This guy has recently started making some pretty nice video game technology videos like this one:
and this one:
and this one:
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The 8-Bit Guy Thread
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New video, this time not really about games but computers in general:
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Now he's building a cat tower!? Youtube Decline is here. It's actually pretty hilarious.
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What are some other good videos/channels exploring old technology like that?
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Well I mean in a "how it's made" not just showing off stuff.
Oh, well I'm sure you can find more of those as well, can't remember any atm.
To me 8 bit was ZX Spectrum, and games like Elite, Lords of Midnight, Doomdark's Revenge, Fairlight, Tir Na Nog, Dun Darach and Heavy on the Magic. I'm actually more nostalgic about that time than I am about my Amiga and PC days from 1988 onwards, but I don't have the same urge to revisit that area and replay those games-
A new video about old MS-DOS laptops:
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Jesus why bother if you're gonna play using a terrible 90s laptop LCD.
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Thanks for this. There's a thesis essay from 2011 that I've read that got completely destroyed by this video, mostly for showing the glaring omissions in the thesis.
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The guy claims that there are no mid-range DOS laptops that have a sound blaster, and that the earliest ones with a sound blaster are Pentiums.
I own a 4/86 laptop with a monochrome display and a sound blaster compatible card. I didn't even know this was a rarity.
This time the videos deal with our beloved casette tape and floppy disc drives. As always the quality is top notch.
Now also featuring the guy from Lazy Game Reviews and other cameos.
Now also featuring the guy from Lazy Game Reviews and other cameos.
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7:13 He called Pauline Princess "Peach". Not only are they different characters, "Peach" would still have been Toadstool when the Vic 20 was in any way relevant. Looks like that version of DK is a crappy 2 board version like on Intellivision.
That last game looks like it must've been ported from a shitty Zee X Spectrum game based on those "graphics".
Someone's sure to get miffed over those repro labels (pat, ian, looking at you)
That last game looks like it must've been ported from a shitty Zee X Spectrum game based on those "graphics".
Someone's sure to get miffed over those repro labels (pat, ian, looking at you)
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This post intrigues me. I'm not sure if this is retro autism at its finest, or a post meant for another place than the RPG Codex.
But as a fellow retro reprobate (retrobate?) I enjoy any attention stuff like this gets, so... yay?
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Just get DOSBox, fools.
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A little of column A, a little of column B, probably
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Older but relevant vid:
A few games demonstrated on the Osborne 1.
A few games demonstrated on the Osborne 1.
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Can they run Crysis?
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