Opening Stuff You Sent Me! September 2017

Vintage computer hardware, oddware, PC games, electronics, and just lots of neat stuff. Fantastic as always, thank you to everyone :)
Background music is "Uptown Bossa" by Johan Hynynen.

[@eyescovered]

Can't believe the Viagra mouse comes with a floppy disk....

[@TheGamingTree]

I know right shouldn't it be a hard disk

[@LGR]

It's a hard disk when you use the mouse.

[@eyescovered]

+Lazy Game Reviews Just don't use it for more than 4 hours at a time, amiright?

[@lincolnnoronha4128]

Hard drive

[@eviloatmeal]

Wiktionary suggests this might be a South Africa thing, rather than Australia. Either way, color me surprised that this could be a real term used by people somewhere.

[@TimGn]

We need to fund an LGR museum complete with backing up all magnetic media to solid state. Everything Clint has needs to be kept safe and running for future generations.

[@TimGn]

This went from zero to pizzagate real fast...

[@alexmaley1810]

Amen Brutha

[@moses4188]

Maybe some "LGRpedia" would be good where others could contribute also...

[@chrissteele196]

So much this

[@icecold1805]

what we need to finance is an LGR transporation service. Cuz seriously this retards at FedEx or whatever it's used break like 90% of the stuff he receives. It's incredible the incompetence.

[@elneutrino90]

Clint I just wanted to say that I love your channel, you're keeping my love for computer science and computers alive, thanks for all the entertainment.

[@LGR]

Thank you!

[@IanThatMetalBassist]

Your videos are like the best form of video therapy, Clint

[@mikekz4489]

Ian He has such a soothing voice.

[@KentishZombie]

"People were dying because they were scrolling too much" ahhaa

[@dexiPL]

I love how *Lazy Game Review* is excited for anything he receives. It's like Christmas gifts: even if you you don't want something, you are happy that someone thought about giving you a gift. I really appreciate that.

[@cacomeat7385]

A 35 minute video of Clint unboxing stuff? Hell yea

[@rayj.2950]

I started working with older machines when I was 9, I am now 13 and I work with much more modern machines and your channel inspired me to build my own intimate win 98 pc

[@indeimaus]

what the heck this is so much stuff

[@facefister69]

You should open up a PO box so we can send you all of our macaroni art.

[@hamblok0]

LGR just got them sugar daddies on fleek

[@XxStonedKillerxX]

when you have almost 700k subs... you're going to get some shit.

[@hermannballesterosv]

Send the Apple presentation system to David @The8bitguy

[@hoangtran4736]

it's double of the usual amount.

[@cjwarnke8213]

These videos of old hardware and software made me think of a project for photography class, getting old hardware and recreating the advertising from the era

[@GuppyCzar]

Soon these will be in movie length format as Netflix originals. Canadian versions of those INTV games, thus the french/english names on the front of the gatefolds.

[@charlesjoelespinosa3249]

I am an amateur on computers but damn I enjoy watching all those stuff. Great videos, dude!

[@BeyondTheScanlines]

Damn. That ZX81 USA is a lovely, lovely find. I didn't know Sinclair actually released the original machine stateside - there's something about the Sinclair branding on it which looks much nicer than what I've seen of the Timex stuff.

[@WhileTrueCode]

Is the USA model rare? I have one exactly the same that my dad gave me incl. the USA branded 16k ram pack

[@Pancreaticdefect]

Not too rare. Worth about 100-ish dollars depending on condition and completeness.

[@nullcircuit]

DUDE. I Played the Ignition Shareware as a kid FOR HOURS among a bunch of other shareware games my dad and I found back on Hotgames.com in the days of 56K. I've been searching for this game for YEARS ever since I first plated. My childhood feels complete. I always mixed up the Lightning bolts on the boost for the powerups in Re-Volt. God I cannot tell you how happy I am right now. This is seriously one of my all time favorite youtube channels PERIOD

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

I never expected to enjoy watching people unbox things, but you really do make it interesting

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

CrAzYgIrL Lol, my fiance and I had this exact conversation as we started today's video 😂

[@Abdulla79]

I really love it when people send you small computers or electronic organizers, i love these devices, spent so much time looking at their ads or web pages, never have a chance to buy any of them .. Microsoft Works, i don't have any idea why i love it so much! thank you Clint, always enjoy these videos for random stuff :-)

[@vwestlife]

The "Ultra" laptop was probably made by Sager. Even to this day they make laptops for retailers to put any brand name they want on them -- the laptop equivalent of white-box PCs.

[@Wyrdwad]

These episodes are far more entertaining to watch than they have any right to be, and I think it's strictly because your reactions are just SO ANIMATED. You're like a kid on Christmas morning with every single item, and your enthusiasm is ridiculously infectious. ;)

[@pkaulf]

I used to have one of those Dell Trinitrons. Reluctantly had to abandon it when I moved out of my parents' house. It had fantastically high refresh rates at lower resolutions - playing Half Life at 120hz was something else.

[@AndrewTyler]

"the windows maze screensaver will never be replaced." I feel you so hard man. I've been repping that on all my machines since my old Compaq Presario frankenbuild from 2000. The file actually resides on all my recovery disks as well.

[@SamKrepps]

We used a RadioSHARK the whole way through college for archiving our college FM at West Chester University in PA!

[@csukosd]

I had two of those monitors back in the day. Amazing picture quality.

[@fryersoncaptain]

8:32 Constant Comment is my go-to tea at work. Love that stuff!

[@kerryedavis]

"It's awful." - Marvin (smells good, tastes terrible, cannot be had with milk.)

[@Dracolix]

Great time to see another LGR video! I happened to get a shadow box during ConBravo, and picked up their card as well. I got the large Bubble Bobble shadow box, going to a family member as a gift. Since the memories of arcades and such, are a rather enjoyable time before all the stress of today.

[@marcsvenson7255]

Wow I'm early today! I love you LGR. I have been watching for 3 years now and I watch your videos every day they come out. Thank you for making these videos, they always make my day better!

[@LGR]

I'm glad to hear it!

[@TheFlowerQueen]

MUSIC ACE!!! I played that program in elementary school in music class. I'd rush through the assigned exercises so I could get to the notepad portion and wrote my own music. Yay nostalgia!

[@PSVIEWR]

You could call this series I Got Mail.

[@tiagoisidro7720]

PSVIEWR Clever!

[@theeduummpp]

PSVIEWR IGM

[@AlexCoppertone]

AH!~ that Man-O-War book! i loved that book as a kid! amazing detail and awesome facts. just a great book.

[@quadpictures]

That Duke impression was pretty good though

[@romajimamulo]

quadpictures he's very good at it

[@woohan8741]

That's not an impression, Duke Nukem actually lives with LGR.

[@Pancreaticdefect]

I love the old Polaroid cameras. The most interesting feature of them in my opinion is that little speaker looking doodad on the front. It's actually a sonar emitter that the camera used to auto-focus.

[@ivybixler1717]

Does the Viagra floppy disc turn into a hard disk when you stick it in.

[@adriankwok1406]

it probably becomes a pretty solid state drive

[@timmer919hep]

I don't know why I enjoy these box opening videos so much, but I really enjoy them...

[@timmer919hep]

I LOVE that duck hunt artwork! Oh man, I want some of that art now...

[@ZXGuesser]

The ZX Printer is not a thermal printer, it instead uses a high voltage spark to essentially burn spots on the aluminium coated paper. Sadly the special rubber belt that carries the "printing" styli degrades over time and if yours hasn't already disintegrated into several bits it probably will the first time you try to print anything. There's a guy hoping to get new belts manufactured in China and he's already managed to get new Spectrum keyboard mats and injection moulded cases made so there's at least a non zero chance that belts might not be unobtanium forever.

[@JeffDeWitt]

I had what looked like that exact same printer and mine WAS a thermal printer. Annoying thing about what was printed out is that it faded after a while.

[@douro20]

Still a rather clever design, and it's actually one of the better super-cheap printer designs of the early '80s.

[@JAWS1376]

It took me 2 years to find my first video card I ever bought. Hercules GF 2 MX sealed in box. it's crazy people sending you all this stuff. if you ever run out of room remember there are other geeks out there that love to collect!

[@kbhasi]

0:53 That kind of handwriting makes me wonder if whoever sent that is a cartoonist and/or comic illustrator. 1:26 Yay... maybe not, for a font that looks like Comic Sans but I'm pretty sure it isn't. 3:15 The link if anyone doesn't want to manually type it: kzbin.info 5:14 "Focus Enhancements" who had also made similar stuff for PCs of the time 7:02 I wonder if that works as a standard MIDI device... 11:24 I've heard of the Yahoo Internet Keyboard, but a Yahoo mouse?!? 12:04 Whatever that is, if it has one of those rechargeable backup batteries, hopefully it has been removed. 13:32 16:35 Dang. It looks to me like those "evidence" bags are probably purchased from some store that sells gag gifts and/or props 22:19 Whoa! Seeing that kind of styling makes me wonder if he has a page on DeviantArt. (Yes, he does! nuclearjackal.deviantart.com ) 30:05 Ooh, Windows 3.0! 34:47 Those were part of the sampler NuclearJackal (from earlier on at 22:19) included. Here are DeviantArt links to the 2 visible pieces, because I can: (He does actually sell those as prints on his DeviantArt account!) nuclearjackal.deviantart.com/art/Floating-Islands-584180431 nuclearjackal.deviantart.com/art/Inverse-627959082

[@sophyx9]

Wow thanks for the links

[@lindholmaren]

in the very first timestamp the text appears to be printed (I looked and felt the letter S looked a bit odd and sure enough they were all pretty much identical)

[@OdaSwifteye]

Nice! Lets show him some love!

[@catlover10192]

11:48 is more akin to my handwriting, except mine is significantly worse.

[@freakishuproar1168]

@ catlover10192: Bet my handwriting is worse ;p But joking aside, don't worry about it my friend. We are futuristic computer people who have no need for practical writing skills. :3

[@dash1dash2]

OMG THE TRINITRON. That was the screen of my youth. I had the 17" version. Remember when my dad brought it from work, I felt like I hit a jackpot lol.

[@linksbro1]

10:23 I actually met the guy who makes those at ConBravo. Really cool dude.

[@UltromanTheTacoman]

22:21 I'm really digging this guy's art style. There're a lot of subtle touches that make the drawings come alive. Especially his own avatar.

[@Chezne]

Sheesh I feel like you could just have an unboxing channel at this rate.

[@iamvonimmel]

LGR Unboxing

[@TigerBearCatBrandon]

Awesome video, and inspiring. I collected a lot of these sort of things when I had a larger place. I had a 90s car phone, a few cool red or blue chip video cards, and a couple of classic laptops. I got donations too ! There were so many cool and zany things floating around computer stores back then, and old computer stuff is a nostalgic category which is under-covered. You rule !!

[@tehkill3r]

holy shit an intellivision, i played on one of those as a kid before i got a NES.

[@djrommybalibalita5747]

omg! literally a gold mine of classic stuff. im just in awe

[@drhoads08]

Holy shit dude... You are going to have to open a museum with all this crap!!

[@othername4365]

drhoads08 i reaaaaally hope he has already written his will . He can donate them to some museum

[@CarnorJast1138]

Ooooohhh....seeing that Intellivision brought back so many memories for me of the very early 80's! I had one, with a ton of games, and seeing one of the classic consoles gave me the warm fuzzies! If there is one console I would LOVE to own again, with games and in good shape it would be an Intellivision!!!

[@aberratic]

You made me build a Pentium 2 custom rig. I got a super awesome motherboard too! It was really fun.

[@dickkickem]

Loli Posterior Nice name lmao

[@strictlynineties]

Loli Posterior What motherboard did you go with?

[@Serenova]

I know i'm like.... 4 years late to commenting on this video, but the package you got from Dustin with the red trapper keeper and the ZX81USA made my ears perk up because I'm FROM Nashua NH - and good on you for saying that right the first try! I don't remember there being a Sinclair being in Nashua, but given it looks like that original purchase order was printed on a dot matrix printer (and it's from the 80s) that doens't surprise me. Alas I wasn't even born when the RAM adapter was purchased in 1983! XD However my mom worked at DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) in Nashua for over a decade - I have fond memories of that place! The server room in her building was an entire FLOOR - very cool to see as a kid.

[@TekMerc]

those trinitron monitors were reall y good.

[@mapesdhs597]

I kept using SGI/HP/Dell models (with my SGIs, and later PCs) until I could finally buy an IPS flat panel that didn't suck (HP LP2475W, check the old review at www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/hp-lp2475w-24in-h-ips-display), though it still bugged me to lose the 2048x1536 res of the CRTs. One thing though, trying to move a Sony FW900 24" SuperWide (fantastic monitor, used with the SGI Onyx2 I was in charge of) up two flights of stairs on my own was a really stupid idea. :D Put my back out, off work for a week and had to take slightly hallucinatory pain killers for a month... :} Here's an amusing reference: imgur.com/a/UDZFL#0 and specs (note the weight; what was I thinking??): www.cnet.com/products/sony-gdm-fw900/specs/

[@promasian9090]

I don't think I've heard anything nerdier than "The calculator wars of 1980's," and I love it!

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

Clint, you need a team of like-minded individuals to help you sort through all that stuff! They can document and organize the incoming treasures, freeing up valuable time for whatever you want to do! Hire a small staff already and begin the LGR Empire!

[@mapesdhs597]

Wouldn't it be great if there was an LGR Museum? And then a chain of them worldwide? Clint Industries, the archive of geek and tech. 8) LGR Expo! Who'd bother with E3? I'm sure a vintage tech show would be far more popular.

[@laura-lydia7610]

pizza frenzy is my childhood. and now i've got the music stuck in my head. thanks.

[@DudokX]

Duck game is really good! Best played with 3 friends

[@crzces7500]

I had to stop at 1:49 and type this b4 I spaced it out bc of all the other goodness you get on “opening day”. That Yamaha daughter board was the brains of early mainstream *STUDIO* music using PC’s. After they got everything on reel to reel, then did the initial tuning, HUGE studios like Normandy just outside Boston where bands like Aerosmith, New Kids on the Block, along with a plethora of others would slap the music onto a .dat disk, and do the final cuts with what is an incredibly basic mixer by today’s standard, but back then, that daughter board was king, and had an outrageous price to match. I didn’t look up the model yet, but I’m guessing it’s from the early 90’s-late 90’s, and though the model number changed, nothing on the board did, just software improvements. In 1991 I was at a studio named “Danger Studios” to record vocals for a friend, and they were just installing one that arrived earlier in the day, with a whopping price tag of $1599.99. Heh, that board is a legend.

[@m4tr1xh4xk3r]

The ergonomics of that keyboard..

[@Gartral]

/what/ ergonomics? seriously that thing was a wrist killer, I picked one up dirt cheap, open, because coffee killed my previous cheapo kb, the 3 story drop killed the acer as I gleefully threw it to the parking lot.

[@Brunnen_Gee]

Delta Force Land Warrior! That was the first multiplayer PC game I ever played. I used to play it against a roommate I had in the barracks while I was in the navy, across a null modem cable.

[@BdR76]

6:46 a SID card from *Bron* from the Netherlands, could that be *Bas Bron* ? The music producer famous for using SID in his electronic music?

[@mac5er]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpS6fWtvm8-Zi7c

[@toaster4634]

That Dell looks a lot like my Sony G500. Those G series Sony displays were absolutely phenomenal. I hope the Dell version you received survived the trip!

[@darrennorniron]

I love these videos. As always, I wish that I had something worth sending :(

[@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470]

I love to look at all of the games in the background!

[@Charky_Creations]

Why is everyone called kenneth though

[@ahumaninwishing]

I think from what I gather there is one (or two people ?) named Kenneth who donates a lot of stuff to LGR.

[@w-dad4040]

I still have my childhood Stephen Biesty books! They are really amazing to look at again.

[@BurnRoddy]

I've seen Aaron stuff, his channel is great. Didn't know he was so meta tho. He included the troll face peanut inside the package that contained Trolls. LOL! I guess is true what they say, meta Aaron is twice the Aaron.

[@mapesdhs597]

Yup, Aaron is very cool!

[@SiliconClassics]

TBH I didn't even realize the troll connection until you mentioned it, just thought it would be a funny riff on Clint's aversion to packing peanuts :)

[@mapesdhs597]

I keep pondering what I could do to freak him out with peanuts when I finally send him some stuff. :D

[@Obscur888]

Please do not stop those videos i like them so much

[@EposVox]

Good stuff :)

[@Brianybug]

Man, I remember seeing the little ZX1 computers at Kmart here in Texas back in the day. They showed off recipe programs and basic financial software. I still thought it was cool!

[@majordisappointment8692]

I thought of where that odd laptop came from Midwest micro in fletcher,ohio used to make the Ultra brand back in the day i saw that laptop and it set wheels of memories moving ,have not seen an Ultra in quite awhile.

[@Adamsnadler214]

mac theknife hi can you tell me about that ultra laptop. I sent it to Clint last month I sent it to him because we couldn't figure out anything about it.

[@majordisappointment8692]

Julians elmo I wished i could but all i remember is the brand that they used to sell do not jave any info i cam pass on to you sorry.

[@TerryBates64]

mac theknife there is also Ultra computers NZ not sure if it's related but check out ultra.co.nz in way back machine

[@majordisappointment8692]

I personally think the laptop is an odd one indeed.

[@cdigames]

I wonder, if like WinBook was for MicroCenter, the Ultra brand was a in-house brand for a large computer store?

[@vincentpinckard2243]

That PS/2 coffee mug is one of the best donations you have received yet so far......"cajones in the fast lane"!!!

[@SaberVizion]

Weird how the Viagra box came with a floppy disk instead of a harddrive.. (;

[@mkultrasoldier]

ThatWhiteHusky Well then... The software didn't do its job...

[@jcharr1]

oh, man! I love that Serrated Scalpel Sherlock Holmes game. My cousin had it back in the day, and as a kid whose sole exposure to home gaming up to then was the Atari 2600 and NES (and the SNES was still really new) I was completely blown away by it. It has really great music, too. Clint, I hope you're able to find the time to play it. I still fire it up in Boxer and play through it at least a few times a year.

[@gr18vidz]

"Viagra software" sure cracked me up.

[@mapesdhs597]

Extended use converts it to hardware. ;)

[@CheeseburgerFreedomMan]

gr18vidz14kidz On a floppy disk

[@whisperchainsaw102]

gr18vidz14kidz it's more of nascar software but whatever.

[@tacticalidiot175]

From software to hardware when you Put it in

[@jfhm1991]

Wow that keyboard was just everything from the late 90s in one product. From the font on the box to it's 'futuristic' design; it all seemed to have so much promise, like our lives would dramatically change someday from the technology advancing so rapidly. I spose it did... But not with weird experimental keyboards 😂

[@korgothkillings2032]

That is a ton of packages

[@simontay4851]

No, a LOT. Not actually literally a ton.

[@CitrusRev]

Simon Tay I'm guessing you don't know what an "expression" is

[@SpectorCorp]

I adored Delta Force Land Warrior. I can't believe it's already so old, time just keeps on ticking.

[@lincolnnoronha4128]

It takes you back to bible times: through the heathen powers of the internet!

[@joehowe9020]

Thanks for sharing your mail you get from your viewers and I like your old computer stuff keep up the good work and again thanks 🙏

[@paincreatesfame]

How do you manage to keep so many boxes unopened until your videos? Like, how do you resist the probable temptation to open them and find out what's inside?

[@mapesdhs597]

Too busy sorting out in more detail all the stuff that arrived the month before. :D

[@thomashillebrandt8945]

CLINT! I hope it's not too late. The Sinclair power adapters are NOTORIOUSLY unstable. There's probably a 90% chance that you will fry your ZX81 if you plug it in without checking the adapter first. D:

[@jahbones]

Your voice is incredible.

[@BB-pn2qv]

I think it may be time to consider starting a Kick Starter for some sort of technology museum. No joke. These are some amazing items you've collected over the years.

[@squirreljester2]

I've just recently come across your channel and I love it. I was curious though, there's an old game I used to have for my Tandy 1000 back in the day, Crayola Creation Studio, and it had this "screen saver" built in where this alligator character would walk across the screen and do stuff. If you left it long enough, one of the things he did was thrust his pelvis saying "yes" repeatedly from one side of the screen to the other. It's something I remember vividly from my childhood, and I can't find the game or any reference to this anywhere, and I was curious if you have the game, and if you could test it and see if I'm remembering it right. I know this is a strange request. :)

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

squirreljester2 Reading your comment stirred up some vague memories I may possibly have of this. What color was the alligator?

[@Gl4uc0n]

I just found that exact CRT monitor in my garage. I love the way it looks! It's a wonderful monitor.

[@tbthegr81]

That Compaq LTE, does it do 4G Wireless internet?

[@LGR]

Heh

[@alexmaley1810]

I watched this video on a Compaq LTE. 1080p

[@Taketimeout3]

Power VR are what you are looking at on your I Phones. They specialised in concentrating on keeping power requirements as low as possible, while Nvidia and ATI just went for grunt. Power VR knew that things were going to get really small so they bided their time so they had the best tech to push serious pixel power on hand helds. namely .... phones! Now they are huge.

[@gorfulator]

Quack quack quack )( )( )(

[@lincolnnoronha4128]

quack quack quack

[@Einar730]

Quack quack quack

[@OdaSwifteye]

ITALIAN MUSIC

[@polaroidjay]

There's this place called 'Weird Stuff Warehouse' in Sunnyvale that has a lot of... weird computer stuff. I drop by every once in a while. Reminds me of your channel.

[@CrimsonSanX]

So did that Dell Trinitron monitor actually work? Hoping so since the Sun one went bust.

[@LGR]

It powered on, but doesn't actually show a clear signal. The whole screen is really dark, blurry, and has white lines running through it.

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

Lazy Game Reviews My soul now aches with this knowledge.

[@mapesdhs597]

I've posted CRTs worldwide, the key to safe posting is, a) use a *huge* box, b) pack the monitor upside down. This avoids pressure being placed on the fragile base. I include foam pieces between the base and the case so it can't move around. Time consuming to do though, and posting a big box is expensive (because of the volumetric weight). Clint, how are you going to handle all this when your sub count is 10x what it is now? :D (an inevitable destinty IMO!)

[@CidHighwindFF7]

Lazy Game Reviews Aw man. I wish I still had the FW900 24" trinitron I used up to 2012. Couldn't beat that thing for picture quality, but it was just too big to keep around. Went to another local collector.

[@mapesdhs597]

Yes, it was enormous, though not the largest CRT I heard about. SGI told me one of their industrial customers damaged an Indigo2 chassis by putting a 32" CRT on top of it. Dread to think what a 32" CRT woud weigh, the FW900 was crazy enough. The Indigo2 is pretty strong, but yikes. :D I had a 2nd FW900 for a while, but no real use for it (just too big) and the guns needed redoing. Gave it away eventually.

[@nicholasbryant1239]

That is some interesting film you got sent there for the Impulse. Three are limited editions, two of which are no longer produced by the company, and one of which is really hard to come by online. The duochromes do what they sound like and only use two colors like black and red only. The interesting pack there with the Chinese on the front is the rare "Lucky 8" pack that was a limited release for Chinese New Year. Seven red metallic border pics with one lucky gold bordered one placed randomly in the stack. I'd advise using these wisely, and of course keeping them in your fridge till then.

[@weswesley826]

Clint I don't know if you've ever seen them but I work at bam and we have children's religion books about the Bible and they use pictures of biblical scenes made in minecraft. Very bizarre books

[@weswesley826]

There's a couple but I found one online called the unofficial holy bible for minecrafters

[@T3hBeowulf]

That Yamaha DB50XG is awesome! I have the "stand-alone" version of that card called the SW60XG. Hardware-wise they are pretty similar and the sound is identical. XG MIDI adds so many sounds to the General MIDI set and Yamaha's samples are musically wonderful. As a daughter board, the DB50XG will be easier to integrate into games as it won't require the "Line out / Line in passthru" that the stand-alone card requires. Final Fantasy VII has a wonderful "XG MIDI" soundtrack and there are a few other games as well. All in all, enjoy that card. Delightfully retro, works well in DOS/Windows 3.1/Windows 95 and has drivers all the way up through Windows XP.

[@benflashman7320]

Why does everyone have his home address...?

[@LGR]

No one does! These are shipped to a business post office box.

[@benflashman7320]

Ahh, thanks! I almost thought so :)

[@domb2NY]

I thought I had seen this vid but it was on my watch later...did not disappoint. Loved the Intellivision segment.

[@ICONmachines]

QUACK, QUACK, Quack, Quack....................... . . . .

[@ArchLITE0]

Clint unboxing old computer stuff.....euphoria at its finest!

[@Brandewey]

"If your computer's erection lasts longer then four hours please consult your PC doctor"

[@chrwl007]

Imagine if they included a copy of Dr Solomon's Antivirus.

[@treespunk]

No way! My piano teacher had MusicAce and I forgot about it until now. Thanks for the nostalgia-gasm!

[@Stierguy1]

MUSIC ACE TWO IS MY CHILDHOOD. I LEARNED NOTHING BUT ITS SO AWESOME.

[@SteevClark]

My Step-father had a TS34X given to him when he worked at Diebold. I used to play Chip's Challenge on it! Never thought i would see another one of those again.

[@alecjahn]

Oh man, I love that old Trinitron. I had the 17", then the 19" versions. Then I got a Dell 21" with the newer circular Dell logo jewel and clicky power button (however I missed that big CHUNKy front power button so much - so satisfying!) I actually still have the last one, though... well, it's in my parents' basement and when I stopped by for dinner the other day I noticed it was sitting on a dolly, ready to get moved (probably to the trash). I'd have them hold onto it so that I can use it for my retro machines once I have more space but I can't blame them for wanting to toss it after sitting derelict for so many years. There's a big Boeing (now Spirit Aerosystems) factory here in Wichita and they used to have a surplus "store" that was open every Saturday. They sold old monitors for 10-20 bucks each depending on age and size. That's how I ended up easily and affordably acquiring these (and justifying the next size upgrade) even with my teenage lack of income. Thanks for the blast in the past!

[@3DGECASE]

The look of anything on those Trinitron Dell monitors is gorgeous. I have the 15" version, which I used for PC gaming as a little kid in the early 2000s. Recently I've been using it on my current PC for playing any games that are originally in 4:3 aspect. The picture is a bit bit dark though, and turning up the brightness beyond 50% just makes everything look white and washed out, which sucks because the colors are so darn vibrant on 50% contrast 50% brightness! Also, even though Windows and Nvidia keep saying no, it can go below its lowest res of 800x600, down to 640x480 with some nice scan-lines! a 2x scale in DosBox at that res looks freaking amazing.

[@matthewrease2376]

Holy shit, music Ace 2... I recognize that!! In 1st grade, I went to a private Christian School. One of the classes was essentially a music class, and we used that!

[@aaron71]

The Ultra ts34x is made by Compal; generic manufacturer that sold to OEMs. Cool find!