"It's not Ideal and it may not last permanently but it'll work for now" - Every piece of software I've ever written

@TylerSteven9

4 жыл бұрын

Temporary fix becomes a permanent solution

@invisi1407

4 жыл бұрын

@@TylerSteven9 nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution =D

@truckshackley373

4 жыл бұрын

My own personal philosophy: This is only temporary...unless it works.

@thetrashmann8140

4 жыл бұрын

Me when I make a mod for Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and Portal

@Gadzinisko

4 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, my dad fixed our TV antenna with a bit of plasticine, "just for now". That temporary fix lasted few good years until the antenna broke completely.

Congrats on the million David!

@pacific_watercress

4 жыл бұрын

How is your comment posted 9 hours ago

@poble

4 жыл бұрын

@@pacific_watercress patreon

@pacific_watercress

4 жыл бұрын

@@poble interesting

@Rainbow__cookie

4 жыл бұрын

Cha Cha real smooth

@sie4431

4 жыл бұрын

Just noticed this but didn't realise it'd just happened

What you call noise today, we called realistic flowing water effects!

As an old Intellivision fan, I can tell you that the graphics of "Defender of the Crown" are *astonishingly good* .

@PeteFinn

4 жыл бұрын

Emmanuel Florac Indeed. The game looked amazing!

@bace1000

4 жыл бұрын

Much better than the 2600, for sure

@andrewmccarty8412

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Looks amazing. Want a copy myself now.

@AthleticDesign

4 жыл бұрын

Looks incredible and the music sounds amazingly faithful too. I'd like to see a version for the Vic 20, but the lack of hardware sprites would probably make it less playable and attractive than the Intellivsions version which seems to play and look almost exactly like a low res version of the brilliant C64 version.

@zooropaforever

4 жыл бұрын

For what I can see, this port of DOCT is just AWESOME!

Defender of the Crown is mind blowing given the limitations of the system.

@leodf1

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like David know nothing of the Intelli. Otherwise he would be floored. I myself was stunned. Those guys didn't push the Intelli to it's limits. They went past!

@steve75112

4 жыл бұрын

lol landfill

@muhdewd9727

4 жыл бұрын

My guess is that the cartridge capacity is way beyond what was viable back in the early 80s without being prohibitively expensive.

@pd209458

4 жыл бұрын

I just wonder if they managed to include the catapult siege part. That was my favorite when I played it on my C64.

@ArnauldChevallier

4 жыл бұрын

@@pd209458 Sure, we did. :-)

At least there's no need to use antenna clips, or what the AVGN calls 'Devil's Pitchforks', lolz

The answer: "... what others say." The noise on the screen and in the audio comes from the diode in the tank circuit used to demodulate the RF out of the signal. With no signal the diode voltage hovers right around threshold voltages and begins to leak random spikes of current. These spikes get amplified in the video signal pre-amp. Modern T.V.s from about the mid 90s to present, use an RF detector in the RF tank filter to trigger a screen blanker or substitute "blue screen" in the absence of an RF signal, ... *because semiconductors leak* . It's a fact of physics. The failed screen you show is typical of a video signal that "floats" above 1 volt. The "blacker than black" part of the signal which synchronizes the monitor's horizontal scan needs to be no more than or less than 1 volt. Occasionally the signal will nearly match the vertical timing in the monitor set by the line frequency and you get an edge "torn" image. Other times the line frequency and video timing are so far off the monitor never triggers the horizontal scan at all and you get a blank screen. The commented suggestions to add a 75Ω shunt resistor (to ground) to the composite video output draws the entire video signal down to or below the required 1 volt. It's a trick people used to bypass the very early VCR copy protection schemes where the recorded video on the tape was raised above the one volt "sync" threshold. The RF modulator sets this base voltage through the signal (usually the common) ground in the cable connection to the monitor.

@dentjoener

4 жыл бұрын

This dude CRTs hard :). Props for the explanation!

@ovalteen4404

4 жыл бұрын

I suspect that it's the input side that needs biasing fixes. I've made simple op-amp AV mods that use the 75-ohm series output resistor with a coupling cap, and had no sync problems. But the Astec RF modulator does have a characteristic input impedance (as shown on its datasheet). Really, I don't get why everybody has a different circuit for the same mod on different platforms. 90% of them can be simple op-amp circuits like the "official" Colecovision AV mod does. You can use a pot to adjust input gain if necessary. One thing I notice about the IV's mod is that it's two back-to-back common emitter amps which are not even impedance matched between them. Its likely purpose is to provide signal gain, but it needs 2 stages because each one inverts the signal. But there is no input coupling cap on the Astec, at least not that I've seen from actual inspections, so the Astec itself will be affecting the input DC bias voltage too. That is likely the missing part. Take a DC reading with the modulator installed, then with the modulator removed. Now you know what voltage to aim for with the replacement circuit, and whether it needs to be pulled towards power or ground. Connect that and the AV amplifier, then adjust until you get the desired DC voltage. *Edit: Looked at the IntvII schematic. The video in from the Astec only connects to 2 diodes, both in reverse bias. One goes to a video input from the cartridge connector (apparently the cartridge port also has expansion port capabilities), and the other goes to the internal graphics generation. Either way, you can only pull the voltage down, not push up. So the RF modulator is providing a DC bias that **_must_** be replaced if you remove it. A pull-up resistor to +5V would be all you need.*

@michaelhawthorne8696

4 жыл бұрын

3DPDK Wow that's detailed...nice one

@MonoChorMe

4 жыл бұрын

Blimey, now that is one THICC answer hehehe. May I ask... what is your profession? You seem - without a doubt - to know about analog components...

@5roundsrapid263

4 жыл бұрын

I had a book on NTSC, and remember a lot of this. The two black bars were called “front porch“ and “back porch” because they were huge drops on each end of the signal.

I begged my parents for an intellivision and never got one. They said my Atari 2600 was good enough. I begged my parents for an NES and never got one. Our 2600 was good enough. So I gave up on consoles and went into PC gaming because my parents had no problems upgrading my computers when ever I asked. After all my PC was "educational" lmao

@markm0000

4 жыл бұрын

I never had a console or bedroom TV. My parents got me a cheap Compaq desktop in 1999 for my birthday and dialup internet. I saved up every summer and extensively upgraded it over the years to play newer games. I learned how a computer fundamentally works and how to manually repair broken parts. I threw in the towel and gave up last year when I just couldn’t get it to run Office 2019. It runs everything else just fine-Windows 7 games up until around 2013. I bought a new old stock MacBook Air that still has serviceable parts and it’s really nice to take with me to work and in the garage. I keep that old computer under my TV for streaming web radio and playing retro games.

@Those2menoverthere

4 жыл бұрын

@@markm0000 What a nice little story. :)

@marksuper4920

4 жыл бұрын

Before expanding your comment it said "So I gave up consoles and read more" I thought that was perfect

@markm0000

4 жыл бұрын

Those2menoverthere . Thanks. If it weren’t for my parents making me learn how to understand and take care of my things, I’d be a completely different person nowadays. Same goes for my truck and my other little things. I love that old Compaq and I’ll keep it forever.

@RetroDawn

4 жыл бұрын

So you got an Amiga or an Atari ST?

My husband introduced me to your videos a while back and have been hooked ever since. I love watching you fix and clean things up. Watching you modify computers and such is pretty dang cool. Congrats on the million! 🥇🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈

@sarno97

4 жыл бұрын

His work always neat and clean

The passive RLC termination on the output of the video chip, and new additional composite circuit, has to keep the vertical and horizontal video blanking pulses clamped at a constant level for the TV to properly lock to it. Additionally, on the _back porch_ there will be the colour-burst that needs to be stable for a good locked chroma. Just above that is the black reference level that also must stay constant to maintain a constant brightness for the entire frame. This will take a bit of experimenting to get right and I imagine may be more complicated than just a resistor. Cheers,

Try a 75 ohm resistor between the video and ground, at the input of the circuit?

@ovalteen4404

4 жыл бұрын

The output impedance of a video circuit must be in series. The TV's input is in parallel to ground, so that its input is halved from your output. This guy's simple passthrough amplifier circuit shows the difference between input and output: www.labguysworld.com/VideoCookBook_002.htm

@AMacProOwner

4 жыл бұрын

@@ovalteen4404 A website hosted since 1997. Thats awesome.

@ixamraxi

4 жыл бұрын

@@AMacProOwner And still under construction, according to the bottom of that page. xD

According to the circuit at 4:36, the signal is only AC coupled... So when you remove the RF modulator, I suspect : - either a problem of DC bias of the previous stage. - or of input impedance. To get the same DC bias: 1- Measure the DC voltage value on the signal input when the RF modulator is present. 2- Replace the RF modulator with your circuit. 3- Add a big valued potentiometer between +5v and Gnd and connect the mid point to the your circuit input. 4- Turn the potentiometer until you measure the same DC voltage as in 1. To change the impedance, try as above with different valued potentiometers. (Or less experimentally: Ohm's law would give you R=R1//R2 if R1 and R2 are the two parts of the potentiometer). I hope this helps. Good luck!

Congrats David! You reached 1 mil!

The music at the end was a solid choice!

Just wanted to say this, please never change your intro song. It gets me every time.

@romangeneral23

4 жыл бұрын

SAME!!!!!!!!!!!

A lot of my life was spent playing Defender of the Crown on my Amiga 2000. Thanks for a fun and very useful mod on that Intelevision. It's absolutely something you can retrofix later and tweak.

I always click on these videos thinking i'm just going to listen to the intro music and move on. Next thing you know its been 3 hours and on a separate tab i'm looking up the cost of a Commodore 64.

Man I get as excited for a new 8-bit Guy episode as I used to for Saturday morning shows as a kid. :) Really enjoy your content.

Great video, as always. Really like the nice presentation of the different connections to the RF-converter!

You're videos are always the best friend! Thank you so much! BTW, I always loved the Intellivision controller. The trick is not to treat it as a joypad, but a disk. It's more of a swipe than a press. Also, Defender of the Crown is mind blowing. I would never have imagined that would have been possible. That guy deserves a medal. He must have a made a deal with the Devil.

This was amazing. The first console I ever played was the Intellivision and it's always great to see that fun system preserved and modernized so it can still be enjoyed. Sub +1 :)

ONE MILLION SUBS!!! You deserve every single one! I love this channel, and have already learned SO much from watching your videos. Hope you have a nice trip out of town! Be safe!

Congrats on a million! Been here for awhile and ive always loved your videos

“Hover Bovver” talks with the Intellivoice module. Adds more humor. Only 4 official voice games were released, but there’s plenty of voice modules around.

@ChristopherSobieniak

4 жыл бұрын

I remember being impressed when I heard it as a child in the 80's when my brother played Space Spartans on our Intellvision! Nice someone went to the trouble to include speech in Hover Bovver!

@AnonymousFreakYT

4 жыл бұрын

There was a fifth official voice game, but it *ALSO* needed the ECS Computer Module - World Series Major League Baseball. A very impressive baseball game for the time, it used real player stats, but they couldn't get the rights to use the names, so the players all have made up names - but with the stats of real players of the early '80s. It's also ridiculously expensive to buy nowadays - I lucked out and got a boxed copy for under $75 a few months ago, usually it's $150+. But yeah, lots of ROM releases of era-unreleased voice games, plus many of the new games (like Hover Bovver) support voice. Hover Bovver's voice is great!

@Chaos89P

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully someone makes an AVGN game that uses the module. "MATTEL ELECTRONICS PRESENTS: AY-ASS!" The screen would read "AVGN" or something similar, though.

@pitaya4151

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnonymousFreakYT Wait, wasn't that the same game a kid tried to sue because of misleading advertising?

@AnonymousFreakYT

4 жыл бұрын

Pitaya4 Not that I ever heard about.

now i'll be able to play BEEE SEVNTEEEN BAWLMERRRRR in better quality!

@vidura

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@MilesPrower1992

4 жыл бұрын

Or as The Nerd would say, Baeeeeeeee Seventain bAhmer

@RCAvhstape

4 жыл бұрын

THAT WAS NOT A TARGET

@HaloofBlood1

4 жыл бұрын

I was looking for that comment 😂

@vulcanitu2578

4 жыл бұрын

Or BOWMB SQWAD

Thanks for posting this. I've had this mid sitting around waiting to be installed. You motivated me to dig out my I2 and install it. It looks so much better. It also works with the 2600 add on plugged in. Thanks for the motivation and great videos!

1 million! Congrats! Love your channel been watching for years

It's a real pain in the: My mind completes: a** David: rear

@Flopster101

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta be family friendly

You, regarding Defender of the Crown: I never spent much time playing this game... Me: I more than made up for your share in my day.

@markchapman8253

4 жыл бұрын

I still have my NES copy.

@patsfan4life

4 жыл бұрын

Emperor PalPOUTINE It’s OK because the C 64 Version Was Way better

@patsfan4life

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Chapman The worst version of all

@BuckeyeStormsProductions

4 жыл бұрын

@Emperor PalPOUTINE I played on the C64. Me, my brother, and a couple of his friends would just play game after game after game.

@chrisfreemesser5707

4 жыл бұрын

Played DotC a TON back in the day on my Atari ST

Huge congratulations to David, the 8-Bit Guy for getting over a million subscribers! I watch the David's videos because they are so precise about every detail. Fascinating!

Your channel is awesome and I like your simplicity and how you explain what you do. Greetings from Argentina! 🇦🇷

Congratulations on 1Mil!!

I remember my dad had his original-model Intellivision composite modded by one of his engineering friends. He just brought it over, his friend had the board already made up, and in 5 minutes he'd opened it up, mounted it, drilled the holes, and it works fine to this day. That said, I've never opened it up myself to see *how* they did it.

Good job on the channel, congrats on a million!

Congrats on one million subscribers! Great video as always!

Yes! The 8-Bit Guy! Awesome, thank you!

@pvh_facp4001yt

4 жыл бұрын

hernanc wait this video was made half an hour ago wtf.

1 MLN! Congrats from Poland! :)

Happy Million! Its been fun seeing this channel change and grow since 2013.

It's always nice to watch how the master works =) Thank you for the video!

2019: Modding and playing NEW games for an Tellivision on a CRT. 2029: Modding and playing NEW games for an Tellivision on VR Headset.

@aprilnya

4 жыл бұрын

its called intellivision not tellivision

@Qardo

4 жыл бұрын

@@aprilnya God damn Auto-Correct >.< And me not proofreading.

@Gkokkinakis2

4 жыл бұрын

9999 playing Television and TV games on holovision or optic vision

@SheepUndefined

4 жыл бұрын

​@KoivuTheHab Have you not used a phone before? It's not a matter of your brain, it's the fact that the screen keyboards aren't really meant for precision stuff. Like. You know. Typing.

@SheepUndefined

4 жыл бұрын

@KoivuTheHab My guess is you either have a phablet, small fingers, or enough time to spend ten minutes pecking on each message. Also, and, much more likely, a low enough self esteem that you feel the need to boost by convincing yourself that you're smarter than other people because of random false equivelents. :D

Congrats for the Million! One blind suggestion, are there any termination resistors inside the RF modulator which reduce/remove any reflections of the image signal? If that is the case, all you'd need is to replicate that termination resistance in the composite circuit get it to remove the reflections.

@MrHBSoftware

4 жыл бұрын

those are not reflections...its a lack of proper sync pulses...connecting a scope to the signal and checking would be a 5 minutes job

Congratulations on the 1 Million subscribers!!! You are awesome!!!

Huge grats on 1 mil!

Defender of the Crown would have sold like crazy back in the day

@patsfan4life

4 жыл бұрын

NPC #34254334 Response: game was released in 1986

@JeremyLevi

4 жыл бұрын

Except it probably wouldn't have because they're no doubt leveraging a large amount of ROM space (and probably extra components for bank switching) to make it look that good. Its doubtful even near the end of life of the console that they could have released it without having to charge an exorbitant amount of money for the game compared to normal game prices for the system.

@WildkatPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

@@patsfan4life Intellivision was out of production by then.

@WildkatPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyLevi So when you consider the Starpath Supercharger cost $69 at the time and it had 6KB of RAM, they likely could have done a 50% upsale and still sold like gang busters.

@JeremyLevi

4 жыл бұрын

@@WildkatPhoto Sure, but consider the Commodore 64 version (roughly comparable in quality) is over 160KB in size ... assume you're probably looking at something like 64KB-128KB of ROM, minimum, to fit the game. That's not small potatoes, cost wise in '86 (and not even thinkable in '79 when most cartridge games used 2-4KB of ROM).

"I paused my game to be here" But the game still running

Well Done on reaching the millions sub..... Love the mod...

nice editing on this one!Love the glowing wires.

Why didn't you wait to figure out the issue with the RF Module before drilling holes into your console? Wouldn't it have been better to just put the wires through the back vents for the time being before drilling holes you cannot undo? Not criticizing I'm just wondering why you went this route.

@lesdmark

4 жыл бұрын

Patience is not a virtue he possessed.

@markm0000

4 жыл бұрын

It’s good the console isn’t worth a million dollars. He can just get another one that’s broken and replace the case.

@Slevin-Kelevra

4 жыл бұрын

I think he should now just do a better more permenent mounting job and now he has both ways he can now connect his system both ways

@animalyze7120

4 жыл бұрын

Because it's an intellivision II so he's not worried cause he's keeping it for himself. You wouldn't do that to an original Intellivision due to value issues. Though to be honest they don't command high prices even though they were better than Atari's.

@DenisNorden

4 жыл бұрын

Gonna say I would have used the TV select switch hole and used one of those 3.5mm jack to composite/sound cables instead...

Rockin' The Million now, 🤘

Congratulations David for hitting a million of subscribers! I wish you the best for you and your two channels!

out of every uploader i'm subscribed to, this channel is the one i'm most stoked about. grats on 1M!!!!!!

The modulator probably introduces some capacitance.

2:10 - "They're here...."

Congratulations on the 1 Million+ subs! You deserve more.

Congratulations on one million subscribers David! You really deserve it, your channel is amazing.

5:10 - that's an inverted composite signal, reverse the polarity

@frazzleface753

4 жыл бұрын

@@halcyonoutlander2105 ...of the neutron flow

@UberAlphaSirus

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Vermilicious

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, if that was the reason...

@MrHBSoftware

4 жыл бұрын

it just lacks sync pulses or they are too weak...

"It runs the same games". Well, almost all of them. Mattel modified the Intellivision II BIOS so that it would not run third party games like Donkey Kong. If you look at some game boxes they will have a sticker that says "Not for use with Intellivision II".

Wowowowoowww!!! 1 million subscription!!! Congrads!!!

Congrats on 1M, The8BitGuy!

Hover Bovver actually makes use of the Intellivoice. The voices add to the game's humor. Also, the original Intellivision has a way better controller than the Intellivision II. I have one of the only Intellivision composite mod videos on youtube, so you might have watched mine :) Cool to see some Intellivision love on your channel even though it wasn't your jam back in the day.

@dave928

Жыл бұрын

only problem was the controllers weren't replaceable when the internal touch contacts wore out.

@sinistermoon

Жыл бұрын

@@dave928 I never had one wear out. Now days you can just buy parts units for different controllers. Super easy to replace them too.

I liked the background music in this episode!

Congratulations on 1 million subscribers! You deserve it.

A new episode of yours and now the new Sonic trailer, this is gonna be a good day

Possibly you just need to terminate the signal. as @Leumas Saugi recommended. Removing the rfModulater probably left the reference ground floating

I wasn’t a fan of the thumb pads either, I ended up getting joystick inserts that replaced the disk, it worked much better.

I was waiting for this video. Idk why, but I love the composite mods.

A million subs! Well done, you deserve it.

I wanted to sign up to be a Patreon but the only pledge you can do is $10. a month. I can't afford that. Please consider adding lower tiers, such as a $1 tier, and a $5 tier.

@und4287

4 жыл бұрын

Or modifying the original one for a more passable experience

@The8BitGuy

4 жыл бұрын

You can donate any amount you want, just type in the amount. Most of my Patrons donate $1 per month. $10 is a specific level for the CD.

@xTerminatorAndy

4 жыл бұрын

@@The8BitGuy I did try that the GUI kept changing it to $10. Maybe I did something wrong

References to the ending song?

@LeinaDZiur

3 жыл бұрын

I'm also interested

I researched the composite mod a few years back, the circuit you built was designed as I recall to bring the video signal down a considerable amount in frequency levels to output as composite. It would also explain why the RF is still needed as without that there is no signal to alter. I think I might have still a made-up original board the guy sold for the original Intellivision, not sure but might still have it. I also recall he said the distances between the connections need to be as short as possible. As far as good games are concerned for the system, Tron was a favourite.

You made my morning better

Impedance mismatch?

@TexElec

4 жыл бұрын

Most certainly, but I wasn't able to work it out. The mod that everyone is using is based on the load the RF modulator is drawing and modifying it is not as trivial as I thought. Long story short, we just don't have the time to work on it more at the moment. :-)

@bobblum5973

4 жыл бұрын

My first thought was that the modulator needed to present a 75-ohm load on the video signal. But as you say it sounds more like something else. That looks like a standard Astec RF modulator from that era, so opening one up to see what's inside should help. I understand it takes time and effort to do that; don't worry, we're enjoying the journey to get there! ☺👍 [ Edit ] If this helps, a link to a PDF doc with details: console5.com/techwiki/images/2/21/Astec_UM-1285-8.pdf Good luck!

@jwhite5008

4 жыл бұрын

@TexElec Sorry for suggesting obvious things, but have you tried just sticking potentiometer between video-in and ground, and another between audio-in and ground and just fumbling with those? If 75R resistor didn't work, try a pot - trust me, it's worth trying. You can also try to dig up a datasheet/schematic of a similar RF modulator - they are probably designed to be more or less interchangeable - and see what its inputs are supposed to be. A datasheet for console's videochip (if it exists) could also be of use. Measuring current/voltage with a multimeter is useless here, you need to get a datasheet and/or just guess the value. If you can find nothing, it is probably around 50-75 ohms, so start with a 150 ohm pot and slowly move it down. If nothing is overheating then it's most likely ok - just don't leave it powered for more than a few seconds. If possible, hook a scope to the line while moving the pot. I'm sure you'll see what's going on. If that didn't work, I'd try a stupid thing - connect the modulator to the video output through another pot and slowly move it up until picture starts deteriorating, then attempt to counter this with pot to ground, and repeat. Another thing to try is modify the new amplification circuit - hook up pots instead of resistors and look at the scope, comparing with how it should look like with modulator attached. Probably combine with previous method That being said, I still don't understand why remove the thing in the first place? Isn't having two output options better than one? I don't think signal quality suffers all that much from an attached RF modulator - it's most likely not that great to begin with, crispy clear consumer TVs did not really exist back then so I doubt anyone put too much thought there.

@TexElec

4 жыл бұрын

@@jwhite5008 I had about 4 of them going, and just could never get it to look 100% correct on the scope. I tried tacking on several loading caps / resistors of various values, etc. The fact is, video signals are fairly picky. I was able to get unstable images, but never really as refined as the original circuit. I'm working on a ton of stuff right now, including the X16 and there are a ton of INTV mods out there just like the one I built on the perf board for $20 or so. I was hoping to replace the modulator as I personally always remove them to prevent interference, but honestly, I think an FPGA->HDMI approach would be better so I don't even know how much more time I would spend here.

@tiporari

4 жыл бұрын

@@TexElec Analog video signals and RF in general feel a bit like voodoo at times don't they? There are fully documented specs and waveforms for NTSC timing out there, but modeling high frequency circuits and working out precise timing with passive components is an unforgiving art. Especially when you consider the host devices are tuned and tweaked as assemblies based on the inductance, capacitance/impedance/reactance of the all the components in the signal chain from the power supply to the casement. The most reliable way to do it today is as you suggest, put an ADC at the video chip's output and generate the right signals using modern electronics with some isolation from the dodgy retro circuits.

I see 8-bit Guy, I drop everything and click.

@aretard7995

4 жыл бұрын

not always, but true

Congrats to 1 mil!!!

First time I ever heard a step drill called a "Christmas tree bit". I love it, so I'm gonna nick it! Henceforth all my step drills shall be known this way.

@philbirk

4 жыл бұрын

I've always called them "uni-bits". That's a trade name, so the proper name is step-drill. In any case congratulations on 1M subs, great videos.

@mihumono

4 жыл бұрын

These are also called pagoda bits.

@cargy930

4 жыл бұрын

@@mihumono I'd never heard them called that either. Another good name. I still prefer Christmas tree bits though, it just tickles me.

@nickblackburn1903

4 жыл бұрын

Isnt it called a "Mandrill"?

@sticky170

4 жыл бұрын

@@nickblackburn1903 Only in prison.

Congratulations on reaching the magic ONE MILLION subscribers! (plus a bit ;)

I need to do this to my Intellivison.

"Back to the Future" clip?...... I see what you did there ;)

Congratulations on a million subscribers David!!

another cool video, i love that you care for and repair all the old classics. takes me back to when games were awsome and not reliant on flashy graphics to sell :-) keep repairing and restoring dude :-)

Heh, a lawn mowing simulator, get LGR on the phone.

@BertGrink

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know if you are familiar with the British Sinclair ZX Spectrum 8-bit home computer, but once, many moons ago, someone wrote a game for that machine called Lawn Mower Simulator, which was so primitive that it sparked an annual Crap Games Competition. Ironically, some of the entries have been surprisingly un-crappy. ;)

@draketungsten74

4 жыл бұрын

@@BertGrink That's awesome.

@handsomebrick

4 жыл бұрын

Also the game Defender of the Crown, Clint will enjoy that as well.

@vwspeedracer

4 жыл бұрын

I want to imagine that copies have been mailed to him and they'll be languishing in his PO box until Spring. :D

Still the best video intro on youtube

Finally I have finshed homeworks and I can relax with an 8-Bit Guy video. Thanks!

Congrats one 1 million, and here is to the next million!

This looks like an sync issue probably the rf modulator is responsible for syinc idk

I always keep the RF modulator to use the console with the old TVs and just add AV mod for modern TVs ,so I can choose what to use :)

That intro is still awesome. Never change it!

Congratulations on more than a million subscribers and while I wasn't a huge Intellivision fan either, I admin, that Defender of the Crown look amazing, if you keep in mind what this system is capable of.

FYI, the "christmas tree bit" is called a step drill. :)

The gain gets turned to maximum and it's just amplified noise. It's not the cosmic big bang background noise or radio astronomy cosmic rays or pulsars and supernovae. That noise is at UHF channel 37, from 608 to 614 Megahertz. Also important to radio astronomy are 410 MHz and 1.4 GHz, but not the source of this noise. Edit: Well, *some* of it is cosmic big bang background noise. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_(video)

@draketungsten74

4 жыл бұрын

And any that is cosmic background noise/cosmic rays is just a small percentage of the amplified noise.

@mrfluffytailthethird

4 жыл бұрын

Nah it’s just ghost There’s documentary’s called poltergeist And the ring that will explain it

@vcolinc

4 жыл бұрын

You've said what the source isn't, but please can you say what the source of the noise is and explain why?

@johnchainsman

4 жыл бұрын

Well, *some* of it is cosmic big bang background noise. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_(video)

YOOOO 1 MILLION SUBS. CONGRATS DAVID!

Congrats David! 1M! looks good on ya man! well done. I think I just saw LGR looking over his shoulder. hahahaha

lol... I Swear he said Defender of the Crayon..... *clean ears*... *rewatch* "ohhhhhhh crown" lol

@5roundsrapid263

4 жыл бұрын

In a Southern accent, “crown” does sound like the Midwestern pronunciation of “crayon”. Southerners pronounce “crayon” like “rayon”.

@fnjesusfreak

4 жыл бұрын

Well, he *is* from Texas. ;p

@5roundsrapid263

4 жыл бұрын

Friendly Neighborhood Jesus Freak That’s my point exactly.

"I will use red for video and black for audio" that's the least intuitive thing i've ever seen in this channel

@andymouse

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, black for video and red for audio is the obvious choice.

@stevethepocket

4 жыл бұрын

Well, red for video is period correct, at least. The video cable for my VIC-20 is red for video and white for audio. This was before TVs had RCA connectors, mind you, so that would have been for a monitor back then.

@geovani60624

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevethepocket maybe but still... red is much more common as audio out than the opposite, it's way harder to get things backwards and fry one input by accident

Great video, David! Congratulations on 1 Million Subs! You should do something special. Like maybe a Livestream and play some of your favorite Retro games.

Congratulations on 1 Million Subscribers!!!

It's weird to see how much time and care you spend restoring and preserving vintage electronics. Then you go modding and "destroying" others.

If you look in the black areas you'll see high crime and fatherless homes.

Congrats on 1 Million Subs!

It’s a step bit mate, love ya work