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A.I. Video has been deleted

So.. every now and then I try something different on my channel.  And usually, at least some people complain about it and unsubscribe.  Yet, at the same time, experimentation is the only way for me to find out what works and what doesn't and grow as a channel.  

Well, the A.I. video received more backlash and record number of dislikes.  

The cruel irony is, I thought it was going to be one of my best videos.  I spent almost 2 weeks working on that video and had ...

Yamaha CS01 and MR10 Review

OK, here's a quick video about a neat little analog synthesizer, which I hope you'll enjoy!  Yes.. I know the thumbnail has a misprint... (It says CS10) and I will be fixing that before releasing it to the world.

Does A.I. already exist?

Well, I've been planning this video for over a year.  I finally decided to make it.  It didn't turn out quite as I imagined it would because some of the scenes I wanted to do were just too difficult and I eventually had to cut them out.  Still, I hope you find the end-result interesting.

Atari 7800 Composite Mod

As usual, when I'm done with the thumbnail and closed captioning, it will go live to the rest of the world.  

First video reveal of Planet X2 for the Commodore 64

My mother-in-law passed away this week, so I haven't gotten any video work done.  So I thought I'd let out a preview of the game I've been working on to keep your retro appetites wet.    I've been working on this for months now. However, I was building the game in separate pieces, such as the music routine, the tile editor, the map editor, etc.  It's now finally coming together so you can see how I envisioned it to be.

I'm not ready for beta-testers yet.  Bu...

Restore and Review of the Roland CM-300

I've shown this old Roland CM-300 a few times that needs some serious retro-brite work.. so it's day has finally come.  

First digital answering machine, the Telstar.

This was an interesting donation I received a few weeks ago.  I had never even  heard of it, but it turns out to be quite an interesting device.

Review of the GPD Gamepad Digital

So this is what I've been working on the last few days.  Another honest review of a product that a company sent to me.   Video will go live to the world tomorrow morning.

The Zip Disk Music Recorder

Just finished up this episode.  Some people have been asking if my 8-Bit Keys is "dead" now..   No, it isn't.  I have at least another 30 or so epsiodes planned out and I'm sure I think of more during that time.  But consider "The 8-Bit Guy" is now my primary source of income, I will obviously be focusing more on that channel.  But I still intend to produce at least 1 or 2 episode of "8-Bit Keys" every month.

The basics of BASIC.

Whew.. Longest episode I've made in a while.  It took me a whole week working every day to complete this.  A big thanks goes out to Clint from LGR, Ben Heckendorn, and Jim Leonard for their contributions.

As always, still working on CC and thumbnail.  So it will go out for public release tomorrow. 

Update for February

So, I've finished my first full month of being a full-time content creator.  Some things I expected, other things I didn't.  So for those that are interested, this is more or less a story of what my life has become now.  For those not interested, skip down to the part about my upcoming episode on BASIC.

So my routine has pretty much been to get up at 6:30 in the morning and get ready, because I have to take my daughter to school.  Then I come home and eat breakfast. &n...

The Quest for 80-Columns.

Wow.. This video took me longer to make than I anticipated.  It's  15 minutes long, but I actually ended up trimming about 5 minutes off of it.  Once I started editing, I realized this topic isn't as interesting as I thought it would be.  There is one mistake I realized about something I said,  but I decided it wasn't worth the time to fix as I suspect less than 0.1% of people will notice, but let me know if you find it.

Restoring the Macintosh Plus

This is another one of those videos that took longer than expected and didn't exactly go to plan.  But it's finally done..  Released early here while I work on thumbnail and subtitles. Will be released to the general public tonight or tomorrow morning.

Camcorder that uses Cassette Tapes

Another early release while I finished the closed captioning...

Playing Ben Heck's Atari Junk Keyboard

So Ben Heck sent this to me after building it on his show, but not being able to actually tune it or play anything.  So I took a shot at it.

February update - a new chapter

So I'm two weeks into my full-time career as a content creator.  Things haven't worked exactly as I had planned.  For example, I thought life would be relaxing and I'd have all of the time in the world.  But instead I've found myself working 10 hours a day.  However, much of that time has been dealing with my website, working out the kinks in the shopping cart system and shipping orders.  Initial demand for the soundtrack CD was really strong and I must have shipped out ...

How old school video digitizers worked

As usual, still working on closed captions and thumbnail.  But here it is!

The Sequential Music Mate Keyboard

As always.. I'm still working on closed captioning and a professional looking thumbnail.  But the video is done so as a thank you to my supporters, you guys get to see it early.  Also a big thanks to Paul Artola for the donation of this interesting device.

Also one other note.  I've noticed quite a few people pick the $10 level for the CD soundtrack reward.  However, rewards won't ship out until sometime early February when Patreon processes the money.  So I haven...

Macintosh SE Restoration video

I'm releasing this early here.  I haven't finished the subtitles or the main thumbnail yet.  In fact, it probably won't go live to the world until tomorrow.  So kick back and enjoy.  This is another one of those frustrating ones that didn't go as planned.  I started filming this two weeks ago.

Commodore 128 Restoration

I'm posting this here a bit early, since I haven't finished the main thumbnail image yet.    It will release to the general public in a few hours.  This project was started a few weeks ago, but ran into problems so it had to go on the back burner for a while.  

Today was the last day....

I had a surreal feeling today as I walked out of my job for the last time.   I think it could be described as part happiness, and part terror.  I also said goodbye to a lot of people I've known for years.  It was an akward conversation when people asked me where I was going.  if I had just been moving to another job, it would have been simple.  But when I told people I was going to be making youtube videos, they looked at me real funny.  So I had to repeat the ...

Little update for January.

So I noticed quite a few comments on the last few videos I've uploaded saying how they love all the new content I'm making now that I'm full time.   I just wanted to clarify that I'm not full time yet.  I have at least one more week at my regular job.  However, there HAS been an uptick in content creation.  This is mostly because I had a lot of vacation time left at my job and I decided to use some of it this month.  It was just a few days scattered here and there. ...

The date is set...

Ok supporters, the time is approaching faster than I thought.  I told my boss that January would be my last month to work at my regular job.   So in roughly 5 to 6 weeks I will be transitioning to making youtube videos full time.  

Originally I set a goal of $3,000.  Obviously I'm only at 30% of that goal.  But Patreon is already providing 25% of my YouTube related income.   My hope is that once I am putting out more regular content that both my Pat...

Lightpen Teaser

So.. I'm working on an episode about Lightpens and the NES Zapper gun.  This is just a little teaser, since it will probably be another week or two before it is done. Thought you guys might enjoy seeing what I was working on.

Update for December 2016

Hey guys!  It's been a while since I posted anything.  I hope everyone enjoyed the Floppy Disk Camera episode.  I've been working on that for the last 3 weeks.  There was a lot of criticism in the comments about everything from audio quality, editing quality, and even my opinions. But, overall I think most people liked it.

A lot of people have been complaining that I should do 1080p.  Technically, my equipment can do it, but my computer is so old that it really b...

Just a little update for October

Well, it's that time again for a little update on what has been going on.   Even though I haven't posted that many new episodes lately, it isn't for lack of working on them.  I have been working on 4 different episodes simultaneously for the last 3 weeks.  The two episodes about the BMW i3 didn't require any use of my studio room, since it was all filmed outside.  So I've been working on other projects in the studio at the same time.  So those two videos really didn't ta...

My Patreon Goal and Sneak Preview.

So I wanted to take a moment to tell everyone how things are looking financially speaking, towards my goal of going full time on YouTube.  I still get a ton of comments begging me to "upload more often."  Granted, most of those people aren't funding me on Patreon, but that's not surprising. I also wanted to tell you how your money is getting used currently.  Some of this is a little personal, but I feel my supporters have the right to know.  This is in NO WAY intended to make...

Just a little update for August

Since it has been a couple of weeks since I uploaded anything,  I thought I'd give a little update on what has been going on.  First off, my wife decided we were going to replace our flooring in the house by ourselves.. well, that's turned into a multi-week project in and of itself, taking way more time than I originally thought.  So my house has been a disaster and we've even had furniture and junk crammed in my studio room.  So that's really put a damper on any video produc...

July 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Floppy drive extra and request

Request for quality screeners.. and extra anecdotes from floppy drive episode.