BTM86

BTM86

I enjoy making KZread videos as a fun hobby. A majority of my videos are related to vintage computer stuff from the 80s and 90s, and sometimes some newer stuff too.

I don’t upload on a regular schedule. There may be 2 days between videos, there could be 2 weeks between videos, depending on how much time and inspiration I have.

Anyway I hope you enjoy my humble little channel and maybe consider subscribing.


See what my channel looked like in the past
web.archive.org/web/*/kzread.info/dron/nOkKwatqbgCBfwbJ9-QeCw.html

5 rem type this into your c64 :)
10 sa=49152
20 for i=0 to 62
30 read a:poke sa+i,a:next
40 sys sa
50 end
60 data 120,169,13,141,20,3,169,192
70 data 141,21,3,88,96,72,138,72
80 data 152,72,162,0,189,58,192,157
90 data 0,4,165,251,157,0,216,232
100 data 224,5,208,240,169,13,197,252
110 data 208,6,169,0,133,252,230,251
120 data 230,252,104,168,104,170,104,76
130 data 49,234,2,20,13,56,54

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  • @20windfisch11
    @20windfisch112 күн бұрын

    1, 2, 3, Techno! Maximum Velocity! DAS BOOT!

  • @tifouin
    @tifouin10 күн бұрын

    Thanks from France

  • @NNokia-jz6jb
    @NNokia-jz6jb14 күн бұрын

    CP/M is the OG. Someone coppied CP/M and sold the source code to Microsoft. And so the evil started.

  • @NNokia-jz6jb
    @NNokia-jz6jb14 күн бұрын

    Today i booted multiplan for c64.

  • @NNokia-jz6jb
    @NNokia-jz6jb14 күн бұрын

    When i was a kid, i had Visicalc. Had no idea what it do, and no-one could tell me. But i had it. 👌🤗

  • @rudyiraheta80
    @rudyiraheta8021 күн бұрын

    world of commodore from printmaster plus

  • @tematoscybersage5626
    @tematoscybersage562621 күн бұрын

    wow \*_________*

  • @jabuci
    @jabuci23 күн бұрын

    Congrats! Enjoy it. Best machine ever :)

  • @evanjenkins1620
    @evanjenkins162025 күн бұрын

    I’m inclined to agree with this super serious assessment

  • @evanjenkins1620
    @evanjenkins162025 күн бұрын

    I saw one of your reels for the first time recently. It was just alright - I don’t really care for that form of video. Today I pulled up a video on the C128 and enjoyed it - then saw it was made by the same guy! Now I’m going through your videos and watching all the ones that interest me from oldest to newest. You’ve gone from 33 subs at the time of this video to 1.8k, congrats!

  • @evanjenkins1620
    @evanjenkins162025 күн бұрын

    Nice video! A good overview of the game. It’s a good example of how a game that fully realizes its concept ages gracefully. I played a LOT of Zoo Tycoon 1 + 2 as a kid. Even though 2 was more modern, I still played a lot of 1 due to its different content. Graphical differences aside, it generally felt more like “more of the same good stuff” than a downgrade.

  • @evanjenkins1620
    @evanjenkins162025 күн бұрын

    Nice video! These are neat computers. I’m getting a 600mhz graphite set up for my girlfriend. The dual boot feature is pretty cool, looking forward to exploring both 9.x and 10.x games

  • @rbebut1
    @rbebut126 күн бұрын

    What was I thinking of when I bought this device?

  • @TimRiker
    @TimRiker28 күн бұрын

    Visicalc on the Apple originally only worked with the Videx 80 column card. Visicalc Advanced supports the standard Apple 80 column card.

  • @muralidharan6755
    @muralidharan6755Ай бұрын

    Wow super. And the sad part is the he died in Ooty (Tamilnadu) after losing it all . Mr. Osborne

  • @KingNast
    @KingNastАй бұрын

    The sound of this thing is so nostalgic for me. I actually still have the one my dad bought in 1984 or 85 when I was a freshman in highschool. Printed many reports on it all through highschool. The ribbon that's in it probably still has some of them on it

  • @ingenfestbrems
    @ingenfestbremsАй бұрын

    Only the rich kids had floppy drives in the early to mid 80’s. Pretty much used cassettes with my c64c in the late 80’s beside my 1541-2 disc drive. There still was games on cassette that wasn’t found on diskettes

  • @jabuci
    @jabuciАй бұрын

    What machine is this run on?

  • @2kBofFun
    @2kBofFunАй бұрын

    It is one of the sleekest looking machines, but inside it is a mess. They should have merged both video outputs in a single RGB signal (and tweaked the VIC for RGB output as well). Also it is hard to open, no idea what to do after unscrewing the 6 screws, it still stays shut. The power brick is ginormous and should have been built in. But the weirdest is the 2 BASICS. They should have made 1 with backwards compatibility, and on the fly 40/80 column switching as with other machines from its time.

  • @jod1653
    @jod1653Ай бұрын

    "Don't be afraid john"

  • @Killicon93
    @Killicon93Ай бұрын

    Wish we'd have some kind of revival of these simple 8-bit style machines. Just for that very simplicity and forwardness that made them such a great path for learning programming. Simple computers with comprehensive manuals, nothing extra to distract the user, you wanted a program you programmed it. Like my mother told me how in her university her and her classmates told me how they didn't have calculators and they got one of their computer savvy friends to program calculators for them and paid him in vodka. But now, most classrooms have chromebooks and the like. Which despite being rather clipped feature-wise are also surprisingly bloated. I had a total nightmare of a job teaching game development to elementary school kids. Classes of various ages, with various levels of tech competency, using computers with built-in venues for endless distraction. It was a job in of itself to keep those kids away from watching youtube shorts. And the levels of tech competency, I could have a class where one kid was taking extracurricular programming classes and another kid would only type with their right index finger. But absolutely the worst part was that the whenever the kids would grow bored or frustrated they'd be lulled into consuming lowest denominator entertainment. We need classroom computers for kids with which the most entertaining thing to do is to engage in programming.

  • @jeffstack4217
    @jeffstack4217Ай бұрын

    0:03 Si'

  • @Mr.1.i
    @Mr.1.iАй бұрын

    Off by heart i could remmeber a 10 lined music program that turn the electron into a piano "q2w3er5t6y7ui9o0pzsxcfvgbjnkml" i still remember the keys i had to reserve for input a$

  • @Mr.1.i
    @Mr.1.iАй бұрын

    Commodore made the mistake of making a million computers which was a machine that was not compatible with the c64 library that faild in America but was successful in europe and then they made a machine that was compatible with c64 software but developers would not take on the machine because the 16 bit market seemed the way forward.....if only ....the 128 is a good computers capable of holding its own against a acorn bbc master 128

  • @Mr.1.i
    @Mr.1.iАй бұрын

    I use to work my mums knitting patterns into an acorn electron in a similar way and i could set the resolution mode to 640x256 for a 80coloum display .user definable graphics was well explaind in the electrons user guide.many games redesigned the font completely

  • @qsfrankfurt9513
    @qsfrankfurt9513Ай бұрын

    Ah the days of the old spreadsheet programs, Lotus 1 2 3, and Quattro Pro, before Excel took over... Corel should work on making Quattro Pro a proper competitor to Excel. They can do it, but they don't put in the resources...

  • @pookiewookie7679
    @pookiewookie76792 ай бұрын

    char Farts[1] Lol

  • @CaribouDataScience
    @CaribouDataScience2 ай бұрын

    I had VisiCalc for in Atari 800.

  • @jhonbrayanangaritamedina1047
    @jhonbrayanangaritamedina10472 ай бұрын

    LDX #$00 LDA $2010,X JSR $FFD2 INX CMP #$00 BNE $2002 RTS INY EOR $4C JMP $204F DCP $4F,X STP JMP $2144 BRK

  • @eric_d
    @eric_d2 ай бұрын

    All that in 4kb, and my current laptop with 32GB RAM isn't enough!

  • @johnc.9073
    @johnc.90732 ай бұрын

    You can use Trigraphs instead of remapping the keys. Something like: ``` ??=include <stdio.h> int main(void) ??< printf("Hello, world! "); return 0; ??> ``` reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs

  • @paulh6591
    @paulh65912 ай бұрын

    My high school had Apple II computers hooked to a communal Corvus Constellation hard drive. First year at the local community college in Northern Virginia had a room full of these Osborne 1 computers

  • @delscoville
    @delscoville2 ай бұрын

    I have a SX-64 with twice the CPUs as a Commodore 64. Of course that means the Commodore 128D has three CPUs.

  • @haweater1555
    @haweater15552 ай бұрын

    In Canada, the initial MSRP was CDN$895, but less than two years later the typical selling price was CDN$300.

  • @Charleshawn66
    @Charleshawn662 ай бұрын

    TY for the C128 content.

  • @Charleshawn66
    @Charleshawn662 ай бұрын

    NICE! TY!

  • @captainfuture2882
    @captainfuture28822 ай бұрын

    Interesting to see a young man go back in history and discover the old times of computing

  • @bozimmerman
    @bozimmerman2 ай бұрын

    I wonder if he ever got the drive working.

  • @pianowhizz
    @pianowhizz2 ай бұрын

    If the publisher doesn’t support the game anymore you can simply reverse charge your credit card for failing to provide the service you paid for. My bank lets me reverse-charge even 10 years later!

  • @MrPartzz
    @MrPartzz2 ай бұрын

    Excellent video. Was sat thinking about software implementations on the c64 and your video was right on point!

  • @krielow08
    @krielow082 ай бұрын

    That's mouse quiet compared to my mps801!

  • @johnsobota6234
    @johnsobota62343 ай бұрын

    Oh man, i laughed so hard. Thanks for that!

  • @DouglasJenkins
    @DouglasJenkins3 ай бұрын

    I started using GUI based OS's with Windows 1.03 in 1987. I then switched to GeoWorks 1.0 in 1991. I had forgotten how amazing it was for its time - for a total package on top of a useful OS. Thanks for the memories.

  • @g04tn4d0
    @g04tn4d03 ай бұрын

    So that's what I was like when I was a kid... 🐐🤷‍♂️😎😜

  • @judgewest2000
    @judgewest20003 ай бұрын

    pure and utter magic!!!!

  • @telesniper2
    @telesniper23 ай бұрын

    I'm old enough to remember precisely when we lost the script in personal computing. And I remember thinking exactly that at the time. Right around 1993 (I was a teenager at the time). You're right, the switch to SMT was a big deal at the time, and nobody would listen to my criticism of them, dismissing it as "conspiracy theory". Because just a few years prior to this, lots of people (they were weird) could and did build their own micros from "scratch", so that was possible for the hobbyist. I had read Steve Ciarcia's "build your own z80 microcomputer" and another book "Build your own 8080A computer". Well the switch to SMT just seemed like a massive scam and conspiracy to edge people out of having control and being able to create their own stuff. And yeah you can do SMT nowadays but it requires lots of special tools and some specialized knowledge. At the time we didn't know all that would become easy to acquire. Also another thing that happened right around this time was a HUGE jump in complexity in processors in one generation. Like the 386 you could still kinda understand all the instructions in there, but then they jumped to 486 (and especially it's successive iterations), and it was so complex it was beyond hope. Same thing with 68030 to 68040 which was a HUGE jump in complexity in both the complexity of the processor and the ISA and behavior of it. You got a real sense of them slamming the door shut on the hobby.

  • @glenrichards5366
    @glenrichards53663 ай бұрын

    Nice overview. It's a pity all these cartridges Commodore released don't really work with each other - Superexpander + Programmer's Aid, VICMON (and possibly BASIC 4.0) working together would have been pretty nice.

  • @mvl71
    @mvl714 ай бұрын

    I gave this video a like, but the counter now says 65. Sorry...

  • @blackterminal
    @blackterminal4 ай бұрын

    You removed rf shields but did not add heatsinks for the chips that previously had cooling tabs from the shield.

  • @yucelbilik
    @yucelbilik4 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much for this nice information.