The first computer I ever bought (mostly) with my own money was a C128, also at a flea market in the mid 90´s. When visiting my dad in Croatia for the summer, the family he rented a house from also had one, and when I left they gave me all the disks. Two double row floppy cases with copies, all scene cracked, what a time.
Huge Commodore fan back in the day so if you ever get bored for a week or 2 please do a video of 'every' disk, may take a while but the internet will be oh so grateful :)
Brings back my childhood. My first computer was a TRS-80 connected to my tv using a tape recorder for storage. Then the Commodore 128 was my second computer. in 1991 I bought my first IBM clone 486sx? By then IBM was beating Apple, if not for the Ipod, that company was doomed. Good to see. I loved your earlier restores just to see windows 3.1 and sim city again was awesome. I was 10 in 1983 when I got the TRS-80, this year I hit 50. Thanks for the memories.
I'll bet Adrian watched this video last year and was like wow.. what a super lucky find!!! Great score Mike!! Seriously, that's almost as rare as finding a gem system with a Pentium Pro in it!!! SCORE! It was worth whatever you had to pay for it.. seriously man.. totally the score of your lifetime!!
If I ever get caught up watching all your videos -- I'll just have to start watching them all over again. (Glad to see you make such a lucky find in this one, too.)
My God... A childhood dream. My favorite 8bit computer was and always will be the C-64, but one often read about the C-128 in computer magazines and really wanted one.
I loved my Commodore 128. Use the snot out of it throughout high school. I eventually sold it and picked up and Amiga 2000. So many hours spent playing so many games. On both systems. Congrats on a great score.
Congrats Mike! Never owned a C64 or 128 back in the day. Instead started on a Vic20 then a ZX Spectrum 16k back in the 80’s. Don’t forget the C128 is backwards compatible with C64. On the screen just type go 64 and you are in C64 mode. Have recently bought myself a C128 desktop version which I’m very happy with. Just catching up on your Videos after subscribing from a UA-cam recommendation 👍🏻 thanks 🙏🏻
been going through your back log of videos, i used to own a c128 as a kid. brings back memories. my parents threw it away just a few years before i discovered how to fix them.
Wow, now that's a score, and in amazing shape! The C-128 was a good machine for the time, even trying to be a business machine, either using special C-128 software like the CAD package you have there or running CP/M which is included in the set of system discs. After startup, if you type GO64 and hit return the machine will reboot in Commodore 64 mode for the most compatibility with C-64 software. The machine has two display modes 80 columns and 40 columns, each mode runs out of its own video generator chip, by default the 80-column display is on the RGB connector and 40 on the Chroma/Luma Split video (S-Video), Composite, and RF, you can even drive both displays 80 RGB and 40 Y/C) separately with software commands so you could have a dual monitor Commodore 128 :).
Yep! Robin from "8 Bit Show & tell" recently did a video trying to discover why a handful of C64 games don't work on the C128, even in C64 mode. It's pretty interesting!: ua-cam.com/video/Ial2VSAu7tw/v-deo.htmlsi=oQRB3mfD2ic1FAfH (If you like retro stuff (especially Commodore products), you'll love his channel).
Fantastic epic find, man!! So much greatness here. Got an A500 around the same month as this 128 was bought, which looks to have been a replacement of a c 64.
I love the 128 so much. Of course, I'm biased because I grew up with one but that's beside the point. Really need to get our repaired. Anyway, it was so great seeing this one alive and well. I would've been just as giddy as you if it were me finding a 128 like that. :)
Error Maker is behaving like a C-64 program when you load it on the 128 in 128 mode. Congrats on a fantastic find, I'd be over the moon if I found a C-128 in the wild!
I remember still being able to go to select retailers and find Commodore 64/128 games on the shelves all the way up to 1990. It really died down after that and couldn't find them any more. These systems were so much fun to have and play around with. They were amazing little machines with so many different peripherals that were really fun to fiddle and tinker with. They even had a monthly magazine up until the late eighties that provided demo disks and printed code for various games that you could type into the Commodore in BASIC which would allow you save the file to disk and play the games yourself if you had the time and perseverance to type in the code yourself.
Computer users of today really sadly .issed out on the best era of computers, which was from 1980 to 1995. After Commodore and Atari went bust / stopped making stuff, and all the others (like SGI, Sun, etc), computers got really boring. Apple is about the only non-wintel systems around, and they are all too conservative on what they try to do. Linux seems to be about the only fun outlet, or even some of the less known projects, like BeOS and ArcaOS. I muck with old computers (like my c128!) Because of this.
One thing, In the video, You never tested out fully the C64 mode or the c/pm mode to see if they work....On a c128, To get to the c64 mode, you either power the c128 by holding down the Commodore key (in the lower left corner) as the machine boots, or type "go64" when the machine is in c128 mode, either will get you there. To enter c/pm mode, just insert the c/pm disk included in the system diskettes folder and boot the machine.. How about doing all this in your next video? Your video was very good. You look like you scored a nice deal. You also never mentioned how much you paid for the entire lot...That's important...Maybe in the next video. Keep'em coming! ;o) Tony K.
Man, seeing so many C64 games on disk is kinda surreal. I still have well over 100 tapes(a good chunk of them(maybe 20-30%) are cover tapes from magazines where they'd have 1 freeware game and a commercial game demo per side, think like the CDs you'd on the front of Playstation and PC magazines) and along with my C64 under the stairs. I remember me and some friends going to town as primary schoolers on Saturdays with our allowance, one of us would go to Dixon's(electronics store) and buy a pack of blank tapes, and the rest of us would go to Boots(a chemist that sold computer games for some reason) and buy a game each from the £1.99 section. You can probably guess what happened next. I still have almost every game listed on the brosure in the Karnov box. Some of them are jewel case budget rereleases, and a few of them are original big box. As for the first floppy disk you run, I think that may have been a magazine on disk. You press return to open a file and that would contain an article.
Nice find. I had a Commodore 64. I think I may thrown it away tho. I gotta vacation here in about a month. One of the things I plan on doing. Going through all that crap back in the storage room from the Garage. Hell, Who knows what I will find.... LOL
Very rare for me seeing that many original game disks, I got truckloads of C64 disks and they're all pirated copies of course. I've got like 6 original disks and then several hundred bootlegs. Someone had given me a C128D (desktop with builtin disk drive) in the late 90s. Man I loved that machine.
does this comodore has a hard disc? because everytime you want to power it off you just turn off the button,i guess it could damage the hard drive if it had one, are the programs loaded direct in the ram ?
@@dallesamllhals9161 my memory my be playing trick on me after all it is a lot of year ago over half life time for me but I sure I played it on the C64. I remember play it with my friend Paul who at the time he had a youngish baby we play together sometimes when he was look after the baby. Paul and his wife split working so one of them could be at home. Now can you guess what the baby first words "ice cream" needless to say his wife was not amused .. you can guess why good time long ago
I paid $50 for the system and software. The seller was in the mindset of ‘old computer = junk’ so he just took my first offer. Looking at eBy prices, I might have gotten the deal of a lifetime! The printer was $10.
@@miketech1024 Yeah.... C64/C128/Amiga systems are gold-finds on eBay. FYI.... If you use that printer and can't find a fresh ribbon... Just take the old ribbon apart and soak it in WD40. I extended the life of many ribbons back in the day with this trick.
@@jonspoonamore3721 Thanks! I’d definitely like to do a video and get some life out of it. As a former network engineer it does feel a bit strange paying homage to a printer (printers and net engs are natural enemies), but this thing is so cool it’s well-deserved.
I love how you are literally shaking with excitement! You look and talk about this find the way I do about my girlfriend! I think you are in love! So adorable!
Amazing! I would be more interested in the dragon and spiderman games. I never knew that games actually came on a cassette. I think i have some games around here that come on those large floppies.
at 23:15 - Battle Chess! 😀 WAY ahead of any other chess game of the era... as far as animations go. Too bad you don't have GEOS 128 to go with it. It basically turned your Commodore 128 into a Mac.
Its said that there were several million C128's sold back in the day. I have to disagree with this as i could literally find about 50 c64's in the wild before i come across a C128. Congrats on owning a rare and most versatile 8 bit machine ever made. Its a 4 in 1 computer really... Think about it :D
When you have time open up the power supply. They are known to have adhesive/glue around the capacitors. Over time it degrades to a point that causes it to absorb water. The area this occurs will rust out. Resisters rust as well as metal links/traces. Two of mine were damaged this way.
So adorable to see you jump up and down for excitement!
Wow, what an awesome find! I bet your heart skipped a beat when you saw that.
I just about fell over! 🤣
I wasn't ready for the guns 🤤 😆 4:41
Gotta be able to lift those CRT monitors 🙂
The joy in your voice makes made me smile for the entire video. I’d be excited too. I also have three blind mice stuck on my head. Lol😂
The first computer I ever bought (mostly) with my own money was a C128, also at a flea market in the mid 90´s. When visiting my dad in Croatia for the summer, the family he rented a house from also had one, and when I left they gave me all the disks. Two double row floppy cases with copies, all scene cracked, what a time.
Huge Commodore fan back in the day so if you ever get bored for a week or 2 please do a video of 'every' disk, may take a while but the internet will be oh so grateful :)
2:10 so cute
Brings back my childhood. My first computer was a TRS-80 connected to my tv using a tape recorder for storage. Then the Commodore 128 was my second computer. in 1991 I bought my first IBM clone 486sx? By then IBM was beating Apple, if not for the Ipod, that company was doomed. Good to see. I loved your earlier restores just to see windows 3.1 and sim city again was awesome. I was 10 in 1983 when I got the TRS-80, this year I hit 50. Thanks for the memories.
You hit the jackpot on that yard sale 👍👍👍 i am very envious right now. 🤤
Now that is a sweet find. I spent many hours playing Jupiter Lander on my VIC-20 back in the early 80’s.
I'll bet Adrian watched this video last year and was like wow.. what a super lucky find!!! Great score Mike!! Seriously, that's almost as rare as finding a gem system with a Pentium Pro in it!!! SCORE! It was worth whatever you had to pay for it.. seriously man.. totally the score of your lifetime!!
If I ever get caught up watching all your videos -- I'll just have to start watching them all over again. (Glad to see you make such a lucky find in this one, too.)
My God... A childhood dream. My favorite 8bit computer was and always will be the C-64, but one often read about the C-128 in computer magazines and really wanted one.
I loved my Commodore 128. Use the snot out of it throughout high school. I eventually sold it and picked up and Amiga 2000. So many hours spent playing so many games. On both systems. Congrats on a great score.
Great find, congratulations. I bought a C64 during the pandemic and showed some early games to my two teenage boys and they really enjoyed it.
Great video, handsome. I'd love to get my hands on a C128!
My damn heart sped up a substantial number of beats when I saw this. What an increadable find man.
Regards from South Africa
Mate, what a great find! I could watch you play those Commodore games all day. And hilarious to see you literally jump up and down with excitement.
Congrats Mike! Never owned a C64 or 128 back in the day. Instead started on a Vic20 then a ZX Spectrum 16k back in the 80’s. Don’t forget the C128 is backwards compatible with C64. On the screen just type go 64 and you are in C64 mode. Have recently bought myself a C128 desktop version which I’m very happy with. Just catching up on your Videos after subscribing from a UA-cam recommendation 👍🏻 thanks 🙏🏻
been going through your back log of videos, i used to own a c128 as a kid. brings back memories. my parents threw it away just a few years before i discovered how to fix them.
Mike Tech: I just found your channel yesterday and i am enjoying it quite a bit!
That's awesome, and its all working is just such an awesome bonus.
It's clearly been well looked after and it's in good hands with you!
Wow, now that's a score, and in amazing shape! The C-128 was a good machine for the time, even trying to be a business machine, either using special C-128 software like the CAD package you have there or running CP/M which is included in the set of system discs.
After startup, if you type GO64 and hit return the machine will reboot in Commodore 64 mode for the most compatibility with C-64 software. The machine has two display modes 80 columns and 40 columns, each mode runs out of its own video generator chip, by default the 80-column display is on the RGB connector and 40 on the Chroma/Luma Split video (S-Video), Composite, and RF, you can even drive both displays 80 RGB and 40 Y/C) separately with software commands so you could have a dual monitor Commodore 128 :).
Yep! Robin from "8 Bit Show & tell" recently did a video trying to discover why a handful of C64 games don't work on the C128, even in C64 mode. It's pretty interesting!: ua-cam.com/video/Ial2VSAu7tw/v-deo.htmlsi=oQRB3mfD2ic1FAfH (If you like retro stuff (especially Commodore products), you'll love his channel).
What an awesome haul. I love the genuine joy of that and when playing these great games. Back when games were games & not endless tedium. Awesome
I love seeing what game developers were able to accomplish with hardware of the time!
Thanks for taking me down memory lane. I had Commodore 128 and 1551 disk drive, and had some of those games also. were old Retro lol
I bet you were just thinking: close the deal... Close the deal!
I just about threw my entire wallet at him! It was the hardest thing to contain my excitement, but inside I was JUMPING!
really cool video glad to see your love for this complete once in a lifetime find!
Dang, wow what find, congrats
Oh mate i felt your enjoyment and pleasure
That game Lunar Lander is using a lot of sounds from Moon Cresta, my favorite arcade game in the 80s! Thanks for the video!
Good lord, the kind of find that happens once a lifetime.
OMG! Jackpot find!
What a fantastic find!!! Congratulations!
That is a sweet, sweet find. It reminds me that I need to get my Commodore Plus/4 out of storage and have a little retro play weekend. 😉
I so want to be you! That's a terrific find.
Very nice find.
What a haul, WOW.. can i ask how old you are?
congrates on your find, nice to see you get a system that's so complete and working.
Fantastic epic find, man!! So much greatness here. Got an A500 around the same month as this 128 was bought, which looks to have been a replacement of a c 64.
Up up down down left right left right A B select start !!!!! For Contra !!!! Wow i loved that game
Awesome find!!!
A glorius computer. You're a lucky man.
😮 what a find!!
Lucky find! It'll be in good hands now.
Star Micronics was an early frontrunner in printer sales. They are still in business making impact and thermal POS and receipt printers!
I love the 128 so much. Of course, I'm biased because I grew up with one but that's beside the point. Really need to get our repaired. Anyway, it was so great seeing this one alive and well. I would've been just as giddy as you if it were me finding a 128 like that. :)
Ooooh and the 2002 is a good monitor too. Not as troublesome as some of the many variations of 1084 tend to be.
Error Maker is behaving like a C-64 program when you load it on the 128 in 128 mode. Congrats on a fantastic find, I'd be over the moon if I found a C-128 in the wild!
Man, this brings back memories of Breakout and Oregon Trail. Lol. My first computer was a TRS-80, and we had C64s at school
Ohh I need to download copies of those!
You lucky guy! 😊👍
I remember still being able to go to select retailers and find Commodore 64/128 games on the shelves all the way up to 1990. It really died down after that and couldn't find them any more. These systems were so much fun to have and play around with. They were amazing little machines with so many different peripherals that were really fun to fiddle and tinker with. They even had a monthly magazine up until the late eighties that provided demo disks and printed code for various games that you could type into the Commodore in BASIC which would allow you save the file to disk and play the games yourself if you had the time and perseverance to type in the code yourself.
Computer users of today really sadly .issed out on the best era of computers, which was from 1980 to 1995. After Commodore and Atari went bust / stopped making stuff, and all the others (like SGI, Sun, etc), computers got really boring. Apple is about the only non-wintel systems around, and they are all too conservative on what they try to do. Linux seems to be about the only fun outlet, or even some of the less known projects, like BeOS and ArcaOS. I muck with old computers (like my c128!) Because of this.
That is beyond cool.
Still have my Amiga 500 from 1987 in working order.
One thing, In the video, You never tested out fully the C64 mode or the c/pm mode to see if they work....On a c128, To get to the c64 mode, you either power the c128 by holding down the Commodore key (in the lower left corner) as the machine boots, or type "go64" when the machine is in c128 mode, either will get you there. To enter c/pm mode, just insert the c/pm disk included in the system diskettes folder and boot the machine.. How about doing all this in your next video? Your video was very good. You look like you scored a nice deal. You also never mentioned how much you paid for the entire lot...That's important...Maybe in the next video. Keep'em coming! ;o) Tony K.
He play Jupiter Lander and the cartridge was for the C64.
@@ralfjung4156 All c64 cartridges work on the c128... ;)
Nice and complete system Really cool and nice :D
How much did you get it for?
What did you pay for the whole thing?
gazette was an offshoot of "compute" magazine...i still have some issues from the early to mid 80s
..in the name of all the HW-Gods! You lucky bastard 😲
So... how much you paid for the128 system?
Wow!
Nice find. Those games are worth some money too, great video.
Lucky you!
Dude, not trying to be funny but at 13:40 it literally says on the screen select the input file and press RETURN to load!!! 🤣
Man, seeing so many C64 games on disk is kinda surreal. I still have well over 100 tapes(a good chunk of them(maybe 20-30%) are cover tapes from magazines where they'd have 1 freeware game and a commercial game demo per side, think like the CDs you'd on the front of Playstation and PC magazines) and along with my C64 under the stairs.
I remember me and some friends going to town as primary schoolers on Saturdays with our allowance, one of us would go to Dixon's(electronics store) and buy a pack of blank tapes, and the rest of us would go to Boots(a chemist that sold computer games for some reason) and buy a game each from the £1.99 section. You can probably guess what happened next.
I still have almost every game listed on the brosure in the Karnov box. Some of them are jewel case budget rereleases, and a few of them are original big box.
As for the first floppy disk you run, I think that may have been a magazine on disk. You press return to open a file and that would contain an article.
love it
Great video .They dont make computers like they used to.
Lucky!
I am only 2 minutes in this video and the amount of jealousy keeps growing. What an amazing find! I don't know how much more I can handle!
8:40 I played this game, or maybe a port? On MS-DOS.
I played a lot of The Bard's Tale on my old Commodore 64
Nice find. I had a Commodore 64. I think I may thrown it away tho. I gotta vacation here in about a month. One of the things I plan on doing. Going through all that crap back in the storage room from the Garage. Hell, Who knows what I will find.... LOL
Very rare for me seeing that many original game disks, I got truckloads of C64 disks and they're all pirated copies of course. I've got like 6 original disks and then several hundred bootlegs.
Someone had given me a C128D (desktop with builtin disk drive) in the late 90s. Man I loved that machine.
I bet you put that in a car from fleamarket like you stole it 😀
Epic find.
I was moving fast!
does this comodore has a hard disc? because everytime you want to power it off you just turn off the button,i guess it could damage the hard drive if it had one, are the programs loaded direct in the ram ?
You lucky SOB🙂. What flea market do you go to?
Not exactly sure of the name, but it’s a pretty large one on US 231 near Dothan Alabama.
speed ball is all time classic "ice cream" enjoy play it so much back in day
..on Amiga YES! ..didn't even know there was a C64 version 😲
@@dallesamllhals9161 my memory my be playing trick on me after all it is a lot of year ago over half life time for me but I sure I played it on the C64. I remember play it with my friend Paul who at the time he had a youngish baby we play together sometimes when he was look after the baby. Paul and his wife split working so one of them could be at home. Now can you guess what the baby first words "ice cream" needless to say his wife was not amused .. you can guess why good time long ago
@@jamesgodfrey1322 NOPE! You're memory's just fine. Theres IS a C64 Speedball(1) port...i just never knew. I do now 🙂
@@dallesamllhals9161 Thank you I did have quick look on line and you find it on e-bay good times happy times have great day
Good haul!!!! I miss my Commodore days. What did you pay for all of that?
I paid $50 for the system and software. The seller was in the mindset of ‘old computer = junk’ so he just took my first offer. Looking at eBy prices, I might have gotten the deal of a lifetime! The printer was $10.
@@miketech1024 Yeah.... C64/C128/Amiga systems are gold-finds on eBay. FYI.... If you use that printer and can't find a fresh ribbon... Just take the old ribbon apart and soak it in WD40. I extended the life of many ribbons back in the day with this trick.
@@jonspoonamore3721 Thanks! I’d definitely like to do a video and get some life out of it. As a former network engineer it does feel a bit strange paying homage to a printer (printers and net engs are natural enemies), but this thing is so cool it’s well-deserved.
Commander Keen lives!
As an Amiga tech, I was surprised it did work as well as it did.
I love how you are literally shaking with excitement! You look and talk about this find the way I do about my girlfriend! I think you are in love! So adorable!
Amazing! I would be more interested in the dragon and spiderman games. I never knew that games actually came on a cassette. I think i have some games around here that come on those large floppies.
Spent many hours playing Frogger.. Hopefully you will find a way to load it.
at 23:15 - Battle Chess! 😀 WAY ahead of any other chess game of the era... as far as animations go. Too bad you don't have GEOS 128 to go with it. It basically turned your Commodore 128 into a Mac.
store the 1571 disk drive with a disk or transport protection loaded and make sure that the lever is closed. otherwise the disk drive could break.
Its said that there were several million C128's sold back in the day. I have to disagree with this as i could literally find about 50 c64's in the wild before i come across a C128. Congrats on owning a rare and most versatile 8 bit machine ever made. Its a 4 in 1 computer really... Think about it :D
Very lucky to get all those pieces of hardware in working order.
❤
How?! I’m straight dumbfounded.
On most games up on the joystick is jump due to only one fire button.
Gimme it. Gimme gimme gimme!
Contra was hard on the Nintendo with a controller that had 2 buttons.. nah it's a SUPER hard game without the cheat code hahaha
WHO throw this set away ?
I don't believe it!
We had that same copy of battle chess
That Contra game is a 150$ game (used). Looks like yours was unused . You should get it graded . I would .
Wow I had no idea they were that valuable!
When you have time open up the power supply. They are known to have adhesive/glue around the capacitors. Over time it degrades to a point that causes it to absorb water. The area this occurs will rust out. Resisters rust as well as metal links/traces. Two of mine were damaged this way.
erm lucky you !
maybe you should try and use an amiga controller and not an Atari controller might be better for the games too
I envy