Epic! 8-bitguy uses 1 weird trick to detroy rare prototypes!

AmpleApricots said:
Know that rubberized coating some peripherals like mice, chinese gadgets etc. have? You can actually buy that in a spray can and I found it to be perfect for mice buttons etc. that have become shiny and unpleasant to the touch. The best thing is, if it gets eventually worn down or you applied it somewhat poorly you can just peel it off and reapply. It's sold as many different brand names but the one I use is plasti dip. Even comes in various colors.

It's also very robust, people use it for car parts.
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I'm aware of plasti dip. The rubberized coating is only on the lid for thinkpads I believe and that has held up fine. The part I want to paint is the metal frame on the sides (at least I think it's metal, although the top and bottom are hard plastic shell. it's been a while since I did a teardown) But I think I need to rough up the surface if I want the spray paint to stick.
 
Ahriman said:

What's next for his career?
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He immediately says it's a clickbait title. It's a video to lament the state of youtube while also pontificating about the nature of his current videos and why they're not always doing so well. I like his channel, but there are parts I like more than others and looking at the view count of his videos I think other people agree.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
He immediately says it's a clickbait title. It's a video to lament the state of youtube while also pontificating about the nature of his current videos and why they're not always doing so well. I like his channel, but there are parts I like more than others and looking at the view count of his videos I think other people agree.
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Nostalgia Nerd puts out consistently high quality content, even if some of it isn't as deep as others. His investigation into who actually owns the Commodore brand was peak NN.


His last couple of videos were also pretty good, but I can see why some of his subscribers wouldn't be that interested. He copped a bit of criticism over The Max Headroom Incident video (mainly autists saying "bUt OdDiTy ArChIvE aLrEaDy MaDe A vIdEo AbOuT iT!!!!!!!1111 REEEEEEEEEEEEE"), but these are the same fucktards that can't handle it when someone other than Linus makes a video about modern tech. More than one person can make videos on the same subject y'know...

The trouble is there are only so many vintage computers and consoles to make videos about, and NN has already made videos about most of them. As such it makes sense to pivot into other nerdy nostalgia, such as Beenz and Bert Is Evil.
 
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Pee Cola said:
The bottom will eventually fall out of the market when the Gen Xers that are hoarding all this shit start dying off, as I can't see too many zoomers being all that attached to the SNES or the Amiga. But at the moment, many of the Gen Xers coveting this stuff are now in a position to start buying it as their kids have grown up and/or they never had kids in the first place.
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I think the value has already peaked on lots of 8bit stuff. With the cheap and easy PCB online production people are able build whole C64s, Vic20, Tandy Color Computers, etc from scratch. With multicarts like the Palmitate and the like you don't have to own each program. You can just load all the ROM's on to a SDCard and pop them in your multicart.

It reminds me of the MOPAR car collectors in the early 00's. People where hording things like hemi air filters and shit until the value got so crazy it got the attention of reproduction companies. Now I can get a filter that once went for $1200 for 20bux from china. And people don't even bother fixing rusty old sheet metal anymore. They just order new panels from AMD. The speculators who where hording everything ended up fucking themselves.
 
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Jump said:
I think the value has already peaked on lots of 8bit stuff. With the cheap and easy PCB online production people are able build whole C64s, Vic20, Tandy Color Computers, etc from scratch.
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Almost. Whilst the reproduction PCBs are a huge help for people who want to build their own clone machines from scratch or rebuild old machines with damaged PCBs, there are some machines with custom chips that aren't quite there yet... though we're closer than ever. For example, with the C64 a new VIC-II clone is out there, but it's not easy to get hold of. All the other custom or otherwise hard to find chips (such as the SID and the 6510) now have either clones or - in the case of the 6510 - an adapter that lets you use a 6502 in its place.

With other machines, such as the ZX Spectrum, the custom chips (well, just the one with the Speccy) was cloned years ago. There is also the option of using discrete logic chips. Between that and reproduction cases/keyboards being so readily available, building a fully functional ZX Spectrum from scratch is fairly straightforward for someone with basic soldering skills and some patience.
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With multicarts like the Palmitate and the like you don't have to own each program. You can just load all the ROM's on to a SDCard and pop them in your multicart.
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True, but some people just want to consoom the big boxes and original disks/carts/tapes because they look pretty on a shelf.
Jump said:
It reminds me of the MOPAR car collectors in the early 00's. People where hording things like hemi air filters and shit until the value got so crazy it got the attention of reproduction companies. Now I can get a filter that once went for $1200 for 20bux from china. And people don't even bother fixing rusty old sheet metal anymore. They just order new panels from AMD. The speculators who where hording everything ended up fucking themselves.
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Speculators always end up fucking things up for themselves in the end.
 
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tehpope said:
www.gofundme.com

The Commander X16 Project, organized by David Murray

You've seen the video. You know what the Commander X16 project is. The project has been very c… David Murray needs your support for The Commander X16 Project
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"Has finally arrived!" = "Please donate to my KickFundMe so we can make the first 50 production boards, only some of which will then be sold to the general public."

tl;dw: 8MHz 65c02, 2MB RAM. SD card slot and Commodore disk drive DIN ports for storage. Composite, S-Video, VGA for video output, up to 640x480x256. Two audio chips, one which does various synth types like the SID and one which does FM samples. Built-in BASIC will be mostly C64-compatible, but with some improvements; drawing commands, mouse support, etc. Two SNES controller ports with headers for two more; four add-on card slots. Will ship with a keyboard with PETSCII characters printed on the caps, but bring your own Micro ATX case and PSU.

It looks good, and it looks like they're making some effort at keeping the cost down compared to something like the Mega 65, though that it seemingly requires a daughter card makes me think there's more they could do in that regard. I'd like to see more about how it can be programmed using something other than BASIC, since I really have no interest in trying to program things in that again, but Dave seemed to really dwell on the BASIC throughout the video.
 
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Least Concern said:
about how it can be programmed using something other than BASIC
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Your other choice will be assembler. Since the CPU doesn't have an i386 virtual mode don't expect too much on programming language front since it doesn't have a MMU. Before I got too busy I was using the cc65 project to create binaries to tool about a bit in the emulator.,
 
After the video was posted, the gfm was at $400 some. Yesterday $13k. Now $24k.

I'd get a gen 3 sbc board. But not really interestes in these gen 1 boards.
 
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Something I just saw: you can buy Attack of the PETSCII Robots for the Sega Genesis in physical form at The 8-Bit Guy's website since June 2022. (archived link)
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...except nowhere does it say the box is the same size as the Commodore/Amiga releases, so it won't fit on the usual shelf for Genesis games, as it's way too big. (archived, images from the Reddit thread)
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Also there's no cardboard insert to secure the cart, so it'll bang around inside the box when moved.
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Also the cart's PCB edge is not beveled.
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Also the ROM inside the cart has at least one "semi game breaking" bug. (archived)
 
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David and his wife go to CES. On EcoFlow's dime.
 
In this episode, David buys several thousand dollars of soldering bars so he can cut out the middle man and make Commander X16 boards faster.

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  • The Commander X16 fundraiser raised $51k.
  • The Yamaha chip they were gonna use for music is more expensive now than they planned it to be. from $2 to $11 per chip. They have an FPGA replacement but it costs the same. lol
    • Some company said they had a ton of these. turned out they didn't.
  • The Gen 2 board is gonna be a game console. Similar in size to a small modern famiclone
 
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tehpope said:
The Yamaha chip they were gonna use for music is more expensive now than they planned it to be. from $2 to $11 per chip. They have an FPGA replacement but it costs the same. lol
  • Some company said they had a ton of these. turned out they didn't.
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Yeh that was very stupid of them. Should have challenged this a lot earlier.
The hardest part of this project is trying to build a retro machine using discrete IC's, a noble goal but as you can see more and more FPGA's are creeping into it.
 
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