Mystery Amiga Console | Nostalgia Nerd
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2019
- Join myself and Octav1us on a retro road trip, as we go and retrieve a mysteriously labelled "Amiga Console", from the middle of the United Kingdom, after winning an online auction. We have no idea what this so called "console" is, or what accessories it is supplied with. This is our quest, it is also our punishment. We also find a few unique goodies on the way, including some information about a game called, Black Dawn 7.
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@Nostalgia Nerd - BD 7 was released as licenceware back in the 90s. Black Dawn rebirth is an entirely new game Ive been coding (after a 20 year lull!) fro the past 6 months or so. But thanks for showing some footage of it!
Ever thought of having it ported to the Atari Jaguar? The folks at AtariAge ported "Defender of the Crown" - and many other titles - to the Jag and there's a Mouse Adapter for use with it... 64 colo(u)rs onscreen wouldn't be an issue, the bog standard 68000 is faster, the standard RAM is 2MB, and thanks to Cyrano Jones' efforts, the JagDSP can totally play back Amiga PAULA audio [as well as Atari TIA, Atari POKEY, SID, YM2149 and YM2151]...
"stop driving so erotically... erratically" almost spat out my coffee.
Damn that erotic driver!
@@StarkRG Wiggling her boot...
Octav1us is such an amiga babe :O
9:22 I have a CD drive case exactly like that (from Power Computing, I believe), but it has no vents in it. I'm 100% certain that he's cut vents in the case, damaging the paint in the process, which has caused it to rust over the years.
I love that you drove for 4 hours to pick this up. D E D I C A T I O N.
But this prize! Man, I would have drove four hours for that. It is a trip down the memory lane.
For a haul like that...... I'd drive 4 hours.
Some poeple drive 12+ hours just to see me, what a waste that is XD Instead we need to spend gas on finding treasure :D
Not much else to do
I would crawl 4 hours.
That copy of Dungeon Master from Cash Converters. I actually wrote the label for that back in 1997. That is my scratty handwriting.
That's awesome!
Why is it separated by a colon and not a full stop?
Sid B Hey player shut your mouth
@@waltersobchak7275 What?
@@sidbrun_ shut that trap do you not read good save those muscles for later
An Amiga 500 is my absolute favourite of all old consoles 😁👍🏻
I never thought of it as a 'console,' but I'm more fond of it than my MD and SNES.
Anything of Octav1us Kitten is hers, and anything of Nostalgia Nerd... is also Octav1us Kitten's - that's the rule.
I wonder if the previous owner passed away. What you said at the end about our lives being stored on those machines is especially poniente, I have a few computers that my older brother used to program on, he saved stuff to tapes and later disks and became ill before having any sort of online presence and sadly passed away. One day I'll go through and spend some time with his former "digital" self.
I also have a few games and programs on various comptuers representing my former digital lives. The other day an old school friend sent me some photos on Facebook of old "continuous" print out paper with BASIC listings that he accused me of having written some twenty five years ago. I had no memory of writing any of it, on closer inspection I realised it he had actually written it on his NC-100 notebook and had assumed it was some dodgy game I'd written about kissing people, when in fact it was his own work :)
Don't wait too long. image what you can right now before it bit rots.
haha I had an NC100. I tried writing a text adventure game on it, and didn't get very far before the memory was full. I deleted everything else on the notebook, continued for a bit, but it was full again in no time at all. Didn't have the room for 1 text adventure. Probably my dodgy coding skills were a factor ;)
Yeah, I got bad vibes throughout the whole video. My guess is the guy died and they sold off his shit.
ZeeWolf what's Benidorm got to do with the price of fish?
@@HansCampbell you seem to be the only one that feels the need to be complaining about that
YAY road trip! This would have been such a fun day 😀 also, that letter alone makes the money and round trip totally worth it 😍
Refreshing to see an actual purchase by a UA-camr and not just donations.
my silly American mind thought she was driving when the video first started
Hustle Union Same. Continental European here.
Yeah, women can drive here dw.
none cares about your cuntry you little American mind.
Same here. Most of the world is left hand drive...
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"It's bumpy round here!" - Welcome to Lincolnshire, that's basically the whole place XD
For a short moment, I thought you'd stumbled upon my own much missed A1200. My parents put a load of my stuff in storage in the E. Mids about 15 years ago, and then I believe it was sold at auction. Including not just my Amiga but my Speccy too :*( I had that Shuttle game, it was incomprehensible but I loved the poster lol
"Stain removing wipes which I used to clean my last Amiga"
Yep that's what I use em for too, LoL
Yay octy came along! Her videos have made me laugh so hard she is hilarious what a great company to take for this!
She's the best!
Nice shot of octavious at the auction house lol.
The Amiga 500 was my first proper computer when it was released, and it brings back many fond memories. Workbench, batman the movie, New Zealand story, Amos basic, octamed, etc
A fork is of course the official implement used to dismantle any Amiga. Only true Commodore connoisseur's know.
Looks like you got a great haul for that much money. Good work!
Also, big thumbs up to Ocatv1us for being a good friend and helping you out during the drive to and from the auction house. Hope you bought her lunch, and I hope she didn't "accidentally" take some choice disks.
Black Dawn black tape is there because that was not a sticker, more like a printed label. He had to attach it somehow to the floppy.
Maybe a beta/pre-production version?
Indeed, he should seal it in an anti-static sleeve and frame it.
I'm disappointed. He should have used good old duct tape.
@@DEMENTO01 That would mean it's worth millions now if not billions.
A fork was always the preferred tool for opening that expansion door, also handy for scraping sausage roll flakes out of the top vents.
what a haul! the envy when I saw that box of mystery discs! awesome as always dude
Lots of good vibes watching this, I had a similar hoard, I Am 47 now and was a power user as well, had a c128, a500 and a Amiga 4000. I was so sad when I threw most of my stuff away in 98' when I had to move. All the Amiga Magazines in sequential order , I gave the computers and boxes of disks well to some kids I knew, and they were pretty stocked. There are literally thousands of hours put on that lot and money im glad it survived. Miss the awesome cover art and manuals games had in those days.
Hello Pete and Octav1us, love your works!
Yay data archeology!!! If you make more videos exploring some of this, I will watch them. Definitely some interesting history in there
The rough looking vents on the CD ROM drive look like they were added by the owner with a Dremel, or something. Possibly had an overheating issue and did a spot of DIY to fix it.
Yep came to comment the same thing. You can see the box they drew to mark the ends of where they wanted the lines. Looks like they drilled holes at each end then cut with a dremel in between the holes. Good old fashioned dirty modding.
A CD-ROM drive in a small external case will overheat - I had one but the manufacturer had the foresight to install a small case fan in the back.
SPEED HOLES!
Looks like we'll have some good episodes to look forward to.
The roads are bouncy. Welcome to Lincolnshire....
I think if you go on a road trip together, you should share the loot. Taking 1 item from each pile at a time like we would have done in the 80s. And as for the shuttle game I use to have that and it was nightmare trying to remember everything to land and take off.
Haha, I remember playing that Shuttle game, after finding it lurking on the HDD of a rotten old PS/2 in the Careers Room (!) at school. You can get launched and into orbit just by spamming random keys on the keyboard, but I don't think I got any further than that (eg releasing or recovering a satellite / docking with a space station, successfully re-entering and landing) because that's where it got more complicated. Nice to look at even in 16-colour low rez at least.
Big love for the A1200!!
It's like Christmas, what a great team up.
A-Train. I had that game for my Amiga 2000. Basically, a more train focused version of Sim City.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, please do more videos about this haul
Looking forward to see you recapping and testing this amiga out :)
Given it was a A1200, that makes it basically a CD32 with a few extra gubbins. Score!
Minus the Akiko chip, lol.
Ed
What did that chip do?
@@peterknutsen3070 Akiko's primary job was to do chunky to planar conversion, but it also interfaced the CROM and the AUX port.
@@peterknutsen3070 Yes, what v4lgrind said. Though it's generally pointless once a decent accelerator is fitted, apart from the games that might expect it there will be no difference. It would've been better for commodore to have fitted a maths-co-processor and some fast ram to the CD32.
I've still got a cd 32 buried in my garage.
I have never seen 2 geeks soooooo happy :). Love it :)
Were you driving a Skoda Octav1us?
If only. I recognise that interior though. It's a Suzuki Ignis. A friend of mine has one. I know it quite well after having to do an engine swap.
😆😃I said to you years ago you deserve more subs when you had probably 20k now your over 10x that 👏🏻👏🏻. But like I said before I’m catching you fast so I’ll race ya to 500k matey 🤘🏻😁🤘🏻
Nostalgia nerd explores old PCs IKS explores old bunkers, and buildings. We ought to mix the two lol
Well he may need a torch and some hefty weapon exploring that cd-rom drive.
Damn, that Power Computing CD drive has been savaged! Poor thing.
I almost don't want to admit that I saw a tiny fraction of the Transwrite box in the original auction picture and instantly knew what it was. Probably came from Silica Systems back in the day.
Well, didn't 50% of everything?
It's inevitable Octav1us managed to swipe some items from the huge haul without noticing. One solution is copious amounts of duct tape. Never have to keep an eye on her snekky hands again.
Or that two sided tape you use to keep cats off the furniture.
Oo, rare Red Label A1200! That's worth exactly the same as non-Red Label A1200!
A-Train and Cytron are part of my tiny boxed collection. Myup.
But did they ever make one where those two annoying blank keys had anything assigned to them? EG a proper apostrophe instead of that stupid backtick thing. Such a lazy design cop-out.
Great find.
On a side note, Populus is not an obscure title, Hehe loved that game.
I had it on the SEGA Master System. Great game!
@@WhatHoSnorkers Sweet! I like to believe this game was the start for games like Age of empires and similar civilization building games.
@@atlehunekonge It was great fun. Drowning your enemies in lava, creating knights to go on the rampage, volcanoes!
And people say what sarcasm doesn't work on the Internet ;)
I was in The Foresters Arms in Congleton in 1996 and it turns out one of the programmers (they weren't called devs then) of Rise of the Robots was at the bar. I didn't know he was until we'd endured a very long and drunken (and pleasant) afternoon.
He was gracious enough to apologise for the game.
I just wonder if someone watching this is like "oh look, he opened my old Amiga with a fork".
Late 80's: Where's the Amiga Dad?
2019: I know where we can Find the Amiga Somewhere... ;-)
Man, seeing that GVP logo sure brings back memories...
I had one of those GVP 1230-IIs (a 50mhz one with FPU) - it was fast, but as flaky as a flake... Upgraded to a 1240 (can't remember which) in the end.
This video made me nostalgic -- I now vastly prefer radio.
"(swinging a fork) I'm gonna take it apart properly." - Nostalgia Nerd, 2019
Also, the "console" debacle may be because some youngin found his old man's Amiga in storage and assumed this to be a console, since it looks nothing like a PC so it can't be a computer. Or maybe not, who knows...
Either way, good find. Assuming any of that still works, that is.
Although it's a bit of an annoying and confusing nomenclature, it wasn't unknown for manufacturers at least (not so much owners, but there were still a few) to call the working part of a computer the "console" (including the base unit of a multi-user system, differentiating it from the remote "terminals"), particularly where it was an all-in-one, built-in-a-keyboard type design. That is, the part into which everything else connects and you supply primary power to. With things like the NES being a "games console", into which you plug everything else including the game cartridge. And of course there's several keyboard (and even beigebox) where you can do THAT as well. It's very blurry.
Plus if almost everything that comes with it seems to be a game, with no identifiable operating system or serious software (other than one word processor, which may well have been confused for a point and click adventure at a casual glance), what are you gonna think? It's some strange console that happens to have a keyboard built into it for some reason...
For what you paid, this was a fantastic deal...I am so jealous. The CD ROM, it looks like he cut vents into the case or made the vents larger.
Always nice to get a Sunday afternoon Nerd!
Keep up the good work fella!
After the bickering in the car I thought it was going to cut to "so I've arrived ..." Thinking maybe hed dropped her off on side of road haha
a brief but welcome cameo by 0ktav1us,
i suspect they were jesting, but still Mr. Nerd you ought to lend few of the games to her she will return them i believe in her.
You certainly are a nerd, Sir!
A roadtrip with Octav1us - Goddess of Geek - and all his attention is on the Amiga stuff. Mnfmmm.
I'm gonna be honest, I was gonna go to bed, but then I saw Octav1us and had to find out who she was XD
Have you ever played future wars, time travelers for the amiga?, one of my favorite games on the system
It'll be super interesting to see what's on the personal file disks.
“Might frame it and put it on the wall”
*screws it up and throws it on the ground.
5:23 - I was a big fan of Skidmarks and me and a mate spent hours on that drifting..... whilst pissed!!
I remember seeing this auction on Easy Live, but i missed it. Very nice find with loads of goodies, including a 1200. Very Jealous.
Hmmm. Looks suspiciously like you've collected the last tech remnants of a dead person. Sold off last assets to an auction house. Sad really.
That jumpcut after 3:55 looks like they just had a big fight and aren't speaking to each other XD
I drive past those auction rooms every day. You could have popped in for a cuppa!
That A-train was pain in the arse of a game, you could never make any money to expand your network, spending all afternoon watching a train shuttle between two stations while you descended in a mire of debt.
Railroad Tycoon often suffered a similar issue, sometimes Sim City too, and Theme Park / Theme Hospital were chronic for it ... hence almost always resorting to cheats. Maybe it was a dash of realism to demonstrate how most real life enterprises hit similar problems and fail quite badly, and eventually train (ahem) you into spotting the rot early, giving up and starting afresh until the random dice come up all sixes so you have at least a slim chance of victory?
And now I wish I were playing A-Train.
Oh well, back to work. I need to do some programming on my Dell console.
Interesting timing.
Theres a new Black Dawn game being made right now from the original developer.
edit: damn,... should have waited for the video to finish before I commented :-)
You didnt exactly specify either way, but it's a new game in the series, not a re-release in a box if you wasn't aware.
So is that letter recent? or what?
@@DEMENTO01 Nah, seems to be an old letter written around the time of no.7.
This new game in the series could either be called no.8 or no.9 (depending on if a "remix" warrants it's own no.).
It's been a loooong time between episodes though. The upcoming release is the 1st in the series for maybe 10 years or more.
Weirdly, besides being very familiar with the series I've only ever played one of them.
Was always curious about them though. Were always pretty well received for shareware type games.
Has a follow up to this been filmed and I just missed it, is it still in the works?
Now I feel old. Lol. I knew exactly what an Amiga is. Oh man. It was cool seeing this.
Whoa! No wonder I could never land that bleedin' Shuttle :D Transwrite - now there's a blast from the past :o
I found an $80 Amiga Commodore at a Goodwill. Came back later to get it and it was fucking gone. My birthday was yesterday and it was a significant bummer. But I did get your book. I even asked for it. I love it. 😀
I saw it going for £6 in a local remainder store, somewhat sadly. Even more sadly, I don't really have six quid to burn right now, even though it looks like a thorough example of Maximum Effort.
Proper job!
I’m surprised you didn’t find a Squirrel SCSI PCMCIA card in that lot given the external CD drive’s in a SCSI enclosure.
That 030 is a massive bonus. I had a Blizzard 030@50Mhz back in the day and the boost to games like Frontier is amazing.
Nice haul! I wonder how much stuff Octy has hidden up her sleeves on the way out? 😂
A lot of accelerator cards had SCSI built in. My Amiga Typhoon '030 card has a 50-pin header on it, but not the external connector.
@@Zeem4 Yeah, I was wondering about that as I know the Blizzard cards did the same (not my one, I couldn't afford it!). I'm not familiar with the one in this video; it'll be great (and make this even more of a bargain!) if it does have the header. 👍
Did the 1200 not have a SCSI port built in, or at least the ability to interface via the parallel port like you could with the Zip drives? Or am I thinking of the Falcon?
@@markpenrice6253 It didn't have a SCSI port. You could connect lots of things via the parallel port with the right software, e.g. peer-to-peer networking with ParLink. I can't remember if there was a parallel Zip driver for the Amiga though.
@@markpenrice6253 No in-built SCSI but some accelerator cards had SCSI headers on them so you could mount a SCSI header in the empty slot on the back of the machine. I think someone did do a driver for the Parallel Zip drives, but they were painfully slow!
Somewhere out there is a massive crate of my prized Amiga stuff that my parents gave to a charity shop after I moved out. Feels for the poor original owner.
I foresee many what the hell is on this disk videos 👍🥳🤪
content for at least 6 months lol.
3:12 "A crappy A500" - HOW DARE YOU!?!
octavius should have been sitting in the baby seat :P
Oh, thank *GOD* that they had Rise of the Robots in there.
Those drive enclosures got pretty warm with the power supplies inside of them you can see from the pencil mark he has tried to cut out the classic cooling vents. Nice score though.
saw A-Train... video complete... you win life
Box o' floppies looks like fun to go through.
This is great!
I love the "I've touched it so it's mine" thing! Hilarious!
That's mine, this is mine, all of those are mine...
They are definitely playing hide the joystick.
She was casually at the Virtuality episode. Seemed natural (and not a guest). Maybe they're good friends. Not judging, in fact I'm rooting for him. He's great and she's gorgeous, hot and funny as hell)
You were either an Amiga kid, or an Atari ST kid back in my day :)
Or a wanna-have-an-A1200 or wanna-have-a-Falcon kid at the end of it. Annoyingly the former being cheaper and better marketed despite being distinctly lower powered meant it got much more sales and it was more accessible to The Kids. (That and the 32bit bus made accelerators much more effective)
Good evening? It’s morning in Vancouver! 😂
That CD drive puts the scuzzy in SCSI.
5:36 Elite Dangerous control scheme
Those games are great. It's an experience just learning how to move your goddamn ship.
SKIDMARKS, I love SKIDMARKS!!The racing game... OBVIOUSLY!!
Saved over Atari ST game with Amiga files. That makes me feel warm inside 😃🕹😃
YAWN! - Get a life you sad Amiga fanboy
The magazine Zero had dual format coverdisks which would load software on both Amiga and ST. My university roommate saved his game progress on one of those disks which meant it wouldn't load on my Amiga, because he of course had an ST!
He kept saying the disk was fine because still worked on his machine! Duh.........
@@DavidLee-df888 That sounds like a failure of the magazine's disk editor to account for the need to write savefiles onto it. Or not making it clear enough to the user (or telling the duplicator to take out the write-enable tabs to preclude the possibility) that they shouldn't write anything to the disk lest it destroy the special format... in which case the blame falls back on your roommate. Who if he was enough of an Atari fanboy may have just done it on purpose.
I figure he may have done something particular to it because as far as I knew, the "special" format was nothing more than conning each machine into thinking that the disc was single-sided - as the Atari single-sided format used the opposite side to the Amiga one, because their single side drives were actually double sided ones with a failed head on the normal (Amiga and MSDOS) side 0... Therefore the ST shouldn't have been able to write anything onto the Amiga side, unless a special formatter was used that could wipe and enable use of the other side without affecting the first (...or he copied off all the files, reformatted it as double sided to get extra "free" storage space not realising that the ~400kb capacity was actually the special multiformat sauce, and moved all the ST files back on from the temporary disc...)
@The Retro Byte ... I would argue against you normally, but ... eh... ST Double Dragon. No thanks, you can keep it, wipe it, do what you like.
The most needed tool in any computer repair a fork!
Only if you can't find a butter knife. Or in some cases, a cheeseknife.
Bourne Auction Rooms?! Thats only about 20 miles from where I live.I take it you had come through Holbeach,then? On a sidenote, I hope you both didnt have a need to pee as you would have had to literally pee in a drain in one of the outbuildings. Unless,of course they have been updated since then.It was a long time since I last went there. 12:48 And there the inside of the place in all its glory!
As an Amiga user, overwriting Atari disks always gives me sadistic pleasure. :P
Why would you be happy about destroying a perfectly good disc with an inferior format?
@@markpenrice6253 Just the old rivalry...
Nice find. Subscribed. What kind of shop was that you went to.
Bourne Auction House? That’s in my town 🤪. You must have enjoyed the views of Spalding on the way
Bourne lincolnshire. I used to live (grow up) near there.
Fun fact that auction house is the old BRM HQ
Nice town. Lived there for a bit.
@@IamRobotMonkey not a fan tbh. Deeping is the better town
My floppy unit needs testing.
Wow nice catch but it will be a freaking miracle if even one of those properly works to be honest,although my nostalgia friend i know you will blow some life in those surely.Also you couldn't say it better that by watching those stuff its like a window in a part of their life,thats how i see it as well when i come across old stuff from people.
oh youre in norwich :D *waves from near swaffham
*waves back from Wymondham :)