It's such a good thing to find a young man born after the 80s still showing interest and passion for the glorious machines of the Golden Age. Thumbs up!
@andrew wiskow Do you have a LORD2 with an active playerbase and custom content? Loved the original as a child and discovered I love the sequel even more. If it's still up 7 years later, great work! As time passes, finding a BBS and a lot of classic multiplayer games is becoming increasingly difficult. Our group keeps up about a dozen servers at a given time. I was considering setting up a C64 packet radio BBS awhile ago but never got around to it.
BBS is alive and kicking! Amateur radio operators make use of BBS systems still. I don't think BBS or the core concepts of the system will ever disappear.
I worked on Bop 'n Wrestle ( called Rock 'n Wrestle in UK/Europe ), Way Of the Exploding Fist II - The Legend Continues, Bedlam 64 and Sgt Slaughter's Mat Wars.
As long as people still tinkering, it will live forever For me,, i prefer the original "in all its non-expanded glory"... I prefer to think of it as the movie industry..... There have ben many releases of 'Lord of The Rings', some based on the story, some not.. At which point do you start saying "It's entertaining still, but its no longer related to the book" and its now nothing but "an adventure" That's it. These modifications of a 8-bit machine remind me exactly of that... Same goes for the Amiga by adding usb ports/hdmi etc It's good you can get C64 online, no question, but the advantages don't really outweigh the need other than just to make life either, or save files.. (i.e your not gonna watch RUclips on a c64 are you) After the original, the rest are entertaing tack-on's
unfortunately, i agree wth you..... emanation is convenient, but that's about it. At least no one can deny, the number of times you get a work ou constantly swapping floppies and turning over that cassette tape Thankfully, it's easier on 8 bit machines, are the Amiga had (up to and including), 15 floppy's for some games.
I love that you're doing all this with ancient hardware. The techiest thing I ever did came from not being able to afford the new CD-ROM drives for the Amiga A500. I saved and saved and got a Squirrel SCSI interface and at that time the Commodore CD32 had failed miserably and nobody wanted them. I paid about £10 for one. Connected it to my Amiga via the Squirrel SCSI interface and with a special CD, you could hack the CD32 to be a file server. Here's the funny thing. It would take 4 hours to copy one CD from the CD32 to my Amiga's hard drive hehe. Do I get any nerd cred for that? It's not exactly hooking up a C64 to the internet but ya know, you work with what you've got at the time :)
What a great video! Oh the nostalgia! Can't wait to try all this out on my C-64. Sorry you missed your beer garden on that sunny afternoon. You made a lot of people happy. 3pm to 8pm on a sunny day, but you added something very special to the community. Thank You so much...
Wow this brings back memories of long ago. I just turned 50 and this was my computer and it changed my life forever. I had a paying programming gig after only one year using that machine armed only with the Programmers Reference (which cost most of a weeks pay) and the a book (can't remember the name) that laid out the whole kernal. You could copy it into underlying ram and modify it. I loved that!!!! I used to customize the OS in assembly. So fun! So now, 35 years later, I write autonomous vehicle algorithms for many automakers. Sadly I sold my 64 to a friend in the 90s for $100. This was a standard BBS software back in the day. There happens to be a really easy way to hack it...lol.... I used to gain admin privs all the time on this one. But I'm a good boy now in corporate america. Was never malicious, just nosy. I can explain the flaw in the kernal...but only if it really mattered to anyone. hahaha I can't believe people are hosting old-school BBSs like this. Amazing! Thanks! I don't want to mess with them...so don't.... but here's a hint..... ":" (I still have my 300 baud mode in my workshop)
Makes me sad I sold my c64 20 years ago. had a great time with it and young people today would not believe with could be done with 128K of memory ( yes, I had the expansion cartridge) .
***** Yup, he's one of those "Look at me! I'm x and I like old technology! I'm so unique!!1" kid. RUclips is choke-full of them, which is really annoying...
Hugo BlackAppleBerry Man, I woulda loved to have a PS4 as a kid... EDIT: if you don't believe me, try playing games like Impossible Mission or M.U.L.E. without a manual. Then imagine you're 5 and trying to do the same thing. XP
That WarpCopy is simply amazing...a great save for the end... never knew it existed till I watched this video.. well time to "test" out. Oh a question, will it be able to copy to an ic2sd drive while connected to the C64? I'm assuming yes since it's just an emulation of a 1541 drive. Anyone?
my windows 10 needs 15 minutes but i have a brand new 1500€ pc. And i have my 12 years old HArddrife on which i have my windows 7 installed from 2010 still runing :D needed to twak it to run in the new pc. it wouldnt start up at first.
That was amazing. You got a C64 online! I'm old enough to have been doing this in 1984ish but I could never convince my parents to get a modem and have it hooked up to the phone. I would have to wait so many years, going from C64, to Amiga and then finally got a PC and went online when I got my first flat (apartment) and my OWN PHONE! haha
Arthur Vandelay That's like saying there's nothing amazing about Cheetah's taking out Antelope, why are you surprised that your house cat could? Hey they're all cats right? I was around when the C64 came out, I had no idea you could get online with it and neither did all my friends who owned C64's. Obviously there were computers that could be networked up going back decades before the C64 but it was a cheap home computer, not a unix server. So forgive me for being impressed seeing it going online and jeez man, less of the Debby downer routine. If someone's impressed, don't try and convince them they shouldn't be. I enjoy being constantly impressed at what computers can do, its part of the fun of being into them.
Dan, Thanks a lot for posting this. I used to run a BBS on C64 and later a 128D I've had way too many 1541's go out of alignment on me, but the 1581s were a welcome upgrade. I remember watching as 2 users that were so amazed they could chat with each other (I had 2 lines in) it was all they could chat about. Then I was a moderator on a big BBS called Top City BBS in Minneapolis, MN. It had over 50 lines in. Thanks for the job down memory lane!
ya,, kinda questions the whole ."What the fudge did you do to it?" To me anyway, the trade off's of geeing an old machine online for limited purposes are ar reduced over the reason why people use a 8-bit machine.. It's like a modified hilicoper. People don't like the design later, so you change it,
Wow, this reminds me of my youth and logging into "private" boards back then. Good old dial up connection. Play a few basic games and stuff. Awesome vid
I loved my old C64, which was lost to a bad relationship, and now I plan to get another. I can emulate, but I really want my 64 back. :) Thanks for this, I've subscribed and will be watching more!
+Alternative EFG People never really used the term a lot during the time. I always asked but nobody ever had the answer for me at the time. I knew we called the 1980's the 80's and the 1990's the 90's and so on, but I always questioned what the actual fuck we should call the 2000's. Imagine my amazement when I discovered people were calling it the noughties or the aughts. I think the meaning is that it means like the word Naught in the saying, "All for naught" where in this case meaning nothing or zero. One thing that really irks me is how people still keep saying things like "Two Thousand and Sixteen" or "Two Thousand Sixteen". Fuck people really? Just say "Twenty Sixteen"! Gotta make it all complicated and shit for nothing. The reason people said things like Two Thousand and one was yes, because it sounded better, but we are in the teens now, stop saying the long count version. You never said One thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine did you? I didn't think so.
I remember connecting my C64 to Dow-Jones News Retrieval with a VicModem back in the day.... Still have a C64, Color Monitor, 1541, and Datasette, along with stacks of games and lots other assorted stuff.
I was there the first time around; 6502, Z80, Tape loaders, Compunet, BBSs, US Robotics modems... IMHO they weren't especially the good old days, a lot of that stuff was really annoying! Huge phone bills, modem dropouts, slow loading, floppies going bad... I wrote a few early games on machines with only a flaky tape deck to store the (assembler) source code on, so I perpetually appreciate my SSDs, Gig-E and multi-TB hard drives.. I guess you could say I'm Notstalgic :-)
Surms41 I do run the audio through a multiband processor to fatten it up a bit, as a result it does lift some frequencies, maybe edging the top end up into the 17KHz area (and make it easier to hear on laptops and tablets). Upon listening closesly with earphones I can kinda hear what you mean but it doesn't sound unbearable, maybe your ears or equipment are more sensitive to it than my shitty logitech PC speakers in here. I'm 31 but have pretty good hearing, I can still hear the tone here just fine! theoatmeal.com/quizzes/sound/ Out of 35,000 views though these are the only comments I've had, but I'll keep an eye (or ear) on it and maybe tweak the audio settings a bit.
kookytech.net (techguruuk) I do have sensitive ears, but wasn't horrible or anything, just heard is in the audio. Sounded like my Box TV and it's coil whine. Nothing bad, just a little annoying. My parents at age 35 couldn't hear the coil whine on my tv at all either, that's why I suggested it may be your eardrums :P
Dang the memories.I remember the times of dialup modems.
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Shadow_Link Dialup modems still exist. The website for the company BlackBox has the best of what you're looking for. And the majority of stuff is either made in Europe, or USA.
So many memories brought back. Late nights hogging the family phone line and tying it up so I could download warez and SID music. Interesting fact for you youngsters, the 2400 baud modem did not actually operate at 2400 bps but rather around 2200 bps because the C64 couldn't process fast enough. Wow I am OLD and how the hell do I still remember this crap. Now I miss my setup, have bits and pieces in storage somewhere that I packed before leaving home for the Air Force. That was 1989. 😯
I think I was 7 or 8 years old when the Com 64 came out and I remember seeing them in homes up until I was like 13 or 14. Brings back about 64 K worth of memories.
+vacantplanet Nostalgia of course. You had to be there at the time. In 30 years you'll be hooked up a 4 core PC running windows/linux and so on while your kids surf the net with their mind and laugh at you wondering why you'd want to use such ancient kit.
If there's one thing I regret is not keeping my c64, I can't believe you still have a working commodore disk drive. I've been on eBay there's a fair few c64s for sale thinking of getting one
Yo! I use to play the commadore every day when I was young. Wasteland on the commadore 64 was and still is the best game. I've melted so many battery boxes in my young age playing it for days straight. Literally melted 😊 memories!
No matter what C64 video I watch this guys picture is staring at me in the suggestions to the right and the suggestions when a video has ended. Any C64 video! Arggh, drives me nuts.
So it probably was one of the most informative and thus popular recent videos that were C64 related at the time? I typed C64 into the RUclips search bar now and it did not come up. I am glad it was suggested on the right while I was surfing hardware stuff, because I think it is quite wonderful.
A strawman. I never mentioned the video quality or the content. Sometimes random little things irritate me, I'm sure this happens to all of us. Climb down off your perch.
You posted a negative comment on a good video, not even because of any content of the video but because of something for which the creator has no responsibility. And now you attack me with silly accusations for giving a possible explanation for the thing that irritated you. Proud of yourself?
Hey Dan, its really refreshing to see this video and awesome that instead of blindly collecting retro hardware, you are actually using it in a really awesome way :D
On the Atari 8-bit side of things, we have a NIC cartridge and Contiki port as well but it's a bit limited and there's no real developer community that writes apps for this config so I went a different route. I used a Precidia iPocket232 serialethernet adapter and set it up for modem emulation. I simply plugged it in to my Atari 850 (4xRS232, 1xParallel) and I can use any terminal software I want to connect to remote hosts and I can transfer files either with ZModem or using some of the extensions to the AT command set that support FTP or HTTP transfers. I can also write apps that handle the application layer protocol and let the iPocket do the TCP/IP lifting.
This brings me back to my days using my Vic-20 and C=64 using dial up modems to access bbs's before I could access the WWWeb with other computers. Many arguments on line about which 8 bit computer was the best. We all know which that was. Right?
Cool. The first BBS you logged on looked like it was a Color 64 BBS, I ran one using that software years ago, 1988 or 1989. The good old days. I didn't even know that anyone was still running those systems, or that there was a way to access them without dialup/modem.
Nice to see that that the old C-64 can still be of use, albeit slowly. I never would have guessed that it could get on the net. Nice to see. I am puzzling over something. One site yo went to listed "zero day warez". Am I to understand that there are still folks out there still writing commercial code for the 64??? Nice to see. Thanks.
WOW...brings back memories. Logging onto Tristate Online with a C64 and 300 baud modem. To hit the "internet" we had to use GOPHER provided by the University of Cincinnati to access to CUINFO (Cornell University), where you could launch an escape command and TELNET out using the Lynx browser or hit IRC. Spent hours playing Legend of The Red Dragon on that BBS.
As the sysop of the Mobius strip BBS using color 64 bbs software, We were using our 64 to get on the Internet. when the strip moved up to a C=128 we had 3-41 drives 1-81 drive and a 1 meg ram Xpander and a 9600 baud modem. also, a 30meg IDE hard drive.
Wait around? That's already WAY faster than the 300 baud dialup modem I used on my C-64 in the 80s! And those dialup games were awesome! "Empire" comes to mind.
Very nice! Good to see the com being brought back to life injected with modern Internet. I had the Amstrad cpc464 and I know that the future was foreseen with regards to data exchange.
I used to connect my Amstrad CPC (z80 family cpu) to a remote server where you could download software. Basically there was a cable from a port on the back of the Amstrad, you on the other side, you plugged it in French Minitel, which was a monitor + integrated keyboard connected to the phone line. Then you went to some server pn the minitel, and it sent data to the CPC through the cable, basically one piece of software which was written to a floppy disk through the other software that was running on the computer.. kinda magical at that time (early 90’s)
We called the "internet" back in 1988 a billboard when talking to other people via the C-64. It took up to 15 minutes to say "Hi, how are you?". Which is why most of us used a landline to talk to others. Wow am I old.
Amazing! Thats quite some nerding going on here, but loving it. Thank you for taking the time! The WarpCopy was indeed incredible. Glad I watched it till the end!
Hooked my C128 up to the net much more easily. Just used a simple Serial to Ethernet adapter and did a raw socket to a RasPi. Once connected to the Pi you can telnet/ssh out to wherever you want. I connected to my work server and managed hundreds of thousands of $ worth of network gear via my C128. Very cool. For top marks use an ESP WiFi module for a wireless C128.
That is friggin awesome, and I totally agree with you about the coolest part to last, being able to write a d64 image to a real floppy over a network connection! I want a c64 floppy drive now!
Love your vids - keep them coming! I got my VIC-20 in '81 then a C64 soon afterwards. They are back on my desk and now looking toward picking up an Amiga.
...and to think I thought I was cool because I could use a PSX3 wireless controller to play Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 games on my Mac. This demo was outstanding! My Commodore 64 when I was a kid (circa 1985ish) had a reset button put in and it also had a switch installed so I could chose between two operating systems, one was the normal blue screen that functioned as everyone knows and the other was a tan and red screen that had a whole heap of keyboard short cuts built in. So I could just tap the F keys in sequence to load games, view disk contents and so on. Don't quote me on this, I was 6 years old at the time... To load a game was as simple as F1 (puts load"$",8 on the screen), then move up to the game I wanted then F3 put load "what ever game it was",8,1 then F7 was run. Done I spent a lot of time as a kid beating up the ninja and the green yama in Bruce Lee ... and I hated when I loaded games that had a bloody advert 1/2 through loading that would pause until you hit space bar. Load the game, go play lego for awhile, curse the pause advert, press space, play lego until you heard the games title screen music start.
Doing this is all about appreciation for the technology that inspired what exists today. Loving all of this and the 5.25" floppy disk too. I have a few of those and lots of 3.5" ones plus their drives that work just fine :) btw the Netgear box is sitting on air vents :( lol
Old computers "booted" almost instantly since the OS was in Solid State ROM. But to load any programs would take a long time reading from floppy disc. Minutes! Now with the advent of SSDs which are kind of like ROM-RAM, computers can boot fast like the C-64 but also load programs very quickly. The disc based medias are now just useful for storage, kind of like tape drives, not for speed and productivity!
It's such a good thing to find a young man born after the 80s still showing interest and passion for the glorious machines of the Golden Age. Thumbs up!
Hi! I'm "Balzabaar", the SysOp of Cottonwood BBS, which you called into on this video. Thanks for posting this! :)
Why did you stop the Warez
@@manephewlenny6401 What is WareZ? Is it a new zombie sourvival game? Is Warez free to play and DRM-free?
@andrew wiskow Do you have a LORD2 with an active playerbase and custom content? Loved the original as a child and discovered I love the sequel even more.
If it's still up 7 years later, great work! As time passes, finding a BBS and a lot of classic multiplayer games is becoming increasingly difficult. Our group keeps up about a dozen servers at a given time. I was considering setting up a C64 packet radio BBS awhile ago but never got around to it.
working on connecting now.
that shit's still up??? I remember it getting hacked back in the dau
It's been over 30 years since the C64 came out and we still don't have a computer that can boot up faster than it can!
Dazlidorne Jenkins, a Chromebook is pretty close.
@@joeltunnah chromebook is not a computer. It's a shlt.
@@_GhostMiner stfu boomer nobody cares if your free grade school laptop cant run fortnite
@@_GhostMiner chromebooks are just watered-down low-power linux computers with no functionality outside of browsing google
Fax
This makes me SO happy!
I'm totally hooking my C64 up to the internet.
Good to know the BBS is alive and well.
BBS is alive and kicking! Amateur radio operators make use of BBS systems still. I don't think BBS or the core concepts of the system will ever disappear.
I programmed C64 games for Melbourne House in the 80s. This is just awesome.
I worked on Bop 'n Wrestle ( called Rock 'n Wrestle in UK/Europe ), Way Of the Exploding Fist II - The Legend Continues, Bedlam 64 and Sgt Slaughter's Mat Wars.
Nigel Spencer Melbourne House was awesome too :)
Rocket Ranger?
I didn't do the C64 version of Rocket Ranger but I did convert it to run on the Nintendo NES
@@nigelgspencer I loved way of exploding fist, thanks for the memories ✌️
This video is awesome! I was hoping someone would do this kind of video. Commodore 64 doesn't stop to amaze after 30 years!
As long as people still tinkering, it will live forever
For me,, i prefer the original "in all its non-expanded glory"... I prefer to think of it as the movie industry..... There have ben many releases of 'Lord of The Rings', some based on the story, some not.. At which point do you start saying "It's entertaining still, but its no longer related to the book" and its now nothing but "an adventure" That's it.
These modifications of a 8-bit machine remind me exactly of that... Same goes for the Amiga by adding usb ports/hdmi etc
It's good you can get C64 online, no question, but the advantages don't really outweigh the need other than just to make life either, or save files.. (i.e your not gonna watch RUclips on a c64 are you) After the original, the rest are entertaing tack-on's
A true enthusiast, there is something special running it on the original compared with say and emulator.
Yep, those load errors were character and faith building lessons
unfortunately, i agree wth you..... emanation is convenient, but that's about it. At least no one can deny, the number of times you get a work ou constantly swapping floppies and turning over that cassette tape
Thankfully, it's easier on 8 bit machines, are the Amiga had (up to and including), 15 floppy's for some games.
i like your enthusiasm ,there should never be any negative comments on here
nice video mate, brought back a lot of memories -- when I was a kid I always thought the C64 was ahead of its time. Thanks for showing it off 👍
Fantastic. It's always gratifying to see unlikely couplings like that.
I love that you're doing all this with ancient hardware. The techiest thing I ever did came from not being able to afford the new CD-ROM drives for the Amiga A500. I saved and saved and got a Squirrel SCSI interface and at that time the Commodore CD32 had failed miserably and nobody wanted them. I paid about £10 for one. Connected it to my Amiga via the Squirrel SCSI interface and with a special CD, you could hack the CD32 to be a file server. Here's the funny thing. It would take 4 hours to copy one CD from the CD32 to my Amiga's hard drive hehe.
Do I get any nerd cred for that? It's not exactly hooking up a C64 to the internet but ya know, you work with what you've got at the time :)
For some reason this brought tears to my eyes. I feel like I have to find my commodore 64 somewhere and go into all this modifications and whatnot...
Commodore64 Is better than Windows-Vista.
my 2008 vista machine (now 7) never took 15 minutes to load a game. lol
But still, the c64 is superior
@@anaussie8714 Try supporting it.
My calculator is better than Vista.
This is the video that prompted me to order a 64NIC - it should be in in a week or so... Thanks for the great video, Dan. You really need to do more!
What an awesome video! Thank you for enjoying antique computing hardware and for sharing it with the world!
What a great video! Oh the nostalgia! Can't wait to try all this out on my C-64. Sorry you missed your beer garden on that sunny afternoon. You made a lot of people happy. 3pm to 8pm on a sunny day, but you added something very special to the community. Thank You so much...
I spent watching this video 30 minutes... AND IT WAS BEST 30 MINUTES I EVER SPENT!!!
Wow this brings back memories of long ago. I just turned 50 and this was my computer and it changed my life forever. I had a paying programming gig after only one year using that machine armed only with the Programmers Reference (which cost most of a weeks pay) and the a book (can't remember the name) that laid out the whole kernal. You could copy it into underlying ram and modify it.
I loved that!!!! I used to customize the OS in assembly. So fun! So now, 35 years later, I write autonomous vehicle algorithms for many automakers. Sadly I sold my 64 to a friend in the 90s for $100. This was a standard BBS software back in the day. There happens to be a really easy way to hack it...lol.... I used to gain admin privs all the time on this one. But I'm a good boy now in corporate america. Was never malicious, just nosy. I can explain the flaw in the kernal...but only if it really mattered to anyone. hahaha I can't believe people are hosting old-school BBSs like this. Amazing! Thanks! I don't want to mess with them...so don't.... but here's a hint..... ":"
(I still have my 300 baud mode in my workshop)
Makes me sad I sold my c64 20 years ago. had a great time with it and young people today would not believe with could be done with 128K of memory ( yes, I had the expansion cartridge) .
***** Get over yourself. I didn't realize you were the official gatekeeper to nostalgia.
***** Yup, he's one of those "Look at me! I'm x and I like old technology! I'm so unique!!1" kid. RUclips is choke-full of them, which is really annoying...
Nah, I just find these types of comments annoying... You don't need to delete it, I already forgot about it...
***** but i was bornt 2 laet guizew evry1 has shitty taste n im so cool czu i like older thingz!
Hugo BlackAppleBerry Man, I woulda loved to have a PS4 as a kid...
EDIT: if you don't believe me, try playing games like Impossible Mission or M.U.L.E. without a manual. Then imagine you're 5 and trying to do the same thing. XP
holy shit that bit at the end was bananas! NO ONE SHOULD HAVE THAT KIND OF POWER!!!
C64 FTW
WOW those bbs systems bring me back...
Great stuff! Amazing that these BBS still exist lol
i use to have bbs with an amiga 1000 ,and before i got msx and commodore 64 ,now i am looking for the new sinclair
That WarpCopy is simply amazing...a great save for the end... never knew it existed till I watched this video.. well time to "test" out.
Oh a question, will it be able to copy to an ic2sd drive while connected to the C64? I'm assuming yes since it's just an emulation of a 1541 drive. Anyone?
The hangman game was actually quite tense - I didn't know whether he'd get a last minute pardon or not!
startup windows 10 1minute
startup Commodore 64 3 seconds
!!!!!!!!!!!!COMMODORE 64 WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Windows 10 takes around 10 seconds to load for me...
+HackItNow 2025 Takes me 3 seconds for me to be on the Win 10 desktop
+HackItNow 2025 My windows 7 (yes 7) takes 4 seconds to start up. You computer must suck if it takes windows 10 a entire minute to startup
my windows 10 needs 15 minutes but i have a brand new 1500€ pc. And i have my 12 years old HArddrife on which i have my windows 7 installed from 2010 still runing :D needed to twak it to run in the new pc. it wouldnt start up at first.
Win 10 takes 2,56 seconds for me... i'm on a Surface Pro tablet
Good old days! Man, can recall when I had a small BBS! Great. Nostalgy is getting me!
I love this, thanks for making this video! Very nostalgic.
That was amazing. You got a C64 online! I'm old enough to have been doing this in 1984ish but I could never convince my parents to get a modem and have it hooked up to the phone. I would have to wait so many years, going from C64, to Amiga and then finally got a PC and went online when I got my first flat (apartment) and my OWN PHONE! haha
+Clay Mann There's nothing amazing about it. Computers were already on the internet that pre-date the 64.
Arthur Vandelay
That's like saying there's nothing amazing about Cheetah's taking out Antelope, why are you surprised that your house cat could? Hey they're all cats right? I was around when the C64 came out, I had no idea you could get online with it and neither did all my friends who owned C64's. Obviously there were computers that could be networked up going back decades before the C64 but it was a cheap home computer, not a unix server. So forgive me for being impressed seeing it going online and jeez man, less of the Debby downer routine. If someone's impressed, don't try and convince them they shouldn't be. I enjoy being constantly impressed at what computers can do, its part of the fun of being into them.
"Doesn't everybody have two Commodore 64s?" I have three Commodore 64s, and two 128s :)
Charles Faust I only have 1 😭
You sad fuck
i have two as well one just needs a few chips its almost complete, original 1982 board as well
I have 8 pcs of C64
5 pcs of C+4
2 pcs of C16
1 pcs of c128
1 pcs of Commodore 8032 Sk
Etc
@@balazstoth1957 I have 0 pieces of C64, in addition I have never owned a C64 nor ever wanted one ! :)
Dan, Thanks a lot for posting this. I used to run a BBS on C64 and later a 128D I've had way too many 1541's go out of alignment on me, but the 1581s were a welcome upgrade. I remember watching as 2 users that were so amazed they could chat with each other (I had 2 lines in) it was all they could chat about. Then I was a moderator on a big BBS called Top City BBS in Minneapolis, MN. It had over 50 lines in. Thanks for the job down memory lane!
Why is everybody in the uk named Dan
Dave is more common
dan dan dan dan dan dan dan well in texas everybodys name is dell
I thought everyone in Texas was called Cletus or Buck
no its dell or buckyes and cletus
I thought it was Bill and Bob.
Man.. that warpcopy is amazing, I needed to know this years ago
so weird to see c64 displaying mac and ip address :)
fadsgbcbxc Yes one buys keys
ya,, kinda questions the whole ."What the fudge did you do to it?"
To me anyway, the trade off's of geeing an old machine online for limited purposes are ar reduced over the reason why people use a 8-bit machine..
It's like a modified hilicoper. People don't like the design later, so you change it,
That WarpCopy utility is truly fantastic. Great video, gotta get myself one of these 64NIC+ devices.
you have a CRT on in the background, i can hear it
Wow, this reminds me of my youth and logging into "private" boards back then. Good old dial up connection. Play a few basic games and stuff. Awesome vid
06:07 How to cook a Netgear bridge using only 1541. :)
+discoHR more like the other way round lol
I loved my old C64, which was lost to a bad relationship, and now I plan to get another. I can emulate, but I really want my 64 back. :) Thanks for this, I've subscribed and will be watching more!
"This video is brought to you by Diet Coke."
Dude, your videos of this classic computer rocks. This makes me want to buy another c64 and try this out. I love it!!!!
Late naughties?
Noughties: www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/noughties
+Alternative EFG People never really used the term a lot during the time. I always asked but nobody ever had the answer for me at the time. I knew we called the 1980's the 80's and the 1990's the 90's and so on, but I always questioned what the actual fuck we should call the 2000's. Imagine my amazement when I discovered people were calling it the noughties or the aughts. I think the meaning is that it means like the word Naught in the saying, "All for naught" where in this case meaning nothing or zero.
One thing that really irks me is how people still keep saying things like "Two Thousand and Sixteen" or "Two Thousand Sixteen". Fuck people really? Just say "Twenty Sixteen"! Gotta make it all complicated and shit for nothing. The reason people said things like Two Thousand and one was yes, because it sounded better, but we are in the teens now, stop saying the long count version. You never said One thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine did you? I didn't think so.
+BFKAnthony817 Buuuuuuurrrrrrrpp!!!!!!!
there was a whining noise on the vid but it has carried on over to the comments section
I remember connecting my C64 to Dow-Jones News Retrieval with a VicModem back in the day.... Still have a C64, Color Monitor, 1541, and Datasette, along with stacks of games and lots other assorted stuff.
this video has a nauseating 18khz whine..... you should really filter ur stuff. otherwise, cool video.
Seems to have only affected this video out of all the ones I've ever uploaded, maybe a RUclips glitch.
Dan Wood (kookytech.net) Pliz remove and reupload :( Can't watch this.
eclipsethesun Having it 480p helps.
"HE TOOK MY LEG I'LL TAKE THAT BLOODY WHAL....I MEAN FREQUENCY'S LIFE!"
+eclipsethesun
I am too old to hear 18kHz it seems.
Video's like this need to be made so we don't forget how things we're. Sure didn't have video back then to show it off like this.
*were
@@Cwelle cy
Cottonwood bbs site is back online its been offline for a while...
I was there the first time around; 6502, Z80, Tape loaders, Compunet, BBSs, US Robotics modems... IMHO they weren't especially the good old days, a lot of that stuff was really annoying! Huge phone bills, modem dropouts, slow loading, floppies going bad... I wrote a few early games on machines with only a flaky tape deck to store the (assembler) source code on, so I perpetually appreciate my SSDs, Gig-E and multi-TB hard drives.. I guess you could say I'm Notstalgic :-)
Fantastic mate :)
I seen "Murder Motel" in the games list, that brings back memories. LOVED that game! :D
Freakin' high pitch noise in this audio, wtf.
I thought My tv was freaking out.
I hear it to :(
Hmmn audio sounds fine to me. Which device are you playing it on? Wonder if it's some app/encoding issue.
kookytech.net (techguruuk) PC.
Its a frequency not audible to older ears.
Surms41 I do run the audio through a multiband processor to fatten it up a bit, as a result it does lift some frequencies, maybe edging the top end up into the 17KHz area (and make it easier to hear on laptops and tablets). Upon listening closesly with earphones I can kinda hear what you mean but it doesn't sound unbearable, maybe your ears or equipment are more sensitive to it than my shitty logitech PC speakers in here.
I'm 31 but have pretty good hearing, I can still hear the tone here just fine! theoatmeal.com/quizzes/sound/
Out of 35,000 views though these are the only comments I've had, but I'll keep an eye (or ear) on it and maybe tweak the audio settings a bit.
kookytech.net (techguruuk) I do have sensitive ears, but wasn't horrible or anything, just heard is in the audio.
Sounded like my Box TV and it's coil whine.
Nothing bad, just a little annoying.
My parents at age 35 couldn't hear the coil whine on my tv at all either, that's why I suggested it may be your eardrums :P
wow i remember them days i ran a BBS back then i cant believe that there are still any around great to see that the old days are still alive
Very cool.
Facinating. Thanks for missing the beer garden to take the time put this together - quite a sacrifice.
will it play battlefield 4 ?
That warpcopy demo was amazing.
There's a horrible high pitch sound when this video is playing
I noticed that, too. Almost makes it unwatchable :(
+Ethan Gilbert probably the CRT monitor I am using.
Dan Wood - kookytech.net ok
Dang the memories.I remember the times of dialup modems.
Shadow_Link Dialup modems still exist. The website for the company BlackBox has the best of what you're looking for. And the majority of stuff is either made in Europe, or USA.
So many memories brought back.
Late nights hogging the family phone line and tying it up so I could download warez and SID music.
Interesting fact for you youngsters, the 2400 baud modem did not actually operate at 2400 bps but rather around 2200 bps because the C64 couldn't process fast enough.
Wow I am OLD and how the hell do I still remember this crap.
Now I miss my setup, have bits and pieces in storage somewhere that I packed before leaving home for the Air Force.
That was 1989. 😯
What part was the internet?
+Peter Steman 22:40
Wow takes me back to when I was part of a Commodore users group
Who else is watching this in 1982 ?
I think I was 7 or 8 years old when the Com 64 came out and I remember seeing them in homes up until I was like 13 or 14. Brings back about 64 K worth of memories.
Why would anybody want to be online using a Commodore 64?
+vacantplanet Nostalgia of course. You had to be there at the time. In 30 years you'll be hooked up a 4 core PC running windows/linux and so on while your kids surf the net with their mind and laugh at you wondering why you'd want to use such ancient kit.
+Clay Mann In 30 years we'll be using quantum based computers!
+killerbee256 in 30 years hopefully we won't be using sticks and stones .
well...you wouldn't get any viruses because you can be sure as hell no one is writing malware that targets a C64's OS lol
+vacantplanet We do what we want because we can.
If there's one thing I regret is not keeping my c64, I can't believe you still have a working commodore disk drive. I've been on eBay there's a fair few c64s for sale thinking of getting one
I'm with you. I sold my 64 when I bought the 128. Still wish I had kept it. Both are awesome machines in their own right.
Yo! I use to play the commadore every day when I was young. Wasteland on the commadore 64 was and still is the best game. I've melted so many battery boxes in my young age playing it for days straight. Literally melted 😊 memories!
No matter what C64 video I watch this guys picture is staring at me in the suggestions to the right and the suggestions when a video has ended. Any C64 video! Arggh, drives me nuts.
So it probably was one of the most informative and thus popular recent videos that were C64 related at the time? I typed C64 into the RUclips search bar now and it did not come up. I am glad it was suggested on the right while I was surfing hardware stuff, because I think it is quite wonderful.
A strawman. I never mentioned the video quality or the content. Sometimes random little things irritate me, I'm sure this happens to all of us. Climb down off your perch.
You posted a negative comment on a good video, not even because of any content of the video but because of something for which the creator has no responsibility. And now you attack me with silly accusations for giving a possible explanation for the thing that irritated you. Proud of yourself?
Great, as always !! Happy Easter Dan !!
Hey Dan, its really refreshing to see this video and awesome that instead of blindly collecting retro hardware, you are actually using it in a really awesome way :D
On the Atari 8-bit side of things, we have a NIC cartridge and Contiki port as well but it's a bit limited and there's no real developer community that writes apps for this config so I went a different route.
I used a Precidia iPocket232 serialethernet adapter and set it up for modem emulation. I simply plugged it in to my Atari 850 (4xRS232, 1xParallel) and I can use any terminal software I want to connect to remote hosts and I can transfer files either with ZModem or using some of the extensions to the AT command set that support FTP or HTTP transfers. I can also write apps that handle the application layer protocol and let the iPocket do the TCP/IP lifting.
Love this! Brings back old memories as a kid with my C64 and modem connecting to various boards. I had an Indus GT drive instead of C64 brand.
Great video, nice to see the Commodore 64 start up screen again
This brings me back to my days using my Vic-20 and C=64 using dial up modems to access bbs's before I could access the WWWeb with other computers. Many arguments on line about which 8 bit computer was the best. We all know which that was. Right?
Cool. The first BBS you logged on looked like it was a Color 64 BBS, I ran one using that software years ago, 1988 or 1989. The good old days. I didn't even know that anyone was still running those systems, or that there was a way to access them without dialup/modem.
Nice to see that that the old C-64 can still be of use, albeit slowly. I never would have guessed that it could get on the net. Nice to see. I am puzzling over something. One site yo went to listed "zero day warez". Am I to understand that there are still folks out there still writing commercial code for the 64??? Nice to see. Thanks.
The high-pitched squeal in this video is driving my 26-year-old ears nuts!
WOW...brings back memories. Logging onto Tristate Online with a C64 and 300 baud modem. To hit the "internet" we had to use GOPHER provided by the University of Cincinnati to access to CUINFO (Cornell University), where you could launch an escape command and TELNET out using the Lynx browser or hit IRC. Spent hours playing Legend of The Red Dragon on that BBS.
Awesome vid. Commodore was my childhood.
As the sysop of the Mobius strip BBS using color 64 bbs software, We were using our 64 to get on the Internet. when the strip moved up to a C=128 we had 3-41 drives 1-81 drive and a 1 meg ram Xpander and a 9600 baud modem. also, a 30meg IDE hard drive.
Wait around? That's already WAY faster than the 300 baud dialup modem I used on my C-64 in the 80s! And those dialup games were awesome! "Empire" comes to mind.
Thank you for taking the time and missing your frothy beer!
Love it - I picked up a 64NIC+ a few years ago. One of the coolest toys for sheer nerd cred. :)
I love these old-school interfaces :-)
Bringing 2nd C64 out of storage after purchasing the 64NIC+. First running packet radio quite nicely with TNC. Nice video BTW.
Very nice!
Good to see the com being brought back to life injected with modern Internet.
I had the Amstrad cpc464 and I know that the future was foreseen with regards to data exchange.
I used to connect my Amstrad CPC (z80 family cpu) to a remote server where you could download software. Basically there was a cable from a port on the back of the Amstrad, you on the other side, you plugged it in French Minitel, which was a monitor + integrated keyboard connected to the phone line. Then you went to some server pn the minitel, and it sent data to the CPC through the cable, basically one piece of software which was written to a floppy disk through the other software that was running on the computer.. kinda magical at that time (early 90’s)
Badass! I wonder if someone is hosting a Quantumlink clone somewhere for this XD
Memories of Xcopy 3 on my Amiga 600 with that Warpcopy Dan... damn a red square ...lol
This takes me back... I dont even know what happened to my commodore64 and amiga...
Great Vlogs really takes me back too my gaming youth.
Happy 30 Years birthday Commodore 128D!!!!
We called the "internet" back in 1988 a billboard when talking to other people via the C-64. It took up to 15 minutes to say "Hi, how are you?". Which is why most of us used a landline to talk to others. Wow am I old.
Amazing! Thats quite some nerding going on here, but loving it. Thank you for taking the time! The WarpCopy was indeed incredible. Glad I watched it till the end!
Hooked my C128 up to the net much more easily. Just used a simple Serial to Ethernet adapter and did a raw socket to a RasPi. Once connected to the Pi you can telnet/ssh out to wherever you want. I connected to my work server and managed hundreds of thousands of $ worth of network gear via my C128. Very cool. For top marks use an ESP WiFi module for a wireless C128.
I can't believe there are still BBSs still about. I used to dial into one using my Amiga, 1200. Before switching to PC & the web.
This is just incredible! Internet and Online games on that old thing! Wow...
That is friggin awesome, and I totally agree with you about the coolest part to last, being able to write a d64 image to a real floppy over a network connection! I want a c64 floppy drive now!
and obviously one of those c64 NICs :D
Love your vids - keep them coming!
I got my VIC-20 in '81 then a C64 soon afterwards. They are back on my desk and now looking toward picking up an Amiga.
Nice Dan. I really liked the WarpCopy64 part.
Its one of those " I always wondered" things. This is quiet impressive on a machines that 25 years old
...and to think I thought I was cool because I could use a PSX3 wireless controller to play Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 games on my Mac. This demo was outstanding!
My Commodore 64 when I was a kid (circa 1985ish) had a reset button put in and it also had a switch installed so I could chose between two operating systems, one was the normal blue screen that functioned as everyone knows and the other was a tan and red screen that had a whole heap of keyboard short cuts built in.
So I could just tap the F keys in sequence to load games, view disk contents and so on. Don't quote me on this, I was 6 years old at the time... To load a game was as simple as F1 (puts load"$",8 on the screen), then move up to the game I wanted then F3 put load "what ever game it was",8,1 then F7 was run. Done
I spent a lot of time as a kid beating up the ninja and the green yama in Bruce Lee
... and I hated when I loaded games that had a bloody advert 1/2 through loading that would pause until you hit space bar. Load the game, go play lego for awhile, curse the pause advert, press space, play lego until you heard the games title screen music start.
Doing this is all about appreciation for the technology that inspired what exists today. Loving all of this and the 5.25" floppy disk too. I have a few of those and lots of 3.5" ones plus their drives that work just fine :) btw the Netgear box is sitting on air vents :( lol
Old computers "booted" almost instantly since the OS was in Solid State ROM. But to load any programs would take a long time reading from floppy disc. Minutes! Now with the advent of SSDs which are kind of like ROM-RAM, computers can boot fast like the C-64 but also load programs very quickly. The disc based medias are now just useful for storage, kind of like tape drives, not for speed and productivity!