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Sean's Retroverse
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2016
Sean's Retroverse is a retro video gaming channel that's dedicated to all kinds of technical stuff classic computer/console gaming and retro arcades. Topics include repairs, restorations, reviews, and just little useful tricks I have picked up along the way on my retro computing and repair journey! Specializing in arcade, Commodore, Atari, Nintendo, retro computing and console gaming goodness!
2017 08 21 Eclipse Traffic Jams Time Lapse
Back during the 2017 total eclipse in the United States, I captured a time lapse of the traffic wave leaving the area of totality on the Google Maps overlay from Xavier M. Jubier's web site. I turned on the traffic overlay and captured screen shots every minute until evening. I just finally stitched the screens together into an interesting time lapse.
It's an interesting view, you can still see the "red wave" of traffic well into the evening hours. In hindsight, I wish I had let the capture go for longer!
Anyway, with the great 2024 US Eclipse, I figured it would be a neat thing to post, and I will hope to try to produce a similar video tomorrow! Feel free to join me in capturing the eclipse traffic!
The map overlay used in this video can be found at:
xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html
The map for tomorrow's eclipse is at:
xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2024_GoogleMapFull.html
Sorry for no audio - I am trying to get the video posted in time before the 2024 eclipse event!
Happy Retro Gaming!
It's an interesting view, you can still see the "red wave" of traffic well into the evening hours. In hindsight, I wish I had let the capture go for longer!
Anyway, with the great 2024 US Eclipse, I figured it would be a neat thing to post, and I will hope to try to produce a similar video tomorrow! Feel free to join me in capturing the eclipse traffic!
The map overlay used in this video can be found at:
xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html
The map for tomorrow's eclipse is at:
xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2024_GoogleMapFull.html
Sorry for no audio - I am trying to get the video posted in time before the 2024 eclipse event!
Happy Retro Gaming!
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Commodore C64 1541 Ultimate II Plus Ethernet Demo
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This is a demonstration of the 1541 Ultimate II Plus Ethernet. What I demo here is remote controlling the Ultimate, playing SID files, cart images, mounting and loading disk images, and transferring files via FTP. I also cover setting up the telnet client PuTTY, and also do my bad impersonations of C64 SID tunes! Not covered in this video would be accessing the Internet from the c64, as that fu...
Atari XEGS cartridge port repair
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This is a repair of an Atari XEGS console with a touchy cartridge port. To get games to work, you would have to re-seat the cartridge multiple times, and the games also had a problem with locking up when barely touching the cartridge or bumping the console. I go cover testing, cleaning, and inspecting the cartridge port, and also reflowing the solder joints on the port. Although this is a very ...
Repairing broken plastic for Retro Game Restoration
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In this episode I do a little experiment with welding broken plastic in a QuickShot II Plus joystick with an under the bathroom sink kind of fix! See how I was able to mend broken plastic with a relatively known method!
1541 Ultimate II Plus Review
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Sean's review of the new 1541 Ultimate II with an American NTSC Commodore 64 computer! To purchase, visit the 1541 Ultimate web site. The site can be found at: 1541ultimate.net/ 01/09/2021: A more recent more thorough video has been posted by the retrobits channel. I think it's very well done and showcases a lot of the more recent developments of the 1541 Ultimate II th-cam.com/video/L3JwAmPUII...
Interesting. I agree that traffic was tamer than anticipated. I traveled to a small town in the path of totality and traffic was the same as always. Nobody else noticed a difference. Mainly, it was the interstates that got gridlocked.
Interestingly, the 2024 eclipse traffic has seemed rather tame compared to 2017 so far. Now that totality has moved off toward New Brunswick, only small pockets of traffic are appearing. Not sure if Google is just not tracking traffic as accurately nowadays, or if people really are just waiting a bit for traffic to clear before heading back home. It may also have something to do with more highways, as the 2024 eclipse is over more major cities with reasonable traffic infrastructure. By contrast, the 2017 eclipse was over the Appalachian mountains with fewer highway options to get in and out, which caused significant bottlenecks.
I LOVE C64 ❤❤❤❤ FOREVER ❤❤❤❤
yeah that sqealing is inductor noise some times you can use some silacone or a drop of super glue.
i keep seeing videos for Ultimate II Plus and i still have not gotten mine lol there on mad Backorder..
I need that shirt
Thank you sir. I am waiting for mine.
Missing a sd card slot is Dissapointing. I wonder if a small micro sd usb adapter would work.
America is a crazy place. NTSC, driving on the wrong side of the road, 110VAC, imperial measurements, BLM, and let's not forget - the right to be gun nuts. 😹
Yea we roll 20% faster, sing in higher pitches, drive on the wrong side of the road for miles and not kilometers LOL! Oh and none of the cool PAL demos! (I tried, trust me!) Cheers!
Can it pretend to be a CMD hard drive? Is it C128 & or CP/M modes friendly? Will it run a WiFi usb stick for networking? Can it hold a Turbo rom? JiffyDos etc.
Lots of questions! I believe the answer to most of these is currently no*: CMD hard drive: I don't think so c128 or CP/M friendly: not really per se. It can be used without being plugged into the cartridge port as a stand alone 1541 drive, but I think you will not get the 1571 double sided drive support, so yea, it's pretty limited as a C128 device. I believe if you put it in the cartridge port on a 128, it will boot into 64 mode. wifi stick: I know this was not originally supported, but I know some people were I think working on support for it. I do not know the current status for wifi support. Turbo/JiffyDOS: maybe. I know soft kernal replacements can be done via cartridges, but I have not personally tried this. would suggest researching Gideon's site and forums for the true answers to most of these questions. My take is this is really intended primarily as a virtual 1541 disk drive, tape drive, cartridge, and REU. I otherwise do not have a quick answer for you on this one, as I currently have my c64 in storage. Sorry I can't be of more use on this question - these are all great questions.
Allow me to refer you to a recent video posted by retrobits. This video is very well done and covers many of the advanced and more recently developed features that my video here does not cover! th-cam.com/video/L3JwAmPUIIw/w-d-xo.html
Found this channel... 10 seconds later - SUBBED! Awesome stuff
Do the freeze functions allow you to save your place in a game?
That is a fair question. The short answer is no (I think?) As I recall, I do not think it has any type of instant save state like you have in an emulator (I could be wrong). That being said, it does support freezer cartridges such as super snapshot. While you could use this for saving a state during gameplay, you still have to dump it to disk and reload it from disk. This was mostly used for beaking copy protection, i.e. freeze right when the game finished loading and save that to disk. Where I could be wrong here is I think it is likely to technically be somewhat possible, as the Ultimate II Plus supports a lot of RAM expansion options, so I think utilities could be written to swap the main system memory in and out. Where the problems occur is some of the hardware like the SID and maybe the VIC-II cannot be save stated perfectly, so it would probably be glitchy.
That internal 10 pin port is likely JTAG for programming the FPGA.
Hey. all. I just got my Ultimate-64, which is a full C64 motherboard version of the Ultimate II cartridge. There's so much to learn about it. This video is just another on the curve. Thanks for the PuTTY for the Ultimate document, Sean!
Great tips!
Just got the bug again after 30+ years. I was looking at SD2IEC devices and maybe a EzFlash for CRT roms. Saw your first vid on UII+. The ethernet ftp and telnet controls blew my mind! This seems like a MUST have device.
It's a piezzo speaker built in.
I don't hear anything on my C64 with a network cable. Maybe he fixed it. Maybe yours has an odd quirk. I do hear yours in the vid when you get close to it. UPDATE: Actually I do now.....but only when I transferred a file. And it doesn't sound like crickets. It's a staticky type sound.
I have MMC Replay I bought years back. Considering going to 1541 Ultimate, but haven't pulled the trigger on it yet.
Sean, I appreciate this video. I am definitely getting myself one!
What are those clicks though when first switched on ? mine does this , my Ultimate 2 and Ultimate 1 never made this double click sound ?
As I recall, that was an unintended noise, but functionally not a problem. I do believe Gideon fixed on the next revision, so ones purchased now should not do that.
@@seansretroverse9082 Cheers , Now I know the cause , It will not bother me as much.
I remember that flood too. I was in Little Falls...still am ;)
Awesome video, really helpful, thanks. That direct loading of PRG files has sold me. Still hate that I can't use a micro-sd just like flash carts for every other system.
I'd guess one port is a JTAG (used to do the original firmware installation at fabrication and for debugging) and the unsoldered port is UART (serial)
This has probably been asked a lot of times, but still I must ask it again. Is this 128 compatable in 64 mode or does it require a dedicated c64?
if you use the most recent firmware available for the ultimateII+ it has a new rewritten sid player so it might have more features than the sid player in this video (i havn't tried it yet as i havn;t ordered ultimateII+ yet but about to :)
My Ultimate II+ didn’t come with the data cassette adapter - is that available from any seller or is Gideon’s shop the only reseller?
You have to order it from Gideon. It's worth a mention that you need to explicitly order the cassette adapter if you want it.
Thanks, I emailed him and I’m waiting to hear back. If you happen to know anyone who has a spare, please let me know. I’m really kicking myself for not ordering it along with the rest of the kit!
5:35 well its c64 so address would be 192.168.1.64 but if you remember 50 better
9:14 serial console for debigging. i think
8:57 its port for burning that eprom or what ever chip is that.i think
Excellent tutorial, thanks!
Now, I want one :-)
Thanks for the review! I have one of these on my radar, after I am done paying for all the other retro stuff I have been buying. Geez. Expensive hobby!
Superb video. Thanks for posting dude!
can you use program like filezilla to ftp ?
Sure. Any standard FTP client can be used.
Thanks for the intro to the UltimateII. Hopefully you got the firmware updated OK in the end. Its too bad you are not generating new C64 content , right now there is a bit of a resurgence in the C64 and Amiga for nostalgia buffs and the younger crowd who were never in the original scene. It's funny about action biker, as soon as it started up I was humming along with the tune despite not even touching the game for over 30 years now. I was all over that one in the 80's, playing it on my dual drive rig. Hope you are doing OK, cheers, - Eddy
Nice!! Where can i buy this cartridge?
Did you ever put the 64 in a new 64C Case? I have the same issue with my case and those tabs but couldn’t confirm if my long board would fit in one of those new 64C cases. Great videos, hope you start up again soon.
E xD209 No, though I do have the case and some 3D printed pieces for fitting the breadbin keyboard. Hope to get back to doing videos soon!
Is it possible to send .prg files to the 1541U+ over ftp?
High quality video 👍
Never thought to use the network port in this way. It is cool. Thanks for the video.
Maybe the slot leaf contacts are bent out of shape and just need a little nudge with a dental pick to apply more pressure to the cartridge? But perhaps replacing the slot or the contacts would be the best option.
You need a local DNS server for the name to work. On windows it works between machines because of NetBIOS
I'm encouraged to see so many C64 fans in the USA. In Australia, we only had British Commodore magazines back in the day and all of the US magazines were IBM & Apple so I assumed it wasn't a thing over there. Looking at the 1541UII+ web site, most of the visitors are from Germany and the USA though.
I just got my UII+ today, question the microSD for external power, is that to provide power or receive power?
That is an excellent question! It is so the Ultimate II+ can receive supplemental power. Why would you need this? Simple, it is so you can run it as a stand alone drive without using up the cartridge port on your 64. If you control it over Ethernet, it can work without being plugged into the cartridge port. This also means you can actually use the II+ with other Commodore computers, like the VIC-20, for instance. The main thing to remember is to use the UII+ this way, is you must control it via Ethernet.
Do you know if it's possible to use the Contiki web browser program to browse the (rudimentary) web using the Ultimate-2.5+?
Perifractic's Retro Recipes The last I had heard, Contiki was not supported, but it has also been a while since I heard that. A new firmware is out, and I am hoping to check that out this weekend.
Thanks for this video Sean!
Ordered a unit last week!
Can't get the tape sampler to work but other than that, it's a great device.
You're a genius! Keep up the great work! ^_^