Let’s build a Lab and Upgrade Everything!
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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Let's extend our computer museum and studio with a new lab area. Today I extend The Cave and then get carried away, it was a lot of hard work but I hope you like the results. More consoles and computers can go on display, more can be played and we have dedicated space to film repairs now.
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Neil, seriously, do you review those Home & Garden type magazines for inspiration? Your sense of style and balance for renovation is fantastic. If only i had some of that sense for my wasted $100K renovation. Whoops.
Nice job fitting out that new lab area. One thing I would advise is that for future 'trash to treasure' style episodes it would be good to set up an overhead camera above the bench. Fortunately you have a nice handy beam that seems to be situated directly above the workbench.
One day this Canadian will show up at the cave. It will happen.
it has really evolved into a spectacular space, hope i can make it over there to see it some day
You did stunning job there, Neil. Hats off to you sir.
"Neil, I've been a loyal follower of your RUclips channel for years, and it's been incredible to witness your journey from creating content from your home to your current location in an old mill. Your dedication to computer retro and laboratory space is truly commendable, and your content is consistently excellent. I'm so impressed with how far you've come, and I absolutely love your work. Thank you for sharing your passion with us all, Neil. Here's to many more exciting adventures in your new space!"
Amazing. How have you learnt all this 😮
Thanks Phil!
Reading.
That's such a brilliant idea to have a live retro coding space. It's certainly something that no other retro museum has (as far as I'm aware) and for folks like me interested in programming, it provides a chance to learn some valuable tips and tricks right from a seasoned developer.
Quite incredible to see how far you have come Neil. Yes it's a group effort but none of this could have happened without the incredible amount of hard work that you have put into this, as well as your obvious love for retro and your natural talents as a broadcaster. The catalyst for all that has happened via this channel is the fact that you are so enjoyable to watch and evidently such a likeable chap. This success couldn't have happened to a nicer person. I hope we all get to visit and thank you in person some day!
So many creators talk about wanting to do something like this, build a museum/exhibition space but you actually put the work in and made it happen. Well done.
It's so cool to see how much the Cave has developed. Had forgotten you started in the basement!
Love watching the evolution of such an awesome nostalgic space!
I'm only 30mins down the road so one day i'll get around to visiting!!!
I hope I'll be able to visit the Cave some time in the future. It seems such a cool place.
Yeah me too just need to find out if it has disabled access. Don't want to travel 300 miles to find out. I carnt get in the place. I've tried emailing but not reply. Does anyone know if they have a lift or a stannah stair lift ect....
That Amiga 500 drive repair gives a new meaning to hack job.😁
The rug really ties the room together
Thanks Dude
So much pride and joy in this...I wish you nothing but success with this glorious cave of e-wonders.
Neil, it’s amazing what you’ve created. You just look around and be in awe. I remember when you had that tiny studio with and you were forced to leave. Everything happens for a reason! Can’t wait to visit one day. Keep up the great videos ❤
Well done, Neil! I wish you further flourish and growing in what you do. You and your team\helpers definately deserve it. Greetings from Germany
Thank you George
This could very well be the only reason I can think of for wanting to be back in the UK 😀
Really impressed in making a retro environment that is about the computers and tech, not just a reseller business, Thanks 🙂
I say it every time you have a cave version update Neil, it may be because of our clicks, views, support and donations but it's in no small part because of your drive and determination that the RMC channel and museum exists. Thank you for many, many years of exploration, knowledge sharing and just general good times brought about by your hard work. I hope to visit the cave some day in the future. Thanks for making a space filled with the things so many of us love ;)
The Cave just gets better and better. I just looks wonderful. Well lit, open a spacious and your choice of materials and design style creates a very friendly and welcoming space. Due to being interested in other things, I was never a gamer but I love industrial design and technology and your displays are a real feast for the eyes. 👍😊
I reckon spending a day in there would be no where near be enough to soak up all the nostalgia. I'd love to spend a week in there 😁
Oh, man!
The amount of work you have poured into this!
But, I believe it has made the place something special.
All the best for you, you really deserve it!
What a treat to watch these videos. Thanks, Neil!
RMC Cave - certifiably THE top destination to see on a visit to the UK. Everything else pales in comparison. :-)
Another amazing addition to the Cave. You've done it again Neil. Really looking forward to future repair and Trash to Treasure videos from the lab.
Fabulous! And that story with the lady with a broken A500 - just awesome!
This might be silly but I really like the cleaning montages, whether washing computer plastics or building entire rooms. It always provides that much needed motivational kick up the backside to do the bi-monthly hoovering! :D
(I'll leave it up to you to decide if by "bi-monthly" I hoover twice a month, or once every two months!)
The aesthetics of all the areas are so warm and inviting. I must come and see this first hand. I'm not too far away and I even have friends in Stroud.
Can I just say, Neil, you could have just sat back and admired the Cave as it was (and deservedly so!) but you decided to make it even better and I completely admire you for that. The Cave looks amazing and I truly hope to visit with the family one day and shake your hand for making your dream a reality. Keep up the awesome work!
LOL I have that CRT. I carried it myself down two flights of stairs but it was easily 110% of my strength. My arms were wiped out for a couple days after. 112 pounds or so. It's a beast.
Everything looks awesome - you have taken the cave from exceptional to legendary level! Truly great to see both you and the cave evolve over the years. Between you, LGR, and Nostalgia Nerd, you are restoring my faith in humanity. You are a shining light in this insane world and I hope you never stop.
Thank you and thanks for comparing me to such esteemed company
23:13 that's my 1980s school plastic blue briefcase - still have it and keep Christmas gift tags in it!
Well done Neil. You really are developing a Colossal Cave :-) Having seen it briefly as a donor, before it official opened, it's great to see how it keeps on evolving.
Love every bit of that. Absolutely awesome.
Looking back over the time since the move, it is certifiably astonishing what you have achieved. You are living through most wonderful times! Long may it continue.
Well done! That area is so lucky to have someone so passionate and dedicated to all these wonderful retro items. You've such a tremendous amount of work and it really shows!
Hi Niel, I'm visiting the UK in June and am planning on coming in for one of those Saturdays to visit the Cave and the Arcade archive. I can't wait to see it. I'm from Winnipeg, Canada. You are a lot more of a handyman than I am. I'm thrilled when I can hang a picture on my wall straight 😀
Awesome! Do let me know when you’re coming so I can make sure I’m there that day to thank you for coming all that way!
@@TheRetroCollective Yes I booked for Sat June 10th. The morning session for The Cave and afternoon session for Arcade Archive. I'll be in the UK from June 3rd to 17th and I planned it so I'll be staying in nearby Stroud from June 9th-11th. I'm basically doing a big trip around the UK for my own RUclips travel channel (i've been to the UK a few times before). I figure I can take a bus, uber, or taxi to the Cave in Chalford from Stroud? I'm not familiar with the area at all but I always enjoy learning how to navigate new places. :-) I've been watching your channel for years and I basically decided that the next time I'm in the UK I have to check it out!
Love the cassette door.
Very nice, its a beautiful space! We live in a place built in the 1890s which is quite old for our area. We had to get used to losing the level and "Splitting the difference" on everything we build!
Wow! The new lab and upgraded main area are such great improvements! The cave really is constantly evolving and getting better all the time. Can't wait to see what comes next!
Ah a TV on a trolly that takes me back 30 years. Great work looks amazing
I've been watching your channel for some time now. This particular episode has it all. Would love to visit if I get to the UK. I hope in the meantime you have an excellent fire suppression system installed, it would be a tragedy if this vast collection was ever destroyed.
Beautiful. I would have been only 148 miles from you and would have spent much time in your cave if you had existed 30 years ago when I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall and lived in beautiful Bury St. Edmunds. Now, I'm I don't know how many thousands of miles away from you in Colorado.
You've really achieved something very special there.
Very magnanimous of you to thank the supporters so, but the vision and the hard work is all down to you.
Bravo sir!
Well done, the place is looking amazing and really like what you have done with it. It's unofficial name should be the Retro Aladdins Cave !
This is fantastic Neil!!!!
I had the pleasure of visiting the cave last year and Neil gave us a sneak peek behind the curtain and his plans!!
So proud to be part of this channel.
Well done Neil !!!
Thanks! It was probably even messier when you saw behind the curtain
I love these building episodes and seeing the Cave evolve. Enjoying the journey. Well done!
The new area looks awesome, I love the Code Masters door and the paneling. Also really love the new extended museum space, it will add so much to the experience of going through the displays.
Hope to travel to the UK in the future and will definitely visit the cave and of course Arcade Archive.
Watching this project evolve has been a source of great joy for me. You're a man of many talents and a truly impressive individual.
Fantastic work! This makes me proud to be a Patreon of the Cave.
Fantastic video Neil! Ship’s mast 😂
Nicely done Neil!! It looks incredible. The hard work paid off 😀
This reminds me of doing up a previous house I had about 20 years ago. I knew nothing about building, but I had to learn! The internet actually turned out to be very useful for a change! I ended up soundproofing all my neighbour facing walls by building new sound reducing stud walls against the existing brickwork. What brought it to mind was what you said about the CLS timber because I had the same problem. I used to go to B&Q, Homebase, Lawsons etc. and go through every bit of CLS they had until I had all straight bits, and that wasn't easy because I wasn't likely to get it all from a single shop. I did find though that it was ok to buy a few lengths that were warped along the narrow face of the timber as you could use those for the head and foot plates. You'd be screwing them into the floor and ceiling joists anyway, so that, combined with the pressure of the vertical studs would take the warp out, as long as it wasn't too severe. Man, I hated building work so I don't envy you. But you do get a nice sense of satisfaction when you've finished. I especially like the door you built with all the cassettes in it, that came out really good. I don't know how you find the time to get it all done!
ah, the cave looks great. Unforuntately I live in Germany, so its a little too far to make a trip over to visit, but next time I'm back in the UK I'm definitely going to see if I can book a visit!
Germany too far? I'm contemplating a trip from New Zealand 😊
You sir are a legend. I am so glad I found your channel. By proxy I think through LGR. This museum you are building makes me so proud. That I found you miscellaneously like 4 years ago I think. I need to book a visit to the cave sometime soon. Thank you. ❤ I am a C64 guy (born 84) so know roughly the area that you covered generally. Love it. ❤😊
A website where people can tour the cave virtually would be great, with the ability to look around in 360 and click on various systems / game boxes / etc to get more info. Probably a big project but it'd be great for people who can't get to the cave in person, or people who have been and just want to browse more and look at things they didn't get a chance to look at.
SUGGESTION:
Add four or eight live web-cams pointed at the various playable stations so people like me in Japan can shoulder-hop the players. Maybe even further down the road set up a tablet next to each so we can text comments to them as they play - cheering them on, offering instruction, or just sharing memories.
Ladies and Gentlemen can I start taking bets on how long that would last before trolls (this is the internet remember) appear and it gets shut down?
Also am I the only one who thinks its sad Neil has to think about locking up his tools to stop people stealing them?
Brilliant work and well done, i visited last month with my kids and it was great. I really admire your work and the vast collection of machines.👍👍👍👍👍
Amazing work!! I am so impressed! Thank you for sharing and I hope the day will come soon that I can visit the cave!
The Cave is such an amazing venue and place now. simply incredible to see and visit, you guys have done nothing short of a miracle of history and retro memorabilia for everyone to see as well as Alex's mind-blowing Arcade Archive. Will hopefully visit in the next year or so if I can.
You really are the pro retro channel in my mind. You don't just show off you give back. Can't wait to see the game dev room.
Well done Neil, fantastic work!!!!
You're welcome. Thank you! 🌱 I hope I'll be able to visit the Cave some time in the future.
Your work ethic is awesome Neil. Love your channel. And 'this week in retro'. I cant wait to visit the cave. Not too far from Dorset 👍
Looks great! What a transformation! It's been really exciting to see the Cave grow and develop in recent years. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Watching the RMC journey since the earliest cave had been such an amazing story. I'm still amazed how all this has happened and what a result. It's looks like the best place to be on earth right now. Loving all of it. Well done to Neil and the whole team! I spotted two things. An IT82 sticker which I had 100s of at the time from my friends dad's Tandy computer business. We 'borrowed' hundreds of them and plastered my local town in them at the time. Plus the Philips Console which I was gifted recently and I am trying to fix. I'm hoping it's just the battery chip that's needs replacing to make it work properly. I wish Mark fixes stuff lived next door for help as I want to get it working again! Also I am still building my own bedroom cave and my wife managed to get me a load of old fruit crates for mine as I copied your great idea. You are certainly very creative to a top room designer level. Keep up the good work. Have an IPA or three after all this. Thank you once again for RMC.
Man, that's cool. It's amazing how far your space has come during the life of this channel.
You must be extremely satisfied with your hard work, looks great. A visit is in my pipeline of trips to arrange
Thank you for harbouring the collective formative years of gen-x.
Can't wait until things are safer for me to visit! Thanks Neil!
I think I've only been with you since 3.0, but my goodness what a beautiful place The Cave has become!
This video was a treat, really nice to see everything coming together. Maybe I new tour around the cave soon? I had a bit of trouble visualizing how the floor plan looks now. There seemed a lot of new exhibits as well to show for us who live abroad and can't visit so easily.
That sounds like a good idea!
Just WOW! What an amazing space!
Really really great stuff!!! One suggestion I would like to make is to add some safety around that repair/lab table. At least a (mushroom type) safety switch, a dedicated power board and maybe even a isolation transformer (so people are isolated from mains by default) Also just the standard things.
Safety first 👍
Neil id love more videos of a walk round the cave as i know its unlikely i will ever get to see it in person, i love what you have done and how far you have come, ive been watching you from some of your earliest videos, when the cave was not even thought about, long may it continue.
Thanks so much David. Hopefully you saw the 360 degree video recently to give a look around the cave?
Really fantastic what you have created their Neil (and RMC team!). Hope to visit this summer!
Great video! Your hard work has paid off and it looks amazing. I remember most of the machines you show and I used to own a few of them back in the day, but alas, like many I'm sure, I practically gave my old machines away to make room for the next bigger better thing. Funnily enough I'm sat here at work right now where they don't bin their old systems and it is literally a museum (too grad a word, more like a pile of) old Apple Macs. They range from G3s, G4s, G5s, original iMacs and even a G4 Cube!
Splendid work! Everytime I watch these videos my hype for finally going there goes up a notch! And yes, nogging is a great word!
The live exhibit game dev sounds great! Just don't forget to feed him regularly and clean up after him.
Fantastic! If only I didn't have to cross an ocean to come and visit!
Nice tour of the cave Neil. Well done.
Impressive, thoroughly impressive.
Amazing, can only dream of having that much space one day! Love seeing the rundown of the different caves over the years! :D
Totally blown away by how good the cave now looks. You have done an amazing job. I for one cannot wait to visit
favorite quote from that whole video: "i am not charging anybody for hacksawing amigas..." but clearly then if you replace the word 'amiga' with 'atari st'
Great work Neil. Before I started watching your channel I didn’t have a clue how computers from the past could be fixed, refreshed and enhanced now I find it all fascinating. Keep up the good work.
I worked for Sony and had to deliver and set up many of those 32” flat screen CRTs. I think they are made of solid lead.
So heavy!
Catching up with the world of Retro. Fantastic development to the Cave. I’ll have to make another visit to see the changes. Keep up the good work Neil!!
Absolutely stunning space!
Love to see the "cave" through the years... LOVE the new cave and it's ABSOLUTELY in my top 5 places to see in the UK if/when I get to visit from the other side of "the pond". ;)
You have a good eye for interior design. It is a very warm and welcoming space. If I ever get to the other side of the "pond" again, it's on my list to visit.
Wow it’s come a long way from the early days. Nice work🤟
Amazing. I'm just surprised you didn't dedicate the whole new area to lab/repair work. That was what you said you missed the most.
Need to catch a flight to the UK and checkout that museum!!
A different trash to treasure!! Well done!! From now on I guess it's Retro Machine Castle??
Looks amazing. Worth all the hard work 👍
Good job with all the work. If you do a lot of soldering, you'll want to set up an exhaust hose to vent away the fumes. Maybe you can set up something that retracts up to the ceiling?
Lovely work. Relaxing watching. Though clearly not so much for you to get it sorted! Great stuff.
Thanks! Great job - keeping these systems alive!
Wow that's super kind thank you so much Dave
Great development of the cave!
Doing away with the crates seems like the dawn of a new age... 😅
Bravo Sir, the cave is truly a thing of beauty!
Amazing! I hope I will be able to visit this year.
Another fantastic episode with a different flavour, lapped up every moment. When asked what other spaces we would like to see, my mind went straight to the toilet...is there a Gameboy with Tetris chained to the wall? :D
Haha that’s actually not a bad idea 😂
I had no idea how huge the entire area you have was until this video. It's truly massive and extrordinarily impressive how much you've done so far. Given I live in Australia and am unable to travel overseas, I am truly enjoying being able to experience vicarisously through your videos, what you're doing here. Keep up the great work Neil.
Great stuff Neil. Well done!