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Loved the Newton. Really want a remarkable but the price and cloud based subscription is really off putting. Hopefully these companies that keep pushing paid for cloud stuff that simply doesn’t need to cost anything will figure this out before they falter completely.

A friend of mine had a brand new Newton back in the day and it was awesome. reMarkable is just an eInk slab with a few features but is also extremely limited. It has a lot of marketing behind it and I'd still never buy one, especially at the price point they're asking. My Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite w/ stylus + OneNote can do more than a crappy reMarkable, plus SO much more (and in color).

Superb (did I spell that right?) video! Now Im all over looking for newton for my "modest" MAC LCII! Super good quality and thought out video! excellente...

Well done!

Psion is my Newton here ;-) As usual, a great video, thx !

I had a Newton in late 90s I got for free off a neighbour who a Lawyer and a Judge who took the Windows pill (got a PowerBook 5300 off him too). Anyway I used it a lot and spent a lot of time getting Newton to recognise my handwriting. Anyway, flash forward decades later and I buy an iPad and an Apple Pencil… it is true that we still haven’t gotten back to the ability of the Newton. Apple really sold the Newton poorly, they did what they always did and over sold it, what they needed to do was market it properly set expectations correctly

AmigaBill at the end 🤣

Wow, lovingly made!

This is the video we need but didn't know we needed!

I love the 128d minus the keyboard. Imagine a hitek 128d...

A wonderful and giant icon! ❤

THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND is still one of my favorite games. I remember, when i loaded it for the first time on my Amiga 500 as a little boy back in the early 1990's, the icon on the WorkBench amazed me, after i clicked it. Definitely the best Amiga game icon ever 😺👍🕹️! A big retrospective like 👍🕹️ from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

i have 3 chicken lips one have embossed logo rev. 3 v1, secound has sticker with logo rev. 3 i think v2 and with sticker rev 5. lowest serial number has rec v2 with "sticker logo"

Loved this video, as it brought to things together that I love. Amiga gaming and roguelikes. I grew up with an Amiga 500+, but wasn‘t playing or knowing any roguelikes back in day. Currently (at the age of 42) I‘m a mobile-only gamer, since this fits best into my life. And traditional roguelikes are by far my favorite games. And switching between Nethack (the complexity of situations and options is absolutely mindblowing to this day), Moria (basically all I want from an RPG, but yes, crazy long and grindy) and Rogue, I find myself playing Rogue (as the fantastic Rogue Touch on iOS) the most. And it‘s kind of crazy that to me those games are still peak video gaming. Thanks again for this wonderful video.

Egg freckles.

Beautiful video essay! I got back into Rogue after playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Geos128 was a tremendous upgrade over the original GEOS 1.0. I unfortunately had the flat C128 (I got mine before the C128D/DCR were announced) so I had the 16K VDC RAM rather than 64GB VDC RAM.

So I have just got hold of an original rejuvenator board, interestingly it doesn’t have the expert services rejuvenator logo on the board

So I have just got hold of an original rejuvenator board, interestingly it doesn’t have the expert services rejuvenator logo on the board

Yeah. I have 4 of them, just of the 1000 model. I have 7 Amigas in total. 😎

but can it run crysis?

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Is it possible to get a .d64 image of this game and write it to real floppy disks using the Zoomfloppy? I would love to play it using my 1571 disk drives as I don't have a Kung-Fu Flash or an Ultimate II+ but I have a lots of 1571 drives.

Where did that come from

I miss my 128D. It was awesome!!

Oh i just got it "count" its a calcultor that counts

TY for the GREAT retro Commodore content! I see exactly at 8 min into the video your 7 mint looking Infocom Grey box's and also your Wishbringer in Solid Gold version. They only made 6 Solid Gold games and I had 4 of them and I was missing Wishbringer and the Solid Gold Triple Pack. I found a Solid Gold Wishbringer a week ago and it should be here any day now. I have never seen the Solid Gold Triple Pack (Leather Goddesses, HHGTTG and Zork I) listed but will always be looking for it so the I can own all 6 Solid Gold games. I was able to find Deadline in a Grey Box two months ago, so I now have all the games that had a Grey Box version now in a Grey box version. I have GEOS128v2 and use UII+ with a boot image for fast startups into GEOS. Can I use Gateway even thought I don't have and CMD drives? My setup is C128DCR, a 2nd 1571, a 1581 and a UII+. OMG now I want CMD FD-2000! I thought it was just a 1581 drive after Commodore stopped making them. Man, I was so WRONG! TY for teaching me about the CMD FD-2000. I like how you said, "If I ever find a Super CPU", well you are now halfway there with the Super CPU MMU. GREAT video! TY again!

Been over a year and just rewatched this video because it came up in my YT feed. I see your "Don't Panic" button from Infocoms HGTTG which I must of missed the 1st time I watched this.

It’s nice to see the 1351 mouse working in 80-col mode. I can’t get that to happen here - I have the mouse driver placed first on the disk, the mouse works in 40-col mode, but when I switch to 80-col mode, no pointer appears. The next time I start up, it’s frozen - unless I start in 40-col mode. Re-writing the disk gets it working in 80-col mode, but only with the joystick

I've been going through episodes of the Computer Chronicles in order recently, and was quite disappointed when they got to a dedicated "portables" episode in 1985, and of course this was nowhere to be seen. I"m pretty sure I've seen it on that show at some point, maybe just because it made it easier to show off something without setting up a whole system, but yeah... I mean it's said at the end of every episode, this is made possible by the funding of people who are completely in the pocket of IBM, and therefore we really should not have been expecting them to truly give a fair shake to others. I'm surprised they covered the Amiga as much as they did, which wasn't much but certainly more than they covered any other inexpensive machine. They must have been getting screamed at in letters. Anyway, looks slick in black, reminds me of when I was given a VIC-20 rescued from the trash by someone who knew I was into the old stuff. Was not a fan of the white case so the first thing I did was put it in a modified 64 case, swapping over the badges, lol.

I remember this mouse pointer. I think I had it from a disk. Can't find it though.

Trying to burn Marathon from Mac Rep on a PC for a Performa 5200CD…using ISO

8 bit system what a good game

Very nice

😆 *PromoSM*

After several other short-lived printers, the Star NL-10 is the printer I had growing up all the way until I went to college. It was a great printer!

Wow

I do have one BIG request. Do more videos about Amiga. Quality of Your materials are just superb.

Nice video! But you should make a video about the color to black & white converter used to get colors on your Sears Solid State tv! 😆

That's a beautiful C64c! What happened to the underside? Oh and I spotted what you did to the SX-64 at 3:14. 😉

Carrying around the SX-64 helped to condition and tone my muscles for carrying an M-60 which also weighs 23 pounds. 👍👍👍👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Are you keeping. up with Eric's collection, 'cause Eric's collection has far surpassed you ...". Lovely video as usual Eric. In the ever evolving situation of us having very similar tastes, I've finally gotten my hands on that C128D I've been after, YAY. Arrived pretty banged up by the courier, BOO!. It's salvageable so I'm getting there. Have the same. C64c case for a spares board I was given by someone in work that I managed to restore. It's my mod64, will be loaded up with all sorts of mods. One I'd dearly love it to have is a Mechboard64. I guess that's the next item to chase :)

I have the exact same case. Other then the minor flaws that I guess goes with using old molds or inexperience, (?) it is pretty cool. Nice vid. I always wanted an SX-64 until I actually used it and like you said the screen is not great for text. They used a regular CRT sized shadow mask so the holes are too big for the size CRT it is. The result is a pretty obvious dot pattern. This could have been oh so much better with a better quality CRT.

Nice. I like that motherboard.

This was more or less exactly the rig I had back that days. Geos was AFAIR the only software that took use of the RAM expansion. I had the smaller one and upgraded it to 512 K by soldering. Two more differences: My monitor was called 1901. I assume that was the European version. Also I put in a turbo button. There was a jumper on the mainboard, to switch from European power frequency to US power frequency. The computer was then 10-20% faster. The VIC did not like that, but the high resolution mode of the c128 did not use the VIC. To sad this did not make it through time.

Clee? My friends and I from the Netherlands all called it the C L I (see el eye). Was Clee the usual pronunciation in the US?

Hi. If there a common machine to interface old and new. Currently for Apple equipment i have ibook G4 and macbook core 2 duo and Imac core2duo, all 3 getting old but still used at times. Back in Y2k days, i am trying to remember but i believe i had Mac2 LC - pizza box with a separate beautifully sharp ( sony ?? ) screen - that had a newer mac as a companion a LC450 or Performa 5200 - i cant remember it was to long ago, abut it was a all in one and had either floppy and cdrom or cdrom and zip disk built in ( ok it may have been floppy and cdrom and external zip - but that may have belong to the pizza box - to long ago ) Anyway i was able to connect both up, apple talk - i definately recall moving files between the 2 ( memory is vague as when doom came out on PC i was given some smc combo cards and ran co-axial under the house between 4 room s ( it is still there ) but late upgraded to 10/100 cat 5 - but none of those machines have 10/100 ethernet connectors

I worked out that you can turn off a setting in the ultimate ii cartridge to make this work with it. Can't remember what it was off the top of my head

A year has passed since the publication of this video and as I heard the C64 core compatibility is quite good now.

For me sometimes glitchching amidock 45.14, if i press left mouse button when click on top of screen in hotbar menu in classic workbench in emulator by pressing left click button of mouse then mouse just frezz, but emulator still working and clock ( clock apps with time also continue work, but mouse cirsor just freez ), and when try change on hotbar menu of workbench or amidock, 50 on 50... btw, in emulator , in ClassicWB_OS39_v28 version, i do not know why... In Amiga OS 3.9 all fine...