Hi everyone & Adrian, I created the Apple Lisa documentary. Just wanted to mention that it's available digitally for streaming on Amazon Prime, as well as through Vimeo for streaming/download. I'm happy with how the DVD came out, but I'd actually prefer people to watch it in 1080p.
@nickwallette6201
15 күн бұрын
Love that there's a download option. I have a few indie documentaries in my library, and I'm always happy to see that there's a way to own it, even if physical media (or at least HD media) is beyond the reach of the filmmakers. I don't know (yet) if there's a cost associated, but if there is, your trust is appreciated.
@alogie
11 күн бұрын
I was a backer of the project, and I'm so impressed by how it turned out.
@pjm780
16 күн бұрын
FYI - Kodak is very much still alive. No where near the behemoth it once was, but they're returned to their roots of making film. Smarter Every Day did a wonderful video series touring their production facilities in Rochester, NY.
@CasualSpud
16 күн бұрын
The Disc Camera in the ad did not survive... worst camera I ever owned.
@nakfan
16 күн бұрын
Thanks for the heads up. I will check that out 😊
@rommix0
16 күн бұрын
Indeed. For a brief moment in 2020, I was messing around filming on Super 8 film, and thankfully since Kodak was still around I still was able to get film that could still be developed. I think it was Ektachrome.
@nickwallette6201
15 күн бұрын
That's actually really good to hear. There is some tech that we still have some use for, and took ages to perfect, that can just completely disappear when a company folds or sells off for the third time, taking all their hard-earned IP with them. It seems like such a waste.
@squirlmy
4 күн бұрын
@@nickwallette6201 This is why Open Source Hardware, and even just Open Source generally is such a good thing. Especially a project like Badger6502 (I can only find Badger2040 Is it a different project?) Anyways, if he stops, and the hardware isn't published, I'm never going to get that repaired (well, maybe I could glue the speaker!) There will be professional Open Source cameras, if there aren't already, and I see it like an extra-good warranty !
@jeromethiel4323
16 күн бұрын
I still buy DVD's and Bluerays. People might think i'm silly, but i have movies and series on both that i will own and be able to play for the rest of my life. Doesn't need an internet connection, doesn't need a computer, just a player and a TV. When the power goes out i can watch movies on an old laptop for quite a while (battery backups are amazing).
@RS-ls7mm
16 күн бұрын
My older discs have started to degrade. Planned obsolescence is everywhere.
@proCaylak
16 күн бұрын
I hope you have backups of those media. disc rot is a terrible thing.
@jeromethiel4323
16 күн бұрын
@@proCaylak I have optical media that is over 30 years old at this point. It all still works just fine. Now, burned media, that is definitely subject to rot as the organic dye layer can easily degrade over time. Factory pressed discs i have had no issue with. And if it fails, well, i have gotten my fair use out of it. I have had a LOT more non-optical storage fail over time than i have ever had failures of optical media.
@proCaylak
16 күн бұрын
@@jeromethiel4323 fair enough. I just wanted to say it because I have seen a mostly rotten CD Video disc(not to be confused with VCD) via Techmoan. I believe that disc was pressed rather than burned as it was a demo disc that predated CD-R standard.
@phanominon
16 күн бұрын
I still buy the DVD/Blueray of any series that we really like. The rent for life model is not for me.
@networkg
15 күн бұрын
A nurse once told me to carry a tiny tube of cake icing since even if semi conscious, a loved one can put it under your tongue.
@calinculianu
16 күн бұрын
Don't apoloigize for long episodes! I enjoyed the in-depth thing you did with that Lode Runner device! Very cool!
@locnar1701
14 күн бұрын
That computer desk, the blue and white one was quite common in one of my early jobs. The building we had come to occupy at the University I worked at was full of them, and they were amazing.
@bkd69ster
16 күн бұрын
What's funny about the Badger6502 is that back in the 80s, there were companies that were taking C64s, and customizing them for control applications using the cartridge port as the control interface, in much the way you would use modern microcontrollers now. Full circle.
@ingmarm8858
16 күн бұрын
Kodak isn't "gone" but they have certainly changed. They were very helpful with a forensics task I completed a few years ago that contributed significantly to the arrest of a serial killer here in Australia.
@lqueryvg666
16 күн бұрын
OMG - I have TWO of those teclab units in my garage - for all of my equipment.....They are TOTALLY awesome and VERY strong!!!! AND teclab is STILL in business!!! I recently asked them for quote on putting casters on those desks....They STILL have parts and accessories for them......tried and true stuff.....
@Stuart-AJC
16 күн бұрын
That 5170 was an AT/370. It didn't just connect to mainframes, it was kind-of a mainframe itself. I used something similar in the early 2000s which was a S/370 card in an RS/6000 (a bit niche, I'll admit). "The IBM AT/370 was a PC-based mainframe-compatible system that was discontinued in April 1987. It was designed to emulate IBM's System/370 mainframe computers"
@stonent
16 күн бұрын
And now we can all run MVS and VM/370 with the Hercules application in Windows and Linux.
@KameraShy
15 күн бұрын
Exactly. Along with the XT/370. Must be exceedingly rare.
@douro20
14 күн бұрын
There was also the P/390 which implemented the ESA/390 architecture in a custom Fujitsu gate array on a PCI card.
@Stuart-AJC
13 күн бұрын
@@douro20 Thinking back, I think the card in the RS/6000 was a P/370, maybe a predecessor of P/390?
@jeromethiel4323
16 күн бұрын
Tektronics, man i wanted an o-scope from them so badly when i was in college. It was all we had (with one exception) in our electronics labs, and they were just rock solid 100Mhz o-scopes. Which, at the time, were all you needed. All analog, all the time! No on screen display, no menus, just knobs and connectors. Simple, and yet so easy to use.
@Petertronic
16 күн бұрын
That's why I still use my 2445A as my main scope :)
@RS-ls7mm
15 күн бұрын
The razor sharp display of the old scopes is still better than the low res digitized scopes.
@jeromethiel4323
15 күн бұрын
@@RS-ls7mm I agree. There was just something "organic" about those analog scopes. Sure DSO offers a lot too, but the ergonomics and "feel" just aren't there for me. Probably a failure on my part, as i am a dinosaur! ^-^ Now what digital does VERY well, is in logic analyzers. And i would have given a testicle to own a 32 channel one of those back in the day. Just could not afford one.
@RS-ls7mm
15 күн бұрын
@@jeromethiel4323 I lucked out on the logic analyzer. Got an HP 1631D on eBay about 20 years ago. We used to fight over those at work.
@cristianpavan3071
14 күн бұрын
I still use tektronix's instruments daily at work. In the past 3 years we got some USB 3.1 spectrum analyzers (RSA 306B) and a couple of signal generators (TSG 4102A) that you can also control via LAN
@cerberes
16 күн бұрын
My first computer was the TRS-80. What a beautiful creation. And…the whole computer could be run on a pico. Lol
@DerekWitt
16 күн бұрын
My first computer was also a TRS-80. A Model III. :)
@TheSulross
14 күн бұрын
Similarly I have a tiny ESP32 SBC that has VGA out, PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse, an analog audio out port, a CF card for storage, and uses the old USB for power and com link to a host computer. I download an image that emulates a 8086 and CGA graphics. A menu allows choosing different flavors of MSDOS and even CP/M 86. Can run dev environments like Borland Turbo C or Turbo Pascal and of course various DOS games. Because the ESP32 is dual core, can dedicate a core do doing sound card emulation, so the games can run with decent sound. Is amazing to think this tiny little thing reproduces the functionality of the behemoth original IBM 5050 PC.
@TheSulross
14 күн бұрын
That case would be great for all manner of retro-themed project computers - or even to just put Raspberry Pi’s into to just use as Linux computer.
@squirlmy
4 күн бұрын
I'm not sure if you mean 1-4, or TRS-100, or TRS-80 Pocket Computers. One thing that irritates me is that all these different incompatible machines were labelled "TRS-80"! Obviously not your fault, but I think it was a sign they were doomed.
@DerekWitt
4 күн бұрын
@@squirlmy The Model II was the odd duck out of the first 4. Completely different architecture from the I, III, and 4. The II, 12, and 16 costed as much as a car at times! But, to be fair, Tandy did market the II et al to large businesses. The Model 2000 was a weird one. Why on Earth did Tandy choose the 186 instead of the 286 was beyond me. The 186 had compatibility issues with many PC programs. The 186 did see success in embedded controllers in later years.
@fritzkinderhoffen2369
16 күн бұрын
Very glad you are better. Good to see you in Dallas.
@lbeaton1
16 күн бұрын
I'm reading that IEEE Spectrum article about the C64 now, and came upon this: "The circuitry that displays either sprite information or background information at any point on the screen is sometimes slow to respond and overlays the sprite on the background information only after it has missed a few pixels." Aha! My C64 back in the day was plagued with this problem. Sprites looked okay when the computer was just turned on, but over time sprites would 'erode' starting from the left-most pixel of each line, then moving steadily rightwards over time. It drove me nuts, but teenage me had no idea what to do about it. Looking back, I think it was heat that caused it: when the chip was cool, everything was fine, but run it for a while and it warmed up, and this issue would creep in as the cathode ray raced from left to right. An added heat sink and thermal paste might have helped, if I had only known such things existed! Ah, memories.
@chironbramberger
16 күн бұрын
Never apologize for your videos! They are one-bagillian times better than most of the brain-rot videos out there. You could film your videos on that Fisher Price cassette toy camcorder from the 1980's and it would still be better than literally any Mr. Beast video. You are, hands down, my favourite KZitem channel... full stop! Thanks for all the great videos!
@gmirwin
14 күн бұрын
Seconded!
@jeromethiel4323
16 күн бұрын
They had me at "Chuck Norris jokes client." ^-^ Chuck Norris one round kicked Pi, and it's been irrational ever since! (i invented that one)
@thecodesorcerer
12 күн бұрын
Hi Adrian. Thanks for the review of the Badger6503Pico! Loved seeing the fractal benchmark! Enjoying the channel as usual.
@andrewdunbar828
16 күн бұрын
I *loved* the circle animation in Lode Runner and always wondered how he did it. Drawing a plain circle usually requires either trigonometry or square roots, both of which were slow slow slow on 8-bit systems. And the Apple II had a crazy screen layout with 7 pixels per byte which meant that calculating pixels positions required division by 7, also slow.
@KayakTN
16 күн бұрын
I saw you at VCF in Dallas but I didn't want to bother you. That place was packed. I ran into Action Retro, Usagi Electric, Macintosh Librarian, and 8-Bit Guy. It was great.
@KayakTN
16 күн бұрын
I may have spotted Vintage Geek in the registration line, but I couldn't remember his name. 😅
@gamingit1
15 күн бұрын
I love your channel! I hope that in some soon future on this and main channel there will be more crt stuff beacuse i love those videos! I have collection of few crt tvs so your videos about crts help me a lot.
@James_Ryan
14 күн бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this one! Definitely will be watching again when I return from vacation. Regarding learning assembly-language, I think that would make an interesting video series!
@stefanjohansson3578
15 күн бұрын
Your MMC´s are not too long! Everything you do is perfect in length, but I´m 50 and have an attention span of like forever. ;)
@galeng73
16 күн бұрын
LOL You were like a kid when going through the magazine. (And it was awesome.) Your channel reminds me of days gone by. It's amazing how much I've forgotten.
@michaelstoliker971
16 күн бұрын
Looks like you've got some Licorice All-Sorts in that Haribo container.
@RaymondSwanson-u9y
15 күн бұрын
Don't worry, Adrian, your content is worth the wait.
@SonjaWeygand
16 күн бұрын
Love the mail calls, always a blast!💖
@timothyp8947
16 күн бұрын
Ah - 8-Bit Dance Party… sometimes you only realise you’ve been missing something when you hear it again 😊
@Tyle_smalcu
15 күн бұрын
I miss Dead Parts Bin and Rammy too :')
@InfiniteLoop
15 күн бұрын
I love black licorice, so refreshing.
@itanasoaie
15 күн бұрын
Toshiba is still making semiconductors! Kioxia is their brand and they make the best flash memory on the market!
@hyunkattube
15 күн бұрын
I guess they are better than the upstart Chinese for now.
@jeromethiel4323
16 күн бұрын
Lode runner was a classic game. Plus, it came with a level editor so you could make your own. I made so many lode runner levels in college. They all kinda sucked, because i was learning the editor, but i had fun. Since the game as i had it came with 99 levels, every mechanic was in one or more levels already. There wasn't much i could add.
@jeromethiel4323
16 күн бұрын
Meatloaf?!? "Paradise by the disk drive light... You got to play what you can, And let Apple do the rest! Aint no doubt about it we were doubly blessed! We hat the 6502 chip and Woz's best!
@cfabz2023
16 күн бұрын
8:30 My other hobby besides retro computing is analog photography. Kodak is still kicking. They filed for Chapter 11 10 years ago, and were split into two companies, Kodak Eastman who handles manufacturing of film (not just photographic film), and Kodak Alaris who packages and resells photographic film. Kodak Alaris also took a lot of the digital IP that Kodak had. (Asianometry has a great documentary on why Fuji Film didn't suffer the same fate as Kodak, and no, it wasn't because Kodak ignored digital photography.)
@gmirwin
14 күн бұрын
Now if they would just start making 126 Instamatic cartridges again. I don't feel like fooling with the 35mm to 126 adapter cartridges.
@SantaClause-m9h
15 күн бұрын
Physical media is king. I own a couple lifetimes worth of movies and tv on blu ray and dvd. the idea of handing control to netflix or amazon, with them saying what or when I can watch is just terrifying to me.
@michaelallen1432
16 күн бұрын
Toshiba spun off their flash memory business.They are called Kioxara now. But Toshiba still makes semiconductors themselves. I don't know if they contract out the manufacturing like just companies or if they still run fabs.
@MarkSinclair
16 күн бұрын
Remember Adrian, Stay Healthy, Stay safe.
@Peter_S_
14 күн бұрын
I subbed to Eric's channel a while back. Highly recommended!
@larryk731
16 күн бұрын
My dad had the pink 6502 instruction book in about 1981/2 when he was working on a digital imaging system on the Apple 2+ in assembly language- Sadly he never finished it because funding was pulled by the backing company.
@Starchface
16 күн бұрын
I love how dedicated the TRS-80 "community" is! It's great to see so many reproduction parts available to keep these machines running and even to create entirely new ones. Well done y'all!
@RS-ls7mm
15 күн бұрын
I actually never heard of a TRS-80 group still building hardware. They have been pretty hidden compared to the other groups. TRS-80 model 1 was my first computer and where I learned everything.
@awilliams1701
15 күн бұрын
It was definitely anti-theft. I worked at hollywood video. If you put a new dvd through the scanner it sets off the alarm. If you open it completely and remove the strip it doesn't. We used to find those strips hidden throughout the store from time to time.
@cherrymountains72
16 күн бұрын
Adrian, you are posting a boatload as it is so please don’t apologise for not sticking to some kind of schedule due to illness. Take good care of yourself, please 😊
@AppliedCryogenics
16 күн бұрын
Adrian, there's another 6502-Pico project that's much further along. It's called PICO-56, and it's a pretty dang cool DIY kit. Has 12-bit color, like an Amiga, and a pretty spot-on boingball demo!
@professor-josh
13 күн бұрын
TRS-80: One user's "Trash" is another user's "Triss"
@davidhepler3812
6 күн бұрын
I use to work as a typeographer and our company did the typesetting for a number of IEEE magazines including Spectrum. I'm not only confident that I probably did some of the work on that magazine edition, I may have even done some of the work on that Comodore 64 article.
@nickwallette6201
15 күн бұрын
Woah. That TRS-80 Model 1 is awesome. I used to have a Model 2 when I was a kid. I learned to program on that thing. But, when I started watching retro computing videos on KZitem, and saw the Model 1, that form factor won me over. I usually prefer authentic hardware, but that repro looks so good, and would be a really fun project. Hmmm.....
@stevenjlovelace
9 күн бұрын
I got a picture with you at VCF SW and totally forgot to send it to you! 😭
@bouuigigw
16 күн бұрын
That meatloaf thing is awesome
@frankowalker4662
15 күн бұрын
Those CPU hand books are neat. I got the official Zilog Z80 technical manual in the 80's. It's been invaluable for coding on the ZX81 and the ZX Spectrum. I still use it.
@petevenuti7355
14 күн бұрын
Very cool haul you got there, I'm jealous
@evileyeball
10 күн бұрын
I love how two of my favorite tech KZitemrs (you and Techmoan) are T1D People.. I am T2 so lows aren't as easy to get for my kind haha
@kellyherald1390
15 күн бұрын
I got really good at removing those DVD case sealing stickers in one piece. It is easier than people realize.
@thomasesr
16 күн бұрын
Kodak is a leading global manufacturer focused on commercial print and advanced materials & chemicals. To this day. they still have a 300 million dollar avarage quarter revenue.
@MarianoLu
16 күн бұрын
That Fluke 8:50 was the one my dad had and the first digital multimeter I leaned to use. Before that he had a beautiful analog one that which got lost with the moves.. good times where I was tinkering with electronics in high school
@baronvonschnellenstein2811
15 күн бұрын
Lots of really cool stuff there, Adrian! The replacement TRS-80 Model I stuff is absolutely brilliant; I'll definitely be looking into the Meatloaf for C64 - That is a really neat implementation. Thanks for sharing all that stuff with us and glad to hear you're on the mend and getting out and about. 👍
@JustinEmlay
15 күн бұрын
Color-Rado looks like a colorful play on Colorado.
@jeromethiel4323
16 күн бұрын
29.97 is NTSC standard. We just call it 30 FPS because it's easier. I did some video editing of old school VHS and NTSC media, and 29.97 is the correct frame rate. You also had to get the frame order right, because it was interlaced. If you did NLE back in the day, and did a cut at the wrong frame, you'd get out of order frames, and the video would look like ass. Good times, good times. Took a tweaked computer to get it to work on a PC. And this is years after the video toaster came out. The PC architecture just wasn't well suited to video editing back in the day. Now, it's easy. Then, not so much. And by tweaked i mean i had to disable the clock in the taskbar, because that could interrupt the video processing and cause a glitched capture. And i had to run a RAID 0 card for throughput if i wanted to do TV quality (720X480) capture. A single 10K RPM drive just wasn't fast enough. But two 7200 RPM drives worked just fine.
@pbezunartea
12 күн бұрын
Great video!
@douro20
14 күн бұрын
Those Teclab benches are still very much in production.
@dadawoodslife
16 күн бұрын
That Harubo looks like what is called in the UK Liquorish Allsorts
@WizardClipAudio
5 күн бұрын
I used to have that HP liggable with the orange plasma display back when I was a kid.
@SergiuszRoszczyk
16 күн бұрын
RP2040 is not 5V tolerant, at least officially. Newer Pico 2 is actually 5V tolerant
@Scyllinice
14 күн бұрын
It is not 5V tolerant in every scenario. It's safer to treat it as 3.3V only. From a Raspberry Pi engineer on their forums: "Please refer to the datasheet, but in short, you should use 3v3 to be completely safe. The pins tolerate 5v under certain circumstances, but not all."
@myleft9397
16 күн бұрын
Meet the Loaf that led me through the Net to Mt Fuji
@KatarinaMelki
16 күн бұрын
I've seen Eric selling those 6502 emulators with Lode Runner at Portland Retro Gaming Expo for several years now. Maybe this year will finally be the one where I actually buy one for myself.
@awilliams1701
15 күн бұрын
for the stem, I'd suggest printing PCCF. I don't think you need an enclosure, but you do need a hardened nozzle. My printer has components found to weaken when using PETG and changing colors thousands of times (which I do regularly since I have an MMU3 color add on. The PCCF is amazing. Apparently it's easy to print as long as you can do higher temps. Unlike things like nylon. It's very durable I could tell when I installed those parts.
@morsd
16 күн бұрын
7:44 It looks like teclab is still selling that TWS-1000 lab bench. Price by quote 'tho.
@sprint955st
16 күн бұрын
9:26 you quickly flipped past an ad for CSC aka Computer Sciences Corporation. I worked for them in the U.K. 1991-1997, by then they were a very large IT outsourcing provider in Falls Church, Virginia with lots of large US defence contracts but nothing in the U.K. I worked for the company they took on as their first U.K. contract - we’d never heard of them. Later they merged with HP and became DXC now HPE.
@paul_boddie
12 күн бұрын
I was hoping he'd see an advert for Plexus. It would have been hilarious.
@Dr_Mario2007
15 күн бұрын
Raspberry Pi Pico microcontrollers are a quite interesting little chip that you can buy for a buck a pop - yet I am now looking at Raspberry Pi Pico 2 for exploration of x86 architecture translation (think Transmeta Crusoe, only it's architecturally similar to 80386 CPU) as it got two Hazard3 RISC-V microcontroller CPUs inside along with two Cortex M33 CPUs, to see what I can do with it (as I was planning on designing a RISC-V VLIW processor so I would want to see what I can do with limited hardware at first before I recode it for 64-bit hardware). And yes, the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 microcontroller also have a special ARMv7 / v8 M software translator inside its on-die bootloader that RISC-V CPUs use to understand exactly what the ARM CPU clusters want them to do. Still, honestly running 6502 softwares on the cheapest chip is epic and equally mind-blowing - imagine taking a Commodore 64 computer with you literally everywhere being small and compact.
@agw5425
16 күн бұрын
Did you ever test a weecee or any other "new" 486 mini pc? I would love to see a video on those type of retro pc versions and to get your take on whether they are worth the cost. Repurposed thin clients as retro gaming pcs, what is your rekommendation and opinion regarding those (Adrian)?
@rommix0
16 күн бұрын
Hey Adrian. Since you're deinterlacing in what is most likely a DV video, you should use the bob weaving deinterlacer. It should be a setting on Handbrake since Handbrake is really a front-end for FFMPEG that has that capability. It converts the 29.97i video to a 59.94p video (so close to a 60fps video). That's how it's originally supposed to play on progressive scan displays.
@terryraymond7984
16 күн бұрын
The Mega 65 you know is the improved FPGA for the C=65!
@klaatubob
16 күн бұрын
29.97 doesn't automatically mean 24 with pulldown applied. 29.97 is 30i with color data added for broadcast which takes up 2 frames every few seconds.
@nickwallette6201
15 күн бұрын
^ Yep. On DVD, it might be 24fps telecine, but if it's not a major studio film, it's just as likely sourced from 60fps or 30fps. And it's always possible that it's some mish-mash of any or all of the above. This is why deinterlacing DVDs is not a good idea. I mean, at the ripping stage, anyway... Just encode it as interlaced and use whatever filter looks best in your video player. I'm particularly partial to the "TV simulator" filters that play it back with actual interlaced scanlines, like it would've been on a real CRT. Yes it flickers. Yes it's half as bright. That's because that's what the content really looks like.
@jasejj
16 күн бұрын
Getting a complete 8-bit computer working on the Pico is absolutely possible - the ZX Spectrum has a full emulation setup running on it (PicoZX) and there are projects around to build a portable games system around it.
@TheBlueCoyote
14 күн бұрын
as for the whole "physical Vs digital/streaming" I like streaming for the convienance and allows me to view material, but one drawback a lot of people don't mention about the streaming media is that the ISP can go down, robbing you of all access to all of your streaming platforms until your ISP goes back up, and if you don't have anything downloaded and no physical media, you're probably in for a boring time unless you have books stashed away
@ghohenzollern
16 күн бұрын
Our Junior high shop class had something very similar to the PC EYE but for an Apple II. It would very slowly capture an image from a camera over the course of a couple seconds. If the subject moved in that time the picture was all wibbly. Somewhere I have some dot matrix printouts of the results.
@Toonrick12
15 күн бұрын
Is it called Meat Loaf as a spoof of the C64 being called a Bread Bin?
@idolpx
15 күн бұрын
It could be taken that way too. ;)
@CrassSpektakel
15 күн бұрын
That HP Luggagable-Computer ... I think I was working on one of them, most likely a predecessor as it only came with 256kByte (upgraded from 128kByte) shortly before I got myself an Amiga. It was definitely Unix but most of the OS sat in a ROM/EPROM as it had no hard drive. As far as I remember the programs weren't "loaded" from the ROM but actually directly running "from the ROM" which meant "Zero Load Time" and "Zero RAM foot print" - The system was incredible bare, a lot of stuff you take granted nowadays in bash and GNU-Tools simply wasn't there. No history in the Shell, pretty much all modern options missing from Tools like find, grep, ls and so on... Also it couldn't swap because it had no MMU and no HD, running out of memory was always just a single "ls |more" away. Oh, Pipes... pipes stored their data on the disk drive... it was slow, error prone and limited by what free disk space you had... just let that sink into your mind... I remember you even had to load awk from disk but at least that one was actually a bit more modern. All the stuff in the ROM was pretty fast for the time but have mercy if you accessed the disk drive... it also came with a basic set of networking tools - not what we nowadays consider networking like WWW, FTP, SSH, more a Network-Operating-Application with a Terminal Emulation and the ability up- and download stuff through X/Y/ZModem - it was hooked up to some Mainframe, though the owner did most work locally.
@paul_boddie
12 күн бұрын
It was the Integral PC, utilising a 68000 and running HP-UX from ROM. The HP Journal article from October 1985 is worth reading for some details.
@mrkosmos9421
15 күн бұрын
Now I kinda want to see a full ceramic/gold top c64 hehe
@didierdubos
15 күн бұрын
MeatLoaf is a Fujinet for C64
@gilbert1975nf
16 күн бұрын
I like the joke (or not!) about Boeing.
@wdd6864
16 күн бұрын
Hey Adrian, love the videos. Seems the audio quality is different. Keep up the great videos
@markkoops2611
16 күн бұрын
Never Twice Same Colour
@tekvax01
14 күн бұрын
The 29.97 is the rs-170a colour video standard. 30 frames per second was RS-170 Black and white NTSC. The 29.97 has nothing to do with 24.94 or 25 frames per second. Now if you really wanna learn something, check out the math behind those numbers, and then research 3/2 pull downs, drop frame timecode and non-dropframe timecode!
@zed9655
16 күн бұрын
Great content. As an idea next can u just talk a little about what u do not f your too long on a chair and don’t make it a point to stay active and not in front of a computer all day. Especially what do u so during the winter? Thanks just an idea
@distortions1
14 күн бұрын
29.97 and 59.94 are a result of the NTSC color burst.
@frankowalker4662
15 күн бұрын
If I was younger I would definately build a TRS-80 from scratch. Emulation does me these days though.
@squirlmy
4 күн бұрын
much more practical to build a ZX81, or any of the Z80 lineup. Lots of available kits, Also lots of copies made behind the Iron Curtain, and in Latin America. TRS-80 is known as a US only thing, partly because TI had good lawyers. lol
@frankowalker4662
3 күн бұрын
@@squirlmy Yeah, I've built a ZX81 and a Harlequin 128K. I used to have a TRS-80 Model I in the 80's. Fun computer. I had it turning projects on and off using the cassette remote function. LOL. (PRINT CHR$ 9, I think).
@artyangst
15 күн бұрын
Lode Runner: there's a keyboard shortcut to bypass that ANNOYING fade in/out effect. It *might* be "Ctrl-Z"
@annareismith6843
16 күн бұрын
I had COVID-19 finally and got over it too, and then got a cold I am still getting over.
@nickwallette6201
15 күн бұрын
Ugh same. Apparently I even catch pandemic viruses when they're retro.
@beforth
16 күн бұрын
8-bit show and tell should make a video repatching lode runner.
@thavith
15 күн бұрын
Layout for LodeRunner on the Apple][ is IJKL where I is up, J is left, L is right and K is down. U to dig left and O to dig right. The C64= was the same...
@Ed64
8 күн бұрын
E to enter edit mode, iirc
@twocvbloke
16 күн бұрын
The logo for that Meatloaf device reminds me of the BBC Master computer's logo with that 'M', it had me racking my brains for a bit trying to remember why it looked out of place yet familiar, kind of a confusing mix-up of 8-bit brands... :S
@idolpx
15 күн бұрын
The logo is a throwback to the C64 logo & badge. I've never seen the BBC Master's logo.
@Zeem4
15 күн бұрын
@@idolpx They're not that similar either - the BBC Master logo is monochrome and more ornate, consisting of two square arches in 3D perspective arranged to form an 'M', with two rows of text underneath in a serif font.
@Ed64
8 күн бұрын
It’s the ‘M’ in the chicken lips logo, rotated -90 degrees. The MEGA65 uses the same M
@roberthealey7238
13 күн бұрын
Pico2 probably could do the full emulation given the faster M33 dual cpu, increased ram and additional PIO.
@josch1710
16 күн бұрын
The licorice, that Haribo makes, is harmless and not very strong. Children should be able to eat them.
@pederb82
16 күн бұрын
Ooooh. Back when i worked at the local cinema and we got ads created by a semi large media company in my area I always had to convert their videos to 23,97 fps so it would not be chopping / stuttering on the projection. They used all kind of sources and just made a dcp with the wrong frame rates and the projection server didn’t know what to do with that as it don’t go via a hardware scaler. AI remember I export to individual tiff, convert to individual jpeg2000, color correct to zxy color space and then combine to dcp. How much easier it would be if ppl learned what setting they used when exporting projects/filming content compared to where it was gonna be used. Still. I miss the old days working on those projectors. :) Christie.
@wesley00042
16 күн бұрын
Atari really got frakked by the FCC on the 400 and 800 which is why they were so heavily shielded (and limited to SIO expansion)
@TheGreatAtario
15 күн бұрын
Looks like the dancing sprites are missing from that 8-Bit Dance Party…?
@ForTheBirbs
17 күн бұрын
I enjoyed the look through the magazine. I live near the Sydney "home" of various defence and aerospace companies. Cool
@JamesRichardsPlays
16 күн бұрын
meatloaf? Considering the age of a lot of these developers and what they are working on, wouldn't surprise me if they listen to MeatLoaf 😂. Unless meatloaf is a kind of acronym or some such. I am going to check out the project site. Yeah. I'm a MeatLoaf/Steinman fan. I had this in the background while tinkering with something and "meatloaf" got my attention 🤣
@AdamKlein77
14 күн бұрын
You think billions? That would be millions of new programs every year for a thousand years.
@roelandriemens
15 күн бұрын
Hi Adrian, when you showed the mandelbrot program on te eBadger6502 computer I had to test this on my AGON LIGHT 2 (ez80) computer with bbc basic. I get exactly the same results in 20 seconds 🙂. Perhaps not fair because the ez80 processor runs at 18.432MHz.
@melkiorwiseman5234
15 күн бұрын
Is the ez80 a copy of the old 8080A? Because if so, then it's actually running at 2.048MHz since the clock generator contains a built-in divide-by-nine circuit. The reason for using that frequency is that it's easy to further divide it to obtain the common frequencies used in RS-232 communications.
@0toleranz
15 күн бұрын
Hey Adrian, your little keyboard is okay but it probably needs proper initialization because it is usb/ps2 type. That init routine isn’t implemented in the badger pico computer. John from Johns Basement did a video recently where he implemented a ps2 interface for his z80 nuvo fpga project and he ran into the exact same issue with his Perrix keyboard- the same thing that comes with the Commander X16. So with this you need an „dumb“ ol ps2 keyboard or need to implement that init of the keyboard.
@johanlaurasia
18 күн бұрын
FYI, Every model I came stock upper case only (I know), and lower case was a modification that you could purchase from Radio Shack. It basically added a piggy backed RAM chip over the character 'RAM' chip, with one pin bent out (a chip select line I'd guess), with a wire running from that to somewhere on the motherboard. I think it was ~$50. The character ROM supported lower case, RS just didn't (ever) build in support for lower cast until the Model II and III
@jeromethiel4323
16 күн бұрын
I have several model I's with no character mod. Might have been common, i don't honestly know. But i know the one i had back during the late 70's didn't have one. That computer is long gone, but i have since purchased more. And while some have mods (like the gold finger mod for the expansion port), none have the lower case mod. Did the lower case mod kill the graphical characters?
@retrozmachine1189
16 күн бұрын
@@jeromethiel4323 The only issue with the LC mods I can remember was no proper descenders on the characters.
@jeromethiel4323
16 күн бұрын
@@retrozmachine1189 Yeah, the circuitry for the video system enforced the blank space. The video system for the TRS-80 was pretty primitive, but it worked well for what it was. On my old school model 1 (from the 70's) if you pried the TRS-80 logo off of the monitor, it had knob holes, because it was just a B&W TV set slightly modified (no tuner) for use with the computer.
@marcelerz
16 күн бұрын
@johanlaurasia Yes, the Model I came by default with only 7 bits. Actually the 6th bit was derived from bit 7 and bit 5. When installing a lowercase mod, one had to cut the trace for this “deriving” logic and add two bodge wires. Like you said, a piggyback static RAM needed to be installed to add the additional bit. In fact, 2 legs needed to be bend up for the in and output for that one bit. The chip select was done in tandem with all the other bits.
@marcelerz
16 күн бұрын
@@jeromethiel4323No, the graphical characters were not killed by it. The lowercase mod just added another bit. By default only 7 bits were used for the ASCII storage and the 6th bit was derived. The 8th bit (when counting the derived one) did signal if it was a ASCII character (ASCII just needs 7 bits by itself) or if it was a graphics “character”. So, there were 6-bits of graphic characters (2 horizontal pixel and 3 vertical pixel). Adding a lower case mod just replaced the “derived” bit and therefore had no impact on the graphic character sets. Interestingly, after installing the lowercase mod, you still need an updated character generator. The early ones had lowercase characters, but the Model 1 system ROM didn’t support it and converted characters into a different place in the ASCII table when the derived bit was not there as expected - they never thought they needed it. So, the later character generators actually needed to have a set of character duplicated to make things work, fixing the software issue. See number four here for the character set with the duplications: github.com/RetroStack/Character_Generator_ROMs/tree/main/TRS-80%20Model%201/32-Option_2x256#combinations-and-features I am by the way the person Adrien is talking about (RetroStack).
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