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Thumbnail Windows 95 Turns 30 - See How It Changed Everything #Microsoft Windows 95 is 30! Here's a quick look back at some of the things that #Win95 brought us t ... 2025-08-30 06:07:00 78 680
Thumbnail Full Fat DooM, on an XT?! This video is sponsored by PCBWay.com - if you need PCB manufacturing from just $5, or CNC machining ... 2025-08-24 06:05:00 302 3031
Thumbnail The XT to 386 to 486 Challenge! That 4.77 MHz XT doesn't get a rest! First it became a 386-16 and now the challenge is to turn it in ... 2025-08-17 06:07:00 359 3921
Thumbnail Bridge Discord, IRC, & BBS: Retro Chat Perfected! Have you ever wanted to chat with your friends on Discord but from a retro machine, or via a BBS? Wa ... 2025-08-11 06:00:45 12 966
Thumbnail Discord x IRC x BBS – The Ultimate Link-Up! Imagine being able to chat with your friends on discord but from a BBS or an IRC channel! Well, imag ... 2025-08-10 06:05:00 48 512
Thumbnail Talking Retro, Back to the BBS and more! Here is an interview with @VidaDigital, originally aired 28th July 2025 where I chat everything retr ... 2025-07-28 08:55:01 16 192
Thumbnail "For all mankind" messes up computers For all Mankind is a decent enough TV series but man alive in season two does it really mess with my ... 2025-07-27 22:04:07 18 878
Thumbnail BBS's - what are they like in 2025? Bulliten Board Systems (BBSs) were lots of fun before the internet was king. Yet they are still goin ... 2025-07-21 07:42:37 110 1412
Thumbnail Using a BBS in 2025 - what's it like? Support the stream: https://patreon.com/AlsGeekLab https://streamlabs.com/alsgeeklab ... 2025-07-20 22:58:02 36 518
Thumbnail Real Play - Crazy Cars 3 - DOS (1992) Support the stream: https://patreon.com/AlsGeekLab https://streamlabs.com/alsgeeklab Here is a liv ... 2025-07-18 10:28:00 8 278
Thumbnail Does the Intel InBoard 386 Really Speed Up Your PC/XT? The Honest Truth! The Intel Inboard is an amazing card for your PC or XT that gives it a 386 cpu. But does it work wel ... 2025-07-13 12:31:22 20 305
Thumbnail The Death of Linux (Magazines) Support the stream: https://patreon.com/AlsGeekLab https://streamlabs.com/alsgeeklab ... 2025-07-09 09:43:34 12 407
Thumbnail Sad Mac (SE) fixup - see my full length video #shorts ... 2025-07-05 15:54:24 8 480
Thumbnail Sad Mac Resurrected: Reviving a Vintage 1987 Macintosh SE Today on the Geek Lab, it's time to look at a mac that wouldn't boot up. It gets janky, there's cuss ... 2025-06-23 03:04:00 55 770
Thumbnail ParrotyError for Intel Inboard - 4MB upgrade for a PC/XT! Ready to see an IBM-compatible XT leap from 640 KB to a mighty 4 MB? In this episode I drop a Parrot ... 2025-06-16 03:02:01 85 1443
Thumbnail 4MB RAM inside an IBM XT and an 80386? no way! ... 2025-06-14 21:00:24 64 1707
Thumbnail What was programming in QuickBasic like? I used to love coding in QuickBasic. It was something that brought me joy. But I was a lot younger t ... 2025-06-09 05:15:01 56 906
Thumbnail What was programming in QuickBasic like? I used to love coding in QuickBasic. It was something that brought me joy. But I was a lot younger t ... 2025-06-08 07:49:26 63 644
Thumbnail Multitasking network apps in DOS with Multiplexing DOS wasn't designed for multitasking, let alone running multiple TCP/IP applications all at once. Th ... 2025-06-01 08:33:06 105 963
Thumbnail Can You Run Two Internet Apps on DOS at Once? Watch the full video now on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/multitasking-in-130313258?utm_med ... 2025-05-31 19:52:26 2 59
Thumbnail The amazing 386 InBoard for PCs and XTs This expansion card is wild. If you've never heard of it before, it's a card with a 386 CPU and 1MB ... 2025-05-25 08:32:06 454 10689
Thumbnail Programming on the early PC required... books! Before there was the web, there were books. Tons of them! to learn coding, you needed a heap of them ... 2025-05-23 07:45:03 79 623
Thumbnail Grand Prix Circuit (Accolade) PC DOS 1988 One of my fave racing games from the latter part of the 80s, Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade / DSI fo ... 2025-04-27 06:15:03 29 804
Thumbnail OpenAI Codex is a game changer for developers OpenAI came out with codex for developers on the 16th April 2025. This command line tool gives devel ... 2025-04-18 18:21:48 32 2625
Thumbnail The Dark Alliance: IBM's role with the Nazis #shorts Check out the full video here!: https://youtu.be/kII17V1kwAA?si=2kIrC1MDY923z5QP Don't forget to LI ... 2025-04-01 06:15:03 16 1021
Thumbnail IBM’s Role with the Nazis in WWII As shining as IBM’s track record might appear, there’s a darker side that isn’t often discusse ... 2025-03-30 06:12:00 241 5244
Thumbnail 15,000 subscribers! woop! 15,000 subscribers! I'm very grateful that so many people love what I'm doing! Please share the chan ... 2025-03-05 19:56:37 11 102
Thumbnail Apex Twin Xtal / Prodigy Music for the jilted generation Started my vinyl collection once again. Now it's the time for the 1990s. Apex Twin's Selected Ambien ... 2025-02-19 19:16:16 57 1249
Thumbnail Does this Powerbook 1400C still work? Apple 1400C (Review) The PowerBook 1400c launched in 1996 and lasted 18 months on the market. This laptop was kindly dona ... 2025-02-17 14:16:00 47 692
Thumbnail DOS Games of 1982 - Paratrooper, Apple Panic and more 00:00 - Start 02:36 - Top games of 1982 02:59 - MIcrosoft Filight Simulator 1.0 (Talk) 05:14 - Treas ... 2025-02-09 15:00:26 27 573
Thumbnail The Internet is not the World Wide Web: Angry Scotsman explains. The Angry Scotsman aka Al's Geek Lab explains the difference between the www and the Internet. Ammar ... 2025-02-08 18:11:24 41 855
Thumbnail Delorean at Southward Car Museum #backtothefutute #dmc12 Totally random video, but I was at the Southward Car Museum outside of Wellington, NZ the other week ... 2025-02-03 14:52:12 16 526
Thumbnail The Forgotten PC DOS Games of 1981 Today, rather than reviewing one game, I'm reviewing a few BASIC games. And when I say BASIC... they ... 2025-01-22 06:45:01 48 1107
Thumbnail 286 to 486 SLC/50 ... 2025-01-21 06:20:00 70 1583
Thumbnail Toshiba Libretto 100CT: Baby laptop from 1997 We're going to take a look at this beauty, the Toshiba Libretto 100CT from 1997. A cute little Windo ... 2025-01-19 06:45:01 75 1041
Thumbnail Windows 3 0 and 3.1: A retrospective review (running on real 286 hardware!) #DOScember A look back on the Windows 3.x releases. The releases that arguably brought Windows into the 'seriou ... 2025-01-01 10:15:06 293 8419
Thumbnail Can I Save this Smoking IBM XT? #doscember This IBM XT went POP and smoked! This is a detailed video on how I troubleshooted the issue, but wil ... 2024-12-22 06:12:00 90 1101
Thumbnail Review: Pole Position II (1989) DOS In this video, we'll be reviewing the classic game Pole Position II for DOS (EGA). Join us as we tak ... 2024-12-21 08:55:34 30 568
Thumbnail The Geek Lab is moving! ... 2024-12-12 00:11:00 0 410
Thumbnail PicoMEM Revolutionizes Retro PC Upgrades! Have you ever wanted a sound card, a memory expansion card, a WiFi card, SD card storage, a USB hub ... 2024-12-01 10:47:06 126 2429
Thumbnail The Performance Boosting Orchid Tiny Turbo 286 Accelerator Boards for PC XT (behind the scenes video A quick behind the scenes video. Enhancement card manufacturers realised that there was a market for ... 2024-11-13 22:58:31 72 1284
Thumbnail FreddyV gifted me a PicoMEM! Real quick! Don't forget to LIKE this video and please SUBSCRIBE to my channel! Press that NOTIFICA ... 2024-10-30 18:05:00 12 191
Thumbnail The legacy of the creator of Social Media & The BBS A tribute to Ward Chistensen, the co-creator of the Bulletin Board System, a pre-internet online se ... 2024-10-18 17:18:01 125 1074
Thumbnail 40 Years of the X Window System If you've used a graphical desktop on Linux or UNIX of some kind in the last forty years, then you'v ... 2024-10-13 06:07:00 496 7445
Thumbnail Arch Linux Sucks! (here's why) There are lots of haters of Arch Linux out there, but I thought I'd take another crack at Arch to se ... 2024-08-17 06:17:00 200 6545
Thumbnail IBM Said we couldn't do it, so we did: IBM PC XT/286 CPU upgrade! In the last video on this PC, we upgraded the IBM XT Model 286 to have 8MB of faster RAM to enable m ... 2024-08-04 08:05:00 194 5468
Thumbnail Demoscene exclusive: Jim Leonard aka Trixter talks about the Demoscene and about his 8088 MPH demo This is an excerpt from an interview with Jim Leonard (aka Trixter), co-creator of Mobygames and ret ... 2024-08-03 17:23:01 47 639
Thumbnail How to set up a free Nessus (Tenable) vulnerability scanner (Free video) https://patreon.com/AlsGeekLab - find out about how to install and use #OpenVas, an Open Source alte ... 2024-06-20 10:05:00 11 1188
Thumbnail The Z80 CPU - 1976 to 2024 The Z80 CPU: Powering the Best Loved Home Computers and Consoles of the 80s and 90s In this video, ... 2024-06-14 06:17:07 7745 189823
Thumbnail Teaser trailer: "We salute you, Z80 CPU!" Available now on Patreon and Substack and coming to YouTube on 14th June - The Z80 CPU: 1976 to 2024 ... 2024-05-26 16:02:16 54 906
Thumbnail Ubuntu 24.04 is out! let's talk about it! The next long term support release of Ubuntu (24.04) is out. what's cooking? Don't forget to LIKE t ... 2024-04-27 06:07:21 13 271
Thumbnail Zellij terminal multiplexer review Zellij is a terminal workspace. It has the base functionality of a terminal multiplexer (similar to ... 2024-04-25 10:44:53 91 3213
Thumbnail Microweb 2.0 Web browser for DOS just announced! jhhoward just released version 2.0 of the Microweb DOS based web browser, now with support for GIF i ... 2024-04-23 08:11:52 735 20061
Thumbnail The SHARP PC-7000 'Portable' PC from 1985 This video is sponsored by PCBWay, for high quality PCBs and CNC machining, visit https://www.PCBWay ... 2024-04-21 05:00:11 53 1487
Thumbnail The web at 35: Tim Berners Lee's baby has gone astray In this video, we dive into the 35th anniversary of the World Wide Web, a creation that started as S ... 2024-03-24 05:17:08 41 471
Thumbnail Back to text mode. Is the GUI causing our minds to melt down? I've often wondered if my life with 30 apps open on my graphical desktop is actually slowing me down ... 2024-03-14 22:09:56 0 1033
Thumbnail The ego involved in making an operating system Have you ever thought about the sheer ego, the gall involved in making an operating system? Like "I' ... 2024-03-11 06:00:07 32 624
Thumbnail Sharp PC-7000 fixup and clean video coming soon #retrocomputing ... 2024-03-02 15:32:35 33 761
Thumbnail learn how to make a bootable USB stick from an ISO image #shorts #balenaetcher ... 2024-02-23 10:13:34 9 517
Thumbnail Make a bootable USB stick: Balena Etcher doesn't work on M1 macs, here's the solution The handy, free USB stick 'burning' tool called Balena Etcher no longer works for M1/M2 Apple Silico ... 2024-02-23 06:06:00 59 5445
Thumbnail Osborne One 'luggable' computer from 1981 #retrocomputing ... 2024-02-17 16:57:29 166 4021
Thumbnail Forget Raspberry Pi: Meet the GMKtek Nucbox G3 - The Ultimate Budget PC #N100 for $99 / $199 I bought this GMKtec nucbox G3 for $199 USD with 16GB RAM and 512GB M2 storage. A barebones version ... 2024-02-09 07:04:00 114 5383
Thumbnail Time to make more videos? Computer closet #3 clearout day! #vintagecomputing ... 2024-02-03 12:32:41 26 508
Thumbnail IBM deliberately made it impossible to upgrade your CPU in 1986! #BIOS #overclock #retro #vintage check out the full video where I attempt to overclock this PC!: https://youtu.be/EfRrvmRkHHM ... 2024-02-01 17:52:39 8361 288367
Thumbnail The IBM 5162 was a weird beast! A 286 in an XT case. Check out the full video: https://youtu.be/EfRrvmRkHHM ... 2024-02-01 17:43:16 54 1384
Thumbnail IBM stopped you from upgrading this PC! #CPU #BIOS #multitasking #286 I take this rare IBM computer with an identity crisis and upgrade its CPU, its RAM and give it a lit ... 2024-02-01 07:11:00 483 6997
Thumbnail CPU & clock upgrade, RAM upgrade and multi -tasking in DOS. ... 2024-01-15 18:03:20 50 829
Thumbnail The ultra-rare IBM 5162 XT/286 gets a RAM upgrade and maybe a CPU overclock! ... 2023-12-26 15:10:56 37 1297
Thumbnail Xmas at Als Geek Lab - behind the scenes and what's in store in '24! Hello fans! Here's a quick look at what has been happening both on the channel in 2023, as well as i ... 2023-12-24 18:17:00 21 263
Thumbnail Teaser 2 - The Innovative Story of the NABU Personal Computer The NABU's legacy lives on today, however, thanks to dedicated enthusiasts and retrocomputing commun ... 2023-12-12 06:47:00 5 199
Thumbnail The NABU PC: The 80s Computer That Predicted the Internet's Future No, it's not from from Star Wars! It's the NABU Personal Computer! Today on the Geek Lab I'm explori ... 2023-12-12 06:44:00 138 2810
Thumbnail Teaser - The Innovative Story of the NABU Personal Computer #vintagecomputing No, it's not Star Wars! It's the NABU Personal Computer! Today on the Geek Lab I'm exploring a hidde ... 2023-12-11 22:03:50 20 1059
Thumbnail Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of #OpenAI just got fired! What's the deal? ... 2023-11-18 16:07:05 11 407
Thumbnail Web browsing on a vintage DOS PC with microweb Yes, you can browse the modern web on a 4.77MHz DOS PC, XT or AT machine with just 640KB of RAM, usi ... 2023-11-06 09:09:07 189 5252
Thumbnail Back to the BBS raw interview Footage with Daniel Kelly (Anachronist) of Absinthe BBS This was the very first interview with, well, anyone for the Back to the BBS documentary series. The ... 2023-11-04 09:50:25 43 627
Thumbnail Poll: should I make free Linux Essentials videos for cyber/hackers on this channel? ... 2023-11-02 19:52:31 17 208
Thumbnail How iD Software revolutionised gaming: The untold story of Hovertank 3D to DooM This video tells the fascinating story of how id Software doubled down on 3D gaming, and how they ev ... 2023-10-22 09:07:08 249 3748
Thumbnail What's your favourite time for computing? [podcast] Let's face it... computing in general in 2023 sucks. There are interesting things going on, for sure ... 2023-10-16 06:17:00 31 631
Thumbnail How to install #Ubuntu Desktop on an #Appl Silicon mac #M1 #M2 #M4 There's no official Ubuntu Desktop version that works on an M1/M2 Macintosh silicon, so I show you h ... 2023-10-13 11:13:37 223 13345
Thumbnail What should I do, with this NABU?! #shorts #nabu #retrocomputing ... 2023-09-24 14:46:14 0 347
Thumbnail Gary Kildall - The Man That Should Have Been Bill Gates - Part II STEREO RE-EDIT Part 2 of the 3 part documentary: Dive into the untold story of Gary Kildall, the overlooked genius ... 2023-09-21 14:57:44 893 23301
Thumbnail Gary Kildall - The Man That Should Have Been Bill Gates - Part III This is the concluding part of the three part documentary covers the lifetime and story of the man w ... 2023-09-16 09:17:09 3057 29116
Thumbnail Gary Kildall - The Man That Should Have Been Bill Gates - Part II There are some audio issues with this part. These have been fixed here: https://youtu.be/sDJVr8XSZRI ... 2023-09-15 06:00:12 914 23145
Thumbnail Gary Kildall - The Man That Should Have Been Bill Gates - Part I This three part documentary covers the lifetime and story of the man who was robbed from being Bill ... 2023-09-14 14:18:49 2733 105704
Thumbnail Gary Kildall should have been Bill Gates / Microsoft. The documentary premieres tomorrow! ... 2023-09-13 22:16:17 26 538
Thumbnail The community is what brings you 'Back to the #BBS' #shorts Sysops ANaCHRoNiST and MeaTLoTioN from two BBSes talk about what the sense of community is all about ... 2023-09-05 06:15:01 16 220
Thumbnail 2023 M2 Macbook Pro 14" Quick Review A few weeks in on the new Macbook Pro M2 14" - it's a lovely machine, but here's why it's so lovely. ... 2023-07-09 18:09:11 24 586
Thumbnail Trivia I bet you didn't know about Gary Kildall #digitalresearch #technology #shorts #CP/M ... 2023-06-01 21:59:39 19 306
Thumbnail Your videos, by me! #AlsGeekLab #shorts #patreon ... 2023-06-01 21:40:22 5 140
Thumbnail Why do you American's call solder saw-durr ? #shorts #britishvsamerican ... 2023-05-26 15:33:06 30 513
Thumbnail Was this New Zealand's first microcomputer - The HUG1802 #interview It isn't often you get to speak with the designer of a computer, especially not one of the first of ... 2023-05-23 06:00:08 77 1607
Thumbnail Email back in the early '90s was not the same as the email you know today! #shorts ... 2023-05-19 11:27:09 12 334
Thumbnail How to use #ChatGPT 4 for FREE without a Plus account or 3rd party tool If you have a trial or standard pay-as-you-go OpenAI account, then you can only use the older ChatGP ... 2023-05-08 13:01:05 24 887
Thumbnail The future of Cybersecurity with #ai #chatgpt Whether you work in the cybersecurity business, or are a business that uses Cybersecurity services, ... 2023-05-01 08:48:42 20 342
Thumbnail The Short Story of the Apple ///, Apple's first business computer Kirk Jackson was at the NZ Vintage Computer Meetup (LNI) in April 2023 and brought his mint Apple // ... 2023-04-17 06:30:45 36 617
Thumbnail Kirks mega sexy, transparent, modded Apple2! #appril2 Right in time for #aapril2, here's Kirk showing off his Apple //e (Platinum?) at the recent NZ Vinta ... 2023-04-13 06:15:01 27 649
Thumbnail 3rd New Zealand Vintage Computer Meetup - #Commodore #Apple 2023 #appril2 On Saturday 8th April 2023, I joined a number of retro computing enthusiasts from the lower part of ... 2023-04-12 06:00:21 60 832
Thumbnail It's time for #Appril2 What are your favourite Apple2 stories? ... 2023-04-08 22:13:30 9 103
Thumbnail Andonstar AD208 Review with a HP25 Calculator I review this inexpensive digital microscope which is available from AliExpress and Amazon, put it u ... 2023-04-03 06:15:01 17 834
Thumbnail Interview with Dave Kelso - Technology Everything #AI #bbs #retrocomputing Dave Kelso of PSEC Media interviews me on everything technology, from new to old.. the power of AI t ... 2023-03-31 13:51:54 8 203
Thumbnail Microsoft's forgotten UNIX operating system - Whatever happened to Xenix? Did you know that Microsoft made their own version of UNIX, all the way back as far as 1979, before ... 2023-03-10 06:15:01 4942 265178
Thumbnail Lotus 1-2-3 Development nearly broke me! (Interview with Bert Bruce, ex Lotus) Have you been involved with long-drawn-out projects and been utterly burned out by them? If the answ ... 2023-03-05 06:15:03 85 2030
Thumbnail Trailer: Microsoft's forgotten UNIX operating system - XENIX Did you know that Microsoft were once the biggest seller of UNIX in the world, with their own brand ... 2023-02-15 22:12:59 61 2367
Thumbnail DOPE.MOD is a 28 channel tracker module and it really struggles on this 286-6 but it still plays! ... 2023-01-30 22:00:57 25 612
Thumbnail You don't want to miss this! #Wolfenstein3d in CGA on an 8088! Here's how! The same fella that brought you the very awesome Microweb browser for 8088 class PC's has now brough ... 2023-01-24 06:15:01 245 5641
Thumbnail Back to the BBS - Part 8: The Art scene #ANSI #asciiart In the 80s and 90s, people found a way to make art from text. And they would share this art online o ... 2023-01-21 20:52:03 45 977
Thumbnail Great Retro Computing YouTube channels I subscribe to Wondering what other great retro computing channels to subscribe to? Here is a video showing off mos ... 2023-01-21 06:00:37 70 1522
Thumbnail Back to the BBS - Part 8: The Art scene #ANSI #asciiart In the 80s and 90s, people found a way to make art from text. And they would share this art online o ... 2022-12-24 11:45:12 162 2536
Thumbnail Trailer Back to the BBS Part 8 The Art Scene Well fans, it's been a really long time coming, but Back to the BBS part 8 is finally upon us! Here' ... 2022-12-17 13:34:00 53 748
Thumbnail A MacOS X that looked like Classic Mac? It was real! How to install and what it looked like #apple Imagine for a second if Apple didn't invent the Aqua theme for MacOS X, imagine if it stayed with th ... 2022-12-11 09:30:09 202 10604
Thumbnail Retro Mail call.. PFS First Choice ... 2022-11-11 17:00:17 13 270
Thumbnail Quick and Dirty game of Soldier of Fortune (live stream) Watch me play a game that I totally forgot about. It's a goodie FPS from the turn of the century: So ... 2022-11-07 08:03:36 10 172
Thumbnail How to install WordPerfect 7 on a modern Linux desktop! A clever chap called who works for Google called Tavis Ormandy ported the old UNIX version of WordPe ... 2022-10-08 06:30:01 83 2326
Thumbnail Must Watch! Return to Monkey Island & More on The Retro Reboot Show October 3rd 2022 Ep. 03 This episode of the Retro Reboot Show is absolutely busting at the seems! What an absolute banger of ... 2022-10-03 08:15:00 12 229
Thumbnail Digger by Windmill Software Quicky Review 1983 (PC) Somewhat similar to Atari's Dig Dug, Digger is a great game from Windmill Software, released in 1983 ... 2022-10-02 07:45:01 35 426
Thumbnail NEW Sony Camera and Rode Mic thanks to Patreons. Better quality videos, hurrah! Well thanks to you lovely Patreon and YouTube Members, I've been able to save up enough money to buy ... 2022-09-30 20:40:07 12 144
Thumbnail The Angry Scotsman shows off what Project Brutality 3 can do with E4M2 Ultimate Doom [LIVE] Yes, I suck. I know! Support the stream: https://patreon.com/alsgeeklab https://ko-fi.com/alsgeekl ... 2022-09-18 10:11:10 7 195
Thumbnail Can you believe it? Episode 8 of Back to the BBS is *almost* done! #ANSI art scene ... 2022-09-12 18:03:06 0 318
Thumbnail Retro Reboot Show Ep.2 2022/08/28 Pacman ate my #Apple I but it still sold for $667,000! In this Episode of the Retro Reboot Show! * Voxel Graphics in Monkey Island and DooM! * 3D Adventur ... 2022-08-29 05:45:02 15 180
Thumbnail The Retro Reboot Show LIVE Episode 1 - August 2022 Recorded 13 Aug This is an edit of the live stream of the first episode of the Retro Reboot Show, where we talk abou ... 2022-08-25 06:30:07 17 179
Thumbnail The Retro Reboot Show LIVE Episode 1 August 2022 (Live Stream) Support the stream: https://patreon.com/alsgeeklab https://ko-fi.com/alsgeeklab https://streamlabs. ... 2022-08-14 00:44:09 26 198
Thumbnail IBM Attack (1982): The game that IBM "never made" #retrogaming Did you know that IBM made computer games? Did you know that IBM made a cheeky game in 1982, where t ... 2022-08-02 07:15:02 61 1485
Thumbnail Retro #shorts in the National Museum of Scotland Al's Geek Lab is on tour in the UK! I found this little retro exhibit stuck up on the top floor of t ... 2022-07-25 21:19:07 7 75
Thumbnail July 2022 Update to MTCP for DOS & Unofficial Fork quick review In June, I posted a video detailing an unofficial fork of Michael Brutman's excellent TCP applicatio ... 2022-07-13 06:15:01 45 650
Thumbnail Quick Review: Attack On Altair by Windmill Software (1983) for MS-DOS Before their timeless classic, "Digger", Windmill Software came out with "Attack on Altair" for MS-D ... 2022-07-12 08:00:07 37 605
Thumbnail The Prehistory of Social Media: BBSes and the future of the net (with Kevin Driscoll) Kevin Driscoll, author of the book "The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media" and professor at ... 2022-07-11 10:50:15 29 520
Thumbnail #MTCP Telnet for DOS update with Graphics, Mouse and Extended Keyboard Support! MTCP, the venerable TCP client for old DOS computers has had an unofficial fork which adds support f ... 2022-06-13 06:00:03 53 988
Thumbnail BBS Game Servers and File Distro Nets Some BBSes are members of Game networks that allow gamers from all over to join in and play in leagu ... 2022-06-06 06:00:09 82 1284
Thumbnail Scan networks like a pro with #NMAP: The Network Mapper (port scanner) Today's video is a full length tutorial which you can use to comprehensively learn how to use NMAP, ... 2022-05-20 04:00:24 105 2389
Thumbnail Leisure Suit Larry 3 Unboxing & Sierra 10 year anniversary In 1989, Sierra On-Line (Entertainment) was a decade old. Leisure Suit Larry 3 came out at that time ... 2022-05-06 05:00:01 25 571
Thumbnail Behind the scenes at the Al's Geek Lab Here's an exclusive video for my Patreons & YouTube members! This is a behind the scenes tour of the ... 2022-04-30 10:10:19 12 355
Thumbnail #Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" First Looks Every two years, Ubuntu release an LTS version: their Long Term Support release. It's renowned for b ... 2022-04-01 19:05:29 16 442
Thumbnail Ken and Roberta Williams' new game: Colossal Cave 3D Adventure Sierra On-Line made amazing 3D adventure games back in the day such as Leisure Suit Larry and Kings ... 2022-03-28 09:15:00 48 1887
Thumbnail Easily run 16 bit apps in Windows 10/11 with WineVDM (no VM!) If you've ever tried to use old Windows 3.x (or even 1.0 and 2.x) apps on Windows 8,10 or 11, you'll ... 2022-03-13 08:15:01 157 18289
Thumbnail Back to the BBS - Part 7: The Music Tracker Scene Starting with the Commodore Amiga, Module tracker music was the first widely used consumer grade sam ... 2022-02-26 08:45:13 250 4145
Thumbnail Teaser content: Back to the BBS Episode 7 (Music Tracker scene) The next upcoming episode of Back to the BBS focuses on the Music Tracker scene, where we have some ... 2022-02-12 17:21:24 35 564
Thumbnail I just got a BBC Micro Master! Finally! #shorts #acorn ... 2022-01-28 21:16:24 73 1576
Thumbnail The #Cadburys ICT 1301 computer from 1963 #shorts This mainframe from the 1960s may look impressive, but it's probably less powerful than the calculat ... 2022-01-23 16:25:26 30 571
Thumbnail My own collection is close to this museum's! #dunedin #shorts ... 2022-01-23 14:56:03 23 351
Thumbnail Will an ancient version of Word 6 install on Win 10? #shorts ... 2022-01-17 14:53:29 14 403
Thumbnail EtherDFS: Easy file sharing for #DOS computers #howto In this howto video, I just missed out on #DOScember by a few days... ah well, good things come to t ... 2022-01-08 06:00:00 57 1354
Thumbnail 2021 In Review Support the stream: https://patreon.com/alsgeeklab https://ko-fi.com/alsgeeklab https://streamlabs. ... 2022-01-01 02:42:38 20 196
Thumbnail Back to the BBS - Part six: The #Demoscene Although not part of BBSes per se, a lot of the demoscene started from distributing software that sh ... 2021-12-29 09:15:14 237 4852
Thumbnail TRAILER: Back to the BBS Part 6 (The Demoscene) Very soon now, coming to a YouTube near you, is episode six of the documentary, "Back to the BBS: Th ... 2021-12-27 00:35:25 29 552
Thumbnail #Sonic the Hedgehog on the Commodore 64! WOW! It's real! ... 2021-12-26 19:36:16 121 2752
Thumbnail What should I do to the ~4hr length of the upcoming back to the BBS episode on the demoscene? ... 2021-12-09 20:52:15 12 167
Thumbnail BBC Power Supply RIFA Recapping #ModelB #vintagecomputer Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com for all your PCB needs! I was so excited to become the proud ... 2021-11-23 08:15:01 35 343
Thumbnail I made my partner learn DOS in 2021!! I often wonder what it would be like if we bought computers that ran command line interfaces like DO ... 2021-11-15 05:00:22 116 2450
Thumbnail A quick look at the BBC Model B #shorts #vintagecomputing ... 2021-11-08 15:47:42 28 681
Thumbnail New Zealand Lower North Island Vintage Computer Show and Tell 24th Oct, 2021 A great day out here in the Lower North Island of New Zealand where owners of vintage computers got ... 2021-11-05 11:55:35 33 463
Thumbnail #shorts The "Beastinator" Classic DOS/Win 9x Gaming PC Build! So I've been thinking about building a classic gaming machine for a while and I just never had all t ... 2021-10-06 19:37:14 43 1106
Thumbnail Introducing YouTube Memberships on Al's Geek Lab Hi everyone! It's been a lot of work getting the channel to where it is at today, but I am spurned o ... 2021-09-27 14:12:23 19 203
Thumbnail #shorts Lots of cool features in DR-DOS 7 I'm playing around with DR-DOS, so I decided to install the last 'Official' version, version 7.02. D ... 2021-09-22 19:06:37 53 1102
Thumbnail How to download and play Project Brutality 3 When I saw project brutality 3.0, I thought "I have to have a play with this!" but as the software i ... 2021-09-16 11:54:07 528 32075
Thumbnail Apple Pegasus Spyware Vulnerability - Why this is different There's a real doozy of a security vulnerability that can infect your Apple device (including iPhone ... 2021-09-15 13:55:49 21 333
Thumbnail "Incredible Doom" book about teenage angst and BBSes! this comic story book is about growing up as a misfit in the 90s and dividing friends in the new rea ... 2021-09-10 19:19:58 18 296
Thumbnail Modern web browser for DOS: Microweb #shorts Check out my other videos for how to set up Michael Brutman's MTCP for DOS to get this working. Here ... 2021-09-08 19:19:26 89 2112
Thumbnail Post BTTB5 premiere party stream. After the premiere of Back to the BBS Episode 5 we had a live stream which consisted of Meatlotion ( ... 2021-08-29 00:13:48 15 218
Thumbnail Back to the BBS - Part five: The Underground In this episode of Back to the BBS, we take a step down memory lane to look at where the darker side ... 2021-08-28 09:00:30 298 5673
Thumbnail Al's Geek Lab BBS Demo & Cryptocoin mod Here's a quick video live stream demo of my BBS, which inventively is titled "Al's Geek Lab" ;) I ru ... 2021-08-26 07:42:05 36 655
Thumbnail The #IBM PC turns 40: How IBM came to make the PC Today, August 12th 2021, marks the 40th anniversary of the IBM PC. IBM were late to the game - by 19 ... 2021-08-13 15:08:03 97 1364
Thumbnail Microsoft's Linux Distro: How and Why are they doing it? (CBL Mariner) I almost fell off my chair when I heard that Microsoft released their own Linux distro. So what is t ... 2021-07-28 14:55:09 29 1116
Thumbnail [Live]: Let's Play Lotus 3: The Ultimate Challenge Live play-thru and review of Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge (1993) game for PC. Support the str ... 2021-06-13 06:37:20 11 242
Thumbnail LIVE: 68k.news On Doslynx - Why So Slow? @ActionRetro You asked to see what people's experiences with different web browsers and 68k.news / f ... 2021-04-25 19:48:10 30 457
Thumbnail Elite Hax0r Terminal from the movies: EDEX-UI. Oh boy! Have you ever wanted an elite hacker terminal just like out of the hollywood movies? Well look no fu ... 2021-04-17 22:01:54 58 967
Thumbnail Back to the BBS - Part four: BBS Server software In this part of Back to the BBS, we focus on making your own BBS. I spoke with the authors of Synchr ... 2021-04-16 09:00:17 335 7650
Thumbnail First Live Stream: browsing 'modern' web on IE5 with Frogfind The first ever live stream! I'm going to show you something for browsing websites on really old comp ... 2021-04-07 08:23:04 17 233
Thumbnail [LIVE] FrogFind - using the web on old web browsers & upcoming stuff on AGL! The first ever live stream on AGL! I'm going to show you something for browsing websites on really o ... 2021-04-06 20:35:33 20 573
Thumbnail The IBM 5162 XT 286: A wolf in sheep's clothing The venerable IBM PC XT. It wasn't exactly a milestone ahead of it's predecessor, The IBM Personal C ... 2021-04-03 08:15:01 174 4198
Thumbnail Back to the BBS - Part three: Privacy, Messaging & Hardware In this part of the documentary we introduce the matter of privacy, with all the erosion of privacy ... 2021-03-14 09:00:18 254 6216
Thumbnail Back to the BBS - Part two: Games and Mods In this part of Back to the BBS we introduce Games and Mods. There are interviews with the authors o ... 2021-02-21 09:00:15 362 8365
Thumbnail Teaser Trailer "Back to the BBS: The Return to being online" -Games, Mods, Hardware, Software + more The next installments of the new BBS documentary is coming soon, This part of the documentary covers ... 2021-02-01 22:37:41 77 1183
Thumbnail Back to the BBS - Part one: The return to being online Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's) were what people went online with before the web. This multi-part doc ... 2020-12-21 08:15:13 1444 41019
Thumbnail How to use a DOS PC for web, email, twitter, chat and more #DOScember Ever wanted to get your DOS computer online with 'modern' day Internet apps? In this video I show yo ... 2020-12-07 05:00:05 156 2869
Thumbnail The #WiModem232 / #WiFi232 - A wireless Hays modem for your vintage computer Ever wondered what it would be like to connect your vintage #Commodore 64, #Amiga or PC to your home ... 2020-11-09 08:00:00 74 2175
Thumbnail The Top 10 best PC DOS games of 1981 - 1991 Here are the best games of 1981-1991, the first decade of the PC. I created 10 videos, counting down ... 2020-10-27 06:15:02 416 23519
Thumbnail How to clean & restore an IBM Model F / M Keyboard If you have an old keyboard, like one of these lush IBM Model F or Model M types, then it will undou ... 2020-10-06 09:00:05 79 3155
Thumbnail The Top 10 #DOS Games of #1991 It's the last in this 10-part series documenting the best in the top ten games of the first decade o ... 2020-09-24 22:42:38 259 9322
Thumbnail Ken Williams Interview: Sierra On-line 🏔 I met with Ken Williams of Sierra On-Line fame for a fascinating chat about all things Sierra: From ... 2020-09-16 07:00:07 299 7577
Thumbnail The top 10 DOS games of 1990 These were the top 10 DOS games of the year 1990. Watch with me as I review them all and tell you wh ... 2020-09-10 22:44:11 282 14666
Thumbnail They found GayBlade! (from Netflix's High Score series) If you've watched Netflix's High Score, episode 3 shows role playing games. Gayblade was the first g ... 2020-08-28 23:03:59 234 15960
Thumbnail Happy 25th Birthday Windows 95 (Install & Review) #Microsoft #Windows 95 is 25! Here's a quick look back at some of the things that #Win95 brought us ... 2020-08-25 19:40:12 43 1024
Thumbnail Unboxing Star Micronics Colour Dot Matrix Printer. Will it work? I picked up this 1989 Star Micronics NX-1000 dot matrix printer from a recent computer warehouse hau ... 2020-08-23 09:48:25 45 1732
Thumbnail How to install Enigma 1/2 BBS I often think, wouldn't it be nice if I could watch a video and see how to install something step by ... 2020-08-15 07:15:01 98 4356
Thumbnail The top 10 DOS games of 1989 Whether it was because there was more money being ploughed into the #games industry by #1989, the ad ... 2020-08-09 20:35:14 228 8422
Thumbnail 10MHz V20 XT vs 6 MHz 286 - What's faster? I had no idea whether an XT-clone rated at 10MHz NEC V20 CPU with an 8087 co-processor, or an XT mac ... 2020-08-02 10:13:33 94 2981
Thumbnail Massive retro computer warehouse sale I went to Auckland on the 11th of July for this massive retro computer warehouse sale. I picked up a ... 2020-07-25 17:04:17 95 3255
Thumbnail How to repair an IBM 5151 Monitor This IBM 5151 Mono monitor has vertical hold or size issues. I had to take it apart to fix it. Here' ... 2020-07-20 23:28:58 72 4147
Thumbnail How to make a CRT discharge tool for free To practice safe monitor love, you need to deal with discharge... High voltage discharge. To dissipa ... 2020-07-19 23:05:51 32 2785
Thumbnail IBM PC: The first games '81-'91 Part 8 (1988) retrogaming I reviewed approximately 82 games for this year. The vast majority were worthy of keeping in the 'pl ... 2020-07-15 19:35:12 196 5720
Thumbnail Vintage warehouse haul: quick view On the 11th of July, I went to a warehouse that was full of vintage computing stuff. This is a very ... 2020-07-14 20:10:38 27 183
Thumbnail How to install FreeDOS + Review of features I hadn't really used #FreeDOS all that much, but I had a bunch of laptops lying round so I decided t ... 2020-06-22 22:57:57 485 44406
Thumbnail IBM PC - The first games '81-'91: Part 7 (1987) Wow! The #DOS games of #1987 really turned a corner! Digitized sound, colourful graphics, gameplay k ... 2020-06-19 13:03:31 203 6654
Thumbnail IBM Hard Drive 'Find' #timecapsule I just found someone elses data lying on an old 1980s supposedly 'broken' hard drive! What a time ca ... 2020-06-11 23:40:31 27 319
Thumbnail How to clean retro kit (grubby Microsoft mouse) Well, I got a mouse today. A lovely little original serial port #Microsoft #mouse. It was pretty gru ... 2020-06-02 13:54:35 5 110
Thumbnail Sound Blaster 16 Vibra PnP Installation for MS DOS I needed a sound card for my Compaq 486. So I got a #soundblaster 16 from Ebay. Stupidly I just tho ... 2020-05-22 15:22:31 156 7756
Thumbnail IBM PC - The first games '81-'91: Part 6 (1986) Here's my review of the top 10 PC DOS games of 1986. Do you agree with my selections? Although the ... 2020-05-19 12:30:06 189 7884
Thumbnail IBM PC - The first games '81-'91: Part 5 (1985) 1985 was a lot harder than 1981-1984 to review. Many great titles came out in this year. The attack ... 2020-05-11 21:53:25 190 7557
Thumbnail IBM PC - The first games '81-'91: Part 4 (1984) Games just kept getting better on the IBM PC. By 1984, some top arcade classics get porting treatmen ... 2020-05-04 10:44:21 166 6711
Thumbnail IBM PC - The first games '81-'91: Part 3 (1983) Goodness! 1981/82 weren't great years for games on the #ibmpc but in 1983, addictive #games were sha ... 2020-04-28 09:21:19 210 8439
Thumbnail Lockdown Leadership - Leading remote teams A quick video with a few pro tips to help you lead your team remotely (which are still good for when ... 2020-04-21 18:10:13 3 96
Thumbnail IBM PC - The first games '81-'91: Part 2 (1982) - The top 10 IBM PC games of 1982 - In the last video, 1981 covered mainly basic text games. A litt ... 2020-04-18 18:07:41 258 10559
Thumbnail IBM PC - The first games '81-'91: Part 1 (1981) The IBM PC launched in 1981. Until its release, many people hadn't programmed for the Intel 8086 arc ... 2020-04-11 22:31:11 359 23383
Thumbnail How to use a DOS PC for web, email, twitter, IRC & more! Your pal Al again! This time on the Geek Lab, it's time to get your retro PC kicking and screaming i ... 2020-04-05 20:14:33 185 6674
Thumbnail Zoom Security Update The popular video conferencing software, Zoom, has been subject to zero-day exploits and has also be ... 2020-04-03 15:52:32 44 5022
Thumbnail Lockdown! Tools and Tips for working from home On this special edition of Al's Geek Lab, I talk about my (and my team's experience) of working from ... 2020-03-29 12:30:44 3 138
Thumbnail Lockdown! How to survive working from home by using the right tools and by looking after yourself On this special edition of Al's Geek Lab, I talk about my (and my team's experience) of working from ... 2020-03-26 22:24:00 1 58
Thumbnail How to play music modules on an old PC (MOD/S3M/XM) Up until now, listening to digitised music on a retro PC has been pretty much impossible. In this qu ... 2020-03-19 10:49:56 45 1994
Thumbnail How to clean disk drive heads Is your floppy drive a bit tired out? Does it need a good polishing? Does your travel actuator need ... 2020-03-08 21:50:47 53 3562
Thumbnail Windows 2.0 Review Windows 2.0 was the hotly anticipated replacement for 1985's Windows 1.0. Here's an in-depth set-up ... 2020-02-29 20:46:29 160 11256
Thumbnail MS DOS Shell & Task Swapping Review Many people didn't even know that a utility called MS-DOS Shell shipped with the extras disk of MS-D ... 2020-02-16 19:06:44 138 8601
Thumbnail My Dad reviews Leisure Suit Larry in the land of the Lounge Lizards (1987) Hi folks, Today I'm reviewing one of my favourite games, Leisure Suit Larry in the land of the Loung ... 2020-02-12 21:19:09 25 790
Thumbnail DOCUMENTARY: Why and How IBM ended up creating the PC (and ended up choosing the 8088 CPU) #IBM released the IBM PC 5150 in 1981. Internally, IBM went through massive hurdles to get a persona ... 2020-02-02 21:02:40 3855 138884
Thumbnail How to get more than 640K RAM in a PC or XT For years, I thought that it was impossible to access any more than 640K 'Conventional' RAM on my PC ... 2020-01-26 20:46:01 95 2205
Thumbnail How to flash the BIOS on an XT-IDE CF ROM The #XT-IDE-CF card is great. It lets you add an IDE hard drive, or a Compact Flash card to your PC ... 2020-01-14 21:51:32 49 2161
Thumbnail The C64 Unboxing and Review The C64 'Maxi' has arrived in time for Christmas 2019! Let's unbox it, set it up and have a look at ... 2019-12-29 22:29:45 68 2115
Thumbnail Google Chromecast Ultra Unboxing, Setup Instructions and Short Review Is the Chromecast Ultra worth the money? I unbox, set up and review the Chromecast Ultra to see if m ... 2019-12-28 22:25:35 26 6970
Thumbnail The Internet connected Hot Rod #IBM PC #XT! Your pal Al shows you how you can turn a 256K original IBM PC XT at 4.77MHz into an Internet using, ... 2019-11-16 22:28:59 182 6562
Thumbnail The Everymans Garmin ForeRunner 645 Review This is an in-depth review for the every person. I'm not a professional runner, not even close! So t ... 2018-09-02 19:41:28 74 11315
Thumbnail Linux Mint 18.03 Install and Review This video is about Linux Mint 18.03 Install and Review ... 2017-12-10 17:34:42 2 208
Thumbnail The IBM Personal Computer - History, Teardown, Demo and Internet Use In this movie, you'll get to know a little bit about the computer that started the personal computer ... 2017-11-13 21:17:15 22 1026
Thumbnail Plantronics BB Fit Unboxing & Review A complete review of the Plantronics BB Fit, includes a 3 week and initial post-run review, unboxing ... 2017-11-07 16:01:15 105 13160
Thumbnail How to use Alpine (PINE) email client to use IMAP iCloud (or Gmail) email Ever wanted to be able to connect to your favourite IMAP email service such as iCloud or Gmail using ... 2015-01-19 14:19:25 126 15786
Thumbnail ULNG - How to install and dual-boot Ubuntu Linux 14.04 with Windows (Part 1/2) ... 2015-01-07 19:14:35 5 1449
Thumbnail ULNG - How to install and dual-boot Ubuntu Linux 14.04 with Windows (Part 2/2) ... 2015-01-07 19:14:35 2 1128
Thumbnail linuxnewbieguide.org : Using the Ubuntu Desktop (Part 2/3) How to use the Ubuntu Desktop - Using Office On Linux (OpenOffice.org) as well as other common apps. ... 2014-12-31 11:14:19 0 163
Thumbnail linuxnewbieguide.org : Using the Ubuntu Desktop (Part 1/3) How to use the Ubuntu Desktop - The Applications Menu, Launching Apps ... 2014-12-31 11:14:19 1 538
Thumbnail linuxnewbieguide.org : Using the Ubuntu Desktop (Part 3/3) - Demonstrating the use of virtual desktops as well as installing software with synaptic. ... 2014-12-31 11:14:19 0 174
Thumbnail How To Install Software in Ubuntu Linux: Part 1 of 2 Check out the website at http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org for more information and helpful guides. H ... 2014-12-31 10:16:02 0 538
Thumbnail How To Install Software in Ubuntu Linux: Part 2 of 2 Check out the website at http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org for more information and helpful guides. H ... 2014-12-31 10:16:02 1 172
Thumbnail Installing Ubuntu Linux on a PC with Microsoft Windows and dual-boot it. A beginners tutorial to how to install Ubuntu Linux on a PC which already has Microsoft Windows on i ... 2014-12-31 09:56:05 2 237
Thumbnail Apple ][ - Modern Day Hacks How to use the Vintage Apple //e for modern purposes including Twitter, Web Surfing, Email, IRC Chat ... 2014-12-10 21:18:12 8 332
Thumbnail How to go online on a 1970s era computer (the Apple 2). Email, chat, news groups and even twitter! Call me crazy but some of us out there spend times modding things to do things they were never inten ... 2014-01-12 21:45:34 321 38800
Thumbnail Controlling the Raspberry Pi from your Apple 2 How to use a 1970s era computer to control a modern day computer and make it look like the Apple 2 i ... 2013-09-22 20:59:41 6 337
Thumbnail Using a Raspberry Pi to browse the web on an Apple 2e via YouTube Capture ... 2013-09-21 19:37:33 25 1407