Just, also pretend for a moment that this is the original C-64 that Rob Hubbard composed his tunes on, with annotations and manic scribblings over older scribblings over years and years, and this akin to the original piano on which Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony, the Commodore being long forgotten and stashed in a studio storeroom somewhere, lost to time and space, until a curious young sound engineer rummaged through the archives one droll night and fell upon this magnificent treasure. The thing embodies hacker culture like you could cut it with a knife, echoes of epochs resound in this fantastic machine! It is a testament to the true spirit of hacking, this is what C64 was made for! It fought for the User! Loving and loyal and goofy and frantic, like a dog, a wonderful companion ever cheering you on on your gnarly path through life, never straying from your side, it would never mind occasional harsh words and treatment, it was used to it, it was prepared for it, it was built for it- forever abide, forever ready to carry what burden weighed on its master's shoulders, even though it sometimes barked all night, grumped out, and peed on the floor. Whatever amendments and modifications and notations and defacements were made, they were made with love, and one can sense that the soul of the C64 itself would be pleased with its final form. Damn it, why can't I be sentimental about normal things like girlfriends or plush toys...
Looks like a modified Aldi breadbin, still running the original power supply too. That is not only the most deranged-looking Matrix-esque hack job I've seen, it's also very Mad Max: living on the edge of self destruction and primed to go howling in flames through the gates of hell at top speed! :D
@@zer0zilli0n As a part of of retro community and crazy synths community, I can say that your machine looks very fucking cool, don't change anything (I'd even suggest to add more pots :D)
Mr. Martin Galway, thank you sincerely, your comment made my day. I spent a lot of time listening to your SID compositions back then and still today. A simple midi to SID playback will of course never reach the complexity of a real composed chiptune, a compromise to integrate to a midi setup with other gear. Some parameters are accessible via CC and automatic filter or pwm modulation can be added, but the real power still lies in using a tracker.
It's just a very punk 8 bit Commodore 64 running the "cynthcart" application, it's fed notes via DIN midi by an Alesis MMT-8 sequencer, later you can see how i tap the tempo on a Roland RE space echo pedal and switch it on, I actually cut the springs inside the pedal so it's easier to tap by hand. It's no magic but not many people use this machine, with cynthcart it is very convenient, you can hook up potentiometers to remote control parameters, normally on the joystick port but I built them into the enclosure, it's better for stage performance. And there is a car reversal monitor so I can see what is going on, patch, parameter etc, but it also works fine without a screen. The stuff written on the case is all relevant to stage performance as I do not want to look things up on a paper, you cannot save anything in cynthcart but you can call up parameters by keyboard. See my video "cynthcart on Kerberos" if youre interested in this stuff. Yeah sure it looks punk, but this is a workhorse, not on a collector shelf ;-)
@@zer0zilli0nAnd jerks that deface and ruin stuff like this when all you had to do is get a rpi or repro make it so much harder to keep vintage machines nice. You're a selfish asshat and I don't like this one bit.
@@zer0zilli0n you don't understand... You say it's an old computer nothing bad but do you really know that PEOPLE SAVE OLD TRASHED COMPUTERS DUE TO THEY ARE VALUABLE?!
@@kosmotheprotogen There are so many things I could reply with... I will never sell this machine, so value does not matter. I can do with it what I want and do not worry to lose anything. I also have synthesizers that are just marked up in a similar way, like the boomstar 4075 which retails for 1000$. We are an electronic music project that performs live without a DAW or PC/MAC, in worst case we play on a dark stage so I am marking up settings directly on the gear. We do not have papers with notes and cannot load presets, everything is set realtime. Absolutely none of these markings are added for fun or art, everything has it's purpose. Also 400$ seems a bit exaggerated, but maybe the market in US is different, I only know you really have insane prices for pinball machines over there, almost double of European market.
+jaylinsa and thats even just cynthcart running. this module is so versatile and useful, i always sound like a marketing guy when i speak about it... perfect solution for musicians that do a little gaming and watch demos ocassionally. also check my other video "cynthcart on kerberos", a lengthy tutorial review of module and application.
+gerth robovcak and, you can program the midi interface in basic! for non timing critical things, this can do a lot - you can create your own visuals, driven by note on commands - with print, sprite, gfx... as far as you grasp the c=64. of course you can use it in assembler too, but for basic there is an add on called "midi basic" by rainer buchty of ensoniq last outpost fame, which makes it really easy to control, it even can do continuous controllers and midiclock - but basic is too slow for proper clock handling. yea, the marketing guy... you can transfer data by midi cable, this means - almost any modern platform computer with midi interface can transfer programs to flash or just transfer and launch them directly. the cart disk emulation is still work in progress (two virtual disk images in kerberos flash memory), the transfer of a disk to flash is very slow - but it works flawless - and if you have no other method of transferring - you can also transfer a .d64 to a real disk via midi. the flash memory is decently sized to have any music .prg you will ever need, trackers can be stored to cartridge disk to store instruments and songs. and then there is also cynthcart, probably this is the cheapest way to get midi to your c=64 and still have a decent amount of control over the sound.
kerberos cartridge running cynthcart. the screen is from a car reversal cam, it accepts composite video. these screens cannot display the c64 signal properly, but for my purposes it works.
Part of me says that's a sickass cyberdeck and part of me says that's a severely defaced C64.., conflicting vibes here...
Same
hack hack hack!
C64: Manifest Destiny
Just, also pretend for a moment that this is the original C-64 that Rob Hubbard composed his tunes on, with annotations and manic scribblings over older scribblings over years and years, and this akin to the original piano on which Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony, the Commodore being long forgotten and stashed in a studio storeroom somewhere, lost to time and space, until a curious young sound engineer rummaged through the archives one droll night and fell upon this magnificent treasure. The thing embodies hacker culture like you could cut it with a knife, echoes of epochs resound in this fantastic machine! It is a testament to the true spirit of hacking, this is what C64 was made for! It fought for the User! Loving and loyal and goofy and frantic, like a dog, a wonderful companion ever cheering you on on your gnarly path through life, never straying from your side, it would never mind occasional harsh words and treatment, it was used to it, it was prepared for it, it was built for it- forever abide, forever ready to carry what burden weighed on its master's shoulders, even though it sometimes barked all night, grumped out, and peed on the floor.
Whatever amendments and modifications and notations and defacements were made, they were made with love, and one can sense that the soul of the C64 itself would be pleased with its final form. Damn it, why can't I be sentimental about normal things like girlfriends or plush toys...
nice read@@trixylizard6970
this is the most cyberpunk thing i've seen in 10 years. wow
Thank you, and you are right, my chosen music style IS cyberpunk 😊
Looks like a modified Aldi breadbin, still running the original power supply too. That is not only the most deranged-looking Matrix-esque hack job I've seen, it's also very Mad Max: living on the edge of self destruction and primed to go howling in flames through the gates of hell at top speed! :D
The haters cannot recognize the love this took. They must not have ever had a passion of their own, aside from hatin'.
Sick mods, bro! Utility over glamour and it's functional ❤️
Krass was der Brotkasten noch so alles bringt!
This must be the most modded C64 I've ever seen. Love it 😉
Thank you. I get a lot of negative feedback from the "retro community" for the looks of that machine. It works for me, that's all that matters.
*YEAH!* ✊🏻😻
@@zer0zilli0n As a part of of retro community and crazy synths community, I can say that your machine looks very fucking cool, don't change anything (I'd even suggest to add more pots :D)
@@soundsofoscillators Thanks a lot. You can have up to four pots, but pwm and filter control is sufficient for me.
@@zer0zilli0n Look mom no computer managed to add more than 4, but if my memory serves you need arduino for that modification
oh my, that boy has golden teeth, tattoos all over his face and a bunch of piercings and implants too! 8O
true cyberpunk.
Best comment ever!
Thats one HELL of a job! ❤
No clue what this is, but it seems interesting
That is S I C K
DUDE! I love it!
What's the technological word for "sloppy mechanics?"
Roughtech? I am not a grease monkey, I am electrician by profession... In YUROP. 🕊️ ✌️
"Tron 3" soundtrack
Is that running Oktalyzer?
@@simongarrettmusic Cynthcart man!
nice
Mr. Martin Galway, thank you sincerely, your comment made my day. I spent a lot of time listening to your SID compositions back then and still today. A simple midi to SID playback will of course never reach the complexity of a real composed chiptune, a compromise to integrate to a midi setup with other gear. Some parameters are accessible via CC and automatic filter or pwm modulation can be added, but the real power still lies in using a tracker.
Чётко. Звідки ти?
That poor commodore 64, it lives on in purgatory,
ive been making electronic music for decades and i really dont get what is going on here but sweet all the same :D
It's just a very punk 8 bit Commodore 64 running the "cynthcart" application, it's fed notes via DIN midi by an Alesis MMT-8 sequencer, later you can see how i tap the tempo on a Roland RE space echo pedal and switch it on, I actually cut the springs inside the pedal so it's easier to tap by hand. It's no magic but not many people use this machine, with cynthcart it is very convenient, you can hook up potentiometers to remote control parameters, normally on the joystick port but I built them into the enclosure, it's better for stage performance. And there is a car reversal monitor so I can see what is going on, patch, parameter etc, but it also works fine without a screen. The stuff written on the case is all relevant to stage performance as I do not want to look things up on a paper, you cannot save anything in cynthcart but you can call up parameters by keyboard. See my video "cynthcart on Kerberos" if youre interested in this stuff.
Yeah sure it looks punk, but this is a workhorse, not on a collector shelf ;-)
most beautiful c64 ive seen so far!
what a shame, poor C64... ☹
@@StefanHalliwell I am not a collector
old neo c school
Whatever it means, it sounds cool 😎
Красавчик!
Now get an amiga 500!
@@tryalbyfun4744 Never had an Amiga, it's about the Sid chip.
What screen is that and how'd you connect it?
Nice idea..but horrible condition..😜
I hope that's a repro and not an actual vintage C64. Don't do this to legacy hardware.
Sorry to say but it's original
@@zer0zilli0nWhat a monster :(
@@kathrynjaneway750 not everybody is a collector
@@zer0zilli0nAnd jerks that deface and ruin stuff like this when all you had to do is get a rpi or repro make it so much harder to keep vintage machines nice. You're a selfish asshat and I don't like this one bit.
I love how tattered and used it is.
And it is actually utilized, not on display like a trinket.
IMO Looks a lot better than mint condition.
W H Y ? !
It's just a vessel, the inside counts
@@zer0zilli0n not quite. Whole commodores in perfect conditions go for almost 400USD
@@kosmotheprotogen because of collectors... It's just a computer, it's not the holy grail. I use it, not keep it in a glass shelve.
@@zer0zilli0n you don't understand... You say it's an old computer nothing bad but do you really know that PEOPLE SAVE OLD TRASHED COMPUTERS DUE TO THEY ARE VALUABLE?!
@@kosmotheprotogen There are so many things I could reply with... I will never sell this machine, so value does not matter. I can do with it what I want and do not worry to lose anything. I also have synthesizers that are just marked up in a similar way, like the boomstar 4075 which retails for 1000$. We are an electronic music project that performs live without a DAW or PC/MAC, in worst case we play on a dark stage so I am marking up settings directly on the gear. We do not have papers with notes and cannot load presets, everything is set realtime. Absolutely none of these markings are added for fun or art, everything has it's purpose. Also 400$ seems a bit exaggerated, but maybe the market in US is different, I only know you really have insane prices for pinball machines over there, almost double of European market.
Schade drum!
It's sad to see a Commodore 64 in this ruined state.
It's great, WTH are you talking about?
I need this in a track
It's from here m.ruclips.net/video/ZfFEQ4HUjcA/видео.html
This c64 looks like you found it at a punk show and i love it
I don;t know how I ended up on this video, but I dig this Frankensteinian C64.
Sick dude! definitely want a kerberos cart now!
+jaylinsa and thats even just cynthcart running. this module is so versatile and useful, i always sound like a marketing guy when i speak about it... perfect solution for musicians that do a little gaming and watch demos ocassionally. also check my other video "cynthcart on kerberos", a lengthy tutorial review of module and application.
+gerth robovcak and, you can program the midi interface in basic! for non timing critical things, this can do a lot - you can create your own visuals, driven by note on commands - with print, sprite, gfx... as far as you grasp the c=64. of course you can use it in assembler too, but for basic there is an add on called "midi basic" by rainer buchty of ensoniq last outpost fame, which makes it really easy to control, it even can do continuous controllers and midiclock - but basic is too slow for proper clock handling. yea, the marketing guy... you can transfer data by midi cable, this means - almost any modern platform computer with midi interface can transfer programs to flash or just transfer and launch them directly. the cart disk emulation is still work in progress (two virtual disk images in kerberos flash memory), the transfer of a disk to flash is very slow - but it works flawless - and if you have no other method of transferring - you can also transfer a .d64 to a real disk via midi. the flash memory is decently sized to have any music .prg you will ever need, trackers can be stored to cartridge disk to store instruments and songs. and then there is also cynthcart, probably this is the cheapest way to get midi to your c=64 and still have a decent amount of control over the sound.
Near mint condition..😂
s000 siicckk !!!!
could you list the mods you made? i want one too!!
It's just a car reversing monitor mounted with sticky tape, two pots acting as paddles and a Kerberos midi cartridge :-)
Not bad. However, it looks better than it sounds 😆 🤣 😆 🤣
Actually do you like the video and I do want to say that that is one heavily modified C64 bread bin
That is one messed up looking 64 you've got there what happened to it
mum ?
this is what they say Cyber Punk :3 :D
im a computer
OMG love this bread bin flux compensatorless time machine bringin me back to my first computer in 1984 including the baroque wall paper. 😢
I REALLY LOVE C64 👍🥂🎩
Daft Punk - Derezzed
Mission accomplished
Long live AMIGA!!!
(Sorry, had to)
SO NICE... give some info on the cartridge you're using as well as the little LCD. AWESOME!
kerberos cartridge running cynthcart. the screen is from a car reversal cam, it accepts composite video. these screens cannot display the c64 signal properly, but for my purposes it works.
this is cool as hell and i want one
aaAaaAAaAAaAaAaAAAaAaAA the knobs make it even more amgry and I love it
I LOVE C64 👍
Beautiful!
My grandma had that wallpaper .bless her .No dis respect goes a bit with the computer
Very “Look mum no computer” !
Well yes, except that this IS a computer
The only bad thing about this video is the fact that it ended.
Does it still execute software or is it just this now?
It could execute anything you load up, right now it's only running cynthcart on a kerberos cartridge.
Damn.....A king is here !!!