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In 1996 i made a 250.MB Scala demo on CD32 and no one beat it for almost 30 years.

What is the way you could make random colored blocks appear on the screen? I remember that.

I had a lot of fun with one of these when I was a kid. Mine was white and black and despite heavy use, literally every day for months, never broke. I miss stuff like that. Edit: subbed. This is right up my alley... or down my space corridor.

This toy is mind blowing.

Munchman! I had that!

That thing was mind blowing to my 6yo self. 😂

Hello. Just discovered your channel and really enjoyed this video on the Sam Coupe. Probably the most comprehensive overview on this interesting machine. Subscribed!😀

This is an amazing toy, but I still can't get my head around how the cylinder with the artwork on it warps to look the way it does through the viewport! You'd think we were looking at the inside of the cylinder if ya know what I mean.

The engineering in these games is quite remarkable. I wouldn't know how to begin designing one of these games.

Merry Christmas everyone

Oh Wow I had one of these for Christmas a kid, Not seen one for years

Great video interesting watch however that must have been a right pig to film while taking that kind of complex machine apart. and that looked like a right fiddly job to me , still a fascinating device, you must have a better memory than me having to remember how everything goes back together😮 well done .

wheee +1

So...is your C64 really THAT yellowed? Or was it carved from cheese? 😅

How much (Eur) is a cd32 (recapped) these days?

Out of all the failed early micros this one was a real shame it was well designed, well built and expandable. This would of made an ideal development machine for other Z80 based systems.

It's only in recent years I've realised what a great machine this was for the time and how I now regret not using the one we had in our computer room back when I was at school. It was rarely used as the BBC micro was the king of the class so the poor old MTX didn't get a look in. Great Video mate!

I am an American and never heard of this computer. It was definitely one of the best 8-bit machines made. Its graphics and sound capabilities were top-notch, but releasing with an 8-bit CPU in 1989 probably sealed its fate, with the 16-bit Amiga and ST already having a head start measured in years.

it was The TI-99/4A was powered by the TMS9900 16-bit microprocessor, making it one of the first home computers to use a 16-bit processor.

Same library music as RobSmithDev, nice.

Use acetone to remove that foggy white cyanoacrylate residue.

I like the second device you printed for those extra items that slotting to the back look to bit tight at one time but then it looked fine after , great video thanks

I really love the simplicity of it, exactly what I would have wanted.. about 5 years prior. And I have to admit, I wouldnt have bought it anyway not having 2 cents to rub together as a kid and by that time the Amiga was all the rage, so it really was a big misfire on their behalf releasing it... if only a few years earlier who knows if it might have taken off?

This is the dawning of the Mattel Aquarius.

The yellow. The yellow hurts my eyes. :)

RRR posts a video on the SAM Coupe..... and I hit subscribe!

Best video I think I've seen on the sam! Absolutely obsessed with this machine, yet I've never even seen one in the flesh 😅 Quazars dedication to the machine is absolutely incredible too, almost single handedly keeping the system alive in a meaningful way

It can take a little bit of time for the internal super cap for game saves to charge up once the docking station is powered on. Especially if the system hasn't been used for a while. Once you've had the entire setup on for a bit, you'll probably be fine just reformatting the internal memory and all should be fine. No need to replace the supercapacitor for game saves as I've never come across a bad one. They last forever. The capacitors in the white CD-ROM drive though are a different story. A number of those typically go bad causing CD read issues.

1990 I went to college and moved onto PC (I almost made the mistake of getting an amiga - which were pretty cool at the time). When I saw the GS in walmart, it was pretty clear the writing was on the wall for commodore. The C64 was long in tooth by then. TED (maybe even the 128) onwards was a disaster for commodore low end. Amiga was a tragedy in that management really screwed up an otherwise excellent product.

Did you ever try hydrogen peroxide for rebbrightening the plastic?

Someone else gave a good overview of the extensible architecture. The console ROMs also knew how to look for subprograms by name in the cartridge ROMs and the system memory from a loaded library (some revisions even knew how to find multiple cartridges! but the hardware was never made to support it). This was how cartridges like MiniMem could extend TI BASIC, or how Terminal Emulator II could add real text-to-speech support. It was a really advanced design, strongly reminiscent of minicomputers at the time, not home computers. And the TI-99/8 would have been nearly fully backwards compatible having a very similar architecture and capable of supporting nearly 16Mb of RAM! Sadly, there were too many compromises and problems (not all of then technical) which robbed this console of so so much of its potential.

I have the full briefcase with white PC Engine. I got it with the cog fix done, but later the CD-ROM2 stopped working. I think a UK person who runs a 'retro' museum had the same issue, I think that it's a potentiometer, that he shows how to adjust. I've been putting it off as I have an AliExpress knockoff Everdrive, but I miss playing my Vulcan Venture CD. Folks have been using Sony Discman drives as donors in the past. Have you found out about fixing the RAM issue ? Great video by the way - Edit/update here is the RMC Cave link ua-cam.com/video/roliVT36RzM/v-deo.htmlsi=2IsrcYUO4xVXg_Fu&t=742

Superb repair mate! Fantastic work 👏

Great video so I presume that the CD player is centrepin negative as well ? I must admit this was enjoyable to watch a strange amalgam of retro Gaming and repairs , loved the montage of the clean up and repair of the main base in the middle 🎉 however getting all that memory and needing a card in order to use the CD Rom was a lot of messing around 😂 .. however it was good to see something that I don't own in action some great games played , did you know that the best version of R-Type ever released was for the PC Engine ... great video their Mark really enjoyed it ...👍👏👏

Hi Everyone. This time Retro Relix reviews the PC Engine, peripherals, performs some repairs and plays some HuCard, CD-ROM2 and Turbo EverDrive games. Also, if anyone can update or correct me regarding the SAVE GAME RAM issue I experienced, please let me know. Enjoy, Mark.

Interesting - heard of this and seen pics but never seen one running before and that it started in 1978!, I guess after philips saw the atari 2600. With the other early 1980s computers around, looks like the G7200 was too little and far too late.

Just pulled mine out the loft to fire up ,fingers crossed !

really insightful, been on a bit of a VIC20 journey myself. By the way how do you get such clean video output?

It should have been obvious to Commodore that a console version of the C64 that's 8 years after the computer release is doomed to fail with by then very dated hardware that was ripped to shreds by other consoles at the time.

And what he never said was you can run zx spectrum games on it as well that is the best thing about it

It was pretty strange how Commodore simply couldn't do a console based design justice despite several attempts at it, even the later day Amiga CD32 has the same "computer moments" where people must have thought the Game Console was broken. Sure the NES did poorly in the EU but Commodore could have bought one to see how the whole concept was supposed to work like. Even the whole C64 switching ports thing was annoying, as if Commodore couldn't enforce a default of Port 1 for all game releases. I'm not even sure why coders kept making games with Player 1 on Port 2?🤔

I am one of the few thousand that actually bought a C64GS, very nice to know 🙂

amstrad did one under the same premise , they had lots of boards going spare as they were outdated and sold them as games systems , neat cheap idea they were getting more into the IBM style units at that time i even believe sinclair before selling to amstrad were toying with an 8 bit games machine purely for rom carts to use up all the 48K boards as they thought the QL was going to hit big

I love the case design :)

did touy try usng the 2nd joysitck port? For single player games it might give you the pause or menu?

I remade a C64GS via 3D Printed Case 1:1 using Beige filament (A500 color) modified it with all the back ports, Built-in AV & AV to HDMI (Cheap converted) Used an original C64 logicboard flashed with Original GS rom, bent the cart slot 90 degrees upward, has working traptoor. Custom port for external Keyboard. Built-in 1541 interface for loading disks and can load physical 360k floppies. Built-in USB-C power converter to 9v, NTSC/Pal switcher. Built a multi cart for all the GS titles like this video patched to work with DS. This should be what Commodore should have done. Make make a C64D with a GS shell. Thank you felix for the links to Thingverse

Great video

I wonder if it has any ram

Good concept, bad execution.

now rushing an area