So adorable to see you jump up and down for excitement!

Wow, what an awesome find! I bet your heart skipped a beat when you saw that.

I wasn't ready for the guns 🤤 😆 4:41

Good lord, the kind of find that happens once a lifetime.

The first computer I ever bought (mostly) with my own money was a C128, also at a flea market in the mid 90´s. When visiting my dad in Croatia for the summer, the family he rented a house from also had one, and when I left they gave me all the disks. Two double row floppy cases with copies, all scene cracked, what a time.

My God... A childhood dream. My favorite 8bit computer was and always will be the C-64, but one often read about the C-128 in computer magazines and really wanted one.

Brings back my childhood. My first computer was a TRS-80 connected to my tv using a tape recorder for storage. Then the Commodore 128 was my second computer. in 1991 I bought my first IBM clone 486sx? By then IBM was beating Apple, if not for the Ipod, that company was doomed. Good to see. I loved your earlier restores just to see windows 3.1 and sim city again was awesome. I was 10 in 1983 when I got the TRS-80, this year I hit 50. Thanks for the memories.

Great find, congratulations. I bought a C64 during the pandemic and showed some early games to my two teenage boys and they really enjoyed it.

Now that is a sweet find. I spent many hours playing Jupiter Lander on my VIC-20 back in the early 80’s.

You hit the jackpot on that yard sale 👍👍👍 i am very envious right now. 🤤

I'll bet Adrian watched this video last year and was like wow.. what a super lucky find!!! Great score Mike!! Seriously, that's almost as rare as finding a gem system with a Pentium Pro in it!!! SCORE! It was worth whatever you had to pay for it.. seriously man.. totally the score of your lifetime!!

The joy in your voice makes made me smile for the entire video. I’d be excited too. I also have three blind mice stuck on my head. Lol😂

Great video, handsome. I'd love to get my hands on a C128!

2:10 so cute

What a fantastic find!!! Congratulations!

Awesome find!!!

Mate, what a great find! I could watch you play those Commodore games all day. And hilarious to see you literally jump up and down with excitement.

If I ever get caught up watching all your videos -- I'll just have to start watching them all over again. (Glad to see you make such a lucky find in this one, too.)

congrates on your find, nice to see you get a system that's so complete and working.

That's awesome, and its all working is just such an awesome bonus.

I bet you were just thinking: close the deal... Close the deal!

Mike Tech: I just found your channel yesterday and i am enjoying it quite a bit!

Very nice find.

It's clearly been well looked after and it's in good hands with you!

Dang, wow what find, congrats

That is a sweet, sweet find. It reminds me that I need to get my Commodore Plus/4 out of storage and have a little retro play weekend. 😉

Fantastic epic find, man!! So much greatness here. Got an A500 around the same month as this 128 was bought, which looks to have been a replacement of a c 64.

That game Lunar Lander is using a lot of sounds from Moon Cresta, my favorite arcade game in the 80s! Thanks for the video!

Thanks for taking me down memory lane. I had Commodore 128 and 1551 disk drive, and had some of those games also. were old Retro lol

been going through your back log of videos, i used to own a c128 as a kid. brings back memories. my parents threw it away just a few years before i discovered how to fix them.

My damn heart sped up a substantial number of beats when I saw this. What an increadable find man. Regards from South Africa

Oh mate i felt your enjoyment and pleasure

OMG! Jackpot find!

I love the 128 so much. Of course, I'm biased because I grew up with one but that's beside the point. Really need to get our repaired. Anyway, it was so great seeing this one alive and well. I would've been just as giddy as you if it were me finding a 128 like that. :)

I loved my Commodore 128. Use the snot out of it throughout high school. I eventually sold it and picked up and Amiga 2000. So many hours spent playing so many games. On both systems. Congrats on a great score.

What an awesome haul. I love the genuine joy of that and when playing these great games. Back when games were games & not endless tedium. Awesome

Error Maker is behaving like a C-64 program when you load it on the 128 in 128 mode. Congrats on a fantastic find, I'd be over the moon if I found a C-128 in the wild!

Lucky find! It'll be in good hands now.

Aw maaaaaan great find 🎉

😮 what a find!!

Congrats Mike! Never owned a C64 or 128 back in the day. Instead started on a Vic20 then a ZX Spectrum 16k back in the 80’s. Don’t forget the C128 is backwards compatible with C64. On the screen just type go 64 and you are in C64 mode. Have recently bought myself a C128 desktop version which I’m very happy with. Just catching up on your Videos after subscribing from a KZfaq recommendation 👍🏻 thanks 🙏🏻

A glorius computer. You're a lucky man.

Nice and complete system Really cool and nice :D

Star Micronics was an early frontrunner in printer sales. They are still in business making impact and thermal POS and receipt printers!

You lucky guy! 😊👍

Man, this brings back memories of Breakout and Oregon Trail. Lol. My first computer was a TRS-80, and we had C64s at school

I remember still being able to go to select retailers and find Commodore 64/128 games on the shelves all the way up to 1990. It really died down after that and couldn't find them any more. These systems were so much fun to have and play around with. They were amazing little machines with so many different peripherals that were really fun to fiddle and tinker with. They even had a monthly magazine up until the late eighties that provided demo disks and printed code for various games that you could type into the Commodore in BASIC which would allow you save the file to disk and play the games yourself if you had the time and perseverance to type in the code yourself.

Wow, now that's a score, and in amazing shape! The C-128 was a good machine for the time, even trying to be a business machine, either using special C-128 software like the CAD package you have there or running CP/M which is included in the set of system discs. After startup, if you type GO64 and hit return the machine will reboot in Commodore 64 mode for the most compatibility with C-64 software. The machine has two display modes 80 columns and 40 columns, each mode runs out of its own video generator chip, by default the 80-column display is on the RGB connector and 40 on the Chroma/Luma Split video (S-Video), Composite, and RF, you can even drive both displays 80 RGB and 40 Y/C) separately with software commands so you could have a dual monitor Commodore 128 :).

That is beyond cool.

I so want to be you! That's a terrific find.

One thing, In the video, You never tested out fully the C64 mode or the c/pm mode to see if they work....On a c128, To get to the c64 mode, you either power the c128 by holding down the Commodore key (in the lower left corner) as the machine boots, or type "go64" when the machine is in c128 mode, either will get you there. To enter c/pm mode, just insert the c/pm disk included in the system diskettes folder and boot the machine.. How about doing all this in your next video? Your video was very good. You look like you scored a nice deal. You also never mentioned how much you paid for the entire lot...That's important...Maybe in the next video. Keep'em coming! ;o) Tony K.

Lucky you!

love it

Ooooh and the 2002 is a good monitor too. Not as troublesome as some of the many variations of 1084 tend to be.

Man, seeing so many C64 games on disk is kinda surreal. I still have well over 100 tapes(a good chunk of them(maybe 20-30%) are cover tapes from magazines where they'd have 1 freeware game and a commercial game demo per side, think like the CDs you'd on the front of Playstation and PC magazines) and along with my C64 under the stairs. I remember me and some friends going to town as primary schoolers on Saturdays with our allowance, one of us would go to Dixon's(electronics store) and buy a pack of blank tapes, and the rest of us would go to Boots(a chemist that sold computer games for some reason) and buy a game each from the £1.99 section. You can probably guess what happened next. I still have almost every game listed on the brosure in the Karnov box. Some of them are jewel case budget rereleases, and a few of them are original big box. As for the first floppy disk you run, I think that may have been a magazine on disk. You press return to open a file and that would contain an article.

Looks like one of the first printers I have ever owned . . . and it is still in my possession. I would go and check on the make and model this instant if I could access it easily. However, I just moved the contents of my deceased relative's home into my garage, and it would take me a minimum of a half hour just to clear a path to its location. I'll try to keep that in mind because I am curious.

Nice find. I had a Commodore 64. I think I may thrown it away tho. I gotta vacation here in about a month. One of the things I plan on doing. Going through all that crap back in the storage room from the Garage. Hell, Who knows what I will find.... LOL

Lucky!

Nice find. Those games are worth some money too, great video.

Wow!

Commander Keen lives!

Up up down down left right left right A B select start !!!!! For Contra !!!! Wow i loved that game

..in the name of all the HW-Gods! You lucky bastard 😲

Very rare for me seeing that many original game disks, I got truckloads of C64 disks and they're all pirated copies of course. I've got like 6 original disks and then several hundred bootlegs. Someone had given me a C128D (desktop with builtin disk drive) in the late 90s. Man I loved that machine.

Amazing! I would be more interested in the dragon and spiderman games. I never knew that games actually came on a cassette. I think i have some games around here that come on those large floppies.

I played a lot of The Bard's Tale on my old Commodore 64

gazette was an offshoot of "compute" magazine...i still have some issues from the early to mid 80s

As an Amiga tech, I was surprised it did work as well as it did.

I am only 2 minutes in this video and the amount of jealousy keeps growing. What an amazing find! I don't know how much more I can handle!

What a haul, WOW.. can i ask how old you are?

Very lucky to get all those pieces of hardware in working order.

Gimme it. Gimme gimme gimme!

does this comodore has a hard disc? because everytime you want to power it off you just turn off the button,i guess it could damage the hard drive if it had one, are the programs loaded direct in the ram ?

speed ball is all time classic "ice cream" enjoy play it so much back in day

Good haul!!!! I miss my Commodore days. What did you pay for all of that?

How?! I’m straight dumbfounded.

I love how you are literally shaking with excitement! You look and talk about this find the way I do about my girlfriend! I think you are in love! So adorable!

store the 1571 disk drive with a disk or transport protection loaded and make sure that the lever is closed. otherwise the disk drive could break.

I bet you put that in a car from fleamarket like you stole it 😀 Epic find.

WHO throw this set away ? I don't believe it!

Its said that there were several million C128's sold back in the day. I have to disagree with this as i could literally find about 50 c64's in the wild before i come across a C128. Congrats on owning a rare and most versatile 8 bit machine ever made. Its a 4 in 1 computer really... Think about it :D

You lucky SOB🙂. What flea market do you go to?

We had that same copy of battle chess

On most games up on the joystick is jump due to only one fire button.

Contra was hard on the Nintendo with a controller that had 2 buttons.. nah it's a SUPER hard game without the cheat code hahaha

❤

erm lucky you !

Spent many hours playing Frogger.. Hopefully you will find a way to load it.

How much did you get it for?

Dude, not trying to be funny but at 13:40 it literally says on the screen select the input file and press RETURN to load!!! 🤣

When you have time open up the power supply. They are known to have adhesive/glue around the capacitors. Over time it degrades to a point that causes it to absorb water. The area this occurs will rust out. Resisters rust as well as metal links/traces. Two of mine were damaged this way.

at 23:15 - Battle Chess! 😀 WAY ahead of any other chess game of the era... as far as animations go. Too bad you don't have GEOS 128 to go with it. It basically turned your Commodore 128 into a Mac.

8:40 I played this game, or maybe a port? On MS-DOS.

What did you pay for the whole thing?

That Contra game is a 150$ game (used). Looks like yours was unused . You should get it graded . I would .

So... how much you paid for the128 system?

I envy

maybe you should try and use an amiga controller and not an Atari controller might be better for the games too

You mean WASD didn't work for the controls? Lol

Rad