'Ello from Los Angeles (X16 Visual Designer)

Perifractic · Post by **Perifractic** » Tue May 19, 2020 6:17 pm

Hi everyone, while The 8-Bit guys needs no introduction, we thought the rest of the team should properly introduce themselves! I'll start the ball rolling... I'm a husband & father of 3 (furbabies), & actor-writer with a love of retrogaming. You might have seen or heard me at Perifractic’s Retro Recipes on YouTube, and I've been making retro music since before it was retro!

For the fantastic Commander X16 project I'm proud to be spearheading the launch of the design and branding, among other things. Here's what falls under that department, with the help of some other very talented folks:

This website's creation and hosting

Case design & manufacture

Keyboard design & manufacture

X16 Butterfly Logo design & implementation

Licensing Commodore BASIC & Kernel

"Just the BASICs" user guide

Packaging design & manufacture

BASIC screen visual design/logo...

I'm super excited as David's vision of his dream computer comes closer to fruition and am proud to be a small part of launching things to help that dream come true. I look forward to chatting with you all here!

Your friend in retro, Perifractic

visrealm · Post by **visrealm** » Tue May 19, 2020 11:33 pm

Doing a great job too.

Thanks for your work. It's very exciting!

Cheers

Troy

rje · Post by **rje** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:46 pm

^ What he said: thank you for your work here. I don't know how I can help, but I'll try to figure out something.

MMS · Post by **MMS** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:20 pm

Hello there!

It is a very exciting project, and everything I 've seen so far looks really great!

Congrats for the logo design, it feels somehow futuristic and retro at the same time!

The machine front design is unique, and the keyboard fits to that style.

The specs looks impressive. May even surpass the ZX Spectrum Next :-D (fight!!!)

Keep up the good work :-)

desertfish · Post by **desertfish** » Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:02 pm

That's a lot of stuff you're doing!! Wow!

I love your youtube channel

Perifractic · Post by **Perifractic** » Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:40 pm

37 minutes ago, desertfish said:

That's a lot of stuff you're doing!! Wow!

I love your youtube channel

Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot! ??

Matej · Post by **Matej** » Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:57 am

I can help You with 2D/3D CAD if You will do Commodore 128 like (I think best design of case) or cute small case/enclosure as Amiga 600. I mean "all in keyboard". I will use FreeCAD3D (https://www.freecadweb.org/) and Blender3D for renderings.

Perifractic · Post by **Perifractic** » Wed Sep 30, 2020 6:23 pm

I can help You with 2D/3D CAD if You will do Commodore 128 like (I think best design of case) or cute small case/enclosure as Amiga 600. I mean "all in keyboard". I will use FreeCAD3D (https://www.freecadweb.org/) and Blender3D for renderings.

Thank you for the offer. For the reasons outlined in the FAQ we will not be manufacturing a custom case and keyboard.

gavinhaslehurst · Post by **gavinhaslehurst** » Thu Jan 07, 2021 3:12 pm

Cheers Perifractic! Great work too.

I popped over here via your (and others) YouTube channel to see what all the fuss was about, and I'm glad I did. It's been wonderful to muck about with BASIC again! Also looking forward to getting stuck in to 6502 Assembler at some point. Check out my Mandelbrot demo if you get a chance. This was fun to do!

Perifractic · Post by **Perifractic** » Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:17 pm

Cheers Perifractic! Great work too.
I popped over here via your (and others) YouTube channel to see what all the fuss was about, and I'm glad I did. It's been wonderful to muck about with BASIC again! Also looking forward to getting stuck in to 6502 Assembler at some point. Check out my Mandelbrot demo if you get a chance. This was fun to do!

Thanks Gavin! Great work on the demo too! [emoji106][emoji973]️