The uChip, a modern retro game console kit and new Amiga DB23 video connectors from Jeff Birt

Welcome to the Mid-Week-Mini-Mail-call #34! In today's episode, some cool parts for your vintage Commodore gear and a cool, capable and modern retro gaming console kit from Italy
0:41 Jeff Birt's Amiga DB23 video connector and other Commodore parts
11:38 Rant about the JJC RMT-P1BT Remote Control
12:32 ITACA Innovation's uChip Simple VGA Console (uSVC)
16:38 Time Lapse assembly of the uSVC
19:43 Testing the uSVC on a real VGA monitor
28:28 Closer look at the specs of the uSVC game console specs
35:31 Outro
--- Video Links
How the Amiga DB23 got made:
• How a couple of Amiga ...
Jeff Birt's website where you can buy the Case Savers. DB23 connectors, ALPS printer gear and more:
www.soigeneris.com/
Make DB23 shells with your 3D printer:
www.thingiverse.com/search?q=...
uChip Simple VGA Console (uSVC) by ITACA Innovation
www.crowdsupply.com/itaca-inn...
www.itaca-innovation.com/
--- Tools
Deoxit D5:
store.caig.com/s.nl/it.A/id.16...
Jonard Tools EX-2 Chip Extractor:
www.jonard.com/Products/EX-2-...
Wiha Chip Lifter:
www.wihatools.com/precision-c...
Elenco Electronics LP-560 Logic Probe:
www.amazon.com/Elenco-Electro...
Hakko FR301 Desoldering Iron:
www.amazon.com/American-HAKKO...
Rigol DS1054Z Four Channel Oscilloscope:
www.rigolna.com/products/digi...
Head Worn Magnifying Goggles / Dual Lens Flip-In Head Magnifier:
www.amazon.com/SE-Illuminated...
TL866II Plus Chip Tester and EPROM programmer: (The MiniPro)
www.aliexpress.com/item/33000...
TS100 Soldering Iron:
www.ebay.com/itm/TS100-65W-MI...
EEVBlog 121GW Multimeter:
www.eevblog.com/product/121gw/
DSLogic Basic Logic Analyzer:
www.ebay.com/itm/USB-Logic-DS...
Magnetic Screw Holder: (also on eBay and Amazon)
www.harborfreight.com/4-inch-...
Universal ZIP sockets: (clones, used on my ZIF-64 test machine)
www.ebay.com/itm/14-16-18-20-...
RetroTink 2X Upconverter: (to hook up something like a C64 to HDMI)
www.retrotink.com/
Plato (Clone) Side Cutters: (order five)
www.ebay.com/itm/1-2-5-10PCS-...
Heat Sinks:
www.aliexpress.com/item/32537...
Little squeezy bottles: (available elsewhere too)
www.amazon.com/Precision-Appl...
--- Links
My GitHub repository:
github.com/misterblack1?tab=r...
Commodore Computer Club (of Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington)
www.commodorecomputerclub.com/
Tivoo Pixel Art Display seen in my videos:
www.amazon.com/Divoom-Tivoo-r...
--- C64 Stuff
JaffyDOS:
blog.worldofjani.com/?p=3544
C64 Test Harness I use:
• Building a Commodore 6...
C64 Homebrew cartridge PCB: (used for the DeadTest / Diag Cart I use)
www.ebay.com/itm/Commodore-64...
EasyFlash 3 Multi-Cart:
store.go4retro.com/easyflash-3/
--- Instructional videos
My video on damage-free chip removal:
• How to remove chips wi...
--- Music
Intro music by:
Nathan Divino
@itsnathandivino
Outro Music:
Abyss by | e s c p | escp-music.bandcamp.com
Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
creativecommons.org/licenses/...

[@HeyBirt]

Hi Adrian, thanks for showing everything off. It makes me happy to be able to create/offer this stuff that helps other fix up their vintage computers. Between the time I sent the box to you and now Francis and I decided to go ahead and get matching DB-23 plastic hoods made. While you 'can' use a DB25 the holes don't quite line up and they are too large for some applications like the A600.

[@Shunnabunich]

Take a shot every time Adrian says "brains of the operation"

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

HAHA yeah I said it many many times. :-)

[@another3997]

Who do you want us to shoot? 😁

[@lucyinchat]

@@another3997 some form of Alcohol or other drink.

[@JVHShack]

Jeff and his friend Francis are working on getting the DB23 hoods made.

[@LeftyLabs]

In the assembly of your little uChip board, the green LED is dim because green LEDs have a higher forward-voltage drop than an equivalent-sized red LED. As a result you need a lower value resistor in-circuit. I've been bitten by this myself in my own retro-mods and general electronic tinkering work (specifically, using a green LED in place of a red one for the ATR swap-button mod when I installed an Incognito board inside one of my Atari 800's).

[@nathanmead140]

That is why when I make stuff I use an online calculator to find out what resistance I need for LEDs by typing in the voltage I'm going to use (1.5, 3, 3.3, 5 or 12 volts) and selecting what color LED I need or I figure out how much voltage the LED needs and keep trying different numbers for the resistance on the calculator until I get the right voltage.

[@gordoncreAtive]

They‘ve also started making new hoods for that DB23 connector. Now we need an DB23 male connector for external disk drives...

[@AxidentalDM]

Ciao dall'Italia. A lot less tourists in Italy right now though.

[@kenkobra]

Love it when they are released during the day so I can watch it while I work. So technically, I'm getting paid to watch this! :)

[@macdaniel6029]

This is your boss speaking. Report tomorrow at 0800!

[@kathrynevans6849]

Adrian, In case I missed the comment where somebody else mentioned it, those 3M feet with the spike remind me strongly of the feet used on vinyl record decks, as the pointy bits provide acoustic isolation. (Thank Techmoan for that tidbit of information).

[@wizdude]

Star Micronics dot matrix printer! That’s what I used in the day. Printed out all of my school assignments on it using a TRS-80 and Scripsit :-)

[@alanhightower976]

"What does the 1200 do that the 4000 doesn't?" - Fits on your desk nicely!

[@thedungeondelver]

How small is your desk?

[@3vi1J]

Just get two broom handles, cut in half, glue to bottom of the A4000. Boom - 4000 *is* your desk, problem solved.

[@larsenmats]

A1200 also has PCMCIA for easy file transfer using a fat32 formatted CF card

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

I suppose but I just have a IDE-CF adapter mounted in my A4000 on the back of the machine.

[@danijelcerin6912]

"vampirise" the 1200, and will get the job done XD

[@TooLazyToFail]

That's such an adorable little monitor, and it's all the more satisfying to see it in action after watching you restore it.

[@The_Watcher2k3]

These clear rubber feet could be intended for speakers. The tip is for decoupling from the surface on which the speakers are standing. This avoids vibrations from the loudspeaker housing to a cabinet or other furniture.

[@hadessuk]

Red Balls looks like a clone of Worms. Spent many afternoons playing against 3 friends with the demo version ;)

[@FryNOR]

Gorilla.bas and Scorched Earth comes to my mind.

[@nicolaw6829]

Yes it's written in the description :)

[@nu11man]

You make the best show notes! I love how you have links to everything, including your equipment.

[@AfterHoursEngineering]

LOL. I participated in the uChip campaign on CrowdSupply. :-) Hopefully I get my soon.

[@frostar701]

As im just starting hardware projects I want to say thank you for the assembly video. You answered so many questions that i did not even know I had. Wow & again thank you

[@nickwallette6201]

Man, I LOVED Italy. Went there a couple years ago. Could not find bad food in Rome if I tried. Everything there was 10/10. But I absolutely fell in love with Venice. I dunno what it was exactly (definitely not the food! haha), it just felt like my soul was “home”. Belgium is also amazing. Great food and beer there. I’m a huge Liege waffles fan. :-) Ghent was a TRIP. It was like this hip modern college town with the most epic history. You can stand on a bridge over a canal and turn around in place. Depending which way you’re facing, you’ll be looking at a freakin _castle_ , or churches and forts older than time itself. The energy of that place is palpable.

[@sillystev0n]

I love Wednesdays because it’s burger day as well as a new mail call video comes out that can watch during my lunch hour. Thank you so much, keep it up!

[@williamsquires3070]

The rubber feet with the pointy bits are like snow tires for your car; they’re in case you want to play with your C64 in the snow (or if, for some reason, your desk/workspace is covered in ice)! 😝

[@manicdataminer]

Or stylophone :) m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWi0c41nZtqCmdk

[@nickc7494]

Excellent presentation, you’re videos are truly amazing

[@suluturnip]

Thanks for another great video Adrian.

[@williamsquires3070]

Open up the remote; it may have a bad solder connection, or someone “recycled” them and didn’t clean the battery leakage off the terminals and just stuck a new battery in them before selling them on eBay/AliExpress. 😤 Besides, the viewers want a 30-second teardown! 🤗

[@aaronbrandenburg2441]

Tear down, tear down, tear down!

[@benn8793]

Great video. I discovered your channel only a few months ago. Since then I look forward to your videos every week. Greetings from Germany

[@fluffyfoxbunny]

That mini console looks really neat actually. Cheap too.

[@pmgodfrey]

26:59 -- How Adrian really drives in real life.

[@megan_alnico]

He lives in Portland.. Nobody needs to drive in Portland ;)

[@deathcube2006]

It's so funny. I was like dude seriously you never played any racing game on a pc?

[@megan_alnico]

@@deathcube2006 There was something about holding up all the time.. I would have assumed it would control like RC Pro Am and have a button to accelerate.

[@basvanharen2904]

I like that time-lapse. For some reason I like to see people solder stuff😅 just speed it up and put some comment on it.. nice, thumbs up!

[@weedmanwestvancouverbc9266]

Got to get some of these as I have a newly new Commodore 1520 one AND a NOS Atati 1020 plotter.

[@_to_dream_or_not_to_dream]

True, always read critical comments on Amazon. There are too many paid fake 10/10 reviews there.

[@aafjeyakubu5124]

I always read the critical reviews to determine their merit. Sometimes people whine about the most inconsequential nonsense. Sometimes they don't. I almost never read the 4 and 5-star reviews.

[@AWalYT]

uSVC reminds me of Uzebox, which does a similar thing using an ATMEGA chip. That one always was a conversation piece when talking about random game consoles, so I think I'll have to nab this one too. They can be friends. 😁

[@uomoartificiale]

Cheers from Italy! :D

[@ChairmanMeow1]

the little JJC remote rant was hilarious

[@stevenbell8971]

Loving your work Adrian

[@3vi1J]

Re: Remote. I know exactly what you mean about the Amazon comments. When I'm buying stuff I'll open a half-dozen similar items and head straight to the negative comments on each item. I tend to ignore any positive comments unless they have pictures and specific details to explain why the person is so happy with the purchase. In the end I'll pretty much take a chance buying something that has zero comments before I'll buy one that has well expressed negative comments from a verified owner.

[@rossmiller2204]

I've found that three, and sometimes four start reviews on products seem the most truthful, and tend to better specify what is good and bad about a product. Seem to have a lower number of fakes, as well.

[@Okurka.]

"Item never arrived" - 5 stars

[@belzebub16]

"Hello and welcome to Adrian's Digital BasementS" 😳 Is this a hint for the 100k special which will be a 2nd basement? 🤔

[@JARVIS1187]

Had to triple check that, after I heard that. Thought, this is some product of my tiredness, but it wasn't. I wonder how many basements he has and what he does there :O

[@angrydove4067]

Maybe he has a sub basement?

[@jamiecruickshank9697]

Adrian's Analogue Basement?

[@Derundurel]

I remember making one of these 23-pin connectors years ago from a 25-pin one using a file. It wasn't pretty, but it did work!

[@jimsteele9261]

I used an x-acto razor saw to do the cutting. Wasn't pretty either. :-)

[@robertwielewicki1249]

nice timing

[@JyrkiKoivisto]

Just had to order one of those DB23 connectors

[@RyeOnHam]

We used Google Maps in Venice as well. You are right, it was a lifesaver.

[@briangoldberg4439]

That's cool. I would like to see one of these open-source console boards actually get a good game library going. Without that, it's not really of interest to someone unless they actually want to build their own games.

[@lucyinchat]

I mean, someone could just build emulators for it.

[@danboid]

The Uzebox has some good games. Check out Starduino, Flight of the dragon and Tempest 2000. I really like the columns remake too.

[@briangoldberg4439]

@@danboid so, i can appreciate that some people want to play around with things like that just for fun, but the bar has really been set very high by raspberry pi (i guess if you can find one lol)

[@danboid]

The RPi is not a direct nor fair comparison. The Uzebox is for people who want to make their own video games console and/or program games for a console and understand how every component of the machine works and how every line of the source code that runs it works. They may also be fans of open source hardware, the RPi hardware design isn't open source and you cannot make it from components. Even Linux Torvalds doesn't fully understand every aspect of the Linux kernel. Apples and oranges. Uzebox is not targeting someone who is interested in the Ps5 nor someone interested in the Rpi.

[@briangoldberg4439]

@@danboid right, and that's why i said it wouldn't be of interest to someone "unless they actually want to build their own games." the point of the uzebox is not lost on me

[@tonysofla]

I have Dsub23 and also Metalized Shells for them bought some 20years ago, should have a dozen at least. Wished I knew people were looking for them in the last 2years.

[@fattomandeibu]

The 4bpp mode could be Mega Drive(I believe Genesis in the US) or SNES style. On the MD, the graphics would be 4bpp, but there were 4 different 16 colour palettes, and each sprite or background layer could choose which of those 4 palettes to use, effectively giving 64 colours. The SNES was 8bpp, but had a 4bpp mode that could use the 256 colours to assign any of 16 palettes of 16 colours to assign to each sprite or background layer. Given how colourful that screen is, I'd say they were using at least something similar.

[@cleetusmacfarland9453]

man, you got me all excited I thought you meant the port for the motherboard):

[@MadawaskaObservatory]

your lab looks like an antique shop!!!!!

[@nicolabnc8]

Greetings from Italy Adrian 😉

[@cowasakiElectronics]

I made a lead years ago for an amiga and found some makes of D25 shells fit but you just need to drill out the holes just to the next size to make up the difference in length. Once assembled you can't even tell. Nearly 100K subs excellent stuff. I'm just about to launch my own channel...... Building electronic lab equipment, valve amps, 3D modeling and vintage computers. Just been given a PET4032.

[@nathanmead140]

I'm the 28th subscriber and turned on all notifications

[@cowasakiElectronics]

@@nathanmead140 Thanks Nathan. I'm working on lots of ideas. Mainly sorting out the intro, warning and outros at the moment but I want to launch with one from each of the niches I plan to look at in the beginning. A simple 3D design and printing project, a simple lab equipment project, an intro to the first valve amp project and a review. Oh and of course the PET 4032 restore/repair.

[@stephenlord1539]

i went on KZbin yesterday, and was so dissapointed that there was no 'midweek mini mailcall', then I realised it was only Tuesday, DOH

[@ayushkaushik8794]

I saw it was Wednesday, and I was waiting eagerly.

[@0toleranz]

Hi Adrian, Jeff is preparing a Kickstarter for the DB23 shroud/housing, I recently bought some connectors from him and saw it mentioned.

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

Ah nice -- yeah it's possible to 3D print some but some real injection molded ones would be great.

[@damolin77]

cool games I want to be a kid again take me back to my childhood

[@VincentGroenewold]

An extra 1200 redundant, while having 100 C64's? ;) Cool video!

[@OzRetrocomp]

I can vouch for Jeff Birt's A600 and A1200 case savers. I've fitted them to both of my Amigas (oddly enough, an A600 and A1200), and they work great.

[@RayBrooks0]

YES DB23!!!

[@breadbaker]

That component placement though.😆

[@bitoxic]

11:38 I thought you were going to annouce a new sponsor... instead you blasted about a crappy product! So refreshing!!! 😄👍

[@chadsmith8476]

Cool IBM monitor ;)

[@villesyrjala3354]

Awesome. Didn't know someone was resurrecting the extinct DB23 connectors. Ordering some immediately. I was looking for these a while ago, but could only get some of the plastic shells from retrobench.com. Looks like they're now out of stock of those as well.

[@dangerotterisrea]

Very cool little 8bit console/computer! Nice worms clone :)

[@garyhart6421]

I have a couple (or three) connectors that are cut down Dsub-25s because of the Dsub-23 shortage. I was also looking for one to connect my GBS 8200 - tried a D15-VGA adapter = no go !

[@BertGrink]

17:10 I have the same model PCB holder 😁👍

[@blowpipe08]

Which is? 🙃

[@MobCat_]

18:07 what pcb holder are you using? Can't find it in the links but i may also be blind?

[@EnderMalcolm]

Where could I find some good guides and parts to build my own c64? I'd like to add in small LEDs on each of the data lines to show when they are active.

[@UpLateGeek]

LOL! When you first said VGA console, I also thought it was a serial console. Probably because that's been on my project list for a long time. I love the idea of building a "universal serial IP KVM", which is like a VGA KVM, but for serial console connections. It would run off an ESP32 or similar microcontroller with wifi, and have a keyboard, mouse and (multiple) serial inputs, and VGA output. You connect it up to a bunch of devices with serial consoles and can control them like you would servers (or PCs) connected to a KVM. But it's also got wifi, so you can also remote access them over the network like an IP KVM, hence the "universal" part in the name. Although it would probably be a lot easier to use a raspberry pie or pie zero or something. In any case, it's been on the backburner for a long time, since messing with vintage computer hardware takes up most of my free time these days. But that VGA console kit does look pretty cool. I'm always surprised about how powerful modern microcontrollers are these days. It really shouldn't be surprising though, considering how many great games were produced in the 8 and 16-bit console era, with much less graphical and computing horsepower. EDIT: I should probably mention I'm highly addicted to Tetris on my game boy colour, so when I saw this had Tetris, I had to consciously tell myself I don't need this before I immediately went and bought one on impulse!

[@MasterControl90original]

Italian viewer here! Still hoping you find a matching model 2011 or 2133 for that PS1 monitor :P

[@adamwheeldon]

is it wednesday already? 👍👍

[@vilore8136]

It's Wednesday my dudes

[@rdoetjes]

Hilarious, that he too uses a multimeter to get the resistor values. Last week I assembled a little C64 (parallel port) 16LED BAR display that I had designed. And I now use those mini through hole resistors and I just couldn't see the coloured bands any more. I guess my eye sight is also 48 years old and going bad :D

[@user-qf6yt3id3w]

I got myself a set of Tleilaxu eyes. Very handy and I never see anything bad about them through them.

[@retrocomputerskarachi6158]

“As always thank you for sharing”. Greetings from Karachi, Pakistan.

[@dreamvisionary]

I know it's more traditional to have component references on the PCB and a BoM but I prefer it when the component values are printed on the PCB, then you don't need to cross-reference.

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

I really do prefer the values to be printed on the PCB as well -- it seems like a small amount of extra effort

[@EricJorgensen]

when i need to get video out of something with a funky connector i typically just solder wires to the back of the board and to a vga type db15hd. or db9 as appropriate i guess.

[@JmanNo42]

Adrian you should have a clock in view doing the solderwork cut, i guess many people like me is just clueless about the time to solder up a board. And i guess for us beginners it easily 3-5 times the time you do it on.

[@rossmiller2204]

You should do a teardown on the remote and see why it is junk. Would be great scope content!

[@aaronbrandenburg2441]

2nd 3rd 4th 5th

[@PJBonoVox]

The console thing is a tough sell. I mean the idea is fantastic, and the devotion to a project is commendable. But how do you get people to really buckle down on writing stuff for it when they can do it on Raspberry Pi with all the C libraries under the sun at their disposal?

[@karols.8185]

Honesty I always wait to see your next episode, For me your effort is my only one that I need to see. Do you have a patreon? I dont know the spelling but I would like to support your hard work

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

Thanks! I don't currently have a Patreon but if/when I do, I'll announce it on the channel. Until then -- thank you for being a viewer and subscriber!

[@BonkedByAScout]

You should definitely play Worms if you haven't. There's a pretty fun Amiga version I've played in an emulator, and Worms Armageddon probably has the most active userbase.

[@TheodoreWard]

Do a deep dive on the remote and see if you can improve it! Or make one from an Arduino. I guess maybe those are out of your wheelhouse but would be interesting nonetheless.

[@stathissim]

bring back the Maxi mail calls! :P

[@organiccold]

35 allready, what a sucess Adrian :)

[@wesley00042]

Does anybody make reproductions of the pen barrel for those Alps printers? The pens are still fairly commonly available but the pen set doesn't come with the barrel that holds them in the printer.

[@tux1968]

Hi Adrian, love your channel. Do you have a link to where to buy that desk vise you used (black and blue) when soldering the little pcb board?

[@marctorres7182]

Not a link, but I found one at a thrift store in box labeled "StewMac PC board holder" that should get you there

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

It's really common -- just search for PCB holder or circuit board holder: amzn.to/3p92yeO

[@tux1968]

​@@marctorres7182 Hey Marc, that was very helpful. Google returns a few sites that still sell these new. Thanks very much.

[@tux1968]

@@adriansdigitalbasement Thanks Adrian, that's cheaper than the name brand one I was looking at ordering. Cheers!

[@JARVIS1187]

I like those kinda "hickups" - "digital analog signal" :D At least, it does not sound scripted with mistakes like that :)

[@lubricatedgoat]

uChip thingy seems like a perfect target for the Raspberry Pi Pico chip. Can OC it to 270 MHz.

[@Mr.Unacceptable]

Funny I have like 2000 of those 23 pin connectors in my bins I was sent by accident years ago.

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

Heh yeah I bet that's a similar situation for others! Many of these hiding in boxes :)

[@gerardbroek1943]

@23:41 I have made a USB A female port attached, through two 4mm banana plugs, to my bench powersupply. Can give way more current then a wall charger. Furthermore it indicates the currentdraw, so you can see what’s happening.

[@ScrotumPole]

are there any stairs leading down the Aidrians dungeon?

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

Heh no. If I had another level it would be filled with more retro machines. :-)

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Green + yellow - yeah - just like the old GCC Technologies SCSI drives.

[@Aruneh]

The A600 is redundant, says the guy with a whole bunch of C64s. :D

[@elbiggus]

On many an occasion I've taken a hacksaw to a DB25 to bodge up a DB23. Not pretty, but it's better than nothing!

[@AlexanderKurtz]

Just a question: is there a "full version" of your intro-music?

[@paulgthawkins]

Nice t-shirt

[@ford1546]

the blue video connector is almost like parallel plug but have less contacts

[@jammi__]

DB refers to the form factor of the connector than usually has 25 pins of that density. DA is what's used on old Mac video ports and PC game ports, typically 15 pins. DE is the size for VGA, COM ports and game ports. The 17, 19, 21 and 23 pin connectors with the same density as DB-25 and DE-9 has, are just nonstandard D-connectors and should be referred to like D-23, not DB-23.

[@thomassmith4999]

Damm that Uchip board looks impressive, better potential than the Commander 16 I would say

[@awilliams1701]

prices aside, I think this is limited to 256k and the commander 16 has like 2mb or something. In the end it's software support that makes or breaks it. I've never heard of this thing and it seems like there is already more software for the c16.

[@thomassmith4999]

@@awilliams1701 Well limited ram or not it's doing some awesome things here, The commander 16 doesn't do anything this cool. Even if this only ends up on the demoscene it'll be great for that,

[@awilliams1701]

@@thomassmith4999 it can do everything this can

[@thomassmith4999]

@@awilliams1701 I try and find videos of it running software (the Commander 16) but I haven't seen it do anything this impressive yet. This Uchip looks like it'll be great for home made 1980s style Arcade games. There might be some great projects.

[@awilliams1701]

@@thomassmith4999 This device seems to have like 6 programs in total only 3 of them are games (apparently by the people that made it). The commander 16 has a LOT more than that. It has amiga like capabilities graphically. In fact if anything it's more like a SNES graphically. However......since the C16 is constantly being changed and modified people are just going after the basics. However its also getting much, much closer to its final design. As that happens people will put more effort into graphics. right now they are focusing more on game play. That makes sense. The fact is this device is further along. But since it's a virtual unknown........it may not get much software support. Pretty much half the retro community has heard of the Commander 16.

[@marcelhh2101]

Adrian, open up the remote, and probably the send led is bend. Or maybe even a cheep one, so try to find a good led from a old remote and you are probably going to fix the thing!! It could also be low quality buttons, so replacing those could also be a solution depending on whats the problem actually is.

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

It's bluetooth -- it just seems to not connect to the camera most of the time .. or is really random how often it works.

[@marcelhh2101]

@@adriansdigitalbasement maybe a cold join on the PCB?

[@Siktah]

Those connectors look very very close to the ones I can walk down to a local Jaycar Electronics store and purchase.

[@loganjorgensen]

Get that man Worms, don't think he's tried it. ;) 27:33 How on Earth could such control rotate, it would constantly change keys and you'd be more confused, guess people are just spoiled with 3D games since Forward/Reverse/RotateL&R though simple confuses a lot of people now. I guess a spinner controller(steering wheel) would help but not a lot of that in the 16-bit game era, or 32-bit era which had "tank" controls too for early 3D games like RE. Ah that's what Copper generically refers to, I just call that vertical gradient control since many other platforms like Atari models have that too. Have looked deeper into Amiga hardware but every time I hear Copper I think of the metal heh.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Looks neat but it's been years since I've owned a display that supported VGA.

[@rastislavzima]

12:12 Adrian is this your maximum level of anger? :-D You look quite calm even when you are angry. :-)

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

Haha definitely not my maximum level :-) This is the "rant-mode-engaged" level

[@TanjoGalbi]

At 20:10 you said it's odd it does not seem to take up the full screen and the menu does take up more of the screen. But it does not! Maybe your mind is being tricked by the black background of the menu but if you look at the vertical bar of the menu screen it reaches the same limits as the demos.

[@Rorschach1024]

Now if we could find a new supplier of pen inserts for the Alps plotters......

[@bobingabout]

did he do DB23 male and female, for the disk drive port too? with people wanting to do things like Gotek, having external drives is becoming common too. I actually just put my GOTEK in a CUMANA external drive case, as the floppy drive in it was broken, but if I had the option, I would have made my own cable for it.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Will anyone make the DIN-9 connectors.

[@thomassmith4999]

Would have been much better to get the motherboard mount male 23 pin made surely, but this is a start