Restoring Nostalgia: Can we fix my childhood C64 TV?

[@troughle]

Thanks for the 80’s memories. It was a great time to be growing up in!

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you so much for the support. It really helps this content continue 🙏🕹

[@Ramdileo_sys]

@@RetroRecipes at 21:45.. Christian that snowy picture you have in channel 21..... is complete snow in higher channels...... Probably the only issue there.... was that bad coaxial connector....... by the way.. try to get a real coaxial 75 ohms cable... like the one that the TV cables companies use.. (or use to use).... that fine wire... that's not good... ( great video as always )

[@RetroRecipes]

@@Ramdileo_sys Thanks! If you mean the bad cable, I tried other cables off camera before this when the original tuning issue was happening. So there’s definitely some issue inside the TV tuner related to higher frequencies.

[@fixitalex]

Well... Nostalgia is not only a drug. It helps to survive this damn times...

[@UKSCIENCEORG]

I was a student in Twickenham (St Marys) from 1990-93 and remember buying computer bits in Richmond. I also remember buying my first modem at PC World near Isleworth in 1992 and dialling into bulletin boards. Nostalgia IS a drug!

[@worldofretrogameplay6963]

Perifractic, you hit the nail on the head. It took me forever to upgrade to a Windows PC, because the machines lacked a soul - an identity if you will - like the C64, Amiga and Atari ST had. The PC world seemed so cold and pointless. Innovation was in the PC’s software and not the hardware like those older computers we grew up with. Those were the days, ya’?

[@mikey_jax]

The hours I spent on my ZX81 (in 1981) learning how to code and making simple games. Then I moved to a Dragon 32 and remember linking it up to the VHS recorder so I could record my high score on Donkey Kong! Plus coding a word processor in the Dragon’s graphics mode that drew every character so I could have more on screen than the text mode. So many memories creating crazy games and having so much fun…

[@lancejones4636]

Nostalgia is very powerful, but it is a form of suffering... it's a longing that cannot be fulfilled. Respect and thanks to you for opening yourself to this suffering.

[@RetroRecipes]

That’s very true mate. But there’s a happiness within the suffering that you can’t get without it. And for me the net result is still that’s it’s a good thing, a nice thing to explore. Without pain there sometimes can’t be pleasure…

[@lancejones4636]

@@RetroRecipes absolutely. I’m so happy to have found your channel, mate. Much love to you and your family over The Holidays from me and my family in Victoria BC. 💙

[@darrenwilson99]

I absolutely get what you are saying Lance. But to be able to try, it's a wonderful but tortuous endeavour.

[@darrenwilson99]

Out of all the retro channels I follow, nothing comes close to this for channeling the emotions that I feel. You, sir, are doing outstanding work.

[@ronny332]

Crazy, the sound of the alarm clock made me smile without thinking about an. As I noticed the smile everything was clear: I had the same "noise" for years every morning. Thanks for reminding me 🙂

[@B3tanTyronne]

For some reason, I have never forgotten which years I got various computers at Christmas, and they start in '83 with the ZX81 which I eventually threw into a paddling pool I was so fed up with it, '85 was when I got my Speccy 48k from either Dixons or Comet in Hoddesdon, '86 was a 2nd hand C64 with an amber screen monitor which resulted in 'The Human Race' being utterly unplayable but as it was the first game I played on it the Robb Hubbard sid tune blew me away, '87 was the Atari ST, '88 was the Amiga and then in '91 I bought my first pc. Feels like yesterday.

[@PaulinesPastimes]

I was 30 in 1983 so guess how old I will be in January 2023! Your desire to travel back to your childhood is quite lovely and I hope it has bought you happiness. I loved the 80s for completely different reasons. One of which was meeting an astonishing man who was the Henry Higgins to my Eliza Doolittle and he made me beautiful. Sadly, he is no longer alive. That black Braun clock was instant time travel. Everyone who was up with the latest trends had one of them, so 'hi-tech'! Congrats on getting the TV to work, must make you feel very good. 😊✨

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you Pauline! And you don’t look a day over 40!

[@PaulinesPastimes]

@@RetroRecipes Yes, I know. And don't forget it! Hahaha Too Norma Desmond?

[@00Skyfox]

This has been such a great project! It's wonderful how you're gathering all your old setup together again to relive the enjoyment. My setup hasn't changed much--same desk, same rack holding the same floppy disks in the same boxes. The last main bit of original hardware was my 1541 drive that I got for christmas in the mid to late 80s, but it quit working and yesterday I discovered that the read head has gone bad! I got thousands of hours of use out of that thing over about 35 years, and now it will never work again unless I can replace the head (the board works fine). It's not a rush job, though, since I have about 20 other working drives to choose from, including a new-in-box unit I got a few years ago. Trouble is, it's my only 1541C drive, and the JiffyDOS in it is for a 1541C. Anyway, once I have a place with enough room to spread out I'll set up the tape drive and dot matrix printers, too.

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you’re enjoying this! More phases to come…

[@troughle]

Being a similar age group these videos really bring back great times growing up in the 80’s.

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@stmchale]

Thanks for sharing taking us down memory lane and a tour of your little "sit-tee"

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you enjoyed it - it's my pleasure! Thanks for the kind donation - it really helps the content continue 🙏

[@nomadjock]

Total nostalgia overload there. I like the timeline you done based on old hardware, for me this is how I remember a lot about specific times and dates in my life. If someone asks me about what I was doing in the summer of 1991 for example I am immediately taken back to my days with the Megadrive playing Sonic, Castle of Illusion and drooling over screenshots of Super Famicom games and then all these other memories about other things come flooding back, its like my computer memories are my space-time continuum and joins the dots for all my other memories. Been playing video games since I got my Commodore 64 for Xmas 1982 and haven't really stopped. :) Good times, good memories and a more care free childhood.

[@bobbus_74]

Really cool to see that little snippet of Richmond. Spent plenty of time in those same shops too. Tandy was super useful for cables and connectors. Boots was great too, My kids look at me strangely when I explain to them how we used to buy games there. That Braun alarm clock must've been in nearly every kids bedroom in the eighties too. That sound still haunts me!

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

13:00 - I love how the music is sync'd with the alarm. Very nice touch! 👍

[@RetroRecipes]

Good ear!

[@jamesnewman4351]

What a moving video , i loved every second of it! It reminded me of when my dad( who just passed away last year) bought me my Vic 20 in 1982 , he used to make us a cuppa tea and come and see me programing in my bedroom.. i miss him.. PS. You did get me giggling when that Fawlty Towers moment came on👍

[@RetroRecipes]

Sorry to hear that sir. We were very lucky 🙏🕹️

[@Gectms]

I had a very similar Akai stereo system and got it around the same age as you did. I loved that stereo and played it constantly. I can even remember the smell of the electronics when I first opened up the boxes to set it up.

[@RetroRecipes]

Me too!!

[@festivitycat]

Not sure if anyone else has said but I appreciate the music being timed perfectly with the alarm clock, nice touch 😎

[@RetroRecipes]

Thanks for noticing! It was nice of Braun to design it to fit my music.

[@chrisrobson8540]

being virtually the same age (i out -old you by 6 months) these nostalgia vids are pretty much time travel for me......we grew up with all the same cultural references so a lot of this wierdly makes my face leak as i'm transported back to 198-whenever. Happy memories and i thank you for bringing them back👍👍

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Ooh, that faster alarm clock sound is the exact pattern of beats that the Master has going in his head, and would tap out on a desk, and would have others start unconsciously tap out, too! I'd already left the much-deserved comment, but those parts caused me to HAVE to leave another. Yes, I am a serious Whovian nerd, LOL! Have been since the 70s, so... _~shrug~_ AND I grew up with my dad fiddling with TVs and CRT screens to get them to behave themselves, so you adjusting that one brought back still more memories! Oh, and frankly, the 220-240 volts are less lethal than 110 can be. The higher voltage often knocks you back, while the lower voltage makes your muscles spasm and you can be stuck gripping the bare wire until someone shuts it off or... you get shut off. BTW, do NOT take this as safety advice of any kind!! I will NOT be responsible if you take what I say to mean that 220/240 volts is safe, because it is NOT. It's simply not AS deadly. Big difference. ❤️❤️

[@Raafman42]

As someone who got a C64 for my first wedding anniversary from my wife in 1985 at the ripe old age of 21, your channel and videos mean a lot to me. Ended up with an A500 in 1989, the an A2000HD in 1992. Loved them all but unfortunately no longer have them. Living the RetroPie dream at the moment to recapture some of the magic. Keep up the great work and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New from us in Australia. 🇦🇺

[@RetroRecipes]

What a wonderful wife! Happy holidays to you and yours ☃️🕹️

[@Raafman42]

@@RetroRecipes Sure is and I have fond memories of typing in Machine Code from magazines for hours on end. Getting “Baby Elephant Walk” was the hardest to get right, but was a learning process.

[@neillufc8282]

Absolutely brilliant, my God….the clock, your face when the alarm went off made my day. How can press shift runstop bring a lump to my throat…but it did! Happy, happy days…thank you.

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Alan-Dawson]

Love this because I went from a ZX81 then sinclair up to the 16k one, swapped with a friend for a C64, OMG! Game changer...Rick Dangerous I love you!

[@DesignedbyWill2084]

Getting to watching my 12 yo son learning to program in Lua, python and C at the age I first got my ZX80 clone and punching in Basic. I still have my heavily modified MicroAce and am grateful for all I learned from it.

[@drsynthpattern]

I absolutely loved the retro bedroom setup video! I'm an 1980's born myself and felt so naustalgic seeing this. Unfortunately, my family couldn't afford such a bedroom setup like this in the 80's but watching movie's like ET, Flight of the Navigator etc kept me passionate about such naustalga. I now have a mancave in retro progress 😎 I also installed Pimiga on my pi400 along with Batocera for those trips abroad. 😀 I'm really happy that you have achieved this! P.s. grab a Yamaha dx7 and put this on display 👌

[@johnsonlam]

Side note: In Hong Kong, we use 220V 50Hz (same as UK, ex-colony of UK 😉), and back in 80's Nintendo did have local "Gray NES" for the local market but almost nobody buy it since it's slower than Japan version due to it's running 60Hz speed.

[@SpaceFlightOrange]

Wow! I got a real nostalgia hit when you produced the Braun Alarm clock! I was given a Braun travel Alarm clock for my 21st birthday in 1994 by someone who sadly is no longer with us. It had an alarm just like yours, and travelled the world with me for at least 10 years. I no longer have it, sadly, probably sold at the same Table sale I sold my Psion Series 5 at for £5! Im the same as you, in that I have been through a number of PC's over the years and felt they never had a personality, like the amiga, etc. did, and Im pleased to say that of my original Computers - Dragon 32, BBC Micro, Amiga 500, before I switched to PC, I still own them all! and they all work. Sadly I no longer have my TV. that died in 2006/7. I have none of my original desktop PC's but I still have all my original Laptops, 2 Compaq Laptops, and my 2007 MacBook Pro. Great video, and thanks for bringing back some great memories for me.

[@anotheruser9876]

I once dreamed I had traveled back in time to the place where I used to play soccer as a kid in the 1980s . It happened to be a Saturday (game day) and I wanted to go and see myself play. I woke up before I could get there and was sad I missed the opportunity that was never real to begin with. Nostalgia is truly a drug and going cold turkey is harsh. Good to see I'm not the only one trying to relive the good things that happened to me in those days. I try to forget all the bad things that happened.

[@user-xw2tj1kn1f]

The BJÖRK sound clip hit the spot!! 🔥❤️🔥

[@dj_paultuk7052]

Blimy Adrian Mole, i had forgotten all about that book. Im 51 now and i had that book for Christmas too when i was a teenager. Was quite funny from what i remember.

[@TrickysFlyingBurrito]

I got that C64 pack from Christmas 1986 too, that Adrian Mole game brought back so many memories!! I've been on a similar journey to you recently - my dad ran a branch of 'Martins' ( a WH Smith competitor) in the mid to late '80's which is where I spent a lot of my time after school playing with the systems of the day and which was where all of my own 8 bit systems came from. Its now a branch of WH Smiths, ironically, and I visited this year for the first time since 1988 experiencing all of the same emotions - its great to have such a tangible link to a treasured time in my life.

[@RetroRecipes]

Oh wow I was always going down to Martin’s in Kew for sweets and Cola and birthday cards and ZZAP! 64 and… far too many things

[@chironbramberger]

Having the "...little city..." with all the reverb over the music... chef's kiss!

[@RetroRecipes]

🙌

[@user-xw2tj1kn1f]

Man... Nostalgia really is weird. I'm feeling all these exact things about my own childhood and somehow want to re create them. I'm 46 and I have some of my old stuff still in the attic. Maybe I should try to make that c64 go once again. your allarm clock there really took me back, completely unexpectedly. Thank you for this video. Now I want to be back, hurrying home after a birthday party. My mom opening the door, telling me -Hurry, It just started! and then, me and her watching the first episode of V together! 🔥❤️🔥

[@RetroRecipes]

I was hoping that alarm clock would ring some bells

[@Roblilley999]

The TV Series of Adrian Mole was excellent... Profoundly in love with Pandora

[@R0n8urgundy]

Being of similar age and upbringing to you (albeit in Manchester) your videos are bringing back some amazing childhood memories.

[@tspawn35]

It's weird to me seeing a Commodore 64 connected via RF. I feel like it was super common in the US for Commodore to bundle a monitor, 1541 drive and c64 computer together. That was my setup when I was a kid and my friends whose family also bought a c64 that was their setup as well. I do agree with wanting to own the systems that we had as kids. That's why I bought a c128d and 1702 monitor. Because I missed my c64 but did not have the space to have the computer, monitor and disk drive separate. The 128d has a built in disk drive, and detachable keyboard as well as the perfect surface to have my monitor sit on top of it. It takes up way less space and gives me the ability to play c64 games in all their glory. Exactly, how I remember it.

[@P5ychoFox]

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. AE Housman A poem that perfectly describes that yearning for the past that we have, especially for me as a country boy from Herefordshire.

[@RetroRecipes]

Lovely words

[@WoollyMittens]

I can live without my old Ikea desk falling apart as soon as it was assembled, but I wouldn't mind having my Amiga 1200 back as it contained the sprite files and source code of a game I made with friends.

[@FuzzWoof]

Everything in these vids gives me a nostalgia fix, but that Hinari TV is just maximum nostalgia for me as that was the TV I used for several of my early computer setups, culminating in my Amiga A500. At least the door covering the controls survived, mine fell off within a few months!

[@dustL00P]

When I discovered your videos instantly loved the content. As the content goes on and when you pause for thought in the videos having those memories really hits and makes me smile. Never stop making your content

[@RetroRecipes]

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

[@darrenwilson99]

Absolutely this. I have never seen a channel on KZbin or even TV that understands how I feel about retro gaming or even nostalgia in general.

[@KarlBate]

I had a that Braun alarm clock, and from memory, it, was stopped by shouting at it, as it was voice activated/de-activated. That noise however, is a massive blast from the past. Nice video

[@RetroRecipes]

Interesting! I’ll try that

[@janneandersson7197]

Love to watch all this 80`s stuff, got my zx48 in 1983 and still have it, a500 c64 is Aldo in my collection and a LOT of gameconsoles from the era. Janne/Sweden

[@holycowmanheck]

I was part of the Tandy Coco crowd. If I could go back, it would be to find all the software and hardware info that's been lost.

[@mtbevins]

Great video! Very touching and personal which is what makes your videos special. Thank as always for sharing your journey. I thought about my first computer... I got a TI-99/4A when I was 16 in 1983. (I too struggle with exact dates) I loved it and learned to program on it. I think I gave it away to a young boy in 1987 as I wanted to pass on the fun I had. I was in the US Air Force at the time and I put a Commodore 128 on lay away at the Base Exchange. Sadly I never completed the purchase. I later built a PC and have been in IT industry ever since. I have since repurchased 4 TI-99/4As, VIC 20, Commodore 64 and Apple IIE. I agree the older machines have soul where all the other PCs I built do not.

[@mr_teeney]

Still have my original desk that I've been using since the late 80's. Held my C64, Amiga, IBM 8088 and all sorts of home built PCs up to this day. Also still have my "boom box" on top that I used as external speakers, since the Amiga 500... I guess I can be classified as a hoarder.

[@RetroRecipes]

Sounds great!

[@darrenc2721]

Wonderful to see you sharing these 80's memories. i think I said in your previous vid about your desk, i was having a retro christmas, your videos have been encouraging me do more retro stuff. Your mention of the casio watch made me go out and get a casio calculator watch the other day. I got my xmas decorations my parents had on their tree in the 80's finally delivered also. I been a feeling a bit retro since both my parents passed away two years ago and the memories you share of whsmith, boots, c64 etc have helped me to see the past again. I have just completed my 5 disk retro md christmas collection too. My friend had the psion 3a and used it for his bills and to write letters. I really enjoy your look back into retro past histories, especially when they and you include memories. it does make it feel more real! Almost like time travel! My camera for christmas 82/83 was a kodak disc camera. I actually still have the kodak album book that came with it. The pictures I took with it, are up on my wall to this day as a collage. In a way you setting up your c64 desk as you did when you were younger, is a form of time travel, look at all the memories you have of your desk. You were able to recall them all and then reconstruct the desk as it was in the 80s. Wonderful stuff! Edit: meant to say Happy Holidays, i forgot!

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment! I’m sorry to hear about your loss. But it is heartwarming to hear these videos help with a bit of time travel. It’s great Casio still make that watch! I have asked for one for Christmas. Happy holidays indeed!

[@darrenc2721]

@@RetroRecipes I hope you get one! Ha!

[@alaninsley5005]

It's amazing how many of your nostalgia items are exactly the same as mine. Even that alarm clock! Except I had A Sony Trinitron TV for my C64. Thanks for the memories.

[@RetroRecipes]

Our family had a Trinitron in the living room! Small world

[@tancoplays3502]

I grew up in the late 2000s and man do I wish I could go back and see myself watching KZbin for the first time back in the days of Fred the annoying orange and classic leokimvideo

[@CoLD.SToRAGE]

I owned virtually every Psion organiser by virtue of creating a PacMan clone called “Chomper” when I was a one-man company called “Black Dawn Digital”. I was given the organisers at a token gesture price (way, way lower than MSRP) and quickly made that back on royalty payments from Widget Software.

[@missionpassed4584]

In the 80s out of nowhere my father got hold of a C64, set it up in my room and to be honest spent more time on it than me (usually whilst I was at school), at some point it stopped working so my father got rid of it, after a while as my father was now working in Guernsey he sent over a large package that turned out to be an Amstrad cpc 464 with a small pile of games, unfortunately the colour monitor never arrived, to this day we have no idea what happened to it, so out of desperation to play this amazing to me looking computer we found an mp1 modulator (I still have the original box) that meant I could finally play this computer on the tv in my room which was a Matsui very similar to your tv but black from Argos or Currys I think, I had soo much fun with this computer and eventually acquired a colour monitor so had this next to my tv looking pretty good I must say, also over the next half of the 80s gathered magazines and more games, it was pure magic and escape for me, would even copy some games for my mate on my sisters double deck tape player, she still does not know I did this, sadly as time went by tastes and technology changed my eye was draw to the Super Nintendo and eventually I got one for Christmas early 90s and as the games were so expensive (roughly £60 a pop!) but to me the games and graphics were a new level, I even sold my beloved Amstrad along with everything else, for very little, over the following years I did enjoy the Snes very much but hardly had the games I had before and would have to keep exchanging the games each time I wanted a new one, eventually my younger brother acquired a Playstation and the game changed yet again, I sold my Snes and to be honest It did not have the same impact my Amstrad had it was oh well thats gone lets move on, over the years and many more consoles later, I suddenly felt a strong nostalgia for my old Amstrad and came across one at a local dump for literally £1 they had no idea what it was, gather a few games and either another monitor or mp1 modulator I cant quite remember, I set it all up and loaded the first game and to my shock and horror could not believe how terrible the game looked, It just looked like pixels moving around the screen and very hard to control, I was sure that the games were far better in my memory than what I had seen with my own eyes right there, disappointed I just got rid again built a pc and never looked back, and when I do feel nostalgia I just look up a youtube video of the games I remember and feel sad. It all came down to the time I had with the Amstrad back then in the 80s, I was now spoiled by choice and the rose coloured spectacles were finally removed. But the memories of that beloved computer and moment in my life are still there.

[@ClassicRetroByte]

I think I had the same Alarm clock too. And all the while you was trying to get the telly tuned in I was screaming at you, check the the cable or the socket on the back of the telly. Ah a large dose of nostalgia home sickness 😉

[@GuybrushThriftweed]

Aaaah this made me go back to my 80's too. Thank you very much sir! I wonder how many people are trying to remake/rebuy their childhood stuff again thanks to your vids :)

[@MetalTiger88]

The cousin of a friend had your profilepic as a poster on his roomdoor back in the 90's. I always lived that psygnosis logo 😅✌️

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

The Max Headroom picture also brings back memories, as does the space shuttle video cassette & the Back to the Future poster, too! Thing is, my C64 was used, probably after you moved on to the next thing, so I didn't get to mess with mine until probably 1988ish. Maybe '87, at best. By then, I was married & had a kid, but still... great memories! Thank you for giving me some happy memories, as all I've had recently are the opposite. I appreciate it more than I can say. ❤️❤️

[@drstefankrank]

I'm 40 now and still got my very fist C64 I got when I was 8. It has a lot of problems, especially the 1541-I and the Datasette as well. I bought a whole other set for cross checking, but the 1541-II is faulty now as well. (know problems with this model) Once I got the space to setup everything, the debugging sesison begins. I already got some spare chips, a test cartridge, 1541 SD adapter and so on. I want that thing to live again and load all the games I didn't understand back then, because I didn't speak a word of English.

[@H3adcrash]

I absolutely love these videos! I'm sure I'm not the only one getting misty eyed watching this!

[@ralfalmerac]

I'm from Brazil. And even here my thoughts are the same. Looking thru my father's eyes. Cause from him came the sacrifice to buy you these. My thoughts and my prays on you and him.

[@Thiesi]

This is again giving me some _very_ melancholic vibes - because I had _almost_ the same Braun alarm clock for many, many years! The alarm sound though is 100% the same as I remember it (they probably used the same beeping sound generator in various models). Also, nice to see you found an image of your old desk by looking through the legs of Pericatric. Oh, and speaking of the desk: You actually set it up _correctly_ in your studio in L.A. - or at least correctly for _where_ you set it up. Remember: There's only one country in the entire world where drawers are legally required to be mounted on the left side, and that's Great Britainewzealandominicaustraliantigua and Barbados, so exactly where you are from. Oh, and finally: I really liked that _Rolling Stones_ reference!

[@RetroRecipes]

Lol at Pericatric. Better than Pussyfractic. And yes I’m sure that beeper was standard. Ha and I was going to make a joke about driving on the right here but completely forgot! Thanks for reminding me.

[@SebMcC2007]

Luv it! I'm a tat younger, as I was born in 1982, but still have really good memory to those years. Unfortunately, this year, I had to let go two people whom where a big part of memories of those days, my grandparents. Thanks for sharing your childhood with us, and bringing back our memories!

[@RetroRecipes]

Sorry to hear that. They live on in the hearts and nostalgia of loved ones though.

[@SebMcC2007]

@@RetroRecipes yes, they do so very much!

[@iRDaBrit]

I'm a Brit of the same age as you who also now lives in the US. I'd love to find an Amstrad hifi system with the automatically sliding out turntable. I remember getting mine for Xmas in maybe 1984/5. Oh, I too had one of those Braun clocks and it too woke me up for school for years.

[@jeffflowers5489]

13:02 Record it and make it a ringtone for your phone alarm.

[@muttBunch]

Puppy loves the daddy and I love what puppy’s daddy does :)

[@RetroRecipes]

🙏🐶

[@RandomBitzzz]

These videos (revisiting your childhood setup) bring back heavy nostalgic feels. 🙂 Thanks for sharing... I too still have the TV I used on my C64, but I haven't powered it on in over a decade. I gave it to my in-laws a few years back and it came back like a boomerang. Maybe I'll plug it in over my Christmas break.

[@RetroRecipes]

Dewit

[@simonread4263]

Thank you for another amazing video! as a 45 year old from the UK these videos have triggered so many childhood memories, very moving. I had a Sinclair Spectrum 48k+ initially but moved to a Commodore 128, my sister had a Commodore 64C. My friend and I used to sit for hours on our Commodore's (he had a 64C) messing around with basic and playing games, I found some photos of us doing just that which I am glad I kept, I am still very good friends with him still today. One of the smallest objects in this video really made the biggest impact on me, that alarm clock! my dad had the same one and the sound of the alarm took me right back to hearing that from the other room at 7am on a weekday in the late 80's early 90's - it would soon be time to get up and go to school - to see my friends to talk about computers. Thank you for the memories.

[@RetroRecipes]

It’s amazing how many people the alarm clock has resonated with. Perhaps by getting us when we were just coming out of dreams, it entered a different part of our memories and nostalgia. A more dreamlike place altogether.

[@Jaw0lf]

It is always the simple but last thing we look at! Another amazing video and what a great result.

[@jamesbaum4523]

"Nostalgia is an energy field created by all retro computers. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together."

[@RetroRecipes]

Love that!!

[@P5ychoFox]

An alien astronomer 37 light years away with an enormous (probably planet sized) telescope would be able to see Earth in detail as it was in 1985. Strange to think that with sufficient resolution, they could see people who are no longer with us going about their lives. So in a sense nobody is ever really gone. They still exist as optical information; echoes of light.

[@RetroRecipes]

Very well said my friend. Some say those moments also exist, being replayed and bounced around as energy. Some say it explains ghosts such as WW1 soldiers marching through a field. According to my precise calculations, the telescope lens would need to be bigger than the solar system. I really hope I have calculated wrong. Although of course, when we finally have faster than light speed, travel, there will likely be other technologies, we cannot imagine to replace a glass telescope lens.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

I wish we still had our tv from my childhood. It was a 80s cabinet RCA we had setup down in our basement tv area (unfinished basement with some old free standing official divider walls). it was the first tv our SNES was connected to, still remember playing the super scope on it and playing though Super Mario world the first time with my dad.

[@trumpdonald6911]

It’s amazing how thoughts and memories of the past can bring in up memories and references we wouldn’t have remembered any other way. And the emotions that come along with them. It’s like reliving those times.

[@darrenwilson99]

Wow. You've captured nostalgia again and the emotional connection it brings. I have a floppy emulator plugged into the back of an Amstrad CPC6128. Not the original one I had but I paid way over the normal asking price on eBay just to guarantee I could have one. Then I bought a Batman sticker that came with the The Movie game and stuck it in exactly the same place on the left hand side of the colour monitor. I fired up Knight Tyme earlier and as soon as the music kicked in, the tears welled up in my eyes. You are right, it's not quite the same as playing when you did as an eleven year old. But, damn, it makes you wish you were that age again. Like you have a connection with the C64, there's a feeling when I touch the CPC6128 keyboard that emulating can never capture.

[@ClassicTrialsChannel]

We also had a Tandy in my town(long eaton), I was like you always in there . We were also lucky to have a brilliant computer shop called long eaton computers. Bought my c64, Amiga and my first Pc from them. Plus most of my games, starting with my 48k spectrum, cpc464, c64, A1200 n Pc. Brilliant days. Still have my c64 and it's disc drive, also my A1200.

[@WaypointComics]

I couldn't even wait for the video to finish...the alarm clock nostalgia, glad to see its not just me :) I still have my dailymate Time Cube that woke me up from i want to say '85 to '92... still have it, still works... the feeling of another time and place when you hear the alarm is...well....alarming. Another great video, speaking of which...back to the rest of it...

[@nickthelick]

Ah yes, "Adrian Mole"... It generally had a lot of adult themes for the time really. I remember back when I used to watch it and distinctly recall most of the adults in the program smoking and drinking... I also recall "Marmalade" in that vein too! Remember her? 🤔 She was in "4 Weddings And A Funeral" (was it 4 weddings? Or 3? 🤔 Can't remember, I'm not going to check either!)😊... Sadly, Charlotte Coleman, the actress who played "Marmalade", died of an asthma attack in 2001... Wow! The memories... The nostalgia! *Sigh!*

[@s.k.5919]

Thank you very much for the second time travel. 🤗 Greetings from Germany.

[@MarkDell]

I love to see the Psion being shown! I got started with software development back on the 3A and it shaped my career and life. I am eager to see your recap of those devices!

[@RetroRecipes]

Wow that’s cool. What did you develop?

[@MarkDell]

@@RetroRecipes I was in my teens without any experience. But I went through the programming book that came with it and made a Eliza port (based off an Amiga demo disk), a graphics package and a Star Trek game. I was the coolest kid in school 🤭

[@RetroRecipes]

@@MarkDell Very cool! And then you founded Dell, right?!

[@landspide]

Love the Bjork space cadet and little city - never gets old, like yourself. Adrian Mole was also a thing in Australia.

[@FQQD]

3:59 ahh, crt feeping, haha I'm kinda glad I can still hear it!

[@COMATRON.]

13:00 when the alarm clocks syncs with da beat oh yeah baby

[@RetroRecipes]

It was nice of Braun to design it to fit my music!

[@charonunderground8596]

Beautiful memories, I return to them often myself. The older one gets the greater the desire to feel and relive what once was. In Poland, not everyone could afford a computer. Only a few people had computers. The computer press led the way. My friends and I would stare at the legendary Polish monthly magazines about games and computers, dreaming of playing the games presented there. Our knowledge of computers grew with every issue. The first computer I saw with my own eyes at a rich neighbour's house was an Atari 65XE with a tape recorder, and it could have been 1986 or 1987. For my own first dream computer I had to wait until 1995 or 1996 and it was also an Atari 65XE, and a month later I found out that my cousin was selling a C-64 and I bought it without hesitation It was my favourite eight-bit computer. It opened the way to thousands of games and the demoscene. I even acted as a "swapper" in the scene for a while. However, when I saw an Amiga 500 at another cousin's house it made the biggest impression on me out of everything in computers and games throughout my life. Switching from an 8bit to a 16bit A500 was like flying into space. Beautiful graphics, colours, great games and demos (Spaceballs !!!), wonderful Paula sound.... I'll never forget it. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[@gazmck]

Def getting memories of my Hinari tv and tuning the c64 in with the spongey menu buttons!

[@RetroRecipes]

They are spongy! I’m amazed so many people had this exact TV.

[@petergplus6667]

I had a dorm mate at university that let his clock ring for half an hour. I used to pull the fuse in the hallway to get a rest...

[@zachazlett]

I tracked down the exact wallpaper from my childhood bedroom. I framed a piece for my brother and myself. Mine is hanging in my bedroom now 35 years later.

[@RetroRecipes]

That's amazing! I was actually going to do the same by scanning it from a photo until I realised that wallpaper was in the previous house before we owned computers. Sadly (or not) in the 80s house all the walls were just painted colours.

[@zachazlett]

@@RetroRecipes I thought I was the only crazy one out there. Guess not lol. I searched for several years on and off. It was Disney wallpaper so I figured it would be easy to find but I finally found it on Etsy.

[@michaelblum410]

Another wonderful trip down Nostalgia Lane. Pavlov should have used alarm clocks in his experiments. I still get the shivers whenever I hear the alarm clock from my school days. I suppose it helps demonstrate how nostalgia can be so powerful, a simple sound, image, smell etc. can unleash powerful emotions

[@Toby_Q]

Yep, this for me. I had to mute the entire alarm clock part. I couldn't stand hearing it. It made me uncomfortable and nervous for some weird reason that I'm sure is buried in my subconscious. Wow that was weird and unnerving.

[@Kw1161]

I had the Psion (Diamond brand) but it needs new rechargeable batteries. My 1st computer that I bought off a shipmate a Radio Shack brand (Sharp) 1k portable that I used in college. It still works but needs the display replaced. My 1st real computer was a Amiga 500, which lost in the move😢 as was my 1st windows pc and home built NegGen 586. After I enlistment was up in July 1985, I bought a Sony 2010 for a Short wave radio alarm clock and woke up to the BBC World Service for about 10 years, sadly they no longer target North America so one more youth activity gone…so I feel your nostalgia. Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year 🎉!

[@FirstDan2000]

Great video. I really like the humour put into the editing of these videos. The pet shop boys playing slightly too fast as a soundtrack had me laughing. So did the scene of the little girl staring at the haunted TV screen from that scary film that I'm uncertain of the name of. And the captions added on screen too often get me chuckling whilst you are tearing up - I hope that's intentional.

[@RetroRecipes]

Let’s say it is…

[@PMCRetroGamer]

16:49 Pet Shop Boys Left To My Own Devices (The Disco Mix) ❤️ love it

[@amcnaughton100]

Another fantastic video which takes me down memory lane, thanks.

[@RichardTeelSys]

Loved that you brought out the Psion. I'm in the US, but I loved them and have been putting together a bit of a collection now thanks to eBay.

[@cjpops7628]

This is fantastic, might try and do a similar idea with my Amstrad CPC setup - ahhh the Nostalgia

[@mikeswatches2480]

You missed the first obvious solution to get the 64 and TV working there - Move back to the UK! That Braun Alarm Clock Sound brought back some memories . .

[@fearlessfreep]

Watching you trying to get a picture on that screen gave me memories of the film "Crimson Tide."

[@stuartcastle2814]

I’ve often said this, but I have a decent gaming pc (although it’s a couple of years old now, so is starting to need upgrading). Even though it’s capable of emulating dozens of Amigas at once , I still don’t get the feeling of adventure using it I used to with my Amiga. It feels like what it is, a machine doing what I ask it to do. My Amiga (and earlier, my C64, Speccy and ZX81) felt like friends that wanted to help me.

[@stuartcastle2814]

And no, I won’t be recreating my bedroom setup. My computer was set up on an old dressing table (I don’t think it was antique). It was a very Gothic dressing table and terrified me.

[@TheHjulius]

Wait, I remember Adrian Mole! I used to watch the TV series on Swedish television and I really liked it. Thank you for bringing back long lost memories!

[@jeffflowers5489]

My 70's childhood bedroom was painted sky blue like (half of) yours.

[@Robert08010]

For $25 on eBay, I found the exact same Gilbert Microscope set that I had as a kid. And even though the one I had as a kid was in good shape, I bought it used. So this one I bought recently was actually in better shape; nearly perfect in fact.

[@trevorlack6565]

It’s funny isn’t it how you remember things? I remember that day in 1983 when our Intellivision went and we played that last game of Autoracer and then was replaced by the Spectrum and obviously the first game we played in my memory is Jetpak. We then in 1984 got a 64 and revelled at Revenge of the Mutant Camels. I saw one of the first pre-release issues of Ghostbusters on the 64 because someone at school’s dad worked for Virgin. I placed my teenage personally bought through paper rounds and and odd jobs on a crappy beareux. I did save up for a Matsui portable with teletext😂

[@OldAussieAds]

I recently restored on old C64 and it's great except for one thing. My kids find the high pitched squeal the monitor emits too much to bear (despite my older ears not hearing it). Dreams of playing two player Wizard of Wor with them instantly went out the window. I switched out the Commodore monitor for an old TV and it's doing the same thing. People tell me it's normal with old CRTs, so I guess that's the end of that.

[@albert_vds]

My alarm clock would make the same sound as the chicken timer. So whenever I heard the kitchen timer I thought "No I don't want to get out of bed" while not being near my bed at all.

[@RetroRecipes]

But when it woke you up did you taste chicken

[@albert_vds]

@@RetroRecipes Sadly no!

[@CubicleNate]

That was fantastic! I searched for the TV I used as a kind with my C64 but it is long gone. I can't even remember the brand of it, just that it was a small B&W TV. I'm sure I didn't care when I finally got a colored monitor to play it on, my 1084S which I shared with my Amiga 600. You have inspired me to seek out the various bits of tech that were along side me in my younger years. Just for fun, of course!

[@RetroRecipes]

It’s a lot of fun and great escapism! Enjoy my friend.

[@JBOpie13]

Glad the SCART Converter got the TV going for you. Funny how the converters always misspell 'Output"; yours said 'Ouput' and mine said 'Outptut'. Always enjoy these videos. Your line delivery does make it feel like I'm listening to a friend talk about the good old days. Still get a chuckle when I watch you wish Bruce Wayne a Happy Birthday in 2005 (at least the actor looked like you) :) Keep up the great work on these videos!

[@RetroRecipes]

Haha yep that was me. Glad you enjoy my video “ouptit”.