The VIC-II Kawari is a game changer for the NTSC Commodore 64

well hello everyone and welcome back to Adrian's digital basement on today's video we're going to take a look at something for the Commodore 64 that I think is really cool and it is the kawari or the Vic 2 replacement that's based on fpga for the Commodore 64. and it's not just a simple replacement to get you back up and running there's actually something that is super cool about these boards that I want to talk about a little bit more so without further Ado let's get right to it [Music] foreign [Music] before we get started with the video I want to make a little announcement I'm going to be at three upcoming vintage computer festivals the first one is at the end of July in Atlanta that's VCF Southeast then after that I'm going to be at the VCF West in San Jose and then after that I'm going to be at VCF Midwest again and that is in Chicago I'll have all the dates on screen here because I don't remember them off the top of my head but like all the vcfs I go to if you want to come meet me in person well go find me at those shows for the first time in my life I'm going to be giving a talk on stage just myself and you can find me doing that at VCF Southeast in Atlanta and also at VCF West in San Jose in San Jose and in Chicago I'll be doing the YouTuber Roundtable as well like in previous time so if you've enjoyed those sessions come check those out as well that's it for the announcements let's get back to the video what you see on the bench here is my Commodore 64 in a vic-20 case I call it the zif64 if you're not familiar here and that's because I've replaced a lot of the sockets as you can see with zero insertion for sockets that's for ease of troubleshooting of course because I I've done lots of repairs on 64s over the years but that's not really the focus of this video this chip is right here this right here is the Vic 2 chip and I have an MSI heatsink on it I salvaged off an old motherboard at some point but underneath here is a regular ntsc R8 version of the Vic 2. this chip has been very reliable and I have to say that generally the chip is reliable but these do fail sometime and of course being the video chip and the clock generator for the 64. it's definitely an essential part of the computer when you remove this from the motherboard the computer does not work at all if you have a broken one of these chips you'll find that to get a replacement is now starting to cost quite a bit of money in fact you're probably better off just trying to find a parts machine not working 64 and hope the video chip is good in there versus buying a single one of these that's tested it in addition this is the ntsc version as I mentioned it's the R8 variant there is I think one other variant in the US the R56 maybe there's actually an R7 as well I don't quite remember on top of my head but the R56 version has well worst image quality and the R8 to me is the best but even this has some issues we'll talk about that more in a second if you're in any country other than the US Mexico Canada Japan and maybe a couple other places then you're going to have the pal versions of this chip which has a slightly different part number and there are a couple different versions of that chip as well you cannot just simply take the pal version of this chip and stick it into this motherboard and have a working system now this will vary a little bit depending on which version of the 64 you have but this section of the motherboard on this version is the clock generator and the video circuitry if you're not familiar with 64s these chips get quite hot in normal operation hence the need for this heatsink well I mean I don't know about the need for the heatsink but hence why I have this heatsink on here because that just keeps this chip a little bit cooler back to the motherboard though this right right here is the crystal oscillator this needs to be changed if you're going to go find a pal version of one of these chips to put in the motherboard if you want to want to run pal software there is actually a project on retro recipes to have a circuit board that you put on your motherboard that would contain two crystal oscillators and two vic2 chips along with some relays to switch between them to allow you to kind of switch on the Fly between pal and ntsc the reason why pal is something that you want to consider if you're a Commodore 64 user is because a lot of newer software games and demos don't run on ntsc machines at all the reason why there's even a difference is that pal refreshes the image at 50 times a second versus 60 for the ntsc version that actually gives a little bit more time for the CPU to do computational work in between the frames and these modern games and demos push the system to the very limit and they're using every last cycle available to the processor to pump out as many computations as possible to make the really amazing graphics and sound that these modern things have for the 64. now I wasn't a Commodore 64 user back in the 80s I was an apple II user but I think for people who are using the 64 in ntsc countries back in the 80s back when this machine was contemporary there were some games and demos that you got even then that didn't work properly on ntsc machines and that was probably somewhat frustrating the Super Mario Brothers clone the Gianna sister series and pretty sure didn't work properly on ntsc machines you'd get some graphical corruption and whatnot while the game was running so that's just one of the examples of even back then the whole ntsc pal thing was a bit of a problem there are also other subtle issues on the 64 when it comes to Pal versus ntsc another thing is that the pal machine actually runs at a slightly slower clock speed so music that is designed for a power machine will actually sound slightly off-tune when played on an ntsc machine another issue with the music playback is depending on the way the software routines are written the music can actually play back faster a little bit faster on ntsc machines now if you want watch my 8-bit Dad's party which I played a million times I'm usually playing that back on ntsc machines because of course that's what I have the most access to and if you ever play the original Donkey Kong arcade game you'll notice that's playing too fast and the frequency is slightly off now I'm totally used to the way that music sounds now so when I listen to the original pal version the way it's supposed to be written the way it was composed it actually sounds a bit too slow to me and I think back in the day if people here in North America are running games that were designed in pal markets but you didn't really know any different about the music so you were just used to the way the tempo and the frequency sounded and that was the normal for you but nowadays if you're really into the 64 like I am and you're trying to play contemporary games you're pretty much gonna have to run a pal based machine to have access to all the possible games and demos that are coming out today let's pop this chip in and we'll take a look at some of the problems that I'm talking about with the vic2 chip installed and booted up you'll notice here at my customized basic screen that there is one of the other problems with the original Vic 2 chip in this machine and it is jail bars these are the subtly but very visible vertical lines you'll see on the entire image there are many factors at play at what create this particular problem I think part of it has to do with inside the Vic 2 chip it does control the timing for the entire motherboard it's also handling the dram refresh for the entire motherboard but also if we pop this lid off here really quickly some of the signals that run from the big two chip for the video run up to the RF modulator here and they run by some other traces on the motherboard that are going between the CPU and some of the other stuff on here which I think all contribute to create those lines there are all sorts of projects out there to create like a jail bar fixer I think clear video is one of the names for those and they work by introducing the same kind of noise into the video signal and you can tune these little potentiometers to try to cancel it out personally I've never actually had good luck with those because for me if you tune out the jail bars on this gray screen then you're going to introduce use them in some other color and I can demonstrate that by using my easy flash 3 cartridge here let's pop this in the machine and this has a very vibrant and colorful splash screen for me on this particular 64 the gel bars are the worst on the gray colors notice on the kind of light blue color around the easy Flash logo there you can't really see the jail bars they're visible on the purple they're slightly visible on the blue but it's really the gray that's the worst so when I use those clear video things I would tune it where the gray actually looked good it was nice and solid without lines but then the blue and the other colors was much worse I went ahead and I grabbed a Commodore 1541 disk drive and I want to try showing off a demo that is written for pal systems that's not going to work and it's the most excellent demo lunatico lunatico I think that's how you pronounce it and if I'm mispronouncing it I apologize for that demos like this talk directly to the disk drive so you can't run them on something like a Kung Fu flash here these emulate disk drives in a way that works most of the time for software but you really need to actually have a true disk drive or something like a pi 1541 to use these so we're going to use an actual floppy disk here and on the system itself let's start this up and let's see how this works on an ntsc machine oh well look at that it was designed for the new Sid chip and of course I'm using the old one on this machine but that's fine I'm going to space hit space to run anyways we should have sound okay so it's too fast and then the machine just froze and that's not because of the Sid problem that is simply because this machine is not running in pal mode and that is just scratching the surface of problems you have running demos written a few years ago that pushed the limits of the 64 on ntsc machines I went ahead and grabbed another 64. this is a 64 G which is a short board pal variant machine hooked up to my retro tank 5x Pro there's no problem decoding the pal color as you can see here but there's quite a good amount of jail bars on this machine but let's insert this demo disc here into this floppy drive and let's load up the demo and see how it should actually look now this machine has a short board inside let me turn the sound up this machine has a short board inside so there's no warning about the Sid chip because this demo is designed for this newer Sid chip but watch how this is going to work here ah it looks like an Amiga look at that Mouse pointer drawing outside the borders which you wouldn't think is possible but it is with modern programming techniques and there it is there's the demo running so that's how it's supposed to work up until recently the only way you could run pal software here in North America was to either convert a Commodore 64 you had to Pal by importing that vic2 chip from Europe changing Crystal oscillator out which can be kind of expensive or importing an entire computer like the 64g or any other pal machine from Europe to North America and then you're good to go well both those options can be a little bit costly especially buying an entire computer but even getting a Vic 2 chip is a bit of a gamble because a you have to buy the correct one for the particular motherboard you have where there's a short board or a long board and then also you might buy a chip that might work for another week and then die I mean who knows right it's always a bit of a gamble with these old machines well the reason for me making this video is there's now a third option and it's these boards right here these are both quarary twos Vic 2 Replacements that use fpgas to actually replace the entire chip this is the kawari mini and this is the worry I guess it's the full-size one I don't know if it's called what the actual name is but I know the one on the right here is the mini because obviously it's a smaller little board taking a look at it you can see that it's got well pins to plug into the motherboard where the vic2 goes and if you take a look at the size of it compared to the original Vic 2 chip it's not well it's bigger obviously but it's not hugely bigger the full size board is a little bit bigger but there's a reason for that it actually has a couple outputs on it has this one here which I have connected to this ribbon cable that's an RGB output for the vic2 video signal and then this small connector here which looks like USB is actually micro HDMI yes this outputs well it's a DVI signal but it's a digital video signal directly from your 64. the Mini version on the other hand doesn't have the RGB or the HDMI output it just simply outputs the chroma Luma signal exactly like the original vic2 which goes to your RF modulator and then out the video connector on the motherboard this one also does do chroma Luma output as well just like this one it's just that it has these extra options so if you're trying to figure out which one to buy well if you don't need the RGB and you don't need the HDMI then I recommend you get the mini version it's a little bit cheaper and the functionality of these two boards other than those two features well they're basically exactly the same installing the Quarry in your 64 is as easy as removing the original vic2 chip of the Dead one potentially and you just put the new one right into the motherboard and you're done both of these versions of the board were designed in such a way that if you still have the RF shielding on your longboard these chips will plug directly into the motherboard without any issue there are some other cool interesting benefits to using these boards the entire clock circuitry of the 64 is done away with and is no longer necessary so I could totally remove this oscillator from the board and a support circuitry and the Machine would still work perfectly this is important because on certain versions of the 64 there's actually a little clock synthesizer chip that replaces this circuitry on the motherboard and that chip often fails you can get replacements for it but you don't even need the replacement if you're using one of these fpga replacement boards now if you go back to what I was just saying about the pal conversion of 64s it requires you changing the oscillator and actually changing a jumper length that's on the board well because this thing synthesizes its own clock signal internally you can switch between pal and ntsc on the Fly let's get the zif64 reassembled here so I can demonstrate that turning on the system you'll notice that it looks exactly the same so you can see there's a red LED on the fpga board but it's actually looking identical there's even jail bars now those jail bars are not coming from the Quarry fpga board at all those are being picked up by the traces on the motherboard that I talked about some of those timing signals run very close to the video signals you can eliminate them entirely if you get an RF modulator replacement board one like the one that Mark at the Retro Channel design that's this board right here and you bypass the video signals directly from this board right to this that seems to resolve all the issues with the jail bars switching over to the easy flash cartridge you'll notice the jail bars are slightly reduced versus how they were on the original Vic 2 chip so there is a little bit of a reduction because like I said there is some jail bar activity inside this chip itself here that's just not happening on the fpga board but if you think that putting this in will get rid of all the gel bars well it won't really of course if you use this large size one and you hook up the RGB connection to something like a Commodore 1084 well that will have a perfect jailbar free image because obviously this cable here is not even going through the motherboard at all so you won't have any issues now popping in the demo disc here if we run this it's going to have exactly the same issue where the system is just going to crash now of course this error is just because of the Sid chip and let's turn the speakers up the music is faster than it should be the pitch is wrong and then the system just crashed I have the latest firmware flash of the Quarry board and I've been working with Randy the creator of this board and as far as I can tell compatibility at least with these versions of the 64 is pretty much a hundred percent now the only enhancement over the original Victor that I've talked about with the Quarry is the ability to switch between pal and ntsc there are actually more features than that and some really cool ones as well but first of all let's take a look at this switching of Palin and TSC so the original chip that this thing is emulating is a 6567 R8 which is the exact same Vic 2 that I was using in this board or inside the Quarry config utility here so we can just select between which chips we want to use 6569 R3 that is the later variant of the pal chip there's the early version of the ntsc chip here the 6567 r56a and then there's the r6569r1 the reason why this emulates the R1 pal chip and the r56a ntsc chip is because both of those support less levels of luma versus the later ones we which has the side effect of changing the way some of the colors look the brightness levels are a little bit different this matches exactly how those original chips were from Commodore and commodore did improve the Vic 2 chips by increasing the number of luma levels which is how While most 64s you've ever used are probably the version with the increased Luma levels so let's pick the 6569 R3 which is the better of the two pow chips the one with the more Luma levels and we're going to hit s and we're just going to Simply power cycle the computer and that's all it takes to get the computer running in pal mode I'm pulling out the Kung Fu flash you'll see here there it is we are now running in pal we have the bigger border along the bottom of the screen and unfortunately the color saturation looks a little bit less but this is a problem I'm having with the Retro Tink 5x and notice I have the color turn way down that's because for some reason this thing on ntsc mode is producing colors that are way way over saturated I have to go turn the color down and that's even with the original vic2 chip I'm not sure what's going on with that thing but that wouldn't happen with a normal LCD monitor so with my nts-c64 with no other changes but the Quarry plugged into it and configured to run in pal mode we can load the demo off this disk here the lunatico demo we hit run we're still going to get the warning about the Sid chip and here is the sound [Music] running at the correct frequency and speed and the demo should work let's see what happens here oh interesting all right well those little artifacts that it was showing there that had to do with the color changes that I've done on my kernel and it has nothing let me turn this down has nothing to do uh with the actual emulation that would happen if I had the same kernel ROM installed into the pal machine anyhow as you can see the demo is working and I can assure you I've run through all these different demos tons of demos tons of games and everything works perfectly with the Quarry I went ahead and switched back to ntsc mode by using the config utility let's exit out of this and I want to show some of the other cool features that you can actually do with the kawari this particular utility here is called the composite settings editor and it actually allows you to change the color values of all of the colors that are built into the 64. with the regular vic2 chip on the 64 those colors are fixed in the hardware of the IC itself you just have 16 colors and that's it but with the Quarry you can edit the Luma the phase and the amplitude of all of the colors now on this particular screen if I hit the J key there's actually a preset here for longboard Adrian's digital basement and I worked with Randy in creating these presets and I actually used an oscilloscope to look at the exact signals that were coming out of this original R2 chip the ceramic version I have right here so that when I pick this the way all of the colors are configured here are to be as close as possible to this particular chip the original colors that Randy had created out of the box I didn't think looked very good they were under saturated and they just weren't an accurate representation of the way the actual real vic2 Chip looks so now this is the default value and of course anytime you change these colors like for instance I can change red here to be any shade of red I want but all you have to do to go back to the original colors is just pick the preset and there we go mark from the Retro Channel went ahead and created similar presets for the other three variants of the vic2 chip the two pal variants and the R56 ntsc variant so all of them have really good presets and Mark and I work together to make sure that we were using the exact same methodology using the oscilloscope to take a look at the phase and the amplitude which means if you use either version of the Quarry in your system you can be sure the colors you're going to be getting out of it are really accurate the additional registers on this thing allow for some additional Graphics modes and extended functionality that does add some coolness to the machine but let's be honest I don't think there's really anything out there that's programmed to use any of these modes yet so there's not a whole lot of functionality there it's just sort of school that it's there one of them is an 80 column mode which I think you start by running this 80 column thing and then doing that and there we go now we have 80 column color text on the vic2 you can see here is taking advantage of the entire 80 columns in basic so if you've ever wanted to run Commodore pet 80 column software on a 64 in full color you can totally do that with the kawari on the demo disc for the Quarry the first demo here is a rotating ball now this is using Color cycling for the color palette to do that smooth animation this is something that's not possible on the normal Vic 2 because as I mentioned before those colors are fixed in Hardware but because all the colors are redefinable on this well software can freely redefine that and then it can do color cycling as well which can result in cool animations like this so I think we run the grogu demo right here you'll see that it's going to load and there it was it loaded in the normal 16 color palette it's changed the mode to 320 by 200 I suppose and then it redefined the colors to those custom 16 colors to have a pretty nice image something you definitely couldn't do on a normal 64. there's a picture of a horse in here as as well looks like it's using 16 Shades or some amount of Shades of Gray and we have a split 320 mode which I'm pretty sure yep there we go it's using text mode and the graphics mode and it's changing between them using scanline interrupts and what you're seeing here is not switching between the Commodore 64 text mode and its own built-in Graphics the picture here is using the graphics mode on the kawari which has a separate frame buffer inside of the fpga itself I'm going to switch the Quarry back into pal mode and power cycle the machine and I'm noticing here the colors don't look particularly saturated so I'm going to go into the comp edit program and I'm going to load the default values J and there it is marks from the Retro Channel and there we go that fixed the problem with the colors looking a little blown out and not that saturated now if we exit out of this yeah that looks more correct now so up until this point the coolest thing in my opinion of the Quarry boards is the ability to switch between pal and ntsc that's just so useful to people here in North America who don't have easy access to those pile machines here is a little LCD screen and I reviewed this recently on the second Channel and this can actually show pal ntsc different color systems without any issues so if you plug this into the 64 it's going to work you're going to get a color image not everyone has something like a retro tank 5x which is a pretty expensive device that converts from the composite video or the S video out of this thing into HDMI to hook up to your modern monitor TV or whatever there's going to be a subset of people especially in North America here who are going to want to use their 64 with a CRT and the problem is I've talked about this a whole bunch of times there pretty much are no monitors in North America no CRT monitors that actually support pal the only ones that do are typically broadcast monitors like the Sony pvm I have on the bench here and there's a couple other multi-format type monitors that can support it but it's exceedingly rare if you have something like a Commodore 1702 which of course goes as your 64. it's not going to decode any kind of pal color and you will just get a black and white image on your CRT when you switch your machine into pal mode let me demonstrate alright so I have my camera pointed at the Commodore 10804 hooked up through the Luma chroma so s video equivalent and as you can see here in the demo program all is looking really good in fact let's run the 64 colors little basic program here just to show off the standard colors and I can assure you that switching back to the original Vic 2 chip will look basically the same on this monitor now if we go into the config utility here and let's switch over to the R3 we hit save and we exit out and we power cycle the computer and that's it we've lost the color entirely now I turned down the shutter speed on the camera to try to stop the rolling and as you can see this monitor has no trouble synchronizing to the 50 hertz signal that's coming out of this but we have no more color if you have another monitor like a 1702 a North American one if the picture rolls because it's at 50 hertz versus 60 all you have to do is adjust the vertical hold a little bit and it will lock on without any problem if we run the 64 color utility well there you go again we see we have no colors now this is completely expected behavior let's just talk very briefly about the difference between pal and ntsc the real difference between those two signals is the way the color signal is encoded into the composite video signal even though we're using S video here the color portion of the signal is the same as in a composite signal they're just separated out the color encoding itself is still ntsd or Pal the whole thing about 50 hertz versus 60 hertz actually has nothing to do with pal or ntsc it just happens that ntsc signals typically run around 60 hertz and that power ones typically run around 50 hertz and if you recently watched my video on the BBC Master 128 part 3 where I converted that thing to run in ntsc mode it was running in a Mode called ntsc 50. so it's ntsc color and coding but with a 50 hertz refresh the reason why that matters is because on the BBC which happens to be sitting back there behind me the normal Graphics modes have more lines in them and more text lines as well than typical ntsc monitors would display and when you slow down the refresh rate from 60 to 50 you gain additional scan lines that's one of the trade-offs between 50 and 60 hertz on the 64 if you have a PAL computer or you're running the kawari here in pal mode those additional scan lines are kind of wasted they're just added up to the border on the bottom and the top of the screen and you don't actually get more active lines of image the thing is demos push the limits of the machine and they draw in the Border region and that actually means that sometimes if a demo does work or a game it actually can cut off part of the image because it's drying inside that border region which on an ntsc monitor well is actually has less lines and there aren't a pal image so it just chops them off when Randy the creator of this project hit me up about testing out his final versions of the boards I asked him if ntsc50 was actually possible because the fpga is completely synthesizing the entire video signal creating non-standard modes like ntsc50 might actually be possible and my Keen Eye viewers who have noticed me running this config utility may have noticed that there's actually an option for ntsc50 right here and if I hit the space bar on that and I hit save all of a sudden we have a color image on a North American monitor it freaking works I've actually done a good amount of extensive testing on this to see what monitors support this mode and which don't and I found that pretty much all older CRT based displays completely work perfectly with this mode that includes all the different 1084 monitors the Commodore 1702 and plenty of older crt-based TV sets as well now of course I have no way to tell you if a particular monitor you have is going to work in this mode or not typically the biggest roadblock for it working is whether that monitor can synchronize to the 50 hertz refresh rate and I found that later CRT monitors actually don't seem to do that super well because of a setting that's usually in the service mode as in Sony sets or something that's programmed into the firmware that Toshiba TV I have on the bench back there behind me definitely does not work at 50 hertz the image rolls and there's no way to fix that it does Show color with ntsc50 so that part of it works but it's not synchronizing to the signal it seems that most are all 90s Sony sets have a setting in the service mode to enable it to synchronize to 50 hertz perfectly and those work great check out the video I made on my little 9-inch Trinitron set that I modified for RGB I talk about that particular setting in the service mode to enable 50 hertz mode that's all you would need to change to use the kawari like this with one of those Sony sets in full color while running in 50 hertz so I have the floppy Drive plugged back into the system and let's try loading that demo which should work perfectly now other than the warnings we're going to get about the sound and that weird color issue because of uh the particular border colors I'm using in my basic I have the sound hooked up to the TV or the monitor here as well and yeah it's gonna work and it's gonna work great as well this demo is amazing I highly recommend if you get one of these and you're in North America get this demo working and check it out [Music] volume down on the monitor there so yeah this is kind of a killer app in my opinion for those of us in North America if you want to experience pal based software and demos on CRTs on your original CRTs like the 1702 well the kawari makes it totally possible with this ntsc 50 mode it's honestly freaking awesome there is one small caveat I want to mention about this color mode though if you hook up your 64 to the monitor using composite video The Dot crawl is going to be kind of shimmery and moving the shimmering is not visible when you're running at 60 hertz on the 64 and that's because the color carrier which generates the dot pattern that enables ntsc color and coding is all synchronized and locked to all the other frequencies of the video frame rate and whatnot so those little dots that you see around the text are solid and they don't move at all but in ntsd50 the color carrier is no longer locked to the frame rate and that gives you this kind of shimmering effect with those dots and that's just one of the unfortunate side effects of this hack of a video mode it's not visible at all in Chrome Aluma mode though and that's because the color signal is separated from the Luma signal so you're not getting that overlapping artifacting that you're getting with a composite video signal now since I've shown off all the cool features of this board you're probably asking how do I get one of these well first off I want to say and we're looking right here at the GitHub repo that this project is open source which is freaking amazing honestly that just brings it to the next level of Awesomeness the verilog code that runs in the fpgas along with the PCB design files are all available on this repo which of course I'll link in the description below along with utility software and all that other good stuff and you can see here Randy says the bomb or building material cost is typically around 30 to 80 dollars of course depending on how many of these boards you're making at one time I'm going to put a link in the description below to Randy's most recent update video on this project and I think he's currently going to have some available for sale here in North America but I'm pretty sure he's working with another reseller with which when I find out the right info I'll link down below as well that will allow you to buy these directly without having to make one yourself Randy told me that the assembly process of these because there's all sorts of SMD Parts on these well it's a little fiddly and he's just one person so it's not ideal for one person to be making and selling these so that unfortunately means that these may be a little hard to get but as far as I'm aware there's going to be like a waiting list so if you go to buy one of these and they're not available well there'll be a way to put yourself down on a waiting list so when some get made you can hopefully get one pretty easily I'll try to put all the update information I can find on where you can buy these down in the description below so check down there for the most current information there's tons of really good information on the GitHub repo so I really recommend you read through that before purchasing one of these just to make sure all the compatibility of how you want to use the kawari is going to work for you there's one other caveat I do have to mention is that these chips are designed to work in 64 long boards compatibility with short boards which use the later Vic 2 chip it's not perfect Commodore changed the way the reset circuit works on those machines and that causes some issues I've done some testing for Randy and I think a bunch of other people have as well and it can work it's just that some of the timing can cause issues and you can have problems where when you power cycle the computer off and on the video output might not initialize properly and other little issues like that there are also some fitment issues inside the short boards just because the case is so much more compact at least from a vertical standpoint that I'm not sure it actually fits in there perfectly but your mileage may vary on that I just wanted to point out there might be some issues there Randy's latest video that I've mentioned already talks about some of these compatibility issues so make sure you watch that first before you do any purchasing as well as you can probably tell I'm really freaking excited about this project I absolutely love this thing I've had these things for a few months now and have been using it off and on all the time and it just rocks for me the biggest benefit is being able to use my 1084 monitor right here which is the one I usually have floating around with the machine running in pal mode so I can check out all the super awesome games and demos that are coming out for the 64 without any of the compatibility issues that you normally experience here in North America that feature alone makes this thing a great replacement even if your machine has a working Vic too like this one does now I Breeze over a bunch of the other capabilities of this thing has some acceleration stuff and some other things it can do so definitely check out the GitHub repo so you can read up about all of those things and check out Randy's video where he goes over some of those cool new features as well and I guess that's going to be it for this video so I hope you enjoyed my look at the Quarry here well the mini one but the Maxi or the big one here works exactly the same way and if you thought this was interesting I'd appreciate a thumbs up but if you didn't you know what to do definitely put your comments Down Below in the description if you have any thoughts or suggestions about this and of course you can reach out to Randy on the GitHub repo open up issues and stuff like that if you have any suggestions questions there I mean it's open source if you maybe you want to contribute to the project as well and enhance the firmware to expand the capabilities of these things even beyond what they can do now of course I want to say thanks to my patrons their names are going to be scrolling up the side of the screen Patriots get early access to videos stuff like that if you want to become a patron you can do so at the link in the description below and I guess that's going to be that so stay healthy stay safe and I will see you next time bye foreign

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