Thank you for the video, Sir! I wish I were there, too...
@cabbitkisser262016 күн бұрын
i picked up my apple ii with 2 floppy drives for $15 at goodwill many years ago. this was before the internet & eBay.
@frnno96717 күн бұрын
Great haul! I got X16 number 965 myself and am just firing it up too.
@RingingResonanceАй бұрын
Wished I could have made it this year. Was at a different convention that happened on the same weekend.
@anachronisticthings681628 күн бұрын
It was worth the trip
@alexandermirdzveli3200Ай бұрын
6:17 No pulley in the middle?
@BollingHolt2 ай бұрын
Very cool! I still haven't put power to mine yet to see what it will do LOL.
@hstrinzel2 ай бұрын
Yes that was a quite impressive machine in it's day. Too expensive for me. I had an Apple II, which was terrible for business software, BUT with the Z80 Softcard and an 80-column display card and CP/M all of a sudden it was PERFECTLY READY FOR business programming, with dBASE II,a masterpiece breakthrough in its day and I was not missing a thing anymore and was soo happy, and ready for business. In your upcoming videos, can you show how the Model II ran CP/M, e.g. WordStar and/or dBASE II?
@drphilxr5 ай бұрын
Wish I could see your screen and read text while you did those steps. Hacking around with mine now-and there’s no real step by step guide on these. Yes I’ve gone to the GitHub and website by brutman and those are superb resources- for old pc experts!
@frnno9675 ай бұрын
Can't wait to see how you address the keyboard problem. Hope it's a simple adapter to get it going.
@anachronisticthings68165 ай бұрын
I did eventually find someone who can make an adapter, but I also just came across an actual keyboard on ebay, so we'll see if it works in a few days.
@BollingHolt6 ай бұрын
Wo! What kind of Z is that in that background at 16:35? Before I started collecting retro computers, I collected Z cars LOL I just acquired a Model II this week... with DMP-400 printer, disk expansion unit, original manuals & software, and a Compaq Portable to boot! Looking forward to getting them all out of my car this weekend (good thing I wasn't in a Z!) and testing everything out.
@anachronisticthings68165 ай бұрын
It's a 72 240z, or some of one, much has been lost to rust.
@BollingHolt5 ай бұрын
@@anachronisticthings6816 Yeah man... Being so prone to rust was pretty much the only shortcoming of those cars. Unfortunately, it's a big one... I had a '73 240Z with an LT-1 engine in it. It's probably a good thing I don't have it anymore as I would have eventually killed myself. It was so freakin' fast!
@TheVintNerd6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the recap of the fest! We had a great time exhibiting :)
@anachronisticthings68166 ай бұрын
Thanks! I have a goal of having a table this year and attending for the whole thing.
@TheVintNerd6 ай бұрын
@@anachronisticthings6816 Sounds like a good plan! You'll really enjoy it. Not sure if we'll bring The VintNerd booth back to VCF Southwest. Mrs VintNerd & I are busy making the first VCF in Southern California happen next month. Google VCF SoCal if you're interested. -Cheers, Steve
@scottjoyce84658 ай бұрын
Fantastic Video...Much appreciated. I just got a TexElec card and am having a tough time. I used VirtualBox to format a 512MB CF card with MS-DOS 5.0. The card is not recognized by my system. Any help you could give me on how to get the card setup properly would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Scott
@anachronisticthings68168 ай бұрын
Can you see the drive at all in fdisk? If not it may not be compatible. I have read that xtide implementations can be picky about what brand/model of cf card is compatible.
@UKSCIENCEORGАй бұрын
Your best bet is Sandisk brand and low capacity like 512mb or even 64mb
@jjohnson719589 ай бұрын
2.25 hdd laptop size
@Spider_Rico10 ай бұрын
Happy that you found some new batteries. Gotta love it when a plan comes together.
@TheRetroRoadshow Жыл бұрын
This was really helpful! I just bought a PCjr yesterday, and now I've ordered this same SD device from Raphnet. I appreciate the info you shared here!
@MechaFenris Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this game. I continue to play it now on my Linux machines (Nethack). I have never gotten out of the game in 20 years of playing. :) But it's darn fun to lose... one of the few games that I can tolerate the difficulty.
@seanyoder5578 Жыл бұрын
Nice overview. And you retro Rick rolled us with that Deskmate doc!
@stephenwhitaker4150 Жыл бұрын
Have never played F-15 Strike Eagle on my PCjr, will have to give it a spin.
@anachronisticthings6816 Жыл бұрын
Not sure if strike eagle 2 will work on the Jr but the original should
@soteful9949 Жыл бұрын
I use to have an SL/2. I wish I still had it.
@muffenme Жыл бұрын
Odd enough, my Apple power Macintosh 7200/75 has all 3 PCI slots used up for vga card, IDE card, and USB. I add a 128 MB of memory to along with 10GB hard drive and 40x cd burner, I have no software to write disk with it.
@anachronisticthings6816 Жыл бұрын
If I remember correctly, back in the day, we had a lone system with a CD burner where I worked and it was a mac. I think the software we used was called toast. Not sure if that is findable now.
@muffenme Жыл бұрын
@@anachronisticthings6816 thanks. I found a copy on WinWorldPC
@ESquared422 жыл бұрын
Cool video, thanks for being so informative and concise!
@dheerajSM2 жыл бұрын
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@infinetic2 жыл бұрын
Late 1980s childhood memory bliss compliments of a 3-note (+ 1 "noise" channel) polyphony squarewave generator (implemented on an IC from Texas Instruments built right onto the motherboard) and some clever programming! Having deskmate built into ROM loaded up so fast... But man was it slow navigating the music program waiting for the screen to redraw... The "high-res" 640x200x4 colors video mode was perfect for deskmate, and looked better than CGA because all four colors were used (blue for background; white, red and yellow for foreground) unlike most CGA games where only three colors were used and the background, which counted as a "color" was set to black. Also unlike games Deskmate didnt have to simulate real-life graphics, but rather just "information" and a GUI. Also deskmate came free with the computer, which itself was already quite inexpensive for the time and superior to the IBM PC in terms of graphics and sound.
@StarsManny2 жыл бұрын
6:10 They were still selling space warp and microchess for the model I in 1985? Wow!
@anachronisticthings68162 жыл бұрын
At least in the catalogs, they really hung on to all their old platforms way longer than any modern company would it seems.
@anachronisticthings68162 жыл бұрын
I should have mentioned that you can see a whole library of the catalogs at www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
@martin1b2 жыл бұрын
Dungeons of Daggorath. INCREDIBLE GAME! I used to dream of playing all of the games listed in these catalogs. Crazy thing is, now we can go to a web site emulator and play them in just a couple of minutes.
@cabbitkisser26202 жыл бұрын
i had the color computer 2 back in 1985. it was my first computer that my dad picked for me and the best computer i ever had.
@georgemaragos23782 жыл бұрын
HI, good review, i had kept the catalogs from @ 1982 to 1990. It was amazing to follow a product and watch the price drop each year, especially the Z80 versions. Regards George
@bitwize2 жыл бұрын
The Tandy 2000 deserves to be remembered because due to its high resolution color graphics, Microsoft chose it as the system to develop one of their most important pieces of software at the time: a little experiment you may have heard of called Windows. Yes, Windows 1.0 for PC was built on the Tandy 2000, and its modular architecture meant that it could run on both machines, be tested on the 2000 and then boot on PC with different drivers.
@klf69922 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories!
@lindnertim2 жыл бұрын
Are you willing / able to post a dump of the Audio Spectrum Analyzer somewhere? I've never seen this version before. All other copies of that software i've seen look like this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGGYksiTnqyaYLg.html
@anachronisticthings68162 жыл бұрын
I'll see what I can do. That does look different.
@allenhuffman2 жыл бұрын
Glad you saw this, Tim. I went look for videos after I saw that FB post the other day. First one I found.
@anachronisticthings68162 жыл бұрын
Do you know of some instructions on how to do a dump of the cartridge? I read that covering pin 8 with electrical tape would work but I have had no luck with that method.
@allenhuffman2 жыл бұрын
@@anachronisticthings6816 There is indeed one pin you should be able to cover (even with Scotch tape) that disables the auto-start. Then you just do a CSAVEM of the memory range where the ROM-Pak lives, and can load it back in later on a 64K RAM system. If you do the Facebook thing, there’s an active Color Computer group where someone can point you to a program that does this, and there’s also an e-mail mailing list if you don’t do Facebook.
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Thank you for the video, Sir! I wish I were there, too...
i picked up my apple ii with 2 floppy drives for $15 at goodwill many years ago. this was before the internet & eBay.
Great haul! I got X16 number 965 myself and am just firing it up too.
Wished I could have made it this year. Was at a different convention that happened on the same weekend.
It was worth the trip
6:17 No pulley in the middle?
Very cool! I still haven't put power to mine yet to see what it will do LOL.
Yes that was a quite impressive machine in it's day. Too expensive for me. I had an Apple II, which was terrible for business software, BUT with the Z80 Softcard and an 80-column display card and CP/M all of a sudden it was PERFECTLY READY FOR business programming, with dBASE II,a masterpiece breakthrough in its day and I was not missing a thing anymore and was soo happy, and ready for business. In your upcoming videos, can you show how the Model II ran CP/M, e.g. WordStar and/or dBASE II?
Wish I could see your screen and read text while you did those steps. Hacking around with mine now-and there’s no real step by step guide on these. Yes I’ve gone to the GitHub and website by brutman and those are superb resources- for old pc experts!
Can't wait to see how you address the keyboard problem. Hope it's a simple adapter to get it going.
I did eventually find someone who can make an adapter, but I also just came across an actual keyboard on ebay, so we'll see if it works in a few days.
Wo! What kind of Z is that in that background at 16:35? Before I started collecting retro computers, I collected Z cars LOL I just acquired a Model II this week... with DMP-400 printer, disk expansion unit, original manuals & software, and a Compaq Portable to boot! Looking forward to getting them all out of my car this weekend (good thing I wasn't in a Z!) and testing everything out.
It's a 72 240z, or some of one, much has been lost to rust.
@@anachronisticthings6816 Yeah man... Being so prone to rust was pretty much the only shortcoming of those cars. Unfortunately, it's a big one... I had a '73 240Z with an LT-1 engine in it. It's probably a good thing I don't have it anymore as I would have eventually killed myself. It was so freakin' fast!
Thanks for the recap of the fest! We had a great time exhibiting :)
Thanks! I have a goal of having a table this year and attending for the whole thing.
@@anachronisticthings6816 Sounds like a good plan! You'll really enjoy it. Not sure if we'll bring The VintNerd booth back to VCF Southwest. Mrs VintNerd & I are busy making the first VCF in Southern California happen next month. Google VCF SoCal if you're interested. -Cheers, Steve
Fantastic Video...Much appreciated. I just got a TexElec card and am having a tough time. I used VirtualBox to format a 512MB CF card with MS-DOS 5.0. The card is not recognized by my system. Any help you could give me on how to get the card setup properly would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Scott
Can you see the drive at all in fdisk? If not it may not be compatible. I have read that xtide implementations can be picky about what brand/model of cf card is compatible.
Your best bet is Sandisk brand and low capacity like 512mb or even 64mb
2.25 hdd laptop size
Happy that you found some new batteries. Gotta love it when a plan comes together.
This was really helpful! I just bought a PCjr yesterday, and now I've ordered this same SD device from Raphnet. I appreciate the info you shared here!
I absolutely love this game. I continue to play it now on my Linux machines (Nethack). I have never gotten out of the game in 20 years of playing. :) But it's darn fun to lose... one of the few games that I can tolerate the difficulty.
Nice overview. And you retro Rick rolled us with that Deskmate doc!
Have never played F-15 Strike Eagle on my PCjr, will have to give it a spin.
Not sure if strike eagle 2 will work on the Jr but the original should
I use to have an SL/2. I wish I still had it.
Odd enough, my Apple power Macintosh 7200/75 has all 3 PCI slots used up for vga card, IDE card, and USB. I add a 128 MB of memory to along with 10GB hard drive and 40x cd burner, I have no software to write disk with it.
If I remember correctly, back in the day, we had a lone system with a CD burner where I worked and it was a mac. I think the software we used was called toast. Not sure if that is findable now.
@@anachronisticthings6816 thanks. I found a copy on WinWorldPC
Cool video, thanks for being so informative and concise!
???
Late 1980s childhood memory bliss compliments of a 3-note (+ 1 "noise" channel) polyphony squarewave generator (implemented on an IC from Texas Instruments built right onto the motherboard) and some clever programming! Having deskmate built into ROM loaded up so fast... But man was it slow navigating the music program waiting for the screen to redraw... The "high-res" 640x200x4 colors video mode was perfect for deskmate, and looked better than CGA because all four colors were used (blue for background; white, red and yellow for foreground) unlike most CGA games where only three colors were used and the background, which counted as a "color" was set to black. Also unlike games Deskmate didnt have to simulate real-life graphics, but rather just "information" and a GUI. Also deskmate came free with the computer, which itself was already quite inexpensive for the time and superior to the IBM PC in terms of graphics and sound.
6:10 They were still selling space warp and microchess for the model I in 1985? Wow!
At least in the catalogs, they really hung on to all their old platforms way longer than any modern company would it seems.
I should have mentioned that you can see a whole library of the catalogs at www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
Dungeons of Daggorath. INCREDIBLE GAME! I used to dream of playing all of the games listed in these catalogs. Crazy thing is, now we can go to a web site emulator and play them in just a couple of minutes.
i had the color computer 2 back in 1985. it was my first computer that my dad picked for me and the best computer i ever had.
HI, good review, i had kept the catalogs from @ 1982 to 1990. It was amazing to follow a product and watch the price drop each year, especially the Z80 versions. Regards George
The Tandy 2000 deserves to be remembered because due to its high resolution color graphics, Microsoft chose it as the system to develop one of their most important pieces of software at the time: a little experiment you may have heard of called Windows. Yes, Windows 1.0 for PC was built on the Tandy 2000, and its modular architecture meant that it could run on both machines, be tested on the 2000 and then boot on PC with different drivers.
Thanks for the memories!
Are you willing / able to post a dump of the Audio Spectrum Analyzer somewhere? I've never seen this version before. All other copies of that software i've seen look like this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGGYksiTnqyaYLg.html
I'll see what I can do. That does look different.
Glad you saw this, Tim. I went look for videos after I saw that FB post the other day. First one I found.
Do you know of some instructions on how to do a dump of the cartridge? I read that covering pin 8 with electrical tape would work but I have had no luck with that method.
@@anachronisticthings6816 There is indeed one pin you should be able to cover (even with Scotch tape) that disables the auto-start. Then you just do a CSAVEM of the memory range where the ROM-Pak lives, and can load it back in later on a 64K RAM system. If you do the Facebook thing, there’s an active Color Computer group where someone can point you to a program that does this, and there’s also an e-mail mailing list if you don’t do Facebook.
@@allenhuffman Ok, thanks!