As a fellow Canadian it's been simply a treat to watch the progress of restoring the Nabu to functionality.

My family had Prodigy about 1992. This is very much like that, except 10 years earlier and no phone modem calling needed! 😮

Nice work D J and Leo. Was a nice trip down memory lane. I worked at Nabu as well back in the day. Nice to see 39 year old software running again. I worked on Galaxian as well as other games. It would be nice to see a view of that gameplay someday if you have a chance.

I'm not Canadian, but I bought two of these little fellows today. I am really looking forward to hacking them and setting up the server! Thank you for making it available!

Absolutely amazing how quickly you were able to put all this together! Quite the achievement, and an awesome historical machine!

This is amazing Nabu was so much ahead of its time... I started playing with computers with my VIC20 in 82 when I was 12 but it's hard to imagine it was the same year as Nabu's debut it looks so much more advanced and with so many graphics! Sure, a few later the C64 took over the home computer world and it was very good but the Nabu's network centric approach was very advanced for that era

Nice Job DJ! Let's keep identifying the corrupt/non-existent segments to fill in the gaps to this now fully operational death star. (Emperor cackle) 😀

This is insane for 1982 and even crazier that it's been almost entirely unheard of for the most part

Brother, I'm beyond impressed with the amount of work you put into this project. Each video you share puts a smile on my face.

Built by Canadians highlighted by a Adrian also a Canadian and brought back to life by a brilliant Canadian.

That's an amazing achievement. Hats off to you! All those people who bought a Nabu were wondering if they would ever be able to see it doing anything. Now they will be able to see it working as it used to back in the day!

I'm really impressed by how quickly you and the rest of community have managed to bring this system back from the dead

From Adrien talking about it a week ago and now here we are! Its ready to be bought back online after NABU shut down! I hope someone can figure out how to do the same with the Videoway and bring that back online along with emulating the system! Hopefully those packet files can be combined into one to emulate the NABU files but what i wanna see is a NABU emulator that emulates the original experience with the loading from the server and all. Also really curious to see if we're gonna see anything about that C64 Menu thing that was found when you parsed the main program packet to find the packet ID's

I really am impressed at the graphics capability of this machine, from the early 80's! This has been an exciting series to watch! Thanks for documenting it for us!

A wonderful window on computer history! Thanks for sharing!

Very nice work! This product was really 10 years ahead of it‘s time and completly unknown outside of Canada. Big shoutouts to the original engineers who made this product around 1983

WOW! It's crazy how much this little machine has developed over the last few weeks! I bought one weeks ago before anyone made any videos about them, I thought it looked cool and I figured I could hook the keyboard up to an Arduino. After Adrian's video I figured maybe someone would hack the firmware and get some MSX games running on it. I can imagine in the near future there will be a wifi adapter made for these and all kinds of network services and games available. I'll probably set mine up with my TV and use it like it was originally intended, only 40 years later! Thanks for all your work on this! :)

So fascinating to watch this coming to life! Hope former Nabu engineers and staff get a kick out of seeing their stuff running again 😊 I'll leave the hardware for the true fans, but when someone builds a Nabu emulator I'll give it a go 👍

Omg to see qbert again blew my mind, thanks 4 sharing!

It is truly amazing how quickly you have wrangled all the early 80's Nabu network together in what amounts to a week! Also a big shout out to the Nabu engineer that provided the software! Truly Amazing! Thank you for your efforts.

I can't believe how exciting it is to have the chance to experience a long lost computer environment! Thanks a million times for your work on this DJ! Can't wait to experience the NABU network! and maybe to play MSX games on real-ish hardware!

Congrats on this very quick progress. Really amazing work!

This is incredible DJ. SO glad to see this all working.

Absolutely amazing. One week and you’ve resurrected this fascinating system!

9 days from receiving the NABU to having a recreation of the network up in the cloud. I am beyond words at the speed you work at, and super excited for what's to come. NABU emulator someday? I'd love to explore the network, but getting the box just to scratch my curiousity is a bit too much for me.

awesome job dude(s)!!!

Also a fellow Canadian... I'm pleased to see this encouraging progress. I'm glad to know that my NABU won't be just a paperweight when I receive it. LOL

5:03 A wild Cedric has appeared! 🦉

Me: Huge smile :} You are awesome!

This is stunning! fantastic stuff... all my best from Ottawa Canada, home of NABU!!!

your channel just went retro viral

You are a rockstar! I can't wait to try this out! Will the source code for the server be available to extend and learn from as well? It would be fun to unlock more of the C64 menus and stream software to my C64 as well ;) Amazing work!

This is one of the best graphics on Z80 machine i've seen, especially in the computer category.

This just makes my on-stream unboxing for tonight that much more exciting. Incredible work on your part!

Thats epic - always great to see these old machines brought back to life :)

Awesome! Thank you DJ for doing all this. I can't wait for mine to arrive!

Absolutely amazing

Fantastic work! Can't wait to get hold of one of these!

Unreal... Awesome work. Bravo!

Absolutely incredible!

Just want to say, this is amazing. In only a few days you have resurrected this platform. I wish I had a NABU :) thank you

Awesome work, huge thank you to Leo too. I can't wait!

This is so amazing... I can't wait for my system to show up next week! I can't believe I'll get to relive this part of my childhood and other people will get to experience it!

This is awesome!

Oh man, this is too awesome! You've done it, the NABU lives again!

So awesome!! I have been waiting to record my NABU episode until there was something to show. Incredible how you have gotten so far so fast. Great work!!

Can't wait to try this out.

Looking forward to seeing CPM and an emulated disk drive next! :) Awesome work recreating the way the system was delivered in the '80s.

wow!! i wish i had a nabu to play with!! you have done super job! i am excited....

Oh god. Miner 2049er, I played that for hours when I was a kid. I loved that game. This whole project is awesome. Great work.

Leo seems like such a cool dude. So excited to see you guys making this progress!!

This is really cool. All we need now is an emulator for those of us who were unable to grab one of the Nabu computers.

So cool, watched the whole process, your good.

this is great news! can't wait!

Well... that's amazing work, thank you very much. My adapter should be here in a few days, and I'll be ready to party like it's the 1980's! Lol

You did it! Congratulations!

the nabu is finally online! can't believe it, but this is just amazing. I'd like to see some homebrew stuff now!

Coincidently the former NABU sales office at 1719 St Laurent is now a Rogers store.

I was reticent about ordering it, especially since shipping was more than the cost of. Looking at this, I'm happy I went ahead and ordered it - you've taken it from a curiosity in a box to something I look forward to modding and then trying out (I live in 220v country so probably have to change PSU) 😀

Incredible job DJ! Very exciting! I'm just sad I sold off my commodore 64 this last summer. I'm really excited to see how that tie-in was imagined back in the day!

Fantastic work! This has me remembering the thrill of learning to program with punch cards on a PDP-11 by sneaking into the Queen's University Computer Lab as an 12-year-old. The thrill of seeing the first monochrome (character) "graphics" on a TRS Model-II, before finally experiencing colour graphics on the (only) Apple ][+ in grade 9. I'm actually a big fan of your production values as well. It's refreshing change from over-edited videos that predominate on youtube. Speaking of which...did I see a "SYM" key to the right of the right shift key? You probably noticed it as soon as you uploaded the video. 😄 Again, this was amazing work that put a smile on my face. Thanks again!

And.... Really great work

@DJSures We're organizing a VCF event in Texas for mid/late 2023. Would you be interested in being a guest presenter along with the other folks you're working with?

This has been awesome watching this come together over the past week. Now I have to see if I can actually get a nabu when the ebay listing becomes available again...

nice work

I'm blown away as to how quickly this is coming together, but also on a personal level kinda bummed because the main reason I didn't jump on buying one of these is I figured I'd need to invest time and money in a bunch of extra crap to make it ever do anything fun or useful (burning custom roms, etc that I'm not set up for) and you've proven that assumption completely wrong. Really kicking myself now. If I'd known all I'd need was a cheap serial cable I wouldn't have thought twice.

Congratulations! In the past you mentioned you wanted to get CP/M working, I wonder if it worked with the current ROM. I know there are others thinking of replacing the ROM and use the expansion ports to get CP/M working... but then they would lose access to this great collection of software.

Pretty amazing they licensed well known 8 bit games of the era.

OMG memories. I was very early in Nabu and wrote much of the original OS and also the first Main Menu.

WOO HOO! This is awesome news! Just wish my Nabu would ship....RS422 adapter here waiting....impatiently.

I see that this pre-internet internet had ads! Very prescient honestly.

Awsome!

Just awesome! And how was I not subbed to you yet?!

Amazing work I've loved all of your videos on this! I wonder what the original Nabu server hardware was?

They used to have NABU set up in Ralph's bars in Ottawa Leo, Tim and Todd would put in easter eggs that we could pull up to get recognition. Like the PC logo. Q*BERT was tough for us. Tim did great code but we had to use an ICE to get the sounds right. It was my white whale.

Very interesting and thanks for the work getting it going - due to the buzz, I was just looking up some information on this technology and apparently they made an adapter so that Commodore and other home computers could access the NABU network - not sure exactly how that would have worked and what you would be able to do from one of these other computers as the programs/games like you are showing here would have been compiled to run on the processor in the NABU computer but an interesting tidbit anyway.

I subscribed to your channel immediately after I saw the first few videos come out. Unfortunately I couldn't own a Nabu computer even though I wanted to order one as soon as Adrian Black featured it. The computer was cheap but shipping to the Philippines was expensive and money is hard to come by in this country. I've worked on and loved anything that had to do with computers and the like since the Apple II in 1978 when my boss was able to get some units for us to use. We built some peripherals for the Apple and sold a few in the Philippine market until the cheap Chinese clones killed our business.

The really exciting thing on this kind of system is not the z80 it's the network and the idea behind of this at that time..... It's a little bit like the btx system in Germany or other terminal based systems in other countries but they where not capable to send whole software packages at this quality at that time..

Just got my Nabu today looking forward to playing with it

That joystick looks so much like a Channel F joystick

Progress was so fast.

So much Colecovision and Coleco Adam software!

yes we all nabu..hello😁

respect the king is you

You are amazing. Will there be a way to run this without a nabu. Such as through emulation?

Amazing work DJ! Thank you Leo and everyone else who contributed! I just told my 10 year nephew about the Nabu PC and was like "will it play Fortnite?", to his disappointment it doesn't, hut I said maybe he could learn to write his own Fortnite-like game on it. That sort of got some interest, hut when I showed him the computer and showed him Miner 2049er and how similar it is to Donkey Kong he really started to get excited! Gonna be fun exploring this with him. One question for you DJ, you said you planned to release a Windows, Linux, and Mac version of the adapter software. Would an Android version be too much to ask for? If I can find an RS-422 to USB adapter with Android support (via USB-OTG) that would make it so much easier to use this on the big screen TV at my parents place. I just might have to resurrect my old electronics knowledge from college and figure out how to make an RGB2HDMI adapter...if I can get a hold of a Raspberry Pi LOL.

Incredible! Well done! Any chance of an in-depth interview with Leo on video?

I bought 2 NABUs and I am totally going to put one of them in my living room entertainment center now. (The other one will be reserved for hacking. 🙂)

Q*bert looks amazing on the Nabu.

DJ, if you need help with graphic design, web design or UI/UX for the web or app, let me know. This is so awesome! Cheers.

How did people save the original nabu network in 1982, did they record off cable to vhs or did nabu had any way to download the menu to floppy disk?

Is there a github repo for all of this information and the files? I'd love to look through it. I don't own a nabu. Has anyone dumped the rom?

That Qbert looks and sounds identical to the Coleco version. Which goes along with Adrian's thinking that this computer was based off of some existing design. But he also said it looks a lot like MSX components so that would be interesting to see if MSX software could be modded to run on this.

I would love to have some type of mount for one on the spots in the back of the case for mounting a raspberry pi for connecting to the server you are setting up. My Nabu will be here soon!

You loaded Miner 2049er on a modern network, and it still took a bit opf time to load. In 1984, I was using a 1200 baud modem on a metered connection....How slow and expensive would it have become to load a game in 1984 ???

If it wasn't so prohibitively expensive to ship a Nabu back to Canada, I totally would have gotten one before the ebay listing went down. I wish I had now, I had no idea anyone would be able to make such fast progress. Can I ask you to do me a favour and run Wing War on a subsequent video? As I mentioned on another vid, this was a fantastic Colecovision game that afaik was never ported to any other system, and I would LOVE to see it running and see the differences between the versions, if any. Thank you and moar congrats on your and everyone's great work!

Reminds me of Minitel, which worked similarly.

Nice!! When do the files go live? I'm still redirected to ... well, I dunno if it's yer site. :P I'm watching - THANK YOU! (and never mind... I heard ya tell us.) flipping awesome; ya'll with the hardware are so lucky!!

@_@ IT LIVES!!! AWESOME!!!

potentially thinking of getting a nabu , just working out shipping to the uk , does a non nabu keyboard work on this ?