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Atari XEGS Portable Repair and Rambling
Atari XEGS Portable Repair and Rambling
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Here’s the last project we built on the show! I need to swap the batteries and wax poetic. I kind of want to build more of these so I’m …
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Nothing like electronics. Got me scared pushing down the swollen puffy batteries…
When Alfred Nobels brother died, a french newspaper ran the headline "The merchant of death is dead!" mistaking the brothers, and this made Alfred scared for his legacy. He wasn't so much so sad for what is invention had done, more his reputation. This lead up to the Nobel Prize'.
It belongs in a museum
That's why the best way to do batteries is as a monolithic unit. Less need for control circuits.
I cant find that episode 😢
Wait what? I thought I had seen all the Ben Hack show episodes, but I haven't seen this one! I need to watch that.
I didn't have an 800 back in the 80s, I was a C64 kid. My friend had an 800 XL and we always sorta ridiculed it. But…. when you are older you can admit that it's actually a great system. The palette is better than the C64, sound is not bad at all and I spend some time watching demos and it's a capable machine. And since it has the same CPU as the C64 it was very easy for me to program assembly on it too and really love the pretty high level API like Player Missile sprites.
Oh and Ben, I am up to ordering a kit!
Deffo should reprint that casing(!)
Thank you for showing some Atari 8-bit love!! My favorite computer. Actually pretty powerful & well engineered.
Upgrades would be Stereo Dual POKEYS & 1 megabyte of RAM, SpartaDOS X, and VBXE.
I bought Mastertronic's NINJA and after making a backup copy, I sector edited the Room Text to Romanized Japanese descriptions. 😊
I miss the Ben Heck show. Good times!
I'm interested in the Atari 800 portable. I will send you an email.
Fun story about the name "Nobel".. my uncle was approached by a fellow student back in the sixties (because he trusted my uncles opinion) that was supposed to make a speech around Alfred Nobel and asked about how to pronounce the name.. "is it 'Noble' or 'No-bell' ?!" and since my uncle was in that mood he said dead panned 'it is Noble'. So when the guy was starting his speech with "I will make a speech about Alfred Noooble" the teacher just yelled "WHAT!? You dont even know how to pronounce his name properly?! Get out!" and threw him out of the classroom. But! I also got to hear that later on in another incident a couple of years later my uncle was punced so hard right in the face by this student that just water came out of his nose. 🙂
Not one, but TWO spicy pillows!!!
The spicy pillows
20:30 – And then they gave it to Obama, the king of drone bombing.
One thing I hated about the last few Ben Heck Shows and then with the Element 14 content was the useless time constraints and resulting bad compromises. I much rather watch 2 episodes of one project than one episodes with a way worse result because the self set time limit was in the way.. That is a problem with a lot of the "maker content" especially when it comes from the US and it gets worse the more "professional" the content is. That is also why I really like the content on this channel now- the competitive TV-show shenanigans are missing.
here in Canada, to send anything with lithium batteries to the USA, we have to use a service that is called Expedited, which basically the package travels by land. nonetheless, if you do end up selling that thing, you could always take the batteries out, I'm pretty sure 98% of your followers own a soldering iron and have basic electronic skills
Congo River, yo
Big Clive can only strip 6 gauge wires with his teeth.
Remember when there was a Ben Heck Show. With great content every week, a Pinball machine rivalry and even a portable Xbox?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
I want one, only a few modern changes(i.e. usb c, better battery and recharge tech, sd card instead of compact flash, keycaps on kb, etc) and clean up the boards with proper manufacturing process correcting previous flaws and I want one for archive, one for display, and one for playing with. How much of my money will it take?
10:32 If you're going to do kits, kits of overly expensive retro computers and consoles is the way to go.
We miss you a lot in that type of Youtube show, Mr. Ben!! I remember me just sit in front of my laptop, at lunch, waiting for the new episode each week!! Take care and have a wonderful life!! Blessings!!
Yeah, those pillows look pretty spicy.
Weird seeing analog video coming from something like that nowadays.
The XEGS has a lot of nostalgia for me. I would buy the heck out of a portable XEGS kit (no pun intended). Especially if any of it could be made simpler with CPLDs / GALs (or even if not). This is one of my favorite projects from your channel!
2:07 classic game room reference?
if you ever consider building more of these you might consider an upgrade in the form of fujinet device
"I am legend" should have been about Ben instead of Will Smith and the apocalypse.
Hey Ben, love your videos.
Not sure if you check your email regularly, but I sent you something and am trying to get in contact.
Thank you for all the years of fun and education
I can't wait for battery tech to advance. I've had one very pretty but questionably useful laptop destroy itself due to puffy batteries. Which is one too many.
yes kit please
There is some pressure point (something underneeth is poking on it) at the back of the display when you use the controls. I love to see some kits of such devices. There was another handheld, the Atari 2600 (junior), that was an amazing design!
Ben, We have been so lonely without you videos. Please upload more we miss you and your videos.
I miss the homebrew stuff from the show, so this was a wonderful blast from the past ❤
Hi Ben, I really like the idea of a kit or even a parts list along with a Heck designed PCB and 3D print files. It would be cool to have a few episodes of you designing all the different parts and then a build video. Happy to buy the custom PCB from you or to pay you some how. Maybe one of the parts stores can have a Ben Heck project page where we can buy all the parts and you get a cut?
Absolutely awesome!
It would be funny to add a Parallel Bus connector to a future version of it and then connect it to the modern re-creation of the unreleased 1090XL Expansion Chassis. One of the modern 1090 PCBs – with expansion cards – was shown at VCF SoCal just a few days ago. Also, props on playing Mastertronic’s Ninja [aka “Ninja Mission” on the Atari ST and the Amiga]. I wonder if the 8-Bit version allows you to cut off body parts when the computer physically gets hot like the ST version did.
I’d totally be interested in buying one of your handheld projects! You’ve been such an inspiration for me! I sadly don’t have anywhere near enough to pay what this is worth. 🙁
Looks like your PCB is putting pressure on the middle of the LCD when you press the D-Pad. Would love a schematic of this so I can make one. 😎
I miss Felix. He was the kewlest.
I booked up rooms for MRRF this year and I was able to get into the Holiday Inn Express for less than last year. Good luck finding rooms …
Hey Ben can I run basic on a raspberry PI ?
For Jerrasic Park, I was informed most dinosaurs have a tertiary nervous system. This allows them to continue moving at full speed even after their head is completed removed. They had one counter, the LAW system makes sure they can't move by simply disassembling the dinosaur.
I'm sure this original would be out of my price range but I'd be interested in a kit.
Hey man, Mrs. Winchester provided a home for a lot of needy ghosts.
8:06 spicy boys
10:56 lol this is intense, jab it, jab it
interesting I thought the body was some weird custom plastic but it's 3D printed with some coating on it
Cool