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- Welcome!
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Hello Chip Dippers.
Hello Patrons watching this live stream,
live as you do with a live stream,
and to everyone else joining slightly after,
when I make this stream public.
We are here for a very festive Christmas unwrapping.
It's just an unboxing, really.
I'm feeling very festive.
We've got the Commodore Christmas demo
playing on the Commodore 64,
and that was actually originally written for
the Commodore Plus 4.
And when you first boot it up,
which I'm not going to do now,
it says the Executive 64.
I think that's what they were going to call
the Plus 4 and that whole series.
Anyway that's running and it's playing
the Christmas carols as you may be able to hear.
(Christmas Carols)
And we've also got this lovely pile
of presents so I'm going to get straight to it.
Let's start unwrapping.
I did just want to talk really briefly first
about this.
Obviously this is Ghost Busters the game
as you all know, and well,
there's something interesting about this.
This was the first Christmas gift I ever
remember getting for the Commodore 64.
And I was so excited to get this
and to find it under the tree.
I remember feeling the wrapping.
"I've felt your presence (presents)!"
As Spock would say, well,
one of those characters,
and when I finally found this under
the tree and I actually felt the gift wrapping,
I was so excited.
Christmas day came.
I unwrapped it,
loaded it up and it didn't load.
And I aligned the heads on my Commodore 64,
using the screw driver as you do.
I tried everything.
And it would always freeze just at the last moment
Just at that compression flicker.
Remember that really rapid flicker?
just before the speech was going to start in the game,
and turned out they'd released faulty batch.
At Christmas.
Thanks Activision.
But it's fine, I love Activision.
One of my favorite brands.
I had to wait til not Boxing Day but the 27th
of December to go back to WH Smiths,
swap the tape and get a new one.
And that one worked!
But that loading sequence is now indelibly
inked into my brain, from every time I loaded this game.
But yeah very fun Christmas memories.
So let me know in the comments
and in the live chat - if you have that.
What was your favorite childhood Commodore, Apple,
ZX Spectrum gift you remember getting
Christmas or birthday.
I'd love to know.
Thanks for saying I'm looking spiffy, John.
Oh, hi Rick, you've noticed the sweater.
So Bob Ross is here with us.
It says, "happy trees."
Ladyfractic is not with us.
She unlike me, has a real job (laughs)
and Puppyfractic kept knocking the camera over,
So we'll crack on without them,
but they all say,
"Very happy Christmas to you guys."
All right so first up, this.
I know what this is.
So I'm not gonna even unbox it.
I'll tell ya why.
This is one of those.
Back to the arcade neon light thingamajig.
And that was faulty so they sent me a new one
and then I fixed it so they said, "keep it."
So what I'm doing is I'm gonna give this away
in a random draw for patrons
as you guys are here on the live chat.
I do obviously like to give my patrons
little extra perks because basically guys
you're the reason this channel's still alive.
Well you guys and PCBWay.
Heard of them?
Um...
So what this is,
is a brand new one of those and before
this live stream I did a random drawing.
I went to random.org
Put in my spreadsheet of patrons and drew a name.
Drum roll please? (mimics drum roll sound)
Andrew J McCarthy!
Congratulations Andrew.
I will be shipping this to you and
I'll probably need to be getting your address, so.
Now, we are five minutes into this so I'm
gonna to get on with the real unboxing.
So this guy here,
it looks like some kind of fantastic
inscribing on the side,
"Gift horse mouth is just fine.
No need to look."
If we turn it around we've got,
"contents was packaged with love and care"
"Open with relative care"
Maybe that's with your relatives?
"Please disregard the box graphics"
This is not me trying to tell you
that there's going to be a Babyfractic coming along
"Open here."
So I'm gonna do that.
(fast forwarding)
Thanks's for agreeing to take this Commodore 64 from me.
But due to space constraints,
and my general lack of knowledge,
it just isn't feasible to keep this machine.
Okay let's be honest.
Not only is it a lack knowledge but also
a motivation to dig into either
to determine why this thing locks up all crazy like.
Ah, I sense a repair coming on.
So thank you.
This is from CubicleNate and he gifts this
to me, plural, all of us.
Oh he says I gift this to you, plural.
Me plural, that doesn't make sense.
To do as you see fit.
I hope you can provide a better home for it.
So, there's a bit more to the message but,
if we could just get it out here shall we?
Oh, it's the C64C.
I was expecting a bread bin.
As more snow flies everywhere.
Lookie, lookie.
Commodore 64C. And
it's got a little
switch there,
probably for different ROMs or kernels.
And we're gonna have to maybe find a new key
or get a Lego key cap.
You can get those on my new website as it happens.
Thank you so much CubicleNate.
Really appreciate that.
I look forward to repairing it,
fixing the key and see what else we can do with it.
All right so moving on swiftly.
I don't know what's in here.
That one I knew what was coming.
This seems to be from a book seller or a book store.
So it came from Ridgewood Publishing.
Interesting.
Wow, okay!
This is called Iconic and it is
a photographic tribute to Apple Innovation.
How about that?
This thing is heavy. (laughs)
Trying to hold it with one hand.
It's not working, ow. (laughs)
Steve Jobs quote,
"I want Apple design to be the very best in the world."
I have a feeling if he'd still been with us
that we would not be having all the issues
we have now with MacBook Pro.
Oh yeah!
So this takes you right through
and it's got a forward from Steve Wozniak - Woz - there. Woz was there.
You recognize this disky drive.
There it is, over there.
Two of them no less.
(sighs) You guys are saying here,
Rick is saying on the chat,
that he really needs to pick up a C64C.
Was that a hint there, Rick? (laughs)
Ah, this is beautiful.
So we've got all kind of photographic,
kinda abstract shots of just Apple,
beautiful Apple design.
That's the Power Book there.
Oh, isn't that good?!
I love those kinda early,
what's his name,
the British guy who set aluminium, Jony Hive.
I liked his early designs too.
Ah this is giving me tingles.
I'm gonna look forward to looking at that.
Thank you so much to Ridgewood Publishing for that book.
Iconic.
It was an iconic gift.
All right we have got three things left.
Printed paper, Ooh.
Printed paper.
It's a Christmas card.
Oh, oh, OH, well,
as if Ladyfractic was here with us,
turns out she is!
This is original artwork in the original
pen and ink from Oliver Frey.
So he designed and updated my avatar,
added Ladyfractic to it.
So let's take real care of that!
And then this was his original.
I never would have thought growing up
that I would have personally created
artwork from Oliver Frey.
When I was looking at all of his incredible covers on,
well on Zzap!64,
I just happen to have here.
Who would have thought.
I mean who would have thought we'd be watching videos,
about all this stuff all those years later as well huh?
Ugh okay my tingles have turned into goosebumps.
Wow.
Thank you Oliver for sending that across.
I'm not worthy
All right next up we have (laughs)
Okay this is from
well it's from Randy Rossi but on the back is PCBWayyyyyy.
So if you guys would head over to pcbway.com
they have a Christmas deal right now where their
PCB's are up to $200 off just for Christmas.
So if you're thinking of making something
like a prototype board or if you've found a
design online that you want to order
the real version of, check them out
PCBWay because as we all know,
PCB stands for Perifractic's Christmas (un) Boxing.
(fast forwarding)
Hi, here is a BMC64.
This is for you to try out with the
Raspberry pi two or three.
available at, and I'll put the link
below the description after this.
Available at accentual.com and it is a bare
metal fork of VICE.
So basically it's the best Commodore 64
emulator you can get.
Lets take a look at what we got.
So there's ribbon cable,
Power supply and
PCB (way).
And PCBWay by the way is the other reason
that this channel still exists.
I definitely would not be doing this
if it wasn't for patrons or PCBWay.
As Matt Grandis says,
"Perifractic's Christmas Bonanza."
And here it is.
Oh I see how this works!
Wow so this is actually
we're connecting to the Raspberry Pi.
It doesn't include the Raspberry Pi which is fair enough.
So we put the ribbon cable like that and then this
goes in the Commodore 64 case.
It just so happens though,
I happen to have a Commodore 64 here.
So that would just go in those ports.
That is awesome!
So if you guys want to build your own
Commodore 64, and use a reliable emulator.
Now you can get BMC64 for the Raspberry Pi
if you like this right here,
from accentual.com.
Thank you so much Randi Rossi.
That's fantastic.
Two more, let's crack on.
(laughs) I say that, and don't know where to start.
(fast forward)
Matt Grandis says in the chat he has
a spare Commodore 64 case, nudge, nudge.
Lots of hints coming from the patrons.
What is, what?
Oh!
Okay.
Sorry I always have these realizations
three, six months later what this thing is.
So this is a
guy on Amibay which is the,
oops, (laughs)
which is the Amiga
kind of version of fleaBay.
His name is Raymond Liu and he
helped me out a lot with this item here.
This is an Amiga 4000 power supply.
I am gonna get Ladyfractic to install this
in a very special Amiga 4000.
It's just over there.
I won't grab it,
but it came from Digital Domain.
They made movies Apolo 13 and Titanic.
And we tried to get it working.
We turned it on and it blew the power supply.
So this is gonna allow us to find anymore footage
that's on that machine.
Now when this video goes public,
I may have already released that video
exploring that Amiga 4000 because we
managed to use a power supply from another Amiga.
However there is an additional hard disk
we found that may contain footage
from one of those movies.
So this is gonna allow us to use
the real machine.
Get it fully restored and this thing looks great.
There isn't even any dust in the fan.
So thank you Raymond Liu!
I'm a big fan of yours.
Okay as I laugh at my own jokes...
I think there's only one thing left.
Ah.
(fast forwarding)
(laughs) Even more snow.
Let me see if this thing's full of polystyrene chips.
Eek we're gonna have to get the vacuum out.
Oh my gosh (laughs)
You wanted Christmas,
I'll give you Christmas.
Okay this thing is,
well can you guess what this is actually?
It's got two cables coming off it,
audio and video I believe
and a power supply.
(fast forwarding)
Do you know what it is?
Again this is made by Commodore.
(laughs) It's Christmas!
Any guesses?
Happy Christmas everyone.
This is a Commodore TV Tuner.
So I didn't know this thing existed.
I just found it on Ebay and I just bought it.
But yeah, so Commodore basically made this
to go under their monitors.
You can maybe see the edge of the
Commodore 1084S over there.
You can sit the monitor on top,
plug in the ariel connection for your antenna in the house,
and audio and video go into the monitor
and turns your monitor into a TV set!
I never knew til two weeks ago that this existed.
Sintonia, I'm guessing that's tuning?
And different bands too, UHF.
That's probably gonna allow you to do radio as well.
And on to the power on and off button.
So my idea is to make another video exploring
the Commodore STV.
This was the model STV01 made in Spain.
So quite a find there.
I say I'm gonna make a video about it,
this is a video so welcome to my video
about the Commodore STV.
Well I am a lucky boy.
I'm covered in snow,
surrounded by gifts and I've got you guys watching
and Commodore Christmas demo playing over here.
I think I'm gonna wrap it up so,
John on the chat said he's seen one of these before
well he's got one up on me.
I had no idea so that's gonna be fun exploring it.
Thanks for sticking with me and thanks.
Apologies for the audio issues too;
I've got a new setup for live videos here
and I've got some real tweaking to make,
but hey it's just like a festive retro video.
Something doesn't work, gotta fix it.
That's what we do here.
Thank you so much.
As always subscribe below
and I'll say, Cheerio
But also I wish you a very Peri Christmas!
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