Unicorn Diarrhea = M & M's?

@@NeonKnight83 IRS more likely! xd

He had a portable color screen Commodore for work? Yeah I think you might be confusing this with an early IBM portable which looked the same. All the first "laptops" looked like this. But unless your dads job was gaming its highly unlikely he had this one

@@anonymousguy1188 You do know that there was business software available for the Commodore SX-64? Here's some of the advertising for it. www.pinterest.ie/pin/83035186866647740/ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7apmqeXm6udZKM.html

@@anonymousguy1188 It seems hard to believe these days, now that we've seen what IBM compatibles grew into. But at one time the business market was fragmented between different computer systems, much more than now. Commodore did actually have some of that market, especially in '84.

Rhys Peregrine it was the same in the US, too!

In Netherlands they just played it over the radio. You record to tape and put to computer. First downloads?

They existed in the US/Canada too Compute!'s Gazette and Ahoy were American magazines. Plus they also had a disk magazine called Loadstar.

@Ras Krishna haha sadly yes

@@Forwardbias83 this service also became the precursor to quantum link which eventually became American Online.

I’d say it’s competitive even with Apple’s designs from the era.

I love it too. It ads charm and loads of nostalgia.

or never will try lul

there is no reason not to try every game ever made.i don't know why the old hardware is such a big deal right now. emulation runs better the the old junk anyway. and you can fit everything from about 79 to 95 into one cell phone now days. i have something like 4000 roms in my current phone everything from arcade stuff to dreamcast stuff. i just use an old ps3 controller for all of them sometimes i use a micro hdmi adapter and play them on my tv.

@@krazzykiller1 look here junior.. It's never been about the specs.. It's called nostalgia.

​@@krazzykiller1 : "there is no reason not to try every game ever made.i don't know why the old hardware is such a big deal right now." It's for retro-hardware and hard-copy software collectors, and the collectors' trade. It's not for general usage. For general usage (i.e., the real big deal), for just playing about any of the games, that's what emulation is for; going digital ( _virtual,_ in cyberspace, offline or on) is the way to go for that. Emulation is f***ing awesome! hehehehehehe

@@krazzykiller1 yup these boomers or hipsters just dont get it. Technology advanced for the better. Their nostalgia is petty

C64: Hold my disk drive

Over 20k games ? And if they made an everdrive it could probably fit on 1 cart today. I’m curious to know if there’s an emulator.

Windows: Don't hold your breath

F/OSS: Ok boomer, vice-emu.sourceforge.net/

@@nickpavloff8977 You should take a look at "The C64". Looks, feels and acts like a full size Commodore 64 but has USB ports to plug modern controllers and USB drives which you put your disk images on. Also has VIC20 mode (the C64's predecessor) and 64 games built in to get you started. retrogames.biz/thec64

True

As a kid I carried my C64 to the shops swapped it for one of these second hand, and paid extra £60 . But then I had to call my dad for a lift home cause my new portable was 10 X as heavy as my original lol.

Great deal, back in 2001 we cleaned out an old office building that had been vacant for years and there was about 5 of these computers in storage amongst many other types. We tossed all of them into a 40 yard rubbish bin destined for the local landfill... We didn’t think these had any value as we were very uneducated in the field of classic computers... I do regret tossing them in retrospect...

Check eBay first

Next Hoovie is gonna show us the cheapest computer he bought in America soon

Yo i love doug de muro. can you tell me the time stamp he referenced him at?

@@penguinpurist1696 13:36 have a nice day ok

@@penguinpurist1696 Very end of the video after hes completely done reviewing.

@@gaupau yeah i never watch the very end

Yes, the VIC20 and the C64 both came with the huge spiral bound manuals that had BASIC programming lessons included. Thus beginning the transformation of a ten-year-old me into a total nerd for life!

@@crowningchristopher8273 Me too :) It's probably the book I value most!

Christopher T. Plus you could also buy a separate "Programmer's Reference Guide" for each of them, which goes into more advanced BASIC programming

I never owned the C64 but I did have a manual in my possession acquired from my mothers previous job in Chicago. We moved to Florida and she had some things, like this manual, that never made it back to the office she worked in. For the first few months of living in Florida's scorching Sun I stayed inside and we didn't have TV, but I had books and read everything in the house at the time including the entire encyclopedia Britannica set and Webster dictionary, and then I stumbled upon this manual. I fell in love with it even though I didn't have a computer to do any of this stuff with. I read it front to back over and over just fascinated in my 11 yr old self. Then one day my mother comes home with x86 ibm clone with Dos. My mother showed me the spreadsheet software which was Lotus 123 that she used for work, and the Typing tutor game, and how to navigate the disks from the command line. So browsing the files on my own I stumbled upon QuickBasic for Dos and I remembered what I read from the manual I had read about nine moths before. From that point on I started using the manuals info to make my own programs in QB and eventually my own games. So, the manual was invaluable to me even though I never owned a C64 because of the great amount of knowledge and detail that went into this manual.

@@scottbreon9448 And the "Programmer's Reference Guide" wasn't just limited to BASIC.

or LGR :)

@@scottbreon9448 or perifractic

Techmoan has one!

I had the C64 and 1702 monitor for six months BEFORE getting a 1541 Drive. I used to spend hours typing the games from the magazines in, then trying to find and fix all my errors, play it for an hour, only to have to turn it off and lose EVERYTHING! One of the happiest days in my life was when I received the 1541 for my birthday.

Unless you had the floppy disk versions of those magazines. LOL

In Germany we had Magazines with floppys that contained freeware games.

You're always bigging up Jesus Mr Noah.

mine sat in a storage unit for almost 10 YEARS. it was in the original box and all the disks were packed neatly. still works great and i have it set up in my home office. the speech unit still works, fast load cartridge, etc. i still have my 300 baud modem but haven't tested it...BBS that i know of are no longer around

Sam's Journey is awesome, but personally my favorite recent release is Steel Ranger

BAWAHAHAHAHAHA!

@@MetalJesusRocks No its Real mine already PreOrdered XD it should be on its way by now XD !

I preordered my 360, and ONE, and now I have the 45 Degrees on order.

I thought that little secret panel was going to be an ashtray. Lol.

@@pinfarmer no reason you couldn't mod it with a vape pen accessory.

you can just do that on twitch

@@EduardoDanielFerreira Or TAS

Back in 1984 if it weren't for competitors, and their stupid plan to add a 2nd floppy, it would have sold as many computers as the 128. This was top of the line when it came out.

Plays every game. There's a few that expect the dark blue background to be there, and use white text you can't see, but a simple POKE 53281,6 before running it would remedy that. Other than the difference in colors and intro, the SX-64 Kernal also has all the code for tape removed, as the SX-64 has no tape port. This means, any games on tape won't work. But today, you can get most everything on D64 and use a SD2IEC adapter, just make sure you specify using the USER PORT for power instead on the TAPE PORT when buying an SD2IEC for an SX-64.

yeah and its lovely with the positivity in the vids, if only TV had similar programs like this(thank god for YT i guess)

Bruce Lee on the C64 was amazing. I played it A LOT in 1985.

You are absolutely right about the controller being also built into the drive. However this also made them quite expensive, almost half the price of a c64 itself, if I recall it correctly. The Apple II used cpu-based io for that, so you could get 3rd party drives at a much lower price (how times have changed, eh apple? ;) )

There were some urban legends on how games like Seven Cities of Gold used the floppy CPU for extra calculation - indeed legends, considered floppy is tied via serial cable

Only two? Lightweight.

I remember having my FastLoad cartridge back in the day. How did those carts work?

Glad my blood pressure was A ok as a kid, Karate Champ would give me a heart attack if i replayed it now, at my age xd

Saying it has held its value is a bit of a stretch. Also, it's doubtful many of the original owners ever sold these devices for anywhere near $500, unless you are just a strange individual who keeps his electronics for 30 years waiting for the market to trend upward.

The fluctuation of imaginary value.....you're a sham......

#Giggity ;)

Yes. Disks were very popular in Europe. They never really caught on in the UK until the 16 bit (Amiga) era. I think I was one of the few C64 owners in the UK that actually had a 1541. I live in Canada now, and everyone I talked to tells me that cassette decks fell out of favour in North America around 1983ish

Big, big fan!

MetalJesusRocks I love cars, so I watch his Channel as well

Still not that much compared to PCs of the time, I think my dad spent like $3k+ on a 386 and 1x CD ROM for us so we could play Dos games lol

Could almost buy a new car for the same price back in 1984

Compared to a home computer, this was very expensive. However, this was actually one of the cheapest Business computers you could get at the time. An Apple 2 for example, was roughly $2,300, and an IBM would run you $2,600 +. The closet thing in price point to this was Radio Shack's "Tandy 1000" , which sold for $995 in 1984. While Not portable, it could use IBM software, and was cheap enough that one could buy this for the home as well.

I still have a 64 and Forbidden Forest still gives me the creeps. 35 years later....

10:33 What was the game he was playing with the red monster truck? I played it all the time as a kid and can’t remember the name!!

@thecouchtripper even Bigger gamers used the FINAL cratridge with all the extra's like screen dumping , sprite dumping , machine code monitor and more beside fast loading tape and disk games .. and the option to make a bootable memory dump of the current game .. those were the days

Yep, pretty much all C64 commands had a shortcut like this... you could use it to your advantage when programming in BASIC. Each line of Commodore BASIC could only have a maximum of 80 characters, or two lines on a 40 character screen. If you used shortcuts you could cram a lot more commands onto a single line... the funny thing was that when you listed the program it expanded all those shortcuts into their full form so those single lines could show up as much longer than 80 characters! Commodore BASIC was definitely a shit programming language, you needed to be very familiar with the POKE command and the functions of individual memory locations to get anything useful to happen with sound and graphics... but man, you learned so much about how computers worked by doing things this way. And it really primed you for learning Assembly Language. I learned so much from my C64 back in the day, and I thought I was just "having fun" :)

JiffyDOS F-keys ftw.

J symbol shift p p enter

@@simonebernacchia5724 Shift + Run/Stop for us tape users :)

Justin Reed you can plug consoles with RF into those things.

thecouchtripper imagine taking this joke literally

Lost how many times I got screwed

@thecouchtripper r/whooosh

Is really nothing special. The video out on those was actually S-video in a proprietary cable.

Sweet...time to put mine up for sale. Except I don't wanna sell it.

@@bmwolgas Just wait until you do or need to. There's always a foolish collector willing to pay thousands.

And then we all get to pile comments on like 'Metal Jesus is the type of guy who....' :)

Whoa! #Giggity ;)

Jonathan Ferrer yes it can.

I lost it at the fuse... what's wrong with having an external fuse on a modern laptop? I would love one. It can be an old big fuse, I wouldn't care.

Your comment is hilarious!