0074 Let's buy a Buick, file our taxes and save some prisoners

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6 ай бұрын

On today's Super Mini Mail Call, we have a big assortment of stuff to look at, including multiple versions of Choplifter, a General Motors Buick sales brochure floppy and more.
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@printxii 6 ай бұрын

I had 86 Buick Riviera with a touch screen. It had 3 computers, one for the touch screen, body computer, and engine computer. All diagnostic you could do with a special menu on the touch screen. I bought the car in 1997, the year I graduated from college and my first job out of college was working for the company that made the computer for the touch screen.

@IntegerOfDoom 6 ай бұрын

I'd buy a new car with green CRT displays.

@freeculture 6 ай бұрын

This was well 30 years ahead of its time, its now a given to have touch screens in cars, but in 86? I do find it ridiculous how they would only give you AM radio in the cheapest model. Portable am/fm was a thing back then and they were darn cheap.

@tim1724 6 ай бұрын

some of the disks that refuse to boot and just print "M" are old // and //+ games that don't work on the //e, //c, etc. because they checksum the ROM and refuse to boot if it's not the original autostart ROM. You can boot those disks on your //c with a2_4am's "anti-m" (links don't usually work in comments here so google for "a2_4am anti-m"). It also fixes a bunch of other things that make early games not work on later systems (patching some games that don't work on 65c02, booting 13 sector disks on 16 sector systems, etc.)

@freeculture 6 ай бұрын

This we learned in the 80ies, copy protection only hurts the legitimate users. A good crack instantly makes the original (protected) game worth less, from compatibility issues alone. Alas, some people didn't learn the lesson, decades later. And yes, several archived images are already cracked, because they would otherwise fail to run in some emulator or variant, like this case ][+ vs //c. Its even more funny when the developers declare a game freeware and invite you to use a crack because they lost the source code (ie. Stunts for PC).

@stathissim 6 ай бұрын

In Choplifter you can shoot the plane, but you have to be horizontal with your chopper. When you are vertical you can only shoot the tanks. There is a trick when loading hostages, try to lift the chopper a bit and re-land, then the tank will not appear, but be careful not to squeeze those hostages underneath the chopper!

@bobweiram6321 6 ай бұрын

Choplifter on the Sega is awesome!

@stathissim 6 ай бұрын

@@bobweiram6321 yes it is, the arcade version especially. Very different game and much more advanced

@jandjrandr 5 ай бұрын

There is a version of this game on VIC 20 as well and that may have been my first introduction to the game I think.

@bobweiram6321 5 ай бұрын

@@stathissim The parallel scrolling is a killer! It's one of the coolest video game effects.

@chrisrichard298 6 ай бұрын

My mother had an 85 Buick Somerset. It was a sporty 2 door coupe with the Iron Duke 2.5L 4 cylinder. While not having the CRT touch screen interface, the instruments were all digital and the radio was in a little pod above the center console. It was a pretty cool car and kinda futuristic for its time. Around 1988 my mother sold it to my aunt who drove that thing well past the year 2000. Those Iron Dukes were pretty crude, but damn they were pretty indestructible.

@bigdrew565 4 ай бұрын

We had a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity Eurosport with the same motor. 200k miles and the body gave out before the motor did. GM called it the tech IV, by that point. Guess the name was supposed to miraculously impart more horsepower....yeah, right.

@jeromethiel4323 6 ай бұрын

One of the basically unbeatable copy protection schemes of the 80's was to use a laser to burn a spot on the floppy, so that it could not be written to. The program would write to the "bad track", and if it got a good read back, it knew it was not an original disk. Basically unbeatable in the day, as a user was not able to accurately damage a disk in such a precise way. The tale of copy protection schemes on the Apple ][ series of machines is epic. Half tracking, quarter tracking, track arcing, so many super innovative ways to make a disk uncopyable. And the people writing programs that could copy them anyway. It was a computer cold war. Sad to say, back then i was a super pirate, because i could not afford any of these programs. But i think i have more than made up for it as an adult. I have spent raftloads of money on software over the years.

@IntegerOfDoom 6 ай бұрын

Yup! My first step to adulthood was buying a WinRAR license. My soul is cleansed.

@sandorvigh4033 6 ай бұрын

Choplifter! Man, that brings back memories! XD To turn the chopter, you need to go left or right (tilt the joy) AND press the button a bit longer. You can also land-on and kill footguys. I always found it funny, that there are 4 houses, each having 16 footmen => 64 footmen to be saved

@cburgess5294 6 ай бұрын

My parents had a Buick Skylark back in the late 80s that I tried to convince them to give to me when I got my license. They gave it to my older brother instead and he wrecked it - like I told them he would. For some reason I thought it was the coolest car ever at the time - looking at them now, I am not sure what I was thinking!

@SkittleKicksPlays 6 ай бұрын

Our family had 2 Skylarks. An 1984 (sky blue) and 1985 (red). These were really good cars. Compared to the plastic wrapped cars of today, I'd take an 80s car any day.

@piconano 6 ай бұрын

Those were the days! Where 360K meant something, and did lots of things. Now, you'll be lucky if you get a thumbnail that size! Everything is in MB, GB or TB. I miss the 8-bit era because it was simple enough to master. Today, by the time one can learn something to an expert level, it's already obsolete. Technology is moving faster than one can master.

@SkittleKicksPlays 6 ай бұрын

Bill Gates once said '640K is more memory than anyone will ever need.'

@IntegerOfDoom 6 ай бұрын

Damn... I feel that. It seems that by the time I learn the basics of a program or system it's obsolete.

@AureliusR 6 ай бұрын

That's totally not true! Modern systems are still programmed mainly in languages like C/C++ (around since the 1970s and 80s respectively), Java (early 90s), C# (20 years old-ish), Python, Lua, etc. They work with libraries that make things look new and advanced. The only "new" stuff that comes along occasionally is a language or library that really changes things. The language Dart and its Flutter framework is an exciting new language. The syntax is quite easy, and the cool thing is you write your code once, and it compiles it to either native x64 apps, Android, web pages (using Javascript or HTML5 I believe), and iOS -- all from one code base, all with the apps looking and feeling the same! It's a really neat system that I've been taking the time to learn. And so what if the end binary is a few MB or whatever? You have the original source which is usually just a few K of text.

@rockapartie 6 ай бұрын

@@AureliusR It's totally true when you look at the size of apps, websites and resource usage of browsers, which is absolutely bonkers in the case of e.g. Firefox. Before I ditched iTunes, it had an install size of like 400 MB, crazy high RAM usage, it's insane. MusicBee is way faster, has _way_ more options and features, and it's 28 MB and only uses like 50 MB of RAM, but programs like that are an absolute rarity these days.

@Psychlist1972 6 ай бұрын

I remember in the late 80s and early 90s that the Buick was the car for the > 40 crowd. Us teenagers and 20-somethings have no use for them. Although my girlfriend had a used Buick skyhawk. Brown, with the muffler dragging on the ground :P

@markfriedel1 6 ай бұрын

I've ridden on the Apple Cider Century! It's a long running ride - it had to be about 40 years ago the last time I rode it.

@davidiwolf 6 ай бұрын

Always loved Beagle Bros stuff. Super fun utilities. Always was amazed by how they were able to do stuff…

@lscottex 6 ай бұрын

The Beagle Bros and Buick disks are what we called a "flippy" - since the drives were single sided, you could use a double-sided disk with different content on each side. There were games that came this way too - C64 on one side, Atari800 on the other.

@Drew-Dastardly 6 ай бұрын

I believe the microcomputer for the Riveria would have been a far more advanced Motorola 68000 series than an 8 bit. Despite only of dreaming of a 68050 as an Amiga accelerator, Motorola refused to sell them for home computers. They were just for automotive (especially ECUs) and dirt cheap due to scale for car manufacturers.

@williamsquires3070 6 ай бұрын

AFAIK, Motorola never released a 68050; they went straight to the 68060 which was used in some Amiga accelerator cards (and maybe some for later 68040 Macs?) Possibly also used in some Arcade games. Motorola released the 68EC040 for embedded systems, IIRC the Wikipedia page. It lacked the MMU and FPU instructions. The ‘LC040 had the MMU, but no FPU, and the straight 68040 has both.

@Drew-Dastardly 6 ай бұрын

@@williamsquires3070 I have a recollection of a 68050 which was strictly for automotive use and not available on the open market.

@ChrisDreher 6 ай бұрын

Print Master for the Apple II is what I grew up with! That brings back memories.

@gmirwin 6 ай бұрын

The Buick Skyhawk was a rebadged Chevy Cavalier. There were also Olds, Pontiac, and even Caddy versions of that same car.

@00Skyfox 6 ай бұрын

Yes you can shoot down the jet in Choplifter. You just have to be facing left or right; vertical bomb dropping can’t hit it. And if you set down on any of the guys you kill them. If you park the chopper right on the door to the house everybody gets killed as they try to come out. And yes, holding the fire button rotates while quick taps fire on the C64. That’s one of my most favorite games!

@subynut 6 ай бұрын

I remember playing Choplifter on the Colecovision we had at the time. Super cool! On the Coleco version, you could shoot down the fighter jet but it was really difficult. The sound effects were more advanced on the Coleco vs the Apple ][c and C64.

@SkittleKicksPlays 6 ай бұрын

That $22,181 Buick Riviera today would cost (adjusted for inflation in 2023) $62,141.41

@davidjohnston4240 6 ай бұрын

Choplifter was my favourite Apple 2 game when I was a child.

@jd9119 6 ай бұрын

Adrian try the chicory coffee with the beignets. Trust me, it taste completely different if you have them together like that. I don't like chicory either, but I do like it in the Cafe du Monde coffee and with their beignets.

@weedmanwestvancouverbc9266 6 ай бұрын

As much as I love Choplifter, the game I like the most on the Apple 2 plus was Hadron. Both needed the analog joystick and I got the one by TG

@theJohnnyPinball 6 ай бұрын

I suddenly want to buy a Buick

@emolatur 6 ай бұрын

I did some digging and comparing. Plugging that apple drive into a PC's external floppy port will not do any damage, but it won't work either. All of the control/signal pins line up correctly but the PC card does not provide power. Apple added +12V on pin 1, +5V on pin 4, and additional grounds on pins 2 and 5. These pins are unconnected on the PC end. A PC floppy drive plugged into the apple card would most likely work, although you'd need to provide external power.

@TheSudsy 6 ай бұрын

I remember back in the 70's in the UK you could only get CAMP coffee (sort of a syrup) and it had chicory, and it was gross.

@MontieMongoose 6 ай бұрын

The Skyhawk is basically a Chevy Cavalier with more options.

@heilong108 6 ай бұрын

The IBM 4865 external 3.5" drive has the first 4 pins of the DC-37 dedicated to power. Pin 1 +12 pin 2 12 return (ground) pin 3 5 return (ground) pin 4 +5 Otherwise the pinout is identical to the connector on the PC/XT and 4869 PS/2 floppy. (You may also safely interchange between those because although the PC/XT OEM FDC does not supply power on those pins, they are left N/C at the controller side and will not short or overvolt anything.)

@CompComp 6 ай бұрын

I went to New Orleans on a business trip this past summer. If you ever find yourself there, hit up the New Orleans City Park. There's a lot of cool stuff to see / do, and a Café Du Monde in the park! But if you can choose when to go, definitely avoid summer. It was hot, wet, and I'm pretty sure I got a little bit of heat stroke.

@parjf 6 ай бұрын

I used BB ProntoDOS a lot; as soon as I got it, I started using it on any new DOS 3.3 disks - they were not kidding about tripling the speed.

@jeromethiel4323 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, the original apple dos was not very efficient. Pro-dos fixed some of those issues, but was so bloated otherwise.

@der.Schtefan 6 ай бұрын

There is an avalanche of parallel cables placed in the background as decoration. ❤❤❤

@der.Schtefan 6 ай бұрын

It's a data cascade!

@ChrisB... 6 ай бұрын

IMO chicory is the signature taste of cheap and/or bad coffee. I can taste it in some of the name brand ground coffees even when it's not listed as an ingredient.

@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 10 күн бұрын

There were 2x 360K Floppy Drives on the AMSTRAD PC1512.

@scottharvey-davies1607 6 ай бұрын

Ah, Choplifter my early 80's xmas is now complete....

@jonord 6 ай бұрын

You do have the Ultimate-II - cartridge for the C64, though I guess it is much more expensive than the PI-1541. But it works very well, and have some other nice features as well.

@Zeem4 6 ай бұрын

Somewhere I have a NuBus card that goes with those Apple floppy drives. It's just for file transfer, not a DOS compatibility card. I've never used it because I've never had a drive to go with it, so I've no idea if it works.

@FINNIUSORION 6 ай бұрын

My first car was a 1980 something Skyhawk. It was insanely gutless and sounded like a bunch of angry wasps inside of a lawn mower. We live at the coast so it was all rusted out. But I remember thinking there couldn't have ever been a time 'even brand new' when that was a desirable vehicle.

@Ittiz 6 ай бұрын

My 1st car was a Buick Century. I had no clue that they invented the "car configurator" we all love to play with on our favorite car brand web sites these days. Way before the internet too! And oh, I played Choplifter on on the C64 and to my memory it looked way better than that! Although I do remember a slow down when the little dudes were getting off the chopper and going into the home base. I had the disk version.

@LordChariot 6 ай бұрын

I used PintMaster to make my wedding invatations in 1984.

@Walczyk 6 ай бұрын

49:48 imagine driving at night with a crt in your eyeline!!! lol it must have had a good dimming solution

@awilliams1701 6 ай бұрын

Ultimate 1541 2+ is better than the pi. Not only is it cycle accurate, it also does cartridges and tapes as well. And it does fast loading and ram expansion. It's the best device for the c64. and it's not limited to 1541 anymore. It does all the drives

@snakefriesia6808 6 ай бұрын

Chop Lifter.. oh the Nostalgia 🙂

@mar4kl 6 ай бұрын

Ooooh, Choplifter! We had that for our Apple II Plus. There weren't a lot of families with personal computers back in the day, so we had friends who liked to come over to play with it. None of us were all that great at Choplifter, and we had a tendency to shoot our own guys or kill them by landing the 'copter on top of them, so one of our friends started calling the game "Reckless Airlines". To which I answered, "Reckless Airlines is our name, killing people is our game!" Great fun!

@anthonyblacker8471 6 ай бұрын

I'm going to bet that if you wash that XL Atari 50 shirt in hot water the first wash, it'll fit you just fine!

@Clavichordist 6 ай бұрын

In the early 90s, my brother's graphics shop supported both Apple and PC platforms. I found a card for the PC AT we had that could read and write Apple disks. I can't remember who made it, or where I got the card from. The standard floppy drive cable plugged into the card and then the card had another cable that connected to the floppy drive. There was no software required. I remember putting in an Apple Mac disc into the drive, reading it then putting in the PC disc and writing to it. It's been quite a long time and it was your Apple PC Compatible drive that jogged the braincells into coughing up that device into my RAM again!

@retropuffer2986 6 ай бұрын

My Broderbund software from back in the day came in a folder like that. I had the Mac Buick software, i didn't know there were Apple II versions!

@TheThomasites 6 ай бұрын

Choplifter. Loved it (and still do) on my 2600's.

@davidkane4300 6 ай бұрын

We used those little slicers in a sign shop as a safe version of an xacto knife

@michaelstoliker971 6 ай бұрын

The Skyhawk was based on the Chevy Monza and was as base as it got. The Somerset was an upscale Skylark.

@johnlittle8975 6 ай бұрын

I will absolutely take that chicory coffee off your hands adrian!

@Unfinished80 6 ай бұрын

I worked at a quick lube place in high school and I totally geeked out the first time I hopped into one of the riviera's with a CRT in the console. It was freakin' awesome! It was a glorious green monochrome that was actually pretty good. Looking back on it, it totally gives me Fallout vibes.

@ScrotieJohnson 6 ай бұрын

i have one of them gm touch screens laying around someplace however it is the later color version out of oldsmobile toronado. were pretty cool

@horusfalcon 6 ай бұрын

Beignets are all over the place in New Orleans, but CDM is the home of the original. If you are ever in NOLA, hit Decatur Street. CDM, Central Grocery (home of the Muffaletta sandwich), and Frank's Italian Restaurant are all worth your time. I think I may still have a copy of Print Shop for MS-DOS, and I know that I have a copy of Print Shop Deluxe. The Skyhawk, depending on the year, was either a small economy coupe or a fastback (think Pontiac Sunbird). There was a turbo version in some models, and a small-block V8 option for the fastback that made it downright scary.

@BapsyGames 6 ай бұрын

My god... I'm slow on the uptake these days... Took me AGES to realize that "saving prisoners" meant "Prisoners Of War" and that you were refering to Choplifter... I did turn 51yo the other day... Brain doesn't work anymore... Nice, Entertaining Video as usual Adrian 🙂

@AB-Prince 6 ай бұрын

I'm surprised apple was charging premium prices for propriatary connectors for mass produced products that early, I always thought that only started in the 2000s

@AureliusR 6 ай бұрын

Nope, Apple has been doing the same thing since day one. Take hardware anyone can get, slap an Apple logo on it, and then quintuple the price.

@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 10 күн бұрын

That is like Partax Solutions Six which requires a dongle to unlock the program otherwise the program won't start up.

@Psychlist1972 6 ай бұрын

The first video game my son (3 at the time) ever played was Choplifter on my old C128.

@CBitsTech 3 ай бұрын

Great video title!

@jonnycando 6 ай бұрын

Chicory use started as a cheap coffee extender you probably know, now because of marketing it’s just as expensive as plain coffee…and very much an acquired taste. To even begin to be good, I have to make it quite strong and add some cream.

@adamwhite2364 6 ай бұрын

It really gained popularity during the US Civil War because coffee was being blockaded from entering the South. I forget the figure, but getting a pound of coffee by the end of the war was worth an absolutely jaw-dropping sum in major southern cities.

@jonnycando 6 ай бұрын

@@adamwhite2364 yep there was that, and in that time your whole brew was chicory!

@timmooney7528 6 ай бұрын

Apple Cider Century is in my neck of the woods. It's a one day bicycle tour that travels past several orchards and vineyards in the surrounding area. Last Sunday of September. It's been going on since 1974. 7000 riders take place in it each year. There are several routes for varying levels ranging from 15 miles up to 100 miles. My parent's house was on one of the longer routes. The lot across the street was used as a break or hydration area.

@frazzleface753 6 ай бұрын

Howdy neighbor, I'm a skip and a jump across the state line in Indiana. Really must check out Apple Cider Century. ☺

@evileyeball 6 ай бұрын

I love my 2X Pro But I couldn't justifty anything higher in my own situation where I'm just connecting it to a composite switchbox and then connecting that to NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, and PS2 and then the 2x goes out to an HDMI Switch over HDMI that has 360, PS3, PS5, Wiiu, Switch, SNES Classic, and a Cable box from my TV Provider on it.

@MicrophonicFool 6 ай бұрын

Suddenly! A 48 hour ChopLifter Record Attempt. I would watch that shit by the way

@john_ace 6 ай бұрын

The 5.25 PC drive for the mac has a normal PC floppy connector and is 360k.

@BradinSiouxCity 6 ай бұрын

I've always had good luck just re-writing over original disks that were corrupted. Find the right version and give it a try.

@morantaylor 6 ай бұрын

I used a Pi 1541 to copy disk images to physical disks :)

@Cherijo78 6 ай бұрын

The Apple ][ version of Choplifter remains supreme, having played other versions. Making it work on a Laser 128 though.... Lol

@countzer0408 6 ай бұрын

Pretty sure you can play Choplifter with the keyboard because I remember playing it on an Apple //e in high school back in the mid 80s.

@Cyberdeamon 6 ай бұрын

A GNX (Regal Grand National) for $15k especially if you got the turbo-T would be amazing if you could get one for that price today, now they're worth 3x that.

@rager1969 6 ай бұрын

I seem to recall that Chevy had a computer program (I think I got a copy for my Apple back in the day), but I might be wrong. Maybe I saw LGR do a video and maybe it was for PC. Or maybe both.

@stevethepocket 6 ай бұрын

LGR's video was the PC version, and then 8-Bit Show and Tell covered Apple II and Commodore 64 ports. The Commodore one even had a pretty decent SID rendition of their old commercial jingle.

@NINJADOES_GAMES 6 ай бұрын

14:48 queue in Miami Vice music.

@Walczyk 6 ай бұрын

Can you share the Buick Dimension design? 46:17 They are all so cool!!

@fnjesusfreak 6 ай бұрын

IIRC some early versions of Choplifter did a ROM check, and the //c fails - hence error M.

@marksmith9566 6 ай бұрын

I was a Print Master user and don't agree with rip off conclusion. Like spreadsheets, the function is obvious and unless they stole code; naking another program that does similar things is NOT automatically a rip off. Their graphics are different from Broderbund and were most of the profit from sales.

@kefkafloyd 6 ай бұрын

The first version of PrintMaster was very much a rip of The Print Shop. It was revealed in court that the people creating PrintMaster had used their failed port of Print Shop for MS-DOS as the basis of PrintMaster, amongst other problems. PrintMaster Plus' UI was completely redesigned (and a new graphics editor written) to comply with the results of Broderbund vs Unisom World. The two then diverged further over time.

@larryk731 6 ай бұрын

check the back of the beagle bros disk - it was notched

@rutabagasteu 6 ай бұрын

It has been the 1980s since I heard of Beagle Brothers.

@Yurim77 6 ай бұрын

Adrian, can you please dump and upload "Art Gallery"? I think that one is missing everywhere. Thanks!

@monarch73 6 ай бұрын

"time for a SUPER-MINI mail call" - sounds a bit funny at the beginning of a one Hour YT-Video....

@NINJADOES_GAMES 6 ай бұрын

He definitely doesn't look like an XXL.

@Jpetersson 6 ай бұрын

Is Adrians dance party song from a Donkey Kong game?

@QunMang 6 ай бұрын

Yes. It's from a homebrew version of Donkey Kong for the C64. Adrian used to run the game for his 8-bit dance party until a viewer took the music and made the current demo with it.

@awilliams1701 6 ай бұрын

I wonder if the retrotink 4k would work better. lol It's BRAND new.

@Wikcentral 6 ай бұрын

oh man, configure a 1987 GNX and cry over how much it would have cost to order it. Along with a trunk load of spare Powermaster brake parts to keep it running 40 years later.

@twocvbloke 6 ай бұрын

Well, you're not short on copies of Choplifter now at least, as for "modern remakes" of classic games, I remember one I got for christmas (apt for this time of year), a modern remake of Space Invaders, which I think was called "Enemies from Space" or something like that, it was okay, a lot more to it visually, but still the same old enemies move to the right, down one, move to the left, down one, speed up, etc., it filled all of 10 minutes before I got bored of it... :P

@jeromethiel4323 6 ай бұрын

Look up the history of space invaders, if you haven't. It is interesting, just how difficult that simple of a game was to make when it was introduced. For example, i remember some of the original space invader consoles in arcades, had a plastic striped color screen on top of a B&W CRT, so that the aliens changed color as they marched down the screen. And the game would hitch or pause sometimes when playing a sound effect or showing an alien ship blowing up, because the CPU in the system was running flat out all the time, so anything extra would make the game pause for a split second.

@Renville80 6 ай бұрын

Actually, PrintMaster and Print Shop aren't compatible - they're just two competing products. I always thought PrintMaster had the better graphics, though (I never had it either - just the C64 version of Print Shop).

@Stefan_Payne 6 ай бұрын

About the RT5X: what Power Supply do you use? Have you tried a good qualiy 5V/1A or 2A PSU?

@tenow 6 ай бұрын

Now I'm really interested in specs of onboard computer in 80s Buick Rivera. Can't find any info online. Waiting for mail call with Buick as a donation.

@Rorschach1024 6 ай бұрын

I made some beignets using that same mix Monday. Good stuff. As close as Houston is to New Orleans you'd think you'd be able to get some at just about any doughnut shop, but no! Nobody carries them around here, in fact most places didn't even know what they are, including a place that bills itself as a Cajun bakery/coffee shop.

@Stjaernljus 6 ай бұрын

Greaseweasle can't really do Apple ][ disks as they are very non-standard one would need to use something like an applesauce device.

@wearwolf2500 6 ай бұрын

Not safe should have been a pair of scissors. I see so many people opening boxes with scissors and it's just, why? You don't have anything better?

@enzofitzhume7320 6 ай бұрын

👍👍

@coryengel 6 ай бұрын

"Pi1541 is THE solution to for disk images with no floppy drive?" What about the 1541 Ultimate II+ / Ultimate 64?

@frazzleface753 6 ай бұрын

Geez Adrian, get your 1991 taxes done!

@wyatthull6613 6 ай бұрын

You should definitely order that turbo V6. Just sayin.

@olepigeon 6 ай бұрын

I always thought of Choplifter as "easy mode" for Rescue Raiders (Amor Alley on Mac & PC.) :)

@Plasmacore_V 6 ай бұрын

MotorWeek video from 1986 says the Buick Rivera is controlled by "Two 8-bit microprocessors with 32,000 words of memory for graphics." kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtGRlN2cm57Nd3k.html This is another good video about the system from the user's pov kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o6uqeMWEmdvapaM.html

@canou1967 6 ай бұрын

Real american french food :). we have in france real french american food at Burger K..g and McDo

@klocugh12 6 ай бұрын

Judging by reviews, Choplifter HD definitely doesn't look too good.

@snowysnowdon5584 6 ай бұрын

Chicory 🤮 not a fan of that. Keep up the streams though Adrian and have a wonderful Christmas 🥳

@andlabs 6 ай бұрын

The Beagle Bros. thing says "Disk #1" on the cover, so I'm betting that something is indeed missing from it...? The Choplifter keychain has the Sega logo on it, so its actually merchandise for their arcade version of Choplifter that came out in 1985. That's pretty neat (to me, a Sega person) =P And yes, Choplifter was for the Apple II first. PrintMaster was a competitor to The Print Shop with similar features, but both were eventually purchased by SoftKey (of Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank fame), who continued selling both under the Broderbund name (which they also acquired) at the same time in the late 90s and early 2000s. I had two versions of PrintMaster Gold during that time as a preteen and I remember enjoying them; I want to get some of the clip art from those old packages back sometime.

@terryraymond7984 6 ай бұрын

I play choplifter the same way *terrible*

@BobKatzenberg 6 ай бұрын

Try brewing the coffee w/chicory with only 3/4 or less the amount of coffee you would usually use.

@Jpetersson 6 ай бұрын

Adrians digitala källare! -😀

@terosaarela4555 6 ай бұрын

Chicory was used as a coffee substitute during WWII here, probably in many European countries back then.

@adriansdigitalbasement2 6 ай бұрын

Ah that's interesting. I guess in some places it stuck.

@Colin_Ames 6 ай бұрын

In England we had a liquid coffee/chicory mix called Camp. It tasted awful.

@Ramdileo_sys 6 ай бұрын

@@adriansdigitalbasement2 Adrian, did you ever think in put the list of Patreons slowly moving in a black line under the screen during the all video??🤔 ... you know.. like in the news channels..