Greetings, $5+ patrons! Got a number of new folks on this tier since last time so: WELCOME.
The LGR wrap up/Q&A ramble for June is here and ready to consume at your leisure. I recorded this a few days ago so if you've posted a question since then, feel free to post it again under this one and we'll get to it next time.
And as always, questions of any kind for next month's vi...
2023-07-11 01:05:20 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-6AKe2pvsQ
This one's been a long time coming! For years I've been curious about the Diamond Trackstar series of cards from the 80s. And after a couple of pricey purchases and some items courteously on loan for this video, we've finally got a nice Oddware episode to show for it.
So let's take a look at the Diamond Trackstar cards! These are effectively Apple II comp...
2023-07-06 02:40:22 +0000 UTC View Post
IT IS FINISHED.
More or less. There are always tweaks, swaps, and upgrades to consider.
But yeah, the main build is complete with everything working as it should! Lovely to see so many ridiculous things all working together in odd harmony. I really love that Silverstone VFD now that I've used it, and it makes me wanna get a larger display along those lines to stick in a more mod...
2023-06-21 22:32:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Well this was inevitable! As soon as I saw these funky things online about a month ago I had to grab them. And of course, countless requests to cover them ensued as word spread around social media, tech news, enthusiast groups and so on. I know a number of others have covered them already since theirs arrived sooner, but once I received mine I found I still had things to say in a review. 2023-06-13 23:51:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings to all $5+ patrons! The channel wrap up/Q&A video for May is uploaded and available to consume at your convenience. A pretty standard month as far as LGR things go, but hey, can't complain!
As always, please leave your questions for next month's video in the Patreon comment section below this post. Have yourself a lovely SIXTH MONTH OF THE YEAR, and of course a huge ...
2023-06-07 20:51:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It's June! Already! Argh! Well here's a nifty thing that I've been meaning to cover since April, jeez.
Checking out the Orpheus 2, a new 16-bit ISA sound card! Could this be the best retro sound card for PCs at the moment? An argument can be made for that, I feel. All the excellent features of the Orpheus I, like Sound Blaster Pro compatibility, a real OPL3, and on-board intelligent m...
2023-06-05 22:07:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Now here's something truly unique.
Greetings, all! After somehow acquiring this bizarre bear computer at the end of last year I've finally gotten around to restoring it and building it back up. And boy is it a sight to behold.
Hope y'all have fun watching this one, as it's thanks to messages from a number of you that I even heard about this odd beast to begin with!
And now...
2023-05-25 00:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The name's Bond, J. Bond.
Got a simpler video this week! Taking a look at this J. Bond 386 PC, a system that I bought years ago for a whopping 99 cents. I never did make the video I planned to back then but in hindsight I'm glad I didn't. You don't find deals on vintage PCs like this anymore, unfortunately.
Also unfortunate is that this is another week where all my plan...
2023-05-18 16:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, a long-envisioned LGR project is coming together!
For years I've wanted to get one of these huge cases with a ton of 5.25" drive bays and fill every single one with absurd and odd drive bay devices, creating a sort of Oddware Tower of Power. An Oddware museum? The Antec Tower of Absurdities? Still don't know what to call this thing, heh. Either way it's great to see it happen...
2023-05-10 19:21:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings again, $5+ patrons! The channel wrap up/Q&A video for April is here and ready to partake of at your convenience. Not as busy of a month this time but that was more than fine by me. Took the camera setup outdoors this time for an end-of-day relaxing hangout in the woods, hope you find it enjoyable :)
As always, please leave any questions for next month's video in the Patr...
2023-05-10 00:21:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Fresh Oddware! And it’s another unusual 5.25” drive bay thing because these things are seemingly endless. This one in particular has been on my want-to-review list for years and I’m stoked to finally get to it.
The Musketeer 3 is a vacuum tube audio filter thing, intended to add “warmth” to your PC’s sound card output. Or something like that, probably. In the end who cares...
2023-04-25 23:04:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, all! Got another project here that I've had set aside for years, and finally put it together this past week after retrieving all of the components from deep storage.
It's a rebuild of the Altair 8800 Clone PC, with unused components from 2023-04-19 17:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So this is some silliness! What a thing to come back to after my time away at the MGC convention. This is one of those items I've had lying around for roughly a decade now, just sitting there on a bookshelf taunting me to cover it... and welp, for whatever reason this was the time!
In hindsight, I have no idea why I covered this haha. It did not need its own video. But it was fun none...
2023-04-11 19:54:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, $5+ patrons! The channel wrap up/Q&A video for March is complete and ready to ingest at your convenience. Quite a busy month again, what with five videos going up and attending a new convention in Wisconsin. Plus lots of rain throughout this one with some relaxing ASMR-like downtime at the end, hope ya find it pleasant :)
As always, do leave any questions for next month...
2023-04-07 19:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post
So yep, this is an experiment!
As mentioned in the last Patreon post, I was considering making a kind of compilation video for this coming week where I'll be away. But I wasn't entirely sold on just a straight-up clips show with no context. So I added context!
This is the complete saga of the LGR Woodgrain 486, from initial build to the latest updates, with new segments along th...
2023-03-29 04:42:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for the annual Sims 4 expansion pack! Yep. It is what it is.
Should be some interesting times in the coming years for life simulation games, with Project Rene, Paralives, and Life By You all in the works and set to compete against each other. I look forward to things finally changing up a bit! Not quite yet, but hey, something to look forward to.
And yeah, not sure...
2023-03-22 20:08:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings and welcome to my last week and a half! From the moment this beautiful piece of 1980s computery goodness arrived I've been knee deep in its musical features.
The IBM PC Music Feature has been on my most-want-to-review list for many years now. But I've been hoping to find one complete in box, and if you know anything about the rarity and value of the IMFC, well... that's a bi...
2023-03-15 20:31:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, $5+ patrons! The channel wrap up/Q&A video for February is complete and ready to enjoy at your convenience. It was an unexpectedly busy and abnormal month (in a good way!) so there's a little more covered than usual before we get to the questions. Fun tiiiiiimes.
As always, leave any questions for next month's video in the Patreon comment section below this pos...
2023-03-07 23:42:14 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLls9MpXcpA
Dang, it's been six months since I last did one of these episodes!
Yeah I needed a bit of a simpler project this week while I work on other things, and these Weird Computer Mouse videos tend to do the trick. Just a fun change of pace every so often, too. Especially when there are somewhat surprising results as we ended up with in this one.
...
2023-03-06 22:29:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings folks! It's been a busy as balls couple of weeks here. From randomly appearing on CNN, to making a brief trip to visit the National Videogame Museum, to presenting to students at a local coll...
2023-03-01 01:06:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Got a different one for y’all this time! This episode is all about Bryce 3D from 1997, a classic computer program letting you quickly create surreal ray traced imagery on your Mac or PC. It always makes me think of Trapper Keeper artwork from that specific era in the 90s, when school binders and folders were covered in shiny computer-generated shapes and weird sci-fi cities and things. So...
2023-02-15 23:08:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, $5+ patrons! The channel wrap up/Q&A video for January is here and ready to enjoy at your convenience. Some interesting stuff's been happening, sort of, so let's discuss!
As always, leave any questions for next month's video in the Patreon comment section below this post. Have a pleasant February and as always a huge thank you for your ongoing support :)
2023-02-08 16:27:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, folks! Today's been a strange one, ha. Woke up to that weird Chinese balloon flying overhead, got a pic of that while drinking my morning coffee. And the rest of the day was spent finishing this video up while the news went on about fighter jets and missiles off the coast... unusual times.
So anyway, here's an old computer! An AST Advantage 600-series, specifically the 622 ...
2023-02-05 03:51:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings! Got some fresh Oddware for y'all: the Cross CrossPad.
I received this several years ago now, but... while it seemed to be complete and in great shape externally? Internally it was a whole 'nother story. Both the pen and the tablet had fallen victim to some nasty battery corrosion after sitting in a closet for a couple decades before it was sent my way. So it went into the l...
2023-01-27 23:52:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Classic game review time! This one is Motocross Madness from 1998, one of my longstanding favorites from back in the day. Some nice, happy, comfy memories with this one. I hope it brings some of that same feeling to you as well, it's still such a neat game world to screw around in and enjoy. Good ol' out of bounds invisible cannons, hehe.
Now, I hardly cover games anymore because, one...
2023-01-17 01:58:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, all! Got a straightforward LGR retrospective on a classic machine right here. Nothing too wild or mind-blowing, just a neat old machine receiving some overdue cleaning and appreciation. A comfy place for me indeed.
I found this one pretty refreshing to put together in its simplicity, so I hope that y'all enjoy to a similar degree. It was also really darned relieving to get ...
2023-01-11 22:29:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, $5+ patrons! The channel wrap up/Q&A video for December is here and ready to enjoy at your convenience. Happy 2023!
As always, leave any questions for next month's video in the Patreon comment section below this post. Have a pleasant January and thanks for your ongoing support into the new year :)
2023-01-05 23:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 2023! I hope you had a nice and enjoyable new years. I basically just spent mine working, ha. And by that I mean continuing to sort through LGR storage and uncover items I've had set aside to cover for a while. Like the thing today!
What we've got here is the Creative Surround System from 1999, which is really nothing more than a metal framework thing for mounting rear channel s...
2023-01-05 05:17:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we are, the final LGR episode of 2022. Already! What a whirlwind of a year it's been, I can hardly believe we're hitting 2023...
And what a sendoff to the year we have here: the Metalfish Y2. It's a 3.5-gallon fish tank PC case that fits a Mini-ITX motherboard, a GPU, some fans and a little SSD, and that's about it. As soon as I saw it online it looked like prime LGR material. An...
2022-12-29 23:35:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Greetings $5+ patrons! The wrap up/Q&A video for November is here and ready for enjoyment at your convenience. Can't believe there's only one of these left for this year, 2023 will be here before we know it!
As always, leave any questions for next time in the Patreon comment section below this post. Have a good one :)
2022-12-15 19:56:54 +0000 UTC View Post