REPAIR YOUR GAME BOXES
When collecting, I naturally prefer to have the original box associated with the device or program.
Of course, it is often the case that these are somewhat damaged over time. Wrinkled, damaged or with the necessary adhesive tape pieces or stickers.
In this video I show how I improve it without affecting its originality.
YOUTUBE CREATING YOUR OWN VIC-20 CARTRIDGE SLEVES
In this video I show you how I create protective sleeves that can be used to wrap around the Commodore VIC 20 cartriges.
This way you can place them on a shelf and directly see which cartridge you have if you don't have the original box.
CHALKBOARD POWERPAD
This video is about fixing a Chalkboard Powerpad. This board was an early digitizer tablet. It came out around 1983. It was available for several 8-bit computers of that era. Like the Commodore 64 and the Atari 800.
The one I found did not function properly. In this video I showed how I cleaned it to fix it.
CREATING SPRITES USING EXCEL
Last weekend I used to work on an Excel worksheet that can be used to create a Commodore sprite. Everybody that started programming sprites on a commodore in de eighties probably started designing sprites, using graph paper.
I myself had no printer at the beginning and certainly not a printer that was capable of printing a raster.
Sprite design tools where not known to me at that time. I knew only the commodore manual, that was included by the commodore computer.
So the only way was taking the graph paper, and draw the sprite raster yourselves, count the cells, draw the lines, and calculate the byte values. This was also the first time I learned to use bits and bytes. Nowadays many online applications and tools for sprite drawing are available that you can use.
Nevertheless I just wanted to create myself, a simple template using Office Excel. I also created a how to do that video.
JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT YOUTUBE CHANNEL
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