8-Bit Show And Tell 2In preparation to play Nox Archaist, the new 8-bit RPG, I pull out my Apple IIgs, and figure out how to install a Mockingboard sound card and Floppy Emu disk emulator.
Index: 0:00 Intro 3:00 Inside the IIgs 4:35 Installing the Mockingboard 6:57 Plugging the Floppy Emu and more in 9:22 Power up, configure Floppy Emu, Easter Egg! 12:40 Control Panel 15:20 Thanks!
Apple IIGS: Setting Up My New Mockingboard, Floppy Emu8-Bit Show And Tell 22021-01-20 | In preparation to play Nox Archaist, the new 8-bit RPG, I pull out my Apple IIgs, and figure out how to install a Mockingboard sound card and Floppy Emu disk emulator.
Index: 0:00 Intro 3:00 Inside the IIgs 4:35 Installing the Mockingboard 6:57 Plugging the Floppy Emu and more in 9:22 Power up, configure Floppy Emu, Easter Egg! 12:40 Control Panel 15:20 Thanks!I Am The C-64: Tutorial Volumes 1-6 (direct capture, no commentary)8-Bit Show And Tell 22021-06-13 | Videos with commentary (and hands) here: Volumes 1-3: youtu.be/Lw-pYyniNeM Volumes 4-6: youtu.be/SWhxah7tcsg
0:10 Vol. 1: Overall Introduction to the C-64 6:45 Vol. 2: Introduction to the Keyboard 15:15 Vol. 3: Introduction to the BASIC programming language 29:15 Vol. 4: Advanced BASIC programming techniques 47:47 Vol. 5: Sprite graphics 64:00 Vol. 6: Music and sound effectsHomebrew Boxed Commodore 64 Cartridge: Trick Shoot-TEN8-Bit Show And Tell 22021-04-25 | Trick Shoot-TEN is a 10-line BASIC game for the Commodore 64 by Jim Happel, entered in the BASIC 10-Liner Competition. As a surprise, David Youd produced a boxed cartridge version of the game, and I was fortunate enough to get a copy. So we'll take a look at the box, cartridge, play the game, look at Jim's BASIC code, and look at the machine language solution David came up with to get the BASIC program to run from a cartridge.
Index: 0:00 Intro - Outside the box 2:22 BASIC 10-Liner Competition 4:14 Inside the box 7:34 Playing the game 10:04 Looking at the BASIC code 14:30 Running a BASIC PRG from cartridge 23:00 What's the 2nd channel about? 24:02 Thanks to my patronsTyping in Programming Pitfall Harry for C648-Bit Show And Tell 22021-01-22 | Typing in and RUNning the BASIC listing in the 1984 pamphlet by David Crane: "Programming Pitfall Harry" for Commodore 64.
I've now posted a full explanation of the BASIC and machine language code, and even fixed a bug, in this video on my main channel: youtu.be/kumqDIgo_X8
Index: 0:00 Intro 1:39 Typing in the BASIC code 10:11 Typing in the DATA statements 24:24 Debugging 28:22 RUNning 30:30 Thanks!C64 Vinyl Easter Egg Creator Interviewed: TCB Revealed8-Bit Show And Tell 22021-01-12 | An interview with "TCB" aka Tom Beaton, the programmer of the C64 easter egg hidden on Prodigal's "Electric Eye" album from 1984.
Index: 0:00 Intro 0:46 How did you find the video? 1:33 How did you get the job making the easter egg? 4:30 Why hide the program? 5:45 Tell us about the "C-64" inscription 6:30 How about TCB1984 in the BASIC code? 7:40 Did you know you could handle this project? 8:48 Final thoughts.Ask Robin: Where To Download C64 Games? (also: future of 8BST2)8-Bit Show And Tell 22020-12-23 | Patron Sean T. Kelly asks: "Where is the best place to get games and software for the Commodore 64 emulator VICE?" And afterwards, a few thoughts about the future of the 8BST2 channel.
Index: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Game Recommendations: GB64 Top 100, Lemon64 Top 100, My Top 123 5:25 GB64.com 7:56 CSDb.dk 10:40 C64HQ.hu 12:51 Future of 8BST2 - Blerbs? 14:43 CreditsCommodore 128 RAM Expansion Unit Use in BASIC8-Bit Show And Tell 22020-07-02 | A quick look at using the REU from BASIC on a Commodore 128. Thanks to patron Carsten Lervad for the question!
Index: 0:00 Some REU info 3:15 FETCH, STASH, SWAP commands 6:20 Some BASIC examples 10:46 Thanks to my patrons!XC=BASIC Cross-Compiler for C64: A Quick Look8-Bit Show And Tell 22020-06-01 | In this "Ask Robin" episode, I take a quick look at the XC=BASIC compiler that's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, targeting the Commodore 64.
Links: XC=BASIC website: xc-basic.net VIC-20 Super Expander episode with explanation of delta-based movement: youtu.be/u0ERlESbErE
Index: 0:00 Overview of language and installation docs 3:30 Looking through the language reference 12:43 Running a couple examples 19:54 My thoughts on XC=BASIC 21:57 Thanks to my patronsCalifornia Pains Easter Egg in California Games for C648-Bit Show And Tell 22020-03-10 | A quick video about another Commodore 64 California Games Easter egg that I was unaware of, and was only revealed in an interview with Matt Householder, designer and producer of California Games in 2015: http://www.c64.com/gt_display_interview.php?interview=41
Watch my main C64 game Easter egg video: youtube.com/watch?v=qKiiZdMrMQIEarly Emulator Memories (Audio Only)8-Bit Show And Tell 22020-02-01 | Some recollections of my first encounters with emulators, from a PET emulator on the Commodore 64, to various emulators running on the Amiga, to the first C64 emulator I used on DOS hardware.
Originally recorded for the Machine Behind The Machine podcast in early 2019.
I make reference to this 8-Bit Show And Tell episode, about my Commodore PC-50 II, running the C64S emulator: youtu.be/O5aro2MjqgwTFM Returns8-Bit Show And Tell 22020-01-25 | My friend, TheFatman ("famous" for discovering the Turbo Assembler bug exposed in this video: youtu.be/bDbpntumA6A ) has released a new NTSC Commodore 64 demo! Here's a capture of it from my real 64C, or you can download it and run it yourself from here: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=187097Lily Lander Winter - new Commodore 64 game 20198-Bit Show And Tell 22019-12-25 | A quick play of Lily Lander Winter, the Winter edition of a one-button C64 game. Captured from my NTSC 64C.Commodore 64 Science III Disk8-Bit Show And Tell 22019-12-09 | Looking at one of the many programs on the Commodore Science III disk.Lily Lander - new Commodore 64 game 20198-Bit Show And Tell 22019-11-30 | A quick play of Lily Lander, a one-button C64 game. Captured from my NTSC 64C.