Someone THREW OUT These Commodore Computers!

[@psivewri]

Thanks for all the great comments! A lot of you seem to be very knowledgeable about Commodore computers 😊

[@Stenstorp]

If you want some Amiga monitors, software, disks, PSU, and other stuff please send me a message. I've got some taking up space I'm looking to send to a good home. I'm in the Adelaide area too.

[@drphwoar]

They are fun as all heck. The C64 is the best selling home computer of all time. The Amiga is 5th!

[@bradleycochran4595]

Wow this brings back memories. I had Conmodore 64c and then The Amiga 500. I used the Amiga fir college. This is a great video. The 64 c was the original and the Amiga was their next generation. The Amiga was competing with the Atari St computer

[@bradleycochran4595]

The mouse went with the Amiga

[@tvandbeermakehomergo]

Take the RAM expansion card out ASAP. Many A500's have been damaged heavily by them, as it gets onto the motherboard. For the A500 I would heavily recommend upgrading it with a PiStorm. Its a recent development and allows you to use a raspberry Pi as a storage device and act as a hardware acelerator card.

[@panagiotispappas1001]

Oh WOW! Talk about another man’s trash being another man’s treasure! That’s insane, I love vintage computers!

[@nuherbleath461]

I was at house clearence and scored 2 ibm 51xx pcs for £35

[@windowsvista3193]

Is that sarcasm or no?

[@JonCocRoblox]

Nice budgie bro

[@gieselats]

The switch on the floppy drive 1541 changes from 8 to 9. Load“$“,8 Loads in the disk inventory in the RAM. List shows the content.

[@gern0tk]

Nah. Device ID was set using a DIP switch. This is likely a ROM switcher allowing you to run either (fast but less compatible) JiffyDos or the original (slow) Commodore Dos.

[@Not-Scrooge-McDuck]

@@gern0tkonly the 1571 and later have the dip switch in the back iirc

[@Okurka.]

@@gern0tk This 1541 doesn't have DIP switches. Those wires are soldered directly to the original PCB and there's no added ROM; this is an ID switcher.

[@philscomputerlab]

Holy moly, what a nice rescue :)

[@mathiascowin330]

The switch on the floppy drive is likely for changing the drive number from drive 8 to drive 9, and vice versa. On Commodore systems drive 8 is the default drive number for the floppy drive.

[@maboroshi1986]

The 8 bit guy has a ton of videos on restoring those old commodores. Looking him up would probably have tons of answers for you. The garbled data on the 64 could mean the ram is giving up the ghost which isn’t an uncommon thing, replace the ram chips and the computer should boot. As for the disk drive. The switch MIGHT be a device ID switch. A disk drive can id as different numbers to the system. But it’s wired in. The switch lets you do that.

[@309electronics5]

Dont forget Adrian

[@Okurka.]

8 bit guy broke more C64s than he fixed.

[@Soundwaiv]

4:48 bro had to refrain from cracking up 💀💀

[@nathanbrown816]

The garbled characters seems to be a symptom of 4164 chips (the ram chips) failing. Sometimes it can also be related to the system's PLA chip as well, which is another chip on the board.

[@hiredgun7186]

definite candidate for a diag cart

[@zaremol2779]

I don't know much about C64s but enough about computers that even I immediately thought that it was a memory problem

[@nathanbrown816]

@@zaremol2779 That was my first thought on the C64. I fixed one that had this same issue and it turned out to be a bad RAM chip.

[@thecrow3461]

Defintely take the battery out of that amiga and also replace the power supply of the C64, they are prone to fail and when they do they'll kill the enitre computer. They make modern versions of these PSU's which are much safer.

[@munnsie100]

Great find! I came across my Amiga 500 in the same way. An elderly neighbour of mine was moving away and was cleaning out, found "an old keyboard" in his roof space and offered it to me. Full A500 setup. How good!

[@londongaz2]

Love this! I bought a Mac Classic off ebay- the chap kindly included a "keyboard" as well- it was an Apple II !

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

It’s amazing what people throw out. A friend found a fully working Wii U with gamepad, Wii motes, sensor bar and everything. They go for around €90-100. I got a fully working 50 inch 1080p plasma TV for my daughter that no one wanted.

[@stevethepocket]

At this point I'd be less surprised to find something from the modern era that works perfectly in the trash than something as old as a Commodore. You'd think the only people who still own those at this point know exactly what they're worth.

[@Okurka.]

No one wanted your daughter?

[@cjsebes]

I had the Commodore 128 back int he day. I got it for Christmas. A few years later, my father brought home an Amiga 500 from the high school he taught art at. I was hooked. I sold my C128 and bought an Amiga 2000. Great memories gaming on the C128 in C64 mode and creating graphics and animations on the Amiga.

[@TheSpotify95]

Not bad! I don't have any knowledge of vintage computing like this, but i would definitely, without hesitation, desolder the failing clock battery. Whether you replace it or not is your choice.

[@outtheredude]

I found an Amiga (1000) in a rubbish skip around 20 years ago. Recently dug it up from a box from my old home and brought it back to life.

[@priosmithxd]

Take out The Barrel Battery from the Expansion Card as soon as possible. I can and will leak onto the motherboard and destroy it. Also about the toggle switch on the 1541 Disk Drive, It's used to select the device number if you have multiple disk drives. eg: Device Number 8 for Primary etc.

[@KC-kp4vh]

Stuff like this is are my absolute favorite part of the internet. People around the world finding a trashed treasure by sheer luck. Thanks for sharing.

[@mdrumt]

Bro awesome score! Fyi there are many new parts and upgrades for these machines these days. Can't wait to see what you do with them, cheers.

[@OmegaEnvych]

Seeing Amiga and C64 with full complectation and accessories is wild in this condition. You have Amiga and mouse C64 with Disk Drive, Cable for disk drive, disks, Joysticks, Paddles... I imagine that people would give good money for this! And this treasure was thrown away like garbage... Truly - one man's garbage is other man's treasure.

[@stuff31]

Can't believe people are still just throwing these out!

[@runeingebretsen8378]

the old guy was most likely the son of the owner of those computers,and the father has passed away,the commodore 64c came out 1986 and the amiga 500 came out 1987.

[@marktubeie07]

Your excitement in this video is palpable Nathan, what great vintage finds. Nice one mate !

[@ShelleyFrank-qh5or]

This just made what I needed today!

[@drphwoar]

YOU FOUND AN AMIGA?!!? Aw man I gotta go looking in more dumpsters.

[@andybrooks7228]

The Amiga 500 came out before the Amiga A1200. The Amiga 500 is quite sort after as is the 500+ but not so much the 600. The power supply's are available both new and second hand but can be expensive and if second hand would probably need re-capping. I would suggest you cut or de=solder the battery from the expansion board as well as the one in the main computer. All machines would benefit from a re=capping. As to the C64 it could be cap issues or a failed chip or two (good luck).

[@moe_1886]

What a treasure trove of a find!! I miss my Amiga 500! I had so much fun with that thing. Never had a C64, but did have the VIC 20 though.

[@xr100rider]

Glad to see you posting again love your vids keep up the great content

[@ShoelessJP]

Please make follow-up videos for these, awesome finds!

[@bill13690]

I remember the similar computer stuff since the school days back in Dover Gardens Primary School. They were I suspect and the over to somebody else because they had newer computers back in late 90s. Such as 1998 & 99... Compared to the old days, technology is absolutely amazing how things have turned out these days.

[@Gerkozielman]

Well lucky you, finding these old computers in the bin, have fun with it !! Thanks for the video.

[@吉田駆-i9f]

Yes!!!! 2 psivewri videos in a month! ♡ Awww the vid's short sad lol

[@ShorrockPeter]

Great man never forgot love your work true legendary ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@theshadowman1398]

Pretty epic find. Amazing what stuff people just toss away.

[@ditroia2777]

What a great find mate. Commodore 64's and Amigas where very popular in Adelaide. My Primary School used commodore 64's and VIC 20's and my high school media class had an Amiga 1200. I loved my Amiga 500 with 1 meg expansion.

[@TheVintageComputerCollectorGuy]

My father had the Commodore Amiga 500 back in 1987 as i was told by my dad. He used to have a joystick for it to play games with it. He loved it. He also had the commodore 64 back in the mid 80s maybe 1984. He can't remember what happened to it. As far as i know that one is gone. He gave me the commodore amiga 500 in the box with everything he had and even the monitor for it back in 1987 but i'm not sure if it works. Great video!

[@Zoltair_Jerry]

the switch on the 1541 is most likely to change it from device 8 to device 9. this was useful so you could connect 2 drives together (actually up to 4) and copy disks

[@ebodaman]

You think your Commodore 64 is really neat-o. What kinda chip you got in there a Dorito.

[@MinorLG]

The button on the 64 is going to be a reset. It looks like it's going to the cartridge slash user port, which does have a reset pin, but nowhere else is there one to be one. The switch is the toggle addressing of the disk drive.

[@Corolla2014-wy3xj]

Nathan you will reach 300k subscribers

[@MP-ul]

Someone's trash is another one's gold.

[@terrort1234]

wow i didnt think that you would still be able to find computers that vintage

[@sudoertor2009]

I dunno if others have mentioned this, but the garbled text is usually a symptom of a dead/failing RAM module, and you're better of replacing the battery in that RAM module as they are known to destroy the main boards.

[@ericjenks9596]

This sounds like a team up moment with Adrian’s Digital Basement!

[@foss_sound]

Came for the cleaning, was not disappointed.

[@gamecuber6]

coincidentlly, i actually got an amiga 500 like the one shown first in the video a few days ago for 50€ with the external floppy drive and original power supply! i havent yet fully tested it as i don't have a display for it (it has the RGB video output cable) but it does power up!

[@LoftyCrofty]

Nice vid man :)

[@techstuff7414]

As someone who also lives in Adelaide I'm jealous you got to them before me! Awesome score for free. That's probably $1000+ worth of gear there.

[@T3CHGY007]

My god this brings back a few memories!

[@hiredgun7186]

that tank mouse for the amiga is a sought after thing too, worth fixing if it has problems

[@tyr8338]

My whole family pooled money so I could get amiga 500 for my 1st communion when I was like 8 years old ;) Such an amazing machine for it time, stunning graphics and sound capabilities. Games for it were on another level compared to c64.

[@markshellard5894]

That brings back some great memories

[@dave4shmups]

Great video! I would love to get an Amiga 500, but they’re really uncommon here in America. Which is ironic, because Commodore’s worldwide headquarters was located here.

[@EriolGaurhoth]

This is the single greatest "from a bin" haul I've seen in ages. Amigas on eBay are often posted for thousands.

[@Okurka.]

Amiga 500? No.

[@EriolGaurhoth]

@@Okurka. Alone, probably not. But this box in particular with the 500, late model 64, controllers and accessories I can see someone posted for a grand and possibly getting it. 500 alone is $250-$800 depending on condition and upgrades. Will have to see exactly what kind of upgrades this one has if/when he takes a deeper dive.

[@EddieCarmody]

Are you actually allowed to pull out of the ewaste bins or do you just do it

[@bill13690]

There's a car called VE Holden Commodore Omega, too. Isn't it funny ? You do some pretty cool content there, mate. From Bill.

[@zevilaga]

Wow, what a luck finding such treasure. Careful with the old Commodore PSU, it has the tendency to kill the C64, maybe that's what happened here. Some people sell brand new PSUs to replace the murder type ones. I bought a non-working C64 about two years ago. No PSU and the internals terribly corroded. I renewed the keyboard, bought a broken ryzen laptop and built the wold'sm only 4k capable, battery powered C64. I am thinking about making a video of it soon.

[@stevethepocket]

Please do! I love when people are able to upcycle dead computers into weird sleeper systems like that.

[@stevethepocket]

By the way those are @ signs on the garbled screen, not e's. @ is character zero in the code, so busted RAM chips returning empty data tends to result in a screen full of them instead of blank spaces.

[@musical_vineet]

amazing work

[@poundlandspeedwagonrequiem]

babe wake up new peaksivewri video dropped

[@thomas-NK]

Oh man, the original C64 psus is known to fail and kill komponents inside the computer😏 did you check both voltages out on the psu before testing?😅 the mod on the C64 is most likely reset button mode😊

[@Okurka.]

This is a newer type of PSU; it's the old, potted type that overvolts the 5V output, not this one.

[@zUltra3D]

The C64 most likely has bad RAM, tho it could also be the PLA. Check if you have MT RAM, those are notorious for failing. You can consider yourself lucky for not having a black screen on boot. Those are rather tricky to get to work

[@Okurka.]

It's a short board C64; its "PLA" chip is integrated into a custom chip that almost never fails and this C64 has OKI RAM. MT RAM was used in older long board version.

[@thamarty1979]

Please make a video within the Amiga 500 it was one of the best game systems in the 80s.

[@geoffmerritt]

Parallel cable, right at the start, thats how we used connect dot matrix printers and FDD in the day.

[@Okurka.]

Except that parallel uses DB25 and FDD uses DB23.

[@aklovl1980]

nice,i had good times with the c64 and the amiga 500 back in the early 90s,i now have an emulator on my pc for the c64 and amiga 500 games

[@bweebar]

You should remove the battery from the A500 but not the RAM expansion. Amigas were often modified to let the custom chips see more RAM, if you remove the expansion before understanding how the Amiga is set up you can be chasing a memory problem that you caused by removing it.

[@Стейдж]

You kept your promise! 🤝

[@MaximNightFury]

The added button on the side of the C64 is most likely a dedicated reset button

[@MeneGR]

I'll add my comment on the pile, WOW now that's a find!

[@srh_reaper835]

You lucky bastard!!!

[@HowlinAndyDE]

Amiga 500

[@ramimourad2369]

hey man i havent seen ur vids in a while

[@EliasDvorcak]

same

[@hellcat3981]

same

[@IchRockeInDerDisco]

I had this joystick on my Pentium 75, played the shit out of it with Fury 3D / Terminal Velocity / Magic Carpet and probably every single game as we used to play anything with joysticks (little big adventure 2, fifa ...)

[@sunlightblaze7098]

im genuinely surprised how little you knew about these

[@TheiTunesFanboy]

I think that you should leave the RAM expansion card out of the Amiga to prevent further damage.

[@maxtornogood]

I tend to watch channels like Adrian's Digital Basement who specialise in the repair of these vintage machines.

[@fialhojacson]

If I may suggest... pair up with LGR. sure that you two will figure it out.

[@brendanmatthys3788]

You should watch the 8 bit guy for tips on fixing the c64. He had one that did the exact same thing and from memory it was caused by bad capacitors

[@UdoKrawallo]

IMHO you should sell them to people who are more knowledgeable about these and can fix and use them. I presume there are many enthusiasts out there who will gladly take them in.

[@MuaadElSharif]

As for the Commodore64. I think it's a faulty RAM chip. I've seen these on the 8Bit guy, and they are fairly easy to swap out / fix.

[@Okurka.]

Both RAM chips are soldered in without a socket.

[@stevethepocket]

Welcome to the rabbit hole. This is your life now.

[@RecardoPretorius]

If you put proxmox on a laptop can you use it like a normal vm or do you need to use it thro the network

[@MegaManNeo]

Nice, you stumbled across a full starter set for both the Aldi C64C (that's what people here in Germany refer this revision to as it was sold there first and foremost) and the A500. I noticed you have the Quikshot there as well, we had those too back when I was still young 😀 Wild guess - your C64 has issues with the kernal ROM or much rather the character ROM.

[@Okurka.]

The Aldi C64 is a breadbin made in California; this is just a C64C made in Hong Kong.

[@hugosimoes5119]

Nice finding.

[@gregjarvis1232]

I'll happy take that amiga 500 off your hands mate and the only way test the c64 is to have a working c64 to swap chips

[@dantoti657]

Isn’t an upside down box in Australia, actually right side up?

[@AbdullaSulaimani]

The only vintage computer I had back then was the MSX

[@MaximumRD]

You are so damn lucky man!

[@Christian-McKinney]

“2 balls” -Nathan

[@dash8brj]

Stop using those commodore 64 power supplies until you can get your hands on at least a 64Saver. The garbled screen is from memory a rom chips gone bad. Sometimes just unplugging them and plugging them back into the sockets will fix it. Appears all the main ic's on your c64 are socketed. C64 power supplies have a nasty habit of failing regulators on the 5V rail. This leads to blown IC's, some of which are becoming super rare. Leave the Ram Card out of the amiga until you can clip off the battery. The battery can be replaced with a modern equivalent. I'm so jealous of you finding that Amiga - They go for like $300+ on aussie ebay, in less than stellar condition!

[@disgusting_hobo]

Great video, you handsome devil you!

[@tauheedulali2652]

I had the same Amiga 500 but it didn't have the cables to power it and I never saw it switched on and working.

[@MrAndreasarria]

You need a power supply that is the beige one, in the video is with the C in the up side

[@tauheedulali2652]

@@MrAndreasarria Thanks, I was quite young and we didn't have the Internet back then around 96, but we would just type on it for fun without it switched on. I wish we still had it so I could tinker with it

[@modernandretrogaming]

Same people done sadly to 3DFX Voodoo cards along with PC hardware from 1996-2000.

[@michvod]

Why got bothered by a soldered in battery? Grab an iron, add some new solder and you'll remove it in under a minute. Oh you don't have one? Then get a pair of snips and cut that battery off... If you are going to check it periodically, I am sure you won't make a reminder every few weeks to do so :D You will check it after 1-2 years, in which case it will already be too late and the electrolyte will cause more damage...

[@MarkONEmcr]

Wow! Nice!

[@anonymous_preferred7737]

Who tf throws out an Amiga?

[@Okurka.]

Nobody. #stagedvideo

[@AtomSquirrel]

Someone with no more space to store things

[@runeingebretsen8378]

@@AtomSquirrel nobody who owned these machines just throws them away most probably it was a person who was born in late 1980'ties and didn't start using computers before he was at least 10/12 years old it's not like today when children start using computers when they are around 7 years old.

[@AtomSquirrel]

@@runeingebretsen8378 that’s weirdly specific

[@askjeevescosby2928]

You should do a video on the HP Compaq nc 4010. Its a cool 12" laptop. Has a pentium m but i guess that processor is closer to a pentium 3 than a 4. It also have very good windows 98 support. Its a nice littler 98 gaming laptop

[@maniatore2006]

I can´t believe you that you never seen a Amiga 500 before..

[@ScottKernaghan]

That's not just any amiga 500 - it is a "Chicken lips" amiga 500, which had probably the best keyboard ever put on an Amiga. IT isn't a step down from the A1000. The A1000 was the earliest model, but the Amiga 500 was the first complete Amiga with an inbuilt kickstart rom, and was a far more complete computer.

[@banks3388]

What happened to your store link?

[@askjeevescosby2928]

I have 3 bronze hp dv7s i was going to combine into one nice dv7. If you want i can send you them for a video. Would be cool to have a computer from one of my favorite youtubers 😆. You can keep the left over junk pieces maybe you can build 2 workong dv7s.

[@apollothemanboy]

I just watched a video on how no one knows how many Amigas were sold in it's lifetime.