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Next Station Restoration and Upgrade

I told you guys there would be possibly two guest videos while I was away on vacation.  I'm actually leaving Sunday, so I'll probably make this go live right before I leave.   DJ tried ...

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3 Replica Sound Cards - AdLib, Innovation SSI, and SwinSID Ultimate!

This one took longer than anticipated as well.  That seems to be a recurring theme lately.   Anyway, I hope you like it.  Also, this may be the last video I get completed before I ...

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Unboxing May-June 2018

I skipped last month to combine it together.  And I think going forward I'll be doing these quarterly instead.  This will go live to the public tomorrow morning.

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Commodore History Part 4 - The Plus/4 and C16

Whew... been working 2 weeks straight on this video.  Like all of the Commodore history videos, they tend to take about 80 hours to produce.  Sit back and enjoy as this is about 30 minutes l...

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Patreon Exclusive - June rambling update.

Just an update on some of the things going on lately.

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How a Character LCD Works - part 3

Sorry for the year delay, but this video is finally done.  Hope you enjoy. 

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Planet X3 Kickstarter is live

The kickstarter was approved this morning and it's now live.  I have spent the last couple of days working on the Character LCD Part 3, which I hope you find interesting.  So you'll be seein...

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Kickstarter Video for Planet X3

So before you go looking for the kickstarter, it isn't live yet.  I'm waiting for it to be approved and I won't release this video to the world until the kickstarter is live. Which could be days ...

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Patreon Exclusive - May Ramblings

Inspired by Techmoan and his "blathering" videos, I'm bringing you a rambling video with some updates and general stuff that probably won't interest most people, but maybe you'll find something of int...

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Worst VIC-20 ever, part 2

As promised here's part 2.  I wanted to include details of all of the troubleshooting steps, as people seem to want more of that.  I hope I made everything understandable.  

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Restoration Challenge - The Worst VIC-20 I've Ever Seen!

Sorry I had to cut this into two parts.  However, on the bright side, part 2 is almost done and should be uploaded in 2 days.  (UPDATE) I replaced the video due to a 2-second spot where ther...

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Commodore History Part 3 - The C64 (complete)

Ok, so this is the new version of the Commodore history episode.  It includes most of the old content, and about 15 minutes of new content to round it off into a single episode.  

Whi...

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Yamaha DX100 Repair and Review

This video has been 2 weeks in the making, since I had to put it on the back burner twice. Once was for waiting on parts.  I did things a little different at the end, let me know what you think o...

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Donation Unboxing April 2018

Hope you guys find this entertaining.. The format is a bit different today.

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Updates on Previous 8-Bit Guy Projects

OK, so here's the completed video that I was telling you guys about a couple of days ago. I'm still working on a thumbnail and closed captions.  I won't be releasing it to the public until tomorr...

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This month isn't going so well....

It's been 8 days since I posted a video.  And now it's looking like it may be a few more.  So, I thought I'd at least give you an update on what is going on.   You might find some ...

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The Computer without a Microprocessor

Well guys, here's another home-built computer episode.  Although this one has an interesting twist.  I only have one other such machine I plan to cover at the moment which is the PiDP-8 (whi...

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3 New Platform Games

I wanted to make this video because I thought it would be an easy one to produce, probably taking no longer than 3 days.  That would have probably worked out except I had every problem imaginable...

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Unboxing March 2018


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The C64 Mini - Reviewed

Please don't share this video.  There's still a media blackout on this for a few more days, but I was told I could release this to Patreon as long as I asked everyone here not to share it.  

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It has arrived!

Ok.. so I'm dropping everything and going to start immediately working on a review of this product.  They sent me one of the first units and they have a media blackout until March 27, however, th...

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Yamaha PC-500 Playcard System

It's hard to believe it, but this is episode #40 of 8-Bit Keys.   Anyway, I hope you find this topic as interesting as I did.  

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Scheduled appearances and video catalog

Hey guys.. This is just a quick news item.  I have a list a mile long of things that need to be done to my website, but time never allows.  However, I did add two important things that will ...

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Commodore Repairs and 240V to 120V conversion

This is another one of those videos where I just needed to repair some stuff before I can make the real documentary.  So I hope you enjoy!

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8-Bit Unboxing February 2018

Another month, another unboxing.  Got some really neat stuff this month.  Hope everyone enjoys!

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IBM PCjr Repair & Restoration

Hope you guys enjoy this one, and hope you like my special guest star for this episode!  This will go live to the rest of the world in a few hours when I'm done with the closed captioning.

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200th episode special - A day in my life

Originally, I planned this as a Patreon only, but it kind of grew a little bit and I'm thinking of releasing it to the rest of the world.  The main determining factor will be if you guys find it ...

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Casio Boombox/Keyboard Hybrid

Have a look at this unusual piece of hardware.  For those who might be interested, I also posted this up on ebay as I have no space to keep it.


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The Advantech I.Q. Unimited

I've had this computer sitting around for about 6 months. It's a little piece of forgotten computer history.  I figured it was time to finally do a video about it before it gets stored in the att...

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Unboxing January 2018

Got some interesting donations last month.  Hope you enjoy!  This will be going live to the public later this evening.

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