Back to The Retro Show: June's Best Retro Curated in One Nostalgic Place

[@more.power.]

It is Sunday morning, and I wake with anticipation after a restless night's sleep. Every Sunday, I prepare my cup of tea and two thick slices of Tip Top bread generously smeared with clover honey. My iMac awakens from sleep mode, illuminating the room and ready to present its content from halfway around the world. I fluff my pillow on the old lounge chair, as my trusty office chair met its demise when one of the wheels broke free. I wash down my half-chewed toast with piping hot English tea, preparing myself for Retro Recipes and the Fractic family to fill the screen. My Amiga 4000, now wired to the network, valiantly attempts to display some of the stream content. With the toast eaten and the tea finished-some of which unfortunately spilled on the keyboard-27 minutes and 9 seconds have flown by, leaving me with the best feelings of the 1980s bubbling up like one of my mum's finest stews. This great channel and its content let me relive the best parts of the 1980s without enduring the less pleasant aspects, like school dental clinics. Thank you, guys-you are the best!

[@Greedygoblingames]

When I started reading this I thought it was the beginning of a 1980's style text adventure game. Perfect! 💖

[@JohnSandlin-e3j]

I had a light blue Smith-Corona in a case like that one in the Typewriter segment.

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

24:08 That was my best friend's Atari 1040STE struggling to fit on that desk ....with some help from the drawer . I am at the role of the wing-man during a multi-disk loading session ready to pass the correct disk.

[@RetroRecipes]

Oh cool!

[@voidstar1337]

The X16 is along these same lines: it's about what it CAN'T do. Like my old 1967 VW dune buggy - a bare bones experience but with some style! (although VERA is like adding a warp-core to the X16 system - it'll take you places!) The great thing about typewriters is how the pressure used to type adjusts the resulting font, which in turn reveals a tiny bit about the nature of the user. It's an experience that modern digital keyboards can't replicate.

[@eskey691]

This was the bright spot of my day so thank you, man if they had that gun for duck hunt i'd still be playing it now. An did i see a C64 using a C16 tape deck, first thing i seen in that photo as i did the same back in the day. So love this show and yes i have 'here comes the sun' stuck in my head now, you guys have a great weekend and take care and am so so looking forward to the next one 🙂🙂

[@timmooney7528]

Back in high school and college I had a daisy wheel typewriter. Can't recall, but I think it was a Brother. It had an option to plug in a serial interface, and become a printer. My parents threw it out, but it would've been cool to track down the serial interface and to have used it as a printer.

[@RetroRecipes]

Yep, my Mum's Olympia had a Commodore 64 printer attachment. One day I'll track one down and try to do the conversion!

[@Retroguyuk75]

Yet another great episode, I always look forward to the Retro Show every month :)... I'm very happy I managed to get my 48k rubber key specy working today by working out which ram chip was "buggered :)"... happy weekend y'all :).

[@RetroRecipes]

Ooh nice work. Another retro device saved!

[@smivers2003]

another great episode, cant wait for the next one

[@Wolfanoz]

So happy Glen sent you that and saw it here. I'm good buddies with him. Makes amazing stuff and is great people like you all.

[@RetroRecipes]

Yeah he's awesome!

[@Reed-Publications]

14:00 - The Public library in my hometown used to play children's audiobooks after hours when you called their number, but if you called while someone was listening to a story, you'd get a busy signal and have to wait until the story was finished. I spent so much time calling that number back when I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's. Good times.

[@RetroRecipes]

That's wonderful

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

The caption: "The family bonding over the Atari 8 bit". -To me, that is the one thing. Also that re-imagined Duck Hunt gun: Brilliant. Thanks for lining the news up.

[@ChaoticBiker]

So glad this photo made it there! It's me, my brother and my mum, playing the Star Wars game "Death Star Battle" on an Atari 800XE :)

[@Ori-Retro-Gamer]

Perifractic, we are Gen X-wing fighters lol great episode as always 😂

[@carychiasson9834]

Darn I missed The Retro Show live. I will be here watching. I bet there a ton of dad jokes. Did you see Danno from Hawaii Five O in the library reading. They say all the time he's booking someone

[@joegee2815]

This show lowers my blood pressure. Great memories.

[@WittichWolf]

I really fell in love with that bluetooth typewriter keyboard and ordered it from amazon, once I saw it in your show! For years, I planned to write a book. Now, I will start with this project, using my retro typewriter style Keyboard. Thank you very much for showing it 🤩🤩🤩

[@shaunheatley9892]

Love the show keep up the fantastic work 👏😁 xx

[@The-truth-is-valuable.]

So much of this was part of our daily lives. But it also seems very unreal, in some part. Seeing all this retro stuff, it makes you realise how time went past and how it must have felt for your parents and other older people when they referred to the "older days" - now we also have some concept of their feelings.

[@Roy-kf8gv]

I only recently discovered the channel and I'm so glad I did. You two are so lovely together and the format works so well. Hats off for the quality of the production. The editing and transitions and little sound effects all the way through are just so good.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹

[@GAMECLOSET]

The funny thing about the Hall & Oates Hotline is that I have had it saved in my phone since I bought my first iPhone. I just called it last month when I heard that Hall & Oates are no longer together making music. (Yes, they broke up.) John wanted to sell his half their catalog/business Whole Oats Enterprises LLP to Primary Wave IP Investment Management LLC for like $40M (give or take). When I hit the dial button on my phone and heard the familiar menu, I giggled and began playing "Private Eyes".

[@captainpirx]

Your videos brighten my days as well.

[@keyvanmehrbakhsh4069]

well I think there is an obvious serious twist though using a type writer and it's about storage and filing the materials typed and question of authenticity about which side will be safer to store digital or physical but maybe in the end it doesn't even matter by liking park .

[@TPau65]

Thanks for another great Retro Show! 24:22 "Is this a Falcon?" Haha YMMD Peri! 🤣 Btw. it's either an 65XE, 130XE or 800XE with XC12 Datasette. 😉

[@RetroRecipes]

Yep! Believe it or not I don't know every console by heart :)

[@ChaoticBiker]

yes it's a 800xe and xc12, which was modded with turbo3000 system for faster loading :)

[@RetroRecipes]

@@ChaoticBiker Ah there it is!

[@danboid]

THOSE FIREY DELOREAN TRAILS THO! You should've saved that to the end because it'll never be beat. It is both the coolest and hottest thing ever. Thanks for pointing out the Duck Hunt LG! DH has recently been ported to both the Amiga and the Uzebox so I have told the Uzebox DH dev about this video.

[@gazorbo.]

Another Bleeping Bleep Retro Show episode ! In case no one else noticed, LadyFracitic is as radiant as her Saved By The Bell shirt ... more than that ... she is irradiating ! Weird fax machine at the end of the end credits!

[@krisstopher8259]

the doggy makes me laugh, lol. and the nightclub scene. maybe it's just the glass of wine talking, lol

[@michaelshopshire5819]

I am 61 years old and used an electric Smith Corona typewriter at USC from 1980 to 1984 before I switched to an Apple //e. I took out my typewriter from 1980 for fun, and I was surprised how much energy it takes to type a page; after forty years of using word processing software, it was very time consuming.

[@streethawkfan]

This channel is my bowl of nostalgia flakes. So mant things i remember and so many things i want to see again.

[@Greedygoblingames]

You're not the only one who referred to it as Fat Angus! 😂

[@RetroRecipes]

Phew good to know!

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

My memory begins in 1983 when I was three. I distinctly recall seeing the computer my father bought for our house one day and a typewriter the following day when I got to the building where I attended preschool. Subsequently, my dad got a printer, and that appeared to add the missing ingredient from the typewriter to the computer. That was before I learned how a printer could print more than only text. In the intervening 40 years, I have figured out that the typewriter is only one device that I’m too young to have used. The other three are the rotary phone, the reel-to-reel tape recorder and the 8-track tape player.

[@ChaoticBiker]

The atari seen in 24:20 with me, my brother and my mum is an Atari 800XE (basically a 800XL in XE case). Game played was Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle :)

[@RetroRecipes]

Thanks for confirming its true identity! 🎉

[@ChaoticBiker]

​@@RetroRecipesthank you for featuring my childhood photos :) Love your channel and the format, me and the mrs can't wait for each new episode.

[@RetroRecipes]

@@ChaoticBiker Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹

[@ColinJonesPonder]

Voyager: 2 days ping time and still updates faster than Windows 😉

[@RetroRecipes]

Hahaha

[@abstractcache]

Show is great for chilling out! Got to say this though...without bias. Back to the 80's......Sold my Atari 800XL (lack of sw supp), got a C64. I was throughly disappointed. It was like a cheapo version of the XL. I persisted and grew to like it. Thrust, the music sounded so futuristic at the time.

[@TheSimArchitect]

Funny they're not going for the fancy electric ones with spheres, daisies and erasers. That said, an old PC or Apple II would do it, even a 486, provided you don't connect it. 😁

[@AvengerDK]

15 seconds! New record. I love you two and your videos always make me happy :).

[@albertadams25]

I love your channel. Really. Thank you!

[@CRWhiteside]

Surely Peri you will be Gen X-Wing.

[@TheMsLourdes]

Considering everything, if one day Jack black shows up on the show, I am not going to be surprised. But its gonna be awesome! And just as importantly I now have the hall and oats line, in case of emergecny! Sweeeeeet

[@RetroRecipes]

Kate Beckinsale programming a BBC Micro like we did in class together, then Jack Black!

[@kyorin6526]

Low budget knight rider was great 😁

[@stephanepiquemal8297]

Each times you deliver the best moment of the week :)

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words

[@albert_vds]

Did you know that someone made an FPGA drop-in ULA replacement for the Acorn Electron? It's made by Mogwaay and is called the JamSoftElectronULA. So finally, broken Electrons can be saved. Also, there's a PCB on the way called the Elk, which will let you create an Electron from all new parts.

[@RetroRecipes]

That's amazing. If they wanted to submit it for the show we'd love to hear more retrorecip.es/submit

[@albert_vds]

@@RetroRecipes Awesome, I'll tell him.

[@Ghost_Swe]

In Stockholm we have a synth club with a 80's floor called "Tech-Noir" :)

[@RetroRecipes]

On my way!

[@SirenaWF1]

The Hall and Oates phone number is in Colorado Springs.

[@tangothecat237]

Old computer gamed brings back memories

[@carychiasson9834]

Yes HarleyFractic with PCBway

[@Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P]

17:22 "oh it spat on me" that's what she said lol... i'm sorry I just had to, BTW awesome video

[@seanys]

I remember checking movie times on my WAP capable Motorola V2288E phone. I don’t miss that.

[@Ilanvain]

Thanks for another great video!

[@karbinunit]

LOL LB Knight Rider, funny :D

[@monolalia]

24:30 Looks like one of the Atari XE models (130 XE, 65 XE)

[@ChaoticBiker]

yup, an 800XE

[@monolalia]

@@ChaoticBiker The one model I didn’t list :D

[@chrisrobson8540]

is LadyF wearing one of Timmy Mallets old shirts????😎🤣🤣 wow also in the mandalorian.......sure someone else was in star wars but he really doesnt like to talk about it😜 Generation x-wing surely!! another great retro show hope you take the ribbing in the lighthearted way its intended......also puppyF sleeps weird🧐🤐

[@RetroRecipes]

The Force is with us. And yes I don't know how she sleeps like that! Technically she is abiding by her contract by being "on" her bed.

[@grako8129]

The average pound per dollar exchange rate was 1.47 in 1986. So, 2500 pounds would have been equivalent to $3,675. The $4 grand guess for the Beetle was pretty darn close![

[@RetroRecipes]

She’s too darn smart

[@wskinnyodden]

Long live the 80's! Sisters of Mercy 4 eva :P

[@wskinnyodden]

And no, don't ask me to have mercy! If I can't have it on myself don't expect if for others hahahaha

[@Allen-by6ci]

LF looking adorable as usual

[@puzzud]

Low auction price for what should finally end the debate as who (or what) is the 5th Beetle.

[@grumbo39]

I cant believe you have a Zero 1!! You need a model railway and control modules for the engines!! (Dont know if would work with Lionel lol ;) )

[@RetroRecipes]

Yup that's our original one (I used it on the train set I built with my dad, which I imported here to the USA and is in storage). One day when Babyfractic's old enough we'll get it all out and refurb it! Might take a few years though lol.

[@grumbo39]

@@RetroRecipes Once upon a 20 + years ago, I had this up my parents loft. Sadly I could not keep the house, although like you, mines is all in storage!! :(

[@grumbo39]

@@RetroRecipes Sorry, I forgot i was on youtube

[@grumbo39]

@@RetroRecipes Sorry, I forgot this is youtube and I cant send pictures!! I'll go and your page and send it there. Love your show, all my favourite gadgets and computers from 'back in't day''. Have you got a Dragon 32? ;)

[@RetroRecipes]

@@grumbo39 It's all good. Glad you love the content! And no, never used a Dragon32 I'm afraid. I was afraid of the fire breathing feature.

[@robertbarker5981]

Generation X-wing surely 😂

[@RetroRecipes]

Brilliant!

[@Wanton110]

In college ~2005, I left my Nintendo DS with pokemon 'online' in the home room essentially causing it to be an mmorpg

[@stevealino2899]

I love this, never stop ❤

[@RetroRecipes]

We'll try!

[@JTSuter]

Perifractic is a Gen X-wing

[@sg-yq8pm]

2 seconds of Josiefractic? She should host the show.

[@BrianMaddox]

Thanks guys now I can’t stop calling myself a Geriatric Falcon!

[@harryhirsch3637]

Me too. 😂😂

[@RetroRecipes]

Oh gosh what have I started...

[@BrianMaddox]

@@RetroRecipes Hey wear it as a badge of pride. We were alive the very first time Episode 4 hit theaters. We’re also older and have better insurance 😜

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

1:23 Zoomers discovered how to be a hipster. 👏

[@LasseHuhtala]

-"How did you know?" -"All the nerds know Mr Black. All the nerds."

[@rationalmale6265]

God i love this channel!

[@my90squest]

Appreciate you two!! ❤

[@RavBunneh]

I tricked my friend in to calling the Hall and Oats number. They asked if this was 80s Spotify.

[@RetroRecipes]

I mean it basically is

[@Havanacuba1985]

Wonderful love this show so much

[@neohideo]

Chris is Simpson, we're watching The Simpsons

[@RetroRecipes]

And I have two sisters. It was pretty bizarre when that show first launched, to see an ad for my family in the TV magazine 😅

[@DbugII]

At 24:22 it's an Atari XE system, not sure which model though (65XE or 130XE)

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

or an 800XE

[@ChaoticBiker]

yes it's an 800XE :)

[@DbugII]

@@ChaoticBiker ​ @nickolasgaspar9660 is there any easily recognizable difference between all the XE models? I know they exist, but I never seen one in real life (only a 800 XL really)

[@ModBay]

I went full retro today and switched my player to low quality. 😅

[@heathwellsNZ]

24:30 - was that a 130XE ?

[@ChaoticBiker]

800XE. same thing just with half memory slots empty leaving it with 64kb but easily upgradeable

[@Keenergetic]

✌RETRO!

[@SoulPoetryandOtherWorks]

Who knew Ladyfractic was so popular. Actually, we could have guessed. Another lovely bath of warm nostalgic mellowness. Ooh "Mellow" now there's a nostalgic word. Make sure you both check out the new series of Doctor Who. The Beatles episode was quite fun and 73 yards was a classic folk horror-esque piece. Keep up the great work. You are both wonderful advocates of the retro movement.

[@freesiu]

all others please make sure you stay away from the newest Doctor Who as it is a litteral disaster.

[@MrMattWelcome]

... And ( coincenently : ) what is the longest word you can type on the top row of keys on a typewriter...?

[@RetroRecipes]

I?

[@johnveryan2872]

Freeserve disks FTW.

[@xxyy_6969]

My nickname at boarding school was Bog. 🤣

[@mlight6275]

im sure the number plate on the beetle was an alleged cryptic message about paul dying

[@dashdecent4462]

Hello Perifractic, have you seen the new Indiegogo campaign for brand new breadbin C64 cases? Perhaps you can discuss it in your next round of retro news.

[@ZijZijnZijnZoons]

I'm curious about what happened to the VW Beetle from the Bullitt chase scene. That damn car was always ahead of the Charger and Mustang.

[@DJPalsyP]

Would like to submit something for the show, however, I want to use a Google Workspace email and get this message when I sign in "You can't respond to Digital Submissions because you don't have permission to share documents with the form owner. Contact your domain administrator if you think this is a mistake.

[@RetroRecipes]

Hmm that's odd. Please send it via the KZbin About page email button :)

[@DJPalsyP]

@@RetroRecipes Will do, I'll mimic all the form options too. Cheers

[@tinovanderzwan-km7ou]

on the Abbey Road album cover a bit down the road from the VW Beetle is a blue Volvo that is now owned by famous puppeteer Jeff Dunham side note on VW's one of Disney screen used Herbie beetles is owned by one of my neighbors it even has the broken horn sound which by the way was also sampled for the 1984 Ghost Busters I movie as the siren for the Ecto 1

[@tparm]

Where you in a scene for that episode of The Mandalorian, or background crew?

[@RetroRecipes]

Ladyfractic discussed this in The ЯRetro Show that came out just after the episode, where she played a Bith, as well as doubling for the naughty lady with the short hair.

[@tparm]

@@RetroRecipes okay, I'll take a look in that episode. And I'll also Google "Bith".

[@Cycle.every.day.]

Fiver the other channel is KRH.

[@RetroRecipes]

They're involved!

[@adkenzo]

Perifractic can you help me? In one of your videos you rebooted an old machine where you had recorded a cool old audio file of “all my circuits are working perfectly” can you or someone help me identify where this comes from as I want to use it in an old car project

[@RetroRecipes]

Yes that’s from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Google HAL All my circuits.

[@adkenzo]

@@RetroRecipes legend thanks so much PF 🍻

[@retrobluehawk]

I think WAP is pronounced WOP

[@jasonfractic595]

0:34 A pencil is too thin to rewind a cassette tape. You need a BIC® pen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2momqeJequtpZo In the video Mat (Techmoan) tried UK pencils, and enlisted Clint (LGR) to try US pencils. They didn't fit, and they both recall using BIC® pens back in the day, as do I. I don’t get the whole pencil to wind a cassette thing, and I can't help thinking it's a tad revisionist.

[@bazodee2]

Whos the dude at the end?

[@RetroRecipes]

We think his name is Wilhelm

[@sgpch1983]

dont call it your "pontiac trans am".. say your "kitt"!

[@RetroRecipes]

True, though KITT was produced from Michael Long's Trans Am :)

[@swk38]

i am geriatric

[@cresshead]

tech noir

[@wskinnyodden]

You know what? I am waiting for the REAL Retro-techie channel that will produce their videos with actual Amiga Toasts (Aka using the Amiga Video Toaster) Where are the nicely toasted video productions? Are you afraid to burn the toast or that you get Jaisus Christ show up on them video toasts as a shadow?

[@monolalia]

There *is* an Amiga-produced KZbin channel. It’s called The Amiga Show.

[@wskinnyodden]

@@monolalia Really? AWESOME! Thanks!

[@michaelault3180]

Come on the generation name for us would be Gen-X-Wing.

[@RoryCoop-vb1un]

I'm not sure I would take credit for that horrible episode