greens, purples, very nice. Just want to, just want to be there. Okay, for some reason uhu-hu, I cannot say the name, is it uhu-hu? Uhu-hu have sent me 300, 320 markers and I'm going to review them because I love alcohol markers, they're kind of my jam, so we're gonna see. That's a bit crazy.  You guys, this is why I do YouTube, I'm in it for the loot to be real. Look at this, all for me. What the heck? Okay, so uhu, can't say the name and they've sent me 320. Uhu-hu have sent me 320 markers as you can see, it's a little bit OTT, but very much appreciated. Um, markers are kind of my thing, I don't know, what's this? If you put, what, if you are coloring on thin paper, please put this between them. Oh, that's very, very good for me. Swatches, I don't swatch, so um, and many, many, anyway, I digress. The point was that alcohol markers are kind of my jam, I made all my comics with them. These bad boys, so yeah, I love um, Winsor & Newton at the moment, I'm kind of into uh, I like the brush markers and I believe that these are brush markers, it's lovely, lovely, jubbly, but these are kind of like the more reasonably cheaper version of Winsor & Newton and probably if you're on the uh, YouTube sphere, art sphere, you already know that, but just in case you don't, these are, there's the train, these are the cheaper side of alcohol markers and we've got to go away train. And I don't even know where to begin, because there's so many, but yeah, let's go, let's go, let's go, oh my, this is fun, why are you doing this? So at the beginning of this sketchbook I was into drawing some princesses, it's a doodle of myself on a train, I thought I could do doodles of myself on transport, I don't know why, I thought that was like gonna be a cool idea. Me traveling to different places, I was like, how interesting is that though, you know, like as a consumer of art stuff, how interesting is it? Um, and for this thing, which has like put this in between the pages, it's too small, but I'll give it a go, I have this paper, so either way. Okay, I'm very excited, as you can tell, because this is just, so at the moment I am a little bit obsessed with like period, not periods, period pieces, so I'm wondering if I want to do like another comic in a style of like Victorian era or maybe even earlier. I obviously did a short comic, well not obviously because you may not know, but I did a comic in the Edwardian era, a short comic, and I really enjoyed that because it just, I feel like it adds a lot of like variety to the story, and also it's interesting, I'm interested in, I'm interested, I like, I really like historical fiction, and I think this would be fun, but I don't know, also these pens are really nice so far, that's too bright for my hair, my hair, for her hair. Sorry about the train, these videos are getting more and more casual aren't they, can't help it, lid nut by train, that's very dark, the thing is it does look a little bit darker than the pen lids, but whatever, it's fine, I can work with that, you can figure that out I guess. But yeah, I'm interested in doing another comic of like a period drama or something, not horror necessarily, just something different, maybe magical fantasy historicalness because yeah, I think that is something would be fun to do, loving these pens, feeling very nice, they're blending really well, definitely see why the internet kind of goes mad for them, especially considering their price point, I'm just going to check the price because, okay so for for instance, for 48 of them, they're £20 and for 48 of the brush markers, they are usually £90, so a slight difference in price point there, so these for instance are triple the price than these ones, which is a bit crazy, I wonder if you get like more ink in them, I don't know if there is a way to like tell that, I don't think there is but yeah, so these are the ones I usually enjoy more and I don't know if it's the paper but these seem to be blending into each other a little bit more than brush markers would, but I mean you know like triple the price, so it's some things you can work around a little bit I think, so for instance you can see here that this is blending into each other slightly but I'm not hating it you know, it kind of works, it kind of looks fine, you probably just have to bear that in mind, you get used to the, you get used to it as you use them I guess because you're just doing a lovely poofy dress which I don't actually know the era of, it doesn't look, I typed in Victorian garb but this looks a little bit more earlier than that so I'm not sure if that's the case but whatever, well no it definitely is the case, that it's not Victorian but hey ho, I'm gonna do the hand, the thing is for me I don't necessarily need it to be like pristine, not not blending because I like to go in with a kind of pencils afterwards anyway to do outlines and stuff like that's kind of my thing, so doesn't really matter to me, so I enjoy it and also like probably after it dries you can go in, I think I was too quick to like bring those colors together so that's something I'm gonna keep in mind to try and I'll wait for it to dry a little bit before going in, okay this thing is just not working for me, kind of made her neck a little bit too short but I live you learn, this is when it kind of all comes together, when I first start doing like layering down colors on paper and film it, people are usually like where is this going, like what is she doing but as I add the line work in it kind of makes sense right, and it is something that I really enjoy doing, I don't know why it's just this type of style, it just hits me guys, just like it, I like also leaving some maybe not doing line not everywhere but just hinting, so I hope that kind of works, I like doing shadow in a kind of violet color with these pans, so I'm wondering if that would work, there's obviously I could use a lavender blue which is like a cooler, a cool shadow or a more pinky violet, I guess this is mauve color for like a warmer shadow and I always like using warmer shadows I'm not sure why, just think it makes it more cute, yeah so that's my top tip, use colors, shall I zoom in a little bit more so you guys can see a little bit better, that could probably work a little bit better content, so this is just a chatty video and I was wondering if you guys kind of like these videos, video style, I know that it's a lot easier to edit for sure, is this the, yeah this is the shadow of the music and it's kind of more chill so I don't know if you guys just grab whatever you're working on at the same time it works out, quite nice, I know I enjoy like watching videos like this so yeah what I'm thinking of this character, I'm just looking up like Pinterest stuff and copying it basically for ideas and then maybe I'll go away and like draw my own thing and we'll move her about and do a scene or something but this is purely just like inspiration beginnings of something I would do so if I was gonna make a comic I would be just drawing loads of stuff of this time or whatever interests me so what interests me about doing a comic like this is definitely the outfits and the characters, maybe less so the scenery but the scenery is definitely something to consider as well because it's a totally different timeline to this timeline that we're in right now, do I mean timeline or time? it's not necessarily a different timeline and she has like a pink, a white dress on but I'm making it pink and I'm not sure if, oh I went for that and that is not the best colour, I'm not sure if it will work but let's try, that is really bright, well I've already like messed it up there with that colour so might as well go for it but yeah I love brush markers, it's just so nice just layer them down like that, it's very fun, I love these fluorescent colours, they're so crazy they have no place in a period drama but let's go for it because I already messed up that area so might as well try it, am I right guys? yeah I do love how like alcohol markers just layer and don't leave marks, I remember finding alcohol markers for the first time in uni and just being like this is crazy how they just, they're not like felt tips where they just don't blend and they leave like really weird marks but hey, this dress is going to be disgusting in colour but whatever, we're just testing out markers so I'm kind of already attracted to these luminous colours which are just incredible to me so I was obviously going to test those out, she could just be a very rich princess I guess who just you know gets all this like crazy silk colour dye that doesn't exist for anyone else so let's just go with that yeah so like I said I like using colour pencils but I really like the polychromos ones, let me know if you guys have any suggestions for soft colour pencils that are similar because I feel like these polychromos are quite expensive but I do really love them, I definitely am obsessed with doing line work with the Faber-Castell polychromos black pencil like that's that's what I use, I bought many many many of them and they are, if you come to my office they're just lying about the place I don't know why I just really enjoy them as like line work, I think I discovered that when I first did Emily is Burning I was like oh I want to do a line work in a black pencil and I think at the time I just used any old black pencil like a soft thick black pencil and then I realised that I love it, I love that line quality, I love the like the texture of it I think yeah I don't know, I don't know about you guys maybe you hate it but for me it's just just I enjoy it more than like inking because I used to ink, I used to use like a nib and ink and then I used brush pens which were very hard to use because they're kind of you know unless you're an absolute master at them they're quite hard to use but they give you a great like thick and thin line but I feel like there's something really expressive about using this pen salt as a liner I don't know what do you guys think I mean somebody must like it to be fair because people do buy the comics so you someone out there must like me using this as a oh god my light just flickered as a liner I need to sharpen it though for some reason my sharpener is in the bathroom don't ask you ever get that thing where you're like oh I need a sharpener for my eyeliner and you just go and use the sharpener that is not meant for that no okay just me um yeah I'm not sure I like her face but whatever sorry face but totally liking these pens um considering their price point pretty good pretty nice you know uh I can yeah like I said I can see why people kind of rave about them or younger people use them as well that don't necessarily have the money to kind of spend on loads of expensive pens not that I do either but I just like using them but yeah let's see I like this color this is a light lavender this kind of reminds me of a darker pen that I'm obsessed with um this one which is what the flip is it all kid I feel like that's the wrong one but one of these colors that I use for shadows all the time and basically always run out of it's a very similar color to that so quite a good dupe for me yeah I definitely am enjoying these pens um they just sent these to me by the way then it's not sponsored or anything so totally what I believe in my honest opinion I don't know why people say that because it's like well I would give my honest opinion anyway but I guess you can't say anything too negative if you're being paid I'm not sure how that works uh yeah okay I think we need more color on the bottom of her dress grayish cherry ooh it's very nice that's probably the color I wanted that bit to be but it didn't work out um it's kind of like a non-color because it's just kind of slightly cream but that's kind of what I was going for so I've been super busy with work um recently and I think that's kind of eaten into me making videos and stuff a little bit you may have noticed you may have not you may not care at all at what I say but yeah it's uh it's going so these colors are so bright um so if you see me not posting as often that's kind of why but I still want to post it's not like I mean I don't really you know get much from posting if that makes sense like monetary wise but I really still I love making videos and I've always made videos just for fun so makes sense that I continue it's just that it's like exhausting on the weekend you know when you my god what first world problems right but still just explaining why maybe I'm not posting as often but here we go I'm probably just running a bit as well I feel like where's that color I liked it wasn't my it was the light lavender right the one I liked for the colors I'm gonna make a note of that because I'm gonna forget um which one I like for the shadows I believe there is a lavender one that I use for shadows as well on this one but okay so there's like her feet coming out the bottom which makes sense because otherwise it looks a little bit too like her legs are really short I remember when I was a kid looking at the box art for um Aladdin and I think it was Aladdin 2 where Jasmine's like in this wedding garb basically and I was like oh my god I am in love with that image and I was trying to draw it and like copy it and I just couldn't and I think I got frustrated and I was like I can never draw even though I was probably about nine or whatever I was like I'm not amazing at this I hate it I still have that feeling I guess I guess a lot of us do it's kind of standard right I'm not instantly good at something it annoys me I don't want to do it anymore so she's like scrunching her dress but I'm not sure I'm gonna be that very well but hey ho anybody else do that like copy um videotape art I'm showing my age here but whatever guys I'm old uh videotape art when they were a kid it was always fun slash I was like why can't I be better at this I think as well like that feeling of like not being suddenly good at something was something that I definitely had to get over as a kid because and realize that you have to work for things if you want to get better and stuff because I was just like why am I just good at this and I felt I feel like that's the case with a lot of stuff that I did I was probably just like why am I amazing and then steadily learned that I probably had to put in the time to get better at stuff but a lesson learned though I hope no I'm like why am I good give up YouTube but yeah so I like her I like these pens uh I think we'll do another person I'm not sure if she's finished oh and just blob here so she's got like a weird um not a weird thumb but a hard position to draw it's got a weird thumb this model no it's hard uh yeah hard position to draw so it kind of went out the lines a little bit there in the color but because of how I did it but I still kind of like that it kind of adds a texture and visual interest to it and that's my reasoning and I'm sticking to it I don't care what anyone else is she has a necklace on but I feel like I've made her like this decolletage area way too small uh yeah so there we go that's princess number one princess I mean she could be not a princess but you know this next one I think I'm just gonna use the colors as they are I'm not gonna test them I kind of did that here but I'm gonna try it again here um because I think it just makes for an interesting piece because I kind of find that interesting that color scheme even though I wouldn't have picked it out necessarily so right now I'm going to draw um El Fanning if you can name is from The Great if you guys haven't watched that show and you like period dramas it's kind of so funny it's um one of those ones where they kind of use like modern language sometimes and it's just very silly and I really like it but yeah so what I do is I just kind of like outline the shapes I'll put her arms there I should put the arms in first because I'm gonna draw over them she's very pale in this show so let's go with mellow peach it was very yellow but oh um yeah so I just block in the shapes that I see and I find this handy as well because I feel like if you look at the negative space whilst you do this it kind of helps a lot and you can if you're just blocking out a shape I think it helps with the accuracy of the drawing and even if it's not like super accurate accurate why can't it say that word even if it's not super accurate accurate why can't I say that if it doesn't look the same it's fine because it's your own flair I can't speak good good to know um yeah so I kind of like this messy way of designing making um I don't know if you guys know that if you're new here I want to try this for a fluorescent hell fluorescent yellow who got a bit scared there I was like well honestly just for the highlights because she has a very shiny like silk but kind of more of an olive color dress on so this is definitely not the color scheme but I like it so we're gonna go a bit crazy we're going crazy guys today um she's sat on a bed so her dress is kind of like underneath her pooping a little bit here uh where's that color is this the color see this this green the glass green does not really look the same as that does it so I don't know maybe they could work on the lid color I know that's probably like very hard to do and here's where them kind of blending into each other quite well comes in handy because that's kind of what I wanted to do so like I said before the Windsor Newton's don't blend out that much as in into each other so this is kind of nice um but you can use it purposefully as well as accidentally so I don't know if that made any sense but I hope it did I want yellow hair for her so there's a lemon yellow or there's a melon yellow which one will work I think I'm gonna go with melon yellow to play it safe like for a darker and then you can always add a yellow pencil on top hopefully she's got like curly locks her hair done up in curls here like a strange hairdo which I can't really understand but kind of curls away this is a very definitely a very like fluorescenty um colored drawing but hey oh is that also like very plain dress it's just that it's quite beautiful because it's silk and it's very like well tailored so just it is stunning but I'm not sure I've done it justice with this color scheme try this light green just to finish off the areas I wonder if I add in the fluorescent color now it's gonna like still be as bright but I don't think so I want a really light pink so let's go for this uh what does that say chocolate pink that looks like it's hardly any color which is good because she hardly has color on her face I use this as a shadow actually because she's so light in this image so using this as like a shadow kind of indicates where I should do my line art as well it's kind of helpful um usually you have to do the line art after all the pen if you're using a colored pencil after all the lines that you've done with alcohol markers because always it bleeds and it doesn't look very nice but just bear that in mind if you try to do this style or this way of the way that I do it the thing with this silk dress is that it does have a lot of like um fabric folds and stuff like that which can be quite difficult to do they even needs more like shadow on the dress to indicate the folds I think that one's too light where's the one I like light lavender I don't know if this is probably not dark enough I know this is probably should have done this before I did the line art but it's okay because sometimes you can smudge it to make it look not too bad so this is probably like quite unconventional I don't know if it is an unconventional way of using these pens um compared to say other art YouTubers who probably use it in a more clean way than me um I'm quite messy but I guess it gives you like a idea if you're a messy artist as well of how these pens could be used um not sure if that makes sense but you know what I mean uh yeah so let me know I think this is like really fun when you do her lips she has a very smug face being uh Catherine the Great here I'm not sure I captured her likeness but that wasn't really my intention either draw someone in a nice pretty dress they aged her about a hundred years but it's fine I want to do a blue behind her oh I like this blue that's nice sometimes it's nice to just like indicate a background if you just do a quick sketch because it just lets the object or the person sit in a reality so even if you're not even doing like a proper background it's nice to like hint I think that's probably why you see sometimes when people do character designs they just do like a block of color sometimes around them I think it just helps to sit them in a place yeah but this blue is very nice I'm liking a lot of these colors they are very bright um very nice colors to use I also like to use a white I don't know where it's gone I haven't drawn in a while now because I've been so busy but um not necessarily this one I like the jelly ones but I don't know where it's gone but I'll use this one for now just add some sparkles I love some sparkles so I'm like this is I've ruined this pen um this acrylic edding pen we by using it with pink no it's kind of stuck but oh well I can clean it in a bit yeah this is kind of like quite fun pens love them completely enjoyed using them I hope you guys liked watching me just doodle because I'm probably gonna do more uh videos like this um in the future but yeah thank you so much to Ohuhu Ohuhu for sending me these amazing pens so many and I'm really excited to just keep going keep drawing but right now I'm gonna edit this video and put it up and I hope you guys like this relaxed kind of style so let me know if you did and uh yeah see you around thanks very much for watching and bye


Hey everyone, welcome back to Prime 5, the 5 biggest news stories in video games in the last 24 hours, at least when it comes to Nintendo. If you enjoy this kind of content, be sure to drop that like, subscribe, all of that. We bring these videos to you Monday through Friday and we have bonus videos on weekends as well. Also, we have the Nintendo Prime Podcast tonight, live streaming over on the Nintendo Prime Podcast channel. Be sure to go over to that channel and check it out. I hope to see you guys all there. Without further ado, let's get into today's news. Our first story deals with that new Platinum that I got on PlayStation… Okay, no, actually, Platinum Games put out an update on Astral Chain. What? Astral Chain? What? They're actually running a giveaway, a really, really neat giveaway because they are celebrating the third anniversary of the game's release. Now, they're going to be giving away a signed copy of the game, a physical copy, by director Takahisha Tora. It's actually going to be a Japanese version of the game, but they are opening this giveaway to Worldwide. So you don't have to live in Japan to enter. So if you want to enter, you need to go follow at Platinum Games on Twitter and retweet the giveaway tweet by September 9th, ironically the same day Splatoon 3 comes out. Link to the tweet is in our sources section in the description and I wish all of you guys luck. This next story involves a sweet deal, but since we just talked about a giveaway at it, this is a good time to remind you that we actually have a thousand dollar giveaway going on right now. All new subscribers until we get to a hundred thousand subscribers are entered automatically to win a thousand dollars cash. So isn't that kind of cool, but now let's get into the neat deal today because today is the last day that you could save 10% on eShop credit. What am I talking about? So we often talk about game sale deals, but what about the credit with which we buy them, especially on the eShop? Our friends over at Nintendo Life have been running a sale with 10% off eShop credit and today is the final day. In the United States, you can get $10, $20 and $50 variations of eShop cards with 10% knocked off the price. They have the same deal for other territories as well, especially if you happen to live in the UK and EU. Also if you live in the UK and EU, they have some special deals and sales on DLC and select games on the eShop in those territories. I'll provide a direct link to Nintendo Life's story on it down in the description because the story actually has links to all of the various sales. This is the last day. Who doesn't want to save some money on some eShop credit? We don't get these kind of sales very often and I wanted to kind of mix it up from talking about our typical game sales, so why not actually talk about the currency with which we buy them because you can now spend less and get more. Isn't that cool? Now tomorrow we have some new information coming for Pokemon, Scarlet and Violet. That's because a letter was sent out to several creators that stated the following. Dear trainers, we just received information about Mysterious Mark shown on rocks and trees from Paldia's region. What possibly could be at the origin of these mysterious symbols? Join our social media on September 1st tomorrow to take part in our investigation. Who knows what we could find? There are some other translations out there of this as well because a lot of these letters were sent out to other country content creators. There doesn't seem to be a US based letter, but either way we're going to be getting some Pokemon Scarlet and Violet news tomorrow of some type. Maybe there's even a whole event built around it. I guess time will tell. All I know is I'm really excited for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and what I want to know is if you're going to buy these games, which version are you getting? Are you Team Scarlet or Team Violet? The next story is a really fun update. Remember the game Nintendo showed off that ironically maybe describes my life?  They showed this off at Indie Direct a long time ago and we haven't really seen it since. Well we have an update for today because a brand new trailer dropped. That's always exciting. Bad news however, the Switch version of it because it's on PC and Switch, the Switch version has been delayed to 2023. But the good news for that is that they are going to now have a physical release. There wasn't actually going to be a physical copy for it, but they just announced it today in the trailer that there will be a physical copy for this game.  Looks crazy. It looks fun. Sort of describes my life of sucking at times. So hey, you know what? I'm all for this great little blitz of parking cars. Who thought we'd have fun doing that? Now our last story here is a rumor. I want to clarify that. But it's a rumor that these sources seem very confident and we're talking about Jeff Grubb. And we're talking about his co-running mate. I think his name's Mark, if I remember right. Either way, we're talking Nintendo Directs because he said with 100% certainty on his show yesterday we are getting a Direct in September. So okay, we're continuing the Direct. So what information could we get from these Directs? Well, here are some notes I took from his show. I watched the entire thing just to make sure I didn't miss anything. And here's what Jeff Grubb says specifically that he has heard specifically that Twilight Princess and the Windbreaker HD ports are going to be in this Direct. Remember, he doesn't know if it's going to be a general, a mini, a partner. But because of this information, it makes him think it has to be a general Direct because you probably wouldn't put Zelda remakes in anything but that. Also we know how confident he is about Metroid Prime Remaster coming out this year. However, he didn't say he actually heard it would be in this Direct. He's sort of assuming it will be. But he doesn't have any sources saying that Metroid Prime Remaster is here. He just maybe hopes it will be. Now here is actually the new Domtrakus. We kind of talked about Twilight Princess and Windbreaker coming to this Direct before. He's not 100% sure on this, but the name of Breath of the Wild 2 could possibly get dropped. He thinks this might be a massive Zelda blowout Direct where they end it with Windbreaker Twilight Princess HD and then a big new trailer for Breath of the Wild 2 that reveals the name. That would be very interesting. He's also heard it's happening the same week as Tokyo Game Show. However, another giant bomb person heard it's actually going to be next week. Either way, I think it's pretty safe to say that sometime in the next 14 days, the next 2 weeks, we're probably going to have a Direct at least according to all the rumors and speculation. Now his partner on the show, Mike Minotti, who's also a video game journalist, did hear independently from Jeff about Twilight Princess and the Windbreaker HD being in this Direct. So there you go. That's kind of the information there. Do with it what you will. I don't know what's happening. I'm not the source for any of this. I'm just sharing it and I'm trying to hype responsibly. I hear Twilight Princess and the Windbreaker HD, my hype levels already go up a little bit. I hear Metroid Prime remaster, my hype levels take another leap. Then I hear about Breath of the Wild 2 name drop and I just go BOOM. Like I'm losing it. So I'm trying to keep it calm, keep it good. Catch you guys tonight where I might not be as calm about this on the Nintendo Prime podcast. Thank you guys for tuning in and hopefully I'll catch you guys in our next video.


I have a new typewriter. I might have a bit of a problem here. So here it is. It's so huge I've had to bring it out onto my dining room table which is why I will probably sound quite echoey due to the absence of acoustic insulation in here. So what this is, if I open the lid, is a MOffice WP1 integrated word processor typewriter appliance. I believe this is a rebranded Brother WP1 which makes it the same lineage as the other word processor I have which has shown up on my channel a few times before. What this is, if I turn it on, is a turnkey unit that allows people to write out documents using the very nice rubber dome keyboard which apparently feels a bit like Topra if you've ever used a Topra which I haven't. And then you can either save them and load them from floppy using the integrated drive here or print them out using the high quality Daisy Wheel printer. Now I happen to know that on this model the printer is broken plus while it does take the same Daisy Wheels that my other brother device takes. It does not take the same ribbons and as a result I can't print anything on this anyway even if it did work. But I will briefly demonstrate just typing on this so I can dog chips over the lazy box. So this is the Swiss keyboard layout you can tell by the accent of the keys here and the fact that Z and Y are swapped which is kind of awkward when typing. This is an actual letter box CRT. My other unit has an LCD but compared to that this is so nice. I'm not sure how well it's coming across on the camera but it is beautifully crisp. It's a little bit fuzzy around the edges but it's really comfortable to use. The position of the keyboard is well judged and it feels really nice to type on. Unfortunately, okay what have I done now? Cancel there we go. Unfortunately the CPU in the computer that runs this thing is a rather slow Z80 and it's not really very nice to use. So like if I press return it doesn't keep up with my typing. If I insert text and of course it predates insert so it defaults to over type so I switch to insert. There we go. It says insert down there in German. All right, once upon a time there was an aardvark named Albert. So I'm still waiting for it to catch up and those beeps you were hearing are warning me that its buffer has filled up and I will have to wait while it catches up. You see it's actually missed the last few characters. E-R-T dot. So yeah that is no fun. The other unit I have is faster but it's still kind of slow. People did write long documents on these but compared to modern stuff it's not great. So to demonstrate the floppy drive. The floppy drive is also as far as I know broken. If I try to do something with a file it makes horrible noises. That's actually normal. The floppy drives and these things are weird but it correctly detects that the disk is not formatted. So I say yard to format it and it grinds away and then it gives up. It says the disk has failed. So that's not so great. So I excuse me. I would like to take this thing apart and see whether I can make it work rather better. So I am going to turn this thing off turn it over to access the works and show you what's inside.  Dismantling it was rather tougher than I was expecting. Not because it's difficult just complicated and unobvious. The knob here that you wind the paper on sticks out through a hole in the top case and you can't lift the case off because this is sticking out through it. I tried to take the printer off several times before just realizing that the roller itself just lifts out there are some plastic clips to remove it. So you're supposed to take the roller out then the top case comes off and only then can you dismantle the printer which is really awkward. Also the electronics is split between the top half and underneath. The logic board which is this actually lives in a hatch on the underneath of the machine and all these cables go through a hole in the bottom and connect up to the logic board. So you can't lift any of this lot off without also turning the thing over removing the logic board and of course you have to take the logic board out before you can unplug any of the connectors and free up the cables which is really annoying. But it's done I'm reasonably certain that I can put it back together again. I have lost a couple of screws inside the case so I'm going to have to turn this upside down and shake it at some point. But I think that I'm now going to move stuff through back to the workbench where I can get a proper look at it and show you what this thing is like inside. Well here it is on my workbench it's still far too big so you can only see it in pieces. What you're looking at here is the print mechanism. This is the printhead it moves back and forwards across the paper there's a belt down here and a stepper motor which you can't see in there. The print wheel the daisy wheel contains the actual type elements goes in here and locks into place. It then rotates and this thing has got a solenoid that hammers each type element against the paper. The ink cartridge drops in here and of course the only cartridge I have is the wrong size. This is the motorized drive that is supposed to drop into a cog like this in order to wind the ink ribbon along. Interestingly this printer has a second ink ribbon which is white for doing undoes which is interesting because given that this is a word processor you can undo all your mistakes actually in software and then you print out the correct version. So this suggests that whoever owned this was used to using it for typing in direct mode where you type on the keyboard and letters come out. Anyway the print unit comes out by unclipping some little things here and then it just lifts off and it's connected to this metal sheet revealing that thing is heavy and really awkward but revealing the insides. Now what we've got here is power supply the mains plugs in here the switch the on-off switch is under there. I don't know what this is a choke for smoothing maybe that kind of main stuff is kind of out of my comfort zone. A monster transformer from old-fashioned linear power supply so this does not use a switch mode I think this is the low voltage generator now I said I think because there is a little transformer here so who knows but I don't see any electronics on this so maybe not a switch mode it then powers the motherboard via this connector and the monitor via this connector. This is the monitor's analog board and I am really not an expert on these things but it looks pretty normal you've got the high voltage flyback transformer here couple of oh yes this connects to the what's this connect to this and this bundle of wires connect to the tube which is underneath this shield that will be the yoke which contains some magnetic deflection coils this is the electron gun itself this cable is supposed to plug on to the motherboard and it contains the actual signal and if you make that visible the really interesting bit is it's got a coax connection and I think that connection is likely to be composite video however I do not know what the other three wires are so that will be something to find out we have a focus control uh some other pots that that one's labeled height I can just see and I'm not at the right angle for the others but I have no intention of touching any of this because I want to live moving over here and I'll slide it back a bit this is the floppy disk drive it connects to the motherboard with these two connectors this is not a standard floppy drive connector I will remove and disassemble this to take a look inside but given how weird it is I don't think I'm going to go to very much effort to make it work I would like it to work because then I can use this machine to test the flux engine's ability to write 120k brother disks but given that a floppy disk in this thing will store 120k that's really not a lot so here is the logic board now this is quite different from the logic board of my other brother word processor which is a later generation you can most kindly describe the other logic board as economical it's a nasty yellow PCB which is single sided it's got very few components on it it's made out of very cheap PCB material it's clearly been stripped down to its minimum this is much more sophisticated which is interesting because this is the earlier version now it's the both machines are based around this chip which is a hd64 180 it's a modernized z80 it supports a larger address space and a faster clock rate it's got loads of onboard peripherals which is why it's got so many pins while the other board had ULA's gate arrays for doing nearly everything including the video signal this has a actual video controller chip and I've maybe I've been able to find a data sheet for it which is nice this chip is 8k of static ram maybe video memory but that's confusing because this chip is a ROM I don't know what's on it I would think that this would be a character ROM used by the video chip but if that was the case it wouldn't need 8k of video memory so that will require some investigation I really hope I don't have to take this chip off and read it over here we have 64k of ram this is DRAM all of this is generic TTL logic and drivers presumably to make the printer work I believe that this gate array here has got to do with working the printer this one over here I think is handling addressing sending requests from the cpu to all the various bits and pieces over here now there are a lot of connectors this one is the keyboard and I would expect this to be hooked up to a UART on the processor the processor I believe has two built-in UARTs it does have quite a number of pins though so that will need investigation too here we have the two connectors for the floppy drive these are wired up to this chip which I haven't been able to identify which means it's probably another gate array this would be the floppy drive controller I put controller in quotation marks because as I said earlier these machines do nearly all the floppy drive handling in software with a big chunk of code running in this thing presumably that's to make the floppy drive interface cheaper but if they're having to use a custom gate array anyway why not just use a off-the-shelf floppy drive controller because that way you'd be able to get more than 120k on a disk which is ridiculous up here we have a connector that's wired up to uh this is the safety switch on the lid so that it won't work the printer when the lid is open this one is the video out so I'll be looking at that we've got power in lots of pins I bet that this thing has separate power supplies for the heavy-duty motors for the printer and for all the logic this ribbon cable here connects to the printhead and these two to the printer itself however most interesting to me is over here this looks like a expansion connector and in fact when this board is in the machine this lines up with a cartridge slot on the side of the machine so clearly they were thinking about expansion but uh why then did they never populate it there should be a plug on here for some reason so who knows and there's another couple of connectors here which are also interesting um no help from the labelling it just says port two and r a one all these ports are numbered so and there's nothing there's no kind of maintenance manual online or anything but uh these actually know I look at it these do seem I think to be connected together um these then connect to tracers that also go out to this and then directly to the cpu so I have a suspicion that this is breaking out lots of useful cpu lines so uh this looks like eminently hackable particularly as this is the main software in two e-proms so hey I get two free e-proms which is nice so in order to make this do anything useful I'm going to need to provide power through this connector here and I want to know what all the pins do now one option is to remove the power supply from the chassis but I think instead I'm going to try and figure out what the power supply pins do by powering it up on the bench and poking at it with a voltmeter and then see if I can power the the logic board from my bench power supply because not really very comfortable with having um a live mains power supply sitting on my desk okay so I couldn't come up with anything better than this I've turned this switch on but the circuit breaker is plugged into is off because I don't want to touch this switch while it's live due to the big live copper wires coming out of it so let's provide some power like that now hopefully the logic board should now be live so we should be getting five volts here I would think yes we are um assuming that black is ground what do we get here 14 volts 12 volts nothing nothing judging by the tracks I think these two are both connected together I'm willing to bet that the red and black wires are five volts for the logic these two are high voltages for the printer mechanism and probably the floppy drive and that these two wires are common ground for both of them so after doing some track tracing a few interesting things have shown up one of which is that I was wrong about most of the ports so the two printer stepper motors plug into these two which are identical so if I were interested in the printer plugging them back in again will be interesting this is actually the video output port which is weird given that it's diametrically opposite the video controller chip I've traced the uh the output lines from this through to this chip which is a driver and then from there to this connector the two pins at either end of ground and the three middle ones are signal v-sync and h-sync so turning that into composite video won't be particularly straightforward I have found out that the uart pins from the processor here get routed through to this connector so this is a serial port however this the keyboard port does not seem to be connected to the uart so I am not sure where this goes yet I still have to figure out where all the pins go so I think what I want to do now is to add some header pins to this connector here because I want to be able to access the serial port okay moment of truth time let's apply some power and see what happens I have the oscilloscope hooked up to the video outline I hope so we just need to connect negative here and positive here and see what happens I'll just try it briefly at first whoops that looks like a signal to me so let me try and adjust this while not blocking the view now this should be this should be the video signal so this should be showing the pixel data and on power-up we get some text at the top of the screen and some text at the bottom this is honestly not really what I would expect to see nope I am not sure what I'm looking at okay let's try one of the other sync lines and see what we get there so power off let's try this one so this should be either h-sync or v-sync so there's a pulse there are lots of pulses still does not want to show us the frequency why is it doing that oh yeah it says top 47 volts that is incorrect this is because I have the crocodile clip set up rather than the 10x probe there's a way to change that not that yes I can't be bothered to try and find it this is either h-sync or v-sync so the horizontal tick size is five milliseconds so that should be 5 10 15 oh yeah of course period 16 milliseconds now I need to try and do that division in my head which I'm unable to do let's try the other one and see what we get there aha right this is much more high frequency therefore this must be the horizontal sync which again it is not showing the frequency why isn't it showing the frequency that's in blue is that because it's set to channel 4 there we go yes I must have been showing yeah I don't know what's going on but 16.4 kilohertz is exactly what I would expect for a tv frequency video which is what I would expect so let's go back to v-sync because that will give us the frame rate 60 hertz right so that's reasonable now because it's not composite video it means I can't just plug this into my AV to HDMI converter because that wants composite in I will be able to plug this into my OSSC when my OSSC arrives which I don't have it yet because hopefully I should be able to wire this up to a vga plug my actual monitor won't uh like this signal because it only does vga signals it wants a 30 kilohertz h-sync which this isn't okay let's have a look at the serial port I have hooked up my cheap and nasty logic analyzer to all the serial port lines I don't know what the pins do I mean I can trace them through back to the chip here and I know the chip pin out but I keep losing track when counting the pins so I'm just going to record them all and see what happens so if we press the run button on the logic analyzer and hook up the power and stop what did we get out I think not a lot okay I was rather hoping that we would see some debugging information but yeah uh it looks like it's not doing anything with it on startup that makes sense the port was probably put there for use by expansion hardware I don't believe this is lined up anywhere in particular in the case I will have a look at that in the moment okay so the next thing to do is to dump the ROMs I think so this is really simple it's just a matter of removing them sticking them in the NEPROM programmer I won't record that so back in a second all right I've dumped the ROMs which were smaller than I expected each one is 64k giving this a total of 128 k of ROM that will contain all the word processor software and the floppy drivers and so on I saw messages in French and German so presumably you can change the language by setting one of the configuration straps and I found four so far these two that one's got a solder blob on it and that one doesn't and these two I was expecting jumpers which is why I didn't see them earlier and unlike the later models they aren't conveniently labeled somewhere on the board so anyway I can't say to do English so I'll just leave it as German so I think I've come to the end of what I can do with the board the next thing to look at is the floppy drive further investigation shows that the floppy drive is probably a 240k model the same as my other brother word processor rather than the 120k one that I thought but whatever it is it's not working so I'm going to remove that from the chassis and have a look at it well that was miserable in order to get the floppy drive off you have to dismantle everything including taking the monitor out which is ridiculous there's this one screw under the floppy drive the floppy drive goes in the front panel like this so you have to remove the entire front panel with the monitor crt attached to it anyway it's off now so let's take a look now it's interesting the way it failed I was expecting that the belt would have died but given that it was sort of seeing something on the disc that makes me wonder if there's something else maybe it just needs to start to clean all right let's take the lid off it's a very odd floppy drive and what do we have um let me just grab a disc from somewhere so the disc goes in here let's get seated in place and ah okay that makes life easier so this is the mechanism we've got the flywheel uh-huh do you see what I see that's the belt oh oh yuck that's that's turned into sludge uh oh that's going to be awful to take off I was expecting to be able to just pull and have it unreal uh yes I can see you just see fragments of belt inside so I'm going to have to take the back panel off and of course this drive is so bizarre that a standard size belt even if I had any which I don't would be unlikely to fit here we go oh that's not too bad I haven't had to deal with the drive that's completely sludge-ified but gently press this stuff off look oops that was the bit but you see the way it's just smearing this is the motor and there should be a pulley that connects this to the flywheel and then there's the flywheel itself which has most of the belts wrapped around it so let's see if we can just scrape that off reasonably cleanly I think we might not be able to yeah this is just what happened to old belts the rubber degrades and they turn into disgusting sludge it's a decent size piece and it's sticky okay well that's cleft black smears everywhere so it's now time for the IPA I've been using this little bottle for ages at some point I'm going to have to get some more preferably quite a lot more okay so you should be able to see the black stuff on them spindle yeah this is not going to be fun so I think I'm just going to fast forward until that's finished okay it should now be relatively cleaned up so what we need is a belt now I don't have any drive belts but I have had good luck with these floppy drives with ordinary rubber bands which is not supposed to work so it's going round and allegedly these square belts will automatically unwrap or untwist themselves but let's just do that manually just to be on the safe side well that has not worked it's wrapped itself caught itself under the flywheel try that again yes might have problems here so let's give this a try and see if it works I'll just put the lid back on the floppy drive the board seems to slot under into these two tabs and then the screws do up it's really simple you've noticed how few components there are it's probably got dynamic head amplifiers and that's it okay and there is one other important thing to do which is to clean the heads so get the IPA out again I say heads what I really mean is head this only has one which is on the bottom the other side is a felt pad that just pushes against the disc so let's clean this off and call it done okay so now I want to test it somehow but this is so bizarre that the only way to do it is to plug it into the actual machine okay it's time to power it up I'm hoping that this thing runs off the same 5 volts as the rest of the board and not one of the high voltage lines so power we get a beep now it wasn't doing that before it's it's clearly going to prompt up okay it's not beeping anymore so let's try the file button which remember correctly makes the drive run and nothing right I wish I could see the screen but I can't it's unhappy about something interestingly the current has dropped from 480 milliamps to 340 let's just reset it again to see what happens yeah I think I am going to have to hook this up to the monitor to try and figure out what it's doing that's a shame so the beeping turned out to be because of the lid sensor it was complaining that the lid was open and it refused it to do anything if the lids open because the printer contains some pretty powerful moving parts and can make your life a you can make you have a very bad day if you get it wrong so with a paper clip I simply jimmy the sensor I'm not going to bother putting the printer back I'm not particularly interested in that but here we have the file menu I can go to new document type in something oh yeah and here's an interesting thing that I notice from my other brother typewriter that this does too there is no exclamation mark on the keyboard maybe you're just not supposed to be surprised when you're working on this so to save a file you press the file button you say yes I do want to save the file name hello and then document is being saved please wait and there we have our file and we can read it back again now the disk drive does make really unnerving moving noises when it does stuff so I'm not quite sure what's going on there let's copy it I want to copy to another disk so copy to the same disk new name new hello and it is 120k disk you see up there it says 115.7k put the original disk in the drive and press return now it gets the directory so far as I can tell the disk drive works so I'm now going to take the disk out and stick it in my flux engine and see if it's readable which will be interesting to find out okay so here I am now at my workstation I've put the disk that I just wrote into the drive so if I fire up flux engine using the new GUI tell it I want to read a brother 128 disk and hit the read button it will read now the 120k brother format is in fact 40 track and this is an 80 track drive so there is only data on every other track however because the brother floppy drive track alignment is rather bad we actually read all the 80 track tracks including the ones between the 40 track tracks which is where these bad sectors are coming from there we go so we should now have a good read I see no red sectors now it's gone through and de-duplicated everything so you can write the image to there will do fine yes replace close that and flux engine comes with a completely unrelated tool for looking at brother disks so there we can see the two files on the disk and I can extract one and this is the data file that the word processor wrote and I can write back files and sorry I can write back disk images and the brother will read them fine it's actually rather happier about images written here than on the word processor itself because these ones are properly aligned of course the big question is what am I going to do with this thing the z80 board actually turns out to be pretty decent it's got 64k of ram lots of ROM space a really rather nice video output particularly to the monitor I was expecting it to use composite video but it isn't so interfacing it to anything else might be tricky I still want to try and make it work with the ossc when it finally arrives that'll make doing developments so much simpler the floppy drive isn't worth a lot it's only 120k it's a weird format and interfacing it would be a pain as the protocol is mostly software defined I'd have to replicate a whole lot of software on the ROM to actually make it do anything I think the most useful thing I can do with this is to stick a raspberry pi in it wire it up to the internal serial port and turn it into a stealth writing machine the combination of screen and keyboard should make that quite nice I'm not particularly interested in the printer I have daisy wheel printers I don't have a ribbon for this and besides it appears to be broken so I think I'll just leave it with the printer out and try and come up with something to plug the gaping hole in the top of the case when I do do something with it I will report back I've uploaded the ROM dumps and things it's a shame I didn't get a dump of the character ROM but I really don't want to desolder that thing so until next time I hope you've enjoyed this video please let me know what you think in the comments


My name is Jimmy, his name is Jake, and this is the Weekly Dumb. We're in our new digs, Jake. How do you feel? You're so far away from me now. Can you believe it, Jim? New digs, new year, new me, new outfit. So I'm feeling pretty good. I like you to go back to the old outfit. That's dumb. Jake, can you tell me what happened in the sports? Jim, the sports news. Everyone is talking about your Matteo Berettini abonissima. He thanks diarrhea medication for helping him win his match, the old John Boy Specialty. I'd rather be able to poop. It scares me more to not be able to poop. Oh my god, have I told this story? Bronco Super Bowl in New York City, I wanted to go. Got the runs decided I couldn't make it. Like, bathroom was gonna... I took some emodium to make it stop. Sickest I've ever been because I kept all the sickness, right? Worst day of my life, Bronco's got rolled. Girl I was hooking up with, hooked up with another guy. It was a bad day. Anything else happen that day? No, that was pretty much it. Well, this guy took the modium one, his tennis match. And he said, thanks, the modium. Do you think he takes it again, whether he's got the shits or not? It's kind of a superstition thing. Or do you think he's just trying to get a sponsorship? Tennis guy? No. Okay. Let's do a good job. What was his name? Matteo Berettini. Diarrhea Kid. That is tough. That's the risky run though. Jim, speaking of worse than that, almost a breakdown, we're attacking some of our favorite things here, the news and getting hit by vehicles. I love the local news. This has been covered on Weekly Dumb. I like when they do remotes and they had Tori doing a remote on a water line broke and it was like raining out and then traffic was diverted. So they said, why don't we send someone there to show people what it's really like, which isn't necessary. This is awful. Yeah. Oh, it's here. No, you're right. Water line did break and there is some traffic. All right, time down here, Bill. I can totally see it because I am here. She got hit by a car. Car side swiped her, took the corner a little too close. She comes up. She says, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. This actually happened to me when I was in college as well, kind of line of duty thing. Send that a little too quickly. A little too quick. A little too quick because she's the guy, Tim. He goes, that's the first 40 on TV, Tori.  Just either like a tough break for him or he's just the least remorseful or like empathetic person in the world. Yeah. Yeah. He just did this face on point like, can't tell us about the water break though. People really need to know. This is happening. Yeah. We run a professional news set here. So I just think let's do a mock run through if this happens again. You get hit by a car. I'll be Tim. Well, Jim, this this water pipe person. Oh my God. Oh my God. Let's cut away for a moment and we'll get back to Tori and hope she's okay.    Stay still. Let someone come check you out. Don't walk around too much. Third time getting hit by a car, Tim.  Anyway, let's get back to sports.  You know, some people that play sports, they like to dip, but that's a lot of tobacco and nicotine and canadips doesn't got that junk in it. No ripper. CBD. The more sports, please. Oh, Capybara sits in the old gum tree. Wrong animal for that song, Jake, please. But a Capybara, Jim, won Japan's annual hot spring bath competition. How positive are you that you're saying the animal's name? Not, not high. Okay, because I, you said it with some confidence. Well, so Cucabara is the animal from the song. The Capybara, I think I am saying that right now. You don't think it's more like, Capybara. Jim, it won the annual hot spring bath competition.  I would love to know if the fur balls knew they were competing. They were just putting hot water. You think horses compete, right? Has the cuppa bird died during this? Yeah. Many. Seems like a weird drunk farmer competition. Oh. Did my cuppa bird stay in a hot tub long than yours? It's actually a great call.  Than cooking some Capybaras. Put your animals in a hot tub and just, maybe like when you killed that lobster. Remember? This lobster's got to be cooked by now.  And it was just like horrid. It scarred me for life. Delicious. Was it hit at the party? I'm out. Said you weren't going to talk about that. It's the. No, dude. Oh, dude. We got to do the not sports. We're in a new office and you just rip a segment. Just, just take a segment away. Stop with the rich cracker. What on the why even be? I don't get to do my not sports. This is a huge not sports. They found dinosaur butthole. Is that clapped? Do you not know the topics? I'm with you. Science. They found the first preserved dinosaur butthole. And according to the scientists, it's perfect. Yeah. And unique. The butthole is used for what, Jim? These four things. One hole. Booping. Peeing. Two different places on me. Laying eggs. And breeding. Same as peeing for you. Yeah. I mean, this is huge. This is huge because now that we know this, we can. We can use the science. That was my biggest question. I said, is it why are we doing this? Why are we studying it? Why? What does dinosaurs teach us? Well, now that we know that the dinosaur uses its butthole, for pooping, peeing, breeding, and egg laying, we strive to be better.  It's the employees of the week. Some dinosaur stuff right there, huh, man? Goes to Chris and Sam. Sam and Chris. Eating the charge and setting up this new office here. There's this TV that Zach can now do this on. I can do this. I couldn't do this in the old old state. Yeah. There's a pipe there. I might do this all episode. That was the Weekly Dumb. Today's episode was brought to you by Canadip CBD. They're offering 50% off the swag pack.  Canadip CBD.com, use code DUMB to dip in to 50% savings on the swag pack. They're also doing an unreal giveaway for the month of January.  Comment DUMB, one winner will win a sweet jersey.  There's a couple of bathhouses in the city. We might have to check them out one day. It's like a couple of famous Turkish bathhouses. You, me, Zach, camera. It says here that the researchers could tell the dinosaur likely had copulatory sex. Which do you think you have that? Use copulatory in another sentence. Jake doesn't have copulatory sex, does he? That's a sentence that works for sure. What if I do have copulatory sex? That's why I ended it with does he? Copulatory. You think you have that? Mounting intermission in a jacket. I may have had copulatory sex.


John Chapter 10 The Good Shepherd and His Sheep Very truly I tell you, Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep hen by the gate but climbs in by some other way is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is a shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he is brought out all his own he goes on ahead of them and his sheep follow them because they know his voice. They will never know a stranger, in fact they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice. Jesus used this figure of speech but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them. Therefore, Jesus said again, very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. People who have come before me are thieves and robbers but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate whoever enters through me will be saved.  The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming he abandons the sheep and runs away. And the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me just as the father knows me and I know the father and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have the other sheep that are not of the sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my father loves me is that I lay down my life only to take it up again. No one takes it for me, but I lay down my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my father. The Jews who heard these words were again divided. Many of them said he is demon possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him? But others said these are not the sayings of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind? Then came the festival of dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon's colonnade. The Jews who were gathered around him saying, How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly. Jesus answered, I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my father's name testify about me. But you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listens to my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. My father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of my father's hand. I and the father are one. Again, his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him. But Jesus said to them, I have shown you many good works from the father. For which of these do you stone me? We are not stoning you for any good work, they replied, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God. Jesus answered then, Is it not written in your law I have said you are gods? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came, the scripture cannot be set aside. What about one whom the father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy, because I said I am God's son? Do not believe me unless I do the works of my father. But if I do then, even though you do not believe in me, believe the works that you may know and understand that the father is in me and I in the father. Again they tried to see him, but he escaped their grasp. Then Jesus went back across the Jordan, to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed and many people came to him. They said, though John never performed a sign, all that John said about this man was true. And in that place many believed in Jesus.