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Update & Full warm-up video for the 800XL unpeeling

Dear Patrons of a certain tier,

I hope you don't find this un(a)peeling (!) but there won't be a full-sized main course video this week, due in part to my tidying up various projects & loose ends (not to mention repairing storm damage, and a memorial)...

However I never want to leave you with an empty plate here at Retro Recipes, so please enjoy the rather fun raw warm-up video for the unpeeling that I arranged of the Extreme Refurb Atari 800XL. This took place just a couple...

Exclusive video: A600 3D Eject Button Install

Dear Patrons of a certain tier!

Here's a little live(ish) raw video shot moments ago, attempting to install the new eject button on that Amiga 600 from the recent video, kindly printed for me by my local library.

I hope you enjoy this Patreon exclusive clip :)

Your friend in retro,
Perifractic

Early-bird: Let's Explore The Plus/4

Dear Patrons

I've got a long-form humdinger of an episode for you today that's been in the works for a while, and is jammed full of useful info and fun moments. I hope you love it as much as I loved make it for you guys. 

As always don't hesitate to let me know any corrections or suggestions.

Now let's explore the Plus/4!...

Your friend in retro,
Perifractic

Instaretrofamous

So this guy called Purplefractal or something has an Instagram now? And will be updating it with pretty looking retro posts? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
http://instagram.com/perifractic
http://linktr.ee/perifractic

Hope to see you there too!

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

30,000 🎉🕹️

I don't want to wear these words out, but thank you all so much for your part in making this happen. I'm usually good at puns and quips and quick responses but it's hard to find the words for how grateful I am of this retro reality. So I'll simply say, cheers to you 🍻

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

The Brixty Four in MagPi magazine

Hi again friends,

Check out page 22 of MagPi magazine for a little interview with your friend in retro! It's in shops like Barnes and Noble here in the USA (not sure if it's worldwide) but you can download it for free here!

Cheers!
Perifractic

Early-bird: I don't know what to call this video

Dear early bird patrons,

They called Seinfeld an entertaining show about nothing. This is a video that is almost about nothing, yet is hopefully entertaining. Once you've seen it, feel free to suggest a catchier title than this!:

Amiga 600 SD Mount: Re-Upcycling a Recycled PCB

Thank you for your support. Now go enjoy your worms, early birds.

Your friend in retro,
Perifractic

Happy Retroversary To Us! 🎉

Talk about vintage; our little #Retrogaming channel is 1 year old! 🕯️ With 29.8k subscribers it would be so retrocool to get to 30k👀

If you have friends who love retrocomputing content, puppies & bad puns, feel free to share this little linky ➡️ youtube.com/perifractic?sub_confirmation=1

Thank you for all your support 🙏🕹️

Your friend in retro, Perifractic 2019-01-28 22:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Early-bird: ASMR-ish Edition | Atari 800XL Extreme Refurb

Video updated with very special new surprise ending! Watch from 14 mins!

Dear Patrons

Due to popular demand I'm trying something a little different this week based on our little channel's "most watched" video - the Atari 800XL Extreme Refurb (which has over 130,000 views now). 

The intro to this video explains everything and why I'm publishing this new "edition" of the video, but I'd love your feedback here before this goes live at t...

Perk (or punishment): MacPaint Art Gallery

Dear Patrons

Off the back of the Macintosh keyboard video, I would like to add for you dear folks that the reason I chose that keyboard is the happy years I spent using that exact one at my friend's house.



I never owned a Macintosh, but always loved it.

I looked up to his father who would write books on that clicky-clacky keyboard. He's now a famous author.

Which remin...

Early-bird: 1986 Macintosh Keyboard with 2019 Mac?!

Video updated (again) with trackpad vinyl wrap imagery near the end.

Dear Patrons,

Do you ever miss the beautiful tactile clickety clack of vintage keyboards and wonder how you could use them today with a modern computer? Me too! Turns out anything is possible...

I hope you enjoy your early bird access until mere mortals get it at the weekend. Thank you for all your support; it keeps this channel alive and clickety clacking in tippity top vinta...

Theme song's sticking around

Dear Patrons

Usually I change my ЯR theme tune quarterly as I did all last year but the current one has gone down so well it's sticking around! SID for the win!

And remember, all my themes and ringtones are yours as valued Patrons, to download whenever you like!

I'll be back soon with a new video!

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

Early-bird: How Piggybacking Works!

Update: Better diagram explanation of what tri-state means

Hello again lovely Patrons,

Here is your next early access video, exploring exactly why piggybacking faulty RAM works to fix faults using nothing but your fingers and a new chip!

Let me know what you think, and thanks for your ongoing support. This channel would not be here now without it. You are the piggybacked chip to my fault! 🙏🕹️

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

Teaser: The Worms Amiga 4000s

Dear Patrons

Due to a kind donation from one of the Team 17 "Worms" developers, Cris Blyth, I spent today acquiring their development Amiga 4000s, among other things (Amiga 1000 anyone?)



I'll be exploring the HDs (after backing them up!) for a future episode, but in the meantime here's some photos from today, just for you:

2019-01-10 05:17:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Shared: Brixty Four speed build by The Technologist

Dear Patrons

I'll be back with my own video for you later this week, entitled something like "Diagnose & Fix a Commodore 64 in 60 Seconds With Just Your Fingers ☝️", but in the meantime here's a cool speed build someone just posted, of their own full Brixty Four build!

It's strange to see someone else's hands making this! 🤯

If you haven't, please vote for Lego to mass produce it. We need 10k votes and they just made the voting process a lot simpler: 2019-01-07 03:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post

New Year, New Early-Bird: Narrated "Hibernated 1" Walkthrough!

Dearest Patrons

Sincere and most special thanks to each & every one of you for your friendship & patron support this year. 🙏

As your early-bird reward, uploading to YT now - and slightly ahead of the public release - is a special narrated 'solution' walkthrough of the brand new text adventure "Hibernated 1" by Stefan Vogt. Some people celebrate New Year's with fireworks; I invite you to celebrate it with me in deep space... I hope you enjoy this somewha...

Updated #TheBrixtyFour Instructions & Updated Update!

Dear Patrons

If you grabbed #TheBrixtyFour case & haven't built it yet, I've updated the instruction PDFs available at http://perifractic.com/brixtyfour with many bugs squashed! 🐜

(Image: SX-BrixtyFour style)

Oh & if you haven't voted for Lego to release it yet, we still need votes or we'll never see it on store shelves 😭 Vote now! 2018-12-30 22:08:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Early-bird: Xmas Unpeeling!

Dear Patrons

Thank you so much for your support this year. It truly is a gift. Speaking of which, I wanted to do something a little different for Christmas Day, which is when this one goes out to mere mortals.

Feel free to save this video till then, but as part of your early bird rewards, it's here if you want to unpeel your gift a little early!

Let me know what you think, and may I wish you a very happy Christmas 🎄🎁🕹️

Your friend in retro, Perifractic<...

Early-bird: Atari 400 Retrobriting Disaster & A/V Upgrade

Video updated with close-ups of the paintwork at the end, a quick rub test, 'before' Star Wars footage, & other enhancements throughout.

Dear Patrons,

Now the Lego project is done (for now), here's the long awaited conclusion to the Atari 400 upgrade and refurb... But it's not plain sailing.

You can also win a Hakko desoldering gun. Pretty hot! (Literally.)

This will go public Saturday but for now it's all yours. Let me know what you think! Happy Tuesday!
<...

Help with an upcoming video!

Edit: Looks like I'm all sorted but thank you! Tasty recipe incoming...

Retro friends, Romans, Patreons, lend me your stuff... 🙏

Might anyone have either of these Commodore 64 products my channel might borrow for a fun upcoming video, with much gratitude and a special credit?:

🕹️ Ultimate64
🕹️ Reloaded Mk2
🕹️ MechBoard64
🕹️ Keyrah v2

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

Early-bird Montage: The Brixty Four

Dear Patrons, want some Brixty More? Just in case you missed it, here's a fun and slightly different 7 minute time-lapsy montage of the recent 3-part 1-hour project, including some unseen footage. This will go public at the weekend but for now it's all yours.

Meanwhile, I'm (hopefully) fixing an Atari 400 retrobriting disaster ready for the next main episode, and shooting bits for other episodes including a major C64 repair and something fun on the Commodore Plus/4. Or is that "Plus Brixty/4"?...

Brixty Store!

Dear Patreons
In between working on some upcoming vids including part 2 of the Atari 400 refurb & upgrade, I just pushed through a major update to the Brixty Four website:

• You can now download the full master file including mechanical Lego keyboard & PCB
• The full store is now open, including the sprung keyboard, full Brixty Four, and even a BRIC-20 badge kit
• As before, remember I don't set the prices - Lego just isn't cheap, but my files are complet...
  2018-12-02 07:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post

LEGO C64 Grand Finale! With Sprung LEGO Keyboard & PCB – #TheBrixtyFour Part 3

Dear Patrons

Thanks for your patience whilst I finished up the Brixty Four project. As you'll see, a lot went into this video! 

Note: As before, some of the links and content I mention may not be live when you watch this but will be going up before Sunday's premiere.

And join me for the live chat as we watch (or rewatch) this with the public on Sunday from 11am Pacific Standard Time / 7pm London time!

Thank you for helping me achieve what we've achieved herein. It means ...

Brixty Four Instructions

Update: Case Top instructions now live here. I hope you agree it's so much fun watching it come together in nostalgic LEGO guide form :)

Dear Patrons

For those of you not into the Lego stuff, don't worry I'll be back soon enough with part 2 of the Atari 400 upgrade and refurb.

But for those following #TheBrixtyFour project, I'm finali...

Brixty More

Dear Patrons,

Thanks for your comments so far on #TheBrixtyFour Part 2! What better now (apart from part 3) than your own Brixty Four T-shirt or canvas from https://teespring.com/the-brixty-four! 

Even if people don't know the project, it's still a fun visual and play on words.

2018-11-20 04:43:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Win the Brixty Four!

Dear Patreons of a certain level

I'm sharing the contest  just with you lovely people ahead of the video premiere coming up shortly. Enter now and good luck! 🤞

Your friend in retro,
Perifractic

Brixty Four Store now open & files available!

Dear Patrons of a certain level,

With great pleasure I hereby launch the Perifractic's Retro Recipes Takeout Store, where you can order your Brixty Four case components right now. 

I'm also making the top and bottom case master file available to you if you prefer to order the parts yourself. It's quite an adventure getting it all done and delivered as you saw in the Part 2 video!

This goes live to the public in about 14 hours so you might want to get ahead of what I've heard c...

The Brixty Four - Part 2!

Update: Although this has been with you since Friday, the video will premiere publicly shortly - join the live chat!

Dear Patreons

I wanted to have this with you by the end of the week, and as I type this it's 11:59pm on Friday here in California, so I did it...?!

I really hope you enjoy Part 2 which is uploading now. Some of these vids are turning into what feel like almost cinem...

New software, new titles, new store, new you (well me)

Dear Patrons

I've been hard at work on the Brixty Four project and expect to have part 2 done by the end of the week. There's a surprising amount to do essentially releasing a new product to the public, particularly making sure the case design is as stable and solid as can be (a lot of tweaks were needed to the model). Here's where we're at! It may looks the same but it's much stronger and more compatible with the real PCB & keyboard.

2018-11-12 03:40:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Lego C64 Update Thread!

Dear Patrons,
It begins.
Definitely some tweaks needed, but IT'S ALIVE.

Big adjustment needed to Joystick Port 1! 🤦‍♀️ 
Vote for Lego to release it!: https://ideas.lego...