WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 David, what's your favorite piece of retro attack? Well, come on, let me show you. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:09.680 Let me show you. Full freaking drawer. Yeah, let me show you my drawer of Game Boy games. 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:17.080 So I've got my Game Boy games, Game Boy Advance stuff, but I have a modded Game Boy Advance with the IPS display. 00:00:17.080 --> 00:00:20.840 Is that your favorite? Oh, it's my favorite. I am in love with this thing so much. 00:00:20.840 --> 00:00:24.840 It's a close second to my Vita. It's a close second to my Vita right over there. 00:00:24.840 --> 00:00:28.680 Right, right, right. But this thing looks and plays amazing. 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:32.080 How long did it take you to mod that? Oh, like 20 minutes, 30 minutes. Wait, serious? 00:00:32.080 --> 00:00:36.320 Yeah, it's super, super easy. I could show you how. Welcome back to Taran Tech Tips. 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:40.400 Today on Taran Tech Tips, the Wii. It's funny, I talked about this in another video. 00:00:40.400 --> 00:00:44.280 People don't think of the Wii as being retro, but it is. It's old enough now. 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.280 Yeah, when did it come out, like 2006? Oh, I don't even remember. 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:51.000 It was ages ago, back when we still had CRT televisions. 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:54.560 Oh, man. But what's so cool about it is that it's really, really moddable. 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.760 And even though they shut down the Wii online store, 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:01.040 there are ways to get all the games. 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:04.400 So I have been playing through like a ton of classics. 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:08.280 It's been really fun. I would say my Dreamcast, but that's 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:12.040 a bit of a cop out since I already showed that off in a video. 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:15.840 I'd say actually my favorite, just like a nostalgia thing, 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:20.680 is my first sound card, the ESS1868 audio drive. 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.760 That was a Sound Blaster 16 clone, ISA. 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:30.480 And it had an OPL3 clone on it that did actually pretty weird 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.920 things with the sound of MIDI instruments in Windows 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:39.000 and in DOS as well. It was actually pretty neat. It kind of was the first thing that opened my mind 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.840 to the idea that MIDI was actually kind of good. 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:46.760 Because otherwise, it just sounds like farts and stuff. But this actually sounded like instruments. 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:50.120 It was pretty good. Did you do any MIDI composing yourself during that time? 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:54.480 No, I never really had the mind for composing music, 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:59.720 unfortunately. I always wanted to. And I was super into the stuff that people were composing. 00:01:59.720 --> 00:02:03.720 But it's never too late to learn. I just, I don't know. 00:02:03.720 --> 00:02:08.720 I can't conceptualize how sound is supposed to work, especially if I don't have a keyboard or something. 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:12.320 And I'm just dragging notes around. What was the game you played the most on that sound card? 00:02:12.320 --> 00:02:16.560 Probably Duke Nukem 3D. Classic. I played the crap out of that game. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.120 I actually only ever had the regular version, not the atomic edition. 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:26.160 But I downloaded a whole bunch of maps and stuff, and total conversions like Platoon back in the day 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:31.080 to just kind of extend my game experience. I tried to make my own maps too, but I never really 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.520 got the hang of sector effectors and stuff. 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.520 Well, everything I own, the oldest camera that I have, 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:42.200 is the Contax T2. It's new to me. I've only had it for about two years, but I love this thing. 00:02:42.200 --> 00:02:46.920 It's a point and shoot. So it's very portable. Look how tiny this 40mm lens is. 00:02:46.920 --> 00:02:54.560 You can control the aperture on it. It takes full 35mm film, so you get very nice, interesting 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:58.760 images off of it. And I can walk around this. I just leave this in my car. 00:02:58.760 --> 00:03:02.160 And whenever I see a photo opportunity when I'm driving, I'll pull over, take a photo. 00:03:02.160 --> 00:03:05.440 That's great. No. Yeah. So you're saying I should break into your car? 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:11.680 Shit. No. So I couldn't think of anything, but I do have a clock at home. 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:15.000 And it's like an analog 2 bell clock thing. 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:18.240 I don't know. It looks pretty old, and it's the only thing that can wake me up. 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:22.240 And they're annoying as hell, and it wakes up everyone else. But that's my favorite, because if I didn't have that, 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:26.080 I wouldn't be here right now. Hey, I mean, that's fair enough. 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:30.400 Wait, when was this clock made? It was an Amazon thing, I don't know. 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.360 But it looks old. I'm probably going to have to say reel to reel tape. 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:37.720 They're like giant 12 inch reels of audio tape. 00:03:37.720 --> 00:03:41.000 I'm sure you've seen them. They're like two of them, and they go through the middle thing. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:47.360 So this giant ass audio tape thing. Audio quality, mostly the visual aspect of it too. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:52.000 They look, I don't know, ridiculous. They're like the size of a computer monitor 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.120 almost to play low quality audio. 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:59.440 Can be very high quality too, but yeah. What's a music you're blasting out of that, though? 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:02.520 I think that's got to be vapor wave, just for the aesthetic. 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:09.240 Maybe some lo-fi hip hop beats to relax and study too. So basically my thought is that if it's older than 15 years, 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:13.240 it's got to be fair game. I know that some people might balk at that. 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:16.360 But I'd say that the top two for me 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.920 are the third gen iPod Nano. It was the stout little square one. 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:26.920 It was the perfect blend of size 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:32.960 and also having a good display. I remember watching probably the entirety of Invader Zim 00:04:32.960 --> 00:04:37.960 on my iPod, because I bought all of the seasons on iTunes 00:04:38.880 --> 00:04:42.400 because that's what I did with my allowance. How much did that cost? 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:47.680 Oh, probably like $60, like so. And then the other option would be the DS Lite. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:52.180 King of handhelds, even if it's very small 00:04:52.180 --> 00:04:58.880 and now as an adult, I'm sure I would not want to use it. When I was a kid, I was doing all sorts of crazy shit 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:02.640 on that thing. DS was great. I had the DS FAT. 00:05:02.640 --> 00:05:05.680 Oh, you had the OG? I had the OG and then I also had, 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:10.960 I remember I have a very vivid memory of my mind being absolutely blown because on Christmas day, 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:15.960 I was able to play a three-dimensional Mario game 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:21.120 on the toilet on Christmas day. It was the best Christmas of my life. 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:25.080 Best gift you could've ever got? Yeah, yeah. It's definitely my film like, huh? 00:05:25.080 --> 00:05:28.200 I shoot that all the time and still loving it. 00:05:28.200 --> 00:05:31.280 Is that like the oldest camera you regularly use? 00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:37.360 My lens is pretty old. I have a 1966, 50mm, I have a 1975, 50mm, 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:42.160 I have a 1980-ish, like 35mm. 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:47.280 But that film looks the way to go, huh? Oh yeah, oh yeah. All right, Jamie, your favorite piece of retro tech. 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:49.840 All right, this isn't it, but it's close enough. 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:57.240 The first graphics card everyone out and bought was a GeForce 8800 GT, but it was a BFG card 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:02.520 and it had cool dog tags on it. It was fire. Why mess is the art and the graphics on these graphics cards? 00:06:02.520 --> 00:06:05.740 Yeah, so this is back when graphics cards were cool 00:06:05.740 --> 00:06:09.380 and they were also very thin. So that's a plus. 00:06:09.380 --> 00:06:12.420 It only has one power plug on it. Oh my gosh. 00:06:12.420 --> 00:06:15.740 You don't need like four like these new ones do, right? But this thing was hot. 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:22.060 It came with a copy of Company of Heroes. Was like the most played game on this card, you think, 00:06:22.060 --> 00:06:25.940 for you? Company of Heroes. Company of Heroes? Yeah, fair enough, fair enough. 00:06:25.940 --> 00:06:30.700 But yeah, this got me through university. Not this specific card, the other card, Rest in Peace, 00:06:30.700 --> 00:06:37.740 the other card, like Rest in Peace, buddy. But I took it to QuakeCon twice, maybe three times. 00:06:37.740 --> 00:06:40.780 And then I got replaced by like a 9800 GT 00:06:40.780 --> 00:06:46.540 or something like that. This is probably like the last time I like vigorously researched the graphics card. 00:06:46.540 --> 00:06:48.180 Ah, great memories.