Thanks Peri, it was a really fun project and we're so happy with the results.

Thanks Dave... yeah as you know this one took a long time to finish, but the end result is really amazing.

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Thank you, glad that you like it! 😀

Nerd-tastic! LOVE IT!!!! Thank you for the great feedback and thanks for subscribing!

Go for it! It's really been a game changer for us.

Thanks Dave. We do a LOT of research for our videos to make sure we have our facts straight, and that we are informative (hence the length of some of them). TBH, and to that point, until I started digging in I didn't really know the difference between the two either. 🙄

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We would appreciate it of you did, new stuff coming that you might like ;-) And TY... we're pretty happy with it as well :-)

It's hard to tell from the video, but when we were shooting the game play part I had to sit behind and to the side of the camera facing the screen, so I was a good 2 feet away from the screen. Even that far back it was really easy to see the screen and it was very playable. Very impressed considering the price point of the donor monitor

Hey TMH, the "it's close, but not exact" Paramount 3D PLA (Military Khaki) that I picked up on AMZ. amzn.to/2MWcDhT US Amazon is showing out of stock.

Hi Bret, we're happy you stumbled across us as well, and thank you very much for the compliments. 3D Print Connect is finalizing everything to get the monitor setup as a product on their Treatstock site with the color match option. Look for the Tan option, this is the Jessie Tan 64 that I used for the 1541 drive.

@@Operation8Bit That makes more sense. It will be easier if they have it ready to go. The less there is for me to mess up the better. I'll keep an eye out for it to go up on Treatstock. Thanks for letting me know. Looking forward to seeing more about the 1541 and the printer as well.

Or the accessories you really wanted but couldn't afford :-)

We toyed around with a similar idea for our Modern Retro Hackintosh build. The idea was that we could heat a sheet of plexiglass and then form it around a real CRT to get the shape. Keep us in the loop if you decide to do the build. 👍

Not a bad idea, we toyed with that idea a few times as well while we were doing the Mac restoration video (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5mTodeIxN3Ud4k.html). The trick is finding a screen of the right size that would replace the original 13" CRT and fit properly. Please let us know if you come up with something!

@@Operation8Bit from the research I've done the best I've found is either 10". Can't find a 13" LCD Panel with the correct ratio. I would love to modify the 3D Files and scale them to a larger ratio for the C64 Maxi.

@@immersion726 I came across this one a few weeks back, it's a little smaller at 12" but I think it might do the trick; www.amazon.com/dp/B07S9ZDS9R/?coliid=I1VGUZFQ5OKFED&colid=29GMDGBMJ39JQ&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

@@Operation8Bit This looks perfect! Hoping I could make one for the C64 Maxi :)) Could be a cool engineering project! Thanks :)

Hey Bob & Kim, sorry for the delay in getting back you on this question. Please see my pinned comment above. Again, my apologies for not responding sooner

That is becoming the million dollar question. I have a prototype for a working scale USB printer, but getting the mini to communicate with it is the real challenge that I haven't found a solution too. BTW: you are the first to comment on this, glad to know someone was paying attention all the way to the end :-)

My original model had the buttons just a bit too small. The latest version is better, but you might need to take a small nail file and open them up just a little bit more. One of our other viewers (Bret Staehling) got his buttons working perfectly. If you do decide to make one, send me an email support@operation8bit.org and I'll provide a few other tips & tricks for getting your build to come out great

@@Operation8Bit Thanks for the reply! As it turns out it appears this model was discontinued so is being replaced by a newer model with different button locations. I ordered the last one from US amazon.com but it was lost in transit.

@@thebitplanes8188 I hate when that happens. I was looking at this display (amzn.to/3661NLX) for a different project I was thinking about, and there is this one that I just found (amzn.to/3k3Dovo) but not sure if either of these would work for you and I don't know if they will fit in the bezel I created

Peri, I was able to get the buttons working on my 1702 mini. I used Tony's newer model, which has the openings opened up a bit more. I found that the button spacing on the 1702 was slightly wider than the buttons from the donor monitor. The buttons from the donor monitor are connected together with a thin piece of plastic. I decided to clip the buttons apart so they could be free to locate where they need to and it worked fine. I did take a file to the openings lightly but probably didn't need to do that. Hoping you can still recover the donor monitor you ordered. I was really happy with how this turned out and think it would be well worth the wait if it comes back in stock.

UPDATE: I ordered what appears to be the extremely common low cost 8" monitor from Amazon that I imagine can be found anywhere. The main issue is the buttons are completely different - round or oval and there are only 5 of them. I reworked the front of the model and added a 3D printable button strip and posted those as remixes on Thingiverse.

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@@LastChanceSaloonTX Thanks ..🙏🙏🙃

What's hilarious is that Sparky had a very similar comment that didn't make the final cut. 😃

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Fair enough. The only reason I could offer is that it's what the donor monitor had, so I designed it to that. Otherwise I would have just wound up clipping one of them off and the extra would sit in a box until I came up with another project, or worse it would get damaged and become eWaste.