This was my first year going to VCF Midwest. I've always wanted to go since I live in the Chicagoland area, but for one reason or another, I was never able to. It was such a great time, and I can't wait until next year.
AWESOME! I personally rescued this laptop from our e-waste stream and donated it to the VCFMW19 Charity Auction with the hope that a YT creator would win it and use it in a video. You were bidding against another YT channel who 3d prints cases for them. So to see your video announcing your win and demonstrating that it did in fact work was super exciting and I am looking forward to your future videos showcasing it's new found life. I rescued another, except this other one is in fact a 701C (notice no S). Had I realized the difference, I would have donated the non-S. However, in that case, you may not have won. Who knows. Congrats on your win and thank you for supporting VCFMW! It was a great show and I look forward to next year!
No one would hold it against you for keeping the active matrix one for yourself. But yeah, had the price gone over $400 (I expected an active matrix example probably would've goen for $600) I would've bowed out. Thanks for donating it to the show, I'm not sure I would've been able to get one otherwise! And the money went to pay things forward. I'm actually getting some of polymatt's casings 3D printed so I can build a new battery, replace the PC card door, etc.
Thanks for showing us around the show! Not all of us are able to go to these conventions and have nothing similar locally, so this is as good as it gets! :P
Funny that you singled out the Blaster PC there - literally a couple of days ago I was leafing through one of my old PC gaming mags and came across an ad for it, I'd similarly never heard of it before. That one was Creative branded as well though!
I was truly impressed with the size of the show and the deep variety at the different booths, unfortunately I realized I was in the early stage of a cold (I am very confident it wasn’t the human malware), so I had to play it safe and go, but not before unloading what I brought for the free table. Based on how quickly the first box was emptied, I’m confident it all found good homes. Next year!
A short-cut to better captions: Run the video's audio through the openai model "whisper". It produces a subtitle file with timings that is 99% accurate that you can then upload. No need to subtitle manually. 🙂 I look forward to watching this! Show retrospectives are sometimes the only way the showrunners can see what kind of a show they put on.
Whisper is better than YT's alignment but it still requires a lot of tweaking for proper line breaks and timing. It's definitely better than youtube's auto-alignment which doesn't seem to take any kind of punctuation into account. I try to format my captions to broadcast standards, and no auto-tool is quite there yet. So there's still a lot of work even after some kind of auto-alignment. I realize I'm a perfectionist, but I'm not manually inputting every subtitle line, that'd take even longer. Resolve has a decent voice-to-text which is what I use as a base to fix-up and precisely time.
1:10 "It's like replacing a 486 PC with a Pentium 3" Considering the audience and especially considering the examples being shown now I wonder if this is a backhanded compliment and I should get ready for a string of what went wrong and lots of criticisms about the venue change. :o
By mid-day Saturday, the parking lot was completely full. Despite no local publicity. Just word of mouth with enthusiasts. I think I found the very last spot. The new venue did lack the intimacy of the Waterford but with the logistics settled, maybe some of that can be restored. One aspect that was missing is the lack of big iron that was present last year. Only the S/36 (and an AS/400 I missed) were present to represent that category. No PDPs, Vaxen, DGs or Centurions were present. When is Usagi David going to show?
Yeah, gotta treat these external SSDs for video more like memory cards. What kills me is that it happened while I was already sorting and backing up, but I was using a bad strategy. For SD cards I would normally import them to another place and not touch the SD card until the project is done (and have a backup of the SD card itself just in case).
Great recap! Sorry you missed The Stop Bits, tho! Veronica put a SID chip version of Rip Out the Battery on Bandcamp if that will help ease the pain. 😅
Thank you for the detailed tour of the show! As someone who lives on the other side of the world, I feel like I was there :)
This was my first year going to VCF Midwest. I've always wanted to go since I live in the Chicagoland area, but for one reason or another, I was never able to. It was such a great time, and I can't wait until next year.
Great to hear that you had a good time!
super useful coverage, thanks! 😊
Thank you, this was the most detailed video I've seen so far about VCF Midwest.
Thanks for mentioning my talk about Nexa!
AWESOME! I personally rescued this laptop from our e-waste stream and donated it to the VCFMW19 Charity Auction with the hope that a YT creator would win it and use it in a video. You were bidding against another YT channel who 3d prints cases for them. So to see your video announcing your win and demonstrating that it did in fact work was super exciting and I am looking forward to your future videos showcasing it's new found life. I rescued another, except this other one is in fact a 701C (notice no S). Had I realized the difference, I would have donated the non-S. However, in that case, you may not have won. Who knows. Congrats on your win and thank you for supporting VCFMW! It was a great show and I look forward to next year!
No one would hold it against you for keeping the active matrix one for yourself. But yeah, had the price gone over $400 (I expected an active matrix example probably would've goen for $600) I would've bowed out. Thanks for donating it to the show, I'm not sure I would've been able to get one otherwise! And the money went to pay things forward.
I'm actually getting some of polymatt's casings 3D printed so I can build a new battery, replace the PC card door, etc.
Thanks for showing us around the show! Not all of us are able to go to these conventions and have nothing similar locally, so this is as good as it gets! :P
Fantastic job! I loved the new venue, so much better. Watching these videos reminds me yet again how many things I missed!
Great coverage of VCF MW 2024! Thanks for all the detailed background.
Great coverage as always! Thanks for putting this together. What a show!
My favorite overview of the show I've seen so far! Great job!
Thanks for the great coverage, I was there too and also had a great time this year.
Jeez Dan; I’ve watched several of these recap videos, but you worked hard to include everything! Nice work!
Thanks for the awesome coverage!
Thanks for the Super Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Interesting video, thanks 👍
Fantastic video! I saw you there a couple of times but you looked to be in serious B-roll mode so I didn't want to disturb! 😆
Don't be afraid to say hi!
Knocking it out of a park as usual, Dan!
Funny that you singled out the Blaster PC there - literally a couple of days ago I was leafing through one of my old PC gaming mags and came across an ad for it, I'd similarly never heard of it before. That one was Creative branded as well though!
I was truly impressed with the size of the show and the deep variety at the different booths, unfortunately I realized I was in the early stage of a cold (I am very confident it wasn’t the human malware), so I had to play it safe and go, but not before unloading what I brought for the free table. Based on how quickly the first box was emptied, I’m confident it all found good homes. Next year!
Gotta love butterflies. In the east, some believe they carry the souls of people. I'm sure it carries the soul of a computer.
A short-cut to better captions: Run the video's audio through the openai model "whisper". It produces a subtitle file with timings that is 99% accurate that you can then upload. No need to subtitle manually. 🙂
I look forward to watching this! Show retrospectives are sometimes the only way the showrunners can see what kind of a show they put on.
Whisper is better than YT's alignment but it still requires a lot of tweaking for proper line breaks and timing. It's definitely better than youtube's auto-alignment which doesn't seem to take any kind of punctuation into account. I try to format my captions to broadcast standards, and no auto-tool is quite there yet. So there's still a lot of work even after some kind of auto-alignment. I realize I'm a perfectionist, but I'm not manually inputting every subtitle line, that'd take even longer. Resolve has a decent voice-to-text which is what I use as a base to fix-up and precisely time.
I believe the S-100, COSMAC ELF, and RCA 1802 display was created by Josh Bensadon and Walter Miraglia.
1:10 "It's like replacing a 486 PC with a Pentium 3"
Considering the audience and especially considering the examples being shown now I wonder if this is a backhanded compliment and I should get ready for a string of what went wrong and lots of criticisms about the venue change. :o
Not to spoil anything too much, but I was playing it straight with that simile.
By mid-day Saturday, the parking lot was completely full. Despite no local publicity. Just word of mouth with enthusiasts. I think I found the very last spot. The new venue did lack the intimacy of the Waterford but with the logistics settled, maybe some of that can be restored. One aspect that was missing is the lack of big iron that was present last year. Only the S/36 (and an AS/400 I missed) were present to represent that category. No PDPs, Vaxen, DGs or Centurions were present. When is Usagi David going to show?
Yeah, that's the Big Lesson: the first thing you do at the end of the day is make backup copies (that's plural) of your raw video files.
Yeah, gotta treat these external SSDs for video more like memory cards. What kills me is that it happened while I was already sorting and backing up, but I was using a bad strategy. For SD cards I would normally import them to another place and not touch the SD card until the project is done (and have a backup of the SD card itself just in case).
Great recap!
Sorry you missed The Stop Bits, tho! Veronica put a SID chip version of Rip Out the Battery on Bandcamp if that will help ease the pain. 😅
Funny enough I did see it on bandcamp yesterday so I could take a listen!
@userlandia Nice! We are actively working on official recordings. They (I hope) will be available soon!
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