I wonder if there is a way to change the clock speed for the Z80 processor on the CP/M cartridge, to make things run faster? What was the default speed of the Z80 on that cart? 4 MHz?

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Amazing video! I like all these commands and functions. Still using them after all this time.

This is actually a Diablo 630 compatible printer, I believe specifically that this is a Juki 6100 rebadged for Commodore. It's a letter quality printer, but it's by no means the noisiest. Look into some of the color dot matrix stuff that prints the same line 4 times to get color - Those are much, much louder.

Holy crap. Thanks. This one goes into my upcoming "Why the C64 actually sucks" video. I did the same on my 1980 Z80 Basic machine, and it was 231 "jiffies" or how you call them regularly, 195 with X%, and only 169 with both X% and I%

My 1980 BASIC has proper ELSE, AUTO and TRON as well. It even marks already occupied lines in AUTO mode to prevent accidental overwriting. I also get the idea the /\/\/\\\///\/ pattern function is executing rather slow. Was this even worse on the C64? Again my 1980 Z80 machine is doing about twice the speed on this.

Strange the most shown computer in the video is the Commodore 64, not the best example for the criteria you mention. Easy to program? Not so much, C64 BASIC is frustrating as heck, with no proper upper/lowercase support, no insert cursor, no EDIT, pokes for making sound, frustrating SAVE to tape/disk experience. Also the "No firmware updates" is also weird in the C64 world, as I've seen 3 flavours of BASIC, where version 7 (no idea where the other ones were between 2 and 7) did not fix a thing of the bad stuff of Basic 1.

It was beautiful to see the electron beam hit phosphor glow green on the cathode-ray tube. I remember the unique atmosphere that today's LCD monitors do not have.

It's a beautiful Apple II with surprisingly little deterioration! I miss the unique color screen. I used an Apple IIe about 40 years ago, and I had built my own 6502 CPU machine language program and interface card. Now I remember the 8-bit computers of those days and make my own from scratch.

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0:28 Hey, I just noticed that Melucci, Santana and Wingate don't have first names. 😁

In Germany, there also has been the so-called "Aldi C64", a C64 breadbin, but with the short C board and a C keyboard.

I made friends with a retired professor from college back in 1987 who owned a Kaypro II CP/M computer and was a big proponent of the operating system. When I told him that my Commodore 128 could run CP/M, he gave me several CP/M disks with various software on them. I remember running dBase II occasionally on my Commodore 128 to keep track of a few small databases. Wordstar was also included, but in ran too slowly to really be usable... for word processing I mostly just used Ghostwriter 128, which was a huge improvement from Bank Street Writer that I had been using in 40-column mode as a carry-over from my Commodore 64 days. I did however run Wordstar on a PC/XT at work in 1988 - mostly for mail merges with marketing data that was exported from dBase III Plus... but I digress. Fun times.

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I never had a VIC-20, but a C64 growing up. One thing I've wondered = if you took a stock VIC-20, a stock VIC-1010 expansion unit, and stock Super Expander, 8k, and 16k cartridges, would you get more BASIC memory AND Super Expander functionality? Or was the Super Expander hard coded to use the "Stock+3k, screen stays where it is" memory map? And when I say stock, I mean stock like you somehow found a treasure trove of a MISB VIC-20, a 1010, the Super Expander and 8k:16k memory carts that hadn't even been opened, much less used.... :D

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IIRC the various utility cartridges like this one, ML monitor, and Programmer's Aid are able to work together. If you have the physical bus expander that gives you more slots and plug in the various cartridges they boot up in sequence and you can have them all running at the same time.

Ahh, the 1980s. I had exactly this printer - first with a C64 and then with the amiga. Both paid for with my paper round money (and yes, that took a long time to save up enough). Funny story, a teacher got me to write 100 lines as punishment for something (I can't remember what). I got home and I wrote a basic program on the C64 and had it print off the 100 lines with NCQ(?) settings. My teacher complimented me on my typing skills. Lol.

Can you make it sing Daisy Bell?

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The display circuit on the C128 was really bad. They should have redesigned the VIC chip from the bottom. The machine has 2 video output ports, one is RGB-TTL the other Chroma/Luma. You cannot hook it up to a single screen and switch between modes without pressing switches on the screen as well. Also since it is RGB-i and "S-video-like", no TV from the era can show its output properly. Most small TV's had SCART RGB, but none had S-video yet, which came to 20 inch+ size TV's in the nineties. A redesigned VIC with the high res graphics should have led to a single RGB output port. The monitor itself does not mind having 640 or 320 pixels horizontal resolution. Also the VIC in the C128 has the same jailbars and chroma-bleed on Chroma/Luma output, despite the channel separation.

Now hookup a true random Number generator that I just made a video on 😂

c64 my fav computer of all time

3:50 PAL and NTSC VIC-20s have different default values in there. This is the reason why many cartridges come up with wrong offsets and have to be adjusted, usually using cursor keys (Pinball Spectacular: only in pinball attract mode, you have to wait until the barely readable instructions have scrolled past). This is also a reason (maybe the only one?) why NTSC and PAL VIC-20s have different KERNAL ROMs.

Cool. I think that drive is actually more of a IIe era though ;)

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Great review! Thanks.

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That was a really nice presentation and overview. And that's a good looking Apple II as well.

It's always a great day when a BTM86 video shows up in my feed! I too was mainly a Commodore person, but I was familiar with the Apple II as well. The Apple II was the first computer to bring color graphics to the home computer market. I always thought its approach to producing composite color was intriguing. The shortage of dedicated editing keys certainly made it challenging to work on.

Great video! The Apple II series is pretty cool but I still feel the same way today as I did back then. Mainly I wouldn't have traded my C64 for it. Thankfully a few years back I was able to pickup a IIGS at a good price and consider that to be an the pinnacle of the Apple II series.

Nice to see a new video! Love your content. But disappointed to see an Apple II video :D I briefly owned an Apple II and was very surprised just how easy it was to get inside it. A bit of a change to the modern day Apple where they make user maintenance so difficult on their iPhones etc. Special tools needed, glued down batteries.... Keep the videos coming ;) Thanks for uploading.

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CP/M is the OG. Someone coppied CP/M and sold the source code to Microsoft. And so the evil started.

Today i booted multiplan for c64.

When i was a kid, i had Visicalc. Had no idea what it do, and no-one could tell me. But i had it. 👌🤗

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Congrats! Enjoy it. Best machine ever :)

I’m inclined to agree with this super serious assessment

I saw one of your reels for the first time recently. It was just alright - I don’t really care for that form of video. Today I pulled up a video on the C128 and enjoyed it - then saw it was made by the same guy! Now I’m going through your videos and watching all the ones that interest me from oldest to newest. You’ve gone from 33 subs at the time of this video to 1.8k, congrats!

Nice video! A good overview of the game. It’s a good example of how a game that fully realizes its concept ages gracefully. I played a LOT of Zoo Tycoon 1 + 2 as a kid. Even though 2 was more modern, I still played a lot of 1 due to its different content. Graphical differences aside, it generally felt more like “more of the same good stuff” than a downgrade.

Nice video! These are neat computers. I’m getting a 600mhz graphite set up for my girlfriend. The dual boot feature is pretty cool, looking forward to exploring both 9.x and 10.x games

What was I thinking of when I bought this device?

Visicalc on the Apple originally only worked with the Videx 80 column card. Visicalc Advanced supports the standard Apple 80 column card.

Wow super. And the sad part is the he died in Ooty (Tamilnadu) after losing it all . Mr. Osborne

The sound of this thing is so nostalgic for me. I actually still have the one my dad bought in 1984 or 85 when I was a freshman in highschool. Printed many reports on it all through highschool. The ribbon that's in it probably still has some of them on it