I Don't Know What I'm Doing

A few months' worth of hardware purchases, gathered into one video: a Commodore4ever power supply to replace the old brick, a new monitor, a PenUltimate+ cartridge, and a selectable RAM expansion with a reset switch for the VIC-20. All rad.

Then a drive up to Funspot in New Hampshire, home to one of the largest collections of classic arcade games anywhere. Rows and rows of cabinets, most of which I am spectacularly bad at. Music from Mattie Maguire, The Basic Game, and Falcon Dives, and thanks as always to everyone supporting the channel.

A brief detour from vintage computers to vintage gaming consoles, because the holidays call for something a little more festive. My fiance is getting a Vectrex this year, and not a stock one either.

I walk through the whole gift: a restored and revitalized console, the BUZZ OFF mod kit to quiet that infamous hum, a Moray Labs controller with 3D printed shells, a light pen, Sean Kelly's multi-cart and the Vectrex32, plus a dust cover to keep it all looking sharp. Links to everything mentioned are collected at the bottom if you want to build one of your own.

Picking up where the first episode left off. The keyboard fixes finally get finished, the power switch gets sorted out, and the memory cartridges get tested to see what actually still works. From there it's on to Vic-20 expansion options, and then into the stranger corner of the software library, where the machine offers to measure your IQ and size up your personality.

It ended up being way more involved than I intended, but I had a lot of fun making it. I also mention the ANTIC Interview with Jay Balakrishnan of HESWare. Antic is a great podcast and well worth a listen.

My first official video, in which I admit I don't really know what I'm doing with the Commodore Vic-20 and then set out to fix that. The plan is simple enough: get my hands on a Vic-20, see if it still runs, and clean the whole thing up. I get most of the way there.

A few things are still outstanding, though, along with a handful of side projects that piled up along the way, so those will have to wait for the next episode. Also included are the YouTube videos and the podcast that got me started, plus links to the replica dealer sign and dust cover I picked up.