Always nice to see a box of candy....many years ago I worked for a UK Dumb terminal manufacturer in their repair department. The terminals were often used in industrial applications, one of which was a UK based candy (sweet) manufacturer. They would send their terminals for repair packed with bags of candy. Well you can guess who's terminals got repaired first! Great way to jump the repair queue :-)
BBC Basic, possibly the finest version of Basic ever created. Love seeing the BBC show up on your channel. Blows my mind how powerful these machines were. My first experience of networking was with BBCs at school. Being able to save and load your basic programs off the network at the start and end of Computer Science lessons was so cool. Seemed like a backward step when I went to college to do my A-Levels and having to save my Pascal code to floppy disk as the College PCs were not networked.
I find it a hit-and-miss version to be honest. Sure, the way it handles functions is awesome, and the speed is great too (hello C64!), but it lacks on other basic stuff. There is no decent uppercase/lower case tolerance, there is no EDIT function, the error's are laughable, and horrible disk operating commands.
Chuckie Egg. You can press the diection keys together, so pressing up, if you press left before you get to it before releasing up, it changes direction. I could generally get to level 24 back in the day. Chuckie Egg was available for a few platforms.
That, and IIRC you can jump on and off the ladders, which makes the game a bit more dynamic, and jumping 'against ledges' gives you a boost. Lost so many lunchtimes to this game in primary school.
Can it be that Speccy behaviour was not translated to the BBC? I mean, there are tons of Pac-Man versions that don't abide the holy rules of Pac-Man control. Pac-Man keeps going into the direction until it bumps into a wall, and you can send short "direction change instructions" ahead of T-junctions. So if you are in a tunnel to the left, and you shortly press up, Pac will remember that and go up as soon as it can.
I honestly think the ADB community would be totally fine with him focusing on organizing for a couple weeks. Maybe an "October Organizing" series or something.
There's a trick to Chuckie Egg, you press the up/down button just before you get to the ladder (and likewise, pressing left/right to walk off them onto a platform) then it plays really smooth and easy. You can also jump on to ladders by holding up or down while you jump. And jump off ladders too. After a bit of practice you'll be addicted.
I was at the NMOC at Bletchley Park and went into their BBC Micro lab. One of the machines had a boot menu of games and applications. Chuckie Egg was on it; I fired it up, and about ten minutes later one of the staff wandered by and said, 'You do know how addictive that is, right?'
yep. I even said it out loud. .. "hold the up key" I spent many a night locked into chuckie egg'ness after spending all day trying to become _mostly harmless_ loved my mod b
Adam Savage from Mythbusters has great organizational videos for your shop. Me, I use Plano tackle boxes, Christmas ornament organizers, and filing cabinets to organize everything from nuts and bolts to connectors to components to power supplies. An old clothing display for cables and leads to hang so they don't look like a tangled corkscrew.
For your organization issues. Something that works for me with small components is 3ring binders with playing card sheets and little ziplocks. It’s good for capacitors like, resistors, diodes, transistors and even ICs. It could be better and I recommend spending the extra few dollars to get the card sheets with the tabs to hold cards in…but over all its high density and fairly low cost.
If you type "*FX 0" (without quotes) at the ">" prompt on your Master, it'll tell you which MOS version is running. The top line after you press BREAK is different on each version too: "BBC Computer 32K" = original Model B. "Acorn OS" = Model B+ (64K or 128K). "Acorn MOS" = "Master 128". At 32:25, you're in Model B+ (OS 2.0), but the SD card is plugged into the modem port, which only exists on the Master. If you had it plugged into the user port on the bottom, it may well work on the B and B+. Chuckie Egg: use AZNM or AZ,. (up/down/left/right) and space (jump) for the control keys, it's much easier than using the keypad. OS 1.2 from the original model B is the best operating system for games.
Lifelong black licorice addict here. Yes, I'm Dutch. Can't eat too much of the stuff anymore on account of high blood pressure but my mouth still absolutely waters just thinking about it, and I don't have that reaction to most other foods or snacks. I think you're right that it helps if you're exposed to it in childhood. But that's probably true for most treats that are perhaps not the easiest to love. I mean I shudder when I think about having to eat deepfried spiders but people in Cambodia think nothing of it. For them it's just a tasty/crunchy snack.
It is also possible for exposure to have the opposite effect. In much of Europe, the basic flavor profile of Root Beer is often used in medicine, creating a very negative response in many people, and I would argilue that licorice has sometimes been used as that in the US, such as Niqual. Even the cherry flavor of some medicines has more "licorice like" taste to it than actual cherry with there literally only being one type I have ever liked, the others being too, "salty and bitter", the literal characteristics described as being prone to occur in licorice candies.
'Murican here who was the weird kid that liked black licorice. Then I moved to Norway and found really awesome salted black licorice. Now I'm older and like you have to watch blood pressure.😢
Finding it hilarious that you're so excited by blu tack as it's ubiquitous in Australia. I'm the same age as you and remember primary school teachers using it to attach posters to the classroom walls in the 1980s. I currently have a red blob holding a pencil to the front of the fridge so we can find one easily to update the shopping list.
I totally agree with the like it cause we are habituated to it hypothesis about food. But I also think that we can totally change our tastes as an adult too even if we have some resistance. I’ve been experimenting with this. I used to hate coffee for the longest time lol. As an adult I’ve now become a lover of strait black coffee just cause I forced myself to drink it for a while. I think actually we can change our tastes for things relatively quickly.
For Chuckie Egg, you can jump on and off the ladders, which makes things much easier to navigate. Fall distance isn't an issue -- you just have to avoid falling off the bottom of the screen. Funny thing is, a major part of Chuckie Egg's appeal was how easily you could bounce around the screen compared with other contemporary games.
the other thing to do on Chuckie Egg is to just press the up key whilst walking sideways, and then when he comes across a ladder he'll start going up it. no need to be pixel perfect.
As I recall, the memory map changes depending on what filing systems are loaded, this could be that the older MOS don't really like the way that a Master is set up. The old 1.20 ROM was the first proper ROMs for the BBC Model A and B (there was a 0.10 EPROM released with the earliest BBC A) but the way that the memory is set up changed a lot (e.g. 1.20 didn't handle paged memory beyond the ROMs). A lot of the British computer mags had cheat sheets for the old Acorns. Can't comment on MMFS - that was something that came along later.
An old trick from my rc plane days. Take baby food jars and run a couple screws through the lid onto a vertical surface. Put small parts like screws and hardware in the jar then use a sharpie to write a description on the bottom of the jar. Just twist the jar onto the secured lid. Great way to recycle. I do recommend putting parts in a small zip lock bag first to avoid spillage.
Hi Adrian. I organize my chips (ICs) by functionality. I’ve got: Op-amps/comparators, oscillators/timers, power amps/current drivers, voltage regulators (78xx & 79xx series), display drivers (LM3914, 7447/8, etc…), telephony, EPROMs, AtoD/DtoA, transistor array, and so on. For popular ones, I keep a maximum of 10 of any part # (like 74LS00 in the “NAND gate” category, or 7805 in “voltage regulator”) in the little plastic bin; extras get stored in a larger plastic bucket (that used to hold styling gel) that I washed and cleaned. I label the bins with a Dymo-brand labeler. For really popular parts, like 7805, 741/1458, 555, etc… I have a whole ‘nuther storage bin thingy just for those, and those are labeled by type as well, but more specific. So that one has bins labeled “Volt. Reg. Pos. Fixed”, for 78xx series, and “Volt. Reg. Neg. Fixed” for 79xx series, and so on. It also has bins for NPN/PNP (small-signal), and NPN/PNP (power), N-/P-channel FETs and MOSFETs, each color of LED (I/R, red, amber, yellow, green, blue/white, and oddball (blinkers, RGB, flicker-flame, bi-color, color-cycling, etc…)), and various types of diodes and rectifiers, all neatly labeled in case the bin takes a trip to the floor by mistake. 😊 When I perish, someone’s going to think I was running my own parts warehouse in my apartment! 😆
Nah you're right, I'm not German (Norwegian here) but "Haribo macht Kinder froh" means "Haribo makes kids happy" (but in rhyme) and we have the same Haribo candies here, but localised into Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish on the same pack. Separate Scandinavian countries are not big enough to justify completely separate packaging in these large-market times... e: those bats are the best. And the licorice wheels. A staple in our household for decades.
12:20 My ears perked way up when you mentioned LOGO. I saw that being demonstrated at InfoMart, the perpetual technology trade show in Dallas, TX, in 1985. I can remember the robot having a glitch that prevented it from actually drawing the lines on paper, but its movement wasn't impaired at all.
It's wonderful watching you play Chuckie Egg, I've got so many fond and frustrating memories of this as a child! I'm going to have to dig out my Acorn Electron and get this all going! Pretty sure I have a breakout board for it as well :)
Love black licorice. The Anise flavor is so good to me. I like anise seed cookies for example. My grandmother on the fathers side used to make pfeferneuse, which is a cookie with anise seeds in them, so they have a mild black licorice flavor. Used to eat the HECK out of those. The weird super salty stuff the Danes love, must be something in the water! ^-^
Blu Tack is also really good for getting off old residue, dust and bits of leftover Blu Tack off of things. Of course, this gets it dirty real quick, but it's such great stuff when you're working on things, or even just want to hang up a poster without making holes.
Adrian if you are running out of wall space remember you are in a basement. Some plywood, piping, and if you want to splurge torsion springs and you can mount all the space you could ever need for components between your floor joists. Can be really cheap and easy. If you are gonna organize it all don't forget to use an IMS which can be just a spreadsheet if need be and label your shelves, boxes and locations well for easy picking.
I took plywood and hinges and mounted it to shelving units that I anchored to the wall. If I need something off the shelf, I raise the storage piece above the shelf (hinge at top, swing upward). I have a lot of these.
I definitely agree it's about being exposed to certain flavours early enough. I love Marmite and I love licorice, but my grandmother gave me lots of both before I was even 2 or 3 years old. Licorice is not exactly uncommon for kids here in the UK but it's still generally regarded by kids as somewhat of a "lesser" or "old fashioned" sweet compared to other more-American gummies and the like; even among kids who don't hate it. Heck, I even like chewing on actual licorice root, but... yeah, the saltier (not necessarily more-bitter) the better for me when it comes to licorice - black OR red. So yeah, those German all-licorice Haribos look GREAT to me hahah
I’m in the US and love black licorice. Another favorite is Horehound candy. Most people that don’t like black licorice won’t like horehound candy. I also like Root Beer. RB can come in different flavor profiles. I enjoy the variations. Cheers
Yeah - DACH is indeed Germany(D), Austria (A) and Swizerland (CH) and at the same time the German word for roof ;-) Actually Haribo was founded in the former capital Bonn of 'old' western Germany (aka BRD) before the reunion and is an abrivation for 'HAns RIgel BOnn'. Hans Rigel was the founder of the company. Many thanks for your very entertaining and interesting videos Adrian! Greetings from Germany
Re: Organization. For small parts with a lot of values, instead of parts organizers I bought some baseball card sheets. I put the components in small 2x3" bags and then slip those in the card slots. For through hole resistors, ceramic caps, small signal diodes/zeners it has worked out pretty well.
I played Chucky Egg so much on the BBC at school :D - tips, jump off the ladders for quicker release, also you can press UP while heading to a ladder and it 'should' grasp it as soon as possible ;)
Aside, you can also get swiss-made watchmaker's grade bluetak, though it comes in a bright blue-green and a dull gray. Called Rodico, by Bergeon. The gray stuff is stickier and leaves less residue. None of them leave much residue, but for watchmakers even a little is a lot. Also A&F Rub-Off, which is a bit waxier and dark blue. These are used for cleaning because they absorb oil, grit, and fibers. Also to hold parts for inspection, and to pick up impossibly tiny parts without tweezers that might slip and launch the part off the work bench. And if you're looking for more color variety, I can also recommend HandiTak by SuperGlue, which is bright yellow.
Put things in numbered bags (antistatic when needed), put the bags into plastic storage totes so they can be stacked and not collapse, write on the box the range of bags it contains, and put the whole lot into an EXCEL spread sheet so you can search for part numbers. Works for me and I have a mass of stuff.
Man, I love black Licorice. I don't really understand why people don't like it. It's a unique, good flavor. I had it quite a bit growing up in Wisconsin, USA.
The ring bound user guide for the model B is what you need. The welcome guide supplied with the master is just what's different from the model B. I've still got my well thumbed copies
yes, I still have mine . I've got the standard one and an advanced one in a box with an electron I should be doing something with. I've also got a hand written note book full of my codes /hacks /undocumented stuff. I've posted pages from it on my Minds account a while back, I should be using that more.
FWIW: You'll probably find MOS 3.50 the default OS for your Master. OS 1.20 and 2.00 for maximum BBC B and B+ compatibility respectively. I have a similar setup with a toggle switch hidden inside the cartridge slot - I can't remember the last time I used anything other than 3.50. PS: There are patched versions of Chuckie Egg that add more colour, options, levels, etc... that might be worth digging out. Also when you want on / off a platform or ladder press along with and you'll have no trouble - jumping on and off ladders is a thing too! PPS: Do take care with those MMFS ROMs! The modem version has a different I/O address than the standard ones - you also need to make sure you don't have multiple versions loaded or much confusion will result! If you find a really, really old game won't run with MOS 3.50 / 3.20 it's worth trying OS 1.20 / 2.00 as most (rare) incompatibilities are OS rather than hardware related... do be sure when running the likes of MMFS with the older OS's it's still set up as the default FS or you'll have trouble with loading stuff or getting / to work. Better yet, most of the uncommon software that doesn't like the Master OS versions has long-since been patched by the community - a bit of googling or searching StarDot will usually turn up a Master-friendly version. I hope that helps a bit.
And I figured out on my own that Patafix ("white blue tack" of the local variety) is an awesome way to keep sockets and other such through-hole components in place about a year or two ago. And yes I do reuse it too and yes it gets... less pleasant with uses. A notion of convergent discovery 🙂 Also those super cheap side-cutters, the blue PLATO ones 🤣We all probably get them from exactly the same factory somewhere in southern China.
blue tack used to be called fun tack in the states, in fact elementary schools sold it as a combination toy/stationary to kids, but us kids from the 80's had alot less to work with lol the lock tite version is an homage to the great fun we had with fun tak in school in the 80's! lol
Yes, it is German. Haribo macht Kinder froh und Erwachsene ebenso. That's their marketing slogan for since I was a little kid. I'm 48. It means something like "Haribo make kids happy and adults too". Just in German it rhymes. The address is the heaquarter of Haribo in Bonn (north-rhine westphalia). Enjoy! In Germany from when young we are taught that licorice is healthy and helps not getting a flu and such. Not sure it ever helped but I nearly never get sick. Maybe it's the same in the Netherlands? I guess we just get used to it. I love that stuff and the Lakritzschnecken are my favorites. (Licorice snails ... yea I know, it's because it goes in circles. Nothing to do with slime :D) Me again, did you say that licorice is bitter? That's funny because for me it tastes sweet and not bitter at all. Hmm wonder why now.
My strategy to organize components: Put them into standard size paper coin envelopes or plastic bags. Label every one. Find a container that can hold lots of the envelopes... I use some steel compartment boxes with internal plastic dividers. Put envelopes in, keep sorted. I have 100 or more types of random transistors and ICs packed into an 18" x 12" x 4" box this way. And other boxes with different types of small parts (screws, nuts, bolts, pipe fittings). It's a lot more dense than the small plastic drawers. The boxes that I have fit nicely into an IKEA bookshelf. Cardboard bin boxes also can work well for holding sorted stacks of envelopes or bags, and they're a lot cheaper than the steel boxes.
You know what though Adrian, once all your components and parts are OGRANIZED, that'll be that and you can keep inventory of what you need and what you don't.. it's SO nice and it is TOTALLY worth the weekend it takes to get organized. So worth it!
Speaking of organizing, just watched a video of Adam Savage working on organizing his workspace and he has an interesting way of making sure he knows what he has. Now, i really cannot imagine you'd use the exact same, but it might help jump start a way for you. And, Colorado means "Colored Red" which I'm guessing most of the gunmies inside are red. But that's just a guess. Thank you for these videos!
In most of these games you don't have to be pixel perfect, you simply hold the key down for the other direction before you need it and your character will change directions as soon as possible. I just checked with the Speccy Chuckie Egg and it works as I remember. If you're going left or right toward a ladder you want to climb just keep holding down left or right and then also hold down up or down while heading to the ladder and it will climb it as soon as its in the right spot, then release the left or right key unless you also want to get off the latter at the first opportunity.
Adrian for organizing components the Home Depot brand organization boxes for screws and bolts are great for components, they are flat, stackable and have compartments which are great for ICs and electronics the good thing is that they do not take a lot of space as you can stack them, I have them all with labels on the side, the good thing is you can have them on a shelf and bring the one with the “family “ you need to the workbench I’ll see if I can post a link here.
Wow.. chuckie egg was one of the games bundled with my electron.. that brings back memories... caterpillar was another i spent many hours playing.. i wish i still had them but like everything electronic i pulled it apart......
Salty liquorice is even weirder; someone brought in a packet years ago and nobody in the office could stand it. Me? Loved it. As do my family - passed around some salty liquorice booze at a family gathering and wound up with an empty bottle. Do wonder if it's a genetics thing.
Come to think of it, my family was Danish if you go back centuries ago. They lived in Poland for a couple centuries though, and I've been told I apparently look Slavic. Either way I love licorice, and the saltier the better.
Best thing to do with your parts bin is to make a rolling rack so this way you can tuck it out of way or in front of existing shelves or next to hot water tank. When needed you pull it out next to bench need be.
I am pretty much like you.. I am Type 2 and too be honest, if someone puts sweets near me, I will still eat them! As for the whole liquorice dilemma! I love liquorice but I am more addicted to anise balls (if I ever come across them!) - Ok, Haribo are good but I am more inclined to get Maynards Bassetts Jelly Babies or Liquorice Allsorts! Love the channel and the wide variety of tinkering!
Back when I was in middle school (I'm 50 now) I had a teacher that was a huge fan of Fun Tak. Every time she would use it in class she would also act like a human advertisement for the product. Always trying to remind us how much better it was to hang things on the wall with Fun Tak rather than putting holes in the walls with thumb tacks.
15:58 Prestik is the "original" South African reusable putty adhesive made by Bostik (and competes with Henkel's product in the same way that Coca-Cola and Pepsi do in the beverage market).
BBC version of chuckie egg was the definitive version... Hold the secondary direction as you run past a ladder and it'll lock on IIRC... Revs is a brilliant driving game for the beeb too and is on that sd image... I wish there was a better way to edit the menu and discs but it uses an old app which edits a single giant master file so isnt easy to add/remove stuff. super cheap to build though, as you know.
On Chuckie Egg, press up/down before you reach the ladder, left/right before you reach the platform. Try and get to level 9, it’s the same as level 1, but the bird in the cage starts chasing you and it does not use the platforms 😊
Please make a video about building your organization plywood drawer thing! I have almost the same problem as you and could learn from your experience. I'm sure many other viewers would find it useful as well. Don't think you need to take time off of videos to do that work, make it a video!
Where it says on the bottom of your BBC Master 'Network 23' that is from the short film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. Watch out for BLIPVERTS!
2:40 A great way to do this, you can do a livestream or a timelapse of redoing and cleaning the basement. Always think of "would this be great video content".
The black licorice thing is interesting. We are roughly the same age and I have found my taste somewhat changing in the last few years too. My greatest surprise is beer. I hated beer, all my life, especially Pilsner, which is especially bitter. And while I am still not and never will be a beer drinker I have found myself in more and more situations in which i actually craved and very much enjoyed a milder beer. Either with some food, or while it was really hot outside. The occasions become more frequent. Definitely not something I eve expected to happen.
Chuckie Egg is a classic! I don't want to think of how many hours in the 80s (and later!) I wasted playing that game. The best version was for the ZX Spectrum. As for Blu Tack, the original is the bomb. I now live in the US, and use the white poster putty stuff, but however good it is, it doesn't have that marvellous blu tack smell!
I quite like the idea of some videos about sorting and organising components. No idea how general the appeal would be, but I think I would find it satisfying in the same way that I like videos that include cleaning and prettying up old grubby hardware...
I agree with you that a lot of licorice is awful tasting when you are not used to the palette. But. There is sweet licorice and I love that. It’s not bitter or salty like the other stuff. The only danger when you get to one of those is that you can’t just have one bite and it’s lactating. 😂
Chuckie Egg - Its a lot easier when you work out you can jump towards the ladders holding the up/down key to grab it mid air ;) Makes the game loads faster and more fun. Also i used to use N M Z S and A or similar as control keys... Much easier!!
it was great to see Citadel on the games list, I had this on the electron and spent way too many hours drawing a giant map of each room I entered to try and work out the game lol
When I was a kid all the teachers in school had it for their posters in Ohio in the US. My girlfriend's a teacher and I have seen it around the school, but I don't know if it's old.
I hate the unsweetened salt licorice but love the sweet unsalted black licorice. I was the weird kid who begged for black jellybeans for Easter. My favorite black licorice is Panda because it's sweetened with molasses - yeah, I'm a still a big weirdo who also likes the flavor of molasses. I got my "strange" tastes for "odd" foods from my mom. We also were the only ones in our family that liked or loved sardines, onions, bell peppers, powdered milk, spinach etc. The only two foods I despise to this day are rutabaga and coriander/cilantro.
"Who cares about modems?" I care about modems! I still run a vintage DOS-based BBS with real modems that people can dial into, and do get actual modem callers. (There's dozens of us!)
I use an analog telephone adapter with a VoIP provider. The modems plug into the ATA, which plugs into my home LAN, and phone calls in/out go over the Internet. With a lossless codec like G.711 u-law modems work quite well, even in the 28.8k range. (weird I've posted this comment twice and it got deleted, maybe this sticks)
I think we would even watch if you make a video putting up the shelves and drawers, and another one sorting chips and talking about them. I also need to sorty components, and would love to take tips and ideas from any system you devise!
A biologist (I can't recall his name) was explaining how eating and having sex are High Risk behavior because they are the only situations where we are willing to allow "foreign" substances enter our systems. The risk of this act is understood and monitored by our brains. If our young brain(as kids) detects taste, color and texture that is "suspicious" or out of the norm it produces emotions that make us to dislike things. As we grow up our brain gains more experience on different types of food so it lowers its guard and focuses in finding familiar characteristics in new foods than to protect us from i.e. poisoning . Our preferences are shaped by our previous experience and the emotional state we were when we first tasted a specific flavor. For examples when we are exhausted and starving , chances are our brain will allow us to have a weird tasting energy bar (i.e. pinacolada flavor) in order to protect us from a low blood sugar crisis. From now on our brains will always prefer this flavor and will recognize it in other foods enabling us to taste even more weird things.
About the licorice, I was born in The Netherlands but my parents are Indonesians from the islands molucas (maluku). I really love it they called drops especially the soft sweet licorice once. The hole family love it except my dad.. When I moved to Indonesia nobody likes the licorice candies maybe its true depends from where you are born and the situation where are that somehow it teach the brain to like.... btw licorice is also a tranditional medicine if you have a dry cough. But anyway I really love your videos and I really wish I have a amiga,C64 or a MSX here in Indonesia after I watch you videos... actually I am planning buy one.. If my friends is comming over to Indonesia.. Keep the videos posting adrian,greetings from Jakarta.
I am commenting after only 1:30 and you have exposed one of the great truths of life. Free stuff is never free. Free stuff increases life complexity. Free stuff will cost many searches for things that may or may not be owned. Or just much harder to find. Free stuff can increase life complexity to the point where it is hard to function, and where guilt about unfinished projects and unused stuff can start to set in. And it will get worse. Free stuff can cost so much over time. Beware of free stuff :)
Heh, I was the same as a kid, did NOT like black liquorice at ALL, even the red stuff was only tolerable, and that isn't liquorice at all! But once I became an adult I grew from tolerating the taste to outright loving it, especially anise. Spanish absinthe which is made from star anise and wormwood is my favourite liquor now. Dutch 'dobbel zout' (double-salted liquorice) is very much an acquired taste, but i've acquired it. Maybe you will too, Adrian!
"...approaching my fifties..." Adrian you're so cute :D :D All joking aside, love your content! And yeah, black licorice is one I can't get enough of. Salty, "Turkish Pepper", salmiac (ammonium chloride, YUM) - and yeah I'm Swedish :D
Been a while, and I forget if it'll run on the Master but go see if Thrust, by Acirnsoft is in that list. Very impressive (and addictive) game considering the hardware.
28:20 Even knowing there's a connection, it's still funny to watch a page like this and have to take a couple of seconds to realize this is NOT teletext.
Adrian, perhaps you need a 2nd channel video "polling" ideas on how to organise your gear? It would be exposing the type of items you have to sort out, the space available, then take comment feedback (*yeah, scary!) on suggestions. Then make a video taking those comments into a solution and show the build and sorting... that way, it fits into your "recording" schedule and will no doubt be interesting as well.
Looking on US Amazon, seems like you can get actual Blu Tack on there for six bucks, the original stuff. I remember teachers using that stuff back in school ages ago.
Instead of wall space use double-sided parts boxes with folding lids and compartments. Label each compartment for each part kind. That way you stack them and move them at will.
For component storage I always use Duratool D01933 Assortment Cases or the original version by Raaco not sure if they are available in your are i couldn't find them on Amazon outside of the UK but if you can get them they stack very high when not in use.
I suppose that after years of sugared cereal breakfast (in USA even breed is sweet 🤯) everything taste bitter. Btw I would eat licorice with moderation....It can raise blood pressure
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Always nice to see a box of candy....many years ago I worked for a UK Dumb terminal manufacturer in their repair department. The terminals were often used in industrial applications, one of which was a UK based candy (sweet) manufacturer. They would send their terminals for repair packed with bags of candy. Well you can guess who's terminals got repaired first! Great way to jump the repair queue :-)
BBC Basic, possibly the finest version of Basic ever created. Love seeing the BBC show up on your channel. Blows my mind how powerful these machines were. My first experience of networking was with BBCs at school. Being able to save and load your basic programs off the network at the start and end of Computer Science lessons was so cool. Seemed like a backward step when I went to college to do my A-Levels and having to save my Pascal code to floppy disk as the College PCs were not networked.
I find it a hit-and-miss version to be honest. Sure, the way it handles functions is awesome, and the speed is great too (hello C64!), but it lacks on other basic stuff. There is no decent uppercase/lower case tolerance, there is no EDIT function, the error's are laughable, and horrible disk operating commands.
Chuckie Egg. You can press the diection keys together, so pressing up, if you press left before you get to it before releasing up, it changes direction. I could generally get to level 24 back in the day. Chuckie Egg was available for a few platforms.
That, and IIRC you can jump on and off the ladders, which makes the game a bit more dynamic, and jumping 'against ledges' gives you a boost.
Lost so many lunchtimes to this game in primary school.
Can it be that Speccy behaviour was not translated to the BBC? I mean, there are tons of Pac-Man versions that don't abide the holy rules of Pac-Man control. Pac-Man keeps going into the direction until it bumps into a wall, and you can send short "direction change instructions" ahead of T-junctions. So if you are in a tunnel to the left, and you shortly press up, Pac will remember that and go up as soon as it can.
I honestly think the ADB community would be totally fine with him focusing on organizing for a couple weeks. Maybe an "October Organizing" series or something.
If that livestream happens while I'm at work I would definitely have it going.
@@irollSame, sounds like it would be good motivation to organize stuff myself!
I agree. The odd vlog type video on organising stuff sounds good. Other TH-camrs do videos when they modify their spaces.
Adam Savage's Tested-style "shop infrastructure" video would be worthwhile
Nice idea!
There's a trick to Chuckie Egg, you press the up/down button just before you get to the ladder (and likewise, pressing left/right to walk off them onto a platform) then it plays really smooth and easy. You can also jump on to ladders by holding up or down while you jump. And jump off ladders too. After a bit of practice you'll be addicted.
I was at the NMOC at Bletchley Park and went into their BBC Micro lab. One of the machines had a boot menu of games and applications. Chuckie Egg was on it; I fired it up, and about ten minutes later one of the staff wandered by and said, 'You do know how addictive that is, right?'
The jump and eating seed sound effects from Chuckie Egg were seared into my brain at about 6 years old along with Candyfloss lol ;)
getting an optimal key definition is critical...use the same definition as acornsoft snapper/pacman
yep. I even said it out loud. .. "hold the up key"
I spent many a night locked into chuckie egg'ness after spending all day trying to become _mostly harmless_
loved my mod b
Yeah, it's pacman style controls, hold the direction before you get to the ladder
Glad you like the SD board - PS I've just sent you an email with an updated Multi Mos Rom that fixes the issues you faced here :)
Adam Savage from Mythbusters has great organizational videos for your shop. Me, I use Plano tackle boxes, Christmas ornament organizers, and filing cabinets to organize everything from nuts and bolts to connectors to components to power supplies. An old clothing display for cables and leads to hang so they don't look like a tangled corkscrew.
For your organization issues. Something that works for me with small components is 3ring binders with playing card sheets and little ziplocks. It’s good for capacitors like, resistors, diodes, transistors and even ICs. It could be better and I recommend spending the extra few dollars to get the card sheets with the tabs to hold cards in…but over all its high density and fairly low cost.
If you type "*FX 0" (without quotes) at the ">" prompt on your Master, it'll tell you which MOS version is running. The top line after you press BREAK is different on each version too:
"BBC Computer 32K" = original Model B.
"Acorn OS" = Model B+ (64K or 128K).
"Acorn MOS" = "Master 128".
At 32:25, you're in Model B+ (OS 2.0), but the SD card is plugged into the modem port, which only exists on the Master. If you had it plugged into the user port on the bottom, it may well work on the B and B+.
Chuckie Egg: use AZNM or AZ,. (up/down/left/right) and space (jump) for the control keys, it's much easier than using the keypad.
OS 1.2 from the original model B is the best operating system for games.
Lifelong black licorice addict here. Yes, I'm Dutch. Can't eat too much of the stuff anymore on account of high blood pressure but my mouth still absolutely waters just thinking about it, and I don't have that reaction to most other foods or snacks. I think you're right that it helps if you're exposed to it in childhood. But that's probably true for most treats that are perhaps not the easiest to love. I mean I shudder when I think about having to eat deepfried spiders but people in Cambodia think nothing of it. For them it's just a tasty/crunchy snack.
It is also possible for exposure to have the opposite effect. In much of Europe, the basic flavor profile of Root Beer is often used in medicine, creating a very negative response in many people, and I would argilue that licorice has sometimes been used as that in the US, such as Niqual. Even the cherry flavor of some medicines has more "licorice like" taste to it than actual cherry with there literally only being one type I have ever liked, the others being too, "salty and bitter", the literal characteristics described as being prone to occur in licorice candies.
@@patrickelliott2169 You may be right. Some Vermouth fortified wines ("Martini") taste like cough syrup to me and it's absolutely revolting.
'Murican here who was the weird kid that liked black licorice. Then I moved to Norway and found really awesome salted black licorice. Now I'm older and like you have to watch blood pressure.😢
The Haribo stuff has NOTHING to do with "drop", it is a byproduct of German car factories making tires.
Finding it hilarious that you're so excited by blu tack as it's ubiquitous in Australia. I'm the same age as you and remember primary school teachers using it to attach posters to the classroom walls in the 1980s. I currently have a red blob holding a pencil to the front of the fridge so we can find one easily to update the shopping list.
I totally agree with the like it cause we are habituated to it hypothesis about food. But I also think that we can totally change our tastes as an adult too even if we have some resistance. I’ve been experimenting with this. I used to hate coffee for the longest time lol. As an adult I’ve now become a lover of strait black coffee just cause I forced myself to drink it for a while. I think actually we can change our tastes for things relatively quickly.
For Chuckie Egg, you can jump on and off the ladders, which makes things much easier to navigate. Fall distance isn't an issue -- you just have to avoid falling off the bottom of the screen.
Funny thing is, a major part of Chuckie Egg's appeal was how easily you could bounce around the screen compared with other contemporary games.
Interestingly, Super Mario Bros had the same super fluid motion that Chuckie Egg had --- but Chuckie Egg came first.
@@bewilderbeestie and both are still super impressive to me ngl
the other thing to do on Chuckie Egg is to just press the up key whilst walking sideways, and then when he comes across a ladder he'll start going up it. no need to be pixel perfect.
Forget component organiser, you need a haribo organiser :D
Welcome to Adrian's confectionary basement.
As I recall, the memory map changes depending on what filing systems are loaded, this could be that the older MOS don't really like the way that a Master is set up. The old 1.20 ROM was the first proper ROMs for the BBC Model A and B (there was a 0.10 EPROM released with the earliest BBC A) but the way that the memory is set up changed a lot (e.g. 1.20 didn't handle paged memory beyond the ROMs).
A lot of the British computer mags had cheat sheets for the old Acorns. Can't comment on MMFS - that was something that came along later.
The earliest MOS was 0.9 but it was terribly buggy. The BBC Micro went through a couple changes to get 2.10
An old trick from my rc plane days. Take baby food jars and run a couple screws through the lid onto a vertical surface. Put small parts like screws and hardware in the jar then use a sharpie to write a description on the bottom of the jar. Just twist the jar onto the secured lid. Great way to recycle. I do recommend putting parts in a small zip lock bag first to avoid spillage.
Hi Adrian. I organize my chips (ICs) by functionality. I’ve got: Op-amps/comparators, oscillators/timers, power amps/current drivers, voltage regulators (78xx & 79xx series), display drivers (LM3914, 7447/8, etc…), telephony, EPROMs, AtoD/DtoA, transistor array, and so on. For popular ones, I keep a maximum of 10 of any part # (like 74LS00 in the “NAND gate” category, or 7805 in “voltage regulator”) in the little plastic bin; extras get stored in a larger plastic bucket (that used to hold styling gel) that I washed and cleaned. I label the bins with a Dymo-brand labeler. For really popular parts, like 7805, 741/1458, 555, etc… I have a whole ‘nuther storage bin thingy just for those, and those are labeled by type as well, but more specific. So that one has bins labeled “Volt. Reg. Pos. Fixed”, for 78xx series, and “Volt. Reg. Neg. Fixed” for 79xx series, and so on. It also has bins for NPN/PNP (small-signal), and NPN/PNP (power), N-/P-channel FETs and MOSFETs, each color of LED (I/R, red, amber, yellow, green, blue/white, and oddball (blinkers, RGB, flicker-flame, bi-color, color-cycling, etc…)), and various types of diodes and rectifiers, all neatly labeled in case the bin takes a trip to the floor by mistake. 😊 When I perish, someone’s going to think I was running my own parts warehouse in my apartment! 😆
Nah you're right, I'm not German (Norwegian here) but "Haribo macht Kinder froh" means "Haribo makes kids happy" (but in rhyme) and we have the same Haribo candies here, but localised into Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish on the same pack. Separate Scandinavian countries are not big enough to justify completely separate packaging in these large-market times...
e: those bats are the best. And the licorice wheels. A staple in our household for decades.
12:20 My ears perked way up when you mentioned LOGO. I saw that being demonstrated at InfoMart, the perpetual technology trade show in Dallas, TX, in 1985. I can remember the robot having a glitch that prevented it from actually drawing the lines on paper, but its movement wasn't impaired at all.
It's wonderful watching you play Chuckie Egg, I've got so many fond and frustrating memories of this as a child! I'm going to have to dig out my Acorn Electron and get this all going! Pretty sure I have a breakout board for it as well :)
Love black licorice. The Anise flavor is so good to me. I like anise seed cookies for example. My grandmother on the fathers side used to make pfeferneuse, which is a cookie with anise seeds in them, so they have a mild black licorice flavor. Used to eat the HECK out of those.
The weird super salty stuff the Danes love, must be something in the water! ^-^
Love your energy and spirit, man, you fast became a staple in my retro subs together with Usagi and LGR and now Bob's and a few others :)
Blu Tack is also really good for getting off old residue, dust and bits of leftover Blu Tack off of things. Of course, this gets it dirty real quick, but it's such great stuff when you're working on things, or even just want to hang up a poster without making holes.
Adrian if you are running out of wall space remember you are in a basement. Some plywood, piping, and if you want to splurge torsion springs and you can mount all the space you could ever need for components between your floor joists. Can be really cheap and easy. If you are gonna organize it all don't forget to use an IMS which can be just a spreadsheet if need be and label your shelves, boxes and locations well for easy picking.
I took plywood and hinges and mounted it to shelving units that I anchored to the wall. If I need something off the shelf, I raise the storage piece above the shelf (hinge at top, swing upward). I have a lot of these.
I definitely agree it's about being exposed to certain flavours early enough. I love Marmite and I love licorice, but my grandmother gave me lots of both before I was even 2 or 3 years old.
Licorice is not exactly uncommon for kids here in the UK but it's still generally regarded by kids as somewhat of a "lesser" or "old fashioned" sweet compared to other more-American gummies and the like; even among kids who don't hate it.
Heck, I even like chewing on actual licorice root, but... yeah, the saltier (not necessarily more-bitter) the better for me when it comes to licorice - black OR red.
So yeah, those German all-licorice Haribos look GREAT to me hahah
I’m in the US and love black licorice. Another favorite is Horehound candy. Most people that don’t like black licorice won’t like horehound candy. I also like Root Beer. RB can come in different flavor profiles. I enjoy the variations. Cheers
Yeah - DACH is indeed Germany(D), Austria (A) and Swizerland (CH) and at the same time the German word for roof ;-)
Actually Haribo was founded in the former capital Bonn of 'old' western Germany (aka BRD) before the reunion and is an abrivation for 'HAns RIgel BOnn'. Hans Rigel was the founder of the company. Many thanks for your very entertaining and interesting videos Adrian!
Greetings from Germany
Re: Organization. For small parts with a lot of values, instead of parts organizers I bought some baseball card sheets. I put the components in small 2x3" bags and then slip those in the card slots. For through hole resistors, ceramic caps, small signal diodes/zeners it has worked out pretty well.
I played Chucky Egg so much on the BBC at school :D - tips, jump off the ladders for quicker release, also you can press UP while heading to a ladder and it 'should' grasp it as soon as possible ;)
Aside, you can also get swiss-made watchmaker's grade bluetak, though it comes in a bright blue-green and a dull gray. Called Rodico, by Bergeon. The gray stuff is stickier and leaves less residue. None of them leave much residue, but for watchmakers even a little is a lot. Also A&F Rub-Off, which is a bit waxier and dark blue. These are used for cleaning because they absorb oil, grit, and fibers. Also to hold parts for inspection, and to pick up impossibly tiny parts without tweezers that might slip and launch the part off the work bench.
And if you're looking for more color variety, I can also recommend HandiTak by SuperGlue, which is bright yellow.
Put things in numbered bags (antistatic when needed), put the bags into plastic storage totes so they can be stacked and not collapse, write on the box the range of bags it contains, and put the whole lot into an EXCEL spread sheet so you can search for part numbers. Works for me and I have a mass of stuff.
Man, I love black Licorice. I don't really understand why people don't like it. It's a unique, good flavor. I had it quite a bit growing up in Wisconsin, USA.
The ring bound user guide for the model B is what you need. The welcome guide supplied with the master is just what's different from the model B. I've still got my well thumbed copies
yes, I still have mine .
I've got the standard one and an advanced one in a box with an electron I should be doing something with.
I've also got a hand written note book full of my codes /hacks /undocumented stuff.
I've posted pages from it on my Minds account a while back, I should be using that more.
I call it organised chaos. I know where everything is even though nothing is organised.
FWIW: You'll probably find MOS 3.50 the default OS for your Master. OS 1.20 and 2.00 for maximum BBC B and B+ compatibility respectively. I have a similar setup with a toggle switch hidden inside the cartridge slot - I can't remember the last time I used anything other than 3.50.
PS: There are patched versions of Chuckie Egg that add more colour, options, levels, etc... that might be worth digging out. Also when you want on / off a platform or ladder press along with and you'll have no trouble - jumping on and off ladders is a thing too!
PPS: Do take care with those MMFS ROMs! The modem version has a different I/O address than the standard ones - you also need to make sure you don't have multiple versions loaded or much confusion will result!
If you find a really, really old game won't run with MOS 3.50 / 3.20 it's worth trying OS 1.20 / 2.00 as most (rare) incompatibilities are OS rather than hardware related... do be sure when running the likes of MMFS with the older OS's it's still set up as the default FS or you'll have trouble with loading stuff or getting / to work.
Better yet, most of the uncommon software that doesn't like the Master OS versions has long-since been patched by the community - a bit of googling or searching StarDot will usually turn up a Master-friendly version.
I hope that helps a bit.
And I figured out on my own that Patafix ("white blue tack" of the local variety) is an awesome way to keep sockets and other such through-hole components in place about a year or two ago.
And yes I do reuse it too and yes it gets... less pleasant with uses.
A notion of convergent discovery 🙂
Also those super cheap side-cutters, the blue PLATO ones 🤣We all probably get them from exactly the same factory somewhere in southern China.
blue tack used to be called fun tack in the states, in fact elementary schools sold it as a combination toy/stationary to kids, but us kids from the 80's had alot less to work with lol the lock tite version is an homage to the great fun we had with fun tak in school in the 80's! lol
Yes, it is German. Haribo macht Kinder froh und Erwachsene ebenso. That's their marketing slogan for since I was a little kid. I'm 48. It means something like "Haribo make kids happy and adults too". Just in German it rhymes. The address is the heaquarter of Haribo in Bonn (north-rhine westphalia). Enjoy!
In Germany from when young we are taught that licorice is healthy and helps not getting a flu and such. Not sure it ever helped but I nearly never get sick. Maybe it's the same in the Netherlands? I guess we just get used to it. I love that stuff and the Lakritzschnecken are my favorites. (Licorice snails ... yea I know, it's because it goes in circles. Nothing to do with slime :D)
Me again, did you say that licorice is bitter? That's funny because for me it tastes sweet and not bitter at all. Hmm wonder why now.
ahhh... good old Blu-Tack a.k.a. Sinclair repair kit 😁
I had never heard of blutack or Sugru before I found Techmoan lol
My strategy to organize components:
Put them into standard size paper coin envelopes or plastic bags. Label every one. Find a container that can hold lots of the envelopes... I use some steel compartment boxes with internal plastic dividers. Put envelopes in, keep sorted.
I have 100 or more types of random transistors and ICs packed into an 18" x 12" x 4" box this way. And other boxes with different types of small parts (screws, nuts, bolts, pipe fittings). It's a lot more dense than the small plastic drawers. The boxes that I have fit nicely into an IKEA bookshelf.
Cardboard bin boxes also can work well for holding sorted stacks of envelopes or bags, and they're a lot cheaper than the steel boxes.
You know what though Adrian, once all your components and parts are OGRANIZED, that'll be that and you can keep inventory of what you need and what you don't.. it's SO nice and it is TOTALLY worth the weekend it takes to get organized. So worth it!
Speaking of organizing, just watched a video of Adam Savage working on organizing his workspace and he has an interesting way of making sure he knows what he has. Now, i really cannot imagine you'd use the exact same, but it might help jump start a way for you. And, Colorado means "Colored Red" which I'm guessing most of the gunmies inside are red. But that's just a guess. Thank you for these videos!
In most of these games you don't have to be pixel perfect, you simply hold the key down for the other direction before you need it and your character will change directions as soon as possible. I just checked with the Speccy Chuckie Egg and it works as I remember. If you're going left or right toward a ladder you want to climb just keep holding down left or right and then also hold down up or down while heading to the ladder and it will climb it as soon as its in the right spot, then release the left or right key unless you also want to get off the latter at the first opportunity.
Adrian for organizing components the Home Depot brand organization boxes for screws and bolts are great for components, they are flat, stackable and have compartments which are great for ICs and electronics the good thing is that they do not take a lot of space as you can stack them, I have them all with labels on the side, the good thing is you can have them on a shelf and bring the one with the “family “ you need to the workbench I’ll see if I can post a link here.
Wow.. chuckie egg was one of the games bundled with my electron.. that brings back memories... caterpillar was another i spent many hours playing.. i wish i still had them but like everything electronic i pulled it apart......
black licorice is a seriously big scandinavian thing. Here in Sweden people basically worship it :) btw Haribo is german.
Salty liquorice is even weirder; someone brought in a packet years ago and nobody in the office could stand it. Me? Loved it. As do my family - passed around some salty liquorice booze at a family gathering and wound up with an empty bottle. Do wonder if it's a genetics thing.
Come to think of it, my family was Danish if you go back centuries ago. They lived in Poland for a couple centuries though, and I've been told I apparently look Slavic. Either way I love licorice, and the saltier the better.
Best thing to do with your parts bin is to make a rolling rack so this way you can tuck it out of way or in front of existing shelves or next to hot water tank. When needed you pull it out next to bench need be.
I am pretty much like you.. I am Type 2 and too be honest, if someone puts sweets near me, I will still eat them! As for the whole liquorice dilemma! I love liquorice but I am more addicted to anise balls (if I ever come across them!) - Ok, Haribo are good but I am more inclined to get Maynards Bassetts Jelly Babies or Liquorice Allsorts!
Love the channel and the wide variety of tinkering!
Please make long videos of you cleaning and organizing your workshop, I'm 100% sure people will love those videos.
Back when I was in middle school (I'm 50 now) I had a teacher that was a huge fan of Fun Tak. Every time she would use it in class she would also act like a human advertisement for the product. Always trying to remind us how much better it was to hang things on the wall with Fun Tak rather than putting holes in the walls with thumb tacks.
Wow chuckie egg… i used to play that game had completely forgotten about it, well it was 40 years ago !
15:58 Prestik is the "original" South African reusable putty adhesive made by Bostik (and competes with Henkel's product in the same way that Coca-Cola and Pepsi do in the beverage market).
Adrian and the great sugar level fight of 2024
I'm in that fight, but my sensor keeps disconnecting...err retreating from the field of battle
BBC version of chuckie egg was the definitive version... Hold the secondary direction as you run past a ladder and it'll lock on IIRC... Revs is a brilliant driving game for the beeb too and is on that sd image... I wish there was a better way to edit the menu and discs but it uses an old app which edits a single giant master file so isnt easy to add/remove stuff. super cheap to build though, as you know.
On Chuckie Egg, press up/down before you reach the ladder, left/right before you reach the platform. Try and get to level 9, it’s the same as level 1, but the bird in the cage starts chasing you and it does not use the platforms 😊
Please make a video about building your organization plywood drawer thing! I have almost the same problem as you and could learn from your experience. I'm sure many other viewers would find it useful as well. Don't think you need to take time off of videos to do that work, make it a video!
I came here to say this! Shelby from Tech Tangents had a whole series setting up his office, and I loved it!
Where it says on the bottom of your BBC Master 'Network 23' that is from the short film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. Watch out for BLIPVERTS!
2:40 A great way to do this, you can do a livestream or a timelapse of redoing and cleaning the basement. Always think of "would this be great video content".
The black licorice thing is interesting. We are roughly the same age and I have found my taste somewhat changing in the last few years too. My greatest surprise is beer. I hated beer, all my life, especially Pilsner, which is especially bitter. And while I am still not and never will be a beer drinker I have found myself in more and more situations in which i actually craved and very much enjoyed a milder beer. Either with some food, or while it was really hot outside. The occasions become more frequent. Definitely not something I eve expected to happen.
Love the basic command, the vdu command sticks out the most 😊
Chuckie Egg is unquestionably the greatest game ever created. I loved playing it on my CPC464
Chuckie Egg is a classic! I don't want to think of how many hours in the 80s (and later!) I wasted playing that game. The best version was for the ZX Spectrum. As for Blu Tack, the original is the bomb. I now live in the US, and use the white poster putty stuff, but however good it is, it doesn't have that marvellous blu tack smell!
I quite like the idea of some videos about sorting and organising components. No idea how general the appeal would be, but I think I would find it satisfying in the same way that I like videos that include cleaning and prettying up old grubby hardware...
I agree with you that a lot of licorice is awful tasting when you are not used to the palette. But. There is sweet licorice and I love that. It’s not bitter or salty like the other stuff. The only danger when you get to one of those is that you can’t just have one bite and it’s lactating. 😂
Chuckie Egg - Its a lot easier when you work out you can jump towards the ladders holding the up/down key to grab it mid air ;) Makes the game loads faster and more fun. Also i used to use N M Z S and A or similar as control keys... Much easier!!
You could totally do a video about the parts organization. Construct the wall, mount the drawers, and the sorting.
it was great to see Citadel on the games list, I had this on the electron and spent way too many hours drawing a giant map of each room I entered to try and work out the game lol
When I was a kid all the teachers in school had it for their posters in Ohio in the US. My girlfriend's a teacher and I have seen it around the school, but I don't know if it's old.
Just saw you empty the first box, and proper organisation of your candy is vitally important, so those drawers sound ideal!
I hate the unsweetened salt licorice but love the sweet unsalted black licorice. I was the weird kid who begged for black jellybeans for Easter. My favorite black licorice is Panda because it's sweetened with molasses - yeah, I'm a still a big weirdo who also likes the flavor of molasses. I got my "strange" tastes for "odd" foods from my mom. We also were the only ones in our family that liked or loved sardines, onions, bell peppers, powdered milk, spinach etc. The only two foods I despise to this day are rutabaga and coriander/cilantro.
"Who cares about modems?" I care about modems! I still run a vintage DOS-based BBS with real modems that people can dial into, and do get actual modem callers. (There's dozens of us!)
How does this work without the "dialing" concept anymore? As in (locally) I don't have "copper lines" to dial out on?
I use an analog telephone adapter with a VoIP provider. The modems plug into the ATA, which plugs into my home LAN, and phone calls in/out go over the Internet. With a lossless codec like G.711 u-law modems work quite well, even in the 28.8k range. (weird I've posted this comment twice and it got deleted, maybe this sticks)
@@bryanwann Ok. (Your post seems to have worked now). Thanks for the info, I didn't realise this was possible. Cheers.
I think we would even watch if you make a video putting up the shelves and drawers, and another one sorting chips and talking about them. I also need to sorty components, and would love to take tips and ideas from any system you devise!
A biologist (I can't recall his name) was explaining how eating and having sex are High Risk behavior because they are the only situations where we are willing to allow "foreign" substances enter our systems. The risk of this act is understood and monitored by our brains. If our young brain(as kids) detects taste, color and texture that is "suspicious" or out of the norm it produces emotions that make us to dislike things. As we grow up our brain gains more experience on different types of food so it lowers its guard and focuses in finding familiar characteristics in new foods than to protect us from i.e. poisoning . Our preferences are shaped by our previous experience and the emotional state we were when we first tasted a specific flavor.
For examples when we are exhausted and starving , chances are our brain will allow us to have a weird tasting energy bar (i.e. pinacolada flavor) in order to protect us from a low blood sugar crisis. From now on our brains will always prefer this flavor and will recognize it in other foods enabling us to taste even more weird things.
I found it super funny when I got diagnosed as a T2, and discovered that two of the bigger youtubers I follow (You and Techmoan) are both T1 people.
This edition is made possible in part by Haribo Way ;-)
About the licorice, I was born in The Netherlands but my parents are Indonesians from the islands molucas (maluku). I really love it they called drops especially the soft sweet licorice once. The hole family love it except my dad.. When I moved to Indonesia nobody likes the licorice candies maybe its true depends from where you are born and the situation where are that somehow it teach the brain to like.... btw licorice is also a tranditional medicine if you have a dry cough. But anyway I really love your videos and I really wish I have a amiga,C64 or a MSX here in Indonesia after I watch you videos... actually I am planning buy one.. If my friends is comming over to Indonesia.. Keep the videos posting adrian,greetings from Jakarta.
I love licorice. My favorite was licorice sticks filled with sherbet. Really nice 👍
Dang, I'm not much of a candy person but those Haribos look super fun! Enjoy!
3 drawer filing cabinets are life savers
I am commenting after only 1:30 and you have exposed one of the great truths of life. Free stuff is never free. Free stuff increases life complexity. Free stuff will cost many searches for things that may or may not be owned. Or just much harder to find. Free stuff can increase life complexity to the point where it is hard to function, and where guilt about unfinished projects and unused stuff can start to set in. And it will get worse. Free stuff can cost so much over time. Beware of free stuff :)
Blu Tack is the sky blue we have in England :)
Heh, I was the same as a kid, did NOT like black liquorice at ALL, even the red stuff was only tolerable, and that isn't liquorice at all! But once I became an adult I grew from tolerating the taste to outright loving it, especially anise. Spanish absinthe which is made from star anise and wormwood is my favourite liquor now. Dutch 'dobbel zout' (double-salted liquorice) is very much an acquired taste, but i've acquired it. Maybe you will too, Adrian!
I used poster putty to hang posters when I was a teenager. They was 30 years ago.
"...approaching my fifties..." Adrian you're so cute :D :D All joking aside, love your content! And yeah, black licorice is one I can't get enough of. Salty, "Turkish Pepper", salmiac (ammonium chloride, YUM) - and yeah I'm Swedish :D
Thanks to you I'm hooked on Haribo I like the fruit chews Peach and Watermelon and some of the other ones. Keep up the great videos.
Yepp, genuine german original Haribo's. You are in need of a Haribo Organizing shelf😋
Been a while, and I forget if it'll run on the Master but go see if Thrust, by Acirnsoft is in that list.
Very impressive (and addictive) game considering the hardware.
Wow that German Haribo candy haul is lit
Quick tip for Chuckie Egg… hold the up/down as you approach the ladder ;),
Organizing your stuff is a great idea. You could do a couple videos on it too.
You could cut down some plywood and cover the ends of your upright shelves and mount the organizers on the sides of the shelves.
28:20 Even knowing there's a connection, it's still funny to watch a page like this and have to take a couple of seconds to realize this is NOT teletext.
Adrian, perhaps you need a 2nd channel video "polling" ideas on how to organise your gear? It would be exposing the type of items you have to sort out, the space available, then take comment feedback (*yeah, scary!) on suggestions. Then make a video taking those comments into a solution and show the build and sorting... that way, it fits into your "recording" schedule and will no doubt be interesting as well.
Looking on US Amazon, seems like you can get actual Blu Tack on there for six bucks, the original stuff. I remember teachers using that stuff back in school ages ago.
Adrian: you should try running Exile or Stryker's Run (Enhanced versions) on the Master.
Instead of wall space use double-sided parts boxes with folding lids and compartments. Label each compartment for each part kind. That way you stack them and move them at will.
For component storage I always use Duratool D01933 Assortment Cases or the original version by Raaco not sure if they are available in your are i couldn't find them on Amazon outside of the UK but if you can get them they stack very high when not in use.
I suppose that after years of sugared cereal breakfast (in USA even breed is sweet 🤯) everything taste bitter.
Btw I would eat licorice with moderation....It can raise blood pressure