Indeed.. we laughed about that when he was here and he said Bil Herd would be rolling his eyes or something watching us do that!

@@The8BitGuy I think Bil would probably just be happy that people are still enjoying his computer. Especially that particular model, which I believe he's mentioned is his favorite. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I must be one of the only people actually loving C128 mode :)... GEOS128 and also programming :)...

That's what we all did back then.

​​@@The8BitGuyPlease tell me you did an interview with him...... if so, there are others that might be worth interviewing and having a chat with, such as Jonathan Dunn, Matt Gray, Jeroen Tel, etc

I thought exactly the same thing. Super kind.

@@anthonyblacker8471 I get a sense that he wanted to give something back, on behalf of the retro-computing community perhaps. Maybe he's just thought "Meh, I'll get another one, save him having to come back." 🙂

@dantootill I think he loves finishing the job, getting it to work, more than he loves his own stuff. And they way he credits his helper is so unselfish and beautiful. No wonder we love his repair videos...

Damn, right? Wish we could have heard a few words from him, he was like a demi-god to me when I was a kid. If Rob Hubbard had turned up as well I think I would just have uninstalled UKposts after that, nothing left to see here.

Couldn't agree more. Galway, Hubbard, Daglish, Gray, Whittaker, Hüelsbeck and so on, legends. If i had been there when Galway showed up, i would've bend the knee. 👍😊

@@FabledGentleman Both Grays, both Fred and Matt were awesome musicians, and let's not forget Jeroen Tel.

Nice work. I have a MSEE degree from UMich but am not able to “fix electronics”. I think most college grads like me. I would like to learn someday. Wow, Martin is a different person!

Yeah I hope you kids realize that "Martin came over to my house-" isn't something to be said so casually

Wow! Someone should write all this down. It's history, and we should definitely keep it alive. Thank you for sharing! Would *love* to know more.

So many things I wish I'd kept around... relevant to this channel, the first PC I built. 40mhz 386. Caddy CD rom drive. The thing was amazing for teenage me and while a little outdated, it was really not bad at all for the early 90s. Held up well against some cheaper 486 systems.

Martin galway is the man along with Mr Rob Hubbard.

Only problem is shipping the monitor from Austin to Portland.

well, it wouldn't hurt if Adrian got out of his basement and take a little excursion to Austin

Wait, what if it does hurt?

He should have handled the whole damn thing .

​@@duhjuhindeed. 8 bit guy did basically nothing except swapping things.

Who is Adrian? Where do I find that channel??

@@cf105cp Adrian's Digital Basement

King the puns right here, folks.. lol

Hahaha! Very punny, Perifractic! 😂

Yeah, scart was the hdmi of the 90's. Audio both ways, and all sorts of video signals, auto source select etc.

@@iCuzZ Also, IIRC, SCART could be used to transfet all the TV channel settings from one unit to another (mostly between VCRs and TVs) so you don't have to tune them all manually. That was a gamechanger for me.

Most of SCART advanced features were never used, sadly.

@@Damien.D Let's put it the other way around, most devices used at home didn't need the extra functionality. So a cheap cable with half the pins missing was enougth. If the devices supported the extra stuff and you wanted to use it, you would basically just source a more expensive cable. It's really the same situation with HTMI/DP.

Wans't the connector too heavy for the cords?

All I can say Is I loved the Rambo music, and our family just happened to listen to it just a few weeks ago, just for the enjoyment.

Martin still looks quite youthful don't you think? Don't worry, he knows how much we love his tunes.

After the bumpy ride it took across the pond, the C128D will be like "Ain't gettin' on no plane, fool"

Mine showed up on Tuesday! It was really amazing seeing it in person. I work at an ISP owned PC service and sales shop, and we recycle lots of computers. Found a nice looking boxy Lenovo case to put it in before the day was out.

Oh cool! I want to get one when I have more space after a move

​@richfiles It is kinda weird seeing something you've only seen on 'TV' suddenly in your hands isn't it? I'm kind of stuck on case.. I kind of want to put it in my empty P500 case.. but I want to be able to admire it at the same time. Decisions..

​@@evanbarnes9984It's such a wonderfully bizarre fusion of different things. I'm not a programmer so it's more of an art/appreciation piece for me. Definitely not disappointed!

​@@TechTimeTravellerYou could try learning some Basic, it is incredibly fun. I'm not a programmer either, but I'm learning Basic since I got a C64.

Unless you had a computer like the MATRA Alice or BBC Micro which supported genlock.

You could get proper RGB SCART cables but they were sold as accessories, i remember having to explain to someone that the SCART dongle with RCA plugs on the back that came with his Gamecube wasn't really "SCART".

​@@Nukle0nnot RGB SCART, no, which is obviously the best quality you'll get over that connection. But SCART was designed for flexibility so composite, and left and right audio can still be 'SCART'

@@TheErador right. Just he thought he was already getting the best signal and I explained that no, it was pretty much the worst aside from RF. Tho I'm not really sure if the little compact TV he had even did RGB over SCART.

which one

@@dsnein The RetroStink.

It's a 2X Pro, they still sell them for $140.

that one isn't that expensive. The new one is. The 4k one is like $500 or something crazy like that.

@@dantootill maybe now, but what about when it first came out?

I even recorded the loader music on tape so I could listen to it on my walkman. That's how great it was.

@@tommysund4704Ha! Me too! The high score music and title screen music were both inspired. Still are.

Commando by Rob Hubbard. 👍😄

@@minnielee3399Also great. Ben Daglish's work on The Last Ninja (part 2 I think) is also amazing.

Yes. Ben Daglish RIP 🙏@@JustWasted3HoursHere

Never played the game, listened to the music a thousand times. How anyone could squeeze that out of an early 80s 8-bit machine is still beyond me. But it wasn't just brilliant within the context of the technology or gaming. It was awesome as a composition and in terms of sound, all on its own.

@@johelsen5776 The game was fun for the time. Not hard to beat once you get it down. Short game overall, but still fun. Did you know Galway put morse code into the intro of the song?

He kept Martin's original drive mechanism.

@@Okurka.: Yeah, that's cool too, that he has Martin's old drive mechanism as a souvenir to repair and use as part of his drive now, if feasible!

I am also retarded.

Same!

Me too! The 8-bit guy's videos make me happy for some reason

Where’s that music from?

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/pppqp69_fpqLjqc.htmlfeature=shared It's my ringtone also 😂

No way!!! Are they from the same Galway family?

@@ctgriffi3899 Yeeees, uncle and nephew!

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Martin’s melodies and musicianship really were excellent.

You can tell June is a man because actual women have zero interest in vintage computing.

@@zognaldblormpf5127 Not sure if you're saying this because she's trans (I don't know that she is) but some women do absolutely have interest in vintage computing. If you had studied computer engineering or computer science instead of being a basement dweller with no higher studies you'd know that many professors are female and studied for the degree when personal computers were just becoming a thing, or even before that. You'll definitely see a lot of interest and fond memories of vintage computers from those women.

@@zognaldblormpf5127 Ah yes, pretending like you know anything about men or women.

@@zognaldblormpf5127 How many months is your abortion overdue? 300? 400?

@@ultraokletsgo Biologically, he's got it nailed, but yes, there are definitely plenty of actual female nerds out there.

And Rob Hubbard, who also crossed the pond....

Sounds like a World Record ;-)

She’s been dead a while..

One of the little stickers on the case says "Perfect SID chip"!

cool story.

So you endorse him without even seeing the content? Fanboy to max. I watch everything forst then rate it

@@duhjuh I have followed David for many years now. I know his content is always good. I wouldn't have followed him for that long if it wasn't.

Thanks! :D

It was certainly a fun project! :D

Here's another treat: 8 bit guy restoring the Game Chasers Apple II computer! ukposts.info/have/v-deo/sHWfZGyRZ5x0sWw.html&ab_channel=TheGameChasers

well that's one person. I fail to see how two " experts" didn't understand that a machine that requires 2 Different voltages required *shocker* both voltages. One look at the power specs ona few of the chips ( all available and well documented BTW) would have told you everything.

Please don't swear or curse; this is a family channel and kids read the comments. Thanks.

@@jinxterx @triggered

@@theyamo7219 just trying to keep the internet clean 😂

It makes the plastics brittle.

It is shocking how little PAL support there is in the US. I thought analog video processing chips would have been standardized by now (hence the phase-out of the beloved SCART) and PAL decoding support would be _really_ cheap to implement anyway. We’ve had tri-standard TVs and VCRs with NTSC playback since the 90's.

Have you seen the 8 bit guy restoring the Apple II of the Game Chasers? It's from 2 months ago: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/sHWfZGyRZ5x0sWw.html&ab_channel=TheGameChasers

@@Locomamonk I hadn’t seen it. Thanks for the link. The other guys are kind of weird, but fun to see more of the 8 bit guy.

Hello there, fellow Argentinian. I think that there were some Grundig brand TVs (Expensive, but the best! was their motto) that had these connectors but certainly I never saw someone using it.

I lived in Australia and it's similar there. It's usually safe to assume that any SD video equipment made after around 2000 will accept NTSC in addition to PAL. Even much older TVs would generally support "PAL60" (NTSC frame rate and resolution with PAL colour), so only a very cheap converter box was needed to shift the colour signals from NTSC to PAL.

I had no idea. This is amazing.

Uruguayan here, we and the Brazilias did a wild thing TBH, using PAL with SECAM colors and NTSC teletext

Most TVs here in Finland have supported both PAL and NTSC since the 90s. I think that's the same in most if not all PAL countries. Even my VHS VCR has NTSC playback capability

I wore out the plotter. It was perfect for plotting airfoils for my model planes. Didn't get retired till I got a E size plotter in the 90's, then an ink jet model as well. Still miss the price of paper rolls and pens though.