LGR - Unboxing Your Donations Nov. 2021

The Geforce 4 MX440 made me overly excited. It was the first graphics card I had in the first PC that was 'mine' rather than the family's. I was completely miss-sold it. I got it as part of a Packard Bell PC from PC World in the UK that my dad bought for me at great expense when I went to uni. I remember there were two PCs in the price range. One had a Geforce 3 Ti; the other had the MX440 and a faster CPU (both were Pentium 4s). The salesman said that as the model I bought had a faster CPU and a 'newer' GPU model, it was clearly the better choice. Of course, I learned later (when I was more familiar with PCs generally) that the MX440 was basically a re-badged Geforce 2... Still, it was faster than the TNT2 M64 in the family PC, so I was happy enough. The Geforce 3 Ti would definitely have been the better choice though.

Philip King

Oh man an mp3 player episode sounds great! I know Dankpods is an LGR fan, would be neat to see some kind of collaboration haha, he's covered early mp3 players as well.

DFawlt Uzr

I have a Cooler Master Wave Master case for my Y2K build and that 5.25 bezel would look perfect with it! That's an amazing find.

Geekenspiel saw a massive uplift in sales after being featured on Michael MJD's channel. I can imagine they'll be very busy once this video goes public 😅

I too have an Armada 7730mt, beware of the rechargeable CMOS battery that love to leak and could destroy the motherboard. Appart from that, those seems to be excellent retrogaming machines. I'm struggling to find recovery cds for mine but I hope that someday they will popup on archive.org

Just a quick tidbit for 48:10, that rolling flexible wood panel concept is known as tambour. I watch a lot of woodworking channels, and there's something so pleasingly retro about them!

Shino Puppy

I don't have the manual unfortunately, just that sheet of instructions shown in the video. The disk I'll back up though once I unseal it!

LGR

Would you be interested in adding the Roland CMU manual and disk image onto your list of things to upload to archive.org? They seem to be extremely rare, especially in comparison to the far-easier-to-find units themselves. Still kicking myself for missing one the only time in the past 2 years it showed up on ebay :D (I did manage to find just the interface card and unit (but no disk or manual) last week... as part of an entire Apple II Plus system, so you decide if that's a win or not I guess???) Thanks!

Pietro Gagliardi

The album was released on Floppy Disk a few months ago. It's a fully self-sufficient album which can play using included scripts on any DOS machine with an MPU-401 compatible soundcard specified in the BLASTER variable. There's also a FLAC recording which is available on Bandcamp/Spotify/etc which is included with the digital version, along with the midi files. All of the MIDI files include animations, though not all of them are very good (lol). The LGR Edition is a special version that I did just for Clint :)

Skoddie

Hey, I still haven't had the time (and honestly plain forgot) to send the thing I told I'd send.. two years ago. Bit embarrassing... Anyway, I am working on new games so I might just send them all at once when they're done :D

Akselmo

I want to make sure I understand what 'Autum Altair' gave you - they provided you with their release of 'Echoes on Stone Walls' which is a bunch of .MID that sound nice on a Roland Sound Canvas *AND* a custom version of canyon.mid that has snazzy graphics? Am I understanding that it's a unique file just for you (sweet gift!). My only general midi unit is a Roland Sound Canvas SC-88ST with no screen to see it, but I'm tempted by the disk album nonetheless.

I made myself two units of Weecee over last summer after being enamoured with Rasteri's project videos . It was an absolute adventure (and budget tearing at over 1k$ in equipment, parts and chips) in seriously increasing my soldering skills + going through the nerve wracking process of parts hunting. It's a genuinely awesome (and expensive) gift you got - a veritable tour de force in custom sound card design on top of a masterclass in miniaturisation - all just because the PC-104 was... "too big", lol. I use my machines every week and I can easily transport it to and from work where I can sneek in a few minutes of dos game time. It pairs extremely well with the 8 inch Eyoyo lcd monitor I got from aliexpress.

You should absolutely come to Free Geek Twin Cities!

The Sharp PC reminds me of the Compaq Portable III

Eric Siegel

I may have mentioned this here before, but every time I see a PSP, I think of my friend who worked at a company that poured their blood, sweat, and tears into a totally unique PSP game, only to have it kinda flop, mostly because the system was notoriously easy to run pirated games on. How easy? I think they sold more PSPs than games.

John Covil

I upgraded my V770 to an MX440 back in the day! Didn't think I would see those two cards together again.

moosemaimer

Will the Sharp run the Duke. ;)

SuperTekBoy

I /probably/ have stuff I could send you, but I don't know if it's anything you'd want/need...

Eric Siegel

Now the tilt on that SHARP... What a beautiful machine! Can't wait to see both a restore and review style video on that one!

Tossabaddle

We need to donate a bigger house to LGR. :)

SuperTekBoy

Haha wow, that is a mountain of stuff! There's some cool stuff in there, for sure. Particularly enjoy the CompUSA cosplay.

Corey Ruth

I wonder if at this point your ability to go "Ah, I have the perfect thing for this" degrades, due to the sheer amount of things you have had go through your hands these years, and hopefully years to come. Like, for instance, that floppy controller sent to you by Shelby.

Jan-Marten de Boer

I really love those big floppy disks :)

Uncleawesome

What a great selection, just watched it through with the cat. Now you need a wood grain TARDIS to store it all. *final video footage to go here*

Matt Tester

Awesome to hear that, thank you!

LGR

Clint you're the only person on YT that I look forward to unboxing videos. I love the backstories and comments, makes it much more personal.

MoultrieGeeks

Nah, I wish though! Albertus said he sent me the empty box so that "if you one day get a V56K you’ll have a home for it." Maybe someday :)

LGR

So about that Voodoo 5 6000 - you may want to check what's inside there.. I doubt that, but... who knows... https://custompc.raspberrypi.com/articles/retro-tech-3dfx-voodoo-5-6000-recreated

aquaz

Aw yeah, hope you enjoy 👍

LGR

Yes!! A long LGR video after a long day at work, perfect. Feet up, coffee on...happy place :)

It freakin' works

LGR

I understood that reference

aquaz

Yes, thank you again! I'm actually setting up my SC-55 to try it out this weekend

LGR

Always enjoy the heck out of these Clint, and I'm glad to see that my disk made it safe and sound. Hope you enjoy the surprises :)

Skoddie

Couldn't resist, I don't miss a single episode of his

LGR

Indeed! Even years in advance sometimes with as long as it takes to get to things, ha

LGR

Thanks, Mat! That was a lotta fun to do this year

LGR

I appreciate the nod to Adrian's Digital Basement in the description here.

Headset Guy

LOVE that CompUSA cosplay Clint! Brilliant!

Mat Cooper

I love how these unboxing videos tend to be a preview of things to come

Hernando Heilbron