that shattering sound wasnt the tube breaking, it was his heart. i cant imagine how bad that mustve felt when it happened.

@TechTimeTraveller

Жыл бұрын

I've done it a couple of times. Had an NEC APC I had just about restored, went behind to retrieve a loose connector. Didn't even feel myself making contact with the neck, but I heard the whoosh. I watch guys plug in the socket on the end with no particular care day in day out, but if I even breathe on mine the wrong way out goes the vacuum.

@soupwizard

Жыл бұрын

Probably didn't feel that bad, he has a history of treating vintage computers carelessly

@WitchTrials92

Жыл бұрын

That was only 1 video Yes I do Admit that video really ticked me off Because It was not just a vintage IBM computer but a prototype as well.

@SoraHjort

Жыл бұрын

And the hiss was his soul leaving his body.

@jakematic

Жыл бұрын

@KeeDx3 THIS COMMENT exactly

Picture tubes showing a "hole" in the center of the phosphor when they go to air is pretty typical, especially for monochrome tubes. In color CRT's, the mask usually holds the phosphor together a little. If you see a device at a flea market or on eBay or CraigsList or whatever and it has a hole like that, walk away.

@kbhasi

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I agree. I remember seeing a 'vwestlife' video where he showed a Zenith TV or monitor that had a hole like that and he explained that the neck would've been bent as part of preparing the display for recycling.

@cleverhardy5230

Жыл бұрын

It's a shame the old CRT had to end this way. But at least David solved the problem with the help of Sark. It was an outdated transistor on the power regulator.

@stephenw2992

Жыл бұрын

The phosphor stays in place. What blows away is the aluminium backing over the phosphor. You can see it easier with colour tubes and their rows of phosphor dots.

@stephenw2992

Жыл бұрын

@@gothesouthway I did the same. I used to see 20" tubes from old valve black and whites on the dump that people had removed from the cabinets that they used for other things. No bonded rim bands on those things. They sure went off with a bang and sent glass flying when you chucked a brick at them, purely for safety reasons of course.

@KennethScharf

Жыл бұрын

I remember working in NYC on Canal street at Ramco Electronics, a typical "junque" store that had lots of overstock and surplus offerings. He had gotten a small truckload of Panasonic color TV sets in the 19-25" size range. I spend an entire day building a few "Frankenstein" sets by taking dead sets apart, saving the good PCB boards and such to build a few working units. One such unit was almost completely assembled when we noticed that the CRT had a hairline crack in the exhaust stem, and was under air. RATS!!! I feel bad for Dave, getting a replacement CRT these days will be almost impossible. He may have to find a similar but not identical tube and rewire the socket and yoke connections to match.

The biggest health hazard of these electrical cars are the fast food chains located right next to the charging stations! 😆

@GeoffreyGore

Жыл бұрын

That said, it (and you) also makes for a great argument for EVs supporting local businesses, since the first supercharger led to them exploring town and eating at a mom-and-pop place

@Danuxsy

Жыл бұрын

No the problem is that these EVs weigh a lot more so the issue is in fact particles from the tires.

@DanTDMJace

Жыл бұрын

@@Danuxsy you just dont get a good joke.

@Danuxsy

Жыл бұрын

@@DanTDMJace a good joke will not save you from climate change

@sorrenblitz805

Жыл бұрын

@@Danuxsy you know who positively impacted global warming? Genghis Khan.

The glass tube breaking at the end of the project is an experience that's all too relatable..

@Mueller3D

Жыл бұрын

I had that unfortunate experience long ago while repairing a Commodore 1084 monitor. I had just fixed a loose connection, and I was maneuvering the back of the case down onto the chassis. While still a couples inches above, it slipped from my fingers, and since it wasn't perfectly aligned, something in the case back caught on the CRT neck board, torquing it and breaking the neck. It's always such a disappointing feeling when you try to fix something and end up making it worse. I ended up giving that set away for someone else to use for parts.

In defense of Galloping Ghost, while it is $25 to get in, every machine is set to free play. Plus that's for the entire day, with you being able to come and go throughout the day. Plus, they have a building down the street full of pinball machines. As for machines being down, most of the games in there are VERY rare nowadays, which means parts can be hard to get. They do their absolute best with making sure the games are in playable condition, but there is usually only a VERY small crew working at any given time. So it's tough to work on the games while having to man the front counter. I've watched GGA grow by leaps and bounds over the years, and I personally think the entrance price is more than fair for the vast amount of games the have to play. Not only do they have many people coming from around the country specifically to go there, but they've had many international visitors as well. You will NEVER find another arcade quite like GGA. I say all this as a regular customer with no stake in the arcade at all.

@joey_after_midnight

Жыл бұрын

I thought about the Real Estate costs for the place. Rentals for buildings and places like that seem to only postpone an eventual mass sell off or donation to the local landfill... of all the machines when the lease gets pulled. Things can happen so fast. They're like Time capsules .. visit them while you can.

@TheStuffMade

Жыл бұрын

I think $25 is reasonable for a full day. I mean it's not a place you go hang out every day, but I understand if you only got an hour to visit then $25 is a bit much. Anyway, I don't even want to think about what their electricity bill is like.

@budgetguitaristcom

Жыл бұрын

I agree with the other two responses - $25 for entrance into the biggest arcade in the country seems very reasonable to me.

@RootinrPootine

Жыл бұрын

One of a kinda museum of that magnitude for $25 seems reasonable. Crazy that it exists at all.

@Curt_Sampson

Жыл бұрын

Another thing to consider is, if they pull broken machines off the floor, where are they going to put them? Shifting the allocation of customer floor space to storage space simply means that in the long run, as you get things fixed, you can't display as many machines.

Meeting up with Technology Connections must've been fun, telling him all about your EV trip. Or since he recently did a video explaining a lot about EVs and charging, he may have been burned out on the subject.

@senvr11

Жыл бұрын

he probably has like 28 revisions already

@megan_alnico

Жыл бұрын

He looked a little awkward on camera, maybe it's because he didn't have his magic suit jacket on? I'm actually kind of disappointed he doesn't wear that everywhere he goes. Lol

@DarronBirgenheier

Жыл бұрын

Technology Connections is one of my faves! I always enjoy seeing two or more of my favorite KZreadrs get together, whether by accident or design. For those of us who live cloistered lives, the vicarious socialization we get from KZread can be very valuable. We can get many of the benefits and few of the drawbacks of how IRL social interactions often go for those who are ND.

@Tigerskunk

Жыл бұрын

@@megan_alnico maybe it's like I heard the famous NASCAR driver Richard Petty say, "I take off the Hat and glasses and no one recognize me." By not wearing the jacket, he can go.places without being recognized.

It was nice to meet you at VCF. I'm sorry my social awkwardness and anxiety got in the way of me not being a total weirdo. And thank you for signing my game for me.

@mctv6486

Жыл бұрын

I wish I was at that event, it looks amazing, but I also have social awkwardness lol

I'm glad 8-bit Guy and his wife got to experience the weirdness of a Pizza Ranch

@mgtproductions9524

Жыл бұрын

Genuinely interested - what is weird about it? Here in the UK Pizza Hut used to do buffet pizza lunches.

@petersage5157

Жыл бұрын

In my area most "family steakhouses" that have buffets have pizza on the buffet. (It's often worse than your typical frozen pizza, but it's there, so...yay, I guess?) If you want a really weird experience with pizza and don't mind a drive, go to Organ Stop Pizza in Mesa. There's an article about it in Bloomberg and there are videos on KZread, but The Mighty Wurlitzer is something that has to be experienced first-hand.

@NHFNNC

Жыл бұрын

weirdness?

@razcarsey6635

Жыл бұрын

My wife and thought it was hilarious when a Pizza Ranch opened up nearby. How about Sushi Farm? Shawarma Rodeo? Anyway, it was no laughing matter when they had to close for a while because a bunch of people got sick. We've elected not to try it out for ourselves.

@henryasbridge5161

Жыл бұрын

@@mgtproductions9524 Pizza hut still do buffet pizza lunches (at least in the UK) source: i went to one two weeks ago

Sark is humble and quiet, masking his BOSS status.

13:45 Props to David for actually sounding like he kept a quite a cool head after the sound of that tube breaking, God knows my first reaction would have been a whole lot of swear words for 10 minutes straight

@joey_after_midnight

Жыл бұрын

Mike actually sounded more upset. David is just the Chill master.

@johnathin0061892

Жыл бұрын

David has to be super chill. I would have gone through the roof, given what that tube/entire game was worth, especially if I did it and only had myself to blame.

@sideburn

Жыл бұрын

I would have been screaming ef! Ef! Ef! Ef n’ A! G Dammit! Efffff!!!!! (I have anger management issues when “repairing” stuff).

@MKVideoful

Жыл бұрын

I was expecting it to happen in the previous video when David pull and in so many times, CRTs are heavy and fragile, it simply will eventually happen. Maybe that is why he is so calm.

@jxchamb

Жыл бұрын

I would have walked into the ocean.

It was super cool meeting you and Clint that weekend! It was definitely a "God I wish this was a pay week" kind of events then I could have gotten all the cool stuff I wanted to. Getting a lot of use out of the red cassette pouch I got from you, it is now FILLED with quarters for parking meters downtown.

When you were talking about travelling long distances in your Bolt, my first thought was Technology Connections did an hour-long video talking about EVs and had done a previous video talking about doing a road trip similar to the one you did. Then you show Alec later on in the video. Nice to see tech geeks showing some solidarity on KZread.

@QuintusAntonious

Жыл бұрын

The cross over we didn't know we needed.

I think I can honestly say that a lot of us were truly feeling your hurt when the tube broke.

@blenderbachcgi

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully there's a way to repair the phosphor coating, re-vacuum the tube, and re solder the glass to seal the hole...

@amirpourghoureiyan1637

Жыл бұрын

@@blenderbachcgi it’s easier to just find a monochrome CRT that’s the same size and just recreate the tape filters

@blenderbachcgi

Жыл бұрын

@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 But it won't be the same. The filters are very specific. The wavelength of light they allow through. We would need to find out what they are, and also measure where to precisely tape them.

@eDoc2020

Жыл бұрын

@@blenderbachcgi The easy thing to do is peel the filters off the old tube and transfer them to a new one.

@petersage5157

Жыл бұрын

@@blenderbachcgi They look like they're cut from standard theatrical lighting gels.

That CRT crack and hiss sound is as terrifying as a dead hard drive ticking sound. They are nightmare material. Great work, David! Love seeing old stuff back from the grave!

@jukingeo

Жыл бұрын

Ahhh, yes, the HISS of death! It means the phosphorus genie has escaped and the CRT will not perform it's magic any longer.

@blenderbachcgi

Жыл бұрын

There's a difference. You can send the Hard Drive to a lab to get the platters out, reseat the platters in new working drive, and copy the data to a new drive. You can't save a CRT, however...

@widicamdotnet

Жыл бұрын

Breaking the CRT's neck was exactly what I was worried about all the time watching that last video... ouch

@lannstarr35

Жыл бұрын

oh yes the sound of nightmares

@TruckFan542

Жыл бұрын

And i thought a creeper hissing in Minecraft was bad!

Good job you didn't have to wait hours in a queue just to charge your EV. My heart sank when you broke that tube, but congrats on fixing Moonbase in the end. Awesome fix by Sark, He must be an awesome engineer

Holy moly. I didn't think that brief view of the Weather Channel would give me such a nostalgia kick in the..

Next challenge: drive through every Springfield in the US, starting in Massachusetts and ending in Oregon :)

@frugalprepper

Жыл бұрын

Stop by my house if you get to the Ohio Springfield!

@Nilsog

Жыл бұрын

There's a Springfield in Maine, that would be a good starting point

@battra92

Жыл бұрын

Springfield MA has the Armory but not much else worth seeing. There's a catchy little song about all the Springfields on this ancient film about ZIP Codes kzread.info/dash/bejne/nmiLqbCjg7yxfrg.html

@NJRoadfan

Жыл бұрын

New Jersey actually has TWO Springfields.

@kathrynradonich3982

Жыл бұрын

@@frugalprepper there are actually two in Ohio 😆

Kudos to Sark for the repairs and taking time out of his other convention activities to help you out. I enjoyed the road trip and agree that taking time to stop can be a good thing.

@joey_after_midnight

Жыл бұрын

I think 'learning to stop' and 'learning to chill drive due to cheaper insurance' has saved my life on more than one occasion now. Driving in Texas.. you kind of boil your blood pressure as you get older until you have a wreck. Since getting a Tesla all of that has changed.

@Okurka.

Жыл бұрын

I might hope Sark got paid for his time. After all David was only there to sell his game and make a profit.

This was great! I originally came to this video for the Vintage Computer Festival, but loved the review of your road trip getting there. It's a very frank, pleasant, and honest presentation. It looks like you guys took your time and were able to really enjoy the journey.

Give a big hug to your wife who is supporting you in your endeavors :) She deserves a thank you also. Cheers David!

You know what really warms my heart? The fact there was a ton of kids there. Theres hope after all.. ^.^

@joey_after_midnight

Жыл бұрын

Taking care of kids and helping them understand the past and master the future is the best thing in life. Its all we can do.. until we're immortal.

@macdonalds1972

Жыл бұрын

Instead of a candy and a van they use retro computers.

@ballyastrocade5672

Жыл бұрын

A lot of kids show up to the Classic Game Fest down in Austin, and the Texas Pinball Festival up in the DFW metroplex, too.

@blenderbachcgi

Жыл бұрын

I'm 19 years old. I might not be very much of a "kid" by now, but I am a Gen Z. While I don't go to old tech cons, I am into old technology and software from the 1980s. In fact, I have recently managed to reverse engineer sprite data from "Star Rider", which is a 1983 Arcade LaserDisc Game from Williams Electronics. I might not know anything about the electronic side of these technological marvels, but I know a bit about the software side of them. So yes, there is hope. Especially if I eventually start my other KZread channel, "Mission CyberSpace", that is currently in the works, and get funds from the subscribers on it, I will hire professionals to fully remake "Star Rider" to be available on computers. Also, I will be very strictly monitoring this. I want these things to be as close as possible to the real deal. I want to capture the magic as close to perfect as possible. But anyway, I'm Blender Bach, let the old arcades live on, and have a great day!

Dear 8bit guy, thank you so much for sharing the mistakes you make of damaging the tube while installing it. It's so good to see that people we admire also make these kinds of mistake. I really appreciate it. Love your channel!

@davidgood840

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! Demystifying the whole process, failures included is wonderful for anyone trying to fix/repair things. We learn from the mistakes of others and it helps console those of us who have had projects go sideways because of stupid mistakes or just bad luck!

Honestly when I went to VCF it was super fun! And meeting you was a blast and you're super nice and along with the whole rest of the vintage computing community. I would really recommend to try and go to this when it happens next to anyone who missed out!

My wife and I are very seriously considering buying a 23 Bolt EUV, but I was nervous about long road trips. I love that this video answered that question for me, even if I wasn't expecting it going in

@TheUnofficialMaker

Жыл бұрын

just wait till the batteries burn out...

Sark is a national treasure in the retro community!! He can fix just about ANY monitor you send his way too. Glad you got the Moonbase fixed!

@joey_after_midnight

Жыл бұрын

First I've heard of him.. seems like a brilliant guy. Hope he's got a channel.

@vhfgamer

Жыл бұрын

I always thought of Shango066 as the CRT god. Now it seems we have a new contender in the battlefield of phosphors.

@Deep_wolf

Жыл бұрын

Shark is great!

@AiOinc1

Жыл бұрын

@@vhfgamer Shango is definitely the more powerful man, I would say he rivals radiophonotvnut though.

@ForgottenMachines

Жыл бұрын

@@vhfgamer On KZread I suppose he would be, but in real life, Sark is far more accessible....if only because Sark comes to VCFMW and VCFEast, but Shangoo066 does not.

15:20 For the glair issue filming Moonbase, try throwing a polarizer on your camera and rotating the filter to reject the overhead light. Should look great!

@nimoy007

Жыл бұрын

Yep, you're referring to a CP (circular polarizer) filter.

@mycosys

Жыл бұрын

@@nimoy007 no, a CP doesnt need to be rotated, he is talking about a linear polarising filter.

@nimoy007

Жыл бұрын

@@mycosys Assuming that my comment is held for review since I posted a link... You should probably check the validity of your statement. CPs and LPs are almost the same thing, but for cameras, a CP is the correct way to go.

Kudos for traveling so far for your beloved retro tech hobby, interest and your website. Greetings from England David.

The sound of the keyboard and disk drive are satisfying, thank you!

My heart totally sank with the pop and hiss. What a trial that restoration has been! Glad you finally got one up and running though.

@Okurka.

Жыл бұрын

Those tubes are rare; of course he had to break one.

@BriBCG

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was rather disappointing.. I'm guessing by the looks of the screen that it's not fixable. But at least it was just from a knockoff.

@FTfilm

Жыл бұрын

@@Okurka. Maybe we should find every other rare thing you like and break it, just so you can talk some more sh*t ;)

finding out David has TWO Moonbase games was a great plot twist

@cleverhardy5230

Жыл бұрын

I mean, if you saw Adrian's video, he had two Moonbase analogue boards. Big fans might have already known.

@The8BitGuy

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I missed out on on opportunity to copy Technology Connections and say "through the magic of buying two..."

@joey_after_midnight

Жыл бұрын

@@cleverhardy5230 So he did it in the kitchen, with a toaster .. lol.. Ace Ventura ..tech detective

@jacksampson5615

Жыл бұрын

@@cleverhardy5230 hey. I am a big enough fan to know about the Dimebag Darrell connection, which will always be the ULTIMATE plot twist!

@Hotlog69

Жыл бұрын

@@joey_after_midnight "Ace Ventura ..tech detective" Say that five times fast!

Once again, awesome video (and soundtrack) and glad to see the one moon base machine was finally fixed! I felt so bad for you when you blew the tube by accident. That must have been heartbreaking after all the work you put into getting the running. Hopefully you've broken the curse by fixing that machine, so you'll have much better luck locating/replacing the parts. Keep up the great work and hope you've had an excellent summer so far!

That is amazing, a collection of all the KZreadr's in my subs list on that side of the pond!

Alec is legitimately an awesome creator, and he basically turned a one-off video about the CED selectavision into an entire documentary about the history of RCA Edit: misspelling

@Okurka.

Жыл бұрын

Yes, he surely milked it.

@DrDingsGaster

Жыл бұрын

@@Okurka. But it was a really good series though. I'm all for falling down rabbit holes like that, especially in video form and the way he talks about it keeps me engaged.

@machinedgod

Жыл бұрын

Still my fave from his channel, liked the documentary tone from his earlier videos much more than this newer, almost pure comedy-oriented thing.

@unlokia

Жыл бұрын

@@machinedgod he *thinks* he’s funny. He’s in error. He’s no comic and should stick to the original format. His “jokes” are contrived to say the least.

@Hepglon

Жыл бұрын

@@unlokia personally, I enjoy his comedy. To each their own though.

🤩Woohoo! My super-cute mini-ITX X16 made it into the video @8:05!

The Weather Channel thing was neat. I think you've mentioned it before, but I've always wondered what computers were behind some of the special text and graphics we've seen on TV in the old days.

Hey this is great, I was there and attended the panel. I also have Bolt EUV and the info on the roadtrip is useful. Thank you for adding that.

I feel your pain, on necking that CRT. I did that once in my repair days, in the 90's. Once. The black spot in the phosphor is most likely due to moisture in the air. When the neck broke, a "blob" of moist air got sucked into the CRT and smacked into the front of the screen, accelerated by the vacuum, making the phosphor darker. I saw Robin on Ben Heck's video on this same show but did not realize who he was. Cheers,

Stopping every two hours for a 15 to 20 minute break is actually a very good idea regardless of the type of fuel you use, especially if you're driving solo.

@JeffHokie

Жыл бұрын

no

@EnglishMike

Жыл бұрын

@@JeffHokie Yes.

I’m actually from Springfield, Missouri! Lived here for 24 years. Glad to hear you enjoyed your time here!

3:44 every so often a truck stop or gas station has some incredibly tasty food made by some local who gets chicken fresh off the farm and uses all local ingredients. Not sure if that's the case there, but I know when visiting a cousin in rural MO there's a little gas station with the best chicken tenders ever, along with some tasty homemade sauce.

@Sashazur

Жыл бұрын

There are two truck stops on I-5 in Oregon in the vicinity of Albany and Salem, which have excellent Indian food trucks. Apparently there are a lot of Sikh trucking companies on the west coast. These are also pretty much the only options for vegetarian food at truck stops unless you are happy with fries and toast!

@Hotlog69

Жыл бұрын

Where else can you "Kum & Go" but in a gas station? Good work on that LTT screwdriver review. Hope it's holding up for you.

Sorry to hear about the tube getting necked. On the last moonbase video I had similar fears of this happening every time I saw you remove/replace that CRT. A bit more painful to actually watch it happen. Glad to see that arcade come together, hopefully you can source a similar tube easily for the other one.

@joey_after_midnight

Жыл бұрын

It kind of felt like that last Scene in a Movie.. where you know its gonna happen.. but will the hero ultimately save the day?

@F40PH-2CAT

Жыл бұрын

He needs to contact Shango066.

Great video and TY for the content!! OMG I kind of felt sick myself when the tube broke! I'm just now starting to work on 5 of my 12 Commodore CRTs that each partially work. I will aways think of this when they are open, so TY for this cautionary tale and I'm sure many will take it to heart from now on.

Loved seeing your channel blow up over the years. Great content!

Hey 8-Bit Guy...THANKS for the Forgotten Machines table sighting in your video at 9:56! I'm seriously honored to make your video! It even made the video thumbnail! "TurboHonor" there, thank you!!! So glad you were there at VCFMW this year again!

My heart sank into my stomach when that tube lost vacuum! Glad you were able to salvage the project. Keep the videos coming!

Dude this ia an awesome video. Both a road trio and tech video enmeshed into one. I love all your videos and channel it's so nostalgic.

When you were talking about the arcade, the same thing is true about Funspot and arcade museum in NH. I've been a few times and games are slowly breaking down. It makes me sad because I genuinely liked playing some of them.

Big thanks to Sark. You're the man! Not a lot of people competent enough to trouble shoot things like that anymore.

10:18 gotta love all those Silicon Graphics machines lovely design and power in all of them

@mycosys

Жыл бұрын

you mean the 'just more unix' that wont run PETSCII robots?

@granitepenguin

Жыл бұрын

That power killed the circuit on Saturday. The whole section was dead for a while 🙂

I can't imagine having to stop at a gas station every 90 minutes for 30 minutes at a time. That road trip looked like torture.

@CrobinHood8BitGuy

Жыл бұрын

I agree, but i would accept it because electricity is so cheap when compared to gas

@jxchamb

Жыл бұрын

@@CrobinHood8BitGuy But you can't put a price tag on your time. I would have just flown there.

@sjdpfisvrj

Жыл бұрын

I used to have a Bolt, but exchanged it for a Ioniq 5. That one has 300 miles range, and it can charge for 0 to 80% in 20 minutes. Usually that comes down a quick 10 minute stop somewhere and you're back on the road.

@jxchamb

Жыл бұрын

@@sjdpfisvrj That sounds much better than 45 minute charges. But I don't think I could deal with the stress of hunting down electric chargers. They are very rare around me in Connecticut.

@espressomatic

Жыл бұрын

@@CrobinHood8BitGuy But any savings is wiped out when you have to pay for hotels for extra days of driving.

Thanks Dave for signing the picture of me and you. It was a great experience to see you in real life. I was working with the other Dave (who runs Dave's Retro Video Lab). You can see my channel at 10:59 as I put up a little flyer. I was there but I didn't get to see Technology Connections sadly.

@shinmalpure2397

Жыл бұрын

I was hyped on seeing you in the vid!

I wonder how many guys who were at VCF went over to the Sears HQ clear out sale. Literally hundreds of old PCs, servers, monitors, PVMs, BVMs, video gear and old tech of all kinds. The carts of goodies I was seeing being picked up on various facebook groups made me drool. Of all the years for me to not be able to go. Stupid Covid.

It always amazes me, the size of the US. I could roadtrip to anywhere in my country (Norway) with my EV (Honda E) within 24hrs. This roadtrip reminds me of when I drove my Honda to Netherland. Which is a few countries away from my own. It's as if the US wasn't a country at all but rather a union of a bunch of countries instead. AU American union 😅 or USA United states of America as it's known. Except every state speaks the same language and use the same currency. That alone is amazing. I bet a coast to coast EV roadtrip in a Bolt or my Honda E would be absolutely brutal.

@Roxor128

Жыл бұрын

European tourists get tripped up by the distances in Australia, too. I got the reverse effect when visiting Europe in 2016. The towns were so close together it had me wondering why they were even bothering with the distinctions. To my Aussie eye, "the next town over" is 30km away, not 3km. While I didn't make the comparison at the time, I think comparing it to a computer game would have been decently fitting. Game environments tend to have compressed distances, if only because it's boring to trek long distances. No game developer would put towns 30km apart unless they were giving the player a car that could go at 300km/h, yet we not only did that in real life, but we did it back in the days of horse-driven carriages when a 30km trip would take all day.

@Randarrradara

Жыл бұрын

its continent wide after all

@zata1197

Жыл бұрын

It’s definitely crazy to think about, a lot of our states dwarf most European countries, but yet if you hop the border in most states you aren’t really going to see a difference, I live on the border of two and we don’t even see it as different places usually, then you’ve got Europe with countries right beside one another having vastly different cultures and languages, it’s pretty wild

@noahleeman2715

Жыл бұрын

@@zata1197 yea most of the empty open space in the states are pretty much for the wildlife

@BattleBladeWarrior

Жыл бұрын

@@zata1197 Its true. even the populations dwarf other countries. All of Canada has a total population of around 36 million people. But I think I remember reading there's something like 30 to 40 million people just living in California or Florida.

3:53 "Kum & Go"

@fairyball3929

Жыл бұрын

Lol, but in all seriousness, please... no thx. 😂

@thomasbernard8922

Жыл бұрын

@@fairyball3929 makes you wonder what they selling

I love these kind of videos, makes me feel like we're all on a roadtrip. Good stuff :)

What a heartbreaker so close to the finish line! Physically hurt when I heard the break and hiss. At least you've got one up and running in fine order! Thanks for the mixed bag of a vid that was all tied together. Really enjoyed! As always, awesome job...

Awesome video, David! Awesome to see all the Retro computers & Arcades and such! Great to see your Moonbase arcade finally working!

@danek_hren

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for being here but comma must be in another place

Love these “outdoor” videos 😊 Would love to see more!

Nice video, and the description of your road trip is really interesting. Looking at the british computers you show, I haven't seen any Acorn Archimedes, the '90s computer for which ARM processors was developed.

super cool to see the retro computer stuff at VCF! galloping ghost does seem to be quite an amazing place, definitely impressed that they have just SO MANY games!! and yeah even with my extremely limited arcade tech knowledge even I had to cringe at the tube breaking, ouch! but cool to see moon base working again.

In august I did a cross country trip that was around 80% the width of the country, it was 3 days fo driving and I generally had to gas up twice each day, and I was really pushing it but my car has a fairly small tank so even with decent gass millage I was gassing up every 400 miles. Living out west there are plenty of place that would still be hard to just go out and roam outside of the larger population centers. But sticking to major roads I think most places are fine with EV's now, especially if you are on the top end of range.

@agoatmannameddesire8856

Жыл бұрын

I live out West too, the pro-tip for reaching rural places with EVs is RV camp sites. Plenty of places have 14-50 plugs (or 30-TTs) so you can L2 charge, just either spend a night here and there or see if you can charge during the day while out for a hike.

Thank you David. We always look forward to your videos. Lots of love from Canada

I love all your videos, but there's something about this one :) Thank you for all the great stuff you do!

I can't say I ever thought about how the phosphors on a CRT aren't permanently bonded to the glass somehow! To see them just blown away like that is interesting.

So unlucky you broke the CRT's tube but oh well, one sacrifice needed for victory. I'm so glad you picked up the Moon Base project and finished it as quickly as possible. Thanks for the guy who helped you, who knew it was the voltage.. Great video as always man, you really rock, so entertaining

my heart sank when I heard the sound of the vacuum being broken. I've actually done that before as well. Glad you had a second tube.

Thank you David and excellent adventure. Great drive and charging station location by you wife. Thank you both again for the awesome road trip.

Galloping Ghost rocks! We often do team outings there, it’s a blast. Yea, stuff is borked a lot but it’s as good as we get around here. Awesome seeing you at VCF!

@Okurka.

Жыл бұрын

It wouldn't be an 8-Bit Guy video without him complaining about something.

You handled breaking that tube well. I would have been sweeping it off the floor after I spiked it like a football in a fit of rage.

@SteveMorgan-qc1dv

Жыл бұрын

At least had a crying fit :).

@nickwallette6201

Жыл бұрын

My epilogue would not be suitable for a family show.

@Okurka.

Жыл бұрын

You get used to breaking stuff.

Thank you for showing us an avoidable mistake with the tube installation (you could have just left it out). When I make that kind of error I tend to “beat myself up” mentally about it thinking only I could do such a thing. Even worse, then one can be reluctant to start a repair / project in case a mistake could happen. By showing the error you let us know that, clearly, stuff happens to others too ... don’t worry about it, go ahead and do the repair / project even if a mistake could happen ... and I have. Thank you again, great video!

Great to see a 'community' among you guys, made me think of the old computer clubs BITD. The arcade machine made me think of the film, Drag me To Hell, the machine being the infamous button. I'd pass that machine on asap, its curse is wide :) Looking forward to the ISEPIC ep, never had one but saw many dumps from them..

I'm so excited to see the cx16 update. As I've been getting myself ready to make some serious games on the machine

It's like the middle of the night and this video was released 6 minutes ago, I'm now determined to watch this from start to end like all other video on this channel

@Vector_Ze

Жыл бұрын

Quarter to 9 (Central Time) is the "middle of the night"? Okay, I checked your channel. And, your accent explains it, heh.

Your sentiment about the Galloping Ghost is exactly how I feel about it. I love the place, but man I so badly wish I could work there as a tech and get a few of them working at least

Good seeing you at VCF this year! Can't wait for next year!!

Watch, the next game planned will be called "The VCF Trail" 😉 Cool stuff as always!

@Wythaneye

Жыл бұрын

"Stopped for sushi at the Kum and Go. You now have dysentery."

I love the road trip summary!!!!

Interesting seeing you pass through Springfield, IL as that's where I work! That Pizza Ranch is one of my favorites!

I didn't see the tube breaking coming, but once I saw it, I was in utter shock. I had to pause the video. I sat there in total disbelief with my face in my hand for literally two minutes. Then I started laughing uncontrollably and thinking to myself, if this could happen to anybody, of course it has to happen to David. I felt so bad for you David, but once you showed in the next scene that you had another unit with a working tube, I felt total relief. Thanks for showing this incident and not hiding it. It made for a great memorable video!

10:12 These two machines are not The Weather Channel machines, these are Prevue Channel's Amiga and TVGuide Channel's Windows NT based computers. TWC's stuff was (probably) on right/left side of the space.

@marcusdamberger

Жыл бұрын

You are correct, those are for Prevue Channel. I used to work for a cable company in the 90's when these were still being used, the Amiga based ones. Every so often the unit would lock up and you would see Guru Meditation flashing at the top with the scrolling text frozen, later versions just said Software Failure. The video would continue since that came from a satellite feed. As an aside, the top half of the screen was available at certain times for local advertising to be displayed. I would make those graphics to fit the top half of the screen as well as work within the limited 32 color pallet. You would save that to a 3.5" floppy along with other adverts and I would have one of the managers take the floppy to the head end the following morning and he would exchange them. It was kinda neat to see the graphic you made show up on the TV knowing others were seeing that too. You would also start to realize where you could blend colors and manually dither to give a better quality gradient or transition (within the limited pallet) when displayed in video versus on a RGB computer monitor. i.e. fudge it a little. I don't think I saved those pics to a disk I took home unfortunately. I do have my own old Amiga in a closet. It would be cool to pull up those graphic images I worked on back in the 90's. But I guess they are now all lost..

@jessecar96

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusdamberger Is it a prevue channel Amiga that you still have? If you still have any floppy disks from that time I would be very interested in archiving them for you.

you could always gut the other table keep all the stuff for spare parts, then take the table and convert it to another game with a color and or vector display.

@joey_after_midnight

Жыл бұрын

Not exactly David's style.. a QLED conversion would be fun.. but he's more likely to get ElecTex to blow him a new Glass CRT.

@Me-xk1gd

Жыл бұрын

Make a Petscii Robots cocktail table. ; )

@absalomdraconis

Жыл бұрын

​@@joey_after_midnight : More likely than that is to just buy an interchangeable replacement. The hardest part will be the research, likely followed by finding a listing specific enough to confirm anything.

@absalomdraconis

Жыл бұрын

​@@Me-xk1gd : Nice though that might be, I think that building a custom one for his screen choice would be even better, and a counter-top machine would probably be better yet.

@Okurka.

Жыл бұрын

He can always sell it to Galloping Ghost to place it next to their other non-working games for KZreadrs to moan about.

Goosebumps!! Awsome video!! All the goats in one panel !! Freaking awesome!!

Cool. You guys stopped in Joplin, not far from Pittsburg KS. Which is where I am. Can't say I am much for these EV cars yet, but glad you guys had a great trip. I still have my Commodore 128D, and it still works!

Stopping every hour or two to charge.. sounds like torture. I think that’d get real old real fast.

I was afraid it going to happen ever since the very shot of the tube reinstall process, it looked very easy to make a mistake and break the tube. Something similar happened to me a while back. The things are damn fragile. As for the arcades that really needs maintenance and is in a bad shape on display, I was involved with a local arcade museum, and they had and still have the same issue for years. Just not enough talented and enthusiastic electronics engineers to support all the stuff. They have a much lower entry fee, tho.

@marcusdamberger

Жыл бұрын

Does someone not at least walk through the building every so often and then shut off those machines that are obviously having some kind of issue that makes them unplayable? Also, do they turn them off nightly, or just leave them on 24hrs a day? I looked up the hours, and on weekdays they are open tell midnight and 2am on weekends from 11am that morning on all days. That's between 9 and 11 hours a day of no use that the CRT's are getting further burned in and hours on the tubes and a ton of electricity is being used with no revenue coming in. Probably why it's $25 or twice what other arcades are charging. The question is, is it better to leave everything on 24hrs a day, or save the electricity and tubes some hours and turn them off at night? I suspect they keep everything on 24hrs a day. Less chance of components burning out or dying on power up when the most stress happens on the electronics. But man, that electric bill must be huge, nothing is "Energy Star" compliant or has "power saver" mode built in.

@eDoc2020

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusdamberger It's better to turn them off at night because the powerup stress on the electronics is minimal. The things most affected are marquee lamps and other lights but, like other light bulbs, these are made to be replaced.

Great tour, thanks :). Was nice to see the PDP/8 there.

Longtime 8-Bit Guy fans remember when they used to have the BMW i3 REx. These road trips always show us some interesting, though 😆

9:06 We finally get to see Robin's face!

Crazy to see one of my favorite KZreadrs stopping in my hometown on a road trip! Glad to see that everything went well with Moonbase.

Thanks Dave, Outstanding video. Really enjoyed it.

I love you so much, you calculate and thinking everything as me so you answer my all wondering questions. I love y'all!

Curious about the trip. What did it cost you to charge and recharge your car vs what it would have cost via gas powered

I can imagine that road tripping in a bolt is a much bigger challenge than doing it in a Tesla.

@Okurka.

Жыл бұрын

Or any ICE car.

Thanks for the shoutout to Pizza Ranch! I grew up in Northwest Iowa where it originates.

the protogen head at Dave's booth caught me so off guard

cant wait for the solar upgrade, hoping it works great for you

There is another very large arcade in New Hampshire called Funspot. If David is ever in New England I hope he checks it out. Also, for retro telephones and radios, other communication tech, there's a museum for that stuff in Connecticut, just north of Hartford, which I discovered while at the Retro World Expo this August.

@eDoc2020

Жыл бұрын

I think Funspot is the name for the entire location. It appears the arcade itself is called the American Classic Arcade Museum

Cool video, interesting for the Bolt doing that trip! Looks like the recalled batteries are working ok lol. Never seen that room so full of people, thats really great. Dam that machine is really cursed lol

That weekend was a really fun outing. Loved meeting all the KZreadrs who partook in the panel and then some. Bummed that I kind of missed out of a chance to meet Technology Connections, but I can't help trying to work around an unplanned fly-by. Oh, parking sucked at the venue, too.

Loved the EV road trip breakdown at the beginning. I drive a Nissan Leaf myself with a miniscule battery compared to the Bolt. Obviously couldn't do a road trip like that, but I find the planning process both stressful, fulfilling, and relaxing. Doesn't really make sense, but it always works out!