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LGR - Building the MIDI RackMountain

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 rolling it down a paved road like a doofus 😁

2021-01-14 05:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post

LGR - The IBM PC110 from 1995

https://youtu.be/D-v6kyEDCNo

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 here. This one's all about the IBM PC110, a Japan-exclusive 486 machine that's so absolutely tiny and...

LGR - WizardWorks Holiday Collection

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 publisher had lying around. This one's even got a cassette tape, ooh.

Have a nice Christmas and a ha...

LGR Unboxing December 2020

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 this video, it's something I'll be fixing in the final upload. Just randomly-placed sleigh bells playi...

LGR - Xmas Ducks 2000

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 got some fascinating changes, some rather excellent atmosphere... annnnnnd some really frustrating ...

LGR - Yamaha CBX-T3 "Hello! Music!" Pack

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 old school MIDI module! This time it's all about Yamaha's "Hello! Music!" bundle from late 1992/ear...

LGR - Building a 486 SBC DOS PC!

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 that you're looking to sit back and relax with another build video, cuz that's what we've got here. Nea...

LGR - The Sims 4 Snowy Escape Review

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 being a build video surrounding the 486 SBC that 2020-11-18 21:37:00 +0000 UTC View Post

LGR - The Packard Bell Corner Computer

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 those things I've been itching to cover for years: the Packard Bell Multimedia Corner Computer from 1...

LGR - Doom 3 Retrospective

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 seems like there's nothing left to say about it, but well, here I am saying things about it. Bizarre t...

LGR - Dell Inspiron 9100

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" part of desktop replacement, being that it has a full desktop Pentium 4 CPU inside, and even a bui...

LGR Oddware - NEC PC-FXGA DOS/V Game Accelerator Card

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. Yeah, kinda like the 3DO Blaster but even more obscure and even less desirable, haha. This is some ...

LGR - Checking out Crystal Caves HD!

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 exists and it's awesome.

The game should hopefully be released on October 15th from what I'm told...

LGR - Building a Pointy Pentium Pyramid PC

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 video. Just saying like "hey, I got this pyramid PC case, here's what it looks like" kind of thing. So I...

LGR - Unboxing Donations! Lots of 'em!

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 be a rather amusing build video involving a mixture of old and new hardware, if all goes according to...

LGR - TRS-80 Color Computer Retrospective

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, forty years later!

https://yout...

LGR eThrifts - Episode 1

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.

This whole concept is something I've wanted to try for a long time actually, going back to well be...

LGR - Cooler Master Musketeer 2 VU Meters

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 Cooler Master, something I learned about after getting the 2020-08-30 21:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post

LGR - Flight Simulator 2020 Review

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 simulator with a bright future indeed.

Hope you enjoy this one, and have a nice week!

LGR - Quantum3D Raven GPU from 1998

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 competition back in the day.

However, what makes it worth talking about is the software that it comes ...

LGR - Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0

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 psyched out of my mind for MSFS 2020, which comes out next Tuesday, so this seemed as good a time as any t...

New pledge currencies available! Euros (€), British Pounds (£) or U.S. Dollars ($)

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 paying the fees on my end.

This means that new folks will see my tiers priced in their local curren...

LGR - Building an IBM ThinkPad 701C Model

https://youtu.be/RZlqnA35Oqo

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 bit in terms of the plastics and overall end result in terms of the Butterfly mechanism. Still, it's ...

LGR - The Sims 4 Nifty Knitting Review

https://youtu.be/80iSIC13nVQ

This pack came out Tuesday afternoon. I have reviewed it.

MOVING ALONG.

LGR - Checkmate Amiga 1200 Update!

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 on a Thursday when this is scheduled to go up Friday -- tomorrow. I really prefer not to cut it this...

LGR - Hitachi CDR-1503S CD-ROM from 1987

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 were launched in '87 at just under $900. And for that you got a whopping 153 KBps sequential transf...

LGR Thrifts - Episode 45

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 footage recorded from before March this year, just not enough for a full episode. So I filled it out...

LGR - Yoot Tower/The Tower II

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 covered SimTower on LGR. Lovely.

So why am I covering it now? Because I needed a pick-me-up,...

LGR - Building a Checkmate Amiga 1200

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 still waiting on stuff to arrive that was ordered back in late March, early April. Among the many t...

LGR - Charity Auction IBM NetVista from RetroManCave

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 than three different projects go awry in depressingly irksome ways, which meant that all of a sudden ...