Somewhere Perifractic woke up in a cold sweat hearing that song

@JohnSmith-xq1pz

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 probably

@keithmichael112

Жыл бұрын

in a world of everchanging views and computer terminology? those are some lyrics

"Together we're keeping vintage computers out of landfills, one by one, whether they like it or not!" - Best tagline ever!

@Thatonefuckinguy

Жыл бұрын

I love seeing a bunch of old computers coming to life like this. Getting to see how they once functioned, I never got to grow up with this stuff, so it's always a new and exciting experience for me. One men's trash is another man's treasure.

@TheUtuber999

Жыл бұрын

When he said that I had to look again to make sure rubbish and filth wasn't strewn about the breadbin he had in his hands.

One nitpick: you can't "recap" the power supply. Commodore, in their wisdom, poured epoxy into the power brick, encasing the voltage regulator. It's that regulator that fails, and dumps up to 10V onto the 5V line.

@JamesPotts

Жыл бұрын

If you manage to get the inner "brick" of epoxy out of the outer "brick", you can chip the regulator out and replace it, but it's a serious pain. The regulator dissipates around 8W, so it could really use a heat sink and airflow.

A nice series of tidbits: 1. The LCA standard is actually a less fortunate relative of S-Video. The inherent mechanism is the same: while S-Video carries Chrominance and Luminance, LCA carries Luma, Chroma and Mono Audio, but instead in a single din it uses three CVBS connectors. It's hence better and worse than S-Video proper at the same time: better because S-Video could never carry audio, worse because you had to make do with three connectors. A Commodore 64 can also output Composite video, but not Component or RGB, and the earlier units could do just composite. You can turn LCA into S-Video Proper adding a resistor on Chroma, because of different values 2. The 1702 is actually a rebranded, rebadged JVC unit, and the back is made with the same mold of the Japanese TV-set of the era, hence the LCA cubhole resembling an antenna recess 3. You're right, the original PSU weren't made to last. They carry 5VDC and 9VAC, and the 5V rail has a cheap regulator that after a decade, give or take, gives up the ghost and starts flooding the 5V rail with up to 12V, frying everything. However, you were kind of wrong about recapping and fixing it. Kind of. The early PSU could be opened up, and you could reach the voltage regulator, or even take the 5V part away and put a fresh one. The one you had was potted in epoxy to appease the FCC wanting something sturdy and unable to catch fire. The only reasonable thing to do then is a complete "rebrick", that means smashing the brick over and over until the epoxied innars get out and use the hollow shell to turn a decent PSU into a "sleeper" with the same looks of the original. However, I'm using the earlier version of your Poland PSU, without any soul-swapping shenigans 4. There's a cartdrige, the Ultimate II+, giving complete Ethernet, tape, cart and disk emu. However, it wasn't available for a long time and soon it will be again 5. Commodore 64 joystick have *usually* just a single button, often mirrored for southpaws and people who liked more different button arrangement. Later in the C64 era, along with the very unfortunate 64GS (a keyboardless unit sold as a competitor with the Master System II and the Toploader NES) came the Cheetah, a joystick using the paddle lines to add a second fire button. Only a bunch of games, and mostly modern ones use both buttons though, and the Cheetah were known to break just by looking at them. A modern built joystick, the ArcadeR, has the Cheetah button arrangement in the shell of the Competition Pro, one of the sturdiest sticks of old

I loved the enthusiasm with which you dived into the Commodore 64 in this video! If I may... One thing I was wanting to suggest throughout is that you consider getting a Pi1541 next. The 1541 Disk Drive is *THE* peripheral to have for the authentic C64 experience, and the Pi1541 is cycle-exact emulation of the same... it will therefore interact with any/all speeder cartridges written for the original drive, and run G64 disk images with copy-protected retail software and/or custom software fast-loading solutions that rely on interacting with the drive's internal computer. You can download a massive collection of original retail disk images in the C64 Preservation Project's 10th Anniversary Collection on the Internet Archive. Your Kung Fu Flash would then be used to emulate your speeder/freezer cartridge of choice to significantly accelerate the drive (such as the ubiquitous Epyx Fastload, or The Final Cartridge III). On that note... 21:30 - THE SD2IEC IS *NOT* A FLOPPY DRIVE EMULATOR, as prominently stated on the official homepage for its firmware, in spite of what some merchants are still (unscrupulously, in my opinion) confusingly claiming in their product listings! The SD2IEC is a mass storage device that can mount D64/D71/D81 virtual disk images. It does not emulate a 1541 disk drive, which is a full-fledged computer in its own right. It works only with those fast-loader cartridges that it has been specifically programmed to detect and support. I appreciate my SD2IEC as a secondary mass-storage device (like the CMD hard drive we all wanted back in the day), but my primary device for disk images is a Pi1541 -- because they all just work. Since the Kung Fu Flash can also now load D64s and such, I would strongly recommend doing a deep investigation into what extra desired functionality an SD2IEC would actually bring you before investing in one. Either way, have loads of fun exploring the best computer EVER! 😎 -- JC

@epremeaux

Жыл бұрын

from what I remember, the SD2IEC can only write to disk using standard disk routines because as you say, its not a total emulator. So, that makes game saves difficult on many games (have to make a save disk yourself, and do some clunky disk swapping at just the right moment) and on games that use copy protection, may not be possible at all. Another reason for the Pi1541.

Man...that takes me back. Born in '70, was a Commodore user from '82 to '93. VIC20, C64, C128, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200...wish I had 'em all still.

@CastleKnight7

Жыл бұрын

Same generation. Atari VCS 2600, Sinclair ZX81, Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k, Atari 520ST. Good times indeed.

@easyerthanyouthink

Жыл бұрын

Yep c64,apple 2,ibm compat 8088, a500 then 486 then all in the bin books mags disks hardware etc good times.

I grew up in a family that didn't get a non-6502 computer until 1997. We had a commodore 64 until 95 and then we were given an apple iic. And I'm only 34 years old and I didn't use Windows or dos until 1997

I was lucky enough to be born in the early 1960s, so I had computers since the late 70s. It was the C64 though and eventually the Amiga that got me into software development for a living. You may remember "Imagine 3D" ray tracer on the Amiga, other than some shareware I developed in the 80s, that was the first commercial software I worked on. It is all in assembly and C, then eventually when we ported it to the PC we used C++. The 80s and 90s was where it all began, and the Amiga was 8+ years ahead of the PC (and the Mac). Great times, and back then there was no outsourcing. We made really good money, more than they make today to be honest (due to cheap outsourced labor).

I was born in '82, and we actually had one C64 in my elementary school. We used it to play games like Hangman, and Battleship. Fun times.

@DoubleSupercool

Жыл бұрын

Was it on a special table and did it have a fabric cover made by one of the mums? "On Tuesday, we will use The Computer". That kind of thing :)

@TheUtuber999

Жыл бұрын

@@DoubleSupercool I had completely forgotten that I had a vinyl cover for my breadbin back in the day.

Cool to see you messing with the c64, here's some info from a rather avid64 user: 1. You'll find some games require that you press the spacebar to perform secondary actions, you can however emulate this by pressing fire in port one. This means you can have another joystick on the floor and click it's fire button with your foot, make an adapter for a two-button amiga stick to plug it's fire 2 line into port 1 on the c64, or you can just build a three-button stick using modern arcade parts. FWIW: The zipstick is my favourite joystick, although you may need to clean or replace the micro switches, as they're getting on 40 years old. 2. The 1541 disk drive is a whole computer in of itself, and some games rely on sending low-level commands directly to the drive's memory and thus will only work on a real 1541 or cycle-accurate emulator such as the pi1541 or Ultimate II cartridge. Devices such as the kung fu flash only work with games that use standard kernal vectors to load, while the sd2iec is kind of partly compatible with some low-level commands. Searching for software that is specifically compatible with the IDE64 or SD2iec may yield better results. CSDB is great for finding warez 3. Most c64 software is optimized for pal machines, so you may want to look for "NTSC Fixed" games if you want them to run with the music at the right speed. A lot of the time PAL software straight up won't run because of timing issues. 4. Disk Drives are slow. You can speed them up in a few ways. the first is a "fast loader" cartridge such as the ubiquitous Epxy Fastload, the WarpSpeed and the Action Replay, the latter two also have extra dos commands and a machine language monitor. The Final Cartridge III however is generally considered to be the best fastloader cart due to it's very speedy fast loader and extra features. Disk Drives can also be sped up by replacing the drive and the computer's kernal with something like jiffydos which is often more compatible and faster than cartridge-based speeders (but not always). There are also Parallel based speeders like dolphin dos but they require much more extensive modification of the drive. Your breadbin likely has a socketed IC so you can just swap in a jiffydos rom but if it isnt then there are always kernal cartridges. Your kung fu flash can emulate the Final Cartridge III+ So you probably ought to go with that. 5. Last but certainly not least, here are some great games I'd recommend you try out (in no particular order): 1. Enforcer 2. Cybernoid 1 and 2 3. Golden Axe 5. Turrican 1 and 2 6. Creatures 1 and 2 7. Mayhem in Monsterland 8. Afterburner (Make sure it's the USA version, The other port that we got in Europe sucks) 9. Commando Arcade (Enhanced ROM hack of Commando) 10. Gryzor (Aka Contra, You really want a two-button stick for this one) 11. Great Giana Sisters 12. Phobia 13. Prince of Persia 14. Arkanoid 2 15. Shadow of the beast. Some of these games have easyflash conversions which can be found on csdb. These will run perfectly on the Kung Fu Flash. I'm sure others will chime in in the comments to mention games I've forgotten about. One thing I forgot to mention earlier: Get some heatsinks on the chips and remove the cardboard rf shields. C64s are known to run hot and nasty, especially breadbins like yours :)

This was a great video, as always! And thank you SO MUCH for the shout-out! :)

Adrian Black is already behind that tree watching and waiting to add another few items to his collection, while Jan Beta is on European shores and can't reach you...🤣🤣🤣

The fact you have the front panel on that 1702 is a little bit amazing... That being said, if you REALLY want to get the 8 bit experience, you need to load some software off of that 1541, or even worse, the datasette, and experience the wait times.

@charliekahn4205

Жыл бұрын

Or get a cart which runs the 1541 more quickly, because they made a few of those.

@kingtom

Жыл бұрын

yep there is nothing quite like recording the WAV files of your favorite C64 games to a tape on your HiFi and then attempting to get the Datasette to run it after five attempts BUT ONCE THE GAME IS LOADED it really is something else

@userperson5259

Жыл бұрын

Yes and the Commodore "Datasette" drives are still working mostly. Atari cassette drives - 410s and 1010s are almost universally dead these days (or badly in need of repair anyway).

@BG101UK

Жыл бұрын

I agree 100%. It isn't a true C64 experience without loading stuff from disk (or back in the early days, from the Dataseete for many of us on the Eastern side of the Pond. I was certainly glad of the 1541 when I bought it .. and the Action Replay).

@coryhammer9566

Жыл бұрын

This is only the European true C64 experience. Most of us in the US never had a datacassette, only disk drives. But those were plenty slow enough. Use the Fast Load cart on the Kung Fu Flash in combo with the 1541 if you want the drive experience but get some of your life back from the wait times.

I feel like an SD2IEC is the better option. It was such a surprise to see you with a Commodore! I have so many great memories with the C64, I hope you love it.

@CommodoreFan64

Жыл бұрын

If you just want to play some games, or access some old data you made in GeoWrite then the Kung Fu flash is a good way to go, but I setup my childhood C128 up a while back after a recap(thankfully I did not have to replace any chips)with a new PSU, and SD2IEC on my 27in Panasonic CRT, and I've had no issues with it just playing old games from time to time, but having the cart port free more stuff If I ever want to do it, is nice, so agree the SD2IEC is the way to go.

@maxxdahl6062

10 ай бұрын

pi1541 is supposed to be better, and more accurate from what I hear.

At 5:48, everyone has told you something somewhat incorrectly. Most of the C64 PSU's are encased in epoxy so there's no getting to the internals of them to re-cap them. Yes, there are in some markets "hollow" PSUs but that's not the norm.

It is not the caps in the original power supplies that cause the failure, it is the 5 volt regulator, they fail and can put upwards of 9 volts through the 5 volt line. The problem is that Commodore encases all the parts of the power supplies in an epoxy brick, so you cannot get to them easily. It is not a matter of recapping. It is ALWAYS better to get a modern PSU for anything Commodore.

RetroRecipes said "HELLO!" to the ISS with the Commodore64 😏

I like your monitor stand; it's well built using old style dove-tail joints and cement, just like they used to build them, 40+ years ago, same age from C64.Good old carpentry

Next you'll have to Mod the 64 and drive. C64>>>>>Reset...........1541>>>>Reset,>>>>Pin the drive,>>>>>drive ID # just to mention a few mods

To me the best add on for the C64 is the Ultimate II+ cartridge. Full Disk Drive emulation, USB storage, ethernet, fast load/freeze cartridges run from within, and more. One issue here in NTSC land is a lot of software was made for PAL machines and some of the titles were not fixed for NTSC. Also, many old demos rely on PAL speed timing so they don't look right or even crash on NTSC machines. This is why I also purchased an Ultimate 64 which is an FPGA implementation of Commodore 64 and has the same form factor as the commodore motherboard, so you can swap it out and use your existing keyboard. It also has all the Ultimate II+ features along with HDMI out and a wifi chip on board which will be implemented in the future.

@sanjyuu7616

14 күн бұрын

Fixing games for NTSC is not always easy or feasible, PAL C64 required less computing power to generate 50 frames than NTSC with 60 frames. Sam's Journey requires REU on NTSC machine because CPU alone is no longer fast enough to move all data in RAM. Region standards... Luckily we no longer have to worry about them that much.

My first computer experiences were the Apple II in the late 1970s during elementary school and my first personally owned computer was the Commodore 64 I received Christmas 1983. I'm happy to see you join the world of Commodore 🙂

@JamesPotts

Жыл бұрын

I had the same elementary school apple experience, but wound up an Apple II snob, finally getting a IIe in 7th grade. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized how good the C64 was. Except for the lack of 80 columns, I still get snobby about that. ;) I picked up a C64c for my son to play with, and he loves it.

@geekwithsocialskills

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesPotts Nice! BITD Apple II computers were super expensive, which is how I ened up with a C64. As Jack Tramiel said in the 1980's "We need to build computers (C64) for the masses, not the classes (Apple II)" 🙂

@JamesPotts

Жыл бұрын

@@geekwithsocialskills agreed! My grandparents had given the grandkids some "college money" to invest. I lobbied my parents that a computer would be a better college investment, and with a teacher discount, I was able to get the IIe. Never could have otherwise. (Going on 30 years now as a software engineer, I think that "investment" paid off.)

@geekwithsocialskills

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesPotts I received my C64 as a Christmas present from my grandparents. They were awesome! Like you, my early computer experience got me into my life long field of work in IT, also 30+ years. We have a very similar path.

the editing in this video is awesome with the seemeless pop-in cuts, well done!

It took me 50 years to get online with the C64. I got an Ultimate 2+L cartridge and that changed EVERYTHING ! Holy shit, that is a cool piece of hardware - highly recommended !!

Love getting new videos from you every week. Always look forward to see what new thing you’ve come across.

You can already run Contiki with your NIC with your current setup, just plug in that 1541 disk drive, load a copy program and copy over Contiki onto a real 5.25" disk and load it from there!.. careful not to use HD disks, they don't work reliably on C= hardware!

I was a kid in the early '80's and the Commodore 64 was my real start with computers and gaming as a hobby. Living through it was fun. The C64 did things not even the original creators of the hardware thought was possible. Things like graphics being used in clever ways to do things 'technically' not possible. Or the SID chip creating sounds with clever programming. The C64 Scene still exists, with regular new releases and demos. I got the C64 Maxi, and it actually holds up pretty well to the original, considering it's running under emulation, but it feels a similar enough experience to get my nostalgia trip on.

I was born in july 81, but by late 83 my family got a Vic-20 as our first computer then by late 85 my dad traded in the VIC-20 for a C64 at local computer shop opting to keep the disk drive which was compatible, and I used a C64, and later C128 I got from my uncle who ran a Commodore users group(got lots of software back in the day that way as well), well into the very early 90's along side my Apple IIe I got from another one of my uncles, so I got a very early start in the 8-bit micro computer, and I still have my recapped C128(new PSU of course), and an SD2IEC I use to play games on from time to time on 27in Panasonic CRT in composite, and it still looks really good to me. So it's really good to see you keeping this C64 alive, and giving it a new home 👍

I was an Atari guy but I loved this. There is something so wonderful, nostalgic, and strangely comforting about 8 bit computers, 40 column displays, and BBSes. This inspired me to finally go get the Fujinet for my Atari 8-bits and spend some time with them.

9:44 That's a druaga1 reference :D

Fantastic video! I love the extra touches like with the C64 ad

Nice one Sean, I’ve been looking forward to this video. Great job.

Vintage Commodore 64 usage in modern day, step 1: Replace power supply immediately, without even using it. Modern new power supplies solve some issues that plague the original ones. Using an original C64 power supply will put you at extreme risk of short circuiting your chips, as the PSUs often bridge different voltages on the pins, resulting in too much going to some chips, killing them. Never use an original C64 PSU, and instead immediately throw it away and purchase a new modern one.

Just a wonderful channel. Your cadence works as well at 2x as it does 1x. Great intro, I enjoy all the extra humor and effort.

It's funny. The first computer my family had when I was a kid was a... well, a Commodore. I never considered my childhood to be all that special, but every time someone geeks out about some retro gadget, I usually say, "Oh yeah, I had that."

Nice setup! Enjoy the ton of games for it. Thanks for sharing. Now all you need is a Commodore PET

Very interesting to hear your perspective on being in the retro scene but missing 8-bit era. Loved this video and really interested to explore Contiki.

I love the Commodore theme song😂 My dad had/has a Commodor64 I remember playing Atari games on it😆 The monitor brings back the most memories. When I was around 12 around 2001/2 when I was just starting to tinker around with my own pc parts I would get from garage/yard sales. I wasn't allowed to have a TV in my room, but that didn't stop me from finding a VCR with a TV tuner at a garage sale and using my dad's old Commodore monitor as the screen using the yellow/white AV inputs. 😂

I was 9yrs old when we got our C64 in 1986. After adding a modem the following year, I was spending quite a bit of time on BBSs and other early online services. Downloading compressed C64 disk images using the x/y/zmodem protocol was creating software out of thin air. Since you have that sweet s-video monitor for it, you probably won't need the component video upgrade card. SD2IEC works fine for most software, but it isn't 100% compatible. It won't run most demos or games with copy protection or custom loaders. Building a Pi1541 is a more compatible alternative. The C64 was such a capable computer, I never needed a 16bit system. I went straight from it to my first PC, a 486SX in 1992.

you're 80's straight to video schlock horror bit was genuinely amazing 10/10

TY for this Commodore content!! I just found your channel and subscribed to your channel.

Loved the way you described the wonder of "what came before". Sure, I played a few C64 games in cllassmastes' homes, but my own first computer came after I got a job and it was a P90. What came before has always interested me, - that's why i subscribe to your crazy channel :)

Back in the mid 80s, I worked a paper route two days a week at age 12 to be able to buy a C64 after about 12 months of "hard labour"... Totally worth it though. Set the direction for the rest of my life and represents a love that has stayed with me even since.

I still have all my C-64 stuff, which unfortunately stopped using by the mid 1990's so that I could focus on PC's for school & work. However, I did use my C-64 setup at my university dorm for college homework, mainly for typing up & printing out papers. Everything is in boxes for now. That includes 3 computers, peripherals, disks, printouts, books, mags, etc. Two of my C64 machines are broken so I will have to figure those out. I also have a CPU booster which runs my C-64 at 4 times the speed, so that makes some games fly, as well as made my GEOS64 fly. I also even made my own computer power supply back then, around 1989-90, which I still have & still works. But if you still have the original black bricks, those could be safely used a little bit more by placing a PC CPU fan on top of it, facing down. Heat is the primary culprit of destroying these C64 bricks, so moving wind towards it removes that heat much faster than just through normal thermal radiation. You could even add some metal fins on it too, along with a fan. Think how todays PC CPU's (since the 80486) are cooled with heatsink+fan.

Great video :) I have two C64 in my live stream setup, one is rendering chat (its connected to the internet) the other one is connected to the music system and plays music as a synth through midi. :)

I love this! C64 is my childhood computer, and I still have it, even though it was owned by other people in the late 1990s, and then I got it back when I wanted to buy a C64 again -- I was surprised to see that it was indeed my own original C64 that I got. :D Now I have been feeling nostalgic lately, I'm setting it up again, but I don't trust the PSU anymore, I just bought a new one thanks to this video. And I had no idea that C64 can go online and support a mouse! Wow! I bought a small 15" LCD 4:3 TV for this, it was not easy to find because they're like 20 years old and hard to come by. LCD is not as nostalgic, but it's a lot thinner and lighter physically. 16:9 (usually newer) displays are totally unsuitable for those retro gadgets, even though many of them support forced 4:3, but then the actual TV size is unappealing. Somehow the old vintage computers are more fun, the old games are fun if they're cracked+trained, otherwise they're usually incredibly hard to play/pass if you're not a hardcore gamer. New technology feels boring and sometimes even scary. The old stuff from 1980's and even 1990's feels really good to fiddle with.

Fantastic Video !!, As a former Commodore Dealer, & User it warms my Heart ... To see I am not the only one still fiddling with this ancient Equipment, As was always said most Hardware never sees it limits, before its made "redundant" ..

AOL PROGGIES! FateX, Magenta and AOAcid were goated!

Commodore's theme song during the VIC-20 and C64 era was Bach's Invention #13, BWV 748. That "keeping up" nonsense was from an Australian advert campaign. Commodore was a bonafide international company with autonomous marketing arms in each of the markets in which it operated. You may get more milage out of the 1351 mouse -- which was no slouch in performance! -- in joystick mode for games. Hold down the right mouse button during power up. And never ever insert or detach anything from the C64 while it's on, even joysticks and the mouse. The CIA chips will thank you. I recommend a 1541 Ultimate as a disk replacement solution. It can run in two modes -- direct over the serial bus with full drive emulation (for software that talked the 1541's CPU) and shifting data over the cartridge port. The card can be self powered with USB, freeing up the cartridge port. Have fun! This was a great time in computing history.

My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A, the one you could daisy-chain lots of peripherals on the right. I never had any, but dreamt of them. And the tape-machine I kept my BASIC programs on was the one I listened to educational tapes and music on. So when you find a TI99 at the flea-market with all its peripherals…😃⌨️📺

Dude that trackball was a ultra baller accessory back in the day. From memory it was $75 in the early 80s. If my memory is right that would make it $230 in todays money.

I grew up with the C64 and have used it till last year when it died. Its so cool to see new software still being made and released for it almost 40 years later. The C64 will live forever!

As a Commodore 64 person from back in the day. Respect that you didn't use the brick of death but upgraded to a really nice modern power supply.

I find it easier to collect 8-bit microcomputers than 80s and 90s PC compatibles! There's a few listings for c64s in my area but almost no 486es and the like. Maybe because people just throw those in the trash instead of selling them...

@dmacpher

Жыл бұрын

Lots of them are being scooped up for DOS gaming boxes as it was a bit of a “golden era” and the Millenials that want them are of the right age.

LOL. I blew that fuse multiple times as a kid using a paperclip in the cart slot on 2 pins that activated a freeze state in games, like the old Action Replay carts. Hit the wrong 2 though, and you got a small zap, but you were saved because that fuse blew. Easy to replace too, even as a kid.

Yes the 80’s computing era was awesome. Computers had personality and were fun. Now everything is a commodity. I just recapped my retro VICMODEM. You missed the age of BBS’es too.

Also, thanks for the video. I am currently in the middle of building my own C64 from new/rescue chips and seeing all of this is only fueling my c64 fire. Thank you!

Omg. 😂 The commodore commercial! Love the guitar playing that you added 🤣

At 7:56, "that's a little tedious" (using the 1541 disk drive). That in essence is at the core of what using a C=64 back in the day was all about.

@18:47 as its your wifi LOCAL name, no one on the internet can find out you connection becuase thats only showen to your INTRANET (yes intranet not internet) witch can only be seen by anyone in range of your wifi and those who have connected it, no one on the internet will be able to tell what your modem name is since it doesnt need to tell any one, and no machine will ever require it (from the internet)

I grew up on Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64 with tape drive and then disk drive... ah, so fun... the memories... still have it in storage..

At this point. The urge to re-download Amiga Forever and C64 Forever is strong thanks to this Video (I own the license for Version 7 of both and have the ISOs backed up to my Google Drive and SkyDrive)

Ha, awesome! Didn't expect to see my first post to Particles on Action Retro!

My cousin and I used to dial in to each other’s PC just to play StarCraft without having to deal with server lag etc. it was so much better with direct connection than going through Gamespy, just with the downside of only two human players.

I'm glad I'm old enough to remember having a ZX Spectrum and a C64, but man, I wouldn't want to go back.

so the horrific theme song was what we Aussies were subjected to on our commercial TV channels 😉

We had a Commodore 64 until 1994! even had it alongside a 386 PC for a while... and an Amiga. So a few of my younger years were playing on the C64, it was surprisingly long lived in Europe but the Amiga did start to really replace it in those early 90s days.

Although I never had a C64 myself, always loved the Commodore 8-bits (did have a couple of other 8-bits from the Commodore stable). I used to love bonkers games like those from Jeff Minter/Llamasoft… just remembering the names, like 'Revenge of the Mutant Camels' bring a smile 😊

I'm from a similar era of growing up, but my first computers I got and used to learn programming with were a past its prime Apple IIGS fully loaded and a Mac IIci fully loaded also past its prime. I also built my own 386 and 486 machines using working parts from storage/old machines at my dad's business; but I still preferred Assembly/C programming with the IIGS and IIci. Eventually I moved on, but I still use both of them to do fun projects from time to time.

I remember having an Apple 2e when a friend got a C64. That was an impressive machine at the time. And so much software for it. Good times.

This is your best bit so far I love them. Never stop. White-board guy needs a character arc.

@soknightsam

Жыл бұрын

I envision a Council of Ricks sort of scenario

@DimNussens

Жыл бұрын

@@soknightsam Yes. Yes! This is what we need. The Action Retro Council of Clones!

@minty_Joe

Жыл бұрын

Satanic white board guy. I like it! Make his eyes glow laser red, like something out of Stephen King's IT (1990).

Your not right dude, That's what makes your channel one of the best on the internet. I still use my commodore 64 and my 128, I paid a lot of Money for those computers, getting my moneys worth out of them, My very first computer was a Vector Graphics cp/m machine from 1978, Great channel, keep up the good work

My first computer was a TI-99/4A and how I dreamt of getting those daisy-chain-able peripherals and the external box for expansion cards and all that good stuff. Never even got a game cartridge though. But I did learn to program in BASIC, which of course led me to learn FORTRAN in college. Totally normal coputing! 😂

My recommendation is for a carteidge port extender to allow you to plug in multiple cartridges and switch between them with much less risk of blowing a fuse. And less wear and tear on your carteidge port.

Just happned to bump into this channel. Brings back memories with My decked out 64 with 2 1541's printer, modem, ram expansion pack, etc. My dad went full out. Still have it all including 1000 disks LOL....

Put a drop of water under each suction cup. That will make force the air out from under them and make them stick to the table.

First 10 seconds was like where’s the disk drive?? Then when you shown that cartridge with Sd. Then the Kungfu flash omg that’s epic!!

If you do get an eprom programmer for your 64nic, please make a tutorial for how you do the programming. The info online is severely lacking.

Congrats on getting into 8 bit computing. The C64 is probably the best choice all-round (I am not saying that just because it was my first computer) simply because the games library is larger than pretty much any of its competitors and it is very well supported in terms of modern replacement parts/add ons. Now you have the 8 bit computing covered, you are just missing the 'in between' step which happened for most people (at least in Europe) before PC's and Mac's took over. That is the world of 16 bit computers. If you can, I would suggest sticking with the Commodore brand and look towards an Amiga (A500 and A1200 tend to be the best supported models in the range). The good news is that you can re-use several of the things you already have like the mouse and the monitor from this rig. The bad news is that the cost of original hardware is not cheap for these computers and it goes up all the time. Also a lot of Amiga's suffer from low quality capacitors expiring so being handy with a soldering iron could be a good thing.

Awesome. I still have my c64 and it still works. You might want to get an epyx fast load cartridge to use with that 1541 as they are very slow loading software without it. It also adds a dos wedge that makes disk commands easier to use. Good luck finding 5.25 inch floppies. Maybe the kung fu and sd2iec will be enough. Please note that any disk with copy protection will have problems loading from an sd2iec device. A pi1541 with a fast load solution will allow commercial disk images and disks with copy protection to work properly. The copy protection can be quite a bear. Although, back in the day we had “tools” to circumvent it by making copies anyway using nibblers and advanced parameter copy utilities. Some of those only worked with a ram upgrade to the 1541 itself as it has its own 6502 cpu and ram. It is a computer in its own right.

The "Ultimate Commodore 64"? That would be my present build here. It's a breadbin. (The C64-C cannot qualify) Made in England case that is VERY light color. Mechboard64 but I swapped to Cherry MX blue switches. Early C64-C white keycaps with the front print. Red / Blue IRQ activity LED. Stereo two in one vacuum valve headphone pre-amp. Yes, the FU32 vacuum valve sits atop the breadbin case. SIDFX. VICII2. 4 Kernal ROM switching incl JiffyDOS. Orange VIC20 Function keycaps. 4 paddle controller potentiometers. OLED Audio Spectrum analyzer. RF Modulator replacement. 556 dual 555 timer IC RESET SW. Recapped. The 1541 is an Alps unit Track display. Device ID switches. Switch Mode PS. JiffyDOS / DolphinDOS switchable. RAMBOard. Parallel port burst nibbler to 15 pin Game port socket. reset switch. So far: the Datasette is stock, newly rebuilt with new rubbers, cleaned, lubed. 1541UII+ w/ datasette card Turbo Chameleon V2 but I didn't have money for the RRNET card or any peripherals for it yet. I did put the battery in. Easy Flash3 CynthCart64 Dead test, Diagnostics cart w/ full harness kit. About 40 years of games, peripherals, etc. I gave away my 64NIC+ with eprom bank rotary switch. I gave away my uSD2IEC w/ daughter card User port modem for POTS new in box from back in the day. (I've connected to one bbs through dial-up with it.) GORF cartridge with Magic Voice Module. The game talk smack at ya! JUST like the original arcade that took all my quarters as a teen back in 1981 - this is why I bought a Commodore 64 in the FIRST place. I consider it pure Commodore because ALL chips are real Commodore chips. No Kawari - but REAL VICII's. NO ARMSID or SwinSID, but REAL SID chips. The coolest thing about it is: C64 owners: get some powerful big good self powered 2.1 speakers or better. You want your stereo SID tunes rattling the caulk off your neighbor's house.

I'd really love to see you get Quantum Link Reloaded running on this. It's fun to see things like modern news stories and such on an old teletext-like dialup service.

this is the best channel ever. pure joy and much lovingness forever :)

First thing I learned to type is load"*"',8,1 I was 5. Also that monitor is a good tv too!

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We also had the wico trackball and they also made regular joysticks! Big enough for the biggest of hands!

Yay! Finally on to the good stuff!

i remember attempting a recap of a c64 supply. Hammer and chisel required.

That bit with the whiteboard reminds me of that video somebody did to "Synthesiser" a looooong time ago 😄

Loved that commodore song sketch.

the commodore is keeping up with us all. don't say anything bad about commodore, it will find you

Great video!

Awesome! I’m wondering if you might in your “spare time “ make or get a hold of a monitor stand that would allow the C64 to fit under it as well? Thanks for your continued hard work.

Cool, You're a bass player. So am I! Of course, mine is about 8 times the size of yours, and I play in orchestras with a bow, but heck, low notes are low notes, right?

20:15 The unscramble word is SEMICONDUCTOR 😊

Word has come down from up top and the high council of "getting old stuff on the internet ltd." is really impressed with the elegance of which you got that C64 on the internet, kudos! However, we really sold them on getting that Tandy on the internet, any updates?

Love the Veronica Explains Tee! :D

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...and as always: Great video :D

Wonder how long it’ll be until he gives it a G4 upgrade.

The C-64 was my very first computer, as purchased by me in 1983 (HEY! I made a RHYME! I'm a POET, and DON'T EVEN KNOW it!). I used to have lots of fun with my computer, back in the day. And now, I have (at least...!) THREE computers in the house...and one of which, I can ACTUALLY carry in my pocket! What is it called? It's called a SMARTPHONE. All the power of a contemporary PC...but it comes in a MUCH SMALLER package! And, if I want to, I can download an app or two that actually EMULATES a Commodore 64! What a FANTASTIC time to be...ALIVE!!! 😎

Nice. I still have my original C64C. Alas, I lost to the ravages of time the 1351, but I've got several modern replacements and a PVM as a S-Video monitor

I love your humour haha, thanks for the educational video.

Super cool! I wish my commodores ran that smoothly, or even at all.

most of those Commodore supplies are filled with epoxy so you can't even easily repair them