Can I just say, I really appreciate that you buy these pristine Win/DOS products, and you actually unwrap and install the software. I can see the reasoning behind never unwrapping such things, but if it wasn't for people like you, we would never see what these boxes came with and how the programs work. Thanks for that, dude.
Yeah! Paraphrasing what he said in a previous video; "These things aren't going to last forever, thwy'll eventually wear out and die so let's enjoy them for the time being."
i agree, though there's different types of collectors, namely ones more obsessed with the monetary value of an object or long-term preservation of once. LGR opens things and plays around with since he wants to and that's great, but i can also respect the collectors that keep some objects in pristine condition for the sake of perseveration for the future interest. if it wasn't for them, these unique objects would easily end up thrown away and we'd have less specimens to look at as time goes on
I remember it being a really popular one in the early 2000's. It's in an episode of That 70's Show too actually. I wonder how far back that joke actually goes..
People may laugh now, but kids today don't understand how expensive 3D fonts were back then. Just one 3D font was a major investment and many families had no 3D fonts at all, or had to rent one. As a kid growing up, I dreamed of having a 3D font but I never thought I could have one. Then, one Christmas, there was a package under the tree. A lumpy, 3 dimensional package. It was the only present; my whole family had got together to buy it. Thrilled and bubbling with anticipation, Christmas morning finally came and I had to wait as my family opened their presents first; my dad got a secondhand toothbrush, my mum got a lump of coal. My sister was thrilled by her post-it notes and my gran got a biscuit. And then it came to my turn and my gran said, "we all got together and I went and chose it just for you" and I tore off the newspaper wrapping and ribbons made of recycled strips of sock. it was Comic Sans.
NGL, I literally laughed out loud when Clint saw this in the brochure, said "I'll have to look at getting that one!" and then it just cuts to "thank you for your purchase!"
The thing I love about so many old desktop applications is when they list "8-bit or higher sound card required". How? Why? What audio requirements could a 3d font maker genuinely need to function :D
re WordArt, there was actually a lot you could do with it. If you open the Drawing and 3D dialogue boxes, they let you customise everything! That might have been introduced in Office 2000, though, so YMMV.
Pretty sure it was in Office 97. I know word can definitely do most (if not all) of what this does, but it's not obvious since the options are buried. I remember playing with wordart and discovering the extra toolbar for 3D one day...
WordArt and the 3d fonts was my shit when I was at primary school. I'm a Graphic Designer now, and I'm 100% sure that its down to this kind of software being about haha
Did the same thing. My PowerPoint projects in like kindergarten & first grade were all full of 3D words. Most of them at the “infinite” distance of how far the 3D went.
@@Blood-PawWerewolf In 4th grade I found out that if you set certain wordart (in escher2) values above 4 digits, the software can crash out of too much 3D. I still have documents that take too much power for even my modern computer to handle. They can open but it takes like 10 minutes.
@@Blood-PawWerewolf I think I used infinite on every single piece of homweork back in the day haha. In fact I vaguely remember my school actually banning wordart because teachers got so annoyed with EVERY kid doing the same
@@willm5032 I first discovered wordart when I was like 6, it was escher1 on word 2002 I think? But then I completely forgot. No memories whatsoever, I only know because I printed that stuff. But then I "discovered" Escher2 wordart at 10 (word 2010 then powerpoint 2007), and it gave you soooo much control over every single parameter, so I'd spend hours a day picking the perfect one, and pushing every option to its limits. The coolest thing nowadays is, you can use wordart in body text, and you bet I do that. In high school I'd put a very slight gradient and effect, fine-tuned so that my text always looked slightly off, but you never knew why. I'd also fake printer problems in the gradient.
OMG I remember I had this pretty much when it came out! I had a webpage with a spinning 3d text logo and it made me feel like I was the best webdesigner on the planet :)
I have a bit of a soft spot for Expert Software titles. They were cheap as dirt, sold everywhere (Walmart, office supply stores, Target, etc), and had so many oddball programs and games! With my meager allowance in the early 90s I ended up picking up a lot of them. There's just something about the company. They sold cheap software, everything was done on a budget, but they were proud of it and they delivered a working product! At my first real job we used the heck out of Expert Typing for YEARS. (A Job center sort of place. Clients used it to practice typing) The program would run out of a fileshare and and was tiny.. And Kept working on every windows version from windows 95 on Pentium ||s all the way through 64 bit windows 7 on core2 duos. (Until the job center systems were finally replaced with thin clients) The instructors loved it so we never changed it. At some point in storage I found the 80+ boxed copies that were originally purchased.
Sounds like a great story, actually! Miss the times when things like clipart, screen savers and software like this was sold in stores! Nobody cares about this budget stuff today (if ever) but it's really a fascinating subject when you think about it, a piece of software history neglected by everybody.
True type fonts. The way to produce half way decent word processing on the Amiga back in the 90's with those old Canon Bubblejet printers, and relatively easy to make your own fonts with shareware editors on Aminet!
I recently found Escape from Money Island CIB at Goodwill for 6$. And DOS 3.3 for same price. I def picked them up lol. Sent you a message about a crazy retro computer I've never seen I'm trying to find out more about, it was on ebay and may be gone now but it was very unique... Edit: It's a GE Calma computer. Very little info about it out there.
I disagree re: WordArt. Will a few extra clicks you can customize exactly how the face looks, the rotation in every plane, depth. I can't think of an aspect that would require another program?
I love these blerbs where you look at weird old programs, I’m kind of obsessed with buying programs like this whenever I find them at garage sales, lol.
It's not a fan, it's the CD drive spinning the disc. As Clint said when he clicked on the texture tab at 11:17, the textures are on the CD and are loaded from there.
@@thefunkdroid2777: I never liked how the Icon of Sin spawns arch-viles. It makes the end levels, particularly _The Plutonia Experiment,_ feel unfair rather than just challenging.
I recall older installers usually asked you if you want shortcuts at the very end of the installation process so if you just cancel the installation after letting it move the program files of course it doesn't do that.
Expert has a landscape creator. I played with that program for hours a day. I would manipulate the houses, cut and paste parts of the houses together to creat unique homes. Then I would landscape these homes. I had two versions of the program. 3d landscaping and regular expert landscape. I would print them out on my 9pin printer. Never was there a boy with his 386 more content.
I remember seeing that in the bargain bins at Office Max back in the day. Never picked it up though. I always assumed it would be just a bunch of "3D" true type fonts. This actually looks like it would have been fun to play with. Thanks!
The last blurb on the System Requirements mentions that textures are only available on Windows 95, so maybe the Windows 3.1 version is actually different because it's missing that functionality?
When you showed the minimum system requirements sticker, I was wondering for a split-second "can my pc run this?" I think that on a modern pc you could run a virtual Win95 with a virtual Win3 in it and _still_ have enough speed left to run this.
As a 1990s kid who had quite an experience with more or less equivalent Russian DOS software called “PlakatIndex” (it made 3D-ish text and could compose printouts on perforated paper... we made a heavy use of it in 1992-1995 at school where we were, quite innovatively at the time - and indeed wisely - taught not only Basic programming and charting algorithms but actually using what was modern software then, i.e. DOS, Lexicon text processor, Windows 3.1 and later 95, Word, Excel... as well as played Wolfenstein, DOOM, and Mortal Kombat during recesses and after classes - a perk of having an “informatics” teacher as what in the US would be a homeroom teacher), I'd say that it wasn't Expert Software staff who did samples... rather their 10-12-year-old kids. I see a fifth-grader experience and a sixth-grader humor.
The way you removed the plastic wrap from the jewel case made my jaw drop. I am suddenly angry at myself for countless hours spent picking at the tabs trying to open it "correctly." Love the videos, love learning new old techniques lol.
I wonder how any viewers didn't realize the plastic was still on the box and freaked out when you grabbed that sharpie... :-) Now you'll need to make a wood grain LGR badge for your wood grain PC.
In these crazy times, it's always nice to watch your videos, recalling a time when we had this innocent faith in technology and faith in our society as a whole!
Microsoft Publisher wordart, that takes me back! I was a god among men for using that on my school homework in the very early 90's lol. Even if it was printed out on a monocolour dot matrix printer LOL. I love these random big box software, people made software for basically everything in the hope of jumping on the computing bandwagon.
I was curious so I stalked the sale for posterity. Sold 10 Nov 2020 Sold Item Brand New C $9.75 10-Nov 21:05 or Best Offer From United States +C $24.39 shipping estimate
I haven't seen this mentioned yet in the comments, WMF is Windows Metafile. Essentially it's a vector format like the much newer SVG. EMF is Enhanced Metafile, the 32-bit version of WMF released in 1992. Inkscape supports reading and writing WMF if you want to losslessly convert to SVG while keeping the vector goodness.
You should track down Micrografx Simply 3D 3. It was a similarly cheap piece of 3D software from the late 90's that was exceptionally powerful considering its discount bin origins. If you liked 3D text, it would have blown your mind.
YESS!!! DUDE! I bought this at Babbage's with money my grandma gave me for my birthday in 1996. As everyone has noted, it in fact does not create fonts, only images.
(14:48) Pretty funny. [in Duke's voice] "I'm gonna school you at F. U." Well, this video is playing. Video sticks when played in 1080p60HD, but that's probably because of demand. No problems at all when I switch back down to 720p60 (I thought maybe if I tried HD format, the other videos that wouldn't play would start working... but no, resolution has nothing to do with it apparently).
Corel Draw had some rudimentary 3D-ification tools since Draw 3, and they were incredibly fun to play with. Made the most ridiculous covers for my school reports with that :D
damn, I was just the same with drawing 3D words (or "bubble writing" as I called it even when it was more blocky than bubbly), trying to get it perfectly sized for the page and all of the perspectives consistent between letters. irony now that one of the things people do and love about WordArt is having the various templates at different angles from each other together next to each other. although they're still consistent within each piece of WordArt.
Your content is always interesting. I've also used WordArt quite extensively as a kid, mainly in Word 2003... You can tweak some parameters with WordArt too... My first experience with a word processing software was at the age of 2 when I decided to write the alphabet and print it. I still remember the struggles I went through but also the intense joy when I had been done. As dumb as it can seem, it was pretty much a feat for a 2-year-old haha! And the days after, I started to do it again, using various font, printed them and displayed them in my bedroom. If you think I was a strange kind of 2-year-old, you are right.
I'm sure you're aware, but even with WordArt, if you click the yellow directional buttons... then drag them to your preferred area, you can change how the 3D effect is perceived. Also, not sure what version... I want to say probably word 97, as I recall clippy.... but WordArt definitely allowed for textures, perspective shifts/changes, lighting direction, shadows, etc... That was all there.
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Clint does not like his own videos... :) (00:26) .... but we like them very much. So it's OK.
Looks like a similar prog I had for Windows 3.1x and Mac called " Aldus Type Twister". Less emphasis on 3D and more concerned with type manipulations. You could not print anything. You had to export to something like PageMaker, CorelDraw or Illustrator.
of course you went and bought it lol. BTW friendly reminder, go get Dust!! I've already played a while of my old copy and man it's right up your alley, including cheesy low bitrate FMV video acting over 90s CGI backgrounds!
WMF = Windows Metafile. Basically, Windows has what's known as the GDI, which it used -- up through Windows XP or so -- as its primary graphical drawing API (excepting DirectX for games and such). Programmers for Windows used calls into the GDI API to render graphics against what was known as a device context. A device context (or DC) was an abstraction that represented a section of the screen, a hard copy output device such as a printer, or an off-screen buffer. WMF was built into Windows and provided a different kind of DC: one which simply recorded the draw calls performed against it and saved them into a file. These draw calls could then be loaded from the file and "played back" onto another DC, yielding the target image intended to be drawn. It was a convenient way of storing data in a scalable vector format that took advantage of the drawing primitives already built into Windows.
5:42 "Do-It-Yourself Lawyer" - I hope we get to see that one in a future episode
I now want to buy that software and send it to my dad and actual lawyer.
way before Cinco E-Trial!
Can I just say, I really appreciate that you buy these pristine Win/DOS products, and you actually unwrap and install the software. I can see the reasoning behind never unwrapping such things, but if it wasn't for people like you, we would never see what these boxes came with and how the programs work. Thanks for that, dude.
Yeah! Paraphrasing what he said in a previous video; "These things aren't going to last forever, thwy'll eventually wear out and die so let's enjoy them for the time being."
Anyone that prioritizes the box over the software doesn't 'get' it...
i agree, though there's different types of collectors, namely ones more obsessed with the monetary value of an object or long-term preservation of once. LGR opens things and plays around with since he wants to and that's great, but i can also respect the collectors that keep some objects in pristine condition for the sake of perseveration for the future interest. if it wasn't for them, these unique objects would easily end up thrown away and we'd have less specimens to look at as time goes on
@@kh-ro5su I like to do both
FU Fun Universtiy... Thats an awesome T-Shirt design i have to admit
I remember it being a really popular one in the early 2000's. It's in an episode of That 70's Show too actually. I wonder how far back that joke actually goes..
I smell merch
I would have worn FU fun university as a teen... It would have complimented my other shirts such as "quicherbichen"
There is an actual university that does that, Finlandia University in Upper Michigan.
My new headcanon is the shoe string production of 70s show needed a way to make a t shirt for an episode and someone randomly had this program
well I know what I'm making all my thumbnail text with now
Please use woodgrain+army ants!
DeadwingDork it’s so different and attractive you might actually glitch the algorithm and get more views. Lol
wendell nesmith is very mad at you
BROOOOO
So you watch LGR I see you are indeed a man of class
3D fonts were the coolest thing back in the day. I guess many a homework was returned with a 3D title proudly on top.
Nothing said fancy like a 3d font title page in a clear presentation folder, you were getting that A
People may laugh now, but kids today don't understand how expensive 3D fonts were back then. Just one 3D font was a major investment and many families had no 3D fonts at all, or had to rent one. As a kid growing up, I dreamed of having a 3D font but I never thought I could have one. Then, one Christmas, there was a package under the tree. A lumpy, 3 dimensional package. It was the only present; my whole family had got together to buy it. Thrilled and bubbling with anticipation, Christmas morning finally came and I had to wait as my family opened their presents first; my dad got a secondhand toothbrush, my mum got a lump of coal. My sister was thrilled by her post-it notes and my gran got a biscuit. And then it came to my turn and my gran said, "we all got together and I went and chose it just for you" and I tore off the newspaper wrapping and ribbons made of recycled strips of sock.
it was Comic Sans.
👏👏👏
‘Twas the night before Christmas
at LGRs house
adjusting the kerning
with the click of a mouse
I enjoy how progressively less believable this comment gets
I can only say something about you that I cant say for myself:
Your family must really love you
I was the 100th like on this comment, I’m so proud
NGL, I literally laughed out loud when Clint saw this in the brochure, said "I'll have to look at getting that one!" and then it just cuts to "thank you for your purchase!"
My heart skipped a beat when Clint started to draw on the box with a Sharpie. Luckily, it was just the shrink wrap.
So i wasn't the only one xD
You could say he was drawn to it.
@@CaveyMoth two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff
As the somg says "You are not alone"😂👌
Same. Epic bit of trolling right there.
4:34 3DFONT31.Z and 3DFONT95.Z .. probably different executables, the installer picks one.
Me: _I wonder why Clint grows his fingernails_
Clint: *3:20*
*Me:* he’s a werewolf
Do you remember a time when the term 3-D was a selling point?
LGR remembers.
I also rember in the mid 2010s where they tried to do it again with TVs
@@pleasedontwatchthese9593 And now they're doing it with VR.
Or using the letter X in every world. Wormhole X-treme!
When the number 2000 was futuristic, when everything was Something Online, E-Something, then iSomething.
I know!!! I love this shit!
I love how you disliked your own video^^
XD
Taking a page out of 3kliksphilip's book lol
Lol! FU? Probably the same people who came up with Frank Underwood or Francis Uruqart on House of Cards!
It may have something to do with the algorithms. I have heard from multiple channels that the like and dislike do the same thing.
@@bryceschug486 Or, you know, just a little hidden joke... 0:25
I love it when my documents explode in 3D and burn my house down.
With the lemons!
@@GeckonCZ With the documents in this case, but you got it!
That... actually exceeded my expectations. The software I mean.
Same
WMF files...hmmm wonder if Samuel L Jackson helped with this? WORDS MOTHER F*****, DO YOU 3D THEM?
Hahahahah! Good one! « SAY WORDART ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME! »
WMF.. that’s so meta
2:15 Damn, Clint, you got me there for a moment! xD I was like "what the hell are you doing, dude, you're ruining the box!?!" :)
I know, I felt my heart sink until he mentioned it was still wrapped in plastic.
@@cerberus144 same :D
0:28 he disliked his own video, the madman
The thing I love about so many old desktop applications is when they list "8-bit or higher sound card required". How? Why? What audio requirements could a 3d font maker genuinely need to function :D
Probably for the sounds in the on-disc catalog program.
9:10
"Super Word Art" The sequel we never knew we wanted, but we really do.
re WordArt, there was actually a lot you could do with it. If you open the Drawing and 3D dialogue boxes, they let you customise everything! That might have been introduced in Office 2000, though, so YMMV.
Pretty sure it was in Office 97. I know word can definitely do most (if not all) of what this does, but it's not obvious since the options are buried. I remember playing with wordart and discovering the extra toolbar for 3D one day...
Starting the day with an "Oh Dear" sums up the existential nightmare that is 2020.
“The joke wears thin when it mirrors your reality.”
-Max Payne
WordArt and the 3d fonts was my shit when I was at primary school. I'm a Graphic Designer now, and I'm 100% sure that its down to this kind of software being about haha
Did the same thing. My PowerPoint projects in like kindergarten & first grade were all full of 3D words. Most of them at the “infinite” distance of how far the 3D went.
@@Blood-PawWerewolf In 4th grade I found out that if you set certain wordart (in escher2) values above 4 digits, the software can crash out of too much 3D. I still have documents that take too much power for even my modern computer to handle. They can open but it takes like 10 minutes.
@@Blood-PawWerewolf I think I used infinite on every single piece of homweork back in the day haha. In fact I vaguely remember my school actually banning wordart because teachers got so annoyed with EVERY kid doing the same
@@wordart_guian No one person should have that much power
@@willm5032 I first discovered wordart when I was like 6, it was escher1 on word 2002 I think? But then I completely forgot. No memories whatsoever, I only know because I printed that stuff. But then I "discovered" Escher2 wordart at 10 (word 2010 then powerpoint 2007), and it gave you soooo much control over every single parameter, so I'd spend hours a day picking the perfect one, and pushing every option to its limits.
The coolest thing nowadays is, you can use wordart in body text, and you bet I do that. In high school I'd put a very slight gradient and effect, fine-tuned so that my text always looked slightly off, but you never knew why. I'd also fake printer problems in the gradient.
"The army ants want you!" is one of the scariest sentences I've ever read.
Yeah, it has a distinctive "Phase IV" vibe to it.
"fun university" LGR college cardigan when??
Maaaaaan, this is SO 90s, love it. I still remember doing abhorrent slides on PowerPoint 97, totally allowed back then.
I blame the opening titles of Superman for creating the whole 3D font concept.
Lol true. For me it was mid to late 90s' video game marketing, where every video game had 3D in the title or in the description of the game.
@@pleasedontwatchthese9593 Yeah, in this case I think it was a 90s thing, but it was also popular in the 70s.
"I would have loved this back in the day" he says while he very clearly loves it right now. Hahaha
I used to mess around with Wordart in Word when I was a kid and always thought it was a cool way to bring some life into boring school assignments
OMG I remember I had this pretty much when it came out! I had a webpage with a spinning 3d text logo and it made me feel like I was the best webdesigner on the planet :)
Now use it to create a title banner for an Angelfire homepage
@Captain McDog And join the Highlander: The Series web-ring!
I have a bit of a soft spot for Expert Software titles. They were cheap as dirt, sold everywhere (Walmart, office supply stores, Target, etc), and had so many oddball programs and games! With my meager allowance in the early 90s I ended up picking up a lot of them. There's just something about the company. They sold cheap software, everything was done on a budget, but they were proud of it and they delivered a working product!
At my first real job we used the heck out of Expert Typing for YEARS. (A Job center sort of place. Clients used it to practice typing) The program would run out of a fileshare and and was tiny.. And Kept working on every windows version from windows 95 on Pentium ||s all the way through 64 bit windows 7 on core2 duos. (Until the job center systems were finally replaced with thin clients) The instructors loved it so we never changed it. At some point in storage I found the 80+ boxed copies that were originally purchased.
Sounds like a great story, actually! Miss the times when things like clipart, screen savers and software like this was sold in stores! Nobody cares about this budget stuff today (if ever) but it's really a fascinating subject when you think about it, a piece of software history neglected by everybody.
So now we know one of those (currently four) dislikes is Clint :-P
@0:29 Thx for the recommendation to dislike the video, but I'll keep my like.
True type fonts. The way to produce half way decent word processing on the Amiga back in the 90's with those old Canon Bubblejet printers, and relatively easy to make your own fonts with shareware editors on Aminet!
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Ah, the late 90s/early 2000s
"Are ya doing your vacuuming in there son?"
"Yes dad, almost done"
*Is playing with fonts with the disc in the drive*
I recently found Escape from Money Island CIB at Goodwill for 6$. And DOS 3.3 for same price. I def picked them up lol. Sent you a message about a crazy retro computer I've never seen I'm trying to find out more about, it was on ebay and may be gone now but it was very unique...
Edit: It's a GE Calma computer. Very little info about it out there.
Clint: draws on plastic wrap. /Knife 🔪, cuts plastic wrap
Also Clint: Fck this plastic on the CD case, /fingernail 🔪
I disagree re: WordArt. Will a few extra clicks you can customize exactly how the face looks, the rotation in every plane, depth. I can't think of an aspect that would require another program?
I love these blerbs where you look at weird old programs, I’m kind of obsessed with buying programs like this whenever I find them at garage sales, lol.
Many of us were drawing 3D text in junior high- even at least one of my yearbooks uses some on the front cover.
Do-it-yourself lawyer... Riiight
If ya find a copy of that ya could team up with Devin from Legal Eagle to see if its any good :P
Now if it could animate the 3D words into GIFs as was popular on 90s era websites, that'd be even better... :P
You can customise the word art completely. Bring up the 3d toolbar and you can change the texture, angle, shape. Etc
I love how the fan starts screaming after the textures are applied
It's not a fan, it's the CD drive spinning the disc. As Clint said when he clicked on the texture tab at 11:17, the textures are on the CD and are loaded from there.
If you really want your documents to explode in 3d, send them to the Hydraulic Press Channel.
Is this how you get the day off by making you're documents explode?
I'm reminded of The Plutonia Experiment's title screen
To me, _Final Doom_ is Doom 3.
Yeah, also the 3D effect in the classic Doom's logo itself looks majestic on a grand scale.
@@Christopher-N Except Plutonia sucks. TNT is awesome, though.
(And yes, I completed both in Ultra violence difficulty).
@@thefunkdroid2777: I never liked how the Icon of Sin spawns arch-viles. It makes the end levels, particularly _The Plutonia Experiment,_ feel unfair rather than just challenging.
@@Christopher-N Absolutely agree. Plutonia is just unfair and the level design is quite subpar and inconsistent.
Even Freedoom phase 2 is better
Found this one archive dot org. downloaded it just for the fonts it has. Probably with go unused, but good to have just in case.
I recall older installers usually asked you if you want shortcuts at the very end of the installation process so if you just cancel the installation after letting it move the program files of course it doesn't do that.
Expert has a landscape creator. I played with that program for hours a day. I would manipulate the houses, cut and paste parts of the houses together to creat unique homes. Then I would landscape these homes. I had two versions of the program. 3d landscaping and regular expert landscape. I would print them out on my 9pin printer. Never was there a boy with his 386 more content.
Pretty sure things can only explode in 3-D...
_Clint, can you play with the McDonald’s game in the catalogue please ? I’ve been searching for videos but it seems it’s forgotten........_
Try looking at PBG's channel.
9:28 I was actually astonished when the characters from the different objects obeyed their depth information and overlapped each other properly
I remember seeing that in the bargain bins at Office Max back in the day. Never picked it up though. I always assumed it would be just a bunch of "3D" true type fonts. This actually looks like it would have been fun to play with. Thanks!
The last blurb on the System Requirements mentions that textures are only available on Windows 95, so maybe the Windows 3.1 version is actually different because it's missing that functionality?
"We got ants!"
Oh, that's how.
I bet the whole thing would fit on a floppy. What a waste of CDs
You disliking your own video? Hilarious :D
When you showed the minimum system requirements sticker, I was wondering for a split-second "can my pc run this?"
I think that on a modern pc you could run a virtual Win95 with a virtual Win3 in it and _still_ have enough speed left to run this.
yeah, nowadays, windows 95 will run in any web browser, so...
I'm going to enroll in Fun University.
12:50 - LGR made vaporwave album art
As a 1990s kid who had quite an experience with more or less equivalent Russian DOS software called “PlakatIndex” (it made 3D-ish text and could compose printouts on perforated paper... we made a heavy use of it in 1992-1995 at school where we were, quite innovatively at the time - and indeed wisely - taught not only Basic programming and charting algorithms but actually using what was modern software then, i.e. DOS, Lexicon text processor, Windows 3.1 and later 95, Word, Excel... as well as played Wolfenstein, DOOM, and Mortal Kombat during recesses and after classes - a perk of having an “informatics” teacher as what in the US would be a homeroom teacher), I'd say that it wasn't Expert Software staff who did samples... rather their 10-12-year-old kids. I see a fifth-grader experience and a sixth-grader humor.
The way you removed the plastic wrap from the jewel case made my jaw drop. I am suddenly angry at myself for countless hours spent picking at the tabs trying to open it "correctly." Love the videos, love learning new old techniques lol.
Thumbs down for your own vid? :P
Three dimensional wood? What dark magic is this?? Everyone knows that wood is strictly two dimensional, and made out of sticky-backed vinyl!
14:45 best part ever! I kept returning just to laugh some more! love it! 😂😂
we used to have shelves of crap from this software publisher when i worked in Office Max back in the 90's.
I had their Personal Publisher software in the late 1990s; I used the hell out of it. I thought it was a pretty decent little program.
I wonder how any viewers didn't realize the plastic was still on the box and freaked out when you grabbed that sharpie... :-)
Now you'll need to make a wood grain LGR badge for your wood grain PC.
That's some legitimately awesome 3D WordArt software. For real, I'd use that today if I had a purpose for it.
I remember back when PRINT SHOP almost seemed like a GAME! lol
When u realise the cd cover itself was created in this program... 14:15
so where can I download this to make memes with
Check internet archive, they have a lot of stuff in the dos/win 3.1 archive
IM A VISUAL DESIGNER
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Nice touch with the video dislike. :))
P.S. It is deeply concerning that there was a software package called *Do-It-Yourself Lawyer*.
1996 is still the modern era for this emerging boomer.
In these crazy times, it's always nice to watch your videos, recalling a time when we had this innocent faith in technology and faith in our society as a whole!
Microsoft Publisher wordart, that takes me back! I was a god among men for using that on my school homework in the very early 90's lol. Even if it was printed out on a monocolour dot matrix printer LOL.
I love these random big box software, people made software for basically everything in the hope of jumping on the computing bandwagon.
I was curious so I stalked the sale for posterity. Sold 10 Nov 2020
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You should have attempted to remake the CD cover ahah. nice video!
This reminds me of Serif 3DPlus 1.0 which is something I used a lot of back in the day. That was a newer program than this however.
I haven't seen this mentioned yet in the comments, WMF is Windows Metafile. Essentially it's a vector format like the much newer SVG. EMF is Enhanced Metafile, the 32-bit version of WMF released in 1992. Inkscape supports reading and writing WMF if you want to losslessly convert to SVG while keeping the vector goodness.
You should track down Micrografx Simply 3D 3. It was a similarly cheap piece of 3D software from the late 90's that was exceptionally powerful considering its discount bin origins. If you liked 3D text, it would have blown your mind.
YESS!!! DUDE! I bought this at Babbage's with money my grandma gave me for my birthday in 1996. As everyone has noted, it in fact does not create fonts, only images.
Check out all its dimensions! You got height, width... and now, for a limited time only... a-DEPTH.
damn this program was making memes right on the box
E and WEWD
Aah yes 2020, when LGR gets excited about 3-D text software and I get excited about a video of LGR getting excited about 3-D text software 💫🌟⭐️👍⭐️🌟💫
(14:48) Pretty funny. [in Duke's voice] "I'm gonna school you at F. U."
Well, this video is playing. Video sticks when played in 1080p60HD, but that's probably because of demand. No problems at all when I switch back down to 720p60 (I thought maybe if I tried HD format, the other videos that wouldn't play would start working... but no, resolution has nothing to do with it apparently).
Tbh even in 2020 that's very impressive.
Yeah, that program actually looks... almost useful...
Corel Draw had some rudimentary 3D-ification tools since Draw 3, and they were incredibly fun to play with. Made the most ridiculous covers for my school reports with that :D
damn, I was just the same with drawing 3D words (or "bubble writing" as I called it even when it was more blocky than bubbly), trying to get it perfectly sized for the page and all of the perspectives consistent between letters. irony now that one of the things people do and love about WordArt is having the various templates at different angles from each other together next to each other. although they're still consistent within each piece of WordArt.
Your content is always interesting. I've also used WordArt quite extensively as a kid, mainly in Word 2003... You can tweak some parameters with WordArt too... My first experience with a word processing software was at the age of 2 when I decided to write the alphabet and print it. I still remember the struggles I went through but also the intense joy when I had been done. As dumb as it can seem, it was pretty much a feat for a 2-year-old haha! And the days after, I started to do it again, using various font, printed them and displayed them in my bedroom. If you think I was a strange kind of 2-year-old, you are right.
'Fun University' xD
I'm sure you're aware, but even with WordArt, if you click the yellow directional buttons... then drag them to your preferred area, you can change how the 3D effect is perceived. Also, not sure what version... I want to say probably word 97, as I recall clippy.... but WordArt definitely allowed for textures, perspective shifts/changes, lighting direction, shadows, etc... That was all there.
Clint does not like his own videos... :) (00:26) .... but we like them very much. So it's OK.
Holy crap, imagine if this supported RTX.
3:51 Whoa, did you finally upgrade from the Audio Technica M50 and SteelSeries headphones you have?
Looks like a similar prog I had for Windows 3.1x and Mac called " Aldus Type Twister". Less emphasis on 3D and more concerned with type manipulations. You could not print anything. You had to export to something like PageMaker, CorelDraw or Illustrator.
Can't wait to update my resume with 3D font only.
of course you went and bought it lol.
BTW friendly reminder, go get Dust!! I've already played a while of my old copy and man it's right up your alley, including cheesy low bitrate FMV video acting over 90s CGI backgrounds!
WMF = Windows Metafile. Basically, Windows has what's known as the GDI, which it used -- up through Windows XP or so -- as its primary graphical drawing API (excepting DirectX for games and such). Programmers for Windows used calls into the GDI API to render graphics against what was known as a device context. A device context (or DC) was an abstraction that represented a section of the screen, a hard copy output device such as a printer, or an off-screen buffer. WMF was built into Windows and provided a different kind of DC: one which simply recorded the draw calls performed against it and saved them into a file. These draw calls could then be loaded from the file and "played back" onto another DC, yielding the target image intended to be drawn. It was a convenient way of storing data in a scalable vector format that took advantage of the drawing primitives already built into Windows.