Welcome to Perifractic's Retro Recipes!
While you were waiting..
I was just reading through the Zzap! 64, 2019 calendar getting ready for that
It's coming up quick, isn't it?
In the meantime, I'm all set up here for a Christmas unboxing but I'm wrapping this Christmas, after all
We've got the Commodore Christmas demo
Now this.. a lot of people show this at Christmas
This is actually pretty special to me. I used to watch this every Christmas
Kind of religiously, you know when I was 12 years old I run upstairs, load up the tape
I think it actually came on the cover of the magazine, maybe Zap 64
And I would load it up and just feel very Christmassy, as you do when you're 12
But today, I'm feeling pretty Christmassy again
You know, this is the first year doing this channel
And it's definitely reinvigorated my love of retro
And of.. Christmas
So I've got my eggnog in my Retro Recipe's cup
See the link in description... obligatory promotion
It's not eggnog.. actually, it's cider
Or as we say in America (american accent) Hard Cider
If you order cider in America, you just get Apple Juice
Which..makes you feel like a 12 again!
So, hard cider is ready
Let's get unwrapping!
I do just want to quickly say..
I was overcome with emulsion from the feedback of the Atari painting Video
Get the emulsion... painting..
Yeah, it's right here
Looking great!
We've got a lovely paint job that doesn't rub off
I still feel like it's a little better for this case, this use case scenario
Than retrobriting is given it that light dusting of spray
You know retrobriting can come back
The yellowing comes back after a couple of years sometimes months
You have to repeat the process, dismantle everything
And bleach which can make the plastic more brittle
And this took, literally, 60 seconds of actual spraying
And the yellowing is not going to come back
So, I'm pretty happy with it
One more thing before we get going..
Hope you like the hat
There we go!
The finishing touch!
Alright, we're all ready to go
Feel free to throw in the comments in the live chat
This is originally streaming to Patreons only
And then goes public as the recording a little later on in the process
So, Welcome to my Patreons!
Alright! Nothing else left to say
It's Christmas!
Lucky that didn't fall in my Cider
Would have been hard cider.. would've been ribbon cider
Alright, so first up this is coming from China from Gary.....
Biasillo
Everybody go out and buy a silko right now
Okay, well, we've got some candy! That's nice
Shall I eat that? I'll save that for my stocking filler
More candy!
It's um.. it's candy that looks, to me, like beef
So, that'll be interesting.. some beef candy
And of course, just what you want on Christmas..
Some squid!
Squid candy. All right
Alright!
Lend us a squid
Got one more
We won't unbox all the candy, but thank you so much Gary!
Okay, I know what this is
So, Gary emailed me
This is for the ZX Spectrum Next
It's called 'NextDAW'
It's a play on words D-A-W So a do W is a digital audio
So, D-A-W is a Digital Audio Workstation
And indeed, that is what this is
I'm not sure if the image is actually back to front.. let me know in the live chat
That's one of those weird YouTube things
That if you live stream from your camera, it can flip the image
And they haven't haven't actually resolved that yet
But it is called NEXTDAW and it says long turn of the days of clunky
And it says "Long gone are the days of clunky, program eccentric trackers. NextDaw is reimagining of a modern digital audio workstation for this ZX Spectrum NEXT
Now, I have a space over here
Reserved for ZX Spectrum Next when it finally arrives on my doorstep
And thanks Michael for confirming the image is not flipped!
I think they just flip it for me so that I look like I'm in a mirror
And I guess they assumed that I spent a lot of time looking in a mirror
But in here is the SD card and that's gonna plug straight into the NEXT when I get it
Let's hope I do get the NEXT.. next
Thank you so much Gary that is next door and you can find out it next da w dot by a zillow.com
That is NEXTDAW and you can find that at nextdaw.biasillo.com
Oh.. I said it wrong..
So thats B I A S I L L O.com and I will a link in the description
Alright.. can't wait to try that!
Next up, something is from....
The Future Was 8-bit (TFW8b.com)
You know, these guys are so generous and helpful and they're actually helping me out with an upcoming, lightly Lego related project
I can't say too much, but stay tuned for info on that
I was checking my live chat here
And..
What could this be
Some of these things, you know, I order, actually, and some of these are donations
And this one I think was an order
Unlike the last one
I don't remember what it was!
Ahh.. okay
Let me open it to show you
This is a Deluxe Composite Mod Kit
I'll show you on the invoice, it gives a little more info about it
This is for the ZX81, the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, etc
This was I think basically an alternative mod to the one that I literally just did
Bad timing..
So this is the cable
And then you have the jumper cable
And in here are the sensitive electrostatic parts
And I don't know if you can see behind me, A Little Beasty roaming around
Hey Beasty, come here!
Yeah..
Come here
This is The Beasty
This is Puppy Fractic, one of many Puppy Fractics
This is a graphics mod for an Atari.
Don't drink my hard cider
Let's take a look. Shall we?
(talking to Puppy Fractic) Do you like my hat?
(still talking to P-Fractic) Oo, that's fun.. it's a fun hat!
She is such a sweet dog!
Alright..
And there's a little mod
So, you can find out more information about this Atari and ZX81 mod at TFW8b.com
I'll put a link again in the description
Thank you guys
And look out for that upcoming project involving Lego and The Future Was 8-bit
I really think they should have called themselves "The future is 8-bit"
Next up.. we have a priority mail package
Let's see if we can open this up as a priority
These things are sometimes difficult
Puppy Fractic! What are you doing in the toilet?
She uses human toilets
By the way, this hat is actually powered by a Commodore 64 mini inside here
True story!
What is this?!
Oooo! (laughing like a kid)
Just like a twelve-year-old again
Can you see what it is?
So if you've been following my Atari series of refurb and upgrade
Sorry, I'm popping the bubble wrap
The whole story..
Yeah, I'm happy. Look what I got!
Well, I got a whole story behind my Atari evolution..
Was that I persuaded my mum to buy me an Atari video game system so I could play this
Because look at the bottom, it says..
For Atari Video Game Systems
Unfortunately, Atari were a little known for not being clear on their advertising
So she bought me, at my request, an Atari 400
And, of course, when we open this up..
We realized that the cartridge will not fit in the 400
This is for the VCS, which I now know what a VCS is
But I've dreamed of actually buying this for...
35 years
It's not gonna fit in there
But in my previous unboxing I was donated a VCS Heavy Sixer
It's faulty but I'm going to fix it up in an upcoming episode
And finally get my dream of playing the Empire Strikes Back on my Atari
Happy Christmas everyone! I'm feeling happy!
That is so cool!
Alright, what are your favorite Christmas memories? Let me know in the live chat
Retro related or even not
Maybe you got Samantha Fox's Strip Poker
Yeah, that's always a favorite with the teenage boys, wasn't it? Yeah
She just slid the cartridge across the floor
I forgive you
Okay.. moving on
Another mysterious package
It is interesting how everybody sent those with these ribbons on them
As if they knew..
Ohh okay!
So, this is from Drakware and it's called the Mac2USB
There's a little PCB in there
And it basically will allow you to connect a Macintosh Keyboard
Old, you know, Macintosh Classic or Macintosh 2
To a USB adapter
And that will allow you to connect it to a modern iMac
That's something I'm kind of kind of interested in doing
I do miss that mechanical keyboard
The way it feels and then sort of clunky stuff when you're typing away
So, I'm gonna be trying to get an old Macintosh Classic Keyboard working with my modern day iMac
Speaking of PCBs..
I do want to do a quick shout out for PCBWay
I mention them a lot on this channel
They've been helping out with an upcoming project and what we're doing
We are finally giving the Commodore 64 a way to switch between NTSC and PAL
So this is a NTSC Mega machine, for example
And the problem with NTSC is a lot of, or the vast majority, of games and demos were written for PAL
So, the music plays too fast on NTSC, other timing problems
In fact, Sam's journey is a good example of that
You can't actually play the cartridge on an NTSC machine at all
So, with this thing that we're building and with PCBWays help
It's gonna allow you to put two VIC Chips in this new product.. it's new PCB
And with the machine off, flick a switch and it will switch to the other VIC Chip
It's kind of complicated so we actually just finished our first prototyping
We're now doing revisions and PCBWay very kindly, again, donated new PCBs
Using their PCB ... the dog is jumping on the cameras there
(talking to Puppy Fractic) Don't do that.. yeah...
No, I'm talking about PCB way
And how they are donating a second set of PCBs for our..
I guess our Alpha Prototype Male
So, hopefully that's gonna work
Stay tuned..I'm gonna be doing a video all about it
Why are you whining?
You want The VIC-II²? Yeah, you want it now?
You can check that out in the link.. I'm gonna put a link below
It's called The VIC-II².. for obvious reasons
Not just because I'm square!
Okay, hmm
Now, if I.. if my calculations are correct
This should be the other part about Mac2 Classic, Macintosh Classic
Mac2USB equation
It's been festive
So, my best friend growing up, Matthew, his dad, Phillip
Hi Phillip, hi Matthew!
They had a Macintosh and that was one of my first introductions to the Mac
I had an Apple IIe, this one.. that's it
Since I was 8, that was the first computer my household had
But here is the distinctive..
Oh yeah! Has that kind of echoey.. clinky-clunky
Almost plinky-plonky sound
Alright, this is the N0110A.. of course, as everybody knows..
That's gonna allow me to plug in via..
If we just set it up a real quick
Via the Mac2USB
This is half the video here, really
Think they'll be a quick-byte-video
There it is!
And that's gonna, then, allow me to interface with USB and I'm gonna have to figure out how the drivers work and everything
Yeah.. we'll see
Now, Fred says 'Now that is mechanical keyboard'
Sure is!
Might just keep that on the desk, you know, just feels..
Feel like I'm kind of.. in the newsroom
(pretend typing along with a news anchor voice) Coming up on Retro Recipe's News Flash
Perifractic has received a Macintosh Keyboard!
Breaking News there..
Hope we don't break the keyboard
Leave that there for a bit
Won't spill cider on it
Retro Recipes Cup
Now these..
Just speaking of PCBWay
What they do, their assembly service
Is they'll surface mount those tricky SMD surface mount components on there for you
So, let's say you order a PCB like this
They'll put on all the stuff that you just can't really do very easily at home
So, what we're going to do is get the difficult interface that connects the two boards that we're going to be providing
They're going to surface mount the connection for that
And everything else you can solder yourself
Using regular capacitors and not all the kit that we're going to give you
That should be easy enough to do
So check out their PCB assembly service
They have some great deals for Christmas
Get up to $1,000 of PCB prototypes
Now, Puppy Fractic is whining, which I think means it's time for a treat
You want a treat?
Upsies!
C'mon.. upsies!
There she goes.
Alright.. now listen!
Give me a paw.. up here..
Give me a paw if you like MacIntosh
She does, she does like Macintosh!
Here we go..
Give me a paw he prefer a Commodore (said in American Accent)
She's American
Do you prefer Commodore?
Give me a paw..
Paw for Commodore (said in American Accent)
There it is.. she prefers Commodore
I just love old retro gear
Everything here is special to me
These are all computers that I owned growing up at some point or another
So..
Special stuff right?
So let's move on to, what I think, our final package
Heading towards that 20 minute magical mark
It's very cozy having you all here with me
What the hell.. let's go for broke
Let's slap on the PCBWay sticker
Job done
Alright, I do you have to lose the newsroom keyboard
Put that down there
And final package is a big one
If only there were an euphemism I could make..
Nothing comes to mind..
So, let's open up this big package
And this, I can tell you, is from David Philippe Gil
David and I've been speak...
.. cardboard crumbs in my cider..
David, I've been speaking to in email
Oohh!
Always excited
This is, indeed ..
..some sort of computer
Happy Christmas!
Yeah, I don't know.. um..
I haven't seen one of these before
Probably have to have to go on Wikipedia or something to figure out what it is
It's got like two 9-pin ports there
So maybe it's some kind of an Atari
Commodore 64
Oooh, it's a Commodore 64!
My bad.. sorry!
Very embarrassing.. I feel silly now
Um..yeah, David sent me this and it's faulty now
Now, I hadn't been doing a lot of repairs because I've been busy making videos
But actually, I decided to just take in a few more
So I'm gonna be trying to fix this for David
And if it's interesting enough..
I'm gonna put it into a Retro Recipes Episode
Um..if it's too complex
And sometimes these black screen repairs can be
What we'll do is put it up to you guys in the community for feedback
And we can maybe do a collaborative series of repairs
That'll be fun!
(clunky typing) Breaking News!
Alright, I think we are ..
Oh, he didn't give me a return label.. how kind
Okay, I think we are basically out of time
And out of packages
Suppose while we're here..
We could get the BrixtyFour
And do a little front by front, side by side comparison. Turn the power on of course, really?
Turn the power on, of course.. ready?
Yeah!
(clinky-clunky typing)
I'll have to decide which one to use my first, official upcoming Newscast
Anyway, I think that's about it
If you guys want to donate any gear to the Retro Recipes Kitchen, it's always appreciated
I'll include it in another live unboxing and maybe it'll make its way into an episode as well
Puppy Fractic's crying, says it's time to get on with this
So check out the donate link in the description
And all the other links of the things that we've got here today into the Kitchen
Just remains for me to say, please like and subscribe
And of course, I wish you a very Peri-Christmas
Stay tuned, on Christmas Day, I've got very fun video coming up
We're going to be unpeeling the protective film from a Sega Master System
That hasn't been removed since 30 years ago that it was purchased
That's going to be very therapeutic and make a nice little Christmas unwrapping video
Alright guys.. Thanks for watching!
Comment below and Cheerio!