Thanks for putting so much effort into your videos, it's a shame not more people are interested in this stuff. Personally I like the more obscure stuff but I never got the chance to use/own a Commodore so thanks again for all of the interesting content!
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Welcome back Ben! Hope everything went ok. Looking forward to 101!
Hi Ben just to let you know there is a special software used to align the tape deck's head that you are supposed to run before trying to load any cassettes. It came on black box cartridges and showed the graphic representation of head's position in relation to the data track as two black stripes on the screen. You had to manipulate the adjustment screw to make them parallel.
WIth the C64 and any old computer, it's really best to forgo the original magnetic devices and get something modern. I am still trying to get an SD2SIO adapter to use SD cards on my Atari 8-bit.
Ben, Max Headroom is a cassette game for the C64. I own a copy, and it works. It sucks, takes ten minutes to load to get to suckville, but it's freakin Max Headroom on C64, on cassette!
I heard XTC-"Senses working overtime" last night on Satellite radio last night, thought of this channel, lo and behold you have uploaded a new video... coincidence? Yeah, probably...
The 'dents' in the Datasette's case are probably caused by some additives in the cable's platic. If you wind the cable around the Datassette ify you store it away, exacly this happens. I'm not 100% sure, but I think most tape Images won't work properly anyways, since most tapes were released in Europe only and tape speedloaders are quite timing sensitive. I can imagine that this my cause trouble on a NTSC machine... can't verify... all my C64s are PAL.
You guys in the US/Canada tended to use diskettes more than cassettes, whereas over here in Europe the reverse was true, or so I'm told. These days I use neither, preferring something a bit more high tech in the 1541 Ultimate II.
I think I saw something the other day about a company trying to make new Commodore 64 consoles too, ironically enough. Oh how crazy the world is - marketing old products to the new generation.
Hey Ben ! (fanboy mode initiated) EDIT: Ive seen somewhere here on youtube that you can actually pipe the audio right into the C64 over a cable from audio software instead of tapes, if you wanted to its not that hard to do just to show the tape functionality working
On the video output port, the top 2 pins are offset... it's like the 262º plug you see here, but the one you bought is a 270º plug: www.trianglecables.com/images/catalog/product/DIN%20Degree%20Diagram.png IIRC the top two pins can be pulled out - you only need the bottom 5 pins plus the middle one. Pretty sure I did that when I made one. Then you can connect it to S-Video (might need a 75 ohm resistor in the chroma line).
Seems to be a nice set-up to begin with. What joystick(s) did you use for the games? You should definitely get the 'Wizard of Wor' cartridge for the C64. That's a great single- and multiplayer game, and a great port of the arcade. No voice though. Still fun for ages!
For the C=64 I had I first had an Atari 2600 joystick, then later on used a game pad from a Sega Master System. Any controller with the DIN-9 plug would work I think.
The NES RF is curious. It doesn't do as well a job for SNES or other RF systems-- it seems to have been made for just the NES. The SNES RF, on the other hand, seems to work well with other systems (including the NES). (And don't get me started on the Genesis RF.)
I just love seeing Ben's junk in my box.
Thanks for putting so much effort into your videos, it's a shame not more people are interested in this stuff. Personally I like the more obscure stuff but I never got the chance to use/own a Commodore so thanks again for all of the interesting content!
Welcome back Ben! Hope everything went ok. Looking forward to 101!
Hi Ben just to let you know there is a special software used to align the tape deck's head that you are supposed to run before trying to load any cassettes. It came on black box cartridges and showed the graphic representation of head's position in relation to the data track as two black stripes on the screen. You had to manipulate the adjustment screw to make them parallel.
WIth the C64 and any old computer, it's really best to forgo the original magnetic devices and get something modern. I am still trying to get an SD2SIO adapter to use SD cards on my Atari 8-bit.
Ben, Max Headroom is a cassette game for the C64. I own a copy, and it works. It sucks, takes ten minutes to load to get to suckville, but it's freakin Max Headroom on C64, on cassette!
I had a C-64 with (2) 1541 Floppy Drives. I ran Ivory BBS with it in the late 80's
I heard XTC-"Senses working overtime" last night on Satellite radio last night, thought of this channel, lo and behold you have uploaded a new video... coincidence? Yeah, probably...
The 'dents' in the Datasette's case are probably caused by some additives in the cable's platic. If you wind the cable around the Datassette ify you store it away, exacly this happens.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think most tape Images won't work properly anyways, since most tapes were released in Europe only and tape speedloaders are quite timing sensitive. I can imagine that this my cause trouble on a NTSC machine... can't verify... all my C64s are PAL.
You guys in the US/Canada tended to use diskettes more than cassettes, whereas over here in Europe the reverse was true, or so I'm told.
These days I use neither, preferring something a bit more high tech in the 1541 Ultimate II.
I think I saw something the other day about a company trying to make new Commodore 64 consoles too, ironically enough. Oh how crazy the world is - marketing old products to the new generation.
Hey Ben ! (fanboy mode initiated) EDIT: Ive seen somewhere here on youtube that you can actually pipe the audio right into the C64 over a cable from audio software instead of tapes, if you wanted to its not that hard to do just to show the tape functionality working
On the video output port, the top 2 pins are offset... it's like the 262º plug you see here, but the one you bought is a 270º plug:
www.trianglecables.com/images/catalog/product/DIN%20Degree%20Diagram.png
IIRC the top two pins can be pulled out - you only need the bottom 5 pins plus the middle one. Pretty sure I did that when I made one. Then you can connect it to S-Video (might need a 75 ohm resistor in the chroma line).
Try a male rca going into the 64 with rf? going into ariel in on tv. Ive never tried the nes connector.
Seems to be a nice set-up to begin with. What joystick(s) did you use for the games?
You should definitely get the 'Wizard of Wor' cartridge for the C64. That's a great single- and multiplayer game, and a great port of the arcade. No voice though. Still fun for ages!
For the C=64 I had I first had an Atari 2600 joystick, then later on used a game pad from a Sega Master System. Any controller with the DIN-9 plug would work I think.
You should buy a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer and all that crap. lol
Make a episode on scrambled and Descrambled analog channels
What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito? (Sorry, had to say it)
+Storm Bushong Illuminati chips
Storm Bushong I didn't know that Frito Lay made 6502 chips.
(I got the joke, btw)
The NES RF is curious. It doesn't do as well a job for SNES or other RF systems-- it seems to have been made for just the NES. The SNES RF, on the other hand, seems to work well with other systems (including the NES). (And don't get me started on the Genesis RF.)
What? I use a NES RF adapter with my Genesis and it works just fine.
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Man. 421st viewer. So close xD