Great Games on a Word Processor? Amstrad PCW Stargliding
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2019
- On today's menu let's discover the joy of Joyce & go Stargliding with Gotek & the majestic Amstrad PCW, with the support of our friends at PCBWay.com - PCB assembly for only $30 + free shipping!
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Goteks have sold out but I am getting another 5 ready. Please keep an eye on eBay (it should be a few weeks at least). Please send me a message if you’d like to reserve one.
Ha. I just sent you a message on Ebay. Thanks for the heads up :-)
I like the screen name!😎
You’re the best!!!
Sitting on my 3'inch floppy... LMAO Brilliant!!!
And it's got hard! 👍👍👍😂😂😂😜😜😜
It's 5,25" when it's not floppy
So wrong yet so right lol
Those 3” ones were rock hard, its the 5.25” guys that were the floppiest!
IKR, and I thought it was going to be one of Puppyfractic's dog boners!
Delightful! Ladyfractic is totally awesome, you should feature her more! :D
Thanks mate. Unfortunately unlike me she has a real job but she'll be back! 👍🕹️
I wonder if he gets more views when she’s on....
What a beautiful wife!
She needs her own channel... 😁
@@chris8139 Check out the views with her in the thumbnail vs. others... :D
I'm actually blown away by this. The graphics must have seemed incredible back in the day (they actually still look good now!)
Im just gonna say what everyone else is just skirting around saying. Ladyfractic is one damn fine looking woman.
Yes I agree 😊
More importantly she knows her Hardware !
i had some wako knees when i've seen ashley. she is soooooo cute omg....i love ashley
she is stunningly beautiful
Fitter than a Butchers Dog! 😜
Love the Bjork reference by Ladyfractic! 😂😂😂
I missed it, care to share, please?
@@namakudamono 7:14 See also czcams.com/video/75WFTHpOw8Y/video.html
I think about that Bjork interview all the time, too.
I got here through 8-Bit Guy, stayed because of the wonderful narration of Hibernated and now I’m totally hooked because of your informative videos and witty humor!
Great to have you here! 👍🕹
Same here. I am now subscribed to the 8-bit guy and Retro Recipes.
Let's be honest here, Ladyfractic is an 11/10!
Agreed.
The squeaky sound is what put her over the top isn't it?
I think she's pretty awesome... but she's no soothing baritone.
She's super awesome and gorgeous, you should ask her out.
I'll have to ask my wife first
@@RetroRecipes you should divorce on the spot! Ladyfractic and you have so much in common!
@@Derisoireetsardonique BTW, Ladyfractic is my wife 😜
@@RetroRecipes then I wish both of you a happy life together!
I did inquire a while ago about the screwdriver sound fx and he did say Ladyfractic was the source, now I got to see her do it live! Awesome!
Confirmed!
8:46 How many times have I thought, 'It lives there now.'?
Aw man I laughed so loud at Lady Fractic's Bjork impression - so cool :)
Your amstrad was a TI-99 for me. I used to LOVE that old computer. Many many fond memories sitting at my fathers desk with him playing games together... Good times indeed.
glad to see your wife being a good sport with your quibs and her willing to help you nee to see if there are any classic computers she wants for lady fratic recipes
wow she was even being a good sport for you even being sick i know a lot people when sick dont want to do anything i know im one of them
Oh you have a fully working amstrad pcw and a wife that does the unscrewing? Lucky.... so lucky 😝
I miss old computers. Back when they were fun
Great video. I like the fact that you enlisted the help of Ladyfractic, she’s obviously a competent technician. As for the machine itself, I was surprised to see how well it played games.
This is sooooooooo nostalgic. My folks had one of these too. For some reason I found it more interesting than my speccy. Used to spend hours fiddling with it.
Something to do with the hidden possibilities that made it tantalizing I think...
Don’t you mean “gnostalgic”? ;-)
Used to spend hours and hours on it in the 80s and had graphics progs like AMS Stopress and you could get a scanner and lightpen with software,I used to be up at 3am producing club newsletters. Fascinating watching them printing out!
This soothing voice. He truly is the Bob Ross of computers.
❤❤❤ Sold loads of these when I worked at Dixons back in the 80's.. didn't know you could play games on them.. could have been another selling point!
Love the crisp resolution the green screen provides when displaying graphics.
Starglider was my favourite game, too.
Thank you so much!
Always thing fondly of Amstrad computers. Had a CPC464 with an external 3" drive and a few years later a 664 with the integrated 3" drive. All this talk of 3" disks brought back happy memories! :)
So glad you finally got to play Starglider. Brilliant video Peri!
Thanks to you!! 💾👍 (Where's the 3" disk emoji?!)
You and your wife make an awesome couple! So great to see her on your videos! Content as usual is A+. And now we know the secret of your awesome sound effects.
Perifractic I would be worried about job security if I were you! LOL Lady Fractic did an excellent job!
Wifey is going to take over, bro 💍💍
But seriously... all of us retro doods would consider ourselves extremely lucky to have a significant other who is so supportive of our gaming hobbies. 👍👍👍👍
Always watch your videos when Ladyfractic makes an appearance, cute and funny, lucky guy.
The Björk impression was very good!
So, i was 14 or 15 years old and my father had a Schneider CPC (german Version of the Amstrad PCW). I learned Logo on the Schneider in the Holidays i spend by him. Didnt know there are games for this machine. very nice
Remember playing hitchhikers guide on my dad's old 386, good times
1:30 I like how the dog begins eating it as if it is a treat
Love the squeaks glass crashes and the puppy growl. :) OH and the video was good too.
I am convinced that Lord and Lady Fractic are the most wholesome family on the entire internet.
Oh and the PCW games look awesome; i was particularly impressed by the pacman game.
The PCW was a great computer - I have many happy memories of mine!
I just realized how awesome that bass line is in the outro music...
Well done my dude.
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot. 👍🕹
I'm always amazed at how they got these computers to run such great games, on such tiny memory!
Cool episode guys ;)
Wow, I had no idea such a wealth of high quality games existed for this! Great video!
Same, never had a clue and those graphics.
Cool! I still love how you include the ladies and the puppies! Always a nice touch.
What are we without women and dogs...?
@@RetroRecipes Exactly! :)
The innuendo is hilarious!
As a (rare) American Atari ST kid, it’s really wild to see Starglider running on an 8080 CP/M word processor.
Nice. Thank you PF!
Next time you get to speak with Mr. Lord Sir Alan Sugar ask him when the Mark 4 Emailer phone is coming out! 😝
Thanks lady fractic! That was a fun recipode!
There is something just awesome about my childhood era of gaming - green monochrome graphics just add to atmosphere - Love it 😍 thank you for sharing ⛩🎥🎬
They really do!
Im sure ive commented this before, but if there is one thing that gives me the nostalgias for my school days its these flippin word processors, they did cause the one and only time i got in trouble at school but i still have a soft spot for them lol
The graphics and performance on some of those games are pretty impressive for a word processor from 1985 that wasn't meant to run graphical games. Pacmania looks a little slow, but it's amazing it runs at all on a machine like that and it's definitely playable.
THAT AGE green visuals, r so gorgeous as epic. i´ll never forget those beautiful machines..
*drops screw* "That's fine, it lives there now."
This is why my computer has a lot of screws rattling around when I move it.
That bit made me laugh quite a bit. Been there, done that.
It would appear Ladyfractic is actually the brains behind the channel, and Perifractic is just there for the good looks.
Nailed it
Interesting content, very entertaining for us geeks, and a very well produced video. As always, should I say...
Very nice and interesting video (not only because Ladyfractic.Her cute sound effects sound great).That was the first time I saw such a computer.
I had a 8256 given to me by my grandfather when I was about 6 or 7. I loved that thing so hard. Used to write all sorts of silly stories and make basic games.
I was born in 1980, so started with 5.25" disks before moving to 3.5", and also messed around with a machine that used 8" disks, (and also I have used zip disks, etc) but have never seen those 3" disks before.
1:13 best moment ever ! hahaha
Lady Fractic is amazing with her skills.
The Fractic family keeps growing - keep up the great work 👍
It's weird, I've been watching RR for years and never realized Perri was British until he said has a soft spot for the Amstrad.
It's awesome to see more of the wife. Always great to get the family together with retro. Has a kid I used to take tv's apart not knowing about the crts stored electricity. Lucky I didn't mess to far into them.
Guy on a bootie in the 90s had a lot of these stacked up selling £20 each. I wasn't interested sadly at the time I had my windows 95
Highly entertaining and informal as usual. Great channel this! Back in the days I got asked to translate the manual for the CPC6128 from english to swedish . Totaly unofficial job, it was the local computer store in town that wanted a swedish version to give to their customers. I was supposed to come to the store after school to do it, but after just a few nights I gave up, it was way too much work and that discstation was already gnawing on my hand...
Thanks Peri Chef I mean Per Gref!
Retro Recipes yeah sorry, should've read informative, not informal 😂
I actually did something similar with my Kaypro 2x system, using an HXC floppy emulator, the drives still worked, so I cloned the original disk that came with the machine and went from there
That Björk reference was freaking gold 😂 every time I see that video of her... going over the crt parts… I feel like I’m tripping on acid. I think that’s the only time I’ve ever seen her face or heard her voice, and I didn’t really know anything about her I didn’t even know she was a singer. So when I first saw that video of her it was just so odd and hilarious.
The 3-inch floppy joke 😆
am I bragging when I say I have 3.5 inch
Great to see a Design-Design game get some love!
I've been away awhile and decided to check out a video. I was not disappointed! I was happy to see your wife is just as silly as you! I'll be watching more from your channel again.
Wow. That mod was so awesome. Those games work amazingly well. Very cool. Ladyfractic is very capable. Squeaky screws! Very funny.
Love the gotek display, something very satisfying about seeing the titles as you scroll through them lol
Ladyfractic is like something from a fairy tale.
Absolutely fabulous you got LadyFractic to be in the videos too! Love the banter and the interaction. :)
Very interesting the capabilities of a word processor. My dad had put together one of our early computers that had a Z80 processor and used CPM. This was in the late 70's and it didn't have the graphics this thing had. I really enjoyed this nostalgic video.
TIL 3" floppies have protective metal flaps similar to the 3.5" ones. This is the 1st time Ive seen one up close, I had only seen them in magazine ads before and assumed the media was exposed just like on a 5.25" floppy.
And you call yourself Solid State?! Seriously though, I made a point of showing that as it's rather interesting. I remember when the 9-Bit Guy unboxed one and said the disk itself was silver, so it's good to show what that silver really was. 👍🕹
@@RetroRecipes So they added a parity bit to David Murray? Good to know, as it makes his statements more believable ;)
I remember playing games on this during the 80s. Never owned a PCW but had access to one. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was fun, so was Head over Heels: which played quite fast. Although Amstrad's tech often got a bad rap for being cheap tat, the PCW was a decent machine for the price and they'd taken a leaf out of Apple's book with a focus on simplicity. Someone who wasn't IT savvy could unbox it and be up and running in minutes. Pity it never had a colour display.
You're wife is awesome. I was chuckling away at the cute little noises she was making. My wife and I get silly sometimes like that, even after 34 years of marriage. ;)
That's great to know!
This video is another great one and with Lady fractic involved I think it's a sweet thing that both of you share such a great hobby
How fascinating. Who would have thought the graphics would look so good on a green screen monitor. Great to see the talented Ladyfractic at work too. I think I will have to check through past videos to see who's hands are doing the repairs now. Haha. Cheers.
Haha mostly mine... I think...
:-))
OMG I adore your voice.! so buttery smooth and warm. I could listen to you all day. You could read me the phone book and it would sound great! Seriously, consider going into voice over work. You've definitely got it.
Thank you so much! Actually I've done a bit here in LA 😊 christiansimpson.com
23:33 Carring case ? OMY !!!!!
Move over, Nintendo Switch
What size of batteries were needed to make it portable.
@@gavinbruce6656 Just a simple car battery
@@RetroRecipes A car battery and a back brace! I can see from the ad that they had the office ladies' comfort foremost in their mind. At first, I thought it was a wheeled cart but realized my mistake. "Yeah, the wheels WOULD make it heavier…"
Shoulda said, "…heavier to carry." Oh well, second thoughts after the send button…
I used to help my friend re standing in for him when he with his family took a holiday. He ran a retail store and did his accounts on the PCW (dual disk) The reason for that was his accountant had the same machine so it was good for him to do his accounts on it and then pass the disk to the accountant for finalising. I was used to pcs having been building pcs from the motherboard soldering of components, ultrasonic cleaning with chemicals plus of course the final assemblies for a company who built pcs for Reuters (Int News Agency) Late 70s + My wife was also a COBOL programmer working for a huge logistics company as a programmer/supervisor/trainer so we had various machines at home for her work incl of course data backups et Thus this Amstrad PCW was a breeze to use and though the green screen could be irritating ☺it did its job really well. Totally impressed.
I'm a little late to this Amstrad PCW party, but thank you so much for this video. Finally, someone else who has fond memories of the 8256! It was the successor to the Speccy in our house - a shame about the lack of colour, but I loved it nonetheless. The endless hours spent messing around in CP/M and Mallard BASIC. We were big fans of the Microdesign suite of software (MicroDesign, ProSCAN and Tweak) which meant we could do pretty advanced desktop publishing for back in the day. I remember typing out a Pirate-themed text adventure BASIC listing from a magazine and using the GSX extensions from Mallard BASIC to add in illustrations I'd scanned from pirate books from the local library using ProSCAN! This sated my programming appetite until my Amiga A500 arrived a few years later.
Excellent episode! LadyFractic nailed it! 😀👍
We had one of these in my English class in school, wish I'd known you could get games for it ;)
Brought back some memories!! ;) my dad also had a PCW in his office, and I used to play some games on it when he was off, "Livingstone", "Sol negro" etc...didn't know about the "Starglider" version till now!! looks really superb for the machine it was, graphically nothing to envy to the ST version BTW, well...almost. LOL
Uh oh ladyfrartic's taking over the channel!!!...
Wait actually now that I think about it. CZcams could use some girl power tech channel's. All hail ladyfrartic!
10:14 i LOVE the screwdriver chipmuck :D
According to the commercial, it was available from Billy Guyatt's discount city....where I purchased my C-64 all those years ago! (Billy Guyatt's was a long defunct Australian home appliance store)
STARGLIDER!!! Whenever I get behind Starglider One to kill it, I always say "Huge. Impossible to miss."
Wow, finally the day has come! Been looking forward to seeing this coming true for quite a while, since I knew it would be a thing at some point.
The whole new “PCB Way” level. ❤️
My dad had an IBM XT for office work which I used to play games such as Indianapolis 500, Flight of the Intruder and Leisure Suit Larry on in glorious 4 colour CGA graphics! Good Meriories.
Just a couiple of points, I had a CPC464 when they first came out, and eventually bought an external floppy drive. Sugar bought the drives cheaply, but the blank disks were initially £5.00 each, compared to £1.00 or so fir the three and a half inch disks.
When I was upgrading from the CPC I already had a printer (DMP1000), the choices, other than very expensive Macs or PCs, were Atari ST, Amiga 500, and Amstrad PCW. SA friend bought an Amiga with The Bard's tale and DPaint. No contest. I bought an Amiga (which I still have) and after upgrading the ram, began to play games in colour and write and print novels and short stories. The latter had been my goal from first owning a ZX Spectrum and finding that, in general, the 8 bits were not up to the task.
Interesting video of an iconic machine.
text adventures were so cool back then!
"3in floppy" 🤣🤣🤣
Well done LadyFractic! The new drive looks amazing :-)
I am really stunned by the graphics on this old computer! and say "woff" to PUPPY FRACTIC!! so lovely!! - think my puppy DEX is getting enticed by her! Levi
Ladyfractic did such a great job!
Hi guys, stumbled across your channel a couple of days ago and became heavily nostalgic after watching some of your videos ..all that beautiful equipment from the days of my youth ! :o)
- Ended up with a beautiful "like new" Amstrad PCW 8512 from an ebay auction where I spotted it accidentally..."Boxed, New old stock", everything untouched, amazing !!!
..looks like I have to come by from time to time...!
Good teamwork!! I just enjoy my free Saturday even more, when watching your videos, simply great!!
Nice to see the PCW getting some love!!
Ah, memories!
I had a Tatung Einstein CP/M with Z80 chip 16k RAM, 80 column green and 3 inch floppies, double-sided 1984 awesomeness :)
Lady Fractic! Now I am an happy guy.. For perfection now we only need a 'crossover' epidode with Ashley 😉😉
Aw dang! I had a 9256! I loved the PcW!