Channel Title: The Oldskool PC Channel Description: The Oldskool PC focuses on the first decade of personal computing and gaming with the IBM PC and compatibles. We cover old PC history, software collecting, vintage gaming, and who knows what all else. Nearly everything is demonstrated with real vintage hardware, no emulators. <video> The Two Basic Methods of Sealing Big Box Computer Games Description: Computer games were sealed inside shrink film using either centerfold film or single-wound shrink film, resulting in three or two seams respectively on their outer edges. Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal --- Affiliate Links: Some of the links in my video descriptions may be affiliate links. When you click on links to various merchants posted here and make a purchase, this can result in me earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network & Amazon. </video> <video> Rapsittie Street Kids is one of the best worst movies ever made with personal computers Description: For the full discussion, check out https://youtu.be/Mz62yPl96eA Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal </video> <video> Spotting Resealed Vintage Computer Games: Telltale Signs Description: Resealed vintage computer games often have stiff and brittle shrink film with inconsistent shrinkage and sloppy seams due to uneven heat application during rewrapping. Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal --- Affiliate Links: Some of the links in my video descriptions may be affiliate links. When you click on links to various merchants posted here and make a purchase, this can result in me earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network & Amazon. </video> <video> Archiving & Testing Vintage IBM PC Game Floppies Live Description: Was going to archive some floppies tonight to relax, and thought it might be cool to livestream it instead. Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal --- Affiliate Links: Some of the links in my video descriptions may be affiliate links. When you click on links to various merchants posted here and make a purchase, this can result in me earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network & Amazon. </video> <video> The IBM PCjr, Part 1: The road to hell is paved with good intentions Description: On the 40th anniversary of the IBM PCjr, we revisit the machine regarded as one of the biggest flops in the computer industry. The media would like you to believe that the PCjr failed because of its infamous keyboard, but that's not the full story. In this multi-part retrospective, we're going to examine the entire lifecycle of the PCjr, and determine the real reason it failed. Along the way, we'll cover its true strengths and weaknesses, the legacy it left on the computer game industry, and the community of hackers that keep its memory alive into the 21st century. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:51 Series Overview 01:25 The state of the home computer market by 1982 03:35 IBM's proposed target market 04:21 PCjr Sales Training VHS 05:28 Anticipation of success 06:20 PCjr announced November 1st 1983 07:55 Hand-on at COMDEX 1983 10:54 Why the shipping delay? 12:57 Books, Magazines, and "Guaranteed" Success 14:34 What's next? Acknowledgments: Massive thanks to these fine folks, who granted me the use of their research, photos, or video for use in this retrospective series: @danbcast @mbbrutman Doctor Octal @Epictronics1 --- Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal </video> <video> Skyrocketing Prices in Vintage Game Collecting Description: Vintage computer games in good cosmetic condition are in short supply, leading to high demand and prices as high as $5,000 or more in the field of computer game collecting. Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal --- Affiliate Links: Some of the links in my video descriptions may be affiliate links. When you click on links to various merchants posted here and make a purchase, this can result in me earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network & Amazon. </video> <video> tidBITS: Highlights from our May 5th 2023 Q&A Livestream Description: Nobody has the time to go back and watch a 3-hour livestream, so I edited the entire thing down into a tight 54 minutes for you. And if you're part of the ADHD crowd, I added chapter stops to the most interesting bits, and links to stuff discussed in the video. Enjoy! Chapter stops: 00:00 - Intro 00:09 - Despite this channel, I love modern hardware 02:00 - Bad movies and Rapsittie Street Kids 02:53 - Would rewriting the PCjr BIOS improve its compatibility? 04:43 - Why I love real hardware -- and why I also use emulators 06:19 - Movies don't represent computers properly 07:02 - If I could obtain one more system, it would be The Mindset 08:37 - What should I do if my system hangs randomly? 10:00 - TRON 2.0 pioneering 60p video on youtube 11:06 - Formatting floppy disks in the background 12:07 - What do you need to make a mulittasking CPU? 13:13 - Why Area 5150 didn't use composite video 13:36 - Pop, or soda? 15:22 - All your Plus Hardcards are dead 16:15 - Kickstarters and The Tesla Effect 17:20 - Peeking at ROMs with DEBUG 17:49 - Daniel Pesina is a stand-up guy 18:55 - My favorite demoscene handle 19:11 - CGA Snow Explained 20:13 - I make videos for history, not nostalgia 20:40 - My first personal computing memories 22:01 - My favorite homebrew hardware name 22:19 - Demoscene jokes in the 1990s 22:55 - Being poor, Ad-Lib, and why I'd like to be recognized someday for archiving 23:44 - Parenting with DOS computers 24:05 - The Original King's Quest is a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Game 25:30 - Why CGA snow doesn't bother me 25:56 - Another reason early Sierra games sucked 27:03 - My workflow for developing 8088 code 28:28 - After 20 years of upgrades, it's nice to not have to wait 29:26 - Disappointing drawbacks of being a subject-matter expert 30:05 - I LOVE to dump on Cybergenic Ranger 31:27 - Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle 32:07 - The Pros and Cons of putting a VGA card in your XT-class PC 34:10 - How you enjoy this hobby is your own business 36:12 - Grade-school computing memories 37:23 - How to play HACK in 15 minutes or less 51:36 - The largest "grids" in 80's PC games 52:42 - One appeal of vintage systems over modern systems 53:24 - Outtro Links discussed in the video: The World of TRON 2.0: https://youtu.be/KcM6IuvP5oA Cybergenic Ranger at Games Done Quick: https://youtu.be/XWjq_uWfITs Another playthrough of Cybergenic Ranger: https://youtu.be/EyUfJC3vSYI More information on Hack, the precursor to NetHack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(video_game) Blog post where I finally finished Hack: https://trixter.oldskool.org/2006/05/24/patience/ Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal </video> <video> Channel hiatus and personal health update Description: You may have noticed this channel has been on hiatus for a while. There's a good reason for that! I'll be back. Mentioned in the video: Sign up for the VCFMW mailing list so you don't miss any announcements! https://www.vcfmw.org/listsub.html Can you help us run VCFMW as a volunteer? Indicate if you're available here: https://forms.gle/Yh57NrVZuPcVZrs28 The scan I elected to get was a coronary calcium scan: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/16824-calcium-score-screening-heart-scan Apologies for the wobbly swaying video; it was a spur-of-the-moment decision to shoot video and I guess I didn't have my arm stable enough. If you get motion sickness, only listen to the audio. </video> <video> Archiving & Testing Vintage IBM PC Game Floppies Live Description: Was going to archive some floppies tonight to relax, and thought it might be cool to livestream it instead. Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal --- Affiliate Links: Some of the links in my video descriptions may be affiliate links. When you click on links to various merchants posted here and make a purchase, this can result in me earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network & Amazon. </video> <video> The inspiration for The 7th Guest VR: "The Making of The 7th Guest" Description: Celebrate the 30th anniversary of The 7th Guest, a groundbreaking game that shaped PC gaming history, with this presentation of a restored behind-the-scenes video on how the game was made. Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal </video> <video> Optimizing 6502-to-8086 Assembly Conversion with String Instructions Description: Optimizing Planet X3's sprite and tile routines on the 8086 was achieved by using the 16-bit registers as temporary scratch space, as well as taking advantage of the powerful string instructions. Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal --- Affiliate Links: Some of the links in my video descriptions may be affiliate links. When you click on links to various merchants posted here and make a purchase, this can result in me earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network & Amazon. </video> <video> Unlocking the IBM PC's Hidden Sound Potential of the PC Speaker Description: The IBM PC's internal speaker was originally designed to produce a simple beep tone, but clever programmers were able to use tight assembler coding and other techniques to reproduce more complex sound effects, polyphonic music, and even sampled audio like speech. Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal --- Affiliate Links: Some of the links in my video descriptions may be affiliate links. When you click on links to various merchants posted here and make a purchase, this can result in me earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network & Amazon. </video> <video> How a vintage computer enthusiast experiences his Cyberpunk future Description: Watch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/Mz62yPl96eA Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal </video> <video> Why vintage computing enthusiasts use both real hardware AND emulation Description: Watch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/Mz62yPl96eA Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal </video> <video> Planet X3's Authentic Retro Gaming Experience Description: Planet X3 successfully limits design and programming choices to mid to late 1980s era, resulting in a game that runs great on old PCs and feels like it could have come out during that time. Want to support me, and help me make more videos like this? Consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Twitter: @MobyGamer Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal --- Affiliate Links: Some of the links in my video descriptions may be affiliate links. When you click on links to various merchants posted here and make a purchase, this can result in me earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network & Amazon. </video>

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