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Definitely Casual Pc's
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Join me in talking, repairing, modding and repairing computers, pc's and video game consoles of all kinds and eras! Learning as I go with some of these retro beauties and love seeing how they work
How Bad is This MFM Hard Drive?
Just a quick video that was on my list of 'to-do' ideas that I'm getting around to while cleaning up the computer room.
I've had this damaged and corroded ST-225 MFM drive for years and decided to crack it open as part of a future display project. I know it's dead so no harm in opening it up.
Let's see just how bad it is though...
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Opening Music from the TH-cam Audio Library
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Greenscreen and other effects from Pixabay.com
I've had this damaged and corroded ST-225 MFM drive for years and decided to crack it open as part of a future display project. I know it's dead so no harm in opening it up.
Let's see just how bad it is though...
Hit me up!
Email- defcasualtech@gmail.com
Instagram- definitely_casual_pcs
Facebook - profile.php?id=100093385497452
Threads - www.threads.net/@definitely_casual_pcs
Twitch - www.twitch.tv/casgmr31
Merch links!
Shirts, Hoodies, Phones cases...Stickers!!!!
my-store-eaf356.creator-spring.com/listing/commodore-basic
my-store-eaf356.creator-spring.com/listing/basic-logo-blue
Opening Music from the TH-cam Audio Library
Thumbnail from Canva.com
Greenscreen and other effects from Pixabay.com
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Where Have I Been? And WE DID IT!! 1000 SUBS!!
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Hey everyone. I'm BACK!!! Was gone for nearly a month, and not much on Social Medias besides a couple community posts. Where have I been? What happened? And OH MY GOD we did it...the big 1K mark has been hit! Just wow everyone, I am so blown away from that and super grateful for everyone thats apart of this little hobby channel. This is just a quick vlog to update folks on what happened to me, ...
Reviewing the SP][SD (The Latest Hard Drive Emulator for Apple ]['s)
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#appleii #retrocomputing I've been needing to get some hard drive emulators and such for some of my vintage machines, and one of them was for the Apple ][ line. After checking out and doing a bit of research on a lot of them (and WOW! there is a lot of hardware emulators for the Apple line of computers)...I came across a somewhat recent product line called the SmartPortSD, and decided to check ...
Septandy 2024! Taking a Look At My TRS-80 Model 1
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#septandy #retrocomputing #trs80 Nothing like another last second Septandy video! Decided to finally take my dusty TRS-80 from storage, and see what all it needs for a future restoration. Not going into the history of the TRS-80 line in this video, but, considering this particular machines history, it might not even work.... but it's still a very special and historic machine. So, better late th...
Another Retro Haul!! (It's Only been a Year...)
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#retrogaming #thrifting It's been A YEAR since my last retro haul video. Even though i wasn't out doing any serious looking for old games and such, i STILL managed to accumulate a fair bit of retro games and goodies. Got quite a few interesting titles here... And even though I've already re-organized my shelves, it really looks like a winter project will be rebuilding them. Hit me up! Email- de...
The 5170 Gets a New Floppy Drive!
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#retropc #5170 It's upgrade time!.....Again... After getting all the stuff gathered around to finally add in a 3.5 floppy drive, and maybe a little more ram...I about had a massive issue due to the very cheap batteries. Soo, after fully re-tearing apart and recleaning...I'm ready to finally add a 1.44mb floppy drive to the IBM PC AT and get it basically fully done... Lets make sure it all still...
What 3 Games Made My Childhood?
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@IowaRetroGamerDad #retrogaming Saw this neat trend on TH-cam a bit ago (yes Im behind the times...go figure...), talking about what 3 games helped shape and define your childhood. Soooo...decided to do some thinking on it and thought that these were the games I not only played so much back in the day, but also have a lot of memories of playing. Let's see what I picked The socials and the merch...
Getting the Apple ii to Boot from Floppy?
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#appleii #vintagecomputers #retropc Now that that *most* of the hardware issues are fixed; the ram issue , the blown caps in the psu, the bad ram card and the faulty disk controller... Now its time to see this Apple ii boot from a physical floppy, only problem is, I dont think i have a good bootable copy of any Dos for it, AND making one might be a bit of a challenge..Let's see what kind of mes...
IBM 5150 Restoration Part 1
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#ibm #retropc FINALLY! Getting around to restoring the iconic IBM PC 5150! Been a LONG time coming and super excited to get into this piece of history. Unfortunately I decided to start this whole project when i was just starting to get sick....plus severe weather plus other schedule stuff.....made recording this a bit of a pain. But in the end I got part one here done. Just tearing down, cleani...
Re-Trying to Retrobrite the Vic-20
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#vintagecomputers #commodore Decided to bite the bullet and re-attempt retrobriting my VIC-20. After the failure and marbling of th e C64 during the restoration series, I've had them on a desk or shelf, just looking yellowed and sad... SOOO it's finally time to retry it, and see if it turns out any better. Fingers crossed it doesn't make it worse! I am on the lookout for another c64 that i can ...
My (Current) Xbox 360 Collection!
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#retrogaming #xbox #xbox360 With the Xbox 360 being officially shelved, (long since EOL, no more support AND the online store now fully dead and gone), I decided to finally get around to making some Xbox 360 related videos....and of course the first of which is a shockingly LONG video showing every game, console, and the very few controllers I have for the iconic system. 116 games in total! Tha...
(Kind Of) Finishing the Compaq Portable II
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(Kind Of) Finishing the Compaq Portable II
The Amazing Year that was 2023...and a Glimpse of 2024
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The Amazing Year that was 2023...and a Glimpse of 2024
Compaq Portable II Restoration Part 2..A rollercoaster of a project!!
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Compaq Portable II Restoration Part 2..A rollercoaster of a project!!
nice videos ! they will be helpful for me i just picked up 1 x compaq portable one , and two compaq portable 2 . aaaand they are at the status of project too !!
Same here! Had 2 portable 2s and have 1 portable 1 ready to be restored. Haven't touched the 1 since I know it'll need keyboard work
I have one of these and find it good and the fact you can use real cartridges is a bonus. Not perfect but good for money!! 🤷♂️
Congrats on 1K Subs man. Sorry to hear about your arm. Glad you're taking care of it. The Path to 1500. Let go!
Thanks! And yea was a weird oddball thing that happened but it's all good now. And yup!!! On the path to it !!
Congratulations! I follow you for few years now and I expect good content from you as always.
Thanks! And thanks for sticking with me and my improving content these few years
Congrats on 1k subs!!!
Thanks man! This was such a ride getting to this point. Really needed that good news while laid up lol 😆 but whoot can only grow from here
@definitelycasualpcs8789 yep!! 👍
I actually found one in the dump, in beautiful condition, some one thought it was a sewing machine....... still sits in my clean but not using pile
Might want to take it apart and make sure that battery didn't leak or something. And yea I got asked why I was carrying sewing machines around in the car lol. They pretty close in size
@definitelycasualpcs8789 you lost a key? I am still watching. Man that sucks, I have a cat, and 2 kids, I feel ya
@definitelycasualpcs8789 I was wrong, I'm going to put up on my channel as a short for now, if your not busy and could drop some knowledge in the comments or help me at all that would be cool , apparently it's a Original portal, not a 2 or 3
@ScroogeMcDuckn I have a portable 1 that I need to restore still. I going to order the foam and foil repair kit ahead of time to save headache lol
@ScroogeMcDuckn oh and absolutely share your channel. Id love to watch and help out!!!
By the time I started building computers from used parts in 1990 EGA monitors were already rare. Luckily I was able to get enough cheap VGA cards to get the 286 or better computers updated.
I missed out on most PC stuff till about 2001. And even then was mostly on consoles so I'm experiencing things I never got to. Ngl the most fun(and headaches) seem to be the 80s up to the 486 era stuff lol
It was also used to play og xbox games
I always wanted a Left 4 Dead Style game set on the two islands from Jurassic Park or Skull island.
Dude hell yea!! Like have some over the top reasons there's so many dinos? Cloning machine went nuts... Boss battles being with the trex, spino or carnataurus...heck yea!!
Operation Genesis isn't a shooter 😬
No I just grabbed it. There is a JP based shooter but I grabbed wrong one lol
Turok 2 on PS4 and and ark survival evolved are your best bets for dinosaur games today
Original Turok was the best and I agree my friend dreams sometimes come true
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Hello from US
Not a Dino game but Wild 9 on ps1 I loved that game
Never heard of it...might have to look it up and try it sometime
I remember there was a dinosaur fighting game like street fighter but instead dinosaurs.
Street fight but with dinos?? Ooo that sounds awesome!!
@definitelycasualpcs8789 yah i looked it up it was called jurassic park warpath on ps1, damn It was like more than 20 years ago.
Primal rage?
Gotta love Turok
Right?? I hate to say it cause it probably wouldn't be up to fans standards but... Turok remake using unreal 5
Does arc not fit?
Oh my God I kinda forgot about the ark series.....lol I knew there was a newer one but I literally could not remember it lol
My papa was really good with tampering with hardware and he made us a full t-bite hardrive and they loved to let us blow their money on games when we were stay over 😂
I remember back in the day for playstations. All you needed was a 300 GB Memory card. for a PS3, you just needed barely any space extension bc it was just way too much if you wanted 1 TB of storage. then comes the PS4 and the later eras of consoles where 1TB of storage essentially gives you one small library of games. don't even get me started with PC gaming.
Games need to not have all the resolutions baked in -- let you choose what resolution(s) of graphics you want to install.
And the games are even on the discs anymore, those 90GB is the game, that disc is simply a license to play the game, 360 you can play any game offline with no issue (no internet connection) but nowadays you can't even load up a game without needing to be signed into an account
I can't wait until games are gonna require 1tb just to download and another 100 gb to save my game 🥲
I'm just careful with my PS1 games. Still play ff7-9 and tomb raider 2 regularly.
I tried to be back then. But things happen Plus when I come across PS1 games, they are usually cracked or broken. Or missing art lol
Not only tons of retro stuff for Apple. Tons of stuff for everything. Stuff I never though would be created. Like memory / drive card upgrades for Trs-80 model 16 machines and such. Just added one of those CIRTECH Apple II scsi cards to my II+
Hey, was wondering, since you have ps2 games, i remember that i used to play this one lego star wars game on the ps2 with my brother, do you have it and whats the like cover look like? Sorry.
I actually had to look lol. The only lego PS2 games I currently are star wars the video game and Star wars 2 the original trilogy
@@definitelycasualpcs8789 omg thanks!! ❤️
@@protoz651 no problem!!
I just replace the jewel case if it's in rough shape. I like those cd-style cases , and they seem to take up less space than DVD cases.
Yea..that's what I been doing ..just a few don't have their art work and it looks wonky. Not that it bugs me too much but it kinda does to a point
Man are we really to the point where we have to explain that games were largely physical and thus didn't need drive space. I'm so old :'(
We might be... And that once....games were DONE when you bought them, no dlc, no season pass, no day one patches .. No micro transaction
Not much to do with it being physical games more just that the games required little to no space
This seems like a great way to preserve. Maybe look into 3d printing some cases using the og ones as the model
Never thought of a 3d printed thing... That could work. I mean at some point...there won't be jewel cases ((I mean by that point most of the og PS1 games might be long dead with disc rot but still))
I have 320 gb for my Xbox 360
Oh my God you madman! No one needs that much storage!!! What kind of nefarious things are you storing?? Lol
@@definitelycasualpcs8789 lots and lots of games
I remember part way through the xbox 360 life cycle save files go way larger going from a few KBs to MBs in size
We got a 360 about...2012? So I never really noticed the increase in save file sizes. I just remembered rango had a really small one in the kb. Kinda makes me wonder what the first game was to get into the mb
@@definitelycasualpcs8789 I remember when COD modern warefare2 came out with a 5MB save file size & thinking that's a lot, also as big as a ps2 memory card in size
@cryptocsguy9282 i can see that...i vaguely remember mw1 in college and I think that was....1mb? 2? I don't fully remember lol I had the Wii that generation when new
Holy sheet is that a rango game
It iiiisssss lol
Why tf do you call consoles ‘counsels’ ?
I have no idea....i didn't catch it while recording, missed it while editing... Didn't realize it until someone mentioned it. My brain just had a moment and said "yep that's the word to use"
Pour nettoyer j'utilise les magic éponge de chez monsieur propre et j'ai donc plu facile
... cool! 🕶️
Why thank you
What is a Countsol?
Oh god 3 years later...and this still haunts me lol. I don't know i had a weird speech thing where my brain said "Yep thats the right word "
I'm assuming that's a basement/game room. it seems incredibly cozy. If I If ever got my own actual house I'd love to have a basement to turn into a game room. Picking three games that defined my childhood feels almost impossible as there were so many games that played different roles and had different impacts depending on the time. I'm not sure I could narrow it down to three.
Yep! Thats my little 13x15 basement game room On the other side of the wall (behind the camera) is my now messy computer room. (I showed a bit in the 5170 floppy update video) And yea it was actually a challenge to do...I assumed it be easy so I didn't plan on it taking long.... I think there's nearly 2 hours of footage of me pacing along the wall there deciding games lol
Oh yes, the artwork in the basement. :) To bad that is white and not color matched. When I first got into computers. I'm not sure. 1 year or so they went to white. Instead of like tan or what not.
Artwork in the basement? And yea ibm kinda had its one off white color ..hard to find
@@definitelycasualpcs8789 Yea, the figure of the water line. :)
? It's just a loop of line lol Oh god does it make some design I'm not seeing ??
@@definitelycasualpcs8789 No, No. Like a mess of Ethernet wires in a wiring closet is called a Master Piece.
@@idahofur ah lol 😆 yea its...controlled chaos
Hi. What RCA plugs did you use? All standard RCAs have long pins. Here you need a short pin
I honestly don't know the brand... I bought a couple cheap ones at a goodwill for the purpose of cutting up or using for things like this. Its mostly just looking around to find a good size, the rca style has such a variety I've seen older audio only cables that are from stereo systems that are usually short pins though...
Heeeey. Thanks for the response video dude!! It seems like itd be an easy challenge until you keep seeing many games you loved as a kid. 😂😂
Im so confused i could swear i responded to this lol But yea right? Like i didn't have many games back in the day, so i thought this would be a breeze...but heck I had like a stack of nearly 20 games before i realized it lol.
Thanks for this in 2024.
Until years later, SEGA finally announced the official SEGA Genesis mini in late 2019 and it’s far more better than the garbage “AT Games” version they gave us! And heck in late 2022 they released a sequel to Genesis mini and it’s far more better than the first one.
Be warned with laptops also!! They have hidden nasties!, Toshiba, Sony VAIO, Dell and others used this technology, right up until the early XP days?
I think so...that's why as much as I'd like to collect laptops and such...they too risky
Get a bullet proof Jewel case.
"These can start to leak as well." Found your problem, it says "Made in China" on it. Scroll up and type "China fakes everything" into the search bar to see more Chinese products.
I have this hunk of shit. It stopped working for me one day. Piece of shit never played games properly anyway
wow thats so easy install the motherborad with 1 screw ,, i own a dell dimension xps T500 iam uprading the motherborad with the onborad sound and a 850 cpu ,, REALLY LOVE THE VIDEO SHOWING HOW TO PUT BACK THE DELL BACK TOGEATHER
I recommend the SSC anyway, my experience with the built-in stuff has been iffy. Note that you can also load directly to Apple II+ using ADTPro.
Nothing brings back memories of booting from the floppy. Then you really realize how slow it was and enjoy your modern ssd drive more. Though, I do have a AE ram card and load stuff like apple works on it.
I haven't tried apple works yet .. I kinda what to try and get some software stuff to try out besides games lol. Not everyone was gaming on apple iis back
I’m stuck with using this or my broken ps2 with sonic mega collection plus, but the audio really is terrible.
Weird. I've had the same symptoms over the last 10-15 days. I really dig old vintage computer videos, these IBMs were my introduction to computers when I was a kid. Looking forward to Part 2.
Yea it was weird. Ever since covid any sinus thing I lose taste and smell briefly. Sucks but I always been testing negative And yea!! Need to buy another desolder iron and stuff to get things going with pt2