“39,000 is plenty for the average program” Ahh the good old days 👍

I figured out the secret to score keeping from him explaining variables, s=0:?s+10 will change 0 to 10, where ever I poke it into character memory on the screen! And I believe poke can also manipulate the score with the ch$ too. This is fascinating. I’m working on my first dungeon crawler game and I find this man easier to understand than anyone today on KZbin.

If anyone is looking for a sort of spiritual successor to the c64, look up the Mega 65. They tried to make a commodore 65, there are even a few rare instances of it in the wild, but the company went out of business and it never got made past the prototype phase. The mega 65 is a modern remake of the c65 which also has a fpga(think it’s fpga) of the c64 and you can hook up original peripherals. Edit: I forgot if you don’t want to spend 700 bucks on the mega 65, you can buy a Commodore 64 maxi. It updates a lot of stuff in it like a micro sd slot and hdmi hook up. It has a full sized keyboard unlike the c64 mini. Both come with a ton of games.

"Let's put the box away" - just yeets it in to the nearest corner like the rest of us do.

i love computers but this one is the best ?? !! it’s the best there is the best there was and always will be !!

Seventeen years since this was posted, and I had to write something. I have been a proud Commodore computer owner since the Vic 20 days. I can't remember for certain, but I think I bought the Vic 20 in 1978, and graduated through the C64, and all the Amiga computers, up to the Amiga 4000/40. I still love them all, and still use my A3000/40 regularly. (My A4000, needs recapping).. I started working with personal computers when I was in my 30s, with the Vic 20, and joined TPUG at sometime in those early years. I lived on the West Coast, so I was never able to attend a meeting. Jim, was an important influence in my computer education, and I relied heavily on his book on machine language for the C64. I am sorry to learn that both Jim and Syd have passed, and I just wanted to write and pay my respects to both men and their families.

Is he related to Brian Butterfield? ;)

Love it! Its actually the only BASIC course not beggining with 10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD! 20 GOTO 10 ❤

OMG, now there’s a name I haven’t heard for 40 years! Jim Butterfilled really was the authority. The C64 was my 2nd computer, the Vic20 was my first. Those were the days

what are the voice or voices at the very end saying???? Had to turn it up loudly but its after the credits and just a black screen. I'm like...am I losing it! LOLZ! No, there is someone ranting or some shit at this time point= 1:56:11

Years later, this song is still a banger...

Someone needs to add AI with a vast amount of knowlege about C64s and Amigas.... Add AI right into the old tech. I would have a geekasm if I could make programs and games from scratch with a C64 AI or Amiga AI ....

intresting video did you notice that this bloke sound just like Jonathan ross cant pronounce his r 's in words

Not anymore

video games were soo expensive wow

I'm sure Jim got paid really well for this video, but he would have gladly done it for free- this was a labor of love...

a true legend - JB..

You'll need that User's Guide. Don't throw it away.

Somebody got let loose with the Scanimate ... and I'm here for it.

In 1989, I was in Primary 6. The only computer "graphic" I knew about was in the intro to the children's TV series, Terra Hawks.

I miss the old days 😢

Syd, you were always such a nice guy. We miss you.

I can only bet this takes place in some parallel universe where it was miraculously an arcade game as well That and I hope someone still owns that cabinet made

He could've been a host on an Unsolved Mysteries program.

1:09:08-1:26:30 how many times did he say LANGUAGE?

Beautiful broadcasting. Really enjoyable to watch!

I really admired Jim. Back in the day, he was the authority! His articles & books were just as good as his talks.

Petting Zoo was one of the biggest Sheridan College shot student films of the time. We shot at night after hours when the patrons cleared out of the Palm Cinema on the Lakeshore in Oakville. I remember the excitement of the police shutting down a street for us to shoot and CHCH showing up to do a story on the film. Great time, fond memories of everyone involved.

I got my c64 in '84 and I had to learn how to use it from the manual.. No internet, only one other guy I knew at the remote USCG base in Kodiak AK had one. I loved the computer, so many hours of enjoyment 👍

I got my Commodore 64 during the Summer of 1985 and I loved that machine. I wish I would have had this video then. Seeing it now I realize my C64 did many things I did not know it could do. I miss the 80's.

My nipples are hard

"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.