DextersTechLab - The Quantel Guy

Most likely a simple solder joint fix👍

My wife is fucking awesome 😍

YouTube video by Kirsti Miller30 The Transgender female athletes advantage is a myth.

Since the IOC created a rule for trans athletes to compete in 2003, over 84,000 people have become Olympians. Out of those 84,000 a total of 2 have been trans women & one came dead last the other came 37th out of 42. Neither were from 🇺🇸 or the 🇬🇧

youtu.be/B8CzqxhZk7I?...

Awesome movie, has that proper 1970s horror vibe. It's gritty, real and dark in a way modern horror just isn't. Brolin's performance is just brilliant as to is Kidder. It gives me the fear every time i watch it.

Also this Telstar from 1990 😍

I have been out vinyl shopping today and found this compilation from 1982. Whoever had this before cut out this section and made a new picture for Duran Duran 😍

A sloppy egg

TBH if that was real, i recon i could... i would at least give it a shot!

I think i might need to watch HHG2TG on DVD... Just need to turn off the Quantel Paintboxes first...

@circuitbenders.co.uk do you fancy bending a Quantel? i am sure a bit of inside knowledge and some creative ideas might make something interesting 🤔 I have always been tempted to do it...

JFC that should carry a health warning before posting 😜

lol, yea that sounds like an old Conner, tbh i am sure i remembering them sounding like that back in the day!

YouTube video by Quantel Paintbox Rare 1983 official Quantel Paintbox demo tape

The Quantel community has discovered another new unseen video from the very early days of the #Quantel Paintbox. Thanks go out to @quantelpaintbox.bsky.social for making this available to be digitised. youtu.be/k36Y8IBW-UM?...

This is why we have the BBC...

@laurenblighton.bsky.social i thought you might appreciate this 😉

Yes, that one!

Calling all broadcast video people! Do you fancy the chance to see and have a go on a working original Quantel DPB-7001 'Classic' Paintbox? Your chance will be available in Swindon on May 30/31. www.retrofest.uk

i recon i should have a few around here, both 5.25 and 8"

OMG i don't remember... but i bought 3-4 Jags during the same event, every game they had on the shelf and one of every peripheral they had. I sold most of it years ago. I still have the Jag i bought on launch though, along with the CD and a selection of games!

Love this! But the subject matter needs to be right for me... can we get a Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy as per the BBC TV Series? 😍

Wow! and a GPB2 as well, is that one of the machines we know about (Köln & Newbury) or a new one?

I did mention i have a PC with Dual Voodoo2 to the wife but all i got was 🙄

Retro Computer Festival 2025 - L Break Into Program, 0:1 The theme for RetroFest 2025 at The Centre for Computing History was “Gaming” with a related theme of “Games Development”. Tony Jewell, the organiser, set aside the museum schoolroom for games develop...

This is probably more of a diary entry than a blog post, but it does have a link to the museum's video which'll give you more of an idea what went on over that weekend. Looking forward to the next one in Swindon in May.

It's worth noting it's not just for capture, it means i only need to have one monitor on my bench for my Win98, XP machines and the Paintbox.

The 4 matrix inputs flow into the switcher which then outputs HDMI into a Blackmagic Mini Recorder where OBS is running. Inputs are all VGA/DVI with one input coming from a universal scaler, that has inputs for CV, YC, VGA, DVI, RGB, HDSDI and Component so i can get just about anything into OBS.

I should have explained! Quake running on my Pentium 3 Win98 box with Voodoo 2 SLI and Paintbox. Both run into a 4-way video matrix switcher so they can be on screen captured by OBS with the XP as input 3. Left hand on the Win98 and right hand on the paintbox pen.

The true definition of multi-tasking in the 1990s, Quake in Voodoo 2 SLI while painting on a Quantel Paintbox. The XP machine waits in the background for, the future...

There is a similar vibe with this learning remote from Pioneer in 1999. [Pioneer CU-VSA032]