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Presenting more goodies from the 1993 "GCW" shareware CD-ROM, including some autodesk .FLI animations (such as the video's intro) -- which is such an obsolete format that I had to dig up an ancient Windows 3.1 program to convert them into .AVI video format -- as well as many spectacular raytraced images, which was the state of the art for 3-D imaging back then. Raytracing provides a photorealistic view of computer generated objects in space, but takes up a large amount of processing power to ...

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Images and music taken from an old CD-ROM, dated 1993, containing many .GIF files of computer generated artwork and .MOD files of digitally sampled music. Likely most of this was created by Amiga computer users and distributed through various bbses, some of which you see advertised in the images. The art has dates going back to 1985 and some of it is really quite spectacular, given the limitations of computer graphics at the time. The music is from an excellent .MOD rendition of "Toccata ...

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In decades past, basically anything with a handle on top was considered "portable." This 1984 Sharp "My Video" VC-363 falls into that category, featuring a mono VHS VCR, analog TV tuner, timer, wired remote control, optional battery pack, and padded carrying case.

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This strange little Symphonette "satellite speaker" is quite stylish in its faux woodgrain pedestal design, but clearly wasn't built for playing music. Put any decent amount of bass into it, and its thin plastic cabinet vibrates like crazy.

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General Electric had many great products in the early to mid 1980s, and this was one of them... the AM/FM stereo clock radio cassette player, model 7-4960. It came with a pair of small matching speakers, but it sounds outstanding when hooked up to good quality speakers. The sound is rich and full-bodied, even with just a tone control. The tuner has impressive AM reception and sound quality, too. The cassette deck is play-only and needs some work.

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I had a few minutes left at the end of my Digital8 camcorder tape, so I decided to use it up while playing a rather nice song from a generic "Jazz Combo" CD bought at a dollar store. Most of the tracks are rather boring and repetitive, but this one stands out with a catchy riff and high quality musicianship, especially from the drummer. I wish I could credit the composer and performers, but the CD is just labelled "digimusic Essentials Collection," by "digiview Entertainment" of Dunellen ...

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Various scenes recorded in mid to late October 2009. The limited resolution of my SD camcorder and youtube's encoding won't do justice to the detail of the leaves, but at least you can get an idea of the different colors seen here in central NJ this Fall. And yes, that was a Smart Car at 0:32!

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It is impossible to find the correct ORIGINAL version of "The Monster Mash" on itunes or Amazon.com MP3, so here it is, as it was played on 1250 WMTR in Morristown, NJ on October 29th, 2007, and received on a Grundig S350 Deluxe AM/FM/Shortwave receiver in Wideband mode. Also, here is the correct ORIGINAL STEREO version of this song, which you won't find on itunes or Amazon.com: www.youtube.com

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Just a quick update of some of my new goodies, and a preview of some of the videos that will be coming up soon on my channel. I'm putting my vintage Sony Digital8 camcorder to good use, and it is working flawlessly! And remember "Hit Clips" from Tiger Electronics? If there is enough interest, I'll make a full video on that, too. So stay tuned to the vwestlife channel, as well as to my music channel: www.youtube.com And thanks for all your support!

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100000 pixels put to the test in five different ways.

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