I love how old tech can merge with new tech via dongles. Its like magic

@UNSCPILOT

4 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the raw versatility of Android

@pjbroke335

4 жыл бұрын

Only if apple would use dongles the right way

@Digalog

4 жыл бұрын

Linux power

@aidancommenting

4 жыл бұрын

@@Digalog I love Linux. It works with basically everything

@beaumontlivingston8084

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not magic, it isn’t even smart...it’s called usb (universal serial bus) UNIVERSAL! dumbasses!!! And for the record,you can use that usb floppy on an iPhone as well, clearly no one here is smart enough to fully utilize your iPhone to its full potential. SHOCKER that Apple users are useless 😂😂😂 idiots.

This is the exact reason why I watch this channel--because of batshit crazy antics like hooking a floppy disk drive and an IBM Model M up to a phone for the specific purpose of playing Commander Keen. My life is made whole.

@JustWasted3HoursHere

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be funny to lug that model m keyboard around, plop down on a park bench and start sending texts with it. Just to see the look on people's faces.

@lloydlandrum3040

4 жыл бұрын

@@JustWasted3HoursHere I would do odd stuff like that just for laughs

@tomypower4898

4 жыл бұрын

RichardKidd2010 Yes PK

@tomyyoung2624

Ай бұрын

Yes very impressive on the surface?

Backwards compatibility Level god

@MF175mp

3 жыл бұрын

How about RS232 usb adapter in the OTG? I have heard that it works as well. I could contact my 2020 phone with my 1982 CNC lathe and run it with the dos software from 1995 if I wanted to.

@alemutasa6189

3 жыл бұрын

That's why I'm tired of the shit Microsoft and Sony give the players that want it but it's "too difficult and ridden with technical issues"

@santi100a

3 жыл бұрын

The really UNIVERSAL use of USB, which can provide us extreme backwards compatibility.

@ahmadsoltani1094

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👏

@bobrandale4864

2 жыл бұрын

Anyone ever wonder why your "newer" PCs start with drive C:? What's happened to Drives A and B; why are those designations still reserved? (still for floppy access?)

Man, 50 years from now there will be a dude loading a PlayStation 10 game from a quantum calculator and people will be like "it's not that impressive"

@haseenabadshah5381

3 жыл бұрын

169 likes lmao

@Gladuos1

2 жыл бұрын

Truuuuue

@horaciodelre2210

2 жыл бұрын

50 years? that's gonna happend in 10 years!

@alejandrovallejo6763

Жыл бұрын

Kind like we do know with Doom runing on calculators and smart fridges.

This is like having a horse tow my car.

@Azathoth43

5 жыл бұрын

Dude, you totally missed an opportunity to mention that this can't be done on an iPhone.

@CattoRayTube

5 жыл бұрын

I'd say it's more like having a car tow a horse.

@TJrcTX

5 жыл бұрын

William Kulich except that's actually a thing (horse trailer)

@Landrew0

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it's gone too deep into obsolete tech this time.

@ilusha88

5 жыл бұрын

More like using a car to replace the horse in a chariot.

This is probably the most needlessly complicated way of playing DOS games ever I love it

@wildbill23c

5 жыл бұрын

Could you imagine going to the coffee shop, pulling your new $1,000 phone out of your pocket along with an OTG cable (nothing really spectacular)...but then pulling out a 3.5" diskette drive and a diskette I could just hear and see it now, dead silence and death stares HAHA!!! Excellent.

@jkholtgreve

5 жыл бұрын

Hey man it’s a lot more portable than a Kaypro :p

@Strawberry92fs

5 жыл бұрын

If you used a less magnificent (and heavy) keyboard the whole kit would weigh less than my laptop.

@kevinburrell4327

5 жыл бұрын

David Key He was just showing us how it would actually work and I think it's HELLA cool. Android rocks!!

Phone: hi my friend Floppy: *I'm your friends grand father.*

@haseenabadshah5381

3 жыл бұрын

69 likes lmao

@user-fr4ss4lm9i

Ай бұрын

Инцест какой-то

I thought you were just some random nerd until I watched further and realized that you're just some random mad genius.

@alberteinstein127

4 жыл бұрын

whats wrong with being a nerd? you got something against nerds? ...

@RickyRat256

3 жыл бұрын

Albert Einstein lmao

@jacksong6226

3 жыл бұрын

And you think Einstein was a genius??? He got lucky but most of his theories inaccurate hence why we have to make quantum physics to vill the huge voids Einstein left he is nit nearly the genius people credit him to be

@Someone_that_is_very_tired

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacksong6226 dude ta fak

@derealized797

3 жыл бұрын

Check out Techmoan on here if you want to see more... I guess obscure technology from the past. Like I never knew that wire recorders existed. New reel to reel players and strange devices that barely lasted a year

Are you kidding me? This is absolutely pointless and a complete waste of time. I LOVE IT!

@morganrussman

5 жыл бұрын

:D

@morganrussman

5 жыл бұрын

Right, exactly the whole point of LGR. :D

This was cool . Crazy we have more power in our pockets than we did in the 90's with those huge power hungry PCs.

@reactking7093

5 жыл бұрын

Lon.TV yep times sure do change

@xerzy

5 жыл бұрын

The craziest thing - we've had it for many, many years. Many early 2000s mobile devices were already powerful enough to run ports of games such as DOOM, or even fully-fledged emulators like those for the PSP (it can even run PS1 and Nintendo 64 stuff!) - they just didn't have neat USB ports like now our phones do. Later in the decade, we would have e.g. SEGA saying that the original iPhone was as powerful as the Dreamcast (kotaku.com/5026060/sega-the-iphone-is-as-powerful-as-the-dreamcast). We _do_ have more power in our pockets than _desktops_ in the 2000s, and in fact more powerful than most were like five-ten years ago - think 1-4 GB of RAM, early Intel Core processors with two cores, quite competent GPUs for 1080p games at most... and now compare to flagships which can be bought from as little as $400-500 when looking well enough, or even cheaper phones.

@Alexander-yc5rm

5 жыл бұрын

espectalll And we use this power generally for posting food and hips on instagram

@xerzy

5 жыл бұрын

NuntiusLegis Some USB-C devices support DisplayPort and/or HDMI, sooooooooo yeah, could be possible?

@matsv201

5 жыл бұрын

Arm cortex A73 can do 6,35 (25 with 4 cores) practical instruction per cycle (a A9 can do 2.5 for reference, 10 with 4 cores) (A7, A8 and A9 have simular design, A15, A32, A35 and A53 have similar design, but A53 have more power, Simuarly A57 and A73 is somewhat similar) That calculate 1.5Ghz for the A9 and 2,8Gz for the A73.. Giving us 7,5G instruction per second for A9 (2 core) and 70 for a A73 (4 core). So lets se if we can find a simular older CPU in performance. Closest match for a A9 dual core is a AMD Athlon XP 2500+ that at 1.8Ghz preform 7,52Gips. Closest match for a A73 at 71Gips is a AMD Phenom II X6 1100T at 78Gips. A9 with this specification hit the market around 2009, the XP 2500+ hit the market around 2001. A73 hit the market 2016 and the Phenom II X6 in 2010. So it would seam like the mobile CPU lag about 6-8 year after. This is not quite correct. Generally the Mobile CPU take a lot longer to reach market, up to two years longer. Neither desktop CPU was top tear either. Closest top tear to the A73 would be a Intel Core i7 920 (4-core). Now we talking 2008. Ad 1 or 2 exta years for mobile CPU to hit mass market, and that would give 9-10 year lag. Its stil pretty close. The diffrance on the GPU side is quite a bit bigger. One importante take a way from this is that stationary CPU of the same year generaly have a lot higher IPC. Intel Core i7 920 from 2008 have over 7 while A9 from 2009 have only 2,5. Simuarly for 2016 the A73 have 6,3 while Intel Core i7 from the same year have over 10. But it seams like the gap is closing. The IPC race seams to be over. The same way the frequency race was over in early 2000. Now we are on the core race. That said. For single threaded aplication, mobile CPU pretty much cought up

This brought back so many memories. I remember in the 6th grade, I used to Cary around a floppy disk full of "rare" Dragonball Z pictures I would find on internet explorer whenever I had a chance to use the internet. That noise is so nostalgic.

@learrus

Жыл бұрын

I too had floppy disks with "rare" manga and anime pictures saved from any online terminal I could find back then... Some took like five minutes to load on screen on our family offline 386.

reading a 3.5 floppy from an android phone "amuses me endlessly"

The most surprising thing in this entire video was that the USB hub wasn't woodgrain finish! ;)

@_jagger1407

5 жыл бұрын

I was actually more suprised about the fact that he OPENED AN .exe FILE ON A PHONE!

@real_Artemis

5 жыл бұрын

350Z boi It's dosbox. It's not that surprising. DosBox has been on android for a while

@_jagger1407

5 жыл бұрын

I know, i mean you probably can't play post-2000 games. It was just weird seeing it for the first time

‘Hug a Floppy Disk’ - With your affection, it may become a Hard Disk.

@Edward-it9cr

5 жыл бұрын

;)

@eNodeTG

5 жыл бұрын

Please don't ruin for us what Clint does in his spare time. This is a PG channel. I'm sure he has various personal relationships with older equipment that are none of our business.

@Arctic740

5 жыл бұрын

;)

@poet215

5 жыл бұрын

:3

@SnowBunneh

5 жыл бұрын

:3 Of course someone had to make it weird I love it

LGR: *plays DOS games from a floppy drive with a PS/2 keyboard* iPhone users: 😵

@SuchByte

5 жыл бұрын

@@realvivifromloona sorry I'm german and my english is not so good. That you take my little mistakes so closely shows that you're just an Apple fanboy.

@fungusaz4887

5 жыл бұрын

@@realvivifromloona The comment is relevant to the video as he's saying that iPhone users are sad that they cannot do this. You're probably one of those users that he's referring to. You're mad salty bruv.

@True2TheBlueYoViGang

5 жыл бұрын

@@fungusaz4887 yeah he's being a dick. This is the internet not an English assignment.

@keselekbakiak

5 жыл бұрын

@@realvivifromloona triggered!

@keselekbakiak

5 жыл бұрын

@@realvivifromloona again . . triggered!

love the clicky sound of the keyboard, I miss that.

@DarkTapes

4 жыл бұрын

@@iamnid I totally would if I had a desktop setup! First thing I'd fire up would be One Must Fall 2097 on DosBox mmm.

@DarkTapes

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fractal_blip so many awesome ones out there now!

This video is so 90's! I mean, not just the game and the tech. I mean the method and the madness. "I've never really tried this before, but I mean, theoretically it should work. It has a slot for it, right?" That was the mentality of computers in the 90's. If it looked like it could fit, you went out to the store and checked if they had something that could fit that slot. If not, you went through all your catalogs to try and find something, then ordered it, waited 3 months for it to arrive, tested it and hoped for the best. And sometimes it worked. And 15-20 years later, one of the dudes that did all that made a phone in pretty much the same way, and now we're all watching another dude from that same era doing the same thing to that type of phone. Some even watching from that type of phone.

@BrainSlugs83

5 жыл бұрын

Nah there was a bunch of stuff that fit but that didn't work -- the 90s was terrible for it -- like people were plugging Atari joysticks into their PC com ports and wondering why it didn't work. -- Today everything is USB and you can just plug it in and it will work. Hence how he's able to plug a floppy drive into his phone. ;-)

@morphman86

5 жыл бұрын

@@BrainSlugs83 atari isn't a 90s pc though...

@ShadowlordDio

5 жыл бұрын

i just plugged a xbox360 wireless usb antenna to a Samsung note 2 multimedia dock... i dont know how but it recognized my wireless xbox360 controller and a playstation sixaxis one via bluetooth at the same time while connected to a crt sony trinitron wega with a hdmi to component adapter. Played Zelda Ocarina of time. now i tried with my Samsung note 4 and the joysticks are not seen by android :C but i think i can change my rom from XDA developers to make it work

@ranger9047

4 жыл бұрын

I have the same phone he does lol

@rustyhangerabortions

4 жыл бұрын

@@morphman86 no, but 90's pc's did have serial ports, which used the same connector as an Atari 2600/7800 joystick. But, if you really want to be OCD about it, he could have said Genesis controller, and it would have been the exact same connector, with the exact same result as the Atari controller, just with a controller for a console that was around in the 90's. But that's really all just semantics here. His point was that the serial (COM) port had the DB9 plug, just like MANY joysticks, but the serial port was not compatible with those DB9 console joysticks.

When the disk drive is larger than the computer and screen together...

@molo-molo5103

5 жыл бұрын

G. Confalonieri XD, YUP

This is absurd and insanely brilliant at the same time.

8:52 it is so funny to see an Android phone controlled by an IBM keyboard 😂

Using an IBM Model M to play DOS games, loaded directly from a floppy, on a mobile phone... If that isn't the most LGR thing I've ever seen, then I don't know what is...

This is glorious nonsense of the highest order. :P

@elektroni

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing.

@DoomRater

5 жыл бұрын

No, what's nonsense are the people who call storing things on these floppies secure. The drives are available on Walmart.com for $20.

@DoomRater

5 жыл бұрын

You're joking, right? Both the Pentagon and Norway's Doctors are examples of people not only still using the technology on a regular basis but also claiming they're more secure than alternatives. gizmodo.com/norways-doctors-still-use-floppy-disks-and-theyre-more-1733353595 and cloudhesive.com/pentagons-use-of-floppy-disks-probably-safer-than-newer-technologies/

@DoomRater

5 жыл бұрын

And to be fair, converting an 8 inch floppy drive to USB is tougher and more expensive than 3.5 inch, since those just exist as end market products, but it's certainly not impossible.

@joojoojeejee6058

5 жыл бұрын

I have never even seen an 8 inch floppy, and I have been computing for 30+ years... So, it's safe to say that those are RARE. They were rare and obsolete even in the mid 1980s.

I love how delighted Clint is by plugging a Model M into a phone in order to play DOS games.

Ifone11: 4 cameras Android: floppy drive

@av28379

4 жыл бұрын

Iphone*

@xxSome3Girlxx

4 жыл бұрын

When I get my iPhone 11 I’m definitely gonna find a way to make it read floppy disks tbh

@imleohi192

4 жыл бұрын

@@khoado2060 what about the front camera

@CosmicFox2007

4 жыл бұрын

@@av28379 r/woooosh as fuck

@biprr4993

4 жыл бұрын

CyberXarex YT what’s the joke

Everything working as expected, in a configuration that was not expected when they were made. How great are USB and the related standards.

@sanketubyitkkkjnnobagwe4651

5 жыл бұрын

P

@CheapCheerful

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. The fact any of this works is both surprising, and not at all surprising... brilliant!

@Lugiavsgiratina

5 жыл бұрын

P

And now grab a bunch of friends with their phones, have them bring some old keyboards, install Doom on their phones with DOSBox using a floppy drive, have them plug in an Ethernet adapter and the keyboard into a hub, the hub then to OTG, and to the phones, connect up the Ethernet adapters to a local network, and play Doom on the phones, on old keyboards, installed from a floppy, over LAN! How cool would that be?

@BrainSlugs83

5 жыл бұрын

No need for Ethernet, the phones already have Wi-Fi...

@andregon4366

5 жыл бұрын

@@BrainSlugs83 Where's the fun in that? And use a dial up modem.

@zapo4867

5 жыл бұрын

Maniura no

@SocialSpit

5 жыл бұрын

Maniura I had DOOM running on DosBox on my iPad mini! It ran great! I even had a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard so it was fully functional. It wouldn’t be too difficult to hook up a Head to Head lan party!

@hexagonist23

Жыл бұрын

@@andregon4366 And plug the phone's screen to a CRT monitor

You’re telling me that I can put doom 2 on a floppy disk and put doom 2 on my phone if I wanted to? yay.

@TheGamingComputerBomb

4 жыл бұрын

Chef Of Chernobyl it takes multiple floppy disks, you would need to install it

@alphatrion100

4 жыл бұрын

There is a port of Doom 2 in the appstore. Alot easier

@daemonspudguy

4 жыл бұрын

@@alphatrion100 not when this was posted 7 months ago

Joke's on you, you'd need a mouse or keybo.. LGR: hold my beer.

"Clint just use the touchscreen of your phone" "NO, I WANT A KEYBOARD AND A FLOPPY DISK DRIVE D:

The ultimate "Because I can" attempt. Love it!

So cool mixing old and new gears together! I really enjoyed that one!

I'm just realized that I've had a nonstop smile from 3:04 till the end!

Can we have a Doom LAN party using smartphones?

@lordwarcraft666

5 жыл бұрын

That could be awesome!!!!

@stili774

5 жыл бұрын

Theoretically, there are USB C Lan adapters for android… So YES

@lordwarcraft666

5 жыл бұрын

OR you can install gzdoom app and play via wifi

@Jacksquatch69

5 жыл бұрын

Install KALI on it, and run Duke Nukem 3d Multiplayer!

@msh1044

5 жыл бұрын

It is actually possible to use a USB Ethernet cable and make this in to a LAN party. But you could just go regular Wifi. But hey, what would be the fun in that right? :P

What?!! Old DOS game playing on a Android phone off a floppy? Mind blown.

@lizcoupar3073

5 жыл бұрын

Not as mind blowing as Android running on a old DOS PC.

LGR, you're just the best !!! Greetings from Toulouse, in France.

8:28 this is how apple treats users with a headphone jack

@SeaNBlack

4 жыл бұрын

underrated coment

@miketropic9690

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeaNBlack Not really

What a time to be alive!

@frankschneider6156

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, much better than being dead and rotting away.

@YesIAmThatCoolBitch

5 жыл бұрын

Always looking at the bright side of life, that's what I like about you Frank.

@joojoojeejee6058

5 жыл бұрын

StockyDoccy, look at the bright side, quite probably you will be reincarnated later as a Chinese or inbred muslim... ;) Don't worry, life will be nothing like it is for you today!

@Psythik

5 жыл бұрын

My money's on technology advancing enough in about 50 years that we can upload our consciousness to the internet, so if you're younger than 30, immortality is a very real possibility for you.

@joojoojeejee6058

5 жыл бұрын

Psythik But how would you know, whether the uploaded and duplicated consciousness is the "real you" or just a copy and a consciousness of its own... When you die, your consciousness doesn't just magically reappear in the copy, although it seems so from an outside observer's perspective.

I laughed out loud when he took out the keyboard. Never change.

@unknow123abc

5 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for him to pull out a keyboard I remember doing some otg things on the Nexus 5 way back when

The amount of joy you get from this makes me happy!

I just love how happy and excited you were when the keyboard worked. The giggles tell it all. You really do it for the satisfaction, and you love it.

Wood grain, of course.

@WorldsWorstBoy

5 жыл бұрын

resident grigo You know he had to 😎

@qallincha

5 жыл бұрын

I alreadey have seen the computer and the floppy drive. Now I also like the phone.

@Chaos89P

5 жыл бұрын

resident grigo You mean the phone? Of course it had to be woodgrain. This is LGR we're talking about, after all. Woodgrain is a necessity.

@4Wilko

5 жыл бұрын

What else could it possibly be?

@CynthiaJohnston

4 жыл бұрын

@@4Wilko With LGR, he'd probably jump at the possibility of a phone with an all-wood body. Actually, there is a wood called 'lignim vitae'. Supposedly a wood that's even tougher than ironwood. Now I'M getting interested in the possibility....

The thing that amuses me the most about Android USB peripherals is when you plug in a mouse, a cursor shows up on screen automatically!

@fixman88

5 жыл бұрын

+David Wegmuller My Amazon Fire HD8 tablet does that too (FireOS is basically a reskinned version of Android with the Google Play Store removed...before I put it back).

@JonathanGray89

5 жыл бұрын

Android is based off of the Linux kernel the same as any Linux distro so really none of this should be surprising. At the same time it's like finding an easter egg in a video game.

@KuraIthys

5 жыл бұрын

That's not too surprising if you dig into the underlying systems; You'll find that mouse, keyboard and touchscreen are all unique devices recognised by the system. But it's also worth remembering that: 1. Linux kernel (thankfully none of the god-awful GNU crap on top of it though.) 2. Android exists on more than just phones; Also includes tablets, set top boxes, small laptop-like devices, single chip computers, etc. So, the underlying system has to support a bunch of different form factors, several of which by definition lack any touchscreen hardware.

@gaigejohnson7603

5 жыл бұрын

Just plugged in my mouse to my phone, and had myself a good laugh. Never would have expected that to work.

@smjpl

5 жыл бұрын

+KuraIthys Why do you not like the GNU packages?

I have an ancient floppy disk game called, "Out Of This World." I look forward to playing it again after all these decades. It was my favourite game from the 80386 days.

Man, I’ve been enjoying your videos for a while now but, this one connects with me especially. Thanks for all your work! I am thoroughly entertained...

I never even knew this was possible until now

@beefyappa

5 жыл бұрын

Sadie Blackwell |-/

@beefyappa

5 жыл бұрын

Sadie Blackwell |-/

@beefyappa

5 жыл бұрын

Sadie Blackwell |-/

@stili774

5 жыл бұрын

Normaly you use the USB for HDD connection.

@TwskiTV

5 жыл бұрын

There was a time when I was learning to speedrun Quake that I played during a trip using a Android phone, a USB mouse connected via OTG and my older phone (that had a physical keyboard) connected via Bluetooth to act as a keyboard Obviously it wasn't anywhere near playing on a PC but I had the idea and wanted to know if it was possible :P

I bought this version of DOS Box because of this video and I can say it was definitely worth the $3.49

Indeed it works flawlessly. To avoid carrying the laptop around old winding machines (1980s) to load programs from floppy disks and upload to machines via serial cables, I am using a Galaxy S3 phone, DosBox, a usb floppy drive, a usb-RS232 serial converter and done! Saved me a lot of time and headaches!

@Akutukananu

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!!!!

Notice the addition of an "ANDROID" and "LOST DIR" folders. That's probably what the activity was at the beginning, since Android always places those (and possible other things as well) when something that doesn't have them is plugged in.

Next up on LGR: Connecting a punch card reader into a smartphone 😂

@stargirl3352

5 жыл бұрын

Theoretically it's possible

@elizataylor1726

5 жыл бұрын

Dot matrix printer.

@Katzelle3

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn't you just use the camera?

@cosminogloocosy1154

5 жыл бұрын

XD XD XD

@doctordank4229

5 жыл бұрын

Bet

To show you the power of _international standards_ I split this Type-C port in half!

@televisionandcheese

5 жыл бұрын

IE EE

3:00 Wait slow down with the techno babble, full of things? That's way over my head

I'm amazed and surprised! I've already used pendrive and keyboard via OTG and USB hub, but two things I've never thought that were possible: 1) Enough current (I mean Amperage) to make the floppy drive work; 2) Compatibility with the good old DOS, after all Android is just a Linux flavor! I miss those simple and funny old DOS games!

I've been a fan of your channel for a while now, but this was probably one of the most delightfully unnecessary and manical cackle-inducing videos I've seen. Thank you for reminding me about the time I used to get my mom to buy shareware floppies at the local Revco.

I'm a simple man. I see a video about plugging a disk drive into a smartphone, and I click. (No, seriously, this is god-tier geekery. This is why I love your channel.)

I’ve just this minute transferred images from my Sony Mavica floppy disc camera to my android phone! Thanks so much for the great video!

10:11 “Embrace my giddiness, because I am genuinely having fun!” I need this on a plaque

That was just delightfully random :D I'm actually very impressed it worked as well as it did.

If you could also manage to run a dot-matrix-printer with this configuration you would have a perfect mobile office ... from 1989's point of view

@givolettorulez

5 жыл бұрын

I had to interface a dot matrix printer at work for a POS-like application. IT had a built-in USB port and a RS-232 port (I'm not surprised)

I am loving this so much right now :D, just amazing. Thanks a lot for showing how all these different things from different eras actually work together.

"Not very impressive on the surface"? This is the most impressive thing I've seen today. Please keep doing this kind of thing!

Easily one of the best video titles ever!

@LGR

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, sir!

@tomyyoung2624

2 жыл бұрын

YES A RABBIT! !

That was pretty awesome. Such a mating of technology separated by decades. It's almost like time travel. Thanks LGR for the trip.

I love it! I know I'd never do any of these things myself, but it's so much fun to watch you do it.

It is so cool you can use retro stuff with contemporary stuff. Thanks for telling us about dos box. Didn't know that program existed. Great video.

I can already see everyone walking around with their wicked floppy disk drives to use on their phones.

I am efing amazed. That DosBox it's simply crazy. This give me the feeleing that our phones have so much more potential than we are giving credit to. I don't know, i love this crazy stuff you do. Keep doing it please. I dream with a world where every sphone runs DOOM natively, being played with a rusty plastic keyobard like that. Floppy hugs to you from Argentina 🤗

@zosxavius

5 жыл бұрын

The interface is the limitation. This video shows that very clearly IMO. Smart phones are on par with PCs 10 years ago. Pretty fast, but they still have a long ways to go and battery capacity as well as being limited to passive cooling is certainly a limiting factor.

@BrainSlugs83

5 жыл бұрын

I really liked Microsoft's idea of being able to connect a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to a phone and use it as a low powered desktop. It's too bad that their phone's OS was so crappy. -- It would have sold better if it had been compatible with Android. -- They'd still be making phones today if they had been.

@alexc3504

5 жыл бұрын

@@BrainSlugs83 i forgot windows phones even existed

That disk reading sound really got me excited. Damn you 80s

This just made my day, complete madness. Brilliant!!

I send config files to Cisco routers and SSH into Outlet Gateways with my Note 8 using a Terminal emulator, a USB OTG adapter, a USB Serial cable, and a USB network adapter. It works flawless every time and saves me from having to carry around a laptop.

This just shows why I will never return to iOS. Best thing about Android is that all those things just work. If you can hook it through USB or in any other way, there is a way to make it work on Android. And actually I've used Android phones for DOS gaming for quite some time. Bluetooth keyboard and a way to connect phone to TV, even wireless connection is good enough if you don't mind extra 50 ms lag. On iPhone you can't even run DosBOX, because Apple forbids emulators in AppStore.

@freddiesen

5 жыл бұрын

Leeki85 I think it’s about what the end user wants. I’ve been using Mac since about 1994 and have no use for DOS (and can’t imagine a MAC user from that era would want to), though I appreciate the novelty of loading it onto a phone, but my iPhone does everything I want to do and I don’t feel constricted. I find shoehorning certain experiences into a phone just doesn’t work, though with some accessories (eg a game pad or a keyboard) there is some limited functionality. If I need more I just go back to my laptop.

@LeeBondo

5 жыл бұрын

I used. To think the same way when I had my Sony Xperia phone but honestly now. I just want my phone to make calls, write texts, video calling is handy and some light boredom browsing or KZread browsing and I find iPhone far superior for those things. Anything else like gaming or emulation I have a windows laptop and a Modded OG Xbox. You can’t beat iOS for ease of use and not having to keep messing about with cache cleaning etc. With Android your forever sorting it out to keep it running nice

@hexagonist23

Жыл бұрын

@@LeeBondo In the future smartphones won't even have a touchscreen or any sort of interaction. It will just do what it wants you to want it to do.

I love the melding of old and new tech - nice work!

Great video 👌 very cool I really like the fact I can see you do these things like this because most people including myself won't normally have this kind of equipment like you do so keep up the good work appreciate what you're doing on your channel.

Goofy? Yes Unnecessary? Yes Awesome? Yes Sounds like LGR

@QJ89

5 жыл бұрын

Drink a Beer and Play a Game #madscientist

@morganrussman

5 жыл бұрын

:D

OTG USB adapters are handy AF

Man this video was really good. Great seeing what modern hardware can do with legacy hardware. And it has a really heart-warming charm to it.

I just recently found LGR on here and subscribed after 1 video. But this one so far is the best video to date.

This is absolutely ridiculous and I love it.

It's so disheartening watching things like this be totally possible on an Android device whilst knowing just how many hoops I'd have to jump through to achieve the same thing on my Apple iPhone.

@c0mpu73rguy

5 жыл бұрын

Peanut Turner At least you can do ot. I’m pretty sure I can’t do that on my Sony Ericsson Z310i (the best of what 2007 technology could offer).

@InvalidUser18

5 жыл бұрын

It's so disheartening to see how many KZreadrs don't have LG K7 phone cases.

@TonyLeva

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think you could even do it on an iPhone!

@ihave7sacks

5 жыл бұрын

Apples business model is awful. They only let you do what they want you to do. And they tell you what you want to do. I like to do whatever I wanna do with my tech. Like make my own ringtone or have my own wallpaper, play my own music from cd's I've ripped to MP3. You know, use your stuff.

@cooliipie

5 жыл бұрын

What? You *can't* do this on iPhone, no matter how many hoops you jump through. It's not possible

Friggan floppy disk!!! I haven't seen those since 07!!! And u connect it to a darn smart phone!!! Where were you when i needed you in highschool?!!!!!!!!! New subscriber

These are some of my favorite videos of yours

Holy cow - you never could have told me that Android has floppy drive support!

@Frankfurtdabezzzt

5 жыл бұрын

That's Linux for ya

@brokenscart7989

5 жыл бұрын

It’s just usb mass storage presumably

@XCVGVCX

5 жыл бұрын

Meh Android has a very different userland than desktop GNU/Linux. This is one of those things that I'd expect to be supported at some level but not exposed to the user without hackery.

@Frankfurtdabezzzt

5 жыл бұрын

XCVGVCX still the floppy divers are probably part of the linux kernel

@stale2665

5 жыл бұрын

lots of usb devices intended for PCs work on android, though. ethernet adapters, usb hard drives, keyboard and mice. after seeing this, i wouldn't be surprised if you could connect a DVD reader as well. Maybe even a DVD writer? Android is not just a phone OS. Tablets can use it too, and some tablets are used as laptop replacements with keyboards attached. A wide support of peripherals makes sense for this use case, when it's already supported by the kernel.

There's something very satisfying about sticking older things into newer things! Great work mate! :)

@arturolozanorodriguez9501

4 жыл бұрын

Thats what I told my lawyer

Thanks for the video. This was brilliant. Brings back so many memories. And glad to see that you are an Android person :)

As someone who started PC Gaming with DOS in the early 90s myself, this really brought a smile to my face. Great video! It kinda inspires me to try the same thing now. On a side note, those old Point & Click games like Sam & Max Hit The Road, DOTT and Discworld would be ideal on Smartphones if they ever got touchscreen support.

Tech is pretty amazing. If you were to travel back to the 80's or 90's and tell them that would be able to play computer game on a phone, they would not believe you.

@JuddMan03

5 жыл бұрын

Moonbeam they would probably think you did not know what the word phone meant.

@wildbill23c

5 жыл бұрын

Given the size of phones in the 80's and 90's we are quickly heading back that direction to bloated sized phones.

@DouglasMolonFerreira

5 жыл бұрын

Adam Hovey, When I was a kid, we could barely stream music from internet. If you told me that we can stream videos in 1080p I surely would be mesmerized.

@TotteNesh

5 жыл бұрын

as you can stream in 4K today. That's even more amazing

@SheIITear

5 жыл бұрын

Thea Blanca even 8k

Very cool video Clint! Please keep the videos coming! I love that you connected the keyboard....

@DieRuhe

5 жыл бұрын

ah, I see you are a funnee boi

@WorldsWorstBoy

5 жыл бұрын

Cameron Massey 😎

@maxmass5892

5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@WorldsWorstBoy

5 жыл бұрын

Max Mass we're everywhere

@maxmass5892

5 жыл бұрын

RoachDoggJr I love seeing roach dogs in different comment sections

The kind of stuff I am subscribed to this channel for.

This is the best video! Exactly what I love to do. Great job!

Did you just copy that floppy?!

The floppy drive even works in our car. as I had pictures on it, the car read them and even played some of the audio files I put on there too!

@markpenrice6253

5 жыл бұрын

Oh shit, I have GOT to try that now. If my car's already super finicky stereo can read a floppy drive through its USB port I'll wet myself laughing, given that it has enough trouble with memory sticks. And I'm of a suitable age to have been there at the birth of MP3, when we didn't really have enough hard drive space to store any kind of meaningful full-quality collection, but there were endless stacks of spare floppies, as well as Zipdisks ... therefore, I still have, buried somewhere in a backup archive, at least a Zip's worth of floppy-sized MP3s all ready and good to go for a second airing, 20ish years later. (the trick was, of course, to adjust the encoding bitrate to suit the length of the music, to keep it just under that magic 1423.5kb ... with the game being to predict it as closely as possible. I don't think I ever got it exact, but quite a few had to have subtle early fades applied to their original rip WAVs in CoolEdit to squeeze in under the limit, and there was at least one where adding an ID3 tag pushed it over the edge... It was a long time before first VBR, and then ABR arrived, so that wasn't an option. Longest ones I have are Bon Jovi's "Dry County" and the full length version of Free Bird, encoded at ... either 16, 18 or 20kbit, memory is a bit fuzzy on that... they're barely listenable, but it was better than nothing. Obviously for decent quality you want a much shorter tune, I think about the only one into three figure kbit is Green Day's "The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink", but a typical 3-minute pop song could scrape 64kbit, and the majority are in the 24 to 56kbit range... stereo was entirely optional and really not a good idea for anything under 40~48kbit...) ((this technique was later useful for cramming early media-capable mobile phones full of music, with their roughly Zipdisk sized memory cards... though having the benefit of AAC encoding was a definite boon. AAC mono at 32~48kbit is actually perfectly tolerable...)) Might even try it with a hard drive after that... if I can find a suitable adapter to pipe 12v directly from the lighter socket to the drive that is.

@SomePotato

5 жыл бұрын

@@markpenrice6253 You stored MP3s on floppy disks? CD burners were a thing by that time.

I played that keen demo for HOURS as a kid ;~; it's so good to see it again!

I would say in a way that you're crazy for doing this, but man, awesome. Love this. I was absolutely amused, kind of as much as your amusement in the video. I miss my floppy disks now and might buy a drive myself now, haha!

The best thing about a model m is that you can rest your phone between the f keys and top row, and have it in a perfect propped up position

I posted a half joking comment about using a USB hub, and 2 seconds after submitting it you took out the model M.

@MrTibbs90

5 жыл бұрын

I about did the same. LOL 😂

@SovaKlr

5 жыл бұрын

same

The joy you get from this is the same I would. Good work Clint

Back when I was a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s. Never did I think the future would be quite like this, I mean a device that fits in your pocket and is more than powerful enough to play any game from that time. The size of everything now and just how everything compares. Maybe that's why I'm so amazed by the Nintendo work boy. Imagining what might have been. Or when people make games like resident evil work on the gameboy.... I don't know what it is about it. Suppose it's seeing how far old tech can be pushed or discovering something that was overlooked idk

A really good reason for Android over iOS

@frosty6845

5 жыл бұрын

David Herrera iOS should be able to do this too with the Camera Conversion Kit dongle as long the USB floppy drive makes it think you're plugging in a USB storage device. The only thing really preventing it is the lack of a similar app on the App Store

This is the smartest thing I've seen all week! BRILLIANT! Smashing job as always!

You constantly get my tech juices flowing. Because of you I own a slew of OS' that I cant even use lol. Working on a windows 95 in the box rn

You nailed it man! I think I enjoyed as much as you, just watching :-)