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The SAAYM card - A GameBlaster clone plus YM2151

This was kind of a spur of the moment video.  I put everything else on the back burner to make it, since it's a new release product.  Miraculously, it only took 2 days to make, which I th...

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How to make new badges.

Here's what I've been working on for the last week.  I'll finish the subtitles and thumbnail tomorrow morning and release to the world.

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1 Million Subscribers / Young Sheldon Special.

A while back I mentioned that I had some minor involvement in the TV show Young Sheldon.  So that's finally revealed here, along with unboxing my gold play button and a few other surprises. View Post

Yamaha Reface CS and DX Review - Part 1

This is due to the numerous requests to more fully review these keyboards.  But there are a few other little surprises in here.  Subtitles are synching now, and I hope to have the thumbna...

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Intellivision Composite Mod, plus 2 new games!

getting ready to head to Austin.  I'll release this to the world tomorrow morning.  

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Rambling for November 2019

I think the title speaks for itself.


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Boot Sector Games

UPDATE - I have re-uploaded and replaced the part some people found offensive.

Here's a short little video, but I thought the topic was interesting and worthy of a video.  I hope you lik...

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How Telephone Phreaking Worked.

This has been an absolutely insane week for me, involving travel to Portland, where I filmed this speech, along with my father passing away, and returning home to a funeral and a tornado.  <...

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Sanyo MBC-775 - The first PC portable computer with color screen.

Here is a new video for you.  Hope you like it.  Will go live tomorrow.

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Intellivision ECS Keyboard Repair and Demo

This is a video that took a bad direction once I started filming it.  Hopefully you still find it entertaining!

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Rambling updates for Sept 2019

In this video I discuss many things including:

-Vintage Computer Festival MW in Chicago
-Secret upcoming surprise with TV show
-Car accident
-Upcoming videos

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New Games for Vintage Computers 2019

In this video, I review 5 new games for Commodore VIC-20 and C64.  I will be following this up with a Patreon-only video in a day or two explaining what has been going on around here behind th...

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Building my Dream Computer - Part 2

Settle in for this one, it is 45 minutes long.  The original edit was closer to an hour, but I ended up cutting some of it out.  About 5 minutes of what was cut was me discussing the curr...

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Apple IIe on a Card

I mentioned I was working on this video weeks ago when I was doing the restoration of my Macintosh LC-II.  And here it is.  It ended up being not as exciting of a topic as I had hoped, so...

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AST Computer - Tales from Tech Support

I did a panel on this topic late last year at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, which everyone seemed to enjoy.  I always wanted to turn this into a video, but I just didn't have enough multimed...

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Macintosh LC II Recapping and Dishwasher

This is a short follow up to the monitor restoration I did the other day.  

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Rambling update for August 2019

I have a new video totally filmed but need a day or two to finish editing it.  In the meantime, here's a little video update on some things you might find interesting including updates on my f...

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Mindset - The Graphics Workstation You've Never Heard of!

I know I said the Apple IIe card video was going to be next, but some locals wanted me to squeeze this video in next. So here you go!

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Macintosh LC Monitor Restoration

Just a bit of a filler episode, but it was something I needed to do before I could make the next episode, which I think will be pretty exciting.  

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Update on grim situation this week.

Hey guys.  I don't have time to do a video or audio segment, but I wanted to give everyone an update on what is going on.  Some people may have noticed my web store is shut down with a no...

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8-Bit Unboxing for July 2019.

Just a long overdue unboxing video before moving on to more interesting projects.  Should go live tomorrow.

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Update for June - Insanity again!

This month I'm trying audio only.  Here's a breakdown of topics in case you want to skip something.

00:00 - Discussion of Planet X3 orders
05:10 - My wife's knee injury
06:45 - Ch...

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Planet X3, The Making Of - Part 4

Been working on this for almost 2 weeks now.  Glad to have this behind me.  This one is really long, coming in around 42 minutes.  The script was originally even longer, at over an h...

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Commodore History Part 6 - The PC Compatibles

I was hoping to have this finished in May.  However, my wife broke her knee playing soccer 2 weeks ago (more specifically, snapped two ligaments, so she can't move her leg) and is awaiting sur...

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Finally - A Gameboy Color Backlight Mod!

This was a somewhat time-sensitive video so I needed to push it up to the front.  Now I'm going to get back to work on the Commodore PC documentary I started a few weeks ago.

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Toy Keyboard with a Cassette Player - Casio TA-10

This is a bizarre keyboard.  I won't spoil anything, just watch!


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Restoring 3 Commodore PCs.

Hey guys.  This is, regrettably, another sort of filler episode.  But this is one I sort of had to make because I wanted all of these machines to look good for the documentary I'm filming...

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Planet X3 is now available for sale!

We finished the kickstarter fulfillment a few days ago.  And now I'm opening up general sales.  I haven't mentioned this publicly yet.  I'm trying to get caught up with some video wo...

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Dissecting Word Processors

Hey guys!  I won't lie, this is definitely a "filler" video because the main videos I'm working on are on hold waiting on stuff.  So, I needed something to fill in for this week.  Ho...

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Forgotten Camera- The Aiptek ISDV2

This was a little something I started work on before I left for Germany.  Just finished it up today.  A little off topic from 8-bit stuff, but still a neat device with a neat history.

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