Commodore 16 and 1551 drive unboxing, while being judged by Angela the Cat.
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- This week on "The ChickenHead Chronicles" I am unboxing some awesome Commodore "TED" class equipment and software, all the while being silently judged by my cat, Angela. Huge thanks to Sven Pook for finding and selling me this awesome stuff!
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With old tapes always FF to the end and rewind. Do this twice. What it does is this: 1) Repacks/retensions the tape around the reel, and redistributes the dry lube that is inside the case. The dry lube is there for a reason.
Hope this helps!
Hey that is great to know! I will do that with the tapes before I try and read them
Thanks for sharing your latest retro pickup. Very cool! Hope you get the 1551 working.
I have a good feeling about it, considering it does at least respond.
Nice vid Doug 👍🏻 I know Chris Edwards films his videos out of sequence. But 2022! 🤣😉 You in competition on how old the video is with Chris 😉👍🏻🍻🙏🏻
Maybe I ought to update that calendar, eh?
Thank you Doug excellent tutorial on the C4/16. Love your cat but watch out if she my eat the chicken Lips. lol . Cheers
My cats actually don't pay any attention to my chickens. They will sometimes walk around in the back yard with them, and they just ignore them. Probably because the chickens are bigger than the cats!
Never had a C16 but plus 4 was my first computer in 86ish. Loved it. Actually an under rated machine.
The TED series had lots of great features. I could see the Plus/4 being used as a business machine for sure
Space is the biggest problem for us Retro Warriers. There was a guy on RUclips I think his channel was Chris 93A who had Commodores Stacked everywhere in a multilevel house and in his garage. Now that was a person who made me feel good about my lack of space issue. I was looking at the C16 and C116 today thinking of adding them to my collection not so much to use but to display on my wall as I am about to Print Some Wall Mounts from my unused systems and yes, they all work but I can only set up so many.
Space is not a big issue for me. I just have to kick out the two remaining kids living here, and have my wife move out to the shed. Then I will have plenty of room in the house! 🤣🤣
my first computer was a plus/4 so i recognise many of those tape games, mercenary was a fave
Cool! I look forward to seeing which ones work well and are fun. Some of the games I have seen try to hard to just run it like on a C64, and that won't work... They should have coded them to the strengths of the machine like the nice color palette.
I know Angela's expression very well, it's the same blank look I get when I tell my friends and family about my retro hobby. :(
Nice score with the disk drive and all of the tapes along with a working TED machine. You could always try converting the drive to 110v by swapping parts from a 1541... (The 8-bit Guy has a video showing how he converted his)
I suppose that would be pretty easy to do! I will look into that.
Dan Wood loved the Plus 4 as his first home computer. It would be nice to see an honest western North American review of both the Commodore +4 and C16
I have always had plans to do a real review of the Plus/4 - I think it is a really nice machine in many ways.
Sven is a nice guy :) A friend and me bought 2 of his C128 RGB-SCART adapters. Works great!
I own a C16, not the 1551 drive. There is commands on the F keys, simelar to the C128.
Oh ya! I know my Plus/4 had things assigned to the function keys, but had not thought about it for the C16. Thanks!
No more computers, only Angela
I should change the name of the channel to "Doug's Zoo" and introduce my tortoise, my 8 chickens, my other cat and my dog!
Angela is a clone of my cat her name is Kitty, they have same exact eyes , same exact colors same everything, also the light spot on the same paw, but my Kitty has no tail, not a trace of tail,like she was born without tail? Dont know, i found her searching for food in a trashcan some years ago, always wondered what kind of cat she is. Nice vid as always btw
At some point c16 must have had some popularity, because the cassettes that were sold with magazines at newspaper kiosks started to have a side dedicated to C16/Plus4 games (usually side B), side B was always dedicated to Sinclair 48k, but then started to pop up some cassettes whose side B was dedicated to C16/plus4. Side A was always dedicated to C64/128 naturally : ) There was a timeframe window where there was no anti piracy software laws in Italy, so small publishers sold (for some time, until the anti piracy law) perfectly "legal" cassettes with pirated games, with the name and title changed via software, at newspaper kiosks. We kids bought a lot of those cassettes, they had low prices. The name of these "collane" ("series" of books, cassettes, videos ecc. in italian) is impressed in the head of every kid of early '80s who had a computer (mostly commodores, few sinclairs, scarce msx) in Italy: Logica 2000, Formula 64, Peek, Poke, Tutto C64, Special C64 etc. etc. nice times, no responsability, no problems, happiness was just to go to news kiosk on sundays and buy new number of a kid magazine with a plastic gadget, or a new number of a game cassette for C64, or even earlier, for Vic 20, my first cassettes bought were for my first computer, the Vic 20, then C64 and 128
Torti's are adorable cats. Almost all of them have sassy attitudes sometimes!
Nice story about the computers.
In an ideal world Angela needs to be the name of the successor to the Alice chip
Very true!
@@10MARC do you think Angela could address more than 2mb of chip memory?
This comment is just for the intro music. It was fantastic.❤i
I downloaded the sheet music for it and ran it through a program that put it to piano.
Hey Doug, the manual is written in german 😮 "Bedienungshandbuch" = manual. Also the games and their manuals you think they were in dutch are in german. Don't let the dutch hear you tell our german their dutch, won't you? 😉
Uh oh... I guess I just made an assumption... How very American of me! Thanks for the clarification!
@@10MARC Haha, not typically american, but rather human i'd say
@@10MARC Not only the Manual. The Games and the C16 and the Floppy seems to be the German Model.
From what I heard, the custom chips in the C16, Plus4 & Co have the tendency to "kill themselfs" over time, even when not powered on. Due to MOS useing too much acid during their production run.
Yes, the TED chip can be quite sensitive. One of my thoughts is that this gives me a spare set of Chips if my Plus/4 goes belly-up
@@10MARC I don't know if Something was done for the VIC20, but there are efforts being made to create FPGA -replacements for the C64 IC's. I really hope Amiga is next for FPGA Chips.
@@10MARCpoor Ted he is a sensitive soul!
I had a C64 but I always envied the improvements they made on C16/+4 line. Better basic, more colors, faster disk drive. I know they were trying to be economical but I wish they kept or improved the SID/VIC as well.
The first tape not loading might be because you typed LOAD "*" -- I did exactly the same thing myself the first few times. You need to just type LOAD.
BTW ?DS$ will get you the error message back from the 1551. It'll help when you come to diagnose the problem. ( ?DS will get you just the error number)
You may be right. Old habits and all...
I'm afraid the manual isn't in Dutch.
It says on the cover " Bedienungshandbuch" , that's German 😉
Yes ... My mistake.
David Murray has a tube on how to swap out a PSU from a 1541 to the 1551. If i have a spare or unworking 1541 its would be well worth a look,
I have about 6 1541 drives here! Plenty of them!
@10MARC I should've been clearer, I mean the psu swap is for the voltage difference.
c16 is a good machine, change your calendar or is this an old video.
Brand new video filmed July 9th... Just an old calendar!
The North American C16 manual is a joke compared to the Plus/4 version, let along the Netherlands C16 manual you showed. Very few programming examples, no BASIC or other programming references -- a clear after thought. Bil Herd mentioned that the C16 was essentially put together to liquidate TED chips, so it isn't a surprise that the manual was so poor. The Plus/4 manual is fantastic, and with a little work, could have had some sections removed or edited for distribution with the C16.
Good to know! I was going to look for the USA version of the manual but now I won't bother. I own the plus/4 version so they should be all the info I need.
@@10MARC The whole C16 manual can be covered in a RUclips Short 🙂
I will pay you a crisp $20 bill if you can make the C=16 boot the monsoon. Because I am getting surly up here in Marana. REAL SURLY.
It is just a bit late this year... But these 112 degree days have been just wonderful! (Not)
Is the 8 pin din for video the same as the C64 and Vic20, or did they change that too?
That DIN is the same. I have always used one of my standard cables on my Plus/4
Great thanks.
Did you solve problem with the 1551? 😊
Nope. I honestly have not even turned on the Commodore 16 since I filmed the video! It's on my (very huge) to do list.
promo sm 🤦
What on earth are you saying here?