root42

I solder stuff, like to code and play around with electronics. Also I play old video games, mostly MS-DOS on my 286 or 386 PC, sometimes on my SEGA Genesis/MegaDrive. I try to use real hardware wherever possible.

New videos posted roughly every weekend.

Bonus channel with raw video game footage: youtube.com/channel/UCHtVbly1nUcgWp17838HZYg

Blog: root42.de/blog
Mastodon: chaos.social/@root42
Twitch: player.twitch.tv/?channel=root_42

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Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Refurb

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New Commodore Branded C64 Power Supply

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Let's Code MS DOS: 0x37 Rainbow Surf Analysis

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Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Differences

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TND232 Tandy Serial Port Soundcard

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Floppy Disk Punch

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x36: Sprites and Occlusion

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x35: Sprites & Scaling

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x35: Sprites & Scaling 720p

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x34: VGA Blending

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The OneROM Versatile ROM Emulator

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The OneROM Versatile ROM Emulator 720p

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Let's Code MS DOS: 0x33 PowerBasic 3D Starfield

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Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Repair

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Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Repair

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x32 VGA Split Screen

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Let's Code MS DOS: 0x32 VGA Split Screen

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Commodore SFD 1001 Repair

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Commodore SFD 1001 Repair

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Commodore 1541 Repair: Spin Me Round

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Spin Me Round: Commodore 1541 Repair

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Double Trouble: C64 and 1541 Repair

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Shared 8 months ago

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The Horror: GameBoy Backlight Mod

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x31: ANSI C Data Types

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Shared 9 months ago

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NEW Low Ripple 7805/7812 Drop In Regulator

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x30: VGA 3D Textmode

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x2F: Mandelbrot Fractal

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Pico DRAM Tester

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Pico DRAM Tester

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FG 100 DDS Function Generator

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New SID Replacement: Kung Fu SID

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New Homebrew OPL3 Sound Card: Sonic Buster 8

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Quadrophonic Commodore 1541 Floppy Drives

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Funny Playing 4.2 SEGA GameGear LCD Mod

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Let's Code Commodore PET 0x02: Snakes on a PET

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Commodore C16 From Hell Repair

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Let's Code Commodore PET 0x01: Hello World!

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C64 Repair: Blue Screen

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C1531 Datassette Refurb

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C64C Repair: Shimmering Color

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C64: Knock and Crash

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Sinclair ZX81: AV mod and New Keyboard

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x2E: VGA Redefinable Charsets

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x2D: L System XMas

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Pokemon Red Restoration

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New Atari 2600 Homebrew Games (Raffle now closed!)

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x2C: Noisy 3D Animation

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What if the Amiga sounded better?

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x2B: Memory and Pointers

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x2A: Background Adlib Music

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Retrogaming Travels: Marseille

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The D64 Disk Book & other Disk Mags

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x29: Extended Memory XMS

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Commodore PET: 40K RAM with SoftROM

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Shared 1 year ago

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Musicdisk: Modern Love Classics by MSL #demoscene

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Shared 2 years ago

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Black Amiga 500

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Zombie Floppy: How To Revive A Broken 1541 Head

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Amiga Power Supply Battle: Commodore vs Electroware

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Amiga500: Lazarustorm/PiStorm vs ACA500plus

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x28: Expanded Memory (EMS)

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