Sharp X68000 Tear Down, Repair and Demo
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- A person sent me their Sharp X68000 computer for repair. They got a good deal on it because "smoke was coming out the top". In this video I figure out what's wrong with the system, make some repairs and then take the games for a test drive. Enjoy!
The cat interruption - the bane of home worker productivity everywhere.
"I need to make snarky videos on RUclips.. for some reason.." lol🤣
Feel free to forward anything japanese to me that you can't read if you have questions. I'm a comp engineer and from japan. Love your videos
This is now officially a Cat Video.
Cats just make videos better.
This is now officially a cat CHANNEL. Do you really think he'll let the human continue hogging his well-deserved praise? :-p (That look tho... he's gonna be mischievous as HECC and get into EVERYTHING! :-D)
cat channel
I see kitten hacks coming!!! Auto cat door, auto treat feeder, auto litter box, auto mouse toy
Cat hacking -- replace cat brain with arduino.
Auto cat-apult to launch the cat from the basement back upstairs.
@@nutz4gunz457 Robotic cat vacuum to suck the cat into a pneumatic tube that auto-routes it to cat jail (or other destinations if so needed). If cat needs to go to vet, it can be routed to an air cannon that fires the cat on a ballistic trajectory to a landing receptacle at the vet.
A DIY RFID cat door would be a great Ben project. A decent one (like Petsafe) can cost nearly $100, so I'd love to see what could be done with an eBay RFID reader, a servo, and an arduino.
Your an idiot, is your name Karen? If not you should try it out Karen cuz it fits.
Old computers, retro games and cute kittens, my life is complete. 😊
I've said this before and I'll proudly say it again; this has to be one of the most gorgeous machine ever produced in my book
Ginger cats are always mischievous, mine was awesomely so hehehehe
I never even knew this existed back in the day, but damn - what a way to use a 68000, that machine could handle so much more than the 68k based machines we had.
that motherboard is almost as beautiful as the NeXT Cube's board
you sound like Steve Jobs!
I'd argue more personally. It's my dream retro computer tho so I'm biased lol. Japanese engineering is fascinating and beautiful
@@hi_tech_reptiles i took my old Casiotone MT-210 for the first time back in 2018 to do a cleanup, i wasnt expecting to see such a beautifully made and organized board/everything, i think it looks better than my modern 21st century midi controller keyboard
That industrial design looks fantastic even by modern standards! I would LOVE to have a PC case that looked like this.
Oh for sure. I just didn't like how flimsy thr plastic base was without anything installed. Was worried it was gonna crack.
This channel is quickly becoming all the good things about TBHS, good on ya!
Sure 100%, maybe sometime when he reach 1 Mil. Subs he can hire his old stuff.
Coworkers
It's all the excitement of the show, but with a relaxed edit
I've never seen one of these. I'm actually surprised how modern this thing looks. You could actually sit it by a line of modern computer hardware and unless you were paying attention, you'd never notice it was 30+ year old tech.
Watching your challenges changing caps out, takes me back to my youth working on factory production problems as a young electrical engineer.
This video is extremely helpful! It came days after I cranked my own X68k up for the first time. My wife is still tired of hearing "I have a working X68k!" These machines are treasures and it took me two years to get it altogether for the test(mine came with no PSU at all;-/)...all hail the god-machine and thanks Ben for solving several of my questions in one video:-) Also cool cat!
Helpful?? Did you see that shit job this idiot did on that RGB board??
Thank you for helping your homeless, furry friend.
Edit to say: The genuine spit take at the mario port. Agreed.
"I'm raising my iron to 720...."
The entirety of european viewers : o_O
"...F"
The entirety of non-american* viewers
382.222°C
Hey, me too! I was listening from my bed while patting my dog, and thought "HOLY FUKKK WUT!"
+- 380 ° celsius
Eff Celsius. Before I step outside, I want to know exactly how hot it is. And when it's blazing here at 113F, I don't want someone telling me it's 45C. 45 degrees is for bundling up, not stripping down to Speedos like you Euros are known to do on Greek beaches.
These and the MSX systems were my 80s and 90s dream machines!
I was born in 94, but I grew up in a countryside home with no cable and just dial up for most of my childhood. so my childhood consisted of 70s 80s movies and TV. and "retro" game consoles that I could find at garage sales etc. I think that's why I enjoy listening to people like Ben talk and make references to things that I remember more clearly than someone should for my age.
If those weren't so rare I'd love to see a modern build in that case, it's just BEAUTIFUL.
OMG dude these impressions. I love your oceanic knowledge of movie lines and characters
43:52 HUMAN.SYS file, creepy glimpse into the future.
What a futuristic design, very radical for the time! It's the kind of case I'd love to have even till this day on my modern machine!
Love having you on in the background. Thanks for this, Ben!
Since discovering you're still on RUclips I have been watching these videos for hours, i fell asleep at 3am last night and woke up late for work.
I owned a TV repair shop for a lot of years and fixed everything from computers, mobos, vid cards, basically anything that plugged in or took batteries and to many times I did the same thing, traced it back to something stupid haha... Live and learn. Im happy to see more videos coming out I missed the videos from element or the rate of videos put out. Keep up the good work ben!
the fox maulder impression was so spot on
That was a freakin' fantabulouso repair. I have always wondered what those machines could do. Looks great for its generation. Now I want one.
The next step after "dont turn it on take it apart" should have been "thou shalt check voltages "
"I'm going to kitten jail, gonna eat a lot of peaches..."
Love the addition of the kitty!
I believe the CPS1 arcade board was influenced heavily from the X68000 and Capcom used them to develop the games. Maybe even Street Fighter II.
Yes. Infact the Sharp x68000 SF2 actually had superior quality sound effects than the arcade at a higher sample rate. They are not cut down and sound cleaner. Which means they are the original raw files. This is best heard in the death scream which is longer.
Now this channel has 2 of my favourite things. Electronics AND Kittens. I hope he's out of kitty jail now.
Omg your mulder and scully impressions were spot on!
"You wear a cross, uh, this is just like, uh, that,uh, I have faith in aliens, uh."
"Omg mulders gone so now I have to believe in aliens I guess"
😆 🤣 😂
This thing is bad ass, so many great arcade ports. I think some of those same games were developed on this, but I might be misremembering something. I know they frequently have power supply issues.
EDIT: After some light Google-Fu, it does seem like Capcom developed a lot of the CPS stuff on this.
It was a nice little computer, too. Pity it never made much of a splash.
Those X68000's were way ahead of their time as far as connectivity, and they were the source of some of the earliest computer generated anime!😁 ^___^ *EDIT:* I'm actually amazed at the graphics quality for as old as that thing is!! All cats are pretty much the same.. it's all about them, and even my 13 y.o. Tigger cat still has to spend some time in the 'kitty jail' once in a while.😸 She insists on being between me and the keyboard and of course when she stretches out, her feet are all over the keyboard, causing much havoc. Very interesting recap/restore job on this classic. New subscriber here.😉
I was listening to a podcast the other day about the Castlevania on Sharp, but never before have I seen the system nor the game! Thanks Ben!
Ben: *pulls out a via*
Ben: Explains why he's NOT using a desoldering iron
I consider my Hakko FR-301 worth every cent. It turned desoldering from D: to :D
yeah, same thing man. i do professional board repair and wouldnt do it without my fr-301
I use a spring loaded pump - works faster and more reliable for me. I'm sorry but this is quite a how not to video.
Yes I agree!!. Too much heat on those vias. The least he could have done was to cut the caps off and just work with the remaining soldered bits. And ofc a desoldering gun or at a very least a pump and some flux for godsakes!
@@deathcube2006 One thing I learned from watching Louis Rossman's videos: There's no such thing as too much flux. Magical soldering goo.
@@jaysonl a paul of flux.
Great Vid Ben. You are a craftsman.
Sharp had some great electronics in the 80s and 90s. I've got a stereo system that was made in the early 90s, and it's got amazing sound for a mid-range line audio system. It was just so well made and everything still works as good as it did when I was a kid.
I've never seen what an X68k looked like until now. Pretty awesome stuff, Ben. That thing is a beast.
So glad you're around man, love your videos.
26:04 - Oh, my. That poor, poor X68K.. Pulling plated through-holes on a museum piece such as the Sharp X68K should be avoided at all cost.
I would have used an eyelet to repair that. However I would have avoided the damage in the first place by using proper through-hole removal techniques. Honestly the capacitor removal in this video made me cringe, I would have expected a bit more care from Ben Heck on such an awesome piece of vintage tech.
Vo(u)ltar!
Aww, baby Bud. Champagne kittens are so adorable. Also, that machine really is a beast of a 16-ish bit computer. I love all the daughter boards and bridging boards. Not really something you see all that often these days in consumer electronics, so it's always fun to see them.
Yes! More Ben Heck videos! I can't be happier :)
This is one of my main learnings from repair vids - molex connectors in old machines are shiz. Vectrex in particular seem prone to this. Nice.
When I saw that molex middle pin at the beginning of the video the first thing I thought was how corroded it looked. So it was not a surprise I guess. This happens all the time with old pinball machines. Cold connections!
Awe kitty 😻
YOU TAKE BACK WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT FRINGE! I loved that show! 😁
Me too! There are dozens of us! Dozens I tell you!
Please don't do a teardown of the kitten.
But how else do we know what changed from the kitten obtained 10 years ago?
Hahahaha that Moulder impression really made me laugh. Spot on! Kudos!!
awww Ben I'm so proud of you. I adopted a 1yr old in April she is so much fun =) you will love his company. mischief will abound!
Wow, it took about 8 mins to get Ben singing. He truly is a Greatest American Hero
I've always loved the look of that system.
Ben, the X68000 does have hardware scalers. They aren't as powerful as the model 2 board's in some aspects but are definitely leaps and bounds bounds beyond the model 2 dedicated super scaler in others.
That was a great Mulder/Duchovny impression.
RALPH: I'M GONNA WRECK IT!!!
BEN: I CAN FIX IT!
Kittens always steals the show 🤣 So darn cute!
Good find on that one!
I had a similar issue with a Kenwood TS-711A transceiver a couple weeks ago. It was only putting about 3 watts of power out, but it should have been 25 watts. At first I thought it was the Power Amplifier module (which for this radio is getting close to unobtanium), but it was corrosion on the power connector to the PA board.
Also, now I'm gonna have Bubble Bobble music stuck in my head all day....
That kitty earned you a free Like. Well played Ben. 😻
Awww... your new orange haired assistant is so cuuuuute!
heh, that cat looks like a troublemaker in development. I know that face.
Bud was so cute back then! 😊
I love seeing little Bud! Make On my Friend
What a sexy system. Why can't the PS5 look like that?!
Seriously tho this thing looks relatively modern
I know right, the ps5 looks like a space heater from Walmart. About as big too. I mean the new xbox is by no means small either but at least it's just a nice stealthy box.
Well.
How else is Sony going to inspire hardware hacking and shell mods?
Kinda like Harley making exclusively butt ugly air cleaners and tail pipes, get the user to void the warranty and get more attached to the machine in one fell swoop
It's comforting to know that even super-human cyborgs from the future like Ben Heck run into the same kinds of problems with repairs as us lowly mortals :D
I was just remembering used to watch you and Sean Kennedy on Winamp television really miss those days wish I would’ve held onto my glass computer it was almost like $700 in LED lights back in the day in it
I picked up that exact model of Sharp x68000 a few months ago! It powers on and tries reading from the floppy drive (at least). I need to solder up a VGA adapter for it before testing it further.
Dude, you had me thinking that this was a fridge from the thumbnail.
Very interesting video! I have never heard of the Sharp X68000 and i am impressed how much technology is in there.
I *love* his Scully/Mulder impression...!
The Lone Gunmen is the best x-files spinoff. Looks like all the episodes are on RUclips.
Greatest American Hero !!!!! loved that show !!!!! ends up being Perry Masons strong arm
@6:01 this unit is a SCSI to SD controller. It is replacing the Hard drive with a SD card.
Hey Ben I got one of those HP LCDs out of a dumpster. I had to take it apart and replace 4 capacitors on the power supply section, put it back together and it worked again.
What a machine! I always thought the best computer that used the 68000 was the Amiga 500, but now i'm not so sure!
It's the Ben and Bud hacking show!
Alternatively called The Heck & Dorb's show. :P
love the hilarity of the parodying of meatloaf while soldering and desoldering
Appreciate the Dave Jones impression at 4:28.
Not sure why I'm here but I'll stay for the David Duchovny impressions
53:33 Bud: “This can’t be right, the sound is coming from the monitor and the tower, hmmm”
Just looking at that case reminds me of AndroidArts amazing retro-concepts.
Man, will we ever see any one of those being actually built?
I mean, most likely not, but it would be hella cool.
Wow, I just thought I was stupid and bad at soldering because I couldnt desolder, but you do the same tricks I developed-- Walking components instead of desoldering entirely, slowing pushing on side at a time while heating legs to get through solder-clogged vias, etc...
I feel a lot more vindicated now that I know it's not just me sucking, it's multi-layer boards that suck c:
An actual desoldering iron with built in electric pump helps a lot. Ben isn't using enough flux (hardly at all) here and that makes it really difficult to manage. Additionally, higher end irons where the heating element is built into the tip usually does better for points that may soak up more heat (especially on ground planes) because it's a bit more efficient at it. I went from a WES51 which it looks like Ben is using to a Hakko FX-951 and my soldering jobs are overall much better.
In a lot of ways doing through hole is harder than surface mount. If you want to learn more about doing soldering more delicately, check out Louis Rossmann's videos or RetroGameModz.
To me, that's one of the most magnificent computer ever
Always thought these things looked badass, still do today. I know it was mostly a games machine but it always looked like it meant much more serious business, it's very 90s workstation-like. Would love a similar case for a PC build.
Actually they were really really popular as schools computers for word processor and coding work in Europe (particularly Netherlands area and Germanic countries). If I'm not mistaken the education market ended up outselling the Japanese commercial market.
12:00 Hudson also made a BASIC interpreter for Sharp's earlier MZ series.
After all that...it's a connector. Guess it happens to the best of us. Anyway I could only dream of owning an X68K. What a glorious machine.
Love your beautiful voice Ben!!
Dracula + Richter impressions = not too bad!
Quick tip: I use Google translate for manuals in different languages, since Google bought out WordLens (I think it used to be called) you can view translations on-the-fly. Also a fun fact: Robert Patrick (who replaced Moulder) is Richard Patrick's (lead singer of Filter) brother.
Hey man nice shot.
I gave a like just for the cat and then you had it purr for the camera, Ben Heck doesn't dissapoint.
I wish I could give a second thumbs up for the cat.
This PC was a dream machine, Arcade at home before Neo Geo.
I love that computer, the most beautiful i've ever seen. I love the cat too, but man, that computer !
Half the connectors are gold.. cute cat.
Loved your Army of Darkness reference 😂
My dream retro computer. Too bad they are even pricey before import fees and taxes and whatever lol. Coolest music, graphics and everything.
That cat. My god. So cute
I so want an X68000 someday.
ah ha...once you mentioned this a few days ago, I was looking fwd to this video/repair....thank you!
I love finding those old monitors that have vga, composite, svideo inputs and also speakers built in. Especially the built in speakers, saves quite a bit of room in the game room having it all in 1. That HP screen really got around too, found several here at Goodwills.
Nice job on the restoration. I really like the catamaran design of the machine. The insides remind me of the Atari TT030.