Finally back from the Chicago trip! Lots of driving to and from NC, but it was well worth it. I also spent several vacation days after the show to take in the sights, sounds, and smells of downtown proper. Always a fun time, hehe. Many Chicago...
2021-09-21 14:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings. So! Here's a video that exists.
It's been a weird weekend, man. Not long after I returned from the funeral mentioned in the last post, I jumped on this project – if only because it provided an easy and obvious distraction. R...
2021-09-07 05:20:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings! I've put together another LGR retrospective video thing, this time focused on Broderbund's Print Shop Deluxe for Windows 3.1 – mostly, heh. It's less about detailed facts and product history and more about my own experiences with ...
2021-09-02 18:50:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Fresh LGR episode! This one isn't as "WHOA" of a product as the things seen in the last two videos I've posted, but I find it quite exciting regardless. Here we've got a Creative Sound Blaster Discovery CD New Edition bundle from 1995 -- n...
2021-08-26 20:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for another episode of Oddware! And this one you might've seen online before, if you frequent the same retro subcommunities or follow the same social media accounts I do.
This is the CKS-05V from 1997, a 5-inch amber monochrome VGA ...
2021-08-17 22:09:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, folks! Here's a project I've had going in the background pretty much all year at this point. And finally, after importing all the right parts and peripherals I needed about a month ago, I was able to start assembling a video. So her...
2021-08-10 02:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Well then, seems it's been a while since I did one of these. The last Sims pack I covered was back in 2020 – 8 months ago now! Can you believe there have been seven additional content packs since then that I haven't covered? Yeeeeaa...
2021-07-29 21:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
THRIFTS.
I didn't have quite as much footage as I wanted to for this one, so I ended up taking a bit of a detour last weekend and dropped by a local event. And well, why not roll it up into a Thrifts episode, I thought!
Hope y'all ...
2021-07-19 18:40:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Well now, this doesn't happen every day! Most of the time when I make an off-hand comment in a video wishing that a ridiculous piece of software existed, well. That's that, it's nothing more than a silly wish for a ridiculous piece of software...
2021-07-13 15:11:40 +0000 UTC View Post
https://youtu.be/DfosmOqPO4I
Once again a whole bunch of awesomeness showed up in the LGR mailbox. Let's open it all up and check things out!
This is another one of those weeks where I've had multiple la...
An obscure DOS game retrospective? Dang, it's been a while.
Let's take a look at Iron Assault from 1995 by Graffiti, the same Milan-based developers as the Screamer series of games! Compared to contemporary mech games like M...
2021-06-27 19:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post
https://youtu.be/mpayqVGmKyo
Now this right here has been near the top of my "want to review" list for YEARS, ever since seeing it make an appearance in an episode of Computer Chronicles from ...
https://youtu.be/9yT9KPQqBtE
Here's the first draft of a new LGR build video! This time it's a 1997-era system running the AMD K6-166 Socket 7 processor. And of course, it's paired with a 3dfx Voodoo card, a wavetable-equipped sound card, and the venerable Windows 95. Lo...
UTGOYTE, LET'S GOOOOO
https://youtu.be/XRF06DpQE0c
Not much more to say really. It's one of my all-time favorite games and an absolute classic. Hard to believe it's 22 years old now, jeez.
Videos like this are often a real treat to put together and this was...
FISH TANK.
https://youtu.be/0c7EN2Dolis
Haha, yeah it's this thing. If you saw the most recent donations unboxing video then you knew this was coming soon! This video is a simpler episode while I work on more involved projects, but I still think it's a w...
Greetings all! Hope you've had a good week or two. I've been working round the clock on the latest episode since the moment the last video went up here on Patreon, ha.
Annoying to not have a video out last week, but I really think this one was worth the extra time. It's a good ol' LGR Retrospective thing all about the Cybiko from the year...
https://youtu.be/kyI6KDU96zA
Well this is a rare treat! Thanks to this generous loan from an LGR patron, we've all got the opportunity to enjoy a new old stock IBM ThinkPad from 1997.
Apparently ...
https://youtu.be/18W_LBNg2_8
Greetings, and it's time for another early 3D accelerator thing on LGR!
This episode is all about the Creative Labs 3D Blaster VLB from late 1995, one of the earlier attempts at a 3D graphics acceleration standard for PCs. And specific...
More LGR Oddware! Because the retro oddness genuinely never ends.
https://youtu.be/Mf39mEPUuJA
This one's all about the DSP Solutions Digispeech Plus, a Sound Blaster-compatible sound device for DOS and Windows PCs that connects via the parallel port. Yeah! It doe...
Greetings folks! Time for the first mail call video of the year, and this one's a big one. Longest one yet actually, wow.
https://youtu.be/UBXZjA_hi6Q
It's also one of those weeks where nothing else I've been working on has come together, so that's... fun. A bigge...
https://youtu.be/7FgKWSirUuQ
Greetings, folks! I've got quite the special piece of vintage computing equipment to cover this time, one of those projects that's been on the table for the better part of a year now.
This LGR thing is all about the IBM Model 7532 Indu...
https://youtu.be/IHwRzrywobA
Dang, it's been a while!
Finally got together enough footage for a nice, full episode of Thrifts. I've been visiting stores here and there this whole time, but nowhere near as often as I used to. And even then, it's been pretty slim pi...
https://youtu.be/U0vm-BOKzlI
Time for a long-postponed LGR thing!
This one's all about Fujitsu's Fin Fin, a (sort of) voice-controlled virtual pet for Windows PCs from 1996. Specifically this is the US Deluxe Edition from 1997, which came packed with a plastic bir...
https://youtu.be/d60V9yAPE_s
Greetings! I've got kind of a simpler LGR thing this time just for a bit of fun: saving and loading data on reel to reel tapes!
This uses a DOS program called KCS, the line in and out of a sound card, and any just about any tape record...
https://youtu.be/e1pehz1hNtk
Greetings folks! Didn't quite get this one finished in time to go up on Friday, but here it is for your viewing pleasure today. I suppose it'll end up being March's first public video instead. And what a video topic it is, ahh the early 2000...
https://youtu.be/pycArRS0w6k
Aw yeah, its time for a classic LGR computer game retrospective. This one's all about Need For Speed II from 1997, along with the Special Edition presented in all its 3dfx Glide mode glory. I had a whole lot of fun putting this one t...
EDIT: Had an issue with the first upload. There's a new one linked now!
https://youtu.be/o7W6hv4kcvg
"Nobody registers WinRAR." Or so goes the saying. So let's register WinRAR!
Yeah I've had this idea kick...
https://youtu.be/t3SPe7hv-DA
Ahh, now this is the good stuff.
Greetings folks, and allow me to introduce a video that I've been enthusiastically craving to make ever since LGR first began. And thanks to a unit on loan it's finally happened!
This is...
Greetings folks! After some unforeseen delays I've got a rather long-awaited video for y'all: it's time to talk about my main synthesizer setup. ALL OF IT.
https://youtu.be/UgNqzbcr2Pw
Well, maybe not absolutely everything but a whole lotta stuff is touched on her...
https://youtu.be/EfoPRZURqHk
New Oddware episode! I was aiming for around 20 minutes in length for this one but eh, I had things to say so it ended up being longer. And it's all about the Hewlett-Packard Photosmart Mobile Camera for Windows Mobile PDAs, which is a 1.3 me...