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[hbquikcomjamesl]

No videos, but:

1. My working Macintosh at home is a "bionic desk lamp" iMac. Which underwent a "brain transplant" not terribly long ago.
2. My stereo system includes a cassette deck, a CD player, and a CD-R machine. As well as a turntable with an "umbrella" changer (normally, I have the single-play pin installed and the changer pin stowed).
3. I have a DOS tower (that also dual-boots to Linux) and a DOSbook. I don't allow WinDoze in the house.
4. My typesetting application of choice is still Xerox Ventura Publisher, DOS/GEM Edition.
5. I spend my Saturdays docenting at the International Printing Museum, and I'm a reasonably competent linecasting operator (Linotype, Intertype, and Ludlow), as well as a reasonably competent platen press operator (including Heidelberg Windmill).

Speaking of Windmills, I actually do have a video, in which I'm running a 2-spot-color (no black) stationery job on a Windmill at the Museum. (The entire previous sentence is a link to it, and since the stationery being printed is "masthead sheets" for the newsletter of an American Guild of Organists Chapter, it should come as no surprise that it's scored with a movement of a Handel organ concerto. My own recording, in which the only thing real is the organ.)

 

[Candlicious Ghost]

No videos, but:

1. My working Macintosh at home is a "bionic desk lamp" iMac. Which underwent a "brain transplant" not terribly long ago.
2. My stereo system includes a cassette deck, a CD player, and a CD-R machine. As well as a turntable with an "umbrella" changer (normally, I have the single-play pin installed and the changer pin stowed).
3. I have a DOS tower (that also dual-boots to Linux) and a DOSbook. I don't allow WinDoze in the house.
4. My typesetting application of choice is still Xerox Ventura Publisher, DOS/GEM Edition.
5. I spend my Saturdays docenting at the International Printing Museum, and I'm a reasonably competent linecasting operator (Linotype, Intertype, and Ludlow), as well as a reasonably competent platen press operator (including Heidelberg Windmill).

Speaking of Windmills, I actually do have a video, in which I'm running a 2-spot-color (no black) stationery job on a Windmill at the Museum. (The entire previous sentence is a link to it, and since the stationery being printed is "masthead sheets" for the newsletter of an American Guild of Organists Chapter, it should come as no surprise that it's scored with a movement of a Handel organ concerto. My own recording, in which the only thing real is the organ.)

That's wicked. I like that people still do the old fashioned printing. Is your Imac the one with the round half sphere base, that's why they call it a desk lamp?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Yes, because it resembles an articulated arm desk lamp.

 

[Candlicious Ghost]

Yes, because it resembles an articulated arm desk lamp.

Oh cool. I always liked those, shame they were not more popular

 

[PumpkinSpiceFoodCube]

So in the 90s if you wanted good audio for midi compatable games you'd sometimes get a midi module like a Roland SoundCanvas or a Yamaha MU-2000. Sound cards started to have midi built in but the audio was generally not as good. For awhile soundcanvas music even became a niche thing of its own.

For people developing midi music for games, Roland developed a keyboard versions. This is I think the last of them, the SK-88pro from the mid 90s.

this one's mine. It still works.
It has some great sounds. And they can be modified, effects added, etc. I have it running through a power supply to adjust for the different in Japanese voltage since these were never really made, as far as i can tell, to sell outside the Japanese domestic market (weird, since they had only English menus)

Here's an example of a version of a song from Final Fantasy IV I did on it:

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[Candlicious Ghost]

So in the 90s if you wanted good audio for midi compatable games you'd sometimes get a midi module like a Roland SoundCanvas or a Yamaha MU-2000. Sound cards started to have midi built in but the audio was generally not as good. For awhile soundcanvas music even became a niche thing of its own.

For people developing midi music for games, Roland developed a keyboard versions. This is I think the last of them, the SK-88pro from the mid 90s.

this one's mine. It still works.
It has some great sounds. And they can be modified, effects added, etc. I have it running through a power supply to adjust for the different in Japanese voltage since these were never really made, as far as i can tell, to sell outside the Japanese domestic market (weird, since they had only English menus)

Here's an example of a version of a song from Final Fantasy IV I did on it:

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That is really cool I love it