Update for October

You may not be seeing another video the rest of this month, so rather than leave you hanging, I thought I'd give you an idea what is going on.

First of all, I'm getting ready to leave for Portland in 2 days for the Retro Gaming Expo.  I hope to see some of you there.  So that's going to eat up some of my video production time.  I spent most of today working on my presentation for Saturday.

I have some neat products I'm going to be reviewing soon, but the videos have been put on hold because I'm going to be selling the products on my web store, so I decided I would wait to finish the videos until I have the products available for sale.  I'll tell you about a few of these products, because I'm excited about them!

First one is an Ad-Lib card with an official YM3812 chip that plugs into the parallel port of an MS-DOS computer.  It was designed by Serge Defever in Belgium.  He sent me a test kit, which I had to assemble.  I was skeptical that it would work with any existing DOS games.  There is a little TSR program you need to run before hand, which captures and re-directs all of the Ad-Lib commands out the parallel port.  However, to my surprise it works perfectly on about 90% of the games I've tried.  Most of the ones it doesn't work on are games that use 386 enhanced mode like Duke Nukem 3D, or Doom.  Anyway, this is a great product because it finally gives a sound option for these 386 and 486 laptop computers that is actually compatible with most games.  So I look forward to showing you that!  I ordered 40 of them from him for my store, and they should be here next week.

Another product I'm working on is my own game, Planet X2 for the Commodore 64. It's a real-time-strategy for the C64, the only of its kind to my knowledge.  It's very close to completion and I've already got boxes ordered, manuals ordered, floppy disk labels ordered.  I just need to finish up the code, then start mass-copying of disks and get ready to start shipping.  Pictured above are a couple of examples of the game box.  I hope to have it finished in less than a month and ready for sale before Christmas.  (not that it's likely to be a hit Christmas gift, it's just a coincidence in timing, actually) And I'll be featuring a full video on the development of this game.

I will soon be featuring a 6502 prototype computer that is made by Jason Putnam.  It runs Applesoft BASIC at the moment, but he's looking to get Commodore BASIC running on it as well.  It's going to be a really neat hobby computer.  I got the prototype in yesterday but it's a kit so I will need to assemble it. I will also be selling these in my store. Expect to see a video on this in a few weeks.

So, anyway, the point is, I've been working on all of these projects concurrently while trying to make videos for my channel too.  And so it's been slowing me down a bit.  But most of this is going to come to fruition next month, so things should pick back up on the channel.

I started a video yesterday on the Nyko Wormcam for the Gameboy Advance... but to be honest the product is so horrible, I am thinking about not even finishing the video and just starting a new project.  

Everyone is waiting on the Commodore 64 video, which is next on the list of my Commodore history series.  However, the VIC-20 video took 2 weeks to make, I suspect the C64 will be the same.  So I don't even plan to start that one until November.   Many people have been asking which machines I plan to cover.  This is the plan for the Commodore history series:
-Commodore PET (Already done)
-Commodore VIC-20 (Already done)
-Commodore 64 / SX64 / Ultimax / 64GS / Educator 64
-Commodore 264/364/Plus/4/C16/C116
-Commodore 128 / 128D
-Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000
-Commodore Disk Drives and clones

So that's what you have to look forward to in that series.  And, obviously, there will be many unrelated videos showing up in between these.  I'm also in the early stages of scripting documentaries for the following machines, which you'll probably see next year:
-Laser 128 /  XT (big surprise)
-Vtech I.Q.
-Tandy 1000 series
-Atari 400/800/800XL/600/1200/130XE
-Atari ST
-Tandy Color Computer 1/2/3
-TRS-80 model 1/2/3/4/4p
-ZX80/ZX81/Timex Sinclair 1000
-Apple II/IIe/IIc/IIc+/IIgs
-Macintosh LC/LC2/LC3

So, anyway, that's the plan.  By the way, some people were asking why I'm giving all of these Commodore machines their own documentary and not, for example, separate documentaries for each Atari or Amiga, etc.  The reason is that the Commodore machines are all more or less incompatible with each other and have different hardware.  But an Amiga 500 and 1000 for example, or an Atari 400 and 800XL all essentially run the same software.  They are the same platform.  So these documentaries are meant to cover specific platforms.  It just so happens that Commodore had a habit of creating new 8-Bit platforms.  But don't worry, I'll be sure to cover each machine a little bit inside the main documentary.  

Anyway, that's all for now!  Thank you again for your support!