the CD is likely doing that because the computer it was copied from didn’t “finalize” the disk. it should work on playback only devices like a cd player boombox, car, etc. this has happened to me before with small indie band cds they’ve sold. idk how to get around it but that’s probably what jt is!

@tomenza

2 ай бұрын

copy it to mini disc

@ballyastrocade5672

2 ай бұрын

If the CD isn't finalized, you can *try* opening it up in a proper CD-authoring-and-burning program like Nero Burning ROM, and see if it can close the open session and finalize it from there. Of course, that presumes you still have an optical drive on your PC...

@introvertedotaku2135

2 ай бұрын

@@ballyastrocade5672 good point!

@goopah

Ай бұрын

@@ballyastrocade5672 When disc drives started to be phased out, I swore I'd always have an optical drive, because they are just too handy, especially because I was starting to play some of the older games in my collection. And I also liked to play my old CD music. But finally, in 2023, I bought my current PC, which has no optical drive. So I bought an external USB DVD burner/drive. It's now been over a year, and I still haven't hooked up that drive. In other words, I finally became part of the problem of trusting everything to the internet. GOG exists, so I had no need for the CD/DVD drive. And there's plenty of places to listen to my favorite music online, and I've always had great speakers plugged in to my PC. And when I can't find a favorite CD online (which does happen), I fire up my old living room stereo system, which sounds better anyway.

my disappointment that someone didn't just send you 5,400 feet of jumbo 2-ply toilet paper is immeasurable

@Triumph-dg4bv

2 ай бұрын

And a taco bell gift card. Since the brand is Marathon 😂

@nickwallette6201

2 ай бұрын

@@Triumph-dg4bv That would be a perfect match. "Taco Bell -- where every meal is a #2."

@redred222

2 ай бұрын

a few years back that would be worth a fortune lol

@barryoverson4988

2 ай бұрын

ya i thought it was a printer for toilet rolls haha

@sanitarium017

2 ай бұрын

​@@nickwallette6201I've never had these alleged taco bell poops

Whoa, I never thought something I had a hand in would ever show up in an LGR video! I designed the PowerPCMe K-Mart tape (8:45)back in 2016, first cassette I ever designed. I’ve since had a hand in the art direction of over 100 physical music releases.

@howtoavenge1016

2 ай бұрын

that’s really cool

@ParsnipCelery

2 ай бұрын

How very cool!

@MrWolfSnack

2 ай бұрын

Wow is that tape that old? I've never come across it. and I'm always collecting radio station tapes.

"Give it to your grandparents so they can learn how to... flower." I did laugh.

@Ultimatebubs

2 ай бұрын

I think that they already figured out how to "flower"... that's why they have kids and grandkids :)

Glad to see Sim City 3000 has a good home... Thanks for the shout out! Keep up the great work!

I OWNED THAT LINUX SIMCITY! Sorry to shout. I thought for a while that all my Loki Games were just a college fever dream. That's fantastic! I ran them on Redhat Workstation and MandrakeLinux I bought at Fry's Electronics in big boxes.

@dalehadley3283

2 ай бұрын

Makes me wonder if it would even run on the version of Linux designed for the PS2,or if that version of Linux is too new

@nazgulsenpai

2 ай бұрын

I know that feeling too well. Also, Mandrake was the first Linux I was able to get all my devices working on. That as such an exciting time.

@maedero05

2 ай бұрын

There where several ports Railroad Tycoon, II, Civiization Call to Power,, heretic II, Heroes III ran on Ubuntu !

@squirlmy

2 ай бұрын

I believe the PS2 was PPC (YellowDog linux) so it would have to be compiled from source, and probably debugged. Only very special(insane) programmers would take up the challenge! lol😂

@squirlmy

2 ай бұрын

Previous to that I got an "unlimited" Red Hat Bible which promised forever updates, but years later after contacting RedHat, they told me the newest RH distro is fundamentally different and Fedora linux was available to me, so they didn't have to abide by the terms!😕

Hey LGR, I am sorry if this sounds cheesy or cringy, but I am around your age and grew up with the same technology and games as you. I had to leave behind the country where I grew up, leaving behind my friends whom I shared wonderful memories with playing the games you review (Dune, Ages of Empire, NFS...etc). Listening to your stories about your childhood, how some of these games helped you through some difficult times makes me feel like you were one of those friends I left behind and terribly miss every day. I empathize the loss of your sister, I lost my dad suddenly who put me on the path of PCs in the early 90s and also played a lot of games back then (NFL95, Sam and Max) and these games help me get through stuff as well. Your videos kind of helps me fill that hole and I thank you for that. I feel like you're a friend I always wanted to have. So...thank you!

Clint, thank you so much for showcasing CART zine and my comics! I'm so thrilled you enjoyed it and you had so many amazing words for Kid Internet 😭 funnily enough the coolmath person I interviewed left about a month ago, lol. Thank you again for the decade of entertainment 💖

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

Certainly, it’s all kinds of charming. Thanks again for sending it my way!

@unbearifiedbear1885

2 ай бұрын

Wholesome af What a great community ❤ Happy Easter 🙏🏻🥚

@giselletorres4156

2 ай бұрын

OMG I love the tamagotchi art 🥺💕 Will follow you in insta if you have one!

@Shannonprints

2 ай бұрын

@@giselletorres4156I do, same as my handle here! tysm :')

@numoutheimpfox

Ай бұрын

Is that Reuben aka 625 on the first page???

REALLY thought somebody was insulting you with that N64 cart sticker. Boy that name "Clint" can cause trouble

@distractedFreek

2 ай бұрын

I did a double-take and had to rewind to look closer.

Hehe, the licorice that came with the Ultrasound was made in the same building that used to be my vocational college back in the day. I got a nice Mikromikko 486 from their storage while they were moving out of that building. (alongside a massive pile of old components and server blades)

@squirlmy

2 ай бұрын

Looks suspiciously at licorice.😒 Is that "Salt licorice"??? I don't know how you northern Europeans eat such stuff! 😝

@AfterBurnerTeirusu

2 ай бұрын

@@squirlmy It's normal licorice.

Always appreciate a fresh new LGR video on a Friday morning! As per usual, thank you very much for having good and accurate closed captioning, even on unscripted content, it is always something I am thankful for.

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

Happy to provide it!

Huge thanks for showing off the print and the website! It's been crazy to map the Vaporwave/Retro CGI/LGR community overlap in real time through people tagging me when they watched the video.

@ParsnipCelery

2 ай бұрын

Your art is great, I didn't know I wanted it in my life until I saw it.

Kinda funny that in some 80s anime, they saw the future as MO discs lol

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

80s and 90s Japanese media is half the reason I wanna cover them. Metal Gear Solid etc

@nickwallette6201

2 ай бұрын

Well it was kind of accurate ... In Japan (and a few other places), MiniDisc caught on like wildfire. :-)

@Dukefazon

2 ай бұрын

@@LGR The first time I saw MO disk was at the end of Resident Evil 2.

@ballyastrocade5672

2 ай бұрын

@@nickwallette6201 I loved the MiniDisc system. I still have several of them: a Sony deck, a Sharp CD+MD combo deck, a couple of the Sony portables, and even an in-dash car stereo unit. It *is* unfortunate that it didn't catch fire here in the US and Canada as well, but Sony kinda botched the marketing -- first when their advertising seemed to be pushing it as The Next Big Thing after CDs when most people were still replacing their vinyl with CDs ("You mean I have to buy "Dark Side of the Moon" *again?*"), and then when they split MD-Audio and MD-Data into incompatible formats so that you couldn't use MD blanks for both music and data storage because Sony's media division was afraid that someone somewhere would make an unauthorized copy of something if they allowed it. 😞

@4Wilko

2 ай бұрын

@@Dukefazon I grabbed them in RE1 (Deadly Silence).

Talk about timing. This whole week I was watching unboxing mail in videos as far back as 6 years ago, and I now see another video uploaded. Thank you LGR for the hours of entertainment of amazing goodies

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

You bet, I hope you enjoy this one as well!

@detfan1982

2 ай бұрын

Me too! Lol

51 minutes of mail ins, count me in! Love seeing all the cool stuff people send. My favorite was the big box Gizmos and Gadgets by The Learning Company in a past episode

LoL i my dad had a mouse house on the side of his monitor he kept his pack of smokes in it.

@volvo09

2 ай бұрын

Pretty much the only use for it is to store anything besides a mouse...

The mouse house did have a practical use for people with limited space. I distinctly remember having one of those things stuck to the side of our Tandy back in the day because the "desk'" we had for it was just a cart and the keyboard tray didn't have enough room for the keyboard and mouse at the same time. We had to mouse on our leg for things that used the mouse.

@DerekLippold

2 ай бұрын

My dad had a mouse house like that at work at his workstation.

These unboxing vids have to be my favorites.

ok, i lost it at "i've been making squirrel feeders shaped like scaled down arcade cabinets"

@MrWolfSnack

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like Clint has been reading too much Savestate.

Oh sweet, welcome to the Model M trackball world! For the longest time, my white whale was the M5-1. Both examples I own have problems, but c'est la vie. The M5-2's are really fun in a pinch (including the Unicomp USB version) for doing server work without having to make space for a mouse.

I live in Japan and I found a pack of 5 640 MO discs and a USB drive at hard-off for less than $10 for everything. Those things are so neat, they make a weird sound and it all seems like alien technology from another dimension!

@gmcnewlook

2 ай бұрын

Hard offs are so cool

@Ccoolty

2 ай бұрын

@@gmcnewlook they are! the soundtrack that plays in the stores even know that, they say "hard off is your dream place" 😆

Did I hear, "Mechwarrior video"?

That Zer0 Rei art is absolutely insane ♥♥ ♥

@zer0rei_

2 ай бұрын

Aww, thank you!

Oh man that Memorex 256mb thumb drive. I remember paying a ridiculous amount of money for one of those as a teenager...

@volvo09

2 ай бұрын

Now thumb drives are so big that people will see an old 128MB drive and think it's 128GB!

Now we need an LGR Oddchair where you're taking a look at chairs that are odd

Cancel my appointments and hit the pizza button! LGR has a mail bag video!

47:06 Regarding those Model M5s in case it helps, the two I have had dead trackballs on arrival but I was able to fix them by replacing the capacitors on the trackball's controller PCB. At least for Lexmark-made ones, whilst the keyboard's PCB uses THT components like earlier M controllers, the trackball's PCB uses SMD components, so this issue might be related to the one that also affects Model M1 and M2 keyboards entirely.

Of all the stuff in this video, those Taiwanese games are by far the most immaculate thing I see. Absolutely gorgeous art, beautiful condition, and obscure as hell overseas. Fantastic contribution by Brandon.

Those ATI All-In-Wonder! I always wanted one, but i got a 9800 xt 256mb instead. I couldn't complain... that 9800 ran everything!

@volvo09

2 ай бұрын

I've got one stashed away from a surveillance computer I had to trash. Never used it. That computer also had this weird module in one of the RAM slots (yes, in an actual ram slot!) that has an FPGA on it along with a few other chips. I've never seen anything like it. I can't figure out what it is, it's completely unmarked. Maybe an MPEG encoder or something? Since the PC did have like 8 video inputs and recorded video.

these unboxing vids are always a welcome thing to watch on my 2nd monitor while i work.. here's to more!

Love the Max Payne mousepad! I use mine everyday. I remember buying the game at CircuitCity spurred by The Matrix and bullet time. NICE! Mine is a little more worn in lol

This morning my wife told me a joke. What do Nerds call soft clothes?... Software. 😂 I love watching LGR unboxing fan mail in the morning. ☕️☺️

@vasili1207

2 ай бұрын

god bless her shes trying

@coboldelphi

2 ай бұрын

I don't get it

@vasili1207

2 ай бұрын

@@coboldelphi may be lots of things you don't get like respect and p[_]say hahah

Very much looking forward to the Oddware video for the PC controlled CD organiser!

1:14 you know how much Adrian Black loves those Gummi bears. They're like a staple of his mail call episodes.

That CD Organizer is only to hold them as organized -- I actually had one like 10 years ago - also got from a goodwill!

@Toby_Q

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, he's going to be very disappointed when he realizes there is no optical drive in that... all it does is hold your CD's that you catalog and tell the software what is in what slot, so you can find it more easily. Then you take it out of that device and put it in your optical drive.

That CD changer is begging for woodgrain contact paper!

That Quiz Wiz was my childhood. Loved it back when that version would've been new in the early 90's, love it now. Wish I still had mine, but I'm decently certain my parents threw it away 25-ish years ago.

@lastcontinue3010

2 ай бұрын

I have no idea what happened to mine, but my folks are notorious pack-rats, so I'm sure it's sitting somewhere with the batteries I left in it eating through the contacts. I loved mine as well, such a great way to pass time in a house where _real_ video games were forbidden, but anything "learning" was approved. I also had a "sports" cartridge, but I still think the "General Knowledge" one was the best.

You just have to wear that sweater next Christmas, Clint! What a fine piece of attire!

@JeffDeWitt

2 ай бұрын

I love that sweater for its weirdness. I'd absolutely wear it to work at least a couple of times!

Thank you for all the great content! I love this community, each and everyone of you are awesome!

Anders's space tracks are vibin'

I loved those ATI All-In-Wonders back in the day. Just being able to watch a TV program in a window on your PC's desktop at the same time you were doing actual productive stuff in the other windows was an amazing thing, especially in the pre-streaming era of dial-up internet where over-the-air broadcasts and cable TV were pretty much your only options...

I recognized a few of those Taiwanese games, the one with the Warrior guy on the black background with the 3 on it is Legend of the Chivalrous Hero 3, a really cool RPG, has some amazing sprite work and combat animations. I'd love to see a video on these games with you just messing around with them. And who knows, maybe that'll get translations going too! I can dream dangit

Calm came to my soul with first few notes of intro music, and all anxiety went away… It’s like something very pleasant is going to happen

@karlimo4034

2 ай бұрын

Anxiety, anxiety, anxiety... American society became a bunch of pushovers.

@llMarvelous

2 ай бұрын

I’m not from US, from a different continent entirely And having a very hard time now Wish u never experience what I’m going through

@98SE

2 ай бұрын

@@karlimo4034 I am from the UK. Everyone is different, you're lucky you don't have to experience anxiety and I wish you never have to, it's horrible.

OMG that Tiger Whiz Quiz is so nostalgic for me. I had one as a kid and spent so much time messing around with it. At the time, I thought it was the height of tech.

"(great size for most squirrels)" is my new favorite parenthetical comment

I love these videos. Find them relaxing and fascinating at the same time. Looking forward to the next one in 6 to 9 months. :)

I didn’t know any of the Star Trek computer accessories existed when they on sale originally. I definitely would have done everything in my power to get my hands on all of them! I still want it all!!!

one of my earliest memories was how BIG the Dick Tracy movie was - it was being covered everywhere after the success of Batman (1989) .....and then it came out and no one talked about it ever again. But Hollywood thought they were on to something , so Rocketeer got made - that The Shadow and The Phantom were the nails in the coffin of old timey comic strip movies

@DerekLippold

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. I was SO into Dick Tracy back then later The Shadow.

Always love these types of videos, thanks, LGR!

Watching your videos is always such a treat!

The first two of those Taiwanese Kingformation games are 俠客英雄傳3 (usually referred to in English as Chivalrous Heroes 3, there is no 2), and 俠客英雄傳XP (a Windows XP port/remake of the same title). The game is an amazing Taiwanese DOS RPG classic that is fairly well known.

@TeruteruBozusama

2 ай бұрын

It's a little depressing that Taiwan has a rich history of games the world doesn't know much about..!

Trying to get that Linux version of Sim City 3000 working on a modern version of Linux would be an interesting video on its own. It would undoubtedly be incredibly frustrating and possibly beyond the scope of LGR's channel, but it would be interesting. Let's just say binary backwards compatibility in Linux isn't exactly as easy as it is in Windows.

@sneasalmaster

2 ай бұрын

XFree86 isn't even the same X server used these days (X org), and even that is on its way out due to wayland. That is also a painfully ancient version of glibc, lol. A linux system from back then may as well be an amiga with how difficult it would be to get this running.

SIM City 3000 For linux? In Box?! SWEET!

My auntie gave me her E pc. I played wow cataclysm on 1024 x 600. Bought it for Jakarta holiday

That diorama could be used as the new 'intro' vídeo of yours. It's pure art!

wow those Cartzines look like someone really put their heart and soul into it, cool.

@Shannonprints

2 ай бұрын

✋🏼 thank you :')

I appreciate the 60fps and clarity it brings

Ooh, a Mechwarrior series video in the works? Yes, please!

That Eee PC - I nearly bought one of those way back in the day but I never did, opting for a more expensive but more future-proof laptop. I wish I still had my late 1970s Quiz Wiz. They were pretty neat little game machines, and I had no idea they persisted into the 1990s. The old ones were made by Coleco, and the old models have a certain charm to them. I hope we get an episode about the 75-disc CD changer!

Awesome stuff as always!

BIRBS!

I'm in Japan for a few months and I have been thrifting multiple times and the piles of vintage Japanese tech hilarity... if there are any Japanese items you're interested in and would like me to keep my eyes open for, I'd be happy to do so. I think about your channel every time I walk past the "vintage tech" sections.

@zanite8650

Ай бұрын

Anything particularly weird/cool catch your eye so far?

Honestly really cool of you to open up mail. I'm sure alot of youtubers get mail but only a few will record them opening it. Love your channel. Can't wait to see your next video on a PC game that I don't know about but should. I remember watching your video on Slave Zero and being amazed. Played and beat that game thanks.

27:17 Oh yeah, I remember cards with built-in TV tuners! Had one for a few years.

Oooh sweet, I love binging these in the background! much love, a German fan!

The backside of that Gravis ultrasound extreme is IMMACULATE. I love it so much, I wish I could order a giant version in 3D to put on my wall.

11:20 I remember that sandwich stacker game! from the Lilo and Stitch tv show!

Love these videos! Makes me excited for future videos about the weird things you received.

Always cool to see the packages ppl send in 👍

The Simcity 3000 Linux case and disc have no esrb ratings, so it's possible they used the same insides and/or artwork for multiple versions of the game. Simcity 3000 Unlimited has a ton of different names around the world, and Linux is pretty niche.

This and the thrifting are my absolute favs.

My grandma had that Compaq MSN computer gizmo at least around 2002-2007, and then she was upgraded to a standard Dell.

11:20 I though that said something else at first.

@Shannonprints

2 ай бұрын

LOL

I absolutely loved my Fossil MSN Direct watch back in the day. It wasn't the Dick Tracey version but I remember it fondly

That ATI All-In-Wonder is also an analog TV tuner. That's how I got into building my own DVRs, my first one was running Windows 95 using a freeware DVR app, but later I moved to XP with Windows Media Center. It worked great!

The old Compaq logo is so nostalgic, it reminds me when my mother bought our 1st home computer in 1998.

The Max Payne mousepad really brought me back! That was my favorite game as a teenager and I used that pad for years and years. I've gotta check if it's still laying around my parents' house.

8:34 "All of those kind of transportational sayings" 😂

The ASUS EEE ... had 701 and 901 ... now they are toys in my wifes work - kindergarden :D they where neat little things back then

Props to this powerpc guy he knows how to advertise! Definitely gave him a follow I love me some obscure electronic music

That CD was definitely custom printed but not finalized. Still, indie musicians that make music for the sake of music are the best.

Ahh, nothing like another piece of LGR goodness to start the day

These unboxings and thrifts are my jam! ❤

I still have my KDS (Korea Data Systems, IIRC) CD organizer in my closet; my parents got it for me for Christmas decades ago. It was pretty neat, but is definitely an artifact of the time. It came with some rudimentary software that could index a disc and store the results in a database for easy searching. It could also control ejecting the individual trays, or one could do it with controls on top of the tower. It was neat at the time, and I just can't bear to throw mine out, even though I will likely never have a use for it again.

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing the firsthand experience! I’m stoked to test out that indexing and searching functionality.

Got a wonderful burst of nostalgia when you pulled out the MW2: Mercenaries box.

Wow, that mini arcade cab is amazing .

looove these vids.. also the long episodes are my fav hope ur having good holiday this weekend

Looks like one of those All-In-Wonder ATI cards with a Theather chipset. If so, you just got your hands on some of the best capture hardware that exists for analog NTSC/PAL media.

I had to check my CD collection to see if I still had that Duke Nukem album. I used to have over 3000 CDs but alas drastic changes in my situation meant I’ve all but sold em off except for a few. My respect for LGR is what led me to hang on to that one. It’s actually sitting in the shelf right next to the interestingly rare Dexter’s Laboratory album that turned out was the earliest I ever heard of will.i.am

@3osufdh4rfg

2 ай бұрын

Now you reminded me of the Total Annihilation soundtrack. Excellent game and soundtrack.

I unboxed two cib SNES games I bought off ebay while watching this video. Two more mint/near-minties added to the collection and Excel sheet.

Whoaaaa Quiz Wiz memory unlocked!! Soon as you unpackaged that I recognized it, but haven't thought about it in decades. Very cool to see that again!

If only there was a Sim City board game, Clint would just melt at that point due to nostalgic and euphoric overload. I'm surprised they didn't release such a product.

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

There's the SimCity CCG that I've shown before.

Man, you'll never run out of content. This will be a valuable historical reference of this era, in the future. Hello future!

24:50 That's actually some great music, I think I'll listen to that later. Good thing its on Spotify.

Always love these. Almost as good as thrifting

Wow, a GUS MAX. I bought one of those back in the 90s. Great card.

0:51 “Are these all sealed?” “Not anymore!”

I had one of those Tyan S1854 motherboards and I loved it. One of the best motherboards I had. Lots of features and many upgrade paths. Want to keep your PCI SLI setup until you can upgrade to AGP without losing your sound card, NIC, extra drive controller and whatever other PCI/ISA devices you run? Want to run your socket 370 Celeron 500 until you can upgrade to a slot 1 based 1GHz PIII? That board let you do it, was sturdy, and mine lasted me many many years. Still associate Tyan with quality.

@28:10 - I have a NIB All-In-Wonder remote and dongle if you would like that to compliment this card.

LGR opening random old tech is the ultimate "to study and relax to" video.