.

Good to see you back Dan! :)

I remember getting my Amiga 1200 and USR Sportster 14400 connected in 94/95 to a dial up modem rack at Dundee Uni where I was studying. Allowed a remote session onto one of the Sun Sparcs that was internet connected and Telneting into chat BBSs like Brinta and Skynet (and occasionally doing C++). So much study time wasted on chatting to people all over the world, was mind blowing at the time!

This is so cool! I had a bbs too back in the end ofthe 90’s with a friend, not 24/7 ( i was 15 and we had just 1 line)

Nice video. I have one of these and it is fantastic. He also makes the regular WiModem for the C64. Good stuff. A cool related video would be showcasing all the great terminal programs that are available for the Amiga as there are some greats.

oh the memories! I ran a multi-node BBS on an Amiga 2000 with Ami express, 3 Us Robotics HST Couriers, the BBS was called Pleasure Dome. 0 day warez :)

@koosy2987

4 жыл бұрын

@Brad Viviviyal good days! you will love this kzread.info/dash/bejne/oINp2MymdKnAkaw.html

Good to see you back Dan, looking forward to the next vid. I'll surely be picking one of those modems up as I used to love the bbs scene back in the day! 😊 Oh and if your out and about in Notts, tap me up, I could use a beer with someone as geeky as me! Lol.

\woah! first! no way.. great video Dan, nice to see you back :)

Mate SO glad to see you making videos on this channel again. I've made reference to you and linked to you on my first video. Hope you don't mind. You're the man man! :D

@danwood_uk

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome, love the vid! :)

That Prestel loading screen brought back memories of using them on my BBC!

Ahh. I remember running Frontier BBS back in the day on my old A500 with 40MB hard drive. good times. We even had an email program (before email) I wrote that would send messages up and down our trunk of BBSs over night.

good work as always Dan. My kids who are used to only hearing you on the podcast kept asking where the other guy was. "no not the guy with the smooth radio voice, the other guy with the super english accent that we can't understand"

@danwood_uk

5 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you here Dave, big fan of your channel! :)

The Commodore 1541 disk drive, probably the most excited I’ve ever been about a piece of tech when I got one of those as a 14 year old kid.

Thanks Dan.

Dan, I have to say that I have never heard someone with so much "cheer" in their voice. Also, the level of detail that you cover is fantastic, you have a new subscriber here in California. However, I am more of an Atari fan but the Amiga is still a great machine.

I remember my first connection (with my Amiga 500) to a BBS (2400 baud modem)... And it was a blast! Uploading something you just made, and perhaps (sometimes there was Down/Uploading ratio which sucked) downloading new stuff... I think it was my second time and I had hard time with the BBS menu system (I tried stuff I was not privileged to do basically... But I did not know that)... Anyway the BBS admin looked at my weird tries and tribulations and started to chat with me... I was OMG! this is cool! I asked me what I wanted to do... I told him and we had a small constructive chat and then he made me a privileged member (almost admin status :-). In the early 90's that was really great! So I had to make my own BBS on my Amiga (can't remember which terminal program I used, but it had a wonderful AREXX port in later development which was awesome) so I could relive that moment with a user and me as admin :-)

JRComm/Terminus were the best. Ran them back in the day. Did DLG and CNet for Amiga. Did Fido and Ami-Net. So fun

Welcome back Dan!

Very cool... and OMG much much money spent on BBS back in the days..

So funny. I was castigated as a "comms weirdo" for saying how fun it was to chat to people online, and that digitizing was so much more socially acceptable. Thank you for the video. It made me appreciate what gave me another nervous breakdown... Seeing a future when other people just could not. :)

@danwood_uk

5 жыл бұрын

Pat McDonald as in Amiga Format writer? If so it was probably your articles that got me interested in the first place 😎

@PATTHECATMCD

5 жыл бұрын

@@danwood_uk With a subject matter like the Amiga, it was fun. 90% guesswork mostly. I was forbidden access to Amicon, conflict of interests to sign NDA with Commodore and be an independent journalist at the same time. God knows I did my best to get it right.

Excellent stuff

I used a lot of irc back in the day, covering the modem with a cushion until it connected so the noise didn’t disturb anyone.

I remember producing really really huge phone bills on my A1200/030/50Mhz/882 with 8 MB FastRAM with Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel's fabulous TERM terminal program. Or connecting to the FIDO net with trapdoor. Internet access via console (gopher!) first trough call in to universities (was about 14 that time), later with the AmiTCP/Miami TCP/IP stacks. Was a beta tester for YAM. Those were wild times :)

very cool . I ram an amiga bbs in the late 80's I used the DLG bbs program on an amiga 500 with 4 scsi hard drives. I just got it back out of the closet and bought a gotec drive emulator

Even to me who is still 3 years away from entering his 30's, it's always fun to see BBS in action on hardware of its age. Personally, I sadly don't have the time to spend with Commodores anymore but I wonder if it'd work through Vice running on my Raspberry Pi inside the breadbin C64 that's connected to the web.

I had a Supra 14400 modem hooked up to my A500 around 1994-1995. Got to use e-mail for the first time through some BBS, which was neat.

It's dead now, but I'm working on bringing it back to life, but my Amiga 3000 was permanently connected to the Internet from around 1994 till the early 2000's, and I ran a multi-line BBS. It is also possible to get 802.11b drivers for the Avaya/Orinoco/Proxim 16 bit PCMCIA cards, for use in Amiga 600's and 1200's

@CoyoteSeven

5 жыл бұрын

CNet or DLG?

wonderful crt sound at 3:12 I say "wonderful" cuz I am trying to enjoy the sound while I can still hear it

Great info, Dan. I just got a NIC64+ to go with my C128, and am planning on getting on some boards with it. Your info on who still hosts the BBS's will be helpful.

What did you censor out at 2:03!? Something under the F3 key?

@danwood_uk

5 жыл бұрын

That F3 key is too hot for KZread... in all seriousness, that wasn't meant to be there lol.

Awesome. I could only dream about surfing BBS's with my Amiga 500. It was more far away then buying a HDD.

Great video... I ran BAd DReams BBS back in the day.. used to love AMI EXPRESS! loads of mems... silly phone bills... blueboxing!! arrr we where lucky..

I just received a huge inventory of WiModem232's so they are back in stock! Thanks for your patience!

When I was in high school (Aus) in the early 90's I recall I did maybe 1 or 2 classes of creative writing on electric typewriters. Then the teachers ushered us into another classroom from then on which was decked out with apple macintosh pc's. With a choice of floppy or hard drive, it was alien to me, then within a few years again we had laser disc home theatre systems & home gaming consoles. My first was a nintendo 64 which came pre loaded with a game called "Alex the kid". Could complete the entire game in under 40 minutes LOL. Now I can connect to the internet from almost anywhere on the planet with a small device I can fit in my pocket. My teachers would have put me in detention if I'd tried to explain modern tech to them back then. At least my childhood taught me how to use a compass, read a street map & I knew exactly where all my local telephone boxes were in case of an emergency!

love it :) I had to build my own!

Nice desk dude

I never got the chance to do any of this back in the days, never having owned an Amiga or in fact any computer that could have gone online. This probably sounds like a dumb question but how does Baud rate compare to kb/s? For instance what would 9600 baud be in kb/s?

Ahh the memories of a bygone age of pre DSL and cable modems where few were brave enough to risk using a box of blue...... I still got my old /x 3.xx BBS on a DDS2 dat tape somewhere, not sure it if its recoverable or not after all this time- those were the days hot warez cool sysops and met a lot of kewl dudes while it lasted. . . . . .

Its been too long, more videos ! :)

Excellent video! I was looking into purchasing a Wifi232, but they aren't for sale any longer. Hopefully the WiModem232 will make a good a substitute. (Attempting to get my TRS-80 Color Computer online)

very nice . I ran a bbs on the amiga 500 way back. remember getting my 56k modem I was so excited. how does this work with miami ??

Nice to see, something about the BBS scene - Next time try the BlackICE BBS ;)

Inspiring!

Wow... what can I say but "thanks" to you, Dan.. and welcome back! I got alerted to this review by a few Amiga people. The WiModem (C64/128) and WiModem232 (for all computers with a RS-232 serial port) follow the Hayes guidelines for the command set. So, the commands you used with your Hayes or Hayes compatible modem back in the day are the same ones you use today. There are WiModem/232 specific commands for internet setup, etc. Yes, I am the same person that created EMPLANT, FUSION, PCx, SYBIL, Supercard Ami, etc. I have made a variety of new products for CBM machines as well as other retro computers, and I will be releasing many new products this year. - Jim

@danwood_uk

5 жыл бұрын

Great to see you here Jim! Keep up the good work

@CBMSTUFF

5 жыл бұрын

@@danwood_uk Thanks... and let me know the next time you want to review something from me! I have lots of cool things coming. :)

A Dan Wood video!!

whats that round greyish brown blob on the amiga keyboard? thanks at around 2.07 thanks....

Nice video Dan :) Jim Drew as in Jim Drew of Emplant and Fusion fame?

@danwood_uk

5 жыл бұрын

The very same :)

Génial !!👍

On the one hand, this is cool! On the other hand: I don't need any more Trade Wars All-Nighters, thanks!

I used a surf squirrel -pcmcia card and IBrowse with my A1200, biggest issue was that vanilla A1200 serial port only supported up to 28800kb/s any faster and you got buffer over run. Issue with todays web pages is that they are very resource heavy to use and can't really be used without beefing up your Amiga, mine had a 68060 with 16megs of RAM and even back then in -96 it already had issues with web pages loading.

Happy to see another video! How does the WiModem232 handle TCP/IP stacks for the Amiga? Can you load up iBrowse and get to Aminet to download files?

@PooperScooperTrooper

5 жыл бұрын

good question

Hi Dan, I'm writing from Italy. I'd like to connect my Amiga 500 to the BBS network, but I have a problem: the terminal program. I wanted to use NComm, but I can't install it because it asks to write to Workbench which is protected and full. How can I do? Thank you for any attention you may possibly give me.

Question regarding the Amiga. I have a 2000 which has been sitting for 20 years and have got the retro bug, so wanting to fire up the old girl. Now my machine did have a hard drive in it, but unsure if it still works. If it doesnt how do I go about replacing it and using another storage methods such as a compact flash or SD card?

Back in '94/95 I got an Amiga 1200 connected to Demon Internet using a US Robotics Sportster 14400 and configuring AmiTCP by hand to dialup Demons local POP. Lynx text based web browser, Usenet, and Gopher were the order of the day.

@RetrocosmNet

5 жыл бұрын

I was doing exactly the same thing, happy days. I still have the same Demon e-mail address and website at www.incanus.demon.co.uk

Hi Dan. Is it possible to transfer files from a local PC to a Gotek on the Amiga with this device?

class thank you

Man it's been a long time ! No Xmas special upload this time round. Hope your keeping well

@Lorfarius

5 жыл бұрын

Check out The Retro Hour podcast to see what he's been up to. Does a new episode every week!

@shahid1296ify

5 жыл бұрын

@@Lorfarius ah thanks for the recommendation!

what is the google version on the screen in the background of your thumbmail?

Hey Dan, is there a way to use this device to add a TCP/IP stack to connect to FTP and IRC?

Nice!

BBS days were great , watching a 14k jpeg download , line by line..... I was amazed when I got my Amiga on the proper internet with Demon , I had to learn all about tcp/ip and this new fangled browser called "Mosaic" !!!!

Amazing

Cool I remember connecting my a1200 to internet through modem in the 90s and I feel no need to do that anymore lol

I was a BBC B user and we had Telecomm Gold bulletin board. I still play the game Elite by David Braben.

BBSes and Dial-Up Internet, how I spent the early 90s :D

Remember getting my 1200 on line using aweb, amosiac then the fab ibrowse

Sweet!

Ah long time no see Dan!

How do you connect to BBS's via the internet when you used to dial into them using a modem?

Radio Shack was our best friend back in the day!

i was watching one of your earlier videos and i saw you have a dreamcast. Considering you have brought the mighty A500 back online, i think now it's time to bring the dreamcast back online, since there is now an easy solution to do that (the dreampi), don't you think so? :)

Dan have you heard anything more about the CD1200 that was found, would be interested to know if anything else has come to light with that.

@uberdude2555

5 жыл бұрын

Me too, wonder if they ever got it to power on to a boot screen? I would mind even just seeing some photos inside, hopefully they didn't just stick it back inside that glass display case.