@@RetroRecipes at 21:45.. Christian that snowy picture you have in channel 21..... is complete snow in higher channels...... Probably the only issue there.... was that bad coaxial connector....... by the way.. try to get a real coaxial 75 ohms cable... like the one that the TV cables companies use.. (or use to use).... that fine wire... that's not good... ( great video as always )
@@Ramdileo_sys Thanks! If you mean the bad cable, I tried other cables off camera before this when the original tuning issue was happening. So there’s definitely some issue inside the TV tuner related to higher frequencies.
This is again giving me some _very_ melancholic vibes - because I had _almost_ the same Braun alarm clock for many, many years! The alarm sound though is 100% the same as I remember it (they probably used the same beeping sound generator in various models). Also, nice to see you found an image of your old desk by looking through the legs of Pericatric. Oh, and speaking of the desk: You actually set it up _correctly_ in your studio in L.A. - or at least correctly for _where_ you set it up. Remember: There's only one country in the entire world where drawers are legally required to be mounted on the left side, and that's Great Britainewzealandominicaustraliantigua and Barbados, so exactly where you are from. Oh, and finally: I really liked that _Rolling Stones_ reference!
Lol at Pericatric. Better than Pussyfractic. And yes I’m sure that beeper was standard. Ha and I was going to make a joke about driving on the right here but completely forgot! Thanks for reminding me.
Perifractic, you hit the nail on the head. It took me forever to upgrade to a Windows PC, because the machines lacked a soul - an identity if you will - like the C64, Amiga and Atari ST had. The PC world seemed so cold and pointless. Innovation was in the PC’s software and not the hardware like those older computers we grew up with. Those were the days, ya’?
Nostalgia is very powerful, but it is a form of suffering... it's a longing that cannot be fulfilled. Respect and thanks to you for opening yourself to this suffering.
That’s very true mate. But there’s a happiness within the suffering that you can’t get without it. And for me the net result is still that’s it’s a good thing, a nice thing to explore. Without pain there sometimes can’t be pleasure…
@@RetroRecipes absolutely. I’m so happy to have found your channel, mate. Much love to you and your family over The Holidays from me and my family in Victoria BC. 💙
What a moving video , i loved every second of it! It reminded me of when my dad( who just passed away last year) bought me my Vic 20 in 1982 , he used to make us a cuppa tea and come and see me programing in my bedroom.. i miss him.. PS. You did get me giggling when that Fawlty Towers moment came on👍
being virtually the same age (i out -old you by 6 months) these nostalgia vids are pretty much time travel for me......we grew up with all the same cultural references so a lot of this wierdly makes my face leak as i'm transported back to 198-whenever. Happy memories and i thank you for bringing them back👍👍
The hours I spent on my ZX81 (in 1981) learning how to code and making simple games. Then I moved to a Dragon 32 and remember linking it up to the VHS recorder so I could record my high score on Donkey Kong! Plus coding a word processor in the Dragon’s graphics mode that drew every character so I could have more on screen than the text mode. So many memories creating crazy games and having so much fun…
I was a student in Twickenham (St Marys) from 1990-93 and remember buying computer bits in Richmond. I also remember buying my first modem at PC World near Isleworth in 1992 and dialling into bulletin boards. Nostalgia IS a drug!
I absolutely loved the retro bedroom setup video! I'm an 1980's born myself and felt so naustalgic seeing this. Unfortunately, my family couldn't afford such a bedroom setup like this in the 80's but watching movie's like ET, Flight of the Navigator etc kept me passionate about such naustalga. I now have a mancave in retro progress 😎 I also installed Pimiga on my pi400 along with Batocera for those trips abroad. 😀 I'm really happy that you have achieved this! P.s. grab a Yamaha dx7 and put this on display 👌
Total nostalgia overload there. I like the timeline you done based on old hardware, for me this is how I remember a lot about specific times and dates in my life. If someone asks me about what I was doing in the summer of 1991 for example I am immediately taken back to my days with the Megadrive playing Sonic, Castle of Illusion and drooling over screenshots of Super Famicom games and then all these other memories about other things come flooding back, its like my computer memories are my space-time continuum and joins the dots for all my other memories. Been playing video games since I got my Commodore 64 for Xmas 1982 and haven't really stopped. :) Good times, good memories and a more care free childhood.
Damn this warms my heart with my own memories of childhood. The Pet Shop Boys (I remember that track from the Introspective album I had on cassette), the Konix Speedking joystick. I picked up a mint one a couple of years ago minus the box, feels amazing playing summer games and the last ninja with it! My computer desk wasn't as nice as that, just a self assembly chipboard effort from MFI in a teak finish we didn't have enough cash for anything nicer! 😁
Man... Nostalgia really is weird. I'm feeling all these exact things about my own childhood and somehow want to re create them. I'm 46 and I have some of my old stuff still in the attic. Maybe I should try to make that c64 go once again. your allarm clock there really took me back, completely unexpectedly. Thank you for this video. Now I want to be back, hurrying home after a birthday party. My mom opening the door, telling me -Hurry, It just started! and then, me and her watching the first episode of V together! 🔥❤️🔥
Everything in these vids gives me a nostalgia fix, but that Hinari TV is just maximum nostalgia for me as that was the TV I used for several of my early computer setups, culminating in my Amiga A500. At least the door covering the controls survived, mine fell off within a few months!
When I discovered your videos instantly loved the content. As the content goes on and when you pause for thought in the videos having those memories really hits and makes me smile. Never stop making your content
This has been such a great project! It's wonderful how you're gathering all your old setup together again to relive the enjoyment. My setup hasn't changed much--same desk, same rack holding the same floppy disks in the same boxes. The last main bit of original hardware was my 1541 drive that I got for christmas in the mid to late 80s, but it quit working and yesterday I discovered that the read head has gone bad! I got thousands of hours of use out of that thing over about 35 years, and now it will never work again unless I can replace the head (the board works fine). It's not a rush job, though, since I have about 20 other working drives to choose from, including a new-in-box unit I got a few years ago. Trouble is, it's my only 1541C drive, and the JiffyDOS in it is for a 1541C. Anyway, once I have a place with enough room to spread out I'll set up the tape drive and dot matrix printers, too.
It's amazing how many of your nostalgia items are exactly the same as mine. Even that alarm clock! Except I had A Sony Trinitron TV for my C64. Thanks for the memories.
An alien astronomer 37 light years away with an enormous (probably planet sized) telescope would be able to see Earth in detail as it was in 1985. Strange to think that with sufficient resolution, they could see people who are no longer with us going about their lives. So in a sense nobody is ever really gone. They still exist as optical information; echoes of light.
Very well said my friend. Some say those moments also exist, being replayed and bounced around as energy. Some say it explains ghosts such as WW1 soldiers marching through a field. According to my precise calculations, the telescope lens would need to be bigger than the solar system. I really hope I have calculated wrong. Although of course, when we finally have faster than light speed, travel, there will likely be other technologies, we cannot imagine to replace a glass telescope lens.
Crazy, the sound of the alarm clock made me smile without thinking about an. As I noticed the smile everything was clear: I had the same "noise" for years every morning. Thanks for reminding me 🙂
Side note: In Hong Kong, we use 220V 50Hz (same as UK, ex-colony of UK 😉), and back in 80's Nintendo did have local "Gray NES" for the local market but almost nobody buy it since it's slower than Japan version due to it's running 60Hz speed.
I had a very similar Akai stereo system and got it around the same age as you did. I loved that stereo and played it constantly. I can even remember the smell of the electronics when I first opened up the boxes to set it up.
I owned virtually every Psion organiser by virtue of creating a PacMan clone called “Chomper” when I was a one-man company called “Black Dawn Digital”. I was given the organisers at a token gesture price (way, way lower than MSRP) and quickly made that back on royalty payments from Widget Software.
That's another masterpiece. Your alarmclock sparked this memory: Bomb the Bass. Around 0.51 the alarmclock kicks in. Can't get more 80's 😎👍 ua-cam.com/video/W6CJmJ5p3Ow/v-deo.html
Wow! 😊 l know what you mean about the our old computers having a sort of 'soul'... I could never feel the same way about a PC (apart from maybe the single, ancient 286 we had in our classroom when I was I like 9 years old in 1988). But yeah, my Amigas (500+ & 1200) felt special for sure. And before that, my 48k and 128k+2 Spectrum's, and even my Commodore Vic20! (I was never attracted to the Commodore 64, personally, the Sinclair Spectrum stole my heart as a 6yr old, up until I was 10yr old!
I had the Psion (Diamond brand) but it needs new rechargeable batteries. My 1st computer that I bought off a shipmate a Radio Shack brand (Sharp) 1k portable that I used in college. It still works but needs the display replaced. My 1st real computer was a Amiga 500, which lost in the move😢 as was my 1st windows pc and home built NegGen 586. After I enlistment was up in July 1985, I bought a Sony 2010 for a Short wave radio alarm clock and woke up to the BBC World Service for about 10 years, sadly they no longer target North America so one more youth activity gone…so I feel your nostalgia. Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year 🎉!
Ah yes, "Adrian Mole"... It generally had a lot of adult themes for the time really. I remember back when I used to watch it and distinctly recall most of the adults in the program smoking and drinking... I also recall "Marmalade" in that vein too! Remember her? 🤔 She was in "4 Weddings And A Funeral" (was it 4 weddings? Or 3? 🤔 Can't remember, I'm not going to check either!)😊... Sadly, Charlotte Coleman, the actress who played "Marmalade", died of an asthma attack in 2001... Wow! The memories... The nostalgia! *Sigh!*
Ooh, that faster alarm clock sound is the exact pattern of beats that the Master has going in his head, and would tap out on a desk, and would have others start unconsciously tap out, too! I'd already left the much-deserved comment, but those parts caused me to HAVE to leave another. Yes, I am a serious Whovian nerd, LOL! Have been since the 70s, so... _~shrug~_ AND I grew up with my dad fiddling with TVs and CRT screens to get them to behave themselves, so you adjusting that one brought back still more memories! Oh, and frankly, the 220-240 volts are less lethal than 110 can be. The higher voltage often knocks you back, while the lower voltage makes your muscles spasm and you can be stuck gripping the bare wire until someone shuts it off or... you get shut off. BTW, do NOT take this as safety advice of any kind!! I will NOT be responsible if you take what I say to mean that 220/240 volts is safe, because it is NOT. It's simply not AS deadly. Big difference. ❤️❤️
My desk was just a TV box which I put my MSX1 (used) machine on top of, hooked up to B/W 12" tv (used), a cassette recorder, a SpectraVideo joystick and a lot of basic programming and enjoyed every minute of it. unfortunately that was in 1994 when this tech started to die, that was all my family can afford for me and my brother back then, anyways, I didn't stop programming since then (44+ years-old kid). I wish you did some BASIC programming, that would complete the scene (at least for me), Thanks
Wow! I got a real nostalgia hit when you produced the Braun Alarm clock! I was given a Braun travel Alarm clock for my 21st birthday in 1994 by someone who sadly is no longer with us. It had an alarm just like yours, and travelled the world with me for at least 10 years. I no longer have it, sadly, probably sold at the same Table sale I sold my Psion Series 5 at for £5! Im the same as you, in that I have been through a number of PC's over the years and felt they never had a personality, like the amiga, etc. did, and Im pleased to say that of my original Computers - Dragon 32, BBC Micro, Amiga 500, before I switched to PC, I still own them all! and they all work. Sadly I no longer have my TV. that died in 2006/7. I have none of my original desktop PC's but I still have all my original Laptops, 2 Compaq Laptops, and my 2007 MacBook Pro. Great video, and thanks for bringing back some great memories for me.
Just scored a bread bin with the music maker for a £100 will get an RGB SCART lead and put it through the RetroTink SCART 2X the AMIGA revision 6A is at 576p through it with scanlines on a Sony 40" awesome wheee hawww :v . . .Also scored another early Japanese MegaDrive 3548 a few light scratches on it also have an earlier one in mint condition 1487 it is getting stashed with the 32X and CD 2
For some reason, I have never forgotten which years I got various computers at Christmas, and they start in '83 with the ZX81 which I eventually threw into a paddling pool I was so fed up with it, '85 was when I got my Speccy 48k from either Dixons or Comet in Hoddesdon, '86 was a 2nd hand C64 with an amber screen monitor which resulted in 'The Human Race' being utterly unplayable but as it was the first game I played on it the Robb Hubbard sid tune blew me away, '87 was the Atari ST, '88 was the Amiga and then in '91 I bought my first pc. Feels like yesterday.
Great video! Very touching and personal which is what makes your videos special. Thank as always for sharing your journey. I thought about my first computer... I got a TI-99/4A when I was 16 in 1983. (I too struggle with exact dates) I loved it and learned to program on it. I think I gave it away to a young boy in 1987 as I wanted to pass on the fun I had. I was in the US Air Force at the time and I put a Commodore 128 on lay away at the Base Exchange. Sadly I never completed the purchase. I later built a PC and have been in IT industry ever since. I have since repurchased 4 TI-99/4As, VIC 20, Commodore 64 and Apple IIE. I agree the older machines have soul where all the other PCs I built do not.
Love to watch all this 80`s stuff, got my zx48 in 1983 and still have it, a500 c64 is Aldo in my collection and a LOT of gameconsoles from the era. Janne/Sweden
We also had a Tandy in my town(long eaton), I was like you always in there . We were also lucky to have a brilliant computer shop called long eaton computers. Bought my c64, Amiga and my first Pc from them. Plus most of my games, starting with my 48k spectrum, cpc464, c64, A1200 n Pc. Brilliant days. Still have my c64 and it's disc drive, also my A1200.
I'm 40 now and still got my very fist C64 I got when I was 8. It has a lot of problems, especially the 1541-I and the Datasette as well. I bought a whole other set for cross checking, but the 1541-II is faulty now as well. (know problems with this model) Once I got the space to setup everything, the debugging sesison begins. I already got some spare chips, a test cartridge, 1541 SD adapter and so on. I want that thing to live again and load all the games I didn't understand back then, because I didn't speak a word of English.
What a lovely video, so glad you could re-experience such happy memories. I got Ghostbusters as my Christmas present too (luckily my one wasn't faulty) and I absolutely loved that game... although the marshmallow man would usually stomp on me as I tried to get into the door. I also got a Currah Speech 64 at the same time, and how it sounded is forever etched into my memory "REEETURN"... and I obviously never ever used it to say rude words. 😉
It’s funny isn’t it how you remember things? I remember that day in 1983 when our Intellivision went and we played that last game of Autoracer and then was replaced by the Spectrum and obviously the first game we played in my memory is Jetpak. We then in 1984 got a 64 and revelled at Revenge of the Mutant Camels. I saw one of the first pre-release issues of Ghostbusters on the 64 because someone at school’s dad worked for Virgin. I placed my teenage personally bought through paper rounds and and odd jobs on a crappy beareux. I did save up for a Matsui portable with teletext😂
I recently restored on old C64 and it's great except for one thing. My kids find the high pitched squeal the monitor emits too much to bear (despite my older ears not hearing it). Dreams of playing two player Wizard of Wor with them instantly went out the window. I switched out the Commodore monitor for an old TV and it's doing the same thing. People tell me it's normal with old CRTs, so I guess that's the end of that.
If nostalgia is heroin for old people Peri, then you need to go cold turkey! To help wean you off it, first send me all your (fully functional) Amigas -ALL OF THEM - and then we'll move onto any 90s consoles you have, Knight Rider stuff and so on...I'm here to help, let them go. Let go I said!
Unfortunately, I cannot remember for the life of me of what kind of desk had my Speccy 48k with my red ferguson😢 and there’s no photos of my Setup anymore 😢😢😢 Great project and great video though
It's weird to me seeing a Commodore 64 connected via RF. I feel like it was super common in the US for Commodore to bundle a monitor, 1541 drive and c64 computer together. That was my setup when I was a kid and my friends whose family also bought a c64 that was their setup as well. I do agree with wanting to own the systems that we had as kids. That's why I bought a c128d and 1702 monitor. Because I missed my c64 but did not have the space to have the computer, monitor and disk drive separate. The 128d has a built in disk drive, and detachable keyboard as well as the perfect surface to have my monitor sit on top of it. It takes up way less space and gives me the ability to play c64 games in all their glory. Exactly, how I remember it.
I once dreamed I had traveled back in time to the place where I used to play soccer as a kid in the 1980s . It happened to be a Saturday (game day) and I wanted to go and see myself play. I woke up before I could get there and was sad I missed the opportunity that was never real to begin with. Nostalgia is truly a drug and going cold turkey is harsh. Good to see I'm not the only one trying to relive the good things that happened to me in those days. I try to forget all the bad things that happened.
Ahh Tandy my dad bought me my first Ferrari F40 remote control car. I wish we could go back. I’m buying all the things that I couldn’t snes and scalextric. A specific one was luckily on eBay caught it on time. Excited like a kid. Sad isn’t it? Unspent child youth. We get so sentimental with possessions. Love your material. The next item in the list is Atari ST.
I couldn't even wait for the video to finish...the alarm clock nostalgia, glad to see its not just me :) I still have my dailymate Time Cube that woke me up from i want to say '85 to '92... still have it, still works... the feeling of another time and place when you hear the alarm is...well....alarming. Another great video, speaking of which...back to the rest of it...
You missed the first obvious solution to get the 64 and TV working there - Move back to the UK! That Braun Alarm Clock Sound brought back some memories . .
I'm a Brit of the same age as you who also now lives in the US. I'd love to find an Amstrad hifi system with the automatically sliding out turntable. I remember getting mine for Xmas in maybe 1984/5. Oh, I too had one of those Braun clocks and it too woke me up for school for years.
Seeing this and also beeing part of the same era with the same stuff... Me starting try to remeber how things looked in my boyroom,, but its all gone, I have no memories and no old 8mm o VHS filmed at home.. But seeing your vids my mind start to give back some pictures. This V64 manual, I must have read it 30 times, tried all examples..
Getting to watching my 12 yo son learning to program in Lua, python and C at the age I first got my ZX80 clone and punching in Basic. I still have my heavily modified MicroAce and am grateful for all I learned from it.
In the 80s out of nowhere my father got hold of a C64, set it up in my room and to be honest spent more time on it than me (usually whilst I was at school), at some point it stopped working so my father got rid of it, after a while as my father was now working in Guernsey he sent over a large package that turned out to be an Amstrad cpc 464 with a small pile of games, unfortunately the colour monitor never arrived, to this day we have no idea what happened to it, so out of desperation to play this amazing to me looking computer we found an mp1 modulator (I still have the original box) that meant I could finally play this computer on the tv in my room which was a Matsui very similar to your tv but black from Argos or Currys I think, I had soo much fun with this computer and eventually acquired a colour monitor so had this next to my tv looking pretty good I must say, also over the next half of the 80s gathered magazines and more games, it was pure magic and escape for me, would even copy some games for my mate on my sisters double deck tape player, she still does not know I did this, sadly as time went by tastes and technology changed my eye was draw to the Super Nintendo and eventually I got one for Christmas early 90s and as the games were so expensive (roughly £60 a pop!) but to me the games and graphics were a new level, I even sold my beloved Amstrad along with everything else, for very little, over the following years I did enjoy the Snes very much but hardly had the games I had before and would have to keep exchanging the games each time I wanted a new one, eventually my younger brother acquired a Playstation and the game changed yet again, I sold my Snes and to be honest It did not have the same impact my Amstrad had it was oh well thats gone lets move on, over the years and many more consoles later, I suddenly felt a strong nostalgia for my old Amstrad and came across one at a local dump for literally £1 they had no idea what it was, gather a few games and either another monitor or mp1 modulator I cant quite remember, I set it all up and loaded the first game and to my shock and horror could not believe how terrible the game looked, It just looked like pixels moving around the screen and very hard to control, I was sure that the games were far better in my memory than what I had seen with my own eyes right there, disappointed I just got rid again built a pc and never looked back, and when I do feel nostalgia I just look up a youtube video of the games I remember and feel sad. It all came down to the time I had with the Amstrad back then in the 80s, I was now spoiled by choice and the rose coloured spectacles were finally removed. But the memories of that beloved computer and moment in my life are still there.
Wow this was a very emotional episode Peri so thanks for sharing. I wondered if the RF socket on your TV either had a dry joint or the socket has expanded making the female part of the socket loose, i had that same problem back in the day when i had my Philips TV connecting to my Spectrum 128K toastrack. I note you have a Boots tape recorder on your nostalgic desk which is exactly the same one i got with my first ZX Spectrum and then used on my toastrack one, seeing this makes me wish that i kept these items.
I'm from Brazil. And even here my thoughts are the same. Looking thru my father's eyes. Cause from him came the sacrifice to buy you these. My thoughts and my prays on you and him.
I can live without my old Ikea desk falling apart as soon as it was assembled, but I wouldn't mind having my Amiga 1200 back as it contained the sprite files and source code of a game I made with friends.
Absolutely loved this episodes and your sharing of your memory's from way back .The hinari tv does look cool not a model you see much of now if at all ,i had a much more common Ferguson tx 14 inch i still have it, though has a fault it could be dry solder joints it went off and 4 hours later it worked .There is another identical set at my dads and the remote version both better condition but there not the ones i had with my zx spectrum 48k plus, though i will take both if they are to be chucked away .I still have my original sony walkman wm31 my nan bought it fir my birthday and i have the bbc b my dads mate gave me more than 20 years ago and i have my car boot bbc master owned these two for so long the 2 machines i would never sell my fist Amiga 500 is at my sisters along with my other Amiga 500 i call Frankenstein as it was put together from a car boot motherboard .I have great memory's of tandys i loved that place and the sony center and so many memorys of dixons currys and comet looking at the computers the tv,s and the hifi .
Really cool to see that little snippet of Richmond. Spent plenty of time in those same shops too. Tandy was super useful for cables and connectors. Boots was great too, My kids look at me strangely when I explain to them how we used to buy games there. That Braun alarm clock must've been in nearly every kids bedroom in the eighties too. That sound still haunts me!
Blimy Adrian Mole, i had forgotten all about that book. Im 51 now and i had that book for Christmas too when i was a teenager. Was quite funny from what i remember.
Fantastic channel and videos,reminds me of my childhood and makes me relive it a bit too.I bought an amiga 500 mini and wonder if there already exists a kit (Amiga 500 case + keyboard) to build the mini into this kit.
Aaaah this made me go back to my 80's too. Thank you very much sir! I wonder how many people are trying to remake/rebuy their childhood stuff again thanks to your vids :)
I grew up in the late 2000s and man do I wish I could go back and see myself watching UA-cam for the first time back in the days of Fred the annoying orange and classic leokimvideo
youtube deleted a comment I wrote about the game I talked about on my last message, game was Di's Baby, bad taste software, released 1984 I found the info online .... I did put a link in the message so that might be why even though i put dot instead of .
That's so cool and nice. I tried to do the same thing, but I ended up getting the stuff I wanted to have back then while I had to settle with lesser stuff and I'll now have to track the stuff I had back then... oh, the conflicted human mind ^_^
I think I had the same Alarm clock too. And all the while you was trying to get the telly tuned in I was screaming at you, check the the cable or the socket on the back of the telly. Ah a large dose of nostalgia home sickness 😉
Adrian Mole - absolutely not just a known thing in the UK! Don't underestimate UK cultural influence over mainland Europe. I am from the Netherlands and we're aged pretty similarly - we got exposed to the secret Diary of Adrian mole by our Dutch language teacher (!!!) who thought it absolutely brilliiant. I read it in English and I thought so as well. It was the right book at the right time when going through very relatable issues. That and BBC television was available in my country as well so I watched all the classic computer science programs as well as dr Who and all creatures great and small. Reruns of Black Beautiy and even know who or what the Wombles are. My pet Rat was called Roland, what else would I call my pet rat ? LOL
I don’t think I got my Apple //c until 1984 and I was 17 years old. I love seeing that you recreated your computer desk when you got both your Apple ][e and Commodore 64. I might be able to do that by memory only. I don’t have any of the COMPUTE! Magazines any more that would have been around my computer because my Dad tossed them when I went away to college.
Might be fun to re-enact a day in the life of a 10 year old. Wake up after the sound of the garage door closing. Program the C64 until 3pm. Heat lunch prepared by someone else in the microwave. Watch cartoons until 5. Listen to the top 100 of 1985, from a synthetic radio station.
You know, I'm 48 and I've never taken down that Maria Whittaker (barbarian woman) picture down. Only cause of nostalgia, of-course. (Why can't I ever remember how to spell nostalgia.)
Glad the SCART Converter got the TV going for you. Funny how the converters always misspell 'Output"; yours said 'Ouput' and mine said 'Outptut'. Always enjoy these videos. Your line delivery does make it feel like I'm listening to a friend talk about the good old days. Still get a chuckle when I watch you wish Bruce Wayne a Happy Birthday in 2005 (at least the actor looked like you) :) Keep up the great work on these videos!
OMG! 20-year -old Chris was such a QT𝜫! And the kitten was so cute! Say, that c64 case looks nonstandard but pretty cool. Where can I get one? From PixelWizard? If you're looking to get that TV fixed, there's another Adrian you can talk to, although not a Mole. This guy dwells in a digital basement, and despite his claims to the contrary, is a bit of a wizard with old TV gear. You know of whom I speak.
Haha thanks. The case was made by an Australian company in the 80s. Search for Australian case on fleaBay. And I did reach out to Adrian about the Apple monitor issue from the earlier video but I think it went to his Facebook spam. I’ll find another way to reach him. I’m not on Twitter. 👍🕹️
12:36 you didn't have a red-LED clock-radio? I thought such a thing was mandatory for us 80s kids ;) Edit: nevermind, I see the TV had red-LED and alarm function...
Sounds like you may need to invest in a 60/hz to 50/hz adaptor. Not sure if they exist... I've seen several that can drop 60Hz down to 50Hz.... It could also be an issue if the C64 is an NTSC version. It will struggle to be detected on a PAL TV, not to mention if the TV is a UK Import, the channels are different to US channels. Definitely fantastic to see you get it working and to complete the nastalgia.
Well I don’t think the 60Hz is the issue. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. Issue seemed to be the TV just couldn’t see higher channels likely due to an age related fault.
These videos (revisiting your childhood setup) bring back heavy nostalgic feels. 🙂 Thanks for sharing... I too still have the TV I used on my C64, but I haven't powered it on in over a decade. I gave it to my in-laws a few years back and it came back like a boomerang. Maybe I'll plug it in over my Christmas break.
I understand your view about PCs. I agree except for my IBM XT (1st PC). I kept it until 1999 when I moved and accidentally left it behind. I would like to replace it one day.
Still have my original desk that I've been using since the late 80's. Held my C64, Amiga, IBM 8088 and all sorts of home built PCs up to this day. Also still have my "boom box" on top that I used as external speakers, since the Amiga 500... I guess I can be classified as a hoarder.
Oh, my!! Great video for this week!!! Have a great Holidays and Merry Christmas with your family!!! God bless all of you!! Thanks for the content and sharing the joy and happiness shown in front of the camera!!
I have a problem using UHF inputs with my newer CRT TV and an old C64. The problem is that with DVB-T and the grab of frequencies for 4G and 5G channels are stacked one after anorher, so TV broadcasts are filling the spectrum, and they appear as noise to an analog TV, while on old analog times the interference was visible as wavy lines and audio noise. I had to make a cable using double screened satellite-tv coax cable to get less interference. By the way my first computer was a Sinclair QL, and used it with a black and white TV set, but after a year or so i got a shiny new green Philips BM7502, that I still have, albeit with some scratches and a missing cover.
Interesting. So I wouldn’t have expected that to be my problem as I don’t think they have DVB here and I didn’t have an antenna plugged in or anywhere near. Hmm.
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. AE Housman A poem that perfectly describes that yearning for the past that we have, especially for me as a country boy from Herefordshire.
Thanks for the 80’s memories. It was a great time to be growing up in!
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@@RetroRecipes at 21:45.. Christian that snowy picture you have in channel 21..... is complete snow in higher channels...... Probably the only issue there.... was that bad coaxial connector....... by the way.. try to get a real coaxial 75 ohms cable... like the one that the TV cables companies use.. (or use to use).... that fine wire... that's not good... ( great video as always )
@@Ramdileo_sys Thanks! If you mean the bad cable, I tried other cables off camera before this when the original tuning issue was happening. So there’s definitely some issue inside the TV tuner related to higher frequencies.
Well... Nostalgia is not only a drug. It helps to survive this damn times...
This is again giving me some _very_ melancholic vibes - because I had _almost_ the same Braun alarm clock for many, many years! The alarm sound though is 100% the same as I remember it (they probably used the same beeping sound generator in various models). Also, nice to see you found an image of your old desk by looking through the legs of Pericatric. Oh, and speaking of the desk: You actually set it up _correctly_ in your studio in L.A. - or at least correctly for _where_ you set it up. Remember: There's only one country in the entire world where drawers are legally required to be mounted on the left side, and that's Great Britainewzealandominicaustraliantigua and Barbados, so exactly where you are from. Oh, and finally: I really liked that _Rolling Stones_ reference!
Lol at Pericatric. Better than Pussyfractic. And yes I’m sure that beeper was standard. Ha and I was going to make a joke about driving on the right here but completely forgot! Thanks for reminding me.
Being a similar age group these videos really bring back great times growing up in the 80’s.
Glad you enjoyed it
Perifractic, you hit the nail on the head. It took me forever to upgrade to a Windows PC, because the machines lacked a soul - an identity if you will - like the C64, Amiga and Atari ST had. The PC world seemed so cold and pointless. Innovation was in the PC’s software and not the hardware like those older computers we grew up with. Those were the days, ya’?
Nostalgia is very powerful, but it is a form of suffering... it's a longing that cannot be fulfilled. Respect and thanks to you for opening yourself to this suffering.
That’s very true mate. But there’s a happiness within the suffering that you can’t get without it. And for me the net result is still that’s it’s a good thing, a nice thing to explore. Without pain there sometimes can’t be pleasure…
@@RetroRecipes absolutely. I’m so happy to have found your channel, mate. Much love to you and your family over The Holidays from me and my family in Victoria BC. 💙
I absolutely get what you are saying Lance. But to be able to try, it's a wonderful but tortuous endeavour.
What a moving video , i loved every second of it!
It reminded me of when my dad( who just passed away last year) bought me my Vic 20 in 1982 , he used to make us a cuppa tea and come and see me programing in my bedroom.. i miss him..
PS. You did get me giggling when that Fawlty Towers moment came on👍
Sorry to hear that sir. We were very lucky 🙏🕹️
being virtually the same age (i out -old you by 6 months) these nostalgia vids are pretty much time travel for me......we grew up with all the same cultural references so a lot of this wierdly makes my face leak as i'm transported back to 198-whenever. Happy memories and i thank you for bringing them back👍👍
The hours I spent on my ZX81 (in 1981) learning how to code and making simple games. Then I moved to a Dragon 32 and remember linking it up to the VHS recorder so I could record my high score on Donkey Kong!
Plus coding a word processor in the Dragon’s graphics mode that drew every character so I could have more on screen than the text mode.
So many memories creating crazy games and having so much fun…
I was a student in Twickenham (St Marys) from 1990-93 and remember buying computer bits in Richmond. I also remember buying my first modem at PC World near Isleworth in 1992 and dialling into bulletin boards. Nostalgia IS a drug!
I absolutely loved the retro bedroom setup video! I'm an 1980's born myself and felt so naustalgic seeing this. Unfortunately, my family couldn't afford such a bedroom setup like this in the 80's but watching movie's like ET, Flight of the Navigator etc kept me passionate about such naustalga. I now have a mancave in retro progress 😎 I also installed Pimiga on my pi400 along with Batocera for those trips abroad. 😀
I'm really happy that you have achieved this! P.s. grab a Yamaha dx7 and put this on display 👌
Total nostalgia overload there. I like the timeline you done based on old hardware, for me this is how I remember a lot about specific times and dates in my life. If someone asks me about what I was doing in the summer of 1991 for example I am immediately taken back to my days with the Megadrive playing Sonic, Castle of Illusion and drooling over screenshots of Super Famicom games and then all these other memories about other things come flooding back, its like my computer memories are my space-time continuum and joins the dots for all my other memories. Been playing video games since I got my Commodore 64 for Xmas 1982 and haven't really stopped. :) Good times, good memories and a more care free childhood.
Damn this warms my heart with my own memories of childhood. The Pet Shop Boys (I remember that track from the Introspective album I had on cassette), the Konix Speedking joystick. I picked up a mint one a couple of years ago minus the box, feels amazing playing summer games and the last ninja with it! My computer desk wasn't as nice as that, just a self assembly chipboard effort from MFI in a teak finish we didn't have enough cash for anything nicer! 😁
Man... Nostalgia really is weird. I'm feeling all these exact things about my own childhood and somehow want to re create them. I'm 46 and I have some of my old stuff still in the attic. Maybe I should try to make that c64 go once again. your allarm clock there really took me back, completely unexpectedly.
Thank you for this video. Now I want to be back, hurrying home after a birthday party. My mom opening the door, telling me -Hurry, It just started! and then, me and her watching the first episode of V together! 🔥❤️🔥
I was hoping that alarm clock would ring some bells
Everything in these vids gives me a nostalgia fix, but that Hinari TV is just maximum nostalgia for me as that was the TV I used for several of my early computer setups, culminating in my Amiga A500. At least the door covering the controls survived, mine fell off within a few months!
Another fantastic video which takes me down memory lane, thanks.
Thanks for sharing taking us down memory lane and a tour of your little "sit-tee"
Glad you enjoyed it - it's my pleasure! Thanks for the kind donation - it really helps the content continue 🙏
I was part of the Tandy Coco crowd. If I could go back, it would be to find all the software and hardware info that's been lost.
When I discovered your videos instantly loved the content.
As the content goes on and when you pause for thought in the videos having those memories really hits and makes me smile.
Never stop making your content
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
Absolutely this. I have never seen a channel on UA-cam or even TV that understands how I feel about retro gaming or even nostalgia in general.
This has been such a great project! It's wonderful how you're gathering all your old setup together again to relive the enjoyment. My setup hasn't changed much--same desk, same rack holding the same floppy disks in the same boxes. The last main bit of original hardware was my 1541 drive that I got for christmas in the mid to late 80s, but it quit working and yesterday I discovered that the read head has gone bad! I got thousands of hours of use out of that thing over about 35 years, and now it will never work again unless I can replace the head (the board works fine). It's not a rush job, though, since I have about 20 other working drives to choose from, including a new-in-box unit I got a few years ago. Trouble is, it's my only 1541C drive, and the JiffyDOS in it is for a 1541C. Anyway, once I have a place with enough room to spread out I'll set up the tape drive and dot matrix printers, too.
Glad you’re enjoying this! More phases to come…
It's amazing how many of your nostalgia items are exactly the same as mine. Even that alarm clock!
Except I had A Sony Trinitron TV for my C64. Thanks for the memories.
Our family had a Trinitron in the living room! Small world
An alien astronomer 37 light years away with an enormous (probably planet sized) telescope would be able to see Earth in detail as it was in 1985. Strange to think that with sufficient resolution, they could see people who are no longer with us going about their lives. So in a sense nobody is ever really gone. They still exist as optical information; echoes of light.
Very well said my friend. Some say those moments also exist, being replayed and bounced around as energy. Some say it explains ghosts such as WW1 soldiers marching through a field. According to my precise calculations, the telescope lens would need to be bigger than the solar system. I really hope I have calculated wrong. Although of course, when we finally have faster than light speed, travel, there will likely be other technologies, we cannot imagine to replace a glass telescope lens.
Crazy, the sound of the alarm clock made me smile without thinking about an. As I noticed the smile everything was clear: I had the same "noise" for years every morning. Thanks for reminding me 🙂
Side note: In Hong Kong, we use 220V 50Hz (same as UK, ex-colony of UK 😉), and back in 80's Nintendo did have local "Gray NES" for the local market but almost nobody buy it since it's slower than Japan version due to it's running 60Hz speed.
I had a very similar Akai stereo system and got it around the same age as you did. I loved that stereo and played it constantly. I can even remember the smell of the electronics when I first opened up the boxes to set it up.
Me too!!
I owned virtually every Psion organiser by virtue of creating a PacMan clone called “Chomper” when I was a one-man company called “Black Dawn Digital”. I was given the organisers at a token gesture price (way, way lower than MSRP) and quickly made that back on royalty payments from Widget Software.
That's another masterpiece. Your alarmclock sparked this memory: Bomb the Bass. Around 0.51 the alarmclock kicks in. Can't get more 80's 😎👍
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Wow! 😊 l know what you mean about the our old computers having a sort of 'soul'... I could never feel the same way about a PC (apart from maybe the single, ancient 286 we had in our classroom when I was I like 9 years old in 1988).
But yeah, my Amigas (500+ & 1200) felt special for sure. And before that, my 48k and 128k+2 Spectrum's, and even my Commodore Vic20! (I was never attracted to the Commodore 64, personally, the Sinclair Spectrum stole my heart as a 6yr old, up until I was 10yr old!
I had the Psion (Diamond brand) but it needs new rechargeable batteries. My 1st computer that I bought off a shipmate a Radio Shack brand (Sharp) 1k portable that I used in college. It still works but needs the display replaced. My 1st real computer was a Amiga 500, which lost in the move😢 as was my 1st windows pc and home built NegGen 586.
After I enlistment was up in July 1985, I bought a Sony 2010 for a Short wave radio alarm clock and woke up to the BBC World Service for about 10 years, sadly they no longer target North America so one more youth activity gone…so I feel your nostalgia.
Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year 🎉!
Ah yes, "Adrian Mole"...
It generally had a lot of adult themes for the time really. I remember back when I used to watch it and distinctly recall most of the adults in the program smoking and drinking...
I also recall "Marmalade" in that vein too! Remember her? 🤔 She was in "4 Weddings And A Funeral" (was it 4 weddings? Or 3? 🤔 Can't remember, I'm not going to check either!)😊...
Sadly, Charlotte Coleman, the actress who played "Marmalade", died of an asthma attack in 2001...
Wow! The memories... The nostalgia!
*Sigh!*
Ooh, that faster alarm clock sound is the exact pattern of beats that the Master has going in his head, and would tap out on a desk, and would have others start unconsciously tap out, too! I'd already left the much-deserved comment, but those parts caused me to HAVE to leave another.
Yes, I am a serious Whovian nerd, LOL! Have been since the 70s, so... _~shrug~_ AND I grew up with my dad fiddling with TVs and CRT screens to get them to behave themselves, so you adjusting that one brought back still more memories!
Oh, and frankly, the 220-240 volts are less lethal than 110 can be. The higher voltage often knocks you back, while the lower voltage makes your muscles spasm and you can be stuck gripping the bare wire until someone shuts it off or... you get shut off. BTW, do NOT take this as safety advice of any kind!! I will NOT be responsible if you take what I say to mean that 220/240 volts is safe, because it is NOT. It's simply not AS deadly. Big difference.
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My desk was just a TV box which I put my MSX1 (used) machine on top of, hooked up to B/W 12" tv (used), a cassette recorder, a SpectraVideo joystick and a lot of basic programming and enjoyed every minute of it.
unfortunately that was in 1994 when this tech started to die, that was all my family can afford for me and my brother back then,
anyways, I didn't stop programming since then (44+ years-old kid).
I wish you did some BASIC programming, that would complete the scene (at least for me),
Thanks
Wow! I got a real nostalgia hit when you produced the Braun Alarm clock! I was given a Braun travel Alarm clock for my 21st birthday in 1994 by someone who sadly is no longer with us. It had an alarm just like yours, and travelled the world with me for at least 10 years. I no longer have it, sadly, probably sold at the same Table sale I sold my Psion Series 5 at for £5!
Im the same as you, in that I have been through a number of PC's over the years and felt they never had a personality, like the amiga, etc. did, and Im pleased to say that of my original Computers - Dragon 32, BBC Micro, Amiga 500, before I switched to PC, I still own them all! and they all work. Sadly I no longer have my TV. that died in 2006/7.
I have none of my original desktop PC's but I still have all my original Laptops, 2 Compaq Laptops, and my 2007 MacBook Pro.
Great video, and thanks for bringing back some great memories for me.
Just scored a bread bin with the music maker for a £100 will get an RGB SCART lead and put it through the RetroTink SCART 2X the AMIGA revision 6A is at 576p through it with scanlines on a Sony 40" awesome wheee hawww :v . . .Also scored another early Japanese MegaDrive 3548 a few light scratches on it also have an earlier one in mint condition 1487 it is getting stashed with the 32X and CD 2
Love this because I went from a ZX81 then sinclair up to the 16k one, swapped with a friend for a C64, OMG! Game changer...Rick Dangerous I love you!
For some reason, I have never forgotten which years I got various computers at Christmas, and they start in '83 with the ZX81 which I eventually threw into a paddling pool I was so fed up with it, '85 was when I got my Speccy 48k from either Dixons or Comet in Hoddesdon, '86 was a 2nd hand C64 with an amber screen monitor which resulted in 'The Human Race' being utterly unplayable but as it was the first game I played on it the Robb Hubbard sid tune blew me away, '87 was the Atari ST, '88 was the Amiga and then in '91 I bought my first pc.
Feels like yesterday.
Great video! Very touching and personal which is what makes your videos special. Thank as always for sharing your journey. I thought about my first computer... I got a TI-99/4A when I was 16 in 1983. (I too struggle with exact dates) I loved it and learned to program on it. I think I gave it away to a young boy in 1987 as I wanted to pass on the fun I had. I was in the US Air Force at the time and I put a Commodore 128 on lay away at the Base Exchange. Sadly I never completed the purchase. I later built a PC and have been in IT industry ever since. I have since repurchased 4 TI-99/4As, VIC 20, Commodore 64 and Apple IIE. I agree the older machines have soul where all the other PCs I built do not.
Love to watch all this 80`s stuff, got my zx48 in 1983 and still have it, a500 c64 is Aldo in my collection and a LOT of gameconsoles from the era.
Janne/Sweden
We also had a Tandy in my town(long eaton), I was like you always in there . We were also lucky to have a brilliant computer shop called long eaton computers. Bought my c64, Amiga and my first Pc from them. Plus most of my games, starting with my 48k spectrum, cpc464, c64, A1200 n Pc. Brilliant days. Still have my c64 and it's disc drive, also my A1200.
I'm 40 now and still got my very fist C64 I got when I was 8. It has a lot of problems, especially the 1541-I and the Datasette as well. I bought a whole other set for cross checking, but the 1541-II is faulty now as well. (know problems with this model)
Once I got the space to setup everything, the debugging sesison begins. I already got some spare chips, a test cartridge, 1541 SD adapter and so on.
I want that thing to live again and load all the games I didn't understand back then, because I didn't speak a word of English.
What a lovely video, so glad you could re-experience such happy memories. I got Ghostbusters as my Christmas present too (luckily my one wasn't faulty) and I absolutely loved that game... although the marshmallow man would usually stomp on me as I tried to get into the door. I also got a Currah Speech 64 at the same time, and how it sounded is forever etched into my memory "REEETURN"... and I obviously never ever used it to say rude words. 😉
It’s funny isn’t it how you remember things? I remember that day in 1983 when our Intellivision went and we played that last game of Autoracer and then was replaced by the Spectrum and obviously the first game we played in my memory is Jetpak. We then in 1984 got a 64 and revelled at Revenge of the Mutant Camels. I saw one of the first pre-release issues of Ghostbusters on the 64 because someone at school’s dad worked for Virgin. I placed my teenage personally bought through paper rounds and and odd jobs on a crappy beareux. I did save up for a Matsui portable with teletext😂
I recently restored on old C64 and it's great except for one thing. My kids find the high pitched squeal the monitor emits too much to bear (despite my older ears not hearing it). Dreams of playing two player Wizard of Wor with them instantly went out the window. I switched out the Commodore monitor for an old TV and it's doing the same thing. People tell me it's normal with old CRTs, so I guess that's the end of that.
If nostalgia is heroin for old people Peri, then you need to go cold turkey! To help wean you off it, first send me all your (fully functional) Amigas -ALL OF THEM - and then we'll move onto any 90s consoles you have, Knight Rider stuff and so on...I'm here to help, let them go. Let go I said!
Alright deal!
@@RetroRecipes Yippee!
Unfortunately, I cannot remember for the life of me of what kind of desk had my Speccy 48k with my red ferguson😢 and there’s no photos of my Setup anymore 😢😢😢
Great project and great video though
It's weird to me seeing a Commodore 64 connected via RF. I feel like it was super common in the US for Commodore to bundle a monitor, 1541 drive and c64 computer together. That was my setup when I was a kid and my friends whose family also bought a c64 that was their setup as well. I do agree with wanting to own the systems that we had as kids. That's why I bought a c128d and 1702 monitor. Because I missed my c64 but did not have the space to have the computer, monitor and disk drive separate. The 128d has a built in disk drive, and detachable keyboard as well as the perfect surface to have my monitor sit on top of it. It takes up way less space and gives me the ability to play c64 games in all their glory. Exactly, how I remember it.
I once dreamed I had traveled back in time to the place where I used to play soccer as a kid in the 1980s . It happened to be a Saturday (game day) and I wanted to go and see myself play. I woke up before I could get there and was sad I missed the opportunity that was never real to begin with. Nostalgia is truly a drug and going cold turkey is harsh. Good to see I'm not the only one trying to relive the good things that happened to me in those days. I try to forget all the bad things that happened.
Ahh Tandy my dad bought me my first Ferrari F40 remote control car. I wish we could go back. I’m buying all the things that I couldn’t snes and scalextric. A specific one was luckily on eBay caught it on time. Excited like a kid. Sad isn’t it? Unspent child youth. We get so sentimental with possessions. Love your material. The next item in the list is Atari ST.
I couldn't even wait for the video to finish...the alarm clock nostalgia, glad to see its not just me :) I still have my dailymate Time Cube that woke me up from i want to say '85 to '92... still have it, still works... the feeling of another time and place when you hear the alarm is...well....alarming. Another great video, speaking of which...back to the rest of it...
You missed the first obvious solution to get the 64 and TV working there - Move back to the UK! That Braun Alarm Clock Sound brought back some memories . .
I'm a Brit of the same age as you who also now lives in the US. I'd love to find an Amstrad hifi system with the automatically sliding out turntable. I remember getting mine for Xmas in maybe 1984/5. Oh, I too had one of those Braun clocks and it too woke me up for school for years.
Seeing this and also beeing part of the same era with the same stuff... Me starting try to remeber how things looked in my boyroom,, but its all gone, I have no memories and no old 8mm o VHS filmed at home..
But seeing your vids my mind start to give back some pictures.
This V64 manual, I must have read it 30 times, tried all examples..
I am fortunate to have had a stock breadbox C64 with a C1702 RGB monitor for my childhood hehehe
Getting to watching my 12 yo son learning to program in Lua, python and C at the age I first got my ZX80 clone and punching in Basic. I still have my heavily modified MicroAce and am grateful for all I learned from it.
The TV Series of Adrian Mole was excellent... Profoundly in love with Pandora
I remember the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole TV show. I can't remember when it came out (1990ish maybe?).
In the 80s out of nowhere my father got hold of a C64, set it up in my room and to be honest spent more time on it than me (usually whilst I was at school), at some point it stopped working so my father got rid of it, after a while as my father was now working in Guernsey he sent over a large package that turned out to be an Amstrad cpc 464 with a small pile of games, unfortunately the colour monitor never arrived, to this day we have no idea what happened to it, so out of desperation to play this amazing to me looking computer we found an mp1 modulator (I still have the original box) that meant I could finally play this computer on the tv in my room which was a Matsui very similar to your tv but black from Argos or Currys I think, I had soo much fun with this computer and eventually acquired a colour monitor so had this next to my tv looking pretty good I must say, also over the next half of the 80s gathered magazines and more games, it was pure magic and escape for me, would even copy some games for my mate on my sisters double deck tape player, she still does not know I did this, sadly as time went by tastes and technology changed my eye was draw to the Super Nintendo and eventually I got one for Christmas early 90s and as the games were so expensive (roughly £60 a pop!) but to me the games and graphics were a new level, I even sold my beloved Amstrad along with everything else, for very little, over the following years I did enjoy the Snes very much but hardly had the games I had before and would have to keep exchanging the games each time I wanted a new one, eventually my younger brother acquired a Playstation and the game changed yet again, I sold my Snes and to be honest It did not have the same impact my Amstrad had it was oh well thats gone lets move on, over the years and many more consoles later, I suddenly felt a strong nostalgia for my old Amstrad and came across one at a local dump for literally £1 they had no idea what it was, gather a few games and either another monitor or mp1 modulator I cant quite remember, I set it all up and loaded the first game and to my shock and horror could not believe how terrible the game looked, It just looked like pixels moving around the screen and very hard to control, I was sure that the games were far better in my memory than what I had seen with my own eyes right there, disappointed I just got rid again built a pc and never looked back, and when I do feel nostalgia I just look up a youtube video of the games I remember and feel sad. It all came down to the time I had with the Amstrad back then in the 80s, I was now spoiled by choice and the rose coloured spectacles were finally removed. But the memories of that beloved computer and moment in my life are still there.
Wow this was a very emotional episode Peri so thanks for sharing. I wondered if the RF socket on your TV either had a dry joint or the socket has expanded making the female part of the socket loose, i had that same problem back in the day when i had my Philips TV connecting to my Spectrum 128K toastrack. I note you have a Boots tape recorder on your nostalgic desk which is exactly the same one i got with my first ZX Spectrum and then used on my toastrack one, seeing this makes me wish that i kept these items.
I'm from Brazil. And even here my thoughts are the same. Looking thru my father's eyes. Cause from him came the sacrifice to buy you these. My thoughts and my prays on you and him.
I can live without my old Ikea desk falling apart as soon as it was assembled, but I wouldn't mind having my Amiga 1200 back as it contained the sprite files and source code of a game I made with friends.
Absolutely loved this episodes and your sharing of your memory's from way back .The hinari tv does look cool not a model you see much of now if at all ,i had a much more common Ferguson tx 14 inch i still have it, though has a fault it could be dry solder joints it went off and 4 hours later it worked .There is another identical set at my dads and the remote version both better condition but there not the ones i had with my zx spectrum 48k plus, though i will take both if they are to be chucked away .I still have my original sony walkman wm31 my nan bought it fir my birthday and i have the bbc b my dads mate gave me more than 20 years ago and i have my car boot bbc master owned these two for so long the 2 machines i would never sell my fist Amiga 500 is at my sisters along with my other Amiga 500 i call Frankenstein as it was put together from a car boot motherboard .I have great memory's of tandys i loved that place and the sony center and so many memorys of dixons currys and comet looking at the computers the tv,s and the hifi .
Really cool to see that little snippet of Richmond. Spent plenty of time in those same shops too. Tandy was super useful for cables and connectors. Boots was great too, My kids look at me strangely when I explain to them how we used to buy games there.
That Braun alarm clock must've been in nearly every kids bedroom in the eighties too. That sound still haunts me!
Blimy Adrian Mole, i had forgotten all about that book. Im 51 now and i had that book for Christmas too when i was a teenager. Was quite funny from what i remember.
I was in Wandsworth with my BBC Micro on a similar desk - Richmond mainly being the place I got dragged for a walk in the park…
Fantastic channel and videos,reminds me of my childhood and makes me relive it a bit too.I bought an amiga 500 mini and wonder if there already exists a kit (Amiga 500 case + keyboard) to build the mini into this kit.
Aaaah this made me go back to my 80's too. Thank you very much sir! I wonder how many people are trying to remake/rebuy their childhood stuff again thanks to your vids :)
The cousin of a friend had your profilepic as a poster on his roomdoor back in the 90's. I always lived that psygnosis logo 😅✌️
I grew up in the late 2000s and man do I wish I could go back and see myself watching UA-cam for the first time back in the days of Fred the annoying orange and classic leokimvideo
youtube deleted a comment I wrote about the game I talked about on my last message, game was Di's Baby, bad taste software, released 1984 I found the info online .... I did put a link in the message so that might be why even though i put dot instead of .
My 70's childhood bedroom was painted sky blue like (half of) yours.
I don't think I'd like to watch back on me typing in faulty "input" programs that didn't work in the end after 5+ issues.
Thank you very much for the second time travel. 🤗 Greetings from Germany.
Being of similar age and upbringing to you (albeit in Manchester) your videos are bringing back some amazing childhood memories.
Aaaaand as I promised... that birthday + Croatia’s 3rd place celebration is over and I’m here. 🤪
Love you channel watching this brought me back to the late 80's/90's
Loved that you brought out the Psion. I'm in the US, but I loved them and have been putting together a bit of a collection now thanks to eBay.
That's so cool and nice. I tried to do the same thing, but I ended up getting the stuff I wanted to have back then while I had to settle with lesser stuff and I'll now have to track the stuff I had back then... oh, the conflicted human mind ^_^
Yes to the premise of a discussion video about time travel theory! 😎😎😎😎😎
I absolutely love these videos! I'm sure I'm not the only one getting misty eyed watching this!
I remeberd I had a RF-modulator conectiong to TV??
Another great 80's memories video. Thanks for sharing :)
I think I had the same Alarm clock too.
And all the while you was trying to get the telly tuned in I was screaming at you, check the the cable or the socket on the back of the telly.
Ah a large dose of nostalgia home sickness 😉
It is always the simple but last thing we look at! Another amazing video and what a great result.
Adrian Mole - absolutely not just a known thing in the UK! Don't underestimate UK cultural influence over mainland Europe. I am from the Netherlands and we're aged pretty similarly - we got exposed to the secret Diary of Adrian mole by our Dutch language teacher (!!!) who thought it absolutely brilliiant. I read it in English and I thought so as well. It was the right book at the right time when going through very relatable issues.
That and BBC television was available in my country as well so I watched all the classic computer science programs as well as dr Who and all creatures great and small. Reruns of Black Beautiy and even know who or what the Wombles are. My pet Rat was called Roland, what else would I call my pet rat ? LOL
Hey rat fan!
This is fantastic, might try and do a similar idea with my Amstrad CPC setup - ahhh the Nostalgia
I don’t think I got my Apple //c until 1984 and I was 17 years old. I love seeing that you recreated your computer desk when you got both your Apple ][e and Commodore 64. I might be able to do that by memory only. I don’t have any of the COMPUTE! Magazines any more that would have been around my computer because my Dad tossed them when I went away to college.
Might be fun to re-enact a day in the life of a 10 year old. Wake up after the sound of the garage door closing. Program the C64 until 3pm. Heat lunch prepared by someone else in the microwave. Watch cartoons until 5. Listen to the top 100 of 1985, from a synthetic radio station.
Interesting idea!
I had a dorm mate at university that let his clock ring for half an hour. I used to pull the fuse in the hallway to get a rest...
"Pet Chipmunks" ILMAO!
You know, I'm 48 and I've never taken down that Maria Whittaker (barbarian woman) picture down. Only cause of nostalgia, of-course. (Why can't I ever remember how to spell nostalgia.)
I wish I still had my original one. It was above my bed. Not sure why.
Glad the SCART Converter got the TV going for you. Funny how the converters always misspell 'Output"; yours said 'Ouput' and mine said 'Outptut'.
Always enjoy these videos. Your line delivery does make it feel like I'm listening to a friend talk about the good old days.
Still get a chuckle when I watch you wish Bruce Wayne a Happy Birthday in 2005 (at least the actor looked like you) :)
Keep up the great work on these videos!
Haha yep that was me. Glad you enjoy my video “ouptit”.
OMG! 20-year -old Chris was such a QT𝜫! And the kitten was so cute!
Say, that c64 case looks nonstandard but pretty cool. Where can I get one? From PixelWizard?
If you're looking to get that TV fixed, there's another Adrian you can talk to, although not a Mole. This guy dwells in a digital basement, and despite his claims to the contrary, is a bit of a wizard with old TV gear. You know of whom I speak.
Haha thanks. The case was made by an Australian company in the 80s. Search for Australian case on fleaBay. And I did reach out to Adrian about the Apple monitor issue from the earlier video but I think it went to his Facebook spam. I’ll find another way to reach him. I’m not on Twitter. 👍🕹️
12:36 you didn't have a red-LED clock-radio? I thought such a thing was mandatory for us 80s kids ;)
Edit: nevermind, I see the TV had red-LED and alarm function...
I had that too but it was built into a telephone!
Sounds like you may need to invest in a 60/hz to 50/hz adaptor. Not sure if they exist... I've seen several that can drop 60Hz down to 50Hz....
It could also be an issue if the C64 is an NTSC version. It will struggle to be detected on a PAL TV, not to mention if the TV is a UK Import, the channels are different to US channels.
Definitely fantastic to see you get it working and to complete the nastalgia.
Well I don’t think the 60Hz is the issue. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. Issue seemed to be the TV just couldn’t see higher channels likely due to an age related fault.
These videos (revisiting your childhood setup) bring back heavy nostalgic feels. 🙂 Thanks for sharing...
I too still have the TV I used on my C64, but I haven't powered it on in over a decade. I gave it to my in-laws a few years back and it came back like a boomerang. Maybe I'll plug it in over my Christmas break.
Dewit
I understand your view about PCs. I agree except for my IBM XT (1st PC). I kept it until 1999 when I moved and accidentally left it behind. I would like to replace it one day.
That’s fair!
Still have my original desk that I've been using since the late 80's. Held my C64, Amiga, IBM 8088 and all sorts of home built PCs up to this day. Also still have my "boom box" on top that I used as external speakers, since the Amiga 500... I guess I can be classified as a hoarder.
Sounds great!
"Euro" connectors in US... and it did not annihilate? ;-)
Oh, my!! Great video for this week!!! Have a great Holidays and Merry Christmas with your family!!! God bless all of you!! Thanks for the content and sharing the joy and happiness shown in front of the camera!!
Our pleasure!
I have a problem using UHF inputs with my newer CRT TV and an old C64. The problem is that with DVB-T and the grab of frequencies for 4G and 5G channels are stacked one after anorher, so TV broadcasts are filling the spectrum, and they appear as noise to an analog TV, while on old analog times the interference was visible as wavy lines and audio noise. I had to make a cable using double screened satellite-tv coax cable to get less interference. By the way my first computer was a Sinclair QL, and used it with a black and white TV set, but after a year or so i got a shiny new green Philips BM7502, that I still have, albeit with some scratches and a missing cover.
Interesting. So I wouldn’t have expected that to be my problem as I don’t think they have DVB here and I didn’t have an antenna plugged in or anywhere near. Hmm.
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
AE Housman
A poem that perfectly describes that yearning for the past that we have, especially for me as a country boy from Herefordshire.
Lovely words