A channel dedicated to Retro and vintage computers, games, consoles and associated hardware.
This can include keyboards, midi, cameras and the devices that made vintage and classic computers useful as well as their inventors and their history.
I also repair and service classic tech in order to keep it running for decades to come.
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Good to see London from this perspective! Great sortie.
Hi Philip, I recently became the owner of aSharp MZ700, The yellow safety caps blew in the psu, im wanting to add an sd drive like yours
I use hydrogen peroxide mixed with oxyclean on my Atari st years ago and it didn't harm the plastic.
Missed you, man. Hope you are doing well.
Missed you guys as well. Its great to be back.. There is more retro computer vids to come and I am looking forward to doing them :) Thank you
Show more of the helmet cam footage. Showing the journey is a good form of slow tv that helps with insomnia, and you'll show some more obscure parts of the country
Long time no see. Welcome back Phil. Nice bike and great camera shots. 👍
Thanks.. Yes its been a while - Im looking forward to getting back into the retro scene again as I have missed it. Thaks for all the great comments its very much appreciated :)
Have you got a Spectrum Next yet?
Wow long time no see.
the 600 was a very bad movement for commodore..They had to keep selling the 500s since they were to release the 1200 just 1 year after the 600...Imagine the people who bought a 600 thinking "it is a new computer" just to see it was obsolete the next year..commodore shot themselves in the foot doing that...
I bought a ZX Spectrum +, had it only kept the rubber original model case. I wouldn't have even bothered buying a ZX Spectrum computer. Still was a good enough machine for the price. Sold my ZX Spectrum + towards funding an Atari 1040 STFM which replaced it.
I still have the ZX I got when I was a kid,, a "rubber key" 48K, with interfaces, microdrives, joystick, 100% original except composite mod and reset switch, another Speccy with an IBIS card + SD + PS/2 + serial and I finally bought the GO+, installed in a "toastrack" ZX, with no modification to the case. I downloaded all ZX roms and use my PC as "cassette player".
Interesting video, thanks.
Good little video dude. Am thinking about the SD to ST as opposed to Gotek - good option?
"Because it's fun" - is the *best* excuse for doing these kinds of projects 🙂
Maybe because you are using a Raspberry Pi that uses an ARM chip maybe Archimedes programs might be better.
You will need an UDOO RYZEN BOLT V2000 Maker Board SBC should be able to do everything a IBM compatible can do and more and as it uses a RYZEN APU (combined CPU and Graphics Card) in one chip.
There are UV sprays to protect after retrobriting.
Do you know any brand in particular? Or were to find it ?
@@angelraices5793 I recently used “303 Aerospace Protectant” .. It has a matt finish and non greasy feel..
Sorry, forgot o add… Easily found online..
Mac’s made when CEO Michael Spindler was around are notorious for brittle plastics. It has nothing to with retrobriting. I have Mac’s from that era, they were made with cheap plastics. Remember apple was in the red back then.
Hi thanks for the video. Since your video many of the points you make at the top have been debunked, one of them is bromine - it has no influence. Still your video and your experiences and methods are appreciated.
I found a nice boxed 128/1570 combination, but I have to agree on all you said about it. It's tough to get everything out of it, especially as it is terrible looking on say a Trinitron with RGB SCART, even worse than an original breadbin. Only the keyboard is a big upgrade from the breadbin, and typing is easier. And it is maybe the best looking computer Commodore ever made, that is worth some credit. So if you are out to buy a C64 machine, get a breadbin. These are like 75€ in good working condition, and it is the best deal to get into Commodore 8-bit.
New designs of the pcb allow the pico zx to be installed in an original case.
If that played commodore 64 games it would have ended sinclair
I remember having the plus/4,I was about 10 when I got it and I remember the manual does not explain user definable graphics I got an electron a few years later and I took to programming that more graphics were quite easly explained in the manual
Yes...the dammed PSU!...it was first to go....I think the AD/DC conversion was done onboard
This was my first PC. My Dad bought it at the end of 1992, the store was trying to get rid of all their Commodore PC line at bargain prices. I think he said he got it for $1000 AUD, when it was originally double that, along with a mouse (didn't include that Commodore mouse), a copy of Windows 3.0 and the Secret of Monkey Island :) I think it was ex-demo hence some missing bits. It was a 486 SX 25 with 2Mb RAM and 80Mb HDD (the small amount of RAM became a problem relatively quickly). I upgraded it with one of the Original 8bit Mono Soundblasters. (Which was an absolutely seismic shift in how I played games, I was blown away, only seeing a 3DFX card in action years later was equal to it). I noticed the Sound Blaster Pro in the video is a CT2600, which is a much rarer variant. (They are normally CT1600). My Dad also got me a Quickshot joystick to play Wing Commander, with that same Joystick card. It must have been a common upgrade then. I remember it went from being the fastest computer anyone in our social circle had, at the end of 1992, to being hopelessly obsolete, unable to play any new games, within the span of about 2 years. It was REALLY HARD to convince my parents to upgrade too, they couldn't believe such a relatively new item was now useless. Eventually my Dad gave in and bought a 486 DX4 100 :) - I was a happy DOOM player then.
Unfortunately, painting can lead to embrittlememt of the plastic too. A lot of spray paints, including those intended for plastics, contain solvents like acetone. These cause ABS plastic to become brittle over time (a couple of years). I don't know what the mechanism for this is, because the acetone would be long gone, but it must affect the structure of the plastic somehow. Maybe it causes some of the plasticizers to migrate? I had this happen on a UPS I refurbished. I had given the face plate a coat of spray paint intended for plastics, but only in the area that was visible when the unit was assembled. It was under my desk, and one day, I idly rested my foot on it, and I felt it crack. On further inspection, the parts that I had sprayed were brittle, and could be broken apart with almost no pressure, exactly like the Apple machine in this video. Areas of the plastic that had not received any paint were fine, and would bend instead of breaking.
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Not a bad video but I personally wouldn’t bother with a go tech as that stops me running original games. Also there’s around 1800 games (including all of the best ones) modified for use from a hard drive, so everything can just be stored on SD card (making the go tech pretty redundant). Also, pretty much every TV has an RGB scart socket in the U.K.(I have around 7 CRT/LCD screens and they all have one), so why bother with a composite cable?
Why do all these Brits insist on calling these things "Zed ex"? There is no "ed" in the name. Can they not comprehend the letters "Z" and "X"? If they can't even get that right, why should we continue watching?
I remember the tape drive failed some times. To prevent this it had the option to configure a double data storage algorithm, what meant the data was stored twice on the tape.! It was able to manage a lot of different virtual and physical disks, up to 8, at the same time, not bad for the size of the computer.
whats that a cup of coffee on top of an Atari ST, lol, asking for a distruction
It's not U Speech it's micro speech. The Greek symbol used is the symbol µ which means micro. I had the Fuller Master Unit which used the same phoneme chip to produce speech but required poking values to the chip in quick succession to create words.
Good to see Mark here. From one of your postgraduate students at UoP.
I found my PX8 yesterday after 30 years in a box. I learned and used BASIC to learn Morse code to get my ham license, and to find the best cut for making lumber entering the log's diameter. I cannot find my 3.5 external floppy drive.
This was my first pc, an ex-display model from Arding & Hobbs in Clapham junction. Last year I saw one on eBay and bought it again. The keyboard is amazing compared to the rubbish you get these days
Great video, coz I’m building a Harlequin right now. Can you explain your rom settings like wich rom goes in wich section of the rom to burn it?
You keep mentioning the discolouring is down to the Bromine coming to the surface, it has nothing to do with the Bromine, it is the change in the chemical structures due to oxidisation that causes the light being reflected off the surface to be at a different wavelength, trending towards yellower end of the spectrum. That's the same change in chemical structure that makes plastics brittle.
Isn't this crazy? They sell a bluetooth keyboard which more or less emulates the zx spectrum keyboard - the worst of all keyboards, if there had not been the ZX81. 😀 The ZX81 indeed was also my first computer, but also part of this experience was to create my own advanced keyboard at these old times. So soldering and tinkering around with this little box was part of the experience.
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Vga to Hdmi is very hard to get working on these, to the point I gave up. I tried 3 different vga to hdmi ones, and even a vga to composite, none of them worked. I think its to do with the non standard way the vga is created, using a simple 2 resistor voltage divider network as a simple d/a converter, and these vga to hdmi/composite converters don't seem to like the levels it produces or the sync pulses.Vga works fine on both of my vga monitors though!, but then vga monitors are very tolerant. If anyone has managed to get this board working with hdmi drop a comment how please!, otherwise consider this a vga only device....
There was 700 and 711 ? I only knew about 721 (my first computer actually) and 731.
When you come to remove hot glue just use isopropyl alcohol. It releases the grip on hot glue in seconds. Good stuff
Maybe "Batman bundle" sold Amigas in UK (in other countries there was no "Batman bundle"), but one thing is true-(successful) Amiga marketing was about "selling dreams". First time I saw Amiga games in Computer magazines (about 1989) I started drooling...I though if I could get so much as just to see Amiga gaming in person, it would be as all my wildest dreams come true. So, in essence Amiga on itself was already "dreamy" and magazines were just "spreading the word". Please note that I saw just black and white screenshots in printed media (Defender of the crown, Sword of Sodan and Shadow of the beast, It came from the desert and some more), and it was enough for me to started dreaming about it. Furthermore, Amiga promised to bring "arcade home" (which was hugely important in the 80s) which it delivered to the extent (Golden Axe, Final Fight, Toki), especialy comparing to 8bit computers, whose arcade ports were almost non playable. One more thing is important-Amiga only found success after Amiga 1000 adopted Atari ST 520's form factor and Amiga 500 was delivered to the market as compact, basicaly gaming machine. So, in esence, bundling Amiga with RF modulator for direct output to TV was crucial for Amiga's success.
Sorry but I had to give this video a thumbs down. Watched half it then just skipped the rest. All you were showing me was a lot of cases, what I really wanted was to see inside them. This made the pico the most interesting.
Do you think they could anounce the c16mini this Year?
Retro games ltd anounced the 400mini in march 2024.
Used the ALT-286 for a number of years in the early 90's. Ability Office, Sage and Omnis database for work. Connected to a Novell NetWare server! Sharing files with my colleagues. It was the future!
The modern reinterpretation of ZX81 as a terrible computer by Americans seems really strange and reflects a real ignorance of how things were. My dad had (still has) a ZX81. He subsequently stepped up over the years. The ZX81 was his introduction to computing. Far from feeling it was a poor and useless computer, my dad regards it highly for the fact it bought home computing to ordinary people like himself. Of course it's primitive compared to what you could buy within only a few years, but it set a path that others had little choice but to follow.
What Commodore should have done from the start is split the Amiga technology into two distinct lines. 1 - A games console version with some strong games on release and aggressive marketing (technically it was superior to any other console on the market in the second half of the 80's) Lets not forget that the original goal was to bring arcade quality games into your home at an affordable price. 2 - The professional line of Amiga computers aimed at video editing/production, music production etc.and you have the developer machine for the console at the same time. They did try that with CD32 in the end but by then the Amiga technology was already getting outdated/surpassed.
Not re-capped and a bodged taped up keyboard membrane is not refurbished. That is a serious case of mis-selling and you should return it for a full refund. You blend very well with your walls in that shirt!