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Greetings and welcome to a brief LGR thing while I work on more involved LGR things for the upcoming near future. And this is just going to be talking about VGA capture solutions for older PCs, and newer-ish PCs because I capture a wide range of systems. I’m also getting questions about it. But more recently I was getting very specific questions because of the MCE2VGA box. This is a converter for video signals. It takes TTL RGBI right there for like old computers running CGA, EGA, and monochrome and such. And sends them to the other side here for standard VGA output. It’s pretty great but it also doesn’t work with every capture device that I have, and I mentioned that in the video and people were like “well what do you have?” Anyway, my setup is always changing its gonna change again, but for now this is my basic setup. So I’ve got a newer Windows 10 PC capturing things over there and then over here is where I do most of the actual capturing.  And I like a separate station for this...

I picked up this Commodore 128 and disk drive on Craigslist for $30. The poor thing is in really rough shape In fact, I think it’s the worst I’ve ever seen. The whole thing is yellowed and you can clearly see its from UV exposure because you can see the original color hiding in the shadow of the keys, but the amount of dirt and grime is just amazing.  Part of this is due to being in storage for years, according to the seller, and, unfortunately, a key is broken off. I do have the key, so I’ll see what I can do about that. The 1571 disk drive doesn’t look any better. I don’t know if either of these items even work. So, really, I felt like the first thing I should do is test them. I plugged in the power and connected up the disk drive and monitor. So, half afraid something was going to pop and start smoking, I turned on the disk drive. It did spin up and the power light came on. That’s a good sign. Now, time for the computer. Well, the computer seems to be completely dead. In fact, t...