High Quality Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxC6PytZMqc
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Found this in the back room of my old job. It was titled "YO MS Raps!" MS-DOS 5.0 was the first version available in a retail package. Looks like MS spent a few $$$ to produce the effects in this video to promote it.
High Quality Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxC6PytZMqc
High Quality Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxC6PytZMqc
updated 17 years ago
High Quality Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxC6PytZMqc
Excuse the roughness of the voice overs, I filmed it on one take and had some computer issues with editing (Hey its better then nothing!). Currently my best camera is a Samsung Galaxy S8. Doesn't look bad, but the audio could be better.
I'll add extra info here in the future that I might have forgotten in the video. Stay tuned.
Equipment seen in this video for the curious:
-JVC SR-VD400US DVHS VCR, this is the Professional version of the HM-DH40000U
-Samsung SIR-T165 ATSC HDTV Tuner
Want more Digital VHS information?
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS
Techmoan's Digital VHS video: youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE
databit's capture of the D-Theater demo tape: youtube.com/watch?v=sgMVNKnv5z0
Yes, that is a Sony Super Betamax deck in the background. A SL-HF860D for the curious.
Original video was captured at 512x240 in 24-bit RGB and resized down to 256x240 (native SNES resolution for most games), then resized back up and padded to 1280x720 using VirtualDub's internal Resize filter. Its Nearest Neighbor resize eliminates the added noise from the SNES output.
Original video was captured at 512x240 in 24-bit RGB and resized and padded to 1280x720 using AviSynth's PointResize filter (nearest neighbor).
Note: While the aspect ratio of the final video seems weird (16:9), it has been verified as being "correct" with an AppleColor RGB monitor. Most of the border over scan is cutoff when viewed on a 4:3 CRT.
RAM: 1GB DDR
HD: 120GB
Boots pretty quickly for an 11 year old machine!
Before: 0:00
After: 2:15
Real IIgs: 4:31 (complete with noisy output)
By far one of the most annoying bugs in this otherwise excellent emulator was the playing of out of tune notes in Synthlab and to a lesser extent, DiversiTune. Not knowing much about the Ensoniq 5503DOC or even how to emulate such a chip, I think I fixed the bug. The audio is this video is a harp "solo" of the Synthlab file I played in my IIgs audio comparison video.
For those wondering what was going wrong. The DOC emulator was setting an oscillator's accumulator to zero, even when it was in the middle of playing back an audio sample in "free-run" mode. This bug only manifested itself in Synthlab, DiversiTune, and some games (notably Arkanoid). The bug never appears in the vast majority of Apple IIgs audio applications, including the popular SoundSmith module players, because those programs do not use the "free-run" mode of the DOC's oscillators. Those applications were strictly playing back music using the "swap" or "one shot" modes.
The fix literally involved moving one line of code! Checking old sources, this bug has existed since at least KEGS 0.56, released over 10 years ago!
Recorded with a Soundblaster AWE32 CT2760 with real OPL3 engine.
Note: Reverb and chorus effects are enabled on the sound card's MIDI output.
0:00 OPL3
0:58 OPL2
1:56 EMU8000
Could you believe I paid $110 for this thing?
Check out the reviews of other satisfied customers of this player on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Genica-GN803-Tavarua-Portable-Player/product-reviews/B000053UER
Archived Product Page: web.archive.org/web/20000815205449/http://www.genica.com/MP3-CD.htm
Contemporary video review from ZDTV: archive.org/details/g4tv.com-video24641
I may be convinced to let go of the PB165 if the price is right.
I guess this could qualify for YouTube's Geek Week.... or something. Whatever.
This is a quick highlights video of my trip to North Carolina. I decided to take the scenic route along the Atlantic coast and see the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride!
Highlights include:
-The Garden State Parkway between exits 135 and 120. Featuring the worlds widest bridge by number of lanes (The Driscoll Bridge)
-The Garden State Parkway between exits 50 and 38.
-The Garden State Parkway between exits 13 and 9. This section of roadway was originally built with 3 traffic lights and will be soon replaced with interchanges.
-The Cape May-Lewes Ferry (US-9)
-The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel from end to end. (US-13) This bridge-tunnel complex is almost 18 miles long!
This video was going to include footage from around the Hampton Roads, VA and Raleigh, NC metro areas, but I forgot to hit the record button! The video is a bit shaky. I'm still working on a decent camera mounting solution.
Note: The repair service mentioned in this video is NO LONGER AVAILABLE and the individual involved does not appear to respond to e-mails anymore. I currently can not recommend any re-cap services mentioned in this video anymore.
The machine still needs a replacement hard drive, new battery cells, and the floppy drive lubricated. After that it should be good to go. Apple's MSRP for this unit back in 1989 was a whopping $6700! At the time (2001-02ish?), I was thinking about using this for note taking in college if it worked. It would have been highly impractical, but it certainly would have turned some heads.
Specs:
16Mhz 68HC000 CPU
9.8" 640x400 black and white active matrix LCD display
1MB SRAM on motherboard, 4MB on expansion card (8MB system max)
40MB Conner SCSI hard drive
3.5" 1.44MB "Superdrive" high density floppy disk drive
Optional 2400bps internal modem
More information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/specs/mac_portable.html
Original Configuration as purchased on 10/31/1995 from Computer City:
Packard Bell Force 1999CDTW
Pentium 133Mhz on a PB650 "Hillary" motherboard with 430FX Triton chipset.
16MB of RAM
On-board Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 PCI Video with 1MB VRAM
"2.1GB" Conner Hard drive
NEC CDR-273 4X CD-ROM drive
Aztech Sound144AM 14.4 Modem + Sound ISA card
Preloaded with Windows 95 4.00.950a
Shortcuts:
GSport 0.2 (KEGS): 0:00
MESS 0.148: 4:33
Sweet 16 2.2.1: 9:02
XGS 0.50: 13:32
Real ROM 01 Apple IIgs: 17:52
Summery of errors:
GSport: inaccurate and out of tune output, but timing is correct.
MESS: plays slightly too fast (emulator timing inaccurate) and DC bias hum on output.
Sweet 16 2.2.1: plays slightly too fast (emulator timing inaccurate).
XGS 0.50: plays way too fast (emulator timing inaccurate) and DC bias hum on output.
Real IIgs: The real hardware seems to drop a voice every now and then.
Note: None of the hardware in this video is for sale. Please do not ask me.
Note: None of the hardware in this video is for sale. Please do not ask me.
Recorded December 29th, 2012.
Specs:
CPU: Motorola 68040 running at 25Mhz. Processor is on a card that can be upgraded.
RAM: 18MB (2MB "Chip" + 16MB "Fast")
HD: 6.4GB IDE
Video: Built-in AGA Chipset, genlockable and supports NTSC (60Hz) and PAL (50Hz) refresh rates. VGA compatible modes are available.
Audio: Built-in 4-channel 8-bit stereo audio provided by the "Paula" chip.
Expansion:
3x Passive ISA slots
4x Zorro III 32-bit expansion slots (inline with ISA and Video slots)
1x AGA Video Slot
So sit back, relax, and enjoy the genuine ProTracker Amiga MOD music.
This is a demo of my Sony TC-KA1ESA "Elevated Standard" cassette deck playing back a recording encoded with the Dolby-S noise reduction system. The recording was made on a standard Sony Type I compact cassette from a CD source. The recording bias was adjusted using the deck's on-board calibration function. The song is "Cygnus X - Positron (Original Mix)" from 1993.
Note: Audio may be slightly out of sync as I recorded it separate from the video.
Video shot on my Canon HV20. Deinterlaced using yadifmod and Avisynth since YouTube doesn't seem to want to do the job.
Netpliance released this upbeat video to the press and investors on 9/6/2000. At that time its stock had already tanked. The i-Opener was one of the first of many so called "internet appliances", a low cost terminal that could only access the internet. The business model was setup to sell the hardware at a loss ($99 in the case of the i-Opener) and recoup the production costs via ISP fees. This model worked great until some enterprising hackers figured out how to add a hard drive and turn the i-Opener into a fully functional $99 PC! In the end, limited internet terminals never caught on and the market for these "appliances" disappeared.
Oh, and haven't they been saying the PC is dead for the past 20 years? Enjoy this bit of dotcom irrational exuberance!
-Handycam Camcorder Shooting Tips (required viewing before taking any YouTube videos!)
-Video Accessories Introduction 3:42
-A bonus introduction to the Digital Mavica Camera (with commercial) 9:25
Source VCR: JVC SR-VD400US DVHS
Capture Card: AVermedia HD DVR
Processed using Neat Video and Smart De-interlace
Full broadcast of the newscast (including commercials) can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXlTUsP3DQ
Source VCR: JVC HR-S7800U S-VHS VCR with AVT-8710 TIme-base corrector
Encoding: XviD MPEG4 10MB/sec
Capture Card: AVermedia HD DVR PCIe
Post processed in VirtualDub 1.9.10 using Donald Graft's Smart Deinterlace filter and to hide VHS overscan noise.