It was awesome, loved it. I bet the 80 dollar game he forgot at home was... The Bard's tale!!! OMG I didn't have that game or a commodore 64, but my friend did and we played the shit out of that game! So good.
Brings back major memories. My first experience was with a Vic 20, and graduated to the C-64 a few years later. Spent hours upon hours with books filled with BASIC code, programming games and programs. Even talked my parents into getting a 64 for my little sister, which they kind of took over after we showed them BASIC programs to code into it. Spent many an hour debugging line after line and laughing our butts off when we made mistakes. ;)
Hours upon hours typing BASIC programs into memory from magazines...so much fun! I had a friend in data-entry that would type in the Assembly code programs because nobody else could stand it. Always fun to find out whether or not it would run, and if not, how the heck to debug it!
My mate Tom was the first of us to get a computer. It was the Vic20. Played Scramble on that for hours. Then another friend got an Acorn Electron which was all Chuckie Egg and Twin Kingdom Valley plus Elite. I got a BBC model B for Christmas after that and a whole bunch of kids had the C64 and Spekky. Moved on to Atari ST and Amiga 500/1200's before the first Playstation destroyed everything and then PC's got Doom and started to become more affordable. Lots of great memories from growing up in the 80's :)
BBC Micro for me. I remember getting SO frustrated when the programs didn't work due to a missed ; in line 438 that you had to find by reading line by line.
born '82 and grew up with a C64 me and my dad used to game on...beside him printing, in retrospect, pointless houshold lists on a needle printer of which the sound has permanently imprinted in my brain. Ah the good old childhood times. Highlights such as Giana Sisters, Bubble Bobble and all those Winter-, Summer and World Games give me instant nostalgia flashbacks from time to time.
This made me smile. I am 27 now and my first computer had NT 3.1 on it, then was upgraded to windows 98. To make me realize how easy I had it (because I would complain that it was too slow as a kid) my dad found his old commodore that my grandmother had boxed up in her attic and set it up and told me if I could get his copy of project firestart to run and actually play it, he would take me out to a restaurant of my choice. It took about 2 hours to figure it out but I got it running. That was a great memory I have of my dad and it definitely taught me to not complain about speed. Seeing you show your daughter where all the modern tech came from and what you grew up with brings back alot of good memories. Thank you for trip down memory lane.
Oh, the memories. Learning Basic, making my own programs, playing games. The disk drive manual was so detailed the I leaned about blocks, sectors, the whole 8 bits being a byte and so on. I want to say you spent about what it cost new back in the day for everything you got in total. Great video!
The Commodore 64 challenged you to learn about the computer itself. Everything about the computer was documented from the circuit board, to the chips and right up to programming tutorials. It was a computer Mr. Wizard would have been proud of.
This was so sweet. My computer memories actually predate the C64 but this machine holds a special place in my heart. Back in 86 my soon-to-be father-in-law had a small graphics shop where he would do magazine layups and design work for the local businesses. He had been sold this exact system (including the printer) because he wanted to do his job logging and billing on this 'wonder machine'. Well of course the fact there was no software tailored to his business was something of an impediment. I was engaged to his daughter and on our first trip over to the USA from the UK he told me of his problem. I've been a computer geek my entire life so this was the first time I got my hands on the C64. We were staying at the family home in LA for three weeks and in that time I wrote the system he needed. It was simple and stable and he used my C64 billing system for the next eight years. I've been married to his daughter for the past 35 years. I'm 67 and if you're the PC Grandpa then I'm the PC Methuselah. Love what you do Jay. I swear, I think I will pass away under a desk fixing someone's machine. I just finished my son's 13700 based audio production machine. It never leaves you, IT for life. BTW My first game was Zork transcribed out of Byte magazine onto a Wang 2200 I was a night op for. (yeah, those are some words)
Those early days when anyone who had a computer was viewed as a wizard (aka resource to be plundered). I remember teaching my schools headmaster how to use his computer in the early 80s (the student became the master at early age back then)
This man is a lucky dude, having his kid show interest in what he's interested in. Makes it all the more fun when you have people close to you sharing your passion.
@@hartmutdietz1228 in retro video games? No. Casually many children play video games, much like many adults watch sports on TV. Only some will know what the next basketball game is in the Phillipines local league or wake up early to watch Australian football. Being passionate about something is quite different than generally showing interest.
Adrian's Digital Basement might be able to help you with the sound issue. My first computer was as C64 and like Jay my second was a C128. My favorite game was called "Silent Service" a submarine game. Good memories and thanks for doing this video.
Adrian, Jan Beta, RMC, Mark fixes stuff, CRG are a few channels that come to mind. Nice part about Adrian is he is up in Oregon so he's not toooo far haha.
This was a fantastic episode, Jay. My Dad has also been restoring the many Amiga computers we had back in the 80s. He's amazingly good at what he does and it's been a trip to experience it all again.
Ahhh that takes me back. 10 years old, typing in c64 basic programs from a paper book or magazine, inevitably getting something wrong and having to work out where I screwed up. 30 years later those diagnostic skills have been very, very useful.
After Basic I then got to experience Machine Language. I've got to say finding your error in Basic was a lot easier than finding a error made when typing in the numerous numbers that was Machine Language.
Me too. In my case, most of the programs were in the back of Compute! and Compute!'s Gazette magazines. At some point they started adding checksums to the ML data which improved the probability of success. I found out recently that the mags are mostly all available online now..
I love this video Jay. We all love our modern PC Gaming power at our fingertips but this flash to the past that shows us all where we came from is great!
Wonderful video Jay, such a nostalgia trip thank you! I started out with a Commodore Vic 20 then upgraded to the 64 and it was a wonderful time. Being from the UK we didn't really have the floppy drive, we had to deal with a cassette tape drive and some games could take over 30 minutes just to load, such great memories lol
Yep same here, I had a C64 with a tape deck. Remember some games were even double sided, you had to flip the tape. Waiting 20-30 mins to load a game was crazy and today we complain if its more than 10 seconds lol
Think it was Ghostbusters that took so long to load off tape that there was a game IN the loading screen. There were probably others but that's the one I remember.
Jay, the C64 (and Atari 8-bits; both were ahead of their time in that regard) has what is now called S-video output, i.e. separate luminance and chromiance signals. You can get a cable with the C64 DIN plug on one end and an S-video connector on the other, so any TV (including LCD ones) with an S-video input will work. I recently fired up my Atari 130XE and C64C, hooked up to a 15" LCD TV, and they work great!
@@Aeduo Makes sense, as I think with the C64, the yellow RCA connecter is not the composite video line; it's the red one on the cable I originally got for use with the Commodore 1802 monitor. Cables can vary of course, but that might be how the C64 (and Atari 800/XE) is set up.
@@cardigansrule Yes it did, but it was called separate luminance and chrominance. The Commodore 1702 and 1802 monitors had the RCA jacks for the cable you needed (2 for the video signals,1 for the audio., as well as having the single composite video input). I had the 1802, and my C64C and Atari 130XE (which also had separate chrominance and luminance output) looked great with it. Even the Atari magazines admitted that the best thing to make your Atari look great was to use the Commodore monitor. LOL
Honestly, I was shocked to see how GOOD LOOKING the main computer is! It would go great with original Noctua external fans. Very heartfelt video there Jay, your daughter, and friends. ❤
The C64 was also my first computer! My emotions were running high during this video, just like Jay's! Great stuff! Great time! My parents didn't buy me games, so I had to make my own, which is how I got into programming.
The memories. I had a Commodore 64 growing up. My grandparents got one in 87. That where I learned to program in basic which led me to my degree in software engineering. You were able to use both sides of a floppy. All you had to do was cut a notch on the other side and then flip the disk over. It was so much fun. I also got the magazine "123 Contact" which would have games on the last few pages that you could write and save to a floppy to play.
i kept it, it was trash, 1984 ..... i did only tape, basic, needing a PC badly !!!!! You needed it as a cheap old gaming crap thing, low level games for free, damn cheap kids......
I loved my c64. I have the newer styled one now with a disk drive. I did have a voice recognition cartridge/attachment for it back in the day. Some of my favorite games were Bruce Leer, Bards Tale, Wizardry and Microsoft Flight Sim to name a few. Going to C64 user groups was fantastic... it was just all about copying disks really. Oh the wonderful days.
The indie/commerical software scene is alive and well, so many new games that are simply amazing, Pig Quest and the port of Eye of the Beholder are so damn great.
@@RaumZeitPresse The game that made the Atari ST *the* gaming computer to have for about a year, until it was ported to the Amiga. One of my favs, as well.
Gorf was a great arcade game. The pizzeria in my hometown had that, and I probably dumped $200 into that game over a 2-year period. Each level had 5 games... Astro Battle, Laser Attack, Galaxians, Space Warp, and then Flagship, after which you went back to Astro Battle, but everything was just a bit faster, and you would go up in rank from Space Cannabis dependence through to Space Avenger, and a robot voice teases you when you die.
I played so much Gorf at the local bowling alley as a kid. Nothing else for me to do there. The place closed down ages ago, but apparently the arcade machines were never pulled. We didn't find out until last year when the roof collapsed on the building. The world lost a Gorf, Track & Field, a Neo Geo, several pinball tables, and a Street fighter II that day. Had I known, I'd have broken in and stolen the damn thing to save it from its fate.
@@FormulaFox good thing it closed down ages ago, would be horrible if it would keep operate for various purposes & then the roof would collapse on a bunch of peeps
@@cskillers1 If it had been able to stay open I'm sure there would have been repairs done to prevent it before the collapse happened. The place had been closed and abandoned for over 15 years when the roof went.
Awesome video! I grew up playing the Commodore 64 with my dad! A few of our favorites was Sid Meier’s pirates, mail order monsters, and bards tale! Absolutely loved the case and wheel with bards tale!
This was a great video! Please do continue with this series! As for my earliest and fondest PC memory, well it was back in 1992., and my friend and me decided to play "Dune". We got so hooked, writing down locations, names of NPCs, the hours flew by...but we never saved the game. So, when we inevitably died, the utter sadness and disbelief that we lost all our progression is still resonating with me, even after 31 years.
One of the best things to come out of modern computer tech is a better save system. Apart from all that, I have very mixed feelings about modern "advances" in games.
Gosh I really hope this video does well for Jay and the team. Would love to see a continuation of this type of content. I'm unfortunately just young enough "early 30's" to have lived through all this amazing computing/gaming tech.
Jay you should do more videos like this, it's fun and interesting path that might wake up nostalgia and memories in some and in others who are younger like me, we get to enjoy and appreciate the tech advancements we got and just to see how such little power was still able to produce gaming in one way or another. Gotta always appreciate tech no matter the age!
Jay this was a truly brilliant trip down memory lane. As a 49 year old gamer from the U.K my very first console was the Atari VCS 2600. I spent hours on Pac Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders and my favourite game Pitfall. As for my first computer it was the Sinclair ZX81. It was monochrome, plugged into the TV, had basic sound, the 16k ram expansion module has to be held on by blu tak. It was a tiny little thing and I spent hours playing a flight simulator game. The graphics were just dots on a black screen but to me I was really flying a 747. You guys playing Top Gun reminded me of playing it on my Sinclair Spectrum 48k. Not sure if you had them in the State's but in Europe they were huge. Colour clash graphics, naff sound, a rubber keyboard and games loaded by cassette tape. A true nightmare but the hours of fun I had were truly fantastic and made my childhood. I did eventually get a C64 and then moved onto the Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200. Countless consoles like the Sega Master System, Megadrive, Sega Saturn, SNES, Amiga CD32. The list goes on. Thank you for a brilliant video which really took me down memory lane. Brilliant.
Wow! I started with a Sinclair ZX-81 with 1K Ram back in 1983, moved on to ZX Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC 128 and finally to a IBM Pc. Thank you for all the good memories your video brought back!!!😊
Great video, really fun to watch Jay buzzing from his memories. My first machine was a Speccy (Sinclair Spectrum 48). My mum bought it second hand for me and I remember the first game I tried on it being Jet Pac and I was hooked. I'll never forget that signature screeching sound of Speccy tapes loading and waiting for ages watching all the coloured lines shifting up and down the screen. Great memories.
As with everyone else , my first experience with computers was the Commodore 64. I do still have it and still works, in fact I fired it up every now and then and still play games on it. The family would, on weekends, get together and have gaming sessions. The game that was most popular with us was Epix Summer and Winter Olympics, two seperate programs. If you can find copies of them, get them as they are very competitive sessions with a group. Look forward to some of the future "Retro" videos.
I loved a lot of the EPYX games. Summer Games I and II, Winter Games, World Games, Impossible Mission I and II, The Movie Monster Game, Jumpman, California Games I and II, etc.
I had a VIC 20 before the 64. My favorite game was Lunar Lander. It was on the 64 that I actually started learning how to program the machine. Very cool video Jay. Thank you for the trip back to my childhood!!!!
same here wow I completely forgot about lunar lander that was the best. I skipped the C128 and got the Amiga 1000 which oddly enough came out before the A500
VIC20 here too, but it had 3.5kb memory, you needed a cartridge to reach the max potential of 20k ! following that was a BBC model B and still have that.
I love this video. I have a lot of the same childhood memories with this computer, especially with The Bard's Tale. I played so many games with it and got my first taste of "online" when I got a modem for it and found BBS sites. The C-64 is the reason I work in IT now.
My first was the VIC-20 with a cassette drive. I still have some of the cassette games like Scare City Motel. I never had a 64 but got a 128 instead which I still have all my old games still. Played some classics like Sid Meier's Pirates, which I still recommend to this very day, all the old Interplay RPGs, and DnD goldbox games. There were so many great games on the commodore and their legacy still lives on today.
I also had a super awesome VIC-20 with 8k of ram and a fancy cassette drive. We played the Avenger game off the cartridge and really trashed the joystick, LOL.
Love this video Jay! Looks like a nice healthy bread bin you got, other than possibly a dead SID chip. Color looks good to me actually. Looks like mine. Your 1541 color matches the VIC-20 case so don’t be alarmed by the mismatch. Love to see you and your daughter with friends gaming like this. Such a great time captured here. Appreciate you sharing!
My dad recently surprised me with my old 64 and disk drive. Even has some of my old games and in original box. I couldn't believe he kept it all these years. I remember renting the games from a local video store and figuring out that I could just copy them. Good times.
I remember a friend and I used to rent games to copy, one had a three level spin wheel that you have to line up and then enter the code. My friend made a photo copy of every combination at work, Was close to 900 pages, haha.
One of your greatest videos EVER!!!! I started off on a C-128 and this brought back such great memories. At 18:33 Jay hits the realization that our memories of the "good old days/games/experiences" aren't really as awesome as we remember they were. I recently bought Maniac Mansion off of Steam because I loved playing that game when I was a kid. I only played for a few minutes before I realized just how bad graphics were back then. Lmao
@@anthonyjones5350 ZX48, I think you are from EU if I recall Spectrum was not too popular - or even available - in the US. I had the C64, learned programming there.
@@gyorgybano2329 From South Africa, the Vic20 and then the C64 were more popular than the Spectrum over here; if I remember, the spectrum came with a thermal printer.
My childhood was also graced with a C64 setup, connected to a big TV, this brings back so many good memories. I remember playing HOURS of Pirates, Boulder Dash, Outrun, Test Drive, Summer and Winter Games. Track and field, Ghosts and Goblins and SOOOOOO many more. Awesome to see the legacy still lives.
Way before you Bro. Mine were a Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1 with Expansion interface (64K 48 useable And 4 Floppies. No2 was an Apple II w/ 2 floppies 3rd a Commodore 64 & a single floppy. Gave them away. I still have every PC type computer, 7 in alland even a Sanyo Luggable (41 Lbs) with 2 floppys 9" CGA color screen, a SIX Pack and a Western Digital 10 KB Hard Card. I also have Hundreds of 5&1/4" floppies and 3&1/2" floppies
🤣🤣🤣 I had a customer drop off an old TRS-1400 that a customer dropped off when I worked for RadioShack. Dropped it off at a repair shop I knew they owner of and never got it back lol
About the tablet, I had the Koala Pad and right there, these two pieces of hardware together (C64c and Koala Pad) made me what I'm today, a motion graphic designer with almost 30 years in the field. Video editing. computer graphics, video games and even computer hardware knowledge I got them for starting with the C64 and later jumping to the Amiga wagon. Nice video Jay!
As someone who is in retrogaming and follows channels dedicated to this, this video is so cute in how Jay doesn't really know how to properly proceed and is stepping on every stone on the way. Adrian Black would watch this like his son starts to walk.
Hello everyone and welcome to Adrians Digital Basement, on today's episode we will be looking at JayzTwoCents Commodore 64 and and check to see if it has a broken SID chip...
Yeah, next retrospective video should be a collaboration with David Murray or Adrian Black (also they'd probably lend a working set of hardware so it wouldn't break the bank to try an old game).
@@opticburn I'm pretty sure the buzzing wasn't a SID problem. I'm guessing Jay is using an incorrect video hookup and was connecting the 64's chroma out to the TV's audio input.
I loved my C64 back in the day. The sound chip was amazing for the time. I'm still remixing some of the old tunes and love doing so. Thanks for sharing this one Jay
This brought back memories of my first computer I purchased in 1982. The Commodore VIC 20. My favourite game to play was Richthofen's Revenge. I had to type in the BASIC code by hand from a book of games all written in BASIC that was included . Then save it to the data cassette drive that was a separate peripheral made by Commodore. It was quite the challenge but a lot of fun. Great video Jay thanks
I had a VIC-20 too! With a data cassette (later replaced by a C64 and a 5.25" floppy drive) Favourite game? Hmm.. I remember liking Gorf (there were 4 different levels, basically different games after the space invaders level only the 1st), Radar Rat Race, and Omega Race are the ones I remember most..
Summer and winter games on the C-64, then I graduated to the ColecoVision and spent so many hours playing Jumpman...Jay, thanks for the memories! Great vid and I'm looking forward to your next retro instalment.
Jay, you are taking me right back to my Spectrum 48k and games like Jet Set Willy, Chuckie Egg, Sabre Wulf and Skool Daze. Loading games involved spending 5 minutes with the game cassette and tape deck, hoping it wouldn't crash. The loading noise is something I remember to this day.
5 minutes? I used to have a game on C64 called The Last Ninja, that would take 30mins to load. Came in a twin cassette format.....lolz, those were the days.
Great game titles all those you listed good call 😎not played in decades (!) >> also there was Kokotoni Wilf, Match Point, Hyper Sports and the Thundercats cartoon on Saturday mornings >> good times 🥰
Love to see it Jay! Still have my old C64 somewhere, which I bought used. Never had a disc drive, it was tape for me. Then progressed to Amiga A500 and A1200 (still have those, along with CDTV and a CD32 in pieces somewhere). Skipped PC gaming (mostly) and went from original PlayStation through to the current gen. Thumbs up!
My most memorable Commodore 64 games are Spy Hunter and Rolands Rat Race, this video instantly reminded me of those treasures. Please include Commodore Amiga in the wall of retro, those have had such a impact on gaming and music scene. Also, more of this please!!
I was super excited when ya whipped out the GORF cartridge! I played the heck outta that one! 😀 We had a C64, and also a VIC20 before that. My siblings and I used to fight over Radar Rat Race. Good times. Thanks for the awesome episode, Jay & crew. ❤️
I love retro 80-90s era PCs! I look forwards to seeing your retro videos, keep up the good work and continue with what you do because you are inspiration to people and will be for generations to come.
I had one too !!!! Before the Commondore 64k we had a Texas instrument PC that had like a landing strip for it game cartridges . This video brought back my childhood THANKS JAY !!!!! I need this !!!!
One of my favourite gaming memories was back in grade 1 playing the summer and Winter Olympics in the C64 during lunch with friends at the school. Years later my friend picked up a C64 at a yard sale and reignited my love of retro gaming.
Makes me wonder if my old Atari 130XE or my C64 are still at my parents house or if they have thrown it away. And yes, this was a great episode. Fantastic trip down memory lane.
I have my Atari 130XE right here. I recently got a floppy/HD emulator that reads from a SD card. I wrote a cross assembler in C# so that I can write programs for it on my PC.
Ive got all my old computer out of the loft 2 years ago. Atari 400/800/800XL with 2 1050 disk drives 2 cassette player/ Atari 520STFM/ and a commodore AMIGA A1200 which has an 8mb ram upgrade and cf card for hard drive. Both of them run great. Ive had the A1200 recapped aswell. STs PSU been recapped to but havent fired that up yet.
OMG I love Jay freaking out as his daughter reaches for the keyboard after saying "I love how the keyboard sounds". I know exactly why but it's funny AF
I remember a friend of mine telling (in his early teens) me that one older relative thought his IBM model M PC keyboard was the computer and the 386DX PC tower case was a VERY large floppy drive hahaha. This happened round '93.
@@bodevp I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's because the Commodore64 is a command line-based system, so if she were to just start touching/typing random keys it could really mess with or brick the computer. Just a guess from an early 90s kid that knows nothing about these, lmao.
the first thing i that came to my mind was indeed that particular sound of the keyboard. i remember those keys like having mechanical switches or something like it, that combined with the resonance of the plastic casing of the pc. If i close my eyes I can even still smell it i swear
I still have my C64 and whilst my original color monitor is long gone I still have an amber CRT I used later on. My cartridge slot was always populated with "FASTLOAD" which was some sort of booster which made loading much more quick in most cases, and a simple Shift-Run/Stop was the quick load. Additionally, you could do /* to load and (I think) ->filename to save. Pretty good piece of kit at the time.
Hello Jay, my first one was as well a Commodore 64, it has a tape recorder, not a floppy disk one. It was awesome. I was 10 years old, back in 1986. Then i had a Commodore Amiga 500. And after that began the Pc Era with a Euro AT from IBM. Great stuff, grand memories! Thanks
That was fun to watch. I got a C64 when it first came out and paid premium price for it. Later, when the price came down, I could have purchased 6 of them for what I had paid. The original version had orange function keys. Later, I moved up to a C129, then a C128D and then to an Amiga before finally selling out an going PC. Great memories... I actually still have all of this stuff, and now have the urge to dig it out and see if it still works. Great video!
oh my gosh I had the biggest nostalgia trip thanks to this. We had a vic 20 and commodore 64 in the house when I was growing up so its so nice to see tech that old still running let alone seeing how much fun you guys all had. Stay amazing Jay and crew. ^_^
A Vic-20 was my first computer. Since my TV didn't have video composite input, I had to purchase an external RF modulator and then it connected to a TV tuned to channel 3; just like the old cable boxes. I remember having to constantly tweak the potentiometers in the RF modulator circuit in order to get a decent picture on the TV.
Aces Over Pacific AND Aces Over Europe! I'm 63 and had an 8088, a Comm64 and printer then got an Apple IIe rig. I played most of the Infocom games, Zork, Planetfall, etc. The first PC I built was a 486 DX2 (with math co-processor at a whopping 66Mhz!) My fave retro game was Descent. Duke Nukem was a hoot. I can just hear the dot-matrix!
Fun video… brought back memories. Okay a couple things. I also had all this Commodore stuff. That Commodore 64 you have out of the box was the correct colour and has not faded or discoloured. Your version of the 1541 disk drive was actually a Commodore Vic 20 drive, which was Commodore 64s predecessor. That’s why it’s alot lighter in colour. Later on they sold the exact same drive but in the matching C64 colour. So you have the Vic20 version of the drive. Your drive says VIC right on the front of it.
Had a C64 with the floppy drive. Thanks for doing this Jay, this brought back so many memories if me and my brother playing Gunship sitting side by side on a small screen. Very cool to remember these times.
This one was interesting. It's great that you had your daughter involved. My first computer was also a C64, but my second (which bought with my own money) was an Amiga 500.
Love this. I was a Spectrum kid with the 48k until we got the zx Spectrum 128k. And yes. I can still do a spot on impression of the cassette loading games. You all remember!
This is my first PC I ever owned as well, was a hand me down C64. I loved playing games on it. My favorite Commodore 64 game was Last Ninja 2, simply amazing you could have such an amazing control scheme with that little buttons as the C64 joystick had :)
Finally real retro. I was torn back so many years... such a great video. Playing Oiltycoon with friends on i think it was a comodore but allready had 3.5 Floppy external drive is one of my first memories.
Nice to see your daughter make an appearance. It's cool to see young people interested in our old stuff, brings me back to those days of wonder as a kid
The 1541 drive uses the same 6510 CPU as the C64 and it costed even more than the C64! The one you have there was the same version but marketed for the VIC20 that's why it has a whiter color. VIC20 was my first computer! Thanks for th4e video, ir brought back memories!! Amiga for the next video! ;-)
Fun fact, developers used the 6502 on the drive to execute code enabling many methods of copy protection and fastloading. This is why you see a "True drive" option on many C64 emulators as it emulates this chip fully. It's slower, but many disk images fail to work without it enabled.
I went to school for computer repair we had to build a TRS 80 Heath kit as our final project to graduate the class. We had to solder all circuit resistor power supply. Good video!
I think the disk drive you have there was designed (the color) for the VIC-20 which was a lighter color, almost white. Hence the designation "VIC-1541". The 1541 I had with my C64 was the same darker color as the C64 itself and had a rainbow CBM logo and simply "1541" on the case.
I had a Vic-20, cost me $300(Australian) after a few months of using the tape drive I saved up and bought the 1541, that cost me $500. Every time I switched the drive on I had to send a command to slow it down, it was designed for the C64, the Vic-20 couldn't handle the it's normal data transfer rate. Scary to think I can now transfer stuff from the internet faster than I used to from disk.
Awesome to see your genuine joy. careful with these old power bricks. they can fry the whole machine, putting mains voltage through it. And a bad SID chip (the sound chip) is sadly very common.there are actually modern FPGA-based drop in replacements for it.
I was coming to the comments to say the same thing. My power brick died and I'm fairly certain it killed my SID chip at the same time. I ended up building my own power supply and replacing the original SID with an ARMSID but it really sucks killing vintage hardware like that.
I may not be old enough to remember the Commodore 64, but I do remember playing an atari and NES, and my first console was an SNES. But maaaan does this video remind me of how much fun it was to sit with someone and play a game with them. You can just feel the joy coming out of the video. Halo LAN parties need to make a comeback too!
We also had an NES when we were little. The device actually still exists and my sisters play on it occasionally. Not bad for a piece of electronics that is more than 30 years old.
@@adoksym It's amazing how some of those old electronics hold up. My mom recently brought me a couple of bins of my old junk. Diablo 1, Battlefield 1942, Xbox Magazine demo discs, etc. I feel like a cartoon character that gets hit in the head and starts remembering things. lol
Great Video! I love the commodore 64! The old days were so much fun! Technology has advanced tremendously, but we were lucky to have grown up in the 80s!
I love how such old hardware and dated graphics is still SO FUN. I find this whole video wholesome. Jay reliving past memories with a system he grew up with, and teaching the younger lads that THIS is where video gaming started. Ahh, the good old days when games weren't corrupted with greed and predatory tactics.
The difference then was that the games were actually good and didn't rely on graphics to sell them. And, because internet wasn't as popular, games were actually FINISHED when released!
My very first was a Texas Instruments Ti-99/4a - similar to the Commodore 64. I learned Basic programming - couldn't afford the floppy drive so I used a portable cassette player to read/write programs. I did have several ROM game cartridges, and two joysticks - so much fun playing games in the living room.
Silent Service and f15 Strike Eagle on Atari 8 bit were among my favorite. For some reason, the plane animation on Top Gun on your C64 was much smoother. I would have guessed they would perform the same. Archon and 7 Cities of Gold were also among my fav tittles. Very original and fun.
Lovely video Jay. This was my first computer too, but Atari joysticks weren't allowed in the house lol. Only Competition Pro joysticks, which my family kept all the way through to the Amiga 500. Eventually we upgraded to the A1200 and switched to only using the CD32 Competition Pro joypads with auto-fire toggles. Bought our first PC in 1998 which came with Unreal 1 and Fallout 1, so really we stayed with Commodore for a long time 🙂 Wonderful memories that I will always cherish. Also, the C64 scene is still going strong!
Best video ever! I had a ZX Spectrum and loaded games with a cassette player. This was such a great trip down memory lane. I just finished building my latest gaming rig, with a 13900k and it was such as laugh to sit and remember the struggles with these old bits of kit. LMAO. Thank you.
This was great to watch not only the reminiscing but the father showing his cherished memories with his kid. Just shows the jayz2cents family bonding in the office. Now you will be dubbed the grandpa tech guy haha
More retro please, awesome video! If you're going to be doing more retro and you want to connect it to modern monitors I'd highly recommend getting an OSSC or a RetroTink-2X or go for the top-end RetroTink-5X Pro. It'll basically work for anything you throw at it and it'll look beautiful. At the very least having an OSSC on hand may come in handy for a lot of things in the future.
Ahh..Nostalgia! Wonderful memories of the Amiga days, so much fun playing with friends and for also doing homework on and emulating Mac and PC DOS and programming!
I remember these days, the C64 ruled the roost when it came to games and games library. They did have better graphical games than the few shown here but it mostly shows how far we have come. Great video!
This video brings memories back. I got my C64 at X-mas 1983. My first action was to go in the basement, opened it, drilled a hole in the case and installed a reset switch. ;-) My dad nearly got a hart attack. My best gaming memory is the "Last Ninja" and "The Bard's Tale". Nice to see you bringing us some (real) retro videos. BTW: my C64 still lives and is now part of my brothers collection.
