Something that I felt like pointing out as well is how amazingly clear every single audio effect worked out and how natural it came across. Amazing job there too!
@@meatsim65 Lowering the bitrate won't add new sounds... it won't make dry Ss hiss. I assume she's doing something before editing to cause that, and I'm suspicious that her vocal performance is part of the secret.
I think your channel is as good a find for me as that CD-ROM for you. About a month ago, a coworker said to me he'd bought an old film scanner and had no way of hooking it up to his computer. Talking to him about it I said "what you need is a Firewire card. I don't know who'd install one in a PC in 2024, or where you'd find one these days, but that's going to be the way". Like an hour later, your "installing a firewire card in 2024" video popped up in my recommendations. With a silent thank-you to the capricious eavesdropping deities of the algorithm, I linked him to the video, thought to myself "might watch that later", without adding it to my Watch Later, and then promptly forgot the video even existed. Today, I see you reviewing an obscure edutainment CD, so you've got a new subscriber, here!
Thank you so much! The capricious eavesdropping algorithm deities often frighten me with their uncanny ability to provide videos about subjects I’ve only just been thinking of… 👀
We're women of similar vintage and your recent videos have really captured what was so fun and wild about early computing. Focusing on the experiences and devs creating old software, rather than the all-too common fixation on specs, rarity, and collecting/overconsumption of retro tech is so refreshing. I can't wait for more!!
Yay!! Thank you so much! I know a lot of people love digging into specs, and while I try to touch on them a bit, I also know there are so many amazing, well-established creators already making super thorough tech videos. I honestly held off on starting this whole thing for years-like, over a decade-because I kept thinking it was “too late.” Eventually, I just forced myself to dive in and focus more on the fun and the experience. Anyway, I’m rambling, but the main point is: your comment means so much to me! Thank you again!
So glad that the TH-cam algorithm brought me this brilliant and entertaining content. I hope this is a sign that many many many more will be/are enjoying your content too.
This definitely feels like something a school or library would have set up in their computer lab, especially for things like Earth Day (or "Earth Week" back in my elementary school days). I love this sort of weird/obscure edutainment software.
"Would that wood could talk" is like an old-timey way of saying "If only wood could talk". "Would that" is basically introducing a wish or wistful hypothetical.
My mind just went to that bit in Hail Caesar!. With the actor on a movie set, struggling to say his line "Would that it were so simple" Frustrating his director/writer to insanity.
Been following your tiktok account for a while and only now just realized that you had a youtube channel! Your editing skills are top notch and the tech you talk about is really interesting. I think your channel is gonna get really big, im rooting for you!
Wow thank you so much! I’m trying to have fun with this and not get too caught up in analytics and all that (other than listening to feedback from viewers of course). I really appreciate this! Thank you!
These videos are so good! Please keep making them. I've been watching TH-cam from the beginning and the fun 90's PC throwback animated segments you make between scenes are amazing and something I haven't seen done so well before! Really nice editing and such a fun relaxing vibe all your own. You have your own voice and I hope your stick to your intuitions because you making great stuff! Your audience will definitely find you!
A lot of games in the early PC/Mac era have fallen through the cracks but Macromedia Director games from the multimedia CD era really hit that liminal existence of "high effort(for what it is) but quickly forgotten" hard
Keep making these! I’m not sure how I stumbled upon your channel but it’s a nostalgia blast. When I was a kid we would go to a book store at a local mall and my dad would buy random cd-roms(floppy disks at first) and give them to me to test out with zero supervision. 25+ years later and I’m still in IT. Also love your music.
as a 90s girly who was into captain planet and ecological science at the time, this would have been something i spent hours on! I'm also very impressed by how you made your sequences actually look 90s authentic, some people just use filters and it never looks right. just subbed!
We totally thought about that while filming, but then just left it 😂 In the behind the scenes footage, I say something like “uh oh, I think the sun should be coming from the other direction” and then we both agree that it’ll just be another silly thing about it 😆
2:46 the industry way to say this is "sixty-eight oh fourty". i would often hear people add "em" to the front too because the full product name is M68040 (M for Motorola). Sometimes old timers would call the "oh-fourty". I worked a bit with this microprocessor and it was ubiquitous for a very, VERY long time in some industries. I saw regular references to it in code i worked with well into the 2010's lol. There is a mountain of history with the 68040 and you will find it in a some old military tech that is still used today
If I remember correctly from an old article in the 90s, there were Hellfire missiles or something which contained Amiga 3000 motherboards. If THAT is the tech you find, be careful ;)
I came here after watching your storybook weaver video and your presentation is so unique and fun and exactly the type of hyper specific content I love, great job!
Please continue this quest for interactive CD wonder! For the trees, indeed! It was very noble of you to attempt to use Director 5. I sincerely believe you have everything it takes to make 90s era multimedia, don't let Director dissuade you ⭐
I'm so happy your channel showed up in my feed! I'm super excited for more content like this. Something about the FMV style, editing, and nostalgic subject of your videos tickles my brain in a good way. I've sent my friends a couple of your other videos to get them watching, too! Can't wait for your next techscapade!
The colloquial way to say it is a Sixty-Eight-Oh-Forty (there was also the Sixty Eight Thousand, the Sixty Eight Oh Twenty and the Sixty Eight Oh Thirty). Thanks for making this. I’ve been getting major nostalgia for that era of Multimedia CD-ROM software lately. So much so that I just bought a Macintosh Performa 6300CD to bring back those school library vibes.
A little pedantic: There were also a 010 and 060. The 050 was a project but never released and a 070 was produced by Philips but not officially part of Motorola's setup.
This was awesome! I also grew up in the 90s and I'm nostalgic of those simpler times. I love your Macromedia animation. It reminds me of a Mario RPG trailer I made when I was young, in Powerpoint, haha. Well, yours is better of course. Cool stuff.
Geez this was super entertaining. I'm so happy I found this channel. I love the irony of 90s era sound and graphics for your narration segments meaning a higher level of production than something from a modern camera. Also, would play your version of the game :)
This video came into my recommended and I ended up binge watching the channel. You're so freaking rad 😃 I'm so surprised you don't have a gazillion subs and views.
This continues to be possibly my favourite channel here on youtube. You just manage to hit so many of the right notes, and so eerily well. Please keep doing what you're doing!
Cool tech-scapade! The rotoscoped footage of your husband turned out really great. It perfectly matches the look of those old FMV games like Phantasmogoria😁
Instant subscription! As an archivist of rare game knowledge and materials, it was great seeing you shed light on The Forest Adventure. Clearly, the game had potential but had a bit of an identity crisis. As you mentioned, the start gives the impression of a mystical adventure, but it's actually a dense and cumbersome series of training exercises. Maybe it would be better as two separate games, or a mystic adventure with lighter facts sprinkled throughout. In any event, your re-creation of low-res art is great, and I look forward to seeing more videos from you!
3:48 awww man, I'd completely forgotten about a) installing Quicktime being a thing you had to do on a Windows 95 machine and b) that film strip progress bar! YES! Your channel is a real gem, cheers :)
I remember installing Quicktime, and then still not having the right version, and then having multiple versions, and probably deleting the wrong one... and so on and so on. Ahhhh, good times :) Thank you!
this era of games was one i had to miss out on with us growing up in poverty, i'm glad some people are able to show me what i missed out on. Also have a sub
holy cow. this video was incredible! Excellent pacing and super interesting. Also, your version of what you'd make at 9:30 is exactly how the "Wrath of the Gods" 90's game works, which was almost certainly built on Macromedia Director, based on experience and what i'm reading online. (I played that game a ton...very hard and puzzling, especially if you don't know the stories behind the characters in the game.)
Your channel is a hidden gem! As a '90 baby I was slightly too young to have grown up with this type of game, but I did spend a lot of time on Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, Word Rescue, Putt Putt, etc. so this was charmingly nostalgic
I started college in Alabama in 2002, and my college roommate's dad was a professor of forestry at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Georgia in the late '90s. Given we were both DOS/CD-ROM sort of people, I'm a little surprised that he didn't have this game.
Some of my favourite 90s tech memories were attached to thrift store CD discoveries, like old demo discs of strange shareware products, and a mint-condition copy of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective for MS-DOS. Thank you for this forest journey, Steward.
In the early 2010s (wow, I know, dramatic, right), my brother (a programmer) and I (an artist) made a little educational game for school, that had you gather berries and fruits to then escape to a cave and survive through a volcanic winter (points for realism there, right?). It was glitchy, bad, unfinished, but we wrapped it up on time for an IT school competition we were making it for, and we proceeded to not win anything. My brother also insisted on making his own engine for it (as a novice programmer makes the mistake of doing, of course). Anyway, I'm rambling, but this game you showed reminded me of it (granted, predated us by some odd 15 years or so). Your video is super entertaining and cool and thank you for taking the time to make and edit such masterful video presentation, haha.
Thank you! I’m shooting for every other week for now while I get the hang of it. I have a whole list of “fun” topics! If you ever have any suggestions, let me know! 😄
I applaud you trying to learn Macromedia Director. This is pretty much the entirety of WIn95 game software (because DOS was for GAMES, not MULTIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT!) Pretty much anything at the time was using it more or less.
Half way through the vid- just want to say I just watched your last few vids over the last week and was stoked to see that you uploaded today. I watch- actually listen to lots of video essays while working, drawing, and sometimes playing games. Political, game, and what the Brutal Moose and Pushing up Roses people are. I really hope you keep making vids like this, awesome work.
this also reminds me of a personal lost pc game of mine called "animal planet"... yes, it was by discovery and called "animal planet" before the channel on tv existed! so it's extremely hard to find any info on it and there are NO videos of gameplay online. i want to buy it to relive my childhood but i don't think it would run on a modern machine. you basically went around the world looking at pre-rendered nature scapes and clicking on 2D animated animals to bring up info pages about them. the fun thing was trying to find "hidden" animals and go down rabbit holes seeking animals you weren't able to find visually within the nature-ramas, you had to click around on their "related species" tabs and delve deeper and deeper... it was a wonderful game.
@@harkeofficial if you were able to make a video of it i would cry. i am also willing to donate money to you to make a video about it even if it's short and quick. (no pressure though!) there's just no info about it online. the cd roms are not too expensive but i really have no idea how to run it!
@@mistydayremainsofthejudgment It's already on it's way from eBay! 😄 This looks like a game I would have LOVED as a kid (and what most of the games I played were like haha) No donation necessary, but thank you for the offer- I am excited to add this one to the line-up!
TH-cam randomly suggested this channel (this very video) to me and I have no idea why but it is genuinely spooky how much this video fits my tastes... fun fact that someone else has probably already said, Macromedia Director eventually became Macromedia Flash which was then rolled in to Adobe Flash after Adobe acquired Macromedia... Also holy heck the production quality in this youtube vid is insane.
Another masterpiece of a video! Loving this series so far! Really looking forward for more videos about obscure PC educational games from the 90s for sure lmao
@@JRiesen Same. I'm a relative spring chicken at 36 (and lived in the IBM PC world as a child), but all of the Mac, Amiga, and Atari content on TH-cam quickly got me saying the 68k processor names properly.
@@Daniel-jk7peBecause it’s part of the 68k architecture. The first CPU in the series was the 68000 (sixty-eight-thousand). There was also an 8-bit predecessor named 6800 (sixty-eight-hundred).
7:55 "would that wood could talk" is kind of old-fashioned phrasing, essentially meaning "if only wood could talk". Obviously they phrased it that way for the rhyming.
This was fun to see you explore! This definitely feels like a school curriculum, done over the course of a year or something, maybe they had multiple different save files set for different lessons or something!
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awesome episode, also that tshirt is amazing. orange grey combo rocks
Amazing Edit... The throw back 90s pc game style show.....but medieval time period is something i would love to see "shorts" of. Like a 90s PC time machine.
Maaaaan, the old school low res bitcrushed "host" bits are poking my nostalgia glands. That's amazing. I definitely played games that looked and sounded just like that a bunch!
We were taught Macromedia Director in my high school computer class in the mid-late 90s, and we were given an open challenge for our end of year major project to make _something creative_ with it. Could have been an animation, an interactive website, a game, anything. I decided to make an interactive multi-media presentation about my favourite band at the time, The Smashing Pumpkins. I had downloaded tons of their music videos, and I thought I could make a UI to watch them, and also show pictures and information about the band and their music. The main "creative" part I came up with was the animated introduction, which basically had a bunch of pictures popping onto the screen in time with the beat of the intro of one of their songs. In the end I ran out of time working on it at school, so I installed a demo of Director on my home computer, which was much more powerful than the ones at school, and I got the timing to perfectly match the beat of the music. But when I ran it at school, the timing was way off because the machines were way under-powered for such animations. I did get marked down for the timing being off, even though it wasn't my fault, but I still got a good mark though, since it was technically animated and interactive. In hindsight, I should've scaled the images to the screen resolution before importing them, so Director didn't have to scale them on the fly, and I should've scripted them to appear at an exact time rather than depending on the timeline running at a specific framerate which didn't necessarily match the music. That said, it was a fun project, but I'm not that kind of creative, so it was mostly because it was about my favourite band.
cant believe i wasnt subbed to u already, LOVE ur videos and how you replicate the look and feel of the old games/programs u highlight!! very cool and not something u see a lot anymore!
You are really taking me back, 80s baby here, first pc Gateway 2000, first intel pentium processor and an internet dial up speed of 33K, I remember these games and saving my allowance to buy them. You never knew what you were going to get haha
This video is so WELL DONE! not like my crap where I am clearly visibly drunk and abusing my prescriptions and ragging on current events, LMAO! This was VERY well put together, and a lot of thought put into it, and you are very nice to look at (just saying) And your personality is PERFECT, you are very likable! Kudos to you! You should have 100k subs by now!
This is an interesting concept, checking out games and interactive educational media most people will probably never investigate. I wish there’d been more information available about the company that produced the CD. I feel like people like hearing about older digital media companies, especially the ones that are defunct. I’ve kind of wanted someone to start doing a more software oriented concept along the lines of LGR’s weird tech series. This perfectly pulled that off. I personally feel it’d be interesting to do outdated or otherwise “weird” software that goes beyond games and interactive media, but that might just be a personal wheelhouse nobody else exists within. The presentation of all your stuff is awesome.
Upload that to the internet archive! Seems delightfully retro!
Good idea! I’ll do that this weekend!
Mac Repository would be nice too!
Unfortunately idk if the Internet Archive will exist soon given the copious amounts of DMCA strikes and the fact it got ddosed
@@ACT8113 That was the Russians who attacked the archive. It's back up. It's missing some stuff, but it's back up.
@ It will be a dark, dark day if the Internet Archive goes down for good 🥲
Production quality on these videos is off the charts. 13.2k subscribers is criminally low and something I suspect will explode very quickly very soon.
Thank you so much! I’m having a lot of fun so far, and I’m so happy enjoyed it!!
Something that I felt like pointing out as well is how amazingly clear every single audio effect worked out and how natural it came across. Amazing job there too!
13 to 19+k in
With quality like this, your channel is gonna become huge in the retro-stalgia computer space, just wait!
CS188 is right when he's right!
Holy shit I didn't expect to see one of my favorite YTP creators in the comments
@@TaiZidek 30+ times atleast for me
She did a good joj
@@HammarixSwe I hope she does it all over again
You're nailing the voice acting AND audio engineering of that CD-ROM style. Really impressive, this is a favourite new channel for me!
I honestly don't even understand how she gets her Ss sounding so hissy.
It's probably just converting to a low sample rate and bit depth @@SeekerGoldstone
@@meatsim65 Lowering the bitrate won't add new sounds... it won't make dry Ss hiss. I assume she's doing something before editing to cause that, and I'm suspicious that her vocal performance is part of the secret.
Yep, the moment she went into that retro-style tutorial intro, I knew I'd found a new gem of a channel.
Me too!) 😄 first i thought it is capture of the programme itself 😂
I think your channel is as good a find for me as that CD-ROM for you. About a month ago, a coworker said to me he'd bought an old film scanner and had no way of hooking it up to his computer. Talking to him about it I said "what you need is a Firewire card. I don't know who'd install one in a PC in 2024, or where you'd find one these days, but that's going to be the way". Like an hour later, your "installing a firewire card in 2024" video popped up in my recommendations. With a silent thank-you to the capricious eavesdropping deities of the algorithm, I linked him to the video, thought to myself "might watch that later", without adding it to my Watch Later, and then promptly forgot the video even existed.
Today, I see you reviewing an obscure edutainment CD, so you've got a new subscriber, here!
Thank you so much! The capricious eavesdropping algorithm deities often frighten me with their uncanny ability to provide videos about subjects I’ve only just been thinking of… 👀
I will never take the FMV-style intros and segues you do for granted. It's so accurate it throws me off every time
We're women of similar vintage and your recent videos have really captured what was so fun and wild about early computing. Focusing on the experiences and devs creating old software, rather than the all-too common fixation on specs, rarity, and collecting/overconsumption of retro tech is so refreshing. I can't wait for more!!
Yay!! Thank you so much! I know a lot of people love digging into specs, and while I try to touch on them a bit, I also know there are so many amazing, well-established creators already making super thorough tech videos. I honestly held off on starting this whole thing for years-like, over a decade-because I kept thinking it was “too late.” Eventually, I just forced myself to dive in and focus more on the fun and the experience. Anyway, I’m rambling, but the main point is: your comment means so much to me! Thank you again!
So glad that the TH-cam algorithm brought me this brilliant and entertaining content. I hope this is a sign that many many many more will be/are enjoying your content too.
Welcome aboard! Thank you so much!
This definitely feels like something a school or library would have set up in their computer lab, especially for things like Earth Day (or "Earth Week" back in my elementary school days). I love this sort of weird/obscure edutainment software.
I miss playing the games at the library, back when I didn’t even have a computer at home 🥲
"Would that wood could talk" is like an old-timey way of saying "If only wood could talk". "Would that" is basically introducing a wish or wistful hypothetical.
After learning about trees for hours on end, my brain was having trouble computing 😂
@@harkeofficial Understandable. Trees have enough roots and branches without bringing linguistics into it.
My mind just went to that bit in Hail Caesar!. With the actor on a movie set, struggling to say his line "Would that it were so simple" Frustrating his director/writer to insanity.
Yeah it's like starting a sentence with "But for" meaning "If it wasn't for". Example "But for the guard rail I would have fallen"
@@jmalmsten Came here to say this! Such a good bit.
Been following your tiktok account for a while and only now just realized that you had a youtube channel!
Your editing skills are top notch and the tech you talk about is really interesting.
I think your channel is gonna get really big, im rooting for you!
Wow thank you so much! I’m trying to have fun with this and not get too caught up in analytics and all that (other than listening to feedback from viewers of course). I really appreciate this! Thank you!
Your retro editing and presenting style is very unique and super polished. Keep it up please.
These videos are so good! Please keep making them. I've been watching TH-cam from the beginning and the fun 90's PC throwback animated segments you make between scenes are amazing and something I haven't seen done so well before! Really nice editing and such a fun relaxing vibe all your own. You have your own voice and I hope your stick to your intuitions because you making great stuff! Your audience will definitely find you!
Thank you so much 😊
Yep, was in my recommendations this morning. Easy sub right here.
A lot of games in the early PC/Mac era have fallen through the cracks but Macromedia Director games from the multimedia CD era really hit that liminal existence of "high effort(for what it is) but quickly forgotten" hard
Keep making these! I’m not sure how I stumbled upon your channel but it’s a nostalgia blast. When I was a kid we would go to a book store at a local mall and my dad would buy random cd-roms(floppy disks at first) and give them to me to test out with zero supervision. 25+ years later and I’m still in IT. Also love your music.
Thank you so much!!
as a 90s girly who was into captain planet and ecological science at the time, this would have been something i spent hours on! I'm also very impressed by how you made your sequences actually look 90s authentic, some people just use filters and it never looks right. just subbed!
Thank you so much! I basically only played learning games as a kid, and the nature-based games were definitely my favorite!
The light coming from the wrong direction on the green screen wizard insert was *chefs kiss* perfect execution. Or a very happy accident.
We totally thought about that while filming, but then just left it 😂 In the behind the scenes footage, I say something like “uh oh, I think the sun should be coming from the other direction” and then we both agree that it’ll just be another silly thing about it 😆
2:46 the industry way to say this is "sixty-eight oh fourty". i would often hear people add "em" to the front too because the full product name is M68040 (M for Motorola). Sometimes old timers would call the "oh-fourty". I worked a bit with this microprocessor and it was ubiquitous for a very, VERY long time in some industries. I saw regular references to it in code i worked with well into the 2010's lol. There is a mountain of history with the 68040 and you will find it in a some old military tech that is still used today
This. "Six eighty forty" also works.
If I remember correctly from an old article in the 90s, there were Hellfire missiles or something which contained Amiga 3000 motherboards. If THAT is the tech you find, be careful ;)
You’re totally killing it with the content! So entertaining!
I came here after watching your storybook weaver video and your presentation is so unique and fun and exactly the type of hyper specific content I love, great job!
Please continue this quest for interactive CD wonder! For the trees, indeed!
It was very noble of you to attempt to use Director 5. I sincerely believe you have everything it takes to make 90s era multimedia, don't let Director dissuade you ⭐
Thank you! I was quite tempted to (try to) make a little mini game, but then I realized no one would probably be able to play it anyway 🥲
Oh man, I was not expecting to see Macromedia Director at any point, again, ever. :) It took me ten minutes just to collect myself, that was cool! :D
I'm so happy your channel showed up in my feed! I'm super excited for more content like this. Something about the FMV style, editing, and nostalgic subject of your videos tickles my brain in a good way. I've sent my friends a couple of your other videos to get them watching, too! Can't wait for your next techscapade!
For some reason the video of your hubby reminded me of the game The 7th Guest. Loved that game....
Ooooo I never played that one, it looks fun!!
@@harkeofficial its a classic. Up there with Myst.
I don’t know how the algorithm took me to your doorstep but I’m so glad it has.
Thank you!!
I'm expecting your channel to explode in popularity in the very near future. I love the work you do!
Thank you!
The colloquial way to say it is a Sixty-Eight-Oh-Forty (there was also the Sixty Eight Thousand, the Sixty Eight Oh Twenty and the Sixty Eight Oh Thirty).
Thanks for making this. I’ve been getting major nostalgia for that era of Multimedia CD-ROM software lately. So much so that I just bought a Macintosh Performa 6300CD to bring back those school library vibes.
Or sixty-eight-oh-four-oh.
To go a long with that note, the Mac computer you were referring to was the 'Quad'ra rather than 'Quan'dra.
@@TheErador That's how I remember it, "Oh-Four-Oh."
A little pedantic: There were also a 010 and 060. The 050 was a project but never released and a 070 was produced by Philips but not officially part of Motorola's setup.
@@Rob_III from what I just looked up evens were releases, odds were fixups. So, that explains some of that.
This was awesome! I also grew up in the 90s and I'm nostalgic of those simpler times. I love your Macromedia animation. It reminds me of a Mario RPG trailer I made when I was young, in Powerpoint, haha. Well, yours is better of course. Cool stuff.
I’m newly obsessed with this channel! Please keep doing more!
I'm kind of speechless with the all the excellent editing and effects on this video. Way to go, really.
This channel is so much fun. I love these videos.
Geez this was super entertaining. I'm so happy I found this channel. I love the irony of 90s era sound and graphics for your narration segments meaning a higher level of production than something from a modern camera.
Also, would play your version of the game :)
This video came into my recommended and I ended up binge watching the channel. You're so freaking rad 😃
I'm so surprised you don't have a gazillion subs and views.
Thank you so much!!
This continues to be possibly my favourite channel here on youtube. You just manage to hit so many of the right notes, and so eerily well. Please keep doing what you're doing!
Just discovered this amazing channel. You really capture the era! Putting yourself through Macromedia Director training too...Brilliant.
I’m really digging your content. It strikes a nerve I knew I had but had no way of explaining. I really appreciate it.
Cool tech-scapade! The rotoscoped footage of your husband turned out really great. It perfectly matches the look of those old FMV games like Phantasmogoria😁
Thank you so much! We certainly had fun with it 😆
Glad YT recommended this vid, awesome stuff!
This channel has S-tier levels of presentation. Instant subscribe.
Instant subscription! As an archivist of rare game knowledge and materials, it was great seeing you shed light on The Forest Adventure. Clearly, the game had potential but had a bit of an identity crisis. As you mentioned, the start gives the impression of a mystical adventure, but it's actually a dense and cumbersome series of training exercises. Maybe it would be better as two separate games, or a mystic adventure with lighter facts sprinkled throughout. In any event, your re-creation of low-res art is great, and I look forward to seeing more videos from you!
Thank you so much! It was fun trying it out, even if it wasn’t what I expected 😅
Oh man just hearing Macromedia Director just unlocked a buried memory 🤣
Absolutely love these old, obscure CD-ROM 'games'. so glad others understand my love as well lol. keep up the content!
Another great episode! Looking forward to the next one!
Thank you so much!
3:48 awww man, I'd completely forgotten about a) installing Quicktime being a thing you had to do on a Windows 95 machine and b) that film strip progress bar! YES! Your channel is a real gem, cheers :)
I remember installing Quicktime, and then still not having the right version, and then having multiple versions, and probably deleting the wrong one... and so on and so on. Ahhhh, good times :) Thank you!
Retro gaming, old software, then add the Hamvention shirt.... priceless!
I hope to make it for 2025! I haven’t been since they switched to Xenia 🥲
this era of games was one i had to miss out on with us growing up in poverty, i'm glad some people are able to show me what i missed out on. Also have a sub
This channel is absolutely wonderful. You'll have over 100k subscribers in no time at all.
holy cow. this video was incredible! Excellent pacing and super interesting. Also, your version of what you'd make at 9:30 is exactly how the "Wrath of the Gods" 90's game works, which was almost certainly built on Macromedia Director, based on experience and what i'm reading online. (I played that game a ton...very hard and puzzling, especially if you don't know the stories behind the characters in the game.)
Your channel is a hidden gem! As a '90 baby I was slightly too young to have grown up with this type of game, but I did spend a lot of time on Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, Word Rescue, Putt Putt, etc. so this was charmingly nostalgic
i love that you honored this game! i hope the creators stumble upon your video one day!
I hope so too! Thank you! 😁
the short film at the end was fantastic
I started college in Alabama in 2002, and my college roommate's dad was a professor of forestry at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Georgia in the late '90s. Given we were both DOS/CD-ROM sort of people, I'm a little surprised that he didn't have this game.
This is absolutely wonderful. Thank you for making this :')
Some of my favourite 90s tech memories were attached to thrift store CD discoveries, like old demo discs of strange shareware products, and a mint-condition copy of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective for MS-DOS. Thank you for this forest journey, Steward.
First of your videos I’ve seen. Dude, love the editing. Just overall.
In the early 2010s (wow, I know, dramatic, right), my brother (a programmer) and I (an artist) made a little educational game for school, that had you gather berries and fruits to then escape to a cave and survive through a volcanic winter (points for realism there, right?). It was glitchy, bad, unfinished, but we wrapped it up on time for an IT school competition we were making it for, and we proceeded to not win anything. My brother also insisted on making his own engine for it (as a novice programmer makes the mistake of doing, of course). Anyway, I'm rambling, but this game you showed reminded me of it (granted, predated us by some odd 15 years or so). Your video is super entertaining and cool and thank you for taking the time to make and edit such masterful video presentation, haha.
I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel!! Your presentation style is very unique and I love it a lot.
the vibes are off the charts. I will watch approximately 796 episodes in this style if you feel like doing more idk
Thank you! I’m shooting for every other week for now while I get the hang of it. I have a whole list of “fun” topics! If you ever have any suggestions, let me know! 😄
I applaud you trying to learn Macromedia Director. This is pretty much the entirety of WIn95 game software (because DOS was for GAMES, not MULTIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT!) Pretty much anything at the time was using it more or less.
Discovered your channel last night and I'm hooked. Your videos are SO GOOD.
This is also my new fav channel! Love the music and love the videos and personality
Half way through the vid- just want to say I just watched your last few vids over the last week and was stoked to see that you uploaded today. I watch- actually listen to lots of video essays while working, drawing, and sometimes playing games. Political, game, and what the Brutal Moose and Pushing up Roses people are. I really hope you keep making vids like this, awesome work.
Thank you so much!
What a neat video, thanks for sharing this odd little game with us :) also love your editing it’s so cool
These are beautiful (and make me want to go for a walk in the woods), thank you so much. :)
That makes me so happy 🥹🌲 Thank you!
Sweet video! I feel like I don't need to go outside today now. Keep up the awesome work! Thanks!
Thank you!
this also reminds me of a personal lost pc game of mine called "animal planet"... yes, it was by discovery and called "animal planet" before the channel on tv existed! so it's extremely hard to find any info on it and there are NO videos of gameplay online. i want to buy it to relive my childhood but i don't think it would run on a modern machine. you basically went around the world looking at pre-rendered nature scapes and clicking on 2D animated animals to bring up info pages about them. the fun thing was trying to find "hidden" animals and go down rabbit holes seeking animals you weren't able to find visually within the nature-ramas, you had to click around on their "related species" tabs and delve deeper and deeper... it was a wonderful game.
Oooo I love hidden treasures like that! I’ll add that one to my list to look out for 👀
@@harkeofficial if you were able to make a video of it i would cry. i am also willing to donate money to you to make a video about it even if it's short and quick. (no pressure though!) there's just no info about it online. the cd roms are not too expensive but i really have no idea how to run it!
@@mistydayremainsofthejudgment It's already on it's way from eBay! 😄 This looks like a game I would have LOVED as a kid (and what most of the games I played were like haha) No donation necessary, but thank you for the offer- I am excited to add this one to the line-up!
@@harkeofficial i am so so excited! you will def love it!!
4:04 I had that same feeling when I found the goodies folder on the Windows95 upgrade CD.
TH-cam randomly suggested this channel (this very video) to me and I have no idea why but it is genuinely spooky how much this video fits my tastes... fun fact that someone else has probably already said, Macromedia Director eventually became Macromedia Flash which was then rolled in to Adobe Flash after Adobe acquired Macromedia...
Also holy heck the production quality in this youtube vid is insane.
thanks for watching!!
Such a well made video
Instant subbed
Great video! This was a really fun flashback to 90s edutainment.
Another masterpiece of a video! Loving this series so far! Really looking forward for more videos about obscure PC educational games from the 90s for sure lmao
2:40 sixty-eight-oh-forty :)
Came to make sure an old head caught it ;)
@@JRiesen Same. I'm a relative spring chicken at 36 (and lived in the IBM PC world as a child), but all of the Mac, Amiga, and Atari content on TH-cam quickly got me saying the 68k processor names properly.
We called it sixty eight oh four oh.
Why not six eighty forty
@@Daniel-jk7peBecause it’s part of the 68k architecture. The first CPU in the series was the 68000 (sixty-eight-thousand). There was also an 8-bit predecessor named 6800 (sixty-eight-hundred).
These videos are glorious! I'm glad I finally clicked on that video about Sound Recorder that TH-cam has been recommending me for a while.
7:55 "would that wood could talk" is kind of old-fashioned phrasing, essentially meaning "if only wood could talk". Obviously they phrased it that way for the rhyming.
This was fun to see you explore! This definitely feels like a school curriculum, done over the course of a year or something, maybe they had multiple different save files set for different lessons or something!
awesome episode, also that tshirt is amazing. orange grey combo rocks
discovered your channel and have loved it since, your personality rocks and your skills are awesome
this is by a wide margin my new favorite channel
Totally something you'd find on your local library computer back then lol
this is the content i didnt know was missing from my life, praise be harke!
Amazing Edit... The throw back 90s pc game style show.....but medieval time period is something i would love to see "shorts" of. Like a 90s PC time machine.
Loved this! 🤩 I've always had a softspot for these old macromedia point and click games. They're all equally as clunky and delightfully 90s. MOAR PLS
Maaaaan, the old school low res bitcrushed "host" bits are poking my nostalgia glands. That's amazing. I definitely played games that looked and sounded just like that a bunch!
Great video, love the 90s Vibe!
We were taught Macromedia Director in my high school computer class in the mid-late 90s, and we were given an open challenge for our end of year major project to make _something creative_ with it. Could have been an animation, an interactive website, a game, anything. I decided to make an interactive multi-media presentation about my favourite band at the time, The Smashing Pumpkins. I had downloaded tons of their music videos, and I thought I could make a UI to watch them, and also show pictures and information about the band and their music.
The main "creative" part I came up with was the animated introduction, which basically had a bunch of pictures popping onto the screen in time with the beat of the intro of one of their songs. In the end I ran out of time working on it at school, so I installed a demo of Director on my home computer, which was much more powerful than the ones at school, and I got the timing to perfectly match the beat of the music. But when I ran it at school, the timing was way off because the machines were way under-powered for such animations. I did get marked down for the timing being off, even though it wasn't my fault, but I still got a good mark though, since it was technically animated and interactive.
In hindsight, I should've scaled the images to the screen resolution before importing them, so Director didn't have to scale them on the fly, and I should've scripted them to appear at an exact time rather than depending on the timeline running at a specific framerate which didn't necessarily match the music. That said, it was a fun project, but I'm not that kind of creative, so it was mostly because it was about my favourite band.
this is some of may fav content rn don't stop haha.
Thank you so much!!
That ending animation had Knightmare vibes to it. That old game show if anyone remembers in the UK
The FMV style embellishments are a nice touch.
This channel is awesome- how come I stumbled across this by accident? Fantastic and subbed
cant believe i wasnt subbed to u already, LOVE ur videos and how you replicate the look and feel of the old games/programs u highlight!! very cool and not something u see a lot anymore!
What a great episode of lost Media :D The production is here damn fine.
Nice, waiting for more videos in this retro computers series :)
You are really taking me back, 80s baby here, first pc Gateway 2000, first intel pentium processor and an internet dial up speed of 33K, I remember these games and saving my allowance to buy them. You never knew what you were going to get haha
"a CD ROM? Why not a scroll or something?"
"Cuz scrolls kill trees!"
😱 what a missed opportunity!!!
To answer the question of how to say 68040, that series of processors is usually pronounced like "sixty eight oh forty"
This video is so WELL DONE! not like my crap where I am clearly visibly drunk and abusing my prescriptions and ragging on current events, LMAO! This was VERY well put together, and a lot of thought put into it, and you are very nice to look at (just saying) And your personality is PERFECT, you are very likable! Kudos to you! You should have 100k subs by now!
I really appreciate your work and approach - great vid 😊
This is an interesting concept, checking out games and interactive educational media most people will probably never investigate.
I wish there’d been more information available about the company that produced the CD. I feel like people like hearing about older digital media companies, especially the ones that are defunct.
I’ve kind of wanted someone to start doing a more software oriented concept along the lines of LGR’s weird tech series. This perfectly pulled that off.
I personally feel it’d be interesting to do outdated or otherwise “weird” software that goes beyond games and interactive media, but that might just be a personal wheelhouse nobody else exists within.
The presentation of all your stuff is awesome.
Another incredible video, I love your style so much
This is amazing. Very nicely done.