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My nipples are hard

Just dreamy.

"39 thousand kilobytes is enough for your average program" We've come a long way baby!! ☺

New Sub; Detroit, Michigan I Never had a c64, What I did have was the First Set of VideoProfessor VHS tapes: I Particularly watched the MsDos 5.0 & Windows 3.0 Tapes, I believe I might have had a Win3.1 tape as well LOL I was Easily Amused as a Child

The resemblance between him and Brian Butterfield is uncanny

Ted Cruz is like a clone of that guy.

RIP Syd

This place was very known in the 80’s/90’s for very young boy prostitutes- homeless boys, young very teenagers, some 8-10 yrs old!! Nothing but adult men visited this arcade 24/7! Searching for boy prostitutes 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️😤 Apparently, the boys would hang out at each arcade game- wait to be approached by a “trick” which the men would bring the boy quarters- which indicated they chose that boy- then they’d disappear together. So many poor CHILDREN prostitutes were found dead in dumpsters, etc- disfigured, their insides ripped apart or out 🤦🏻‍♀️ Very demonic and sickened murderers. I obtained this info from an old documentary “Boys For Sale” Absolutely disturbing 🤦🏻‍♀️ had me in tears

Narrator sounds like Fritz Weaver.

3:41 What a nail biting video :D

Jim Butterfield was rocking the George Lucas like 70 years before George Lucas was...

That achievement is such a grind! Im still going for mine. There is a level thats really nice for it. Its a side scrolling level in spookington. 3rd mini game level there.

Is that Ted Cruz's older brother?

I started with the vic 20 but I was too young to understand... then he arrived: my c64... it's still here with me, even though I also use emulators... but... real hardware has no comparison... Beautiful video, I'm learning things that when I was a child I had to learn on my own, with magazines and hours of "syntax error" :) His voice and how he explains things are an example of ASMR video ante litteram! I've downloaded and watched it hundreds of times, some nights I put it on my headphones and fall asleep... my c64 that 1984 gave me with the cassettes is now still here, near me and still works (including cassettes) thanks to this video I'm finally making him do things that 40 years ago I didn't know how to make him do... I think he's really happy now. grazie a tutti voi eroi silenziosi ed educati dietro questa macchina meravigliosa! Thanks to all you quiet and polite heroes behind this wonderful machine!

this brings a tear to my eye.

Thank you for gifting this

I think what was so special about computing during this era was it all so new to all of us. We were all in the same boat, just trying to figure it out. And, envisioning a future with computers and the internet was so exciting. Heck, we didn’t even know what to call the internet back then (the information super highway?). If you had internet back then (dialup) and knew how to access things like bulletin boards (BBS) you were way ahead of everyone else. If you had a floppy disc drive (not a tape drive) and a dot matrix printer, you were a legend amongst your friends! Good times.

Syd died shorty after this video :(

200k spent on collecting games is insane... Though I shouldn't talk, my 3DO collection sits at about $32,000 .... I could probably sell for 35-40? , I donno .. , it has been too long since I have looked up going prices. Edit: Giving the comments , I just realized he passed away :( RIP mate!

the best part was the keyboard. The worst part was the Basic language.

7:30 what a massive chunk of resin printed tire section. I can't imagine how much a SLA printer would have cost back then, or the ridiculous amount of resin that went into that piece. Even today, despite becoming a lot cheaper, not everyone doing 3D printing will have (or need) a printer with the volume to print a similarly sized piece. I'm just happy I can afford such amazing tech for my humble DIY projects after all those patents expired.

What fun to think of CP/M again after so many years! After some years of doing system and application programming on the IBM 360 and CDC mainframes, I discovered it was even more fun on a Commodore.

the fudi.

I just tweeted this to Elon Musk. Oh I still own a Vic 20 and if I can I'll utilise this program/platform that'd be cool.

Polybius next to Punchout. Lmao

RIP Syd!!!

When did Syd die? And how? Hold old was he?

I can picture him talking with a marlbro hanging out of his mouth.

I would like to start over. I lost my original floppy, but I still have my first C64 and my Datasette.

I really hope these will get upscale with some AI engine soon. Great to watch but how did we accept such low blurry resolutions back then, well it was 40+ years ago I guess.

Can someone confirm that this video actually came In the 80's? Or is this ai-generated bullshit?

RIP Syd. One of the best.

Thanks for sharing this. I like that this was probably unscripted. Jim's authenticity stands the test of time because he obviously knows the material and likely just had an outline of what he wanted to cover.

"Extra Terrestrials, one of only 4 known to exist" *Proceeds to absolutely brutally manhandle the box like an ogre rummaging through a box of Oreo cookies*

"A huge amount of memory!" How times have changed! This was the computer I spent programming during my summer break in college and it was so much fun I switched to computer science as my major... Still doing it over 40 years later! Loved this computer!

huge amount of memory :D

ahh the memories of spending a week typing in a program from a magazine just to have it not run due to a typo in the magazine or an accidental omission of a line of code.

I love how he just chunks the box on the floor lol

this is soooo nostalgic when he says the Commodore 64 has a huge amount of memory - for the time he was correct

A curiosity before the chaos. How cute

I miss department stores like Eatons, Woolco, Zellers, K-Mart, Woolworth and so forth

Hands-up any UK viewers who saw the thumbnail and mistook it for 'Brian Butterfield' spoof...✋

Jim, your brother Brian called. He wants you home immediately for a dinner of Pork cylinders, Potato grids and artificial bacon ( "facon")

1986 I got fascinated by computers and modems. I thought this is the future! Normal people were confused and laughed at me. Boy was I right 😂

I was also about 15 when in 1986 I bought his book on Machine Language programming. Today I am a senior software engineer, with dozens of published software products. How bits work, how bytes are represented, how a CPU works, all of that , I learned from this guy right here (his books). Thank you Jim!

They don’t feature the eye.

Wow unboxing has been around a lot longer than I realized lol

Like Jim, I also throw my styrofoam inserts right on the floor when unboxing anything. I have quite the collection.

That was 1983. I wonder if people in 2063 will look back at today's technology with the same sense of wonder, amusement, and nostalgia.