Looks like tentative pricing is planned to be for the USB4VC Baseboard+Plates+Fasteners kit to cost $30, ADB P-Card $40, and IBM PC P-Card $50 since it has more components and more protocols. Still needs a Pi on top of that though, so here's hoping that whole supply chain gets sorted sometime soonish.

@lyianx

2 жыл бұрын

Not bad price, but yeah. Im still trying to get a Pi for a router project and they are either out of stock or extremely expensive.

@andrewsadach3194

2 жыл бұрын

The D-Pad on playstation controllers have always sucked since the PS3. Try a 8-bitdo SNES clone.

@aserta

2 жыл бұрын

30$? Jesus, he's giving them away. Oh, i'm so diving in his kickstarter. This stuff is awesome!

@pev_

2 жыл бұрын

@@aserta I would not say "giving away" since you still need the P-Card, so it's at least 70 or 80 bucks for dekuNukem. And you need the Pi, so in total you need at least well over hundred credits to have a working conversion system.

@amirpourghoureiyan1637

2 жыл бұрын

Hope he makes a version for the Pi Pico, I'd rather microcontrollers be used for adapters than a full-on Pi. If not then it'd be nice to see some elements from the Pi-KVM project appear, could definitely see this being used to control 2/3 different PCs.

clint, your enthusiasm over older hardware getting newer capabilities is rather infectious. Don't ever stop keeping the long forgotten alive.

@nerfytheclown

2 жыл бұрын

Who forgot what, now? Ya gotta speak up, there; Sonny...us over-fortieses, we don't hear so good.

@HoopleBogart

2 жыл бұрын

I could listen to Clint get hype about anything really

I can definitely hear the pleasure in your voice that you didn't have to troubleshoot offscreen for days scouring the archives for drivers and compatibilities etc

@LGRBlerbs

2 жыл бұрын

YES. Having things just work is an immense pleasure.

@woldemunster9244

2 жыл бұрын

@@LGRBlerbs Todd Howard reference? :p

That windows 98 startup sound never gets old

@unbearifiedbear1885

2 жыл бұрын

the nostalgia, dude 😔

@061Hitachi

2 жыл бұрын

I use WIN95 sound on my WIN10, it makes computing much more enjoyable but hearing Win98 sound on my PIII machine never gets boring.

A protocol-converter that hat 10 times the computing Power than the PC where to play the vintage Games on.... Wow.

@EndymionMkII

2 жыл бұрын

Peak LGR going on in this

@shadowflash705

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing new. It's like those emulated SID chips that use ARM CPUs that are fast enough to emulate C64 itself.

@andreasklindt7144

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there a computer system in the early 80's that had a floppy drive that almost got more CPU power than the actual computer itself?

@directrix1

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreasklindt7144 Commodore 64 disk drive had a processor that was as powerful as the main computer.

@quirble

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreasklindt7144 the apple laserwriter printer in 1985 had a faster CPU than the macintosh it was meant to be used with (12mhz 68000 vs 8mhz 68000), and the commodore 1541 disk drive had basically a miniaturized 64

I love that nearly every week there are people coming up with ways to further old tech's lifespan and even capabilities.

I just randombly found this video, but you brought me back decades ago with that sound it make as the desktop shows up. I started with windows 95 as my dad was teaching Microsoft Office at the first highschool with computers in my city somewhere in West Africa. All I did on his PC was play Prince of Persia and some F1 racing game I forgot the name of.

What this thing needs is drivers and support for vintage expansion card slots. Even allow software configuration from vintage machines. This thing is incredible.

@IngwiePhoenix

2 жыл бұрын

would be fun to just slap a serial port on, and have a program on the vintage system and then have them talk via the serial. I mean... could implement a JSON-RPC-ish system over serial. o.o

Wow, when you were describing it's concept I wasn't expecting it to have such robust features. What a useful little piece of hardware.

@johngangemi1361

2 жыл бұрын

The actual programming of this thing to do the translations would've taken a lot of work too.

Unbelievable. Just a couple of weeks ago I decided to use arduino as DIN keyboard DB9 serial mouse emulator with an usb hat on it and then here you go, there are other people thinking similarly! Love the idea!

@flecom5309

2 жыл бұрын

doing it with a $5 arduino is much more interesting to me than doing it with a $150 pi4, neat regardless

@koeihiroko3622

2 жыл бұрын

@UC8ZdiWWAssHwPkNTMTxL0iA totally agree, i do feel Pi is overpriced due to supply shortage. An Arduino or Teensy and more compact board design, even powered internally via DB15 5v gameport would be more interesting.

@unbearifiedbear1885

2 жыл бұрын

I definitely understood some of those words

@Louie_The_Dago

2 жыл бұрын

Except February which has 28

The Flirc project is also excellent which solves a similar problem. Converting the signals from Infrared Remote Controls to USB keyboard signals which work on any device with USB keyboard support. Great for Kodi HTPCs. There are some clever people out there.

After a 3 decade it career i seem to have a side job as hoarder of converter cables so i applaud to this gem! Also the use of the word 'Nifty' to describe the device is quite appropriate.

Seeing Clint Crack himself up is just icing on the cake. I love this project. Makes me want to build a machine

Those Kioxia Excera were selling for like £3 on Amazon not so long back, I bought a bunch of them for my consoles. Fun fact: Kioxia used to be Toshiba Memory but they were spun off into thier own thing; they have thier own NAND fabs in Japan.

@bk109

2 жыл бұрын

Weren't they the lads that had that massive fire that wiped out like 7 exabytes o' NAND las week?

@amirpourghoureiyan1637

2 жыл бұрын

@@bk109 Yeah, them and Western Digital.

@connorm955

2 жыл бұрын

Noted

@MrDymium

2 жыл бұрын

Test them with h2testw. There are a lot of fake SD cards on amazon

@TingFeng77

2 жыл бұрын

@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 since they actually share the same fab in japan

Since it's all in software, this could also double up as a neato TAS box. Recording input to a file, and playing it back.

I love watching blerbs - especially when Clint is so happy with a new thing to play with. THESE VIDEOS ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS [SCRIPTED] LGR

@ryanohara8938

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

I'm so glad he left the "Tinder" blooper in right there at the end.

You know, this could actually go a long way as an accessibility option for retro enthusiasts with physical handicaps.

I know you brushed over it, but that duckyPad is exactly what I've been looking for. Being a linux user, I can't bring myself to spend $150 on an elgato since I have to use the open source software to run it anyway, and that's surely over 80% of the cost. This looks much nicer, with better switches, and runs on linux! Honestly it looks like a steal at $70, hope you do a video on it Clint.

This would be great to have if you had an old PC on display at a meet up. Watch people's faces when you pass them a PS5 controller!

@balleater1538

2 жыл бұрын

He he ha ha!

This is super cool, I love it. I have a serial (RS-232) to PS/2 mouse converter for my 486 which lacks PS/2 mouse support. But this is on an entirely different level. I've dreamed of making a mechanical keyboard but the lack of Retro PC support was somewhat of a barrier. This opens some doors. Thank you for the blerb!

Holy cannoli, I love everything about this. And it has ADB!!

@LGRBlerbs

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see you test out the ADB module on some of your unique rigs. Imagine the possibilities!

@ActionRetro

2 жыл бұрын

@@LGRBlerbs PS5 controller to play ShufflePuck on a Mac SE... oh yes

@jeremyerwin2779

2 жыл бұрын

Does it support ADB joysticks, though? (A small number of games were released for MacOS 9's GameSprocket library, and those connected to the joystick directly, kind of like DirectInput. I had a cheap ADB joystick from mac ally, and I wanted to use it with "Starfleet Academy". So I wrote a crude program to poll the ADB bus, and then I ripped off the Microsoft Sidewinder example code to instead read the MacAlly's input. And then I could play my game. Ahh victory.

This is a awesome project. If they could eventually get it working for Unix machines such as Sun I could see it being useful. If somehow they got it working for NeXT machines I could see that being especially useful as without a working keyboard those cannot even be turned on let alone used. So much potential.

I love that he used a label maker to categorize the stuff for the back of the box... my kind of dude!

Yay!! I want it even though I don't even have a vintage computer

Even Dos is a jerk with Direct Input controllers /s. This project is cool as hell, what a time to be alive. Its like retro-futurism but it actually works.

EDIT: Holy crap, this can emulate AT keyboards too? This thing could replace a drawer full of adapters. This thing is *_rad_* I'd been working on something like this, but just for IBM PCs, using an MCP4451 to simulate the potentiometer for a flightstick. It looks like Deku had the exact same thought. Very cool! It's really well put together, really dig the modularity and design. Big props to dekuNukem

Clint’s childlike giddiness is one of the most uplifting things one can hear.

You know what must be done for a blerb now: using a Sony PS2 controller on an IBM PS/2.

@GreenLantern814

Жыл бұрын

OMG YES

@ArcadeIsMyLife1

Жыл бұрын

Stopped using PS2 controllers once I got a Brook Wingman PS2 converter for my PS2/PS1 and use the PS4 controller on it since I can't get an official PS3 controller online and the off brand ones on Amazon are all garbage and don't work. Mostly other bluetooth or wired controllers will work with it. PS5,Xbox Series,Switch etc.

@Astolfo2001

Жыл бұрын

The PS2 controllers I have currently are all third party ones. I personally wonder if one could use a Sunwaytek Syozen Z2 with the PS2 Wingman though.

You thank us for watching your blurbs; we thank you for making them!

Wow this is an amazing adapter for us retro enthusiasts. Thanks for the review!

fascinating device. definitely would like to see a video of you building and testing the other device too!

22:06 "How do I hold on?" We're here for you, Clint.

Love the concept! The ultimate compliment to this would be a video converter/scaler with connectors for older sources (CGA/ETA, RGB 15hz, old Mac 15 pin, etc..) and bundled into a single modular KVM so you can have numerous modern + retro devices share a common set of modern input peripherals and display.

That joystick menu reminded me of trying to setup my Logitech Wingman Rumblepad as a kid. We're definitely spoiled in the day and age with xinput. Even emulators do a great job with automatically mapping to Xbox 360 or xbone controllers.

Bru that's so damn intuitive man. Chef kiss to that man. Dude needs to keep going. I appreciate these/this dude's time to develop this.

What an awesome device! I also have fallen into the mechanical keyboard rabbithole that has taken over contemporary tech KZread as of late. I would love to hear your take on today's modern mechanical keyboards and switches from a retro perspective.

@TheDutchShepherd

2 жыл бұрын

As a laptop gamer that is highly sensitive to rabbitholes, but DOESNT have the time.. is it a solid choice to get a TKL g915 tactile?

Thank you lgr this is so cool since controller gaming has been viable on modern PC for last several years with different softwares it is so cool to see this on old PC with modern input device.... Really awesome video!

Thank you for sharing your insane blerblings Clint. I love these.

Ho Lee Schitt!! That is an AMAZING product right there, particularly considering it's just a prototype at the moment! So versatile, and working almost perfectly! I can foresee this being *VERY* popular when it goes on sale as a finished product. Really well-done!!

This actually blows my mind. Such a cool little device!

Real nice little project that surely helps many with getting old hardware up & running that happens too lack peripherals.

I like how "high" the trees look in the background ☺️

Aaannnddd... pledged. Thanks for letting us know about this Clint. I love supporting awesome open source projects like this.

This is so great! I was just looking for a USB to PS/2 solution a couple weeks ago and was shocked that nothing really seems to exist. But this does that and so much more! I backed the Kickstarter.

This video made my night! So fun to see the functionality and how much you enjoyed it.

Ah yes my favorite old-school inputs, the Dualsense, the Xbox Series Controller, and the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. Classics.

@d2factotum

2 жыл бұрын

Um, the video is about using new controllers on old PCs, so why is it a surprise those are what he used?

@oqocraft2661

2 жыл бұрын

You're making me cry of nostalgia of when I first started playing with Joycons on the Atari 2600

@Photo0021

2 жыл бұрын

@@oqocraft2661 How about Wii Remotes on the Commodore 64?

@AzzurraIrisLeaMonde

2 жыл бұрын

@@Photo0021 There are no limits in theory.. All that matters is computing power, translating code and signals and having the right hardware.. Potential is limitless.. FPGA and after market peripherals for the Amiga are one of the examples.. : D

Just got mine today after supporting the kickstarter back in Feb, thanks Clint! Never would have known about it!

Oh my goodness I'm so used to you pulling out some random black 80s/90s box with white writing and sepia tone pictures I thought I was having a stroke when I looked away and looked back at the video and one of the pictures was moving. You and your tablet fooled me in the most amazing way lol.

I use that Aptiva case as my daily. Modern stuff fits in it perfectly

this blew my mind! great video bruv!

Love how this channel is growing

Haptic feedback is created using just sound files so in theory that could be emulated as well using the in game sounds

@IngwiePhoenix

2 жыл бұрын

dude I didn't even consider that O.O But you are right, ain't those just some voice coils? Audio passthrough to filter out the deeps to send to the controller, perhaps?

I've been looking for this for years... Preordered!

Absolutely fascinated by this device!

I was confused when the piece of paper you were holding started scrolling lol, it's rare to see screens on video that dont have any moire artifacts. We're living in the future!

This is just awesome!!!! Kickstarter here I come!

It's really a great thing you can use an old Pi to complete this set. Actually, it may be its saving grace. At the moment, anything Pi-based has poor expectations to succeed if it requires the newest and greatest since new Pi prices are a complete deal breaker. And although supposedly that should change one day, who knows when the day will come. Yes, a considerable number of people already had modern Pis bought before the shortage, but the present situation has a huge impact on the prospects of projects like this. You don't typically want to swap a single Pi around lots of builds, unplugging and reconnecting lots of cables and stuff.

@JendrossekSip

2 жыл бұрын

First thing i did at the start of this 'era' is ordering two Pi4 kits and a bunch of soldering components for my Arduino. Remembering the situation on HD's after floods in Thailand some years ago, i saw this coming and it is not even at the worst yet..

@joemarais7683

2 жыл бұрын

IMO the Pi is a dead platform for hobbyists. There's no point in using it when the garbage silicon costs over a hundred bucks, and now that scalpers know people will feel the need to buy at those prices, especially in the education sector, there's no going back.

@BilisNegra

2 жыл бұрын

@@joemarais7683 Overall, you might be right, since prices are not expected to go back to normal until next year at the very least. Admittedly, there are still places with some Pi 400 stock left at normal prices, but of course, the 400 isn't really versatile unless you do sketchy things like trying to get the board out of the case and stuff like that...

This is great! I've been looking for something exactly like this recently.

Awesome prototype. side note, those speakers never get old to me.

wow, what a cool project, thanks for showing it off!

Looks like Clint has a new favorite oddware! Amazing little device!!

That thing is awesome! Well done dekuNukem.

Whelp there went some money. Backed and excited to get mine for both PC/XT/AT and Apple ADB. Such a cool project.

Great video Clint.

dekuNukem! I immediately recognized that name because I have been using his Nintendo Switch Reverse Engineering Github repository for a project. I am making a chip (ESP32) pretend to be a Switch Pro Controller and his repo was essential. Congrats to the dude for making such cool hardware, too!

I really like the Weird side of vintage tech, and you do that rather well! :P

The controller I currently personally use for PC and Android gaming is the Sunwaytek Syozen Z2. Sure, it can be a major pain in the butt to update and (sometimes) connect via bluetooth but it's still a major treat to play games on. Almost all of its buttons use mechanical switches like a mechanical keyboard so it's a must buy imo.

What a useful project. I like it!

I don't think I have ever seen Clint so happy. Now he got a use for this Model F77. 😁

Oh hey, now you can use the USB Gravis Gamepad Pro in DOS like it's a regular one.

That is very awesome. Seeing a PS5 controller playing games using Windows 98 is amazing.

I love this! Not just this is a well thought out project by one of your fans to make modern input devices work on vintage machines, also is it one of those amazing Raspberry Pi projects that show just how versatile these are thanks to the GPIO. Really, really cool stuff and I imagine, other than the luck of Bluetooth a Pi 1 would be plenty already to make this work.

Could use a modern steering wheel for some dos driving games

Curious about the ADB one now. At first I couldn't think of why it would have two ADB ports, because unlike PS/2 it's a bus, and most Macs only have one, but then realized it must be a pass-thru, like a Mac keyboard would have. That's very well thought out of the creator, as there were a handful of neat ADB devices. Also, ADB joypads weren't as common as their PC counterparts so this is most useful.

The guys that developed this are straight up GENIUSES! It's really amazing what they've done here...

@seshpenguin

2 жыл бұрын

@@ps5hasnogames55 I mean, writing the software to work as cleanly/intuitively as it does isn't that easy, nor is PCB layout and product design. If this was a really simple thing than the market would've already been flooded with cheap devices.

Seeing new and old technology merged like this is just amazing I think. A RaspberryPi, PS5 and old IBM computers working together. Just great! :D

Everyone today has the possibility to use the most advanced technology and create mind boggling stuff, and so much of the effort is used to create things like this that just makes people like us with 40 years old computers happy. The world is a wonderful place in some aspects.

I had forgotten how loud those BigFoot drives were. I used to work in a PC shop when they were on the market, and they were the most RMA'd drives we shipped. It's a miracles yours still works!

This is such a game changer! Unreal

That is really cool! I gotta get me one of those!

Best part of this video is how happy it made you.

I've been using it now for a few months with a 2.4Ghz dongle + BT keyboard and a 2.4Ghz dongle mouse, also tried XBox One and 8bit.do M30 controllers and it feels great. Now I don't need my old joypads anymore (Gravis and others) as the M30 is far better. Can even switch the keyboard to Bluetooth for typing on the laptop next to my DOS / Win98SE PC and back without it causing problems. I'm really happy with it and don't want to miss it ever again! Thanks for making me aware of it's existence! :D

@LGRBlerbs

Жыл бұрын

For sure, I’m happy to hear you’ve had good results! I’m still using it myself, it’s so darned useful.

I never thought I would see a Dualsense controller working flawlessly with Windows 98

This thing is rad! You should showcase this on the main site. it's worthy.

Nice project specially for XT. Anyway, I used to have an USB keyboard with my Pentium-MMX back then as my motherboard had AT port + 2 USB ports, I think this will more useful for PCs older than Pentium where USB wasn't available out of box.

@LGRBlerbs

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely, this is tailor-made for machines from before 1996 or so. Like the IBM AT at 17:41

Absolute madness... love it

Very neat plugin for people with retro computers. I don't have any of those, but at least I got to listen a little to the model f keyboard in this video. Looking forward to receiving mine. It has been somewhere over a year that I ordered it, but I think I ordered a industrial grey like the one LGR uses.

How Blerby. Good stuff. NGL seeing it run on that IBM XT was pretty cool.

I have wanted this sooo badly for sooo long! I will pay him literally any amount of money for one of these!!

Wow i really love this homebrew hardware

Wizardry indeed, what a great little project!

Ppl are amazing aren’t they.cheers from Australia

Du-hude, this is the content I live for.

Yeah, safe to say I was stunned when I plugged in a wired ps3 controller into windows 98se and it had no problems recognizing the various inputs on it, letting me use it pretty much straight away. This project takes that to the next logical level. Well done!

@ionstorm66

2 жыл бұрын

PS3/PS4 are standard USB gamepads which connected with USB. It should work with anything that supports USB gamepads. The Xbox360/One use Xinput which isn't supported before vista. This is why it's common to use PS3/4 controller with phones. As long as the app supports controller input, you have no issues as the OS native supports it.

@talibong9518

2 жыл бұрын

@@ionstorm66 Only generic wired PS3 controllers support direct input, official 6axis & DS3 controllers won't work on windows without special drivers.

@ionstorm66

2 жыл бұрын

@@talibong9518 You should double check that. The basic controller functions are use a HID controller. The fancy stuff needs drivers, IE analog face buttons, gyro, leds, etc.

the sound of the floppy being pushed in so that a ps5 controller can be used to play the game. Priceless

This seems incredible.

I feel like this is just asking to be built directly into an Isa card. Just amazing!

This is so cool. It's like a project I started for myself ages ago that started as a means to let me use a Dreamcast keyboard (and controllers) on any PC...then feature creep took hold and I went from there, eventually wanted to include the ability to use any controller I wanted on OG Xbox but I lost interest before then...I did add support to use othe controllers on Megadrive and PSX but that's trivial

What a great device - fab!