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Greetings, 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...
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Greetings, $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 the...
2022-05-09 23:39:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Fresh 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...
2022-04-18 23:21:02 +0000 UTC View Post
So 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...
2022-04-11 20:17:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, 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 thi...
2022-04-04 22:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
And 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 wh...
2022-04-02 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostVisibility 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 :P
They'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, to generally vibing about life and whatnot...
Howdy, 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 ...
2022-03-21 21:41:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Back 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! I...
2022-03-14 20:46:31 +0000 UTC View Post
TIME 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...
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 of work. Take care and have a good one ð...
2022-03-07 20:34:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, 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...
2022-03-02 22:33:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I 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.
An...
2022-02-17 17:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh 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 ne...
2022-02-06 23:55:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, $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 my...
2022-02-01 22:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
MP3s!! 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 t...
2022-01-31 22:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Anyone 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 resulting video...
2022-01-27 19:11:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Set 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 no...
2022-01-11 20:21:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 2022! Have an LGR doodly-doo.
It 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 ...
2022-01-04 00:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Three weird mice! See how they run!
Christmas 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 arou...
2021-12-27 19:25:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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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
Hi 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 exp...
2021-11-30 22:17:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, 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...
2021-11-17 23:23:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Aw 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.
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2021-11-10 02:57:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Well 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 fo...
2021-11-04 15:16:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally 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...
2021-10-26 21:02:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Ooh, 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'v...
2021-10-14 03:58:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Got 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 ove...
2021-10-05 01:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: 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 ...
2021-09-25 22:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post