Super fun - you've inspired me. I have a crate of Amiga 3.5" disks sitting here from a friend that passed away last fall. He was an electronic musician, and lots of MIDI files, tracker files, and samples. I shall excavate them! I swear you showing the twist in the cable was like Proust's madeleine for me - so many weird little details filed away somewhere in my memory. It does feel like archeology - while archeologists work in terms of millennia, we are like 40 years out and it still feels like a foreign world. I wouldn't want to give up what we have now, but I do miss the way old technology would invade our real world with sounds; buzzes, clicks, whirs. My first computer - a Vic 20 - had a cassette drive. I would be amazed that I could type a command and the cassette would start turning. My dad referred to all software as "tapes" until the day he died. "Hey, I downloaded this cool tape for my phone last night!" haha
> He was an electronic musician, and lots of MIDI files, tracker files, and samples. I shall excavate them! You have original art sitting on floppy. You kinda gotta do that. 🙂 Also - chip tune music is kind of its own thing - it's an instrument unto itself, so as much as tied to a time and a place (C64 sid chip music is always Great Britain in 1986 to me), it's timeless.
I absolutely love how you are so able to make simple mistakes without any embarrassment.. "This is just computing - this is fun" You were born to teach, please never stop ❤
Love the video! You have a beautiful voice! Sometimes when you're speaking softly you slip into a creaky vocal fry that sounds rough and is probability wearing your voice out. At about 7:30 it sounds like you warm up and you begin to speak more clearly but it's still lingering. Just something I've had pointed out and had never noticed in myself. Gotta take care of your primary communication tool!
I have been looking for that molex power cable that you have (preferable with a power supply in the other end). Can you share where you found this. I want to get away from carrying an old PC around to give me power to my floppy.😂 Also if you can share the 3d model for the floppy drive box that would be awesome.
And now I have ordered a 3D print of the floppy drive box from a vendor, and I can stop running around flea markets in hope of finding a good case. Thanks Scott!
You would be surprised how active the C64 scene still is after all these years. 😄 Just check this (one of my favourite demoes) and see what people can do nowadays on a classic C64: th-cam.com/video/q56-23D7omY/w-d-xo.html
If I remember correctly when some C64 binary gets loaded in memory you had to make a SYS call to let the CPU jump the execution from the BASIC to the loaded binary.
nice; recently I peeked deeply into QL QPC2+SMSQ/E and was amazed how sexy it is; if I knew more about QL back in 1986, I would probably got cheap one instead of Atari 800 XL ... ))
Amazing! I’ll get some 5.25” and 3.5” disks I have back from the MSX 1 & 2 years with Philips NMS and some 5.25” from CP/M and MSDOS 1983 P2000C Philips computer
Entropy means that all our technologies will fail over time and we can only stem the tide of obsolescence and complete failure to be able to use them. Depressing but the nature of the universe. Still, it's great to see videos of people far more expert than I making the effort to keep failure at bay for a while. I recommend Mend-It Mark's channel, as well.
Super fun - you've inspired me. I have a crate of Amiga 3.5" disks sitting here from a friend that passed away last fall. He was an electronic musician, and lots of MIDI files, tracker files, and samples. I shall excavate them! I swear you showing the twist in the cable was like Proust's madeleine for me - so many weird little details filed away somewhere in my memory. It does feel like archeology - while archeologists work in terms of millennia, we are like 40 years out and it still feels like a foreign world. I wouldn't want to give up what we have now, but I do miss the way old technology would invade our real world with sounds; buzzes, clicks, whirs. My first computer - a Vic 20 - had a cassette drive. I would be amazed that I could type a command and the cassette would start turning. My dad referred to all software as "tapes" until the day he died. "Hey, I downloaded this cool tape for my phone last night!" haha
> He was an electronic musician, and lots of MIDI files, tracker files, and samples. I shall excavate them!
You have original art sitting on floppy. You kinda gotta do that. 🙂
Also - chip tune music is kind of its own thing - it's an instrument unto itself, so as much as tied to a time and a place (C64 sid chip music is always Great Britain in 1986 to me), it's timeless.
I absolutely love how you are so able to make simple mistakes without any embarrassment..
"This is just computing - this is fun"
You were born to teach, please never stop ❤
Great video! This is so accurate! It takes a bit of trial and error but the Greaseweazle rocks!
Love the video!
You have a beautiful voice! Sometimes when you're speaking softly you slip into a creaky vocal fry that sounds rough and is probability wearing your voice out.
At about 7:30 it sounds like you warm up and you begin to speak more clearly but it's still lingering.
Just something I've had pointed out and had never noticed in myself. Gotta take care of your primary communication tool!
I have been looking for that molex power cable that you have (preferable with a power supply in the other end). Can you share where you found this. I want to get away from carrying an old PC around to give me power to my floppy.😂 Also if you can share the 3d model for the floppy drive box that would be awesome.
amzn.to/3xWNDOM
www.thingiverse.com/thing:5257999
And now I have ordered a 3D print of the floppy drive box from a vendor, and I can stop running around flea markets in hope of finding a good case. Thanks Scott!
You would be surprised how active the C64 scene still is after all these years. 😄 Just check this (one of my favourite demoes) and see what people can do nowadays on a classic C64: th-cam.com/video/q56-23D7omY/w-d-xo.html
omg omg old news! _)
I never would have guessed that you could read a Commodore disk in a non-Commodore drive. Might need to go through some of my old disks now!
If I remember correctly when some C64 binary gets loaded in memory you had to make a SYS call to let the CPU jump the execution from the BASIC to the loaded binary.
Adrian Black at Adrian's Digital basement is worth a watch if you are into antique computers, disk formats and open source bridging devices
Of course! We live in the same city and hung out a few weeks back
nice; recently I peeked deeply into QL QPC2+SMSQ/E and was amazed how sexy it is; if I knew more about QL back in 1986, I would probably got cheap one instead of Atari 800 XL ... ))
For chess you might need to tell it the piece then. Like
PD4
But, yea, I don't miss my commodore games. :)
Typing LS on the Commodore emulator. My hell when bouncing between linux and windows. lol. I can relate to that so, so much.
😂
Amazing! I’ll get some 5.25” and 3.5” disks I have back from the MSX 1 & 2 years with Philips NMS and some 5.25” from CP/M and MSDOS 1983 P2000C Philips computer
Entropy means that all our technologies will fail over time and we can only stem the tide of obsolescence and complete failure to be able to use them. Depressing but the nature of the universe. Still, it's great to see videos of people far more expert than I making the effort to keep failure at bay for a while. I recommend Mend-It Mark's channel, as well.
Awesome! Played the “Lander” game back in the day!
That is awesome Scott!!!!