EDIT: Added another two minutes of footage starting at 43:37! I redid the Doom gameplay with a direct line out recording instead of microphone audio, and then followed that up with a section showing how much it weighs and how it can pack up into basically a piece of luggage. Complete with a portability demonstration with me rollin...
2021-01-14 05:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Greetings folks! And uh... happy 2021? Happy may not quite be the word I'm looking for, hmm. Eh. Yeeeaaaah.
Anyway.
I've been back to work for about a week now after taking a little time off during the holidays and the result is that I've got the year's first LGR video right h...
https://youtu.be/9FiMFQeK_Z0
One final video for the holidays. And for 2020! This one will go up sometime on Christmas morning, how special.
It's a pretty straightforward episode, where we're simply taking a look at one of the many themed software packages from the mid-90s filled with random junk that the publish...
https://youtu.be/cNh9g-M58Dc
One last donations unboxing for this year! Pretty self-explanatory, heh. Many thanks to everyone who contributed and also made offers to do so! It's always humbling the kinda stuff that gets offered up.
Oh and there's a random bit of music around 11 minutes into the current edit of th...
https://youtu.be/NEZ4ZkGjAQM
It's December! And that means Christmas Lazy Game Reviews, as is tradition. Also clones, there's always clones. And naturally, they're getting weirder.
As for the game itself, welp, it's another Lemmings clone at first glance. But then I played it and yeah, this one surprised me! It's...
https://youtu.be/l3iU8Fo3z1o
It's December! But it's not Christmas episode time quite yet. I haven't made up my mind on it but I may end up doing only one of those this year. There just isn't a whole lot of interesting holiday-related computer left stuff to cover at this point.
Soooooo, it's onto another...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4qJf50YSVk
EDIT: Added a couple more minutes of sound card experimentation, as well as a number of smaller edits and different camera angles here and there because I can't help myself. Happy Thanksgiving!
Greetings, all! I hope tha...
https://youtu.be/-3oJKIGx-Sk
Another expansion pack, another video saying it's probably not worth paying full price for. Heh. So it goes, man. Hope you find it enjoyable and/or useful regardless! At least it looks neat.
Already got the next two LGR videos well in the works, with the one for next week bei...
https://youtu.be/f1csOOMXANI
EDIT: Made a number of small tweaks and changes throughout the video, but also another section of me testing the remote control -- with DOOM! Because I had to. Starts at around 24 minutes in. 🤘
Hey y'all! Another week, another LGR thing. And this time it's one of t...
https://youtu.be/6vV1nYjNnRE
Hi again, folks! Been a busy couple weeks over here but I finally got this one finished. Not in time for Halloween like I'd hoped, but eh, it benefitted from the extra time.
Just a classic LGR retrospective taking a look back at Doom 3 from 2004. It's one of those games that almost se...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExotZHXJ2JM
Sup folks, hope your week has gone well! Got a video here about one of the items from the most recent round of donations: the Dell Inspiron 9100, a desktop replacement notebook computer from 2004 that cost $4800 when fully-loaded.
Emphasis on the "desktop...
https://youtu.be/JM04vH2et5A
Hi there, folks! It's another week and there's another fresh LGR episode for your viewing pleasure. LGR Oddware, no less!
This time it's the NEC PC-FXGA DOS/V, a so-called "Game Accelerator" from mid-90s Japan that effectively drops an entire PC-FX game console onto a 16-bit ISA card....
https://youtu.be/_WQTGCBZ1FM
Greetings, folks! Got a simple LGR vid for you this week while I continue working on a new Oddware episode, among other more involved things.
But yeah, in the meantime here's a look at the upcoming "HD remaster" of the classic DOS platformer from Apogee, Crystal Caves! Yeah, this exis...
https://youtu.be/RemzAqFoXrc
Ahh yet another video that evolved far beyond its original scope and turned into something completely unintentional. I hoped to have this finished a week ago but here we are, haha.
This all began as a silly impulse purchase that I figured would make for a fun, quick little Blerbs vide...
Hrm. Somehow this ended up being just over an hour long, making it the longest mail opening video so far. And that's after cutting it down from over three hours of footage! Welp. Hope you're in the mood for a whole buncha retro stuff in quick succession!
https://youtu.be/7YzwTRCDLWg
The next video will b...
It's September, and that means #SepTandy! A celebration of all things Tandy that's happening across a number of retro tech YouTube channels throughout the month. And my entry into the event is now ready for viewing: a retrospective look back at the original TRS-80 Color Computer, for...
2020-09-15 12:27:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for something a little different, yet familiar.
With the future of frequent thrifting rather up in the air at the moment, I decided to go ahead with this idea I've had for a while: electronic thrifting! Which is really just online shopping, ha. In particular, we're taking a look at the Shop Goodwill website, where stores from around the country list various things for auction.
https://youtu.be/zN9xAAAT3U8
Heh, yeah it's another one of those mid-2000s 5.25" drive bay devices with dancing VU meters and LED lighting. I can't help it, I'm drawn to these things like a moth to a flame.
This one is the Musketeer 2 from...
https://youtu.be/DsGyqezRaWM
Ahh, finally. This has been one of my most-anticipated releases of 2020, by far. And after spending a couple weeks completely immersed with both the closed beta and full launch versions, I am super excited to share my thoughts on this one. What a technical achievement, this is one heckuva si...
https://youtu.be/IxV_4Jmwq0s
Hiya folks, hope your week has gone all right!
Got a fresh LGR episode for you today, one that's all about the Quantum 3D Raven graphics card. It's a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee with a slick aesthetic and, well, not much more going for it. Pretty mediocre all-around, considering the competiti...
https://youtu.be/RaeAhxmPodM
Greetings, folks! Got a nice healthy LGR retrospective/review video thing this week. And it's all about the lovely MS Flight Sim 4.0 from 1989, along with its numerous expansions and add-on packs. Man, this has been a pleasure to put together, I love FS4.
Yeah I've been utterly psyche...
Seems that Patreon is rolling out a new feature to a number of creators, LGR included. As of now, everyone in the UK, EU, and U.S. can now pledge to the LGR Patreon in their local currency of Euros (€), British Pounds (£) or U.S. Dollars ($)! The idea is to help prevent you paying conversion fees from your bank or card when pledging in a currency that’s not your own. Instead, I'll be payin...
2020-08-07 16:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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Greetings, folks! Got a simpler, more laid back video here while I work on a handful of more involved projects. It's all about assembling a 65% scale model of the classic ThinkPad 701C -- with working TrackWrite keyboard!
Well, mostly working, heh. Seems these things vary a b...
https://youtu.be/80iSIC13nVQ
This pack came out Tuesday afternoon. I have reviewed it.
MOVING ALONG.
https://youtu.be/yb4lGwur_rQ
Greetings, folks! Got a follow-up video here to the Checkmate A1200 build I did a while back. 32 whole minutes worth, heh. "Oh this'll be a short video I can crank out in a couple days!..." Nope.
I genuinely assumed this wouldn't take so long to put together, but here we are ...
https://youtu.be/yBupNdYe08g
Greetings folks! I hope you've had a nice week. And I hope you're in the mood for some optical media being read amusingly slowly by an IBM PC, heh.
This video is all about the 1987 CD-ROM drive experience. In particular, the Hitachi CDR-1503S/Amdek Laserdrive-1, both of which...
https://youtu.be/dgtze2Wf4JY
New Thrifts?! YEP.
This is a bit of a different one in terms of how it all came together, chronologically. With all that's been going on I haven't been able to go thrifting very much at all, so there's very little footage here that's recent. But I did have a decent amount of ...
https://youtu.be/CqNECXCd9iU
Hi all! Hope you've had a pleasant enough week. And if not, perhaps a 20 minute LGR retrospective on the sequel to SimTower is able to lift your spirits somewhat.
Oh yes, this one's been on my agenda for... jeez, a decade now? Yeah it appears that it's been just over ten years since I...
https://youtu.be/XNI18uLhkt8
Quite the different thing this week! This project has been many months in the making, largely due to waiting on parts from around the world to arrive. Plus, having to source new components along the way since all sorts of stuff I initially planned to use didn't work out. In fact I'm stil...
https://youtu.be/pbrGuiCh_ug
Originally this video was just going to be a quick one for LGR Blerbs, but then reality occurred. So instead, it's an impromptu unscripted LGR Thing!
This past week I've had no less t...