Retro Gaming FTW!

[Dunndeer]

I used to have a Commodore Vic20 All it's programs and games where on Tape...

you could connect up the 5 1/4 disk drive from my Commodore 128 and it would load games off the disks they where SS SD disks course I always notched them so you had two sides 500KB in total... you could store your entire game Library on one tape I personally liked the cartridge Rom games you could get an EPROM and load a game from a console onto your cartridge

[djimpacto]

bonito ordenador

[KittenKoder]

It's actually quite possible to get almost all old computers to communicate with new computers in this manner, it can be done with a handshake method. Just to show my inner geek. All it takes is a bit of code on both ends to get the to understand the data.

[brobert1451]

If you have a super serial card, you can try the original apple game server. Requires java and a null modem cable. Advantages: Faster, supports a few disk-based games. Disadvantages: Slightly more finicky, but once you get it working you can also use stuff like ADT Pro to transfer disk images. Fun!

[jmar4life]

oh mah jesus you got a haircut!

[Urgo6667]

@jmar4life lol yup I did

[TheMangoGuy]

Quite interesting, haha.

[KiddsockTV]

OMG! New Tech meets old Tech!

[Urgo6667]

@KiddsockTV yep! Actually technically it was just a new way to use old tech since to the apple iie it doesn't know its not an actual tape :)

[l6j8b32]

The old games like that are so addictive, I wish I had pac man or breakout on my cell phone.

[Urgo6667]

@l6j8b32 there's a pacman app for android

[permissionmag]

YOU ARE A HERO

Thanks for uploading this vid! There's something beautiful about watching an iPhone load programs into its great-grandfather, the Apple ][.

I'm off to the store to get an audio cable!

[Urgo6667]

@permissionmag Except I used a galaxy nexus. I wont touch an iphone :)

[permissionmag]

@Urgo6667 Haha, well, spiritual great-grandson, then.

[Urgo6667]

@permissionmag :)

[ace77man]

Wow, that throws me back in time watching this man!!

nice video

Peace, ace77man

[Urgo6667]

@ace77man Hehe thanks :) Life was so much simpler back then wasn't it? :)

[STOPJABBAINGON]

Makes me want to power up my sinclair spectrum 48k.

[Urgo6667]

@STOPJABBAINGON DO IT! =]

[brod2man]

how the hell does that work!

[Urgo6667]

@brod2man It just takes advantage of a really old way of loading things in the new age :)

[AnotherDayToMoveOn]

Yay! for geeky stuff! :-)

[Urgo6667]

@AnotherDayToMoveOn woohoo!

[LucasFTWfilms]

I remember the times when I was recording noise like this from radio on a cassette for Atari 800 XL !!! Ahh that old times !!! :)

[Urgo6667]

@LucasFTWfilms I never used tapes to load things myself but used to hear these noises all the time from calling up BBS's :)

[scottsadventures]

That was interesting.

[Urgo6667]

@scottsadventures :)

[spocklivesforever]

I love geeky videos. They make me feel like there are others like me!

[Urgo6667]

@spocklivesforever hell yeah! geek power :)

[avikbelllic911]

@Urgo6667

This ain't geek video at all! This video is awesome!

[JeffroTV]

Love this! More Geek episodes. I still have my IIe also! Oregon Trail! Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego!

[Urgo6667]

@JeffroTV Unfortunatly neither of those games are on the site.. those are two I really wanted too!

[TammyFlores1]

K... this was super geeky to me, however, I used to rock at Mrs. PacMan :)

[Urgo6667]

@TammyFlores1 haha well I need some tips =]

[ImTheDaveman]

I LOVE THOSE OLD COMPUTERS! YOU SO SUCK!!! (not really - I am just envious) WOW THAT'S SO COOL How you have to do the game data to load in. I remember those days. I even had a Timex Sinclair that you loaded games to and from audio cassettes.

Urgo - are you interested in adopting a 50 something year old son? You make a cool dad! But you would probably forbid me to touch that classic computer - so never mind. The adoption is off. :-)

Love old games like Pacman and Ms Pacman! and original Zelda

[Urgo6667]

@ImTheDaveman LOL! I dunno how much they are going for at the moment but you can probably still get an apple iie off ebay for $100 or lessish :) Then just plug your phone in and bam! Games :)

[dapperdan29]

Very cool stuff! I'm reading the Steve Jobs bio right now, so I just read how he and Woz designed that computer! I'm gonna try to find one for myself on ebay!

[Urgo6667]

@dapperdan29 When picking out the book I'm reading now I was considering the steve jobs bio too actually. I think this book's way better though :)

[132L7]

That is epic stuff. I'll have to check out that book as well.

[Urgo6667]

@132L7 Yeah its really great so far. And if you listen to the audio version of it Wil Wheaton is who is narrating. Even funnier when he's reading star trek references :)

[132L7]

@Urgo6667 I might have to get the audio version as well. That sounds awesome.

[ssurjap]

The geekier the better :p I remember when PacMan came out for the Atari 2600. It was awesome even though it was very blocky

[Urgo6667]

@ssurjap Yeah, that I don't remember :P I started on a computer like you see in this video when I was in kindergarten.. circa 1985.

[anmoose]

Quite a nostalgia trip. I ran my first Radio Shack Color Computer, and the CoCo II, off of an audio cassette player. I still have the cassettes. With the CoCo III, I upgraded to *dual* half height double sided 360k floppy drives, in a single enclosure like you have those full height units in. I was the shizzle then, boy. OS-9 Level 3 on one drive, and the apps on the other.

Cool to see a website that has these old games in the original cassette encoded format!

[Urgo6667]

@anmoose lol nice :) The computer you see in this video was the first one I ever used.. or well same or simular model, used it in kindergarten.. the first computer I had at home of my own was a 286.  By then it had a little more memory but not too much. 6mhz, 512k ram that we upgraded to 640k and like a 10 meg hard drive I think plus lots of 1.2mb floppies.

[TheDanielSuperShow]

Awesome vid Urgo! Thanks man!

[Urgo6667]

@TheDanielSuperShow Thanks :)

[Natycookie]

Cool! I love retro games!!! But did it really took 77 seconds to download?? :)

[Urgo6667]

@Natycookie Well "download" isn't exactly the right word, but yes it did. I sped up that part so you didn't have to wait.

[ZaFlyingPenguin]

First! Cool vid! LOve your vids!

[Urgo6667]

@ZaFlyingPenguin thanks :)