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BTS: Burbo Toost

Getting Babyfractic very well trained now, ready for her career at the Foundation! #shotonflipphone

Early bird: NES HDMI mod (goes wrong) 🕹️2UP

Hello dip chippers, or something like that - yes something strange is afoot, or is it aleg? In this fantastic project by https://youtube.com/@levimaaia he attempts to upgrade his precious childhood NES to HDMI, but all does not go according to plan. Will he recover? And why do I sound slightly different in the PCBWay segment in the middle?! I didn't Nintendo sound strange (sorry). All will be revealed (hopefully).

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Early bird: The Retro Show is BACK!

Ahh it's good to be back, and we're excited to share this with you. Mostly it's the same format you love, with a few tiny tweaks. Also as YouTube transitions more to TV, we'll be arranging TRS into seasons, and as this is year 5 and the show has returned from a short hiatus, that makes this the start of Season 5. Number Five is alive!

Your YouTube-ad-free early access: https://youtu.be/RyrQ6BrdMmg

We hope you lov...

BTS in a Galaxy Tab far, far away.... & a galactically important update!

Hello there!

So, firstly, I'm going to kindly ask for your patience over the next couple of weeks, but promise you it will be worth it. More on that in a second.

But first, have you heard that the cinema re-release of a little flick I worked on back in 2004-2005 called Revenge of the Sith has just become the biggest ever re-release with an opening weekend box office of $30M!? Now, I don't get a penny of that, but it's just cool that something so many people put so much of their he...

Early bird: Funboxing Galore!

Sorry this one is a little later than I would have liked due to some technical problems, but my gosh this may be the biggest and most fun bundle of retro unboxing shenanigans I've done. Quiet a lot of boxes have been stacking up while we've been on our travels, so it was time to tackle them here! I'm extremely fortunate to be in receipt of so many lovely gifts - huge thanks to everyone who sent stuff our way.

Ladyfractic even gets in on the action with a sponsored vacuum robot unboxing ...

Behind-The-Scenes: BabyfracKITT

It's quite a special thing when such a deeply engrained piece of our own childhood nostalgia becomes potentially part of our children's, as I'm experiencing with this #ShotOnFlipphone moment of our little one at 19 months discovering KITT.

She hasn't experienced him with the dash powered up yet, but every day now when we go outside she shouts "KHHHRRRRch" (KITT) and demands to be let inside, where she pushes ALL the buttons, and does her little 'driving' hands.

It fills me with gl...

Let’s Have a Zoom Real Chat

Ello! As this tasty retro journey has grown, so has my sense of appreciation for the incredible people who support it. That's you BTW. Lately, I’ve been reflecting on what matters in life – and one thing that I keep coming back to is connection. Not just making "output" of videos, where you feel like you know me, but the same can't often be said in reverse.

Creating videos is amazing, but some parts (hello, endless editing) can be a grind. It's been refreshing to ha...

Early bird: The Most Nostalgic Commodore Pack Ever

Ello! Here's a video where I've teamed up with Rob from Retro Or Bust where - as you'll hear in my lengthy intro - we're exploring the Commodore Computer Compendium that first got me into the C64. This is a lovely, nostalgic ride for me, and I hope you love it. Give Rob a subscribe if you do!

Your ad-free early access: https://youtu.be/nOKVGmTPxis

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Early bird: OLED Gotek Screen Repair

Here's a little project that took a few weeks from start to end, where I try to fix the OLED screen on my Amstrad PCW's Gotek Drive, and while I'm tinkering, attempt a RAM upgrade with some help from fellow Patreon, Russell Ventura! I hope you enjoy this Venture(a).

Ad-free early access: https://youtu.be/itsLUl_Emco

Thank you so much for your ongoing support!

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

Update: 4/1/25

BTS: Retro is everywhere

#ShotOnFlipphone

BTTF-BTS: Hill Valley? #ShotOnFlipphone

I was driving through Santa Clarita with some rather funky music on, and realised I must have taken KITTesla up to 88 and traveled back to witness a familiar Clock Tower being built!

Exclusive: Atari Breakout Beyond first come first serve codes

Hi all! Sorry these are on a first come first served basis as there's no other simple way to do it, but Atari have kindly offered some free codes for their new game on various platforms:

Steam: 3XFJ3-IQ7LM-CFBEF

Xbox: 6HCRX-67DQ6-XKX72-3F229-CW47Z

Switch: E146PYPXPX5QDYTH

PS5: GCX2-CDCK-R6F7

PS4: RBHG-TT9E-2KBC

ZX81: DONT-BE-SILLY

I hope you get lucky and it gives you something extra fun to do this Sunday, and if not, my since...

Early bird: Raffle winner case project

If I did what my heart wanted me to do and told you the week of ups and ups I'd had in the NDA side of the retro world, A) you wouldn't believe me, and B) I'd get sued. Ha! But we are getting close to the moment I'll reveal to you guys before anyone else what has been going on behind the scenes lately. Usually I'm cautious not to over-hype things, but there's no way to over-hype this.

Stay tuned!

Until then here's a lovely project by raffle winner Christian (great name!) in Germa...

Early bird: KITT says goodbye

Here's a rather special if bittersweet episode as I take KITT (or he takes me) to go and say goodbye to Saugus Speedway which is going away any minute now, and was famed for the Knight Rider Pilot and Slammin' Sammy's Stuntshow Spectacular episodes.

I try to use AI sparingly or invisibly, and there's one part of this where I use the new Topaz AI Project Starlight video restoration beta. I think it worked well for the need. 

Tip: Maybe have a tissue handy towards the end thoug...

Exclusive: Suno x Amiga

I was getting the urge to play with more music for my next album, and Suno AI has released a couple of new features called Cover Song and Remaster, using its new v4.

So, I started with the first song I ever wrote, and recorded on OctaMed on my Commodore Amiga. Here's my original recording from my Amiga of "Glass Out Of Stone" which you've likely heard before (if not go find your free music benefit download link on my Patreon welcome message!):

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Early bird: Light Rider

Here's a teeny project attempting a repair on KITT's unibody back tail light, and revealing some secrets along the way...

Your ad-free early access: https://youtu.be/iUKrbN89spU

A much longer Knight Rider recipode coming next week; I hope you've got those hankies standing by!

Thank you for your ongoing support 👍🕹️

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

Early bird: VCF 2025 Retrospective

Your fellow supporter Levi of Levi's Digital Voyage on YouTube was a recent exhibitor at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal. I was initially slated to appear as well, but it wasn't meant to be. So it was rather nice when Levi filmed the whole thing and made a frankly magical little video about why vintage computers matter. We hope you enjoy it.

Your ad-free early access: https://youtu.be/JgQ5G9q7dRc<...

How We Put the Retro Recipes Logos on the Intertec Intertube & Heathkit H-19 Terminals

Now The Knight Rider Historians video is public here’s a bonus look from AJ of how the ЯR and other logos ended up on the old terminal screens. We hope you enjoy it, and be sure to give a follow to his new channel https://youtube.com/@forgottenmachines

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

Early bird: The Computers of Knight Rider | 2UP

I teased this episode some 3 years ago, and myself and AJ of Knight Rider Historians and Forgotten Machines channels have discussed it on and off during that time, including in person working on a special upcoming video (yes, the one I can't talk about until I can talk about it 😅).

Finally, the time was right, and as AJ is a bona fide expert when it comes to not just Knight Rider but these specific machines (some of which he and Joe have been fascinated b...

BTS: Dogfud

Who knew my favourite British electronics store had barked I mean branched out…

Early bird: Harleyfractic vs. C64/iMac G3

This is so fun! We've wanted to get Harleyfractic more involved in the channel for a while so when brainstorming ideas for The Game Closet's own ЯR 2UP Takeover, it seemed only right that she star in a Kids React style video exploring the C64 and iMac G3. How will she fare?! Will this savvy six year-old figure out the power switch or disk drives? There's only one way to find out...

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