Clint of LGR at #VCFMW shot with a GameBoy Camera. @lgr-yt.bsky.social

Tonight is the last night in my post-storm rental situation before shifting my life back into my fully repaired home. Spent all week moving back in and it’s gone fantastically well. I am so, so happy y’all 😃

One man's life is worth so much more than a retrospective Blue Sky "tweet". But I want to say something. More details coming on Saturday by those who were closest to this situation. I will absolutely miss you @thegamechasers and you won't be forgotten!

A more aerodynamic Clint at #VCFMW @lgr-yt.bsky.social

Wood makes any PC better! From @lgr-yt.bsky.social #vcfmidwest

Going to VCF Midwest this year? 👀 I hope to see you there! 💾 I'll be within a printer's throw of: @ronscompvids.bsky.social @maccy.me @ericsedge.com @actionretro.bsky.social @lgr-yt.bsky.social @adriansdigitalbasement.com & @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social 🎉 vcfmw.org Sept. 13-14, 2025 #VCFMidwest

LGR update vid because September 2025 is BUSY youtu.be/6Lmi_b0REW0 A brief update on the state of the channel and related life things. Hope to see a lot of you at VCF Midwest soon!

Blerb of power! youtu.be/cImJqqtnLHs I wanted a sweet-looking old school computer power station for my VCF Midwest 2025 setup and as soon as I saw this EPC/150 by SL Waber in the box I had to grab it. Let's clean it up, take it apart, and get its digital clock working again.

dashcams sure can capture amusing things when parked

Some sort of LGR live thing happening here at 8:30PM eastern youtube.com/live/2YBuKyt... I've got a whole lotta shareware floppy disks to write, label, print, and package up for Vintage Computer Festival Midwest... so that's what this is!

Gonna be on here soon! www.youtube.com/live/1bzaqG2...

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Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Nifty MIDI things on LGR Blerbs! youtu.be/T6mrVu67AdY Much as I enjoy the Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold card I use in my LGR Windows 98 PC, the memory expansion daughterboard is unobtanium. Until now! The Rhapsody 28MB clone by Bits und Bolts exists, so let's try it out with a bunch of large SF2 files.

Big thanks to @theflyingscotsman.bsky.social and @lgr-yt.bsky.social for helping me with this. youtu.be/m3k5K7BGw9E?...

Vortex86-based mini PCs have been on LGR before, but let's go back to the 2008 original! youtu.be/oZcmCQdSbAk The DMP eBox is built for legacy industrial use and natively runs DOS and Win9x! It's also inexpensive, selling for a fraction of what newer Vortex86 DX projects cost. So what's the catch?

Ever wondered what Asteroids or Berzerk taste like? Me neither. Let's find out anyway on LGR Blerbs! youtu.be/FHV0VxtlfGM The Atari Sauce Range of hot and BBQ sauce was too odd to ignore. So I bought each bottle and put 'em on chicken wings. Time for a taste test!

Segmented Blerb! youtu.be/syX5Z0-5ock Checking out the Triple McDigit, brand new turbo buttons+displays that fit into a drive bay slot! When I saw Serdashop selling these things I had to buy some. Then Serge over there sent me a few more on top of that, so let's check em out and see how they work!

You can't even buy a stereo like this anymore. Every day we stray further from God's light.

A bit of Y2K sound system appreciation on LGR! youtu.be/9kou7K93iEw This Sharp was my first "real" stereo as a teen and I recently found one still sealed in its box from the factory. So let's dive into this 200-watt beauty and its delightful silvery subwoofers — 25 years later!

well THIS is next level 💾👀

R.I.P. AOL dial-up internet. 📞🪦 help.aol.com/articles/dia...

Included in today's definitive re-release of Heretic + Hexen is a recreated soundtrack I have worked with id Software and Nightdive Studios for a year called, "Tome of Power". Live on Bandcamp and coming to streaming platforms tomorrow at midnight! Link: andrewhulshult.bandcamp.com/album/tome-o...

PortaBlerb! Anbernic sent over another handheld last week so I put it to use and have some thoughts youtu.be/t9atLB24NqA So here are my somewhat coherent opinions on the RG477M system, largely about its loud cooling fan and making an attempt to improve it.

This was way more interesting than you'd think a video about barcodes would be

Barcodes are one of my favorite pieces of technology,There’s so much thought that goes into making something work as seamlessly and as boring as a barcode If you wanna dig deep into the topic, the excellent(and out of print)book Punched Cards to Barcodes by Benjamin Nelson is an invaluable resource

BARCODES. youtu.be/ng-qtQbMC9w No one gives em a second thought anymore. Yet they were once cutting edge tech! Heck, computer magazines even had whole sections dedicated to UPC scanning & software. So I finally got a 1994 PC barcode reader kit and used it with some POS applications! ...and Duke 3D

oof, retro PC gore they really shouldn't have housed it in dorito chip material!

Welp. Here's an LGR video I didn't wanna make: youtu.be/YXFa1HD4PKs This is the 1989 Chaplet Halikan LA-30A, or pieces of it anyway! One of the earlier laptops to run a backlit LCD, 40MB hard disk, and two ISA slots all on battery power. And unfortunately it was destroyed. Can we save this rarity?

Another LGR travel vlog! This time visiting SEGE 2025 youtu.be/QDmGzxKnzlM Southeast Game Exchange has always been fun, but it has grown exponentially in recent years and is now one of the largest shows of its type in the area. So let's wander the event, visit a waterfall, a flea market, and more!

Thoughts in order: - oh cool - oh, that’s a bit pricey - oh no

Reviewing a bit of modern oddware on LGR! youtu.be/kEjMwuwjzwo I'm Back Film is a device that goes inside a 35mm camera and replaces the film, swapping it with a 20MP digital sensor. Is it worth $800 though? Let's set it up, test it with an old SLR, compare it to film, and see it it's worthwhile.

Making a VCD using Windows 98 on LGR Blerbs just because youtu.be/B8GlBZAb-ao After the recent Dazzle retrospective, I felt compelled to add a rewritable disc drive to the Megaluminum Monster PC and create a Video CD using Nero Burning ROM for the first time in like 20 years. Cuz VCDs were rad.

Rest in peace, PatmanQC. :(

New LGR is all about capturing video via... parallel printer port? Yeah 1997 was weird. youtu.be/hKif5gEV6kc The original Dazzle device is from the brief point in time where it actually made sense to put an MPEG-1 encoder inside a parallel port dongle. And it's surprisingly capable for what it is!

HEY SEVERAL PUBLISHERS, PICK UP ROMERO GAMES' PROJECT AND THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WILL LIKE YOU. MAYBE SOME YOUTUBER WILL MAKE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HOW YOU SAVED ONE OF HIS FAVORITE STUDIOS. JUST SAYING.

Let's go with another LGR Blerb! youtu.be/Dgsu4pkk-eA Felt inspired to use my PSP Go more lately, so I'm upgrading it with an M2 to MicroSD card adapter and flashing with permanent ARK-4 custom firmware to easily run emulators and whatever else. So yep — let's do that!

Woodgrain Blerb! youtu.be/eEFdEclTbSc Looking at the FREE* (or $50?) Sony CD-ROM Pak that was offered alongside certain 'Displays by Sony' CRT monitors in the late 90s. Mainly cuz it's in a wood storage box... But also came with a t-shirt, a calibration program, and Sid Meier's Civilization II!

To those asking if things are finally getting back to normal around here post-storm: I just bought a vintage computer for the first time in over a year.

Fresh LGR video! All about the Anbernic RG Slide youtu.be/CAflIvXxMk8 I've ignored most Android handheld retro emulation consoles, but this one stood out from the rest with its sliding mechanism and sizable 120Hz 4:3 screen! And compromises that make it my favorite new device I'll rarely ever use.

Really saddened over what Adventure Gamers has become. It was THE resource for adventure game news for almost 25 years. Seeing my first games reviewed there in the early 00s was the biggest thrill in the world. To see it turn into THIS is heartbreaking. Enshittification destroys everything.

Really, really sad to see Adventure Gamers go downhill - I guess the site was sold and now it’s filled with gambling and AI ads. They also removed author names from past articles, including @mattaukamp.bsky.social. Damn. Fucking shame.

MSI’s glorious Toy Story gaming PC will send you back to 1995 www.pcworld.com/article/2824...

been sick all week but finally feeling a bit more normal so I bought a 6ft tall metal chicken

The vintage computing gift that keeps on giving!

Perfect towels to go on an adventure

After 30 years of not giving it a chance… I finally sat down long enough to win a game of FreeCell.

It's Been 16 Years of LGR! ...now what? youtu.be/1gNoeCP1SCU Thinking back on how it's been, how it's been going, and how I hope it might go in the future. Especially the last part because things are changing — for the better, I hope! Also some home rebuild updates 8 months after the hurricane.

Pedro Pascal in Turbo Pascal