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LGR - A Collection of Apple II Computers
https://youtu.be/avYaKrL3YiYGreetings, folks! I wasn't planning on getting a video out this week but well, here we are. Still trudging through the moving and home renovation process, and part of that involves getting a lotta stuff out of storage and bringing it over to the new house. Which inspired the making of this quickly-assembled video! This is the first time I've had all of my Apple II machines out at the same time and I ended up ge...
LGR Wrap Up for Patrons - April 2022
https://youtu.be/2XLBC3nWCQkGreetings, $5+ patrons! Back again with another patron-exclusive LGR Wrap Up episode. Now in a new location with more echo! Free reverb effects, yaaaay.So! The general question topic for next month is: I dunno. Just ask whatever you feel like, it's a free-for-all month because why not. I'm feeling scattered, so let's scatter the questions as well and I'll try and answer them within reason. Take care out...
LGR Oddware - Plawa KeyStik
https://youtu.be/nvO_Wr5_uTQFresh Oddware! This time we've got the KeyStik (and Garage) from Plawa-feinwerktechnik, a contraption from the late 1990s that clips onto a keyboard's arrow keys and provides a little joystick. With magnets and springs! I've been itching to talk about one of these things for ages, ever since seeing vague low-res photos floating online of various versions of this device. And after I tried out a somewhat simi...
LGR - Setting up a Japanese Sony Vaio laptop
https://youtu.be/wPVIubVtdRYSo this one was pretty fun, I think! Unboxing and playing around with a Vaio PCG-777/BP that I imported from Japan, complete with all the software and other goodies that came with it from the factory. Hope you enjoy this episode on exploring elder electronics!A pretty simple episode entirely by design, as I'm currently knee-deep in new house things. I closed on the new place last Wenesday, woo! Haven't started ...
LGR Unboxing of Donations - April 2022
https://youtu.be/g0Q1T1IV-icGreetings, all! It's been about five months since we last went through the mail and unboxed stuff. So it was high time we did just that! Especially since I'm (hopefully) closing on a new house in a matter of days and my time has been wildly limited. This made for a nice straightforward video for the week while I work on other things in the background.And yeah, that means this is very likely the final unboxing v...
LGR Wrap Up for Patrons - March 2022
Greetings, $5+ patrons! I've returned with another backer-exclusive LGR Wrap Up episode. Seems these keep creeping up in length buuuut so it goes. Please enjoy at your own discretion, heh.https://youtu.be/YBvgh5q1CVYAnd yes a draft of this was posted earlier today as well, by mistake, with the wrong visibility settings. I'm sorry about that, but this version of the upload should be all good now! Guess that's what I get for typing out ...
WHOOPS
Visibility was set incorrectly on the last post that you may have mistakenly received an email about... so uh, I guess it's as a good a time as any to advertise that LGR Wrap Ups are now a thing for $5+patrons :PThey're videos of unedited and uncensored rambling lasting basically an hour or so about all sorts of topics, from the response to the previous month's videos, to the nitty gritty of YouTubing work, to questions from patrons, ...
LGR - Sassy's Green PC/Shuttle XS35GT
https://youtu.be/QYfwUzGo-yIHowdy, folks! Got another LGR computer retrospective/restoration-ish thing for your early viewing pleasure. This one is all about a nifty little PC that I found while thrifting some years back, known as the Sassy's Computers Green PC from 2011. Yeah it's a little mini PC running Windows, billed as a lower-power, eco-friendly desktop to the people of Asheville, North Carolina. Which is just down the road from me...
LGR - Hot Wheels: Crash!
https://youtu.be/NIFEXCGTPhgBack with another LGR late nineties PC game retrospective, woo! I needed a topic I could cover relatively quickly, being quite low on time this week due to a whole bunch of ongoing life things. All positive things, thankfully, but time-consuming things nonetheless. And I've been wanting to cover Crash! for like seven or eight years now so hey, why not now?Hope y'all enjoy! It's a really simple review for a ...
LGR Oddware - Timex Data Link
https://youtu.be/GCHHzw4s5W4TIME for another episode of LGR Oddware! How timely!This is the Timex DataLink Model 70, a mid-90s smartwatch of sorts that syncs data by gazing at your computer's CRT display. Yeah! No cables or wireless transceivers, instead it uses an optical sensor that reads data from Windows 3.1 using a series of flashing lines of light shown on your monitor. Really neat stuff I think. And NASA-approved!The thickness measurem...
LGR Wrap Up for Patrons - February 2022
Greetings, $5+ peeps! I'm back with another Patreon-exclusive Wrap Up episode. Even longer, more uncut, and more rambling than the last. And go figure that I somehow skipped over an entire video from February, haha. Totally forgot to talk about the Diamond Rio, whoops. At least there's plenty more ground we covered here so oh well.The general question topic for next time is: questions related to games, hobbies, and entertainment outside o...
LGR - Vendex HeadStart Turbo 888-XT
https://youtu.be/VhDmYhopMgAGreetings, all! Finally got this one done after working on it off and on since mid-January. It took a little longer to put this one together but that's largely because I kept finding interesting things to say about it, so hey. Not a bad thing in that respect.That being said, it's a rather straightforward vintage computer retrospective! The Vendex HeadStart is a lovely little turbo XT clone from 1987, a class of...
LGR - Computer Reset Revisited
https://youtu.be/K-ZZkZk9QRkI WENT BACK.Finally it's time to return to the Computer Reset warehouse in Texas and see how much has changed, what stuff remains, and experience one of their weekend events! My brother and I ended up filming over 400GB of footage when we visited back in January so it's been a bit of a process getting it all organized and edited, but three and a half weeks later here we are.And yep, they are indeed still doing ...
LGR - Cities Skylines: Airports Review
https://youtu.be/ROOyNiXZhcIOh hey, Cities Skylines is still a thing and it got another expansion! After nearly two years, jeez. Really thought they were done with releasing new packs like this but I guess not. And I'd almost be willing to bet on this being the final one, but we'll see!And yep, that's it for this one. The next video should be a follow-up to the Computer Reset warehouse video, either next week or the week after. There&...
LGR Wrap Up for Patrons - January 2022
https://youtu.be/5PDoNpT7ywEGreetings, $5+ supporters! So I'm bringing back LGR Wrap Ups as a Patreon-exclusive thing, or at least some weird, unscripted, uncensored, casual version of it. These will not be going public, it's just for y'all.So! Instead of simple Q&A videos, I decided why not combine that with monthly (probably) updates on the LGR channel and the whole realm of retro YouTubing that I find myself in? I can guarantee tha...
LGR - Diamond Rio PMP300 MP3 Player from 1998
https://youtu.be/UEME0IR6-TsMP3s!! In the late nineties there were few things more exciting in the world of music, computers, the internet, and general gadgetry. And the original 1998 Diamond Rio was one of the trailblazers that kicked off the whole portable digital audio player craze. It may not have been the very first, but it came close! If nothing else its impact was notable, being the first of its kind to be commercially successful in North ...
LGR - This Calculator Mouse Numpad USB Thing
https://youtu.be/IZghNXI1t7sAnyone seen images of this thing floating around online recently? I know I have, largely thanks to some of y'all sending me links! Yeah it's just one of those devices where as soon as you see it, the first thought is "Why?" followed by "I wonder if it's any good" and then if you're like me, "I have to have one." So I got one new old stock, straight from Japan! And here's the ...
LGR - Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
https://youtu.be/JHNI4Yc0oMASet phasers to frag, it's time for the first LGR retrospective/review thing of the year!After playing a little bit of Elite Force in my recent Three Weird Mice episode and seeing the response from viewers about it, I was seriously in the mood to replay this one for a video. And well, the story mode might not quite hold up as anything particularly special, but the multiplayer "Holomatch" mode is still top no...
LGR Oddware - The Twiddler
Happy 2022! Have an LGR doodly-doo.https://youtu.be/HhJGrATZCl0It was high time for another Oddware, and this one is all about twiddlin' around with the HandyKey Twiddler from 1992. It's a chording keyboard, it's a serial mouse, it's a motion-controlled input device. And it's even somewhat enjoyable to use, for the most part! Perhaps not something that I'd, uh... ever want to with any frequency, frankly. But I get what the...
LGR - Three (more) Weird Mice
Three weird mice! See how they run!https://youtu.be/10M3tlTgVTIChristmas is over! And I find myself at the editing desk once again. It's been a nice two-ish weeks off from working on LGR videos, and I'm easing my body and mind back into the swing of things with another silly video about three weird computer mice. The first time around was a lotta fun and went over rather well, so why not. This time certainly proved to be enjoyable for me ...
LGR - Outlaw Golf Holiday Golf
https://youtu.be/Z4EZEgN7ggs Greetings all! This might be the final video before Christmas, I'm not entirely sure yet. Depends on if I come up with anything else that I can put together real quick. Typically I take the week off leading up to Christmas, since it's a bunch of holiday get-togethers and my birthday is on the 20th. Turning 35 this year, woohoo.Anyway, hope you enjoy the seasonal shenanigans in Outlaw Golf! Or at least enjoy th...
Christmas LGR - 3D Lemmings Winterland
CHRISMAAASSSSShttps://youtu.be/VhDNEAgFmLc
LGR - The MiSTer Multisystem
https://youtu.be/qx45r-BRHxYHi there, folks! I'm back from the brief holiday trips and here we are with the next episode. This one's about the MiSTer Multisystem hardware expansion kit for users of the MiSTer Project. And it's more than just a swanky 3D printed case! The core appeal of the Multisystem is a professionally-built PCB that adds a ton of functionality and quality of life improvements to the main MiSTer experience.So now in...
LGR - The Wee Little weeCee PC, see?
https://youtu.be/USHvvSbYmJAGreetings, folks! Got a nifty LGR Thing here for you all about the weeCee, one of the coolest little hobby computer projects I’ve seen lately. It's small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and it’s a legit x86 PC capable of running MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/XP. And it plays well on a hardware level with all sorts of classic PC games and software, boasting real Sound Blaster Pro and Wave Blaster/GM compatibil...
LGR – SKYRIM
https://youtu.be/s22_Hz1nJ00Aw yeah, finally it's time for an LGR retrospective on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim! Annnnnd this game is just about to turn one decade old... A DECADE. Truly unbelievable to me, good lord. It really does seem like only yesterday that I was standing in line at the midnight launch for this thing, psyched outta my mind to dive back into the world of Tamriel. My how times flies.Hope y'all enjoy this one! It's b...
LGR - Unboxing Your Donations Nov. 2021
https://youtu.be/_0z4jj2ZIucWell hello everyone, and welcome to another Midweek Mega Mail Call ;)Yeah greetings and things! Just another big ol' Unboxing of LGR Donations Thing here, the final video like this for this year. (All but the outro shot, still gotta record that.) I've been working on other projects in the background while editing all this together this week and welp, it's right back to it for me as the work increases by the...
LGR - The Atari Portfolio
https://youtu.be/rQwJk8E_xKEFinally got this one finished! Been working on this off and on for over a month and it's nice to see it come together. So yeah, at long last it's Atari Portfolio time.And what a nifty little device it is, particularly for 1989. Arguably the first palmtop PC, with an Intel 80C88A processor inside running at 4.92MHz, 128 whole kilobytes of RAM, and a proper DOS operating system capable of running (some) PC softwa...
LGR - Unboxing a New In Box Xbox
https://youtu.be/hn3me6w_dE8Ooh, fresh Xbox! I may not be a huge console gaming nut, but the original Xbox always stood out in my mind. I mean, Microsoft made a game console that's practically a specialized Pentium III system crammed into a black plastic shell. It's neat, being full of desktop computer-like components, even runs an API based on DirectX under the hood.While I never owned one back in the day, I've had this new old stock...
LGR - Davis Weather Station for Windows 3.1
https://youtu.be/QP2eP9MlGxUGot another video here that's been in the works for a good while! This is the Davis Instruments Complete Weather Station from the 1990s, accompanied by the WeatherLink add-on hardware and software for Windows 3.1 PCs with a serial port. Wind! Rain! Graphs! FUN!Or I think it's fun at any rate, ha. As soon as I learned about this thing through an LGR viewer sending the kit over new old stock, I was captivated by ...
LGR - Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2021
https://youtu.be/Bqcze2Azn28EDIT: video is now final!Greetings, one and all! This is an early, mostly-complete edit of my video about the recent VCFMW event. The intro isn't complete, a bit at the end is blank since my brother's video isn't done yet, and there are several minor audiovisual issues to fix in-between. That's gonna take another day or two. So yep, figured I'd share what I have so far, which is like 98% complete!My...
