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Eat my shorts: Self-lacing shoes!

Sometimes we mention on the channel what a long list of video ideas there is ahead. And it's actually becoming a bit of a big (good) problem. No joke but I think for every video I release, I add at least 2 new video ideas to the list. Normally lists get shorter as time goes on, but here at ЯR it's all backwards somehow.

So don't be surprised if you see more Shorts being made as it allows me to clear my headspace to focus more on those big tentpole videos you love, whilst also getting m...

About AI Upscales

While I continue work on a major new video that I think is my favourite ever, I take a bit of time out to play with AI Upscales from time to time. An oft-requested one is the best commercial of all time - Keeping Up With The Commodore.

But the thing about these upscales is, poor quality in, poor quality out. The Björk one worked so well because the original was of satisfactory quality. Not great, but not awful. However the original available on YouTube for Keeping Up is really bad qual...

Early bird: A500 Ad Remaster

A short 'n' sweet little recipe for your delectation today; this classic Amiga 500 Cartoon Classics TV commercial that I thought deserved a little love and attention, in part from Topaz AI. I also layered the original song from an HD recording back onto the ad to replace the fuzzy TV version, and lots of other tweaks. Hope you enjoy it!

Video: https://youtu.be/aavn7gmI7To

I'm also working on a larger video that's...

Early bird: Ladyfractic's Lego Atari Build!

Updated with a few fixes and several Perifacts (Ladyfacts?)

Good things come to those who wait, right? We hope you can see where the time was spent editing what was a 2-day project down to under 30 minutes, as Ladyfractic and Josiefractic build the Lego Atari 2600!

Video: https://youtu.be/PCqre_qhKDo

Ladyfractic will be adding some factoids to this video by the end of Thursday so this won't be the ...

Early bird: The ЯRetro Show Halloween Special!

Here's a spooky Halloween special of The ЯRetro Show containing all sorts of retro scary stuff (but not too scary). We had a blast making this, as you will see! 💥

Watch it now or save it for Halloween weekend - the choice is yours!

Video: https://youtu.be/w76SdCUKEM8

Thank you for your ongoing support, pumpkin 🎃

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

THEA500 Mini Prototype Charity Auction Launch

Dear Supporter

Since year one at Perifractic's Retro Recipes we have tried to do our bit to give back to the community, and to charity, including:

• A giveaway of my original full-size Brixty Four
• A giveaway of THEC64 Mini inside a real C64
• Other unboxings sent on at random to channel supporters
• Donating the working Team17 Amiga 4000 & accompanying items to the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield who just launched an exhibition centred around ...
  2022-10-22 23:24:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Early bird: MEGA 65 Playtest

Here at last is the full playtest of the MEGA 65. This is my longest fully edited video I think ever. That will either work in my favour or against me depending on the algorithm Gods, but I hope you at least enjoy every minute. Let me know what you think of my conclusions.

Video: https://youtu.be/iWsKpG3fuGg

Thank you for your ongoing support! 👍🕹️ 

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

Early bird: Have we found this Knight Rider prop?

Let me tell you a story…

Video: https://youtu.be/mzPp7M06Cpc

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

Late bird: 13 years late in fact

With Halloween in the air I thought I'd let you guys into a little secret. What you thought was my first "retro" video actually was my second. You're the first to know this but back on 9 Jan 2009 when I only used my YouTube account for watching other people's videos, I decided to upload something on a whim and see what happened.

You see, in the UK (I didn't move to LA till 8 months later) I had been going through my ch...

Early bird: Bjork Remastered

I've had a few requests for this and decided to see how it would look, and I think the outcome was good so I decided to make it a full video. Hopefully it looks effortless, though it took a surprising amount of work as you'll see a snippet of at the end.

This is just a shorter video to tide you fine folk over while we work on longer edits behind-the-scenes. 

Video: https://youtu.be/SNQtQWjX-sA

Coming s...

Early bird: The ЯRetro Show #18

Please enjoy October's recipode of The ЯRetro Show! It will be interesting to see if this one perform's any better than usual on Sat after the recent uptick in subscriber numbers from the last couple of video releases ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Video: https://youtu.be/0vmRP_CFQpM (updated per comments)

Thank you for your ongoing support 👍🕹️ 

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

Peri/phrastic | Sep 2022

It's high time I gave you a fun and timely update on all things channel and Familyfractic related, in this even more periphrastic (rambling) vlog than usual!

Video: https://youtu.be/pMzRORI05Is

Correction: I mention the Patreon billing date changing but this will only affect new patrons not existing ones. Apologies for the misunderstanding.

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

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Early shorts: Casio Watch Ultra?

I'm sending you so many Shorts today they'll end up making a normal length episode! ;-)

Let's explore the similarities between the Apple Watch Ultra and the Casio watches of the 80s and 90s that I adored.

Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/ZfJP5yXTIMk

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

Early shorts: Andor British Railway Train?

Something short & sweet and perhaps quite different as we go very retro indeed - back to the 1930s in fact, with a sprinkling of Star Wars in the mix. I hope you like this little observation I made whilst watching Star Wars: Andor. 

Don't worry, this recipe is spoiler free.

Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/lWiZWFvBRxU

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

Early bird: C64 OS Exclusive Review

I hope you are doing well. As we slowly get back into the swing of things here, I'm proud to present an exclusive review of a brand new operating system for the Commodore 64. It's quite an achievement as a piece of software, and I think we're pretty lucky to have it 40 years after the C64 launched.

The video goes public tomorrow and the dev Gregory Nacu kindly waited for us to be ready before he officially launches it to the world on that same day. I hope you enjoy this deep dive review...

Supporters Channel Update re The Queen

Here's a little private podcast about why we're temporarily postponing the publishing of new videos. Thanks for listening.

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

Early bird: MEGA 65 part 1

I decided to break this one down into more manageable chunks as I had so much fun on the history, unboxing, and teardown of the MEGA 65! I want to spend at least 45 minutes on the part 2 playtest. Hope you enjoy this!

Video: https://youtu.be/BJgEeA8pNbs

Thank you for your ongoing support! 👍🕹️ 

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

Early shorts: Retro Robots?

You may have already seen some of this on the Patreon Lens but I thought it was actually really interesting for a short video whilst I wrap up some bigger projects. Either way I hope you enjoy it!

Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/IwcML8zK-ng

Thank you for your ongoing support 👍🕹️ 

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

Early bird: The ЯRetro Show #17

Tissues on standby as we remember the late great ZZAP! artist Oliver Frey, but also try to have a lot of fun in this jam packed recipode too - he'd have certainly approved.

Video: https://youtu.be/dlp3BZzKAy8

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Coming soon: MEGA65 Mega Test, Lego Atari 2600 build, Meet Josiefractic, I Bought a KITT, and much more!

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

Early bird: Meet the REAL KITT!

This was one meaty edit with 6 angles and 2 hours of material, but if a video has ever been worth it it's this one! Thanks to your fellow Patreons, the Knight Rider Historians, we've been afforded unprecedented, exclusive access to one of the three original KITTs used in the Pilot and all four seasons - and it's one of only five of the original 20ish that have survived.

Meet KITT!: https://youtu.be/lw913fpb3lM

I ...

Early Shorts: THEA500 + real floopies

Find out how I got real floppy disks working on THEA500 Mini thanks to a special folder.

What’s in that special folder? Literally nothing but a 0 bytes WHDLoad file that the machine looks for to allow the disk to mount. By making it 0 bytes it allows space for a .ADF file on a 1.44 MB disk. Simples! 🤫

In all seriousness if anyone can test this before it goes public Saturday it would be a great precaution for me. You don’t have to do the paint and sticker 😉 But maybe you ...

Meet Josiefractic!

We've had a few comments that Josiefractic never got a proper introduction on the channel, and that's kinda correct - so let's kinda correct that! 

We're inviting supporters of a certain tier (that means you!) the option to pose your questions to Josiefractic, then Ladyfractic will interview her in a special 30 minute recipode coming up!

Thanks for understanding that we can't promise there will be time to ask all questions, but they will all be read and carefully considered w...

Early bird: How doot you do!

A little change of pace here and something I just couldn't resist doing. I hope you love it!

Video: https://youtu.be/dZrAmdJRhR0

Thanks also to the Patreon Lens commenter who suggested the Jurassic Park joke ;-) 

Coming up, we meet the real KITT, and that MEGA 65 review! Thank you for your ongoing support 👍🕹️ 

Your friend in retroot 'n do, Perifractic 

Early bird: The ЯRetro Show #16!

Today we have TWO videos to share with you! 

First is what may be our favourite The ЯRetro Show to date, this time with a bit of a musical / Lego theme!: https://youtu.be/m59nk8SPMsQ

And second is an exclusive extended version of the Harleyfractic TARDIS scene you'll find in The ЯRetro Show, just for supporters and courtesy of your kind fellow supporter Game Closet Retro!: 2022-07-27 01:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Early bird: C64 board game?

I was under the weather last week (all better now!) so decided to tackle something a bit more low energy. Please enjoy your early access as we review a new Commodore 64 board game!

Video: https://youtu.be/0y1bvv2yaHg

Thank you for your ongoing support 👍🕹️ 

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 

Earlybird: Ladyfractic's 3D Printed Computer Lives!

Please enjoy your early access to this whopping 40 minute installation and exploration of all things 3D Printed RasPi retrocomputer!

Video: https://youtu.be/i_CseJygHzQ

Thank you for your ongoing support!

💁🏻‍ Ladyfractic, Josiefractic (& that Perifractic guy too) 

Early bird: KITTesla Episode 3!

Thanks for your patience with another major tentpole recipode for our little channel. I'm proud to share the third instalment of turning my Tesla into a modern-day KITT from Knight Rider! This time we focus on the exterior look with a bevy of conversions that would make even Wilton Knight envious.

Video: https://youtu.be/6L6DLjwboCc

Coming up next Ladyfractic has part 2 of her 3D Printed Retrocomputer, testing it...

Early bird: The ЯRetro Show Jun-Jul!

Please enjoy a brand spankin' new episode of The ЯRetro Show! Your support has really been paying dividends here as this one rendered in about 30 minutes with the new computer I've been able to afford for editing, whereas it could take up to 4 hours previously, so thank you and I am proud to be able to get you content faster as a result! 🎉

Small note: The show will now be named for the month after it's release, as it releases at the end of each month, so as not to seem "old", and in...

Early bird: Why I'm retiring my real Amiga

Here's a new full-length recipode for you to enjoy! I hope you find the video thought provoking and that it is something that will lead to positive outcomes for the community in the future. And of course feel free to let me know what you think about the topic. This video will go public on Saturday so it's yours to enjoy for the week.

Technically I actually found this surprisingly difficult to make. For those interested in the behind-the-scenes, some videos I can mostly make "as it happe...

Early shorts: Creepy Xbox

Please enjoy this little exploration of why the original Xbox gave kids nightmares. Thanks to supporter Marvin Droogsma for help with the German translation!

Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/g9hq6bEA7gg?feature=share

Thank you for your ongoing support! 👍🕹️

Your friend in retro, Perifractic