Fun-fact: In Norway, if you wanna say that something is really wild/uncontrolled/crazy - a common used term is "texas". As in "Det er helt texas!" (translate: this is completely texas!)
Can we all apreciate that the 8-bit guy is almost the only youtuber left that doesn't tries to make us buy a vpn or some kind of learning subscription! Thanks!!!
It was a good graphic for late 80’s tech. But almost all chips now are surface mount. I grew up in the part of South Garland visites in this episode. I don’t know if it is on you list but RF monolithics was influential. I was an employee of Texas Advanced Optoelectronics. We grew beyond believed when we were selected as the ambient light sensor for iPhone 1. We’ve been in the iPhone , iPad and Watch ever since with the exception of iPhone 2. (. There’s a lawsuit story behind that one. ).
Great release! I live in Russia, in the city of St. Petersburg, and it is very interesting for me to look at your native lands from your "live" shooting and look at places where the history of computers and computer games was made! Good luck and strength to continue your series! =))) Thanks again!
I was an early Apogee beta tester and use to have to dial into their BBS to get the latest releases. Cool to see where I was dialing into! I still have my Apogee t-shirt from back then.
As soon as I heard the LGR Thrifts theme and saw the logo, I died. Awesome video sir, sad that many don't realize the vital role Texas has played in the burgeoning American tech industry. You're doing God's work, Mr. Murray. Kudos!
I still come back to this series time and again. I know it didn't pan out as you'd hoped, David, but I just wanted you to know that it resonated with me. Thank you again for all you put into this one.
Lived in Texas 27 years! There is some amazing scenery throughout the state. I have done so many roadtrips and I've now visited all 254 county courthouses.
_"You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to [Texas]."_ ~ Douglas Adams
You know you’ve made it in the retro computing scene when someone drops your name at a gaming history legend like Siegler and he knows who you are. Nice, LGR!
Coming from The Netherlands and knowing little about Texas and specifically this tech region, but knowing all the company names you mentioned and 3D Realms I think I can speak for a lot of people from all over our planet and say that I love these kind of videos. If I could I would travel all over the planet and visit these 'holy' places where software was made which I grew up with. But thanks to people like you putting effort in this we can all 'visit' these places from our comfortable chair.
Dang! I need to come back to Texas soon and check out all these other sites I haven’t been to yet. (As soon as they open up for travel again... 🤪🤷🏼♂️).
@@GarrettCannon Yeah but most other countries still have travel to and from the US closed off, and will continue to do so for hopefully several more months, because we're doing absolutely jack shit to stop the spread of the virus.
When you mentioned Radio Shack and Tandy, I'm pretty sure I may have cried a little. As a kid who grew up in the 80's, Radio Shack was the most awesome place ever and I loved going there and even as I got older, it was my go to for so much stuff, then they started peddling cell phones and things went down hill. I miss the Radio Shack of the 80s and 90s.
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The last time I was in a Radio Shack, I asked an employee where the relays were. He asked me what a relay was. Maybe that's why there's no more Radio Shack.
In the 90's I rode my bike to the nearest radio shack at like 10 years old and my friend and I used our savings to buy bare speakers. I got a little 4 or 5" replacement speaker because I only had like $12 and my friend had enough to get an 8" ceiling speaker. Hahaha. I was jealous of it!
Fry's Electronics is the closest place now, they have a good selection of electrical components. I always hated how Radio Shack wanted your phone number to buy a 4 pk of AA batteries. They were ahead of the game in selling our personal info
checkmate That's pretty much why. My dad worked at Radio Shack from the 80s until shortly before its demise. He said that the executives thought they could save money by cutting employee pay, and gave themselves big bonuses every time they did. He watched in horror as all the knowledgeable people slowly left for better paying jobs. He said that near the end, store managers were mostly disinterested college students, because that's how poorly the job paid.
Well, I was a fan of 1-wire and had the Databooks back then as a student! I dismantled my Touch memory Devkit a few years ago but I still have the parts! I got it around y2k, before Maxim. I don't think my time button still runs however...
The most surprising thing is that nobody actually made a Texas shaped IC. Edit: It might be a law in Texas that everything has to be Texas shaped. I went to a hotel that had Texas shaped waffles.
"This was mostly Duke Nukem Forever" _The Building where Nothing Happens_ Not to be mean, this just seemed like prime reference material for a series I don't even play.
Yea, if I was that guy I would not be bragging about having worked on Duke Nuken Forever. That's the kind of thing you just try to forget and when anyone asks what you did for work during that decade you just make shit up.
@@MrTimsvids Probably because Forever was developed since 1997, and originally was announced to release in 1998, but released in 2011. When he says the development spanned 3 buildings he meant it literally. In the end Gearbox had to finish the game, and on release it became a huge flop.
Well, depressing that the Game went through so much Trouble. But it doesn't mean that working on it and with the Team couldn't have been a good and fun Time for him :) For me personally, the final Product was kinda fun, no master piece, but fun :)
One of the best series of Texas tech history that is non dramatic in tone. Thanks so much! I know this wasn't a popular series but I have watched it 3 times now. Thanks for all of the hard work on this series.
This video is extra cool to me since I've lived my entire life just a few miles north of Dallas in the Plano-Allen area, and I've heard about a lot of the 90's game development scene in Dallas from my dad. My dad ran a video game trivia email list called "Video Game Stumpers" while working at Ensemble studios during the development of Age of Empires 2. He said Joe was on the list at one point too, along with a lot of other developers at the time, like John Romero and Randy Pitchford. On a side note I got to meet John Romero at Quakecon a couple years back. He actually recognized my dad and we all talked for about 15 minutes about the 'old days'. Super cool guy!
As someone learning about computers, I always see these titles and go "pfftttt what a niche subject" and then I end up really enjoying it and learning things.
@@Misterz3r0 OK Grumpy, that's fair, but we can't be passionate about everything at all times. I've learned lots from 8BG, LGR, techmoan etc. but you have to remember that not everybody was born into this information and I can't be inundated with it all at once. I am learning about vintage computing one video at a time.
That's the weird thing about 3D Realms... changing over to that name from Apogee really was the _end_ of the company, not the start. They developed (not just published) so many games as Apogee, but once they became 3D Realms that all changed. If it weren't for a certain notable hit release, it's likely the name would just be a footnote on Apogee's history.
That is correct. Never denied that. When I was saying that, I was thinking in my head "What games came out when we were in this building". Wasn't an attempt to slight Remedy. These guys remain friends to this day. IT was just me talking fast in an interview, wasn't anything else other than "what games came out". Having said that, 3DR produced the game and distributed it. We had a lot to do with it, too.
@@dcarbs2979 Nononono! The Red LED calculators, and in particular the so-called "Majestic" line from TI are the real classics datamath.org/Album_Sci.htm
Greetings from Argentina 8bit guy, I love your videos! I know a man who used to work in Texas Instruments as engineer and I have a little collection of Texas Instrument PLCs.
Interesting timing. I just read: "The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution" which is about TI's contribution to IC's. Great read and very relevant to this series.
Farmers Branch representing! Also, while not at the genesis of the company, we're also home to several Cisco Systems offices. Thanks for the video as always.
Is that the plant in Staffard Texas. My stepfather used to work there in the 80s. I remember once he bought home a TI voice synthesizer for the TI994A computer. It didn't have a case, it was just the internals. They threw it out because it had a solder bridge which made it not work. He repaired it and we used it everyday.
Love this trip down my computer memory. Texas Instruments, American Megatrends, Duke Nukedom. These addresses are such a huge part of my childhood. Thank you!
Same argument can be made for Commander Keen. But that and Wolf3D were made by ID en published by Apogee. But Duke Nukem was their own thing, and if there is 1 thing we can remember them for, it should be Duke Nukem 3D. And not Duke Nukem Forever.
Fun fact: even some citizens in the Soviet Union were watching the tv-series Dallas. More precisely, Estonians in Tallinn, Estonia had access to Finnish television, and were following the series with enthusiasm and spread the plot twists to friends inland who couldn't watch it... Of course they also had access to many other western series through Finnish television. Right now Estonia is the most successful ex. communist bloc country. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not...
Dallas was crazy huge across the world. Here in the UK our comics did completely unrelated strips but just with characters named after J.R. Ewing, just because he was such a popular villain.
dallas was huge in a ton of countries, including those in the former USSR (like you said, if you could pick up YLE or Nelonen, you’d be able to get by with the dialogue and Finnish subtitles even though Estonian grammar is a lot different (i could go on for hours about the most notable differences but i wont), you could see it. it was so popular, in fact, that the song “The Day Before You Came” by ABBA has the line “there’s not, i think, a single episode of Dallas that i didn’t see.” my point is that the reply above me is correct in that Dallas was a HUGE show also if you’re implying Estonia is the most successful former SSR because they got to see Dallas and the dramatic hypercapitalistic nature of the western world, i’d have to disagree with you. it took literally decades to turn Estonia into a place with free public wifi in all of Tallinn.
Not the guy but to give a guesstimated short answer it can be done with just about any well known 3d package software (Blender, Maya, etc..) that allows extrusions from a spline/curve either imported from a vector image format or drawn in by hand then a bevel modifier applied to round the top. A pin was then modeled and an array function was probably used to paste copies around the original spline/curve perimeter (or placed manually)... Some adjustments here and there and bobs your uncle ^_^
The 8-Bit Guy Now that the concept exists, the Texas shaped IC better show up on the X16. Heck, I’d even take a silk screen of it on the board, like how Microsoft puts Master Chief in the Xbox One S.
Thank you for this. I was born and grew up in Fort Worth, went to college in Dallas, but now live in Pennsylvania. This was a nice dose of nostalgia with some good history facts that even I didn't know. I can't wait to see more!
I worked in the semiconductor industry for just over a decade and I always hated going to Texas (in my case though, it was usually to visit HP or Dell). There was always so much driving, as there's no other way to get around, and we spent so much time in traffic. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, but I really don't miss going to Texas! 😂
Fascinating video. I think I've got a good impression of your home state now: it's like visiting Texas. The video's/images you use are very clarifying. Wow. The state of Texas is very, very, very thinly populated! Texas: 29 mln people, New York city: 8 mln, The Netherlands (country): 17 mln. By the way: if I want to visit my parents who live 11 km (= 7 miles) away it takes me an hour using Public Transportation. So that 2 hour trip to your best friend is not that bad considering the distance, ha ha. ;-) I played a lot of the Apogee games back in the day. Thought it was a 1,000 employee company!
Oh man this is an absolutely brilliant series concept. Only thing missing from this episode was LGR dropping in with a quick Duke impression. Can't wait to see what's highlighted next
Its been 2 years but this is the best series you've ever done. In the 80's-90's I attended many tech conferences either in the DFW, Austin, or Houston area. Most of these companies were at these conferences so their names and products bring back many memories of the early days of computers and gaming. Access to things was much easier in those days. No masks, no military level armed security, no spying on your ever move, just a bunch of like minded folks loving the tech goodness!
Silver Fox as another rising senior in a bad private school in texas, i can assure you that we’ve learned a lot about the cornerstones of modern technology than we ever will in a comp sci class
Filipino viewer! That was really interesting! I was also super piqued when the Dallas chip said "Philippines". The history behind it was so informative and exciting! Thank you for making this video.
I'm surprised also to fact that Philippines has also a manufacturing plant of Dallas Semiconductor before. I'm wondering if my parents worked their also as they've worked as Security Guards to some of the semiconductor companies in Laguna. By the way, if my infos are correct, Dallas Semiconductor mfg plant is established in 1999 at Cabuyao, Laguna.
Fellow DFW Texan here! I've lived and worked in and around the Plano area off and on for a couple of decades now and consider it my primary home area, though I'm currently living in the Saginaw area of Fort Worth due to unforeseen circumstances. My dad used to work for Texas Instruments throughout the eighties and nineties and worked for a couple of other tech-related companies such as AT&T, Tyco, and GE. Love this video and appreciate the local love you're showing! Stay safe Brother!
I was gonna say that when you get around to visiting 11445 Compaq Center West Drive in Houston, I could probably buy you lunch or something. I work there, although I started after the HP acquisition, so I don't have any stories. I know some of the old Compaq guys, though. I don't have a clue how to get in touch with you. Oh, I don't know that Dallas Semiconductor was ever a chip fab. From what I was told when I worked on the a system based on the DS-5000, they took other people's chips, combined them with other parts and potted them into a single package.
Dallas Semiconductor did indeed design and manufacture ICs. For example, the Dallas DS18B20 is a famous (among electronic hobbyists) digital temperature sensor, and the Dallas EEPROMs (similar to flash memory) are also quite famous because they use a proprietary 1-Wire protocol. Of course, they're no longer manufactured by Dallas, but Maxim.
Fun fact: Houston, Texas's largest city, is located less than 5 miles from NASA's Johnson Space Center. Because of this, the very first word EVER spoken on the Moon was "Houston."
That is incorrect. JSC is inside Houston city boundaries. Search GIS maps and you will see the entire JSC/Space Center complex is inside Houston city limits
@@bigdukem69 Yeah, saying something is "within Houston's city limits" really doesn't mean jack squat. I live in a subdivision that, at best, is a 45 minute to 1 hour drive to downtown but I am still within the city limits. Johnson Space Center is about 5 minutes away from what any sane person would actually call Houston.
I bought the 3-Disc Duke Nukem 3D Killaton Collection when I was in high school back in '98. It's the Atomic Edition which also includes the 'Duke it out in DC' expansion set and a playguide disc. I threw out the nice carton packaging many years ago, but I still have the discs.
Another area that doesn't get much attention for its technological advancements is around where I live, South-Eastern Ontario (Think Ottawa to Toronto), also known as Silicon valley North.
I read the title to the rhythm of "Two-Gun Tex from Texas", the hero of Gerry Anderson's "Four Feather Falls"...now there's an obscure reference nowadays.
This vid came as a surprise as I remember Texas Instruments but didn't realise so many other well known companies came from the same area! Looking forward to the rest of this series.
@@jayde_d First two games were developed in Finland completely, Strobo is right, the first one was only published here, not developed. (and only the first one, second was already by Rockstar)
3D Realms co-produced Max Payne. Their website has an in-depth article about the making of Max Payne. Trips back and forth between Finland and America, members of both teams visiting the other. It was Remedy's concept but developed with extensive help from 3D Realms
I don't think it was that common back then. Now days yes. What I understand the development and design was made wholly in Finland by Remedy Entertainment but the money came from the States.
Not saying there couldn't been a tight collaboration with Remedy and 3D Realms/ Gathering of Developers, example for the direction where the game was supposed to go, etc.
_Let's go Texas-ing!_
* music plays *
Do a video on north carolina tech
I'm sure you enjoyed the video from start to end :)
Deep in the heart of Texas...
More videos on Windows 9x stuff
Time for a pilgrimage
I died of laughter when I saw the “LGR Thrifts” text pop up
(11:55) _"Greetings, and welcome, [to an LGR Thrifts]."_ ~ Clint Basinger (maybe someday)
I see LGR Thrifts I press like
My favorite part as well lol 😂
I was waiting for something like "8BitGuy Thrifts" or similar to appear.
LGR Thrifts: Episode Come Get Some!
i was expecting LGR to come out of goodwill and say "Greetings" lol
He was present in soul
Making this intro about Texas for non US viewers was an excellent call.
Signed: Polish viewer.
Co-signed: Malaysian viewer
TheGame455 Co-what?-signed another polish viewer
Indeed.
Flemish viewer
co-co-co-co-signed: Chilean viewer.
As an Australian it didn't help much. But we have states much bigger than Texas :)
Fun-fact: In Norway, if you wanna say that something is really wild/uncontrolled/crazy - a common used term is "texas". As in "Det er helt texas!" (translate: this is completely texas!)
That's going to offend some people.
but I don't care!
WTF?? 🤔🤔😅
This is excellent.
Same in Greece! 😄 The phrase goes like "texas happening here" for a messed up or wild/chaotic situation!!😂
Ha! Love it
Can we all apreciate that the 8-bit guy is almost the only youtuber left that doesn't tries to make us buy a vpn or some kind of learning subscription! Thanks!!!
You do realize sponsors sometimes are the only thing that can keep a channel afloat, right? Smaller UA-camrs gotta make income where they can.
That Texas-shaped chip in the intro is worthy of nationwide campaigning material graphically and as an idea! Really nice execution! :)
Techsas
@@rjc0234 I don't know if this is the best, or the worst, pun I ever heard
I want to design a chip like that now.
It was a good graphic for late 80’s tech. But almost all chips now are surface mount.
I grew up in the part of South Garland visites in this episode.
I don’t know if it is on you list but RF monolithics was influential.
I was an employee of Texas Advanced Optoelectronics. We grew beyond believed when we were selected as the ambient light sensor for iPhone 1. We’ve been in the iPhone , iPad and Watch ever since with the exception of iPhone 2. (. There’s a lawsuit story behind that one. ).
They could apply a proprietary socket type for it...
Omg, now I want LGR to do thrifting in that store. That's a must-have episode!
We have to start a Patition und fund him the flight over there
It would be an insult to Duke Nukem to have soy boy LGR go there. He'd probably burst into flames anyway.
@@Marcel38281 petition*...
B K I want to go through the vinyl
That Goodwill was a bust cos it’s on Game Chasers’ turf.
Great release! I live in Russia, in the city of St. Petersburg, and it is very interesting for me to look at your native lands from your "live" shooting and look at places where the history of computers and computer games was made! Good luck and strength to continue your series! =)))
Thanks again!
I was an early Apogee beta tester and use to have to dial into their BBS to get the latest releases. Cool to see where I was dialing into! I still have my Apogee t-shirt from back then.
Technically that's not where you were dialing into. The BBS was in Massachusetts. Not in Texas.
I love the LGR Thrifts intro, thought that was pretty funny
David-have you considered sending this series to the Texas tourism bureau? Excellent idea for a series!
Yeah this is REALLY good!
I agree Dave is chill and makes me wanna visit Texas
Great idea!
Almost liked this until I saw the count 😉. Awesome idea, as it would appeal to tech folk and interested tourists like me alike
Nerdproved
> 3D Realms office turned into Goodwill
Clint: *sweats nervously*
Thanks for the stellar and well executed new episode! Wish to visit US and Texas some day.
Greetings from Finland, Europe :)
ROFL
@@pistool1 Do they call you "The Cleaner"? I bet you got what I mean :)
@@belandino They call me Mr. BJ :)
LGR is like a Goodwill magnet. He walks into Goodwill and _all_ the deals just come flying towards him
As soon as I heard the LGR Thrifts theme and saw the logo, I died.
Awesome video sir, sad that many don't realize the vital role Texas has played in the burgeoning American tech industry. You're doing God's work, Mr. Murray. Kudos!
I still come back to this series time and again. I know it didn't pan out as you'd hoped, David, but I just wanted you to know that it resonated with me. Thank you again for all you put into this one.
Is more like a well done History Lesson of Videogames in the 90's than a simple Road Trip in Texas. Good Job!!
*history lesson
*video games (two words, not one)
*road trip
*job
www.chompchomp.com/terms/propernoun.htm
Lived in Texas 27 years! There is some amazing scenery throughout the state. I have done so many roadtrips and I've now visited all 254 county courthouses.
Man, you must get in trouble a lot!
Two More and you can roll back to 0
_"You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to [Texas]."_ ~ Douglas Adams
You know you’ve made it in the retro computing scene when someone drops your name at a gaming history legend like Siegler and he knows who you are. Nice, LGR!
Not just knows who you are but says "I actually shipped some things to him from here". I think that's the coolest past
Should call it "Techsas"
Love it.
Came here to say this :-)
Techthath.
Tech Sys
Beat me to it
Coming from The Netherlands and knowing little about Texas and specifically this tech region, but knowing all the company names you mentioned and 3D Realms I think I can speak for a lot of people from all over our planet and say that I love these kind of videos. If I could I would travel all over the planet and visit these 'holy' places where software was made which I grew up with. But thanks to people like you putting effort in this we can all 'visit' these places from our comfortable chair.
I used to live near Retro Studios HQ in Austin, TX, they are the well known developers of the Metroid Prime series.
Yes! Also the studio behind Donkey Kong Country Returns and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Might as well show Iguana Entertainment as well, which was the antecedent of Retro Studios
I'm so glad you're trying to document these stories(and locations) before it's to late and all these locations and people are gone.
As a fellow DFW resident, this makes me so happy!! Thank you for making this!
ooh Dallas, the city that was named after those famous clock chips carrying their own battery
Did I ask
Came for electronics, ended up as a Texas historian.
Same hahahaha 😂
I knew texas instrument for a long time, but after watching this video my knowledge expanding
Alamo & 3D Realms
Your profile pic is perfect for this comment
Lol same👌😂
Don't forget about Intel in Austin; the Atom was designed there.
Texas was big in electronics even before Intel existed, though (and when it was a small firm).
I wasn't aware that Austin was where they put all the quarks into it. Very neat!
Makes sense as the Atom and the Edison compete directly against dedicated embedded chips like those by Ti and Cyrix.
The one thing every one I know from Texas have in common is how much they all love talking about Texas.
I'm originally from Texas, it's a bit institutionalized in terms of making sure the kids are all properly nationalist for the state. Kinda weird.
Yep
My favorite saying about Texas, "If you want to know how great Texas is, just ask a Texan, they'll fill you right in."
Only thing i knew about Texas was Tv series Texas Ranger with Chuck Norris.
Aa the saying goes, you'll never have to ask a Texan where they're from, as they'll let you know.
Coincidentally, I'm from Texas.
Dang! I need to come back to Texas soon and check out all these other sites I haven’t been to yet. (As soon as they open up for travel again... 🤪🤷🏼♂️).
Me too Anders!!
Texas travel is open now.
@@GarrettCannon Yeah but most other countries still have travel to and from the US closed off, and will continue to do so for hopefully several more months, because we're doing absolutely jack shit to stop the spread of the virus.
Plenty of Elbow room in Texas.. just don't get lost in the backyard
I love u
Aw man this is neat! I live in El Paso, Texas. So awesome to learn about the tech industry in Texas, it's definitely overshadowed by California today.
When you mentioned Radio Shack and Tandy, I'm pretty sure I may have cried a little. As a kid who grew up in the 80's, Radio Shack was the most awesome place ever and I loved going there and even as I got older, it was my go to for so much stuff, then they started peddling cell phones and things went down hill. I miss the Radio Shack of the 80s and 90s.
The last time I was in a Radio Shack, I asked an employee where the relays were. He asked me what a relay was. Maybe that's why there's no more Radio Shack.
It's a hardware store
In the 90's I rode my bike to the nearest radio shack at like 10 years old and my friend and I used our savings to buy bare speakers. I got a little 4 or 5" replacement speaker because I only had like $12 and my friend had enough to get an 8" ceiling speaker. Hahaha. I was jealous of it!
Fry's Electronics is the closest place now, they have a good selection of electrical components. I always hated how Radio Shack wanted your phone number to buy a 4 pk of AA batteries. They were ahead of the game in selling our personal info
checkmate That's pretty much why. My dad worked at Radio Shack from the 80s until shortly before its demise. He said that the executives thought they could save money by cutting employee pay, and gave themselves big bonuses every time they did. He watched in horror as all the knowledgeable people slowly left for better paying jobs. He said that near the end, store managers were mostly disinterested college students, because that's how poorly the job paid.
When he started talking about adding all those countries to Germany I got worried for a while there
Bllinker Don't mention the war.
@@RamiSelin I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
@DerOldHerr Yup, as the great saying goes: "facts dont care about feelings"
@DerOldHerr That's not true.
Lol
Cool vid. Worked at Dallas Semiconductor 13 years, left when MAXIM took over. Was a great place back then.
Well, I was a fan of 1-wire and had the Databooks back then as a student! I dismantled my Touch memory Devkit a few years ago but I still have the parts! I got it around y2k, before Maxim. I don't think my time button still runs however...
The most surprising thing is that nobody actually made a Texas shaped IC.
Edit: It might be a law in Texas that everything has to be Texas shaped. I went to a hotel that had Texas shaped waffles.
Seriously why hasn't Texas Instruments done that???
This guy is living in 3020
Man, you *know* TI wanted to...
I was just thinking this!
@@flounder31 you could probably pull it off now
"This was mostly Duke Nukem Forever"
_The Building where Nothing Happens_
Not to be mean, this just seemed like prime reference material for a series I don't even play.
Yea, if I was that guy I would not be bragging about having worked on Duke Nuken Forever. That's the kind of thing you just try to forget and when anyone asks what you did for work during that decade you just make shit up.
@@Darxide23 why, please explain?
@@MrTimsvids Probably because Forever was developed since 1997, and originally was announced to release in 1998, but released in 2011. When he says the development spanned 3 buildings he meant it literally. In the end Gearbox had to finish the game, and on release it became a huge flop.
@@ScarfmonsterWR Ok, thanks, Im a brit and the Duke Nukems passed me by, its all interesting stuff!
Well, depressing that the Game went through so much Trouble.
But it doesn't mean that working on it and with the Team couldn't have been a good and fun Time for him :)
For me personally, the final Product was kinda fun, no master piece, but fun :)
One of the best series of Texas tech history that is non dramatic in tone. Thanks so much! I know this wasn't a popular series but I have watched it 3 times now. Thanks for all of the hard work on this series.
I love the idea for this series. I'm looking forward to the upcoming episodes in the series. Stay safe while out and about!
Tech company becomes a Goodwill store
*LGR Intensifies*
I learned how to ice skate at the Galleria when I was visiting Texas as a kid. That shot brought back a great memory of Texas! Thanks David!
This video is extra cool to me since I've lived my entire life just a few miles north of Dallas in the Plano-Allen area, and I've heard about a lot of the 90's game development scene in Dallas from my dad. My dad ran a video game trivia email list called "Video Game Stumpers" while working at Ensemble studios during the development of Age of Empires 2. He said Joe was on the list at one point too, along with a lot of other developers at the time, like John Romero and Randy Pitchford.
On a side note I got to meet John Romero at Quakecon a couple years back. He actually recognized my dad and we all talked for about 15 minutes about the 'old days'. Super cool guy!
The fact that this is only the first part is really intriguing, this one felt really packed with information, I wonder what will be next!
Dallas Texas resident here....I love DFW!!
As someone learning about computers, I always see these titles and go "pfftttt what a niche subject" and then I end up really enjoying it and learning things.
"pfftttt what a niche subject" is probably the wrong attitude to have when learning anything, but especially computers.
@@Misterz3r0 OK Grumpy, that's fair, but we can't be passionate about everything at all times. I've learned lots from 8BG, LGR, techmoan etc. but you have to remember that not everybody was born into this information and I can't be inundated with it all at once. I am learning about vintage computing one video at a time.
While 3d Realms produced Max Payne, it was very much done/developed in Espoo, Finland by Remedy. Credit where credit's due.
Same studio that done Death Rally, soundtrack for that one is killer
now it makes sense that a finnish guy made the music (alias "Purple Motion")
That's the weird thing about 3D Realms... changing over to that name from Apogee really was the _end_ of the company, not the start. They developed (not just published) so many games as Apogee, but once they became 3D Realms that all changed. If it weren't for a certain notable hit release, it's likely the name would just be a footnote on Apogee's history.
That is correct. Never denied that. When I was saying that, I was thinking in my head "What games came out when we were in this building". Wasn't an attempt to slight Remedy. These guys remain friends to this day.
IT was just me talking fast in an interview, wasn't anything else other than "what games came out".
Having said that, 3DR produced the game and distributed it. We had a lot to do with it, too.
Corpus christi native here, and I love my state! Thanks for making this series David!
Aging computer nerd, with rush shirt on, tells us about the old days. Can't make this stuff up :-D awesome guy
My first thought on "Did you know that Texas did some Tech stuff`" was... well DUH Texas Instruments?
TI85 classic :-)
@@dcarbs2979 Nononono! The Red LED calculators, and in particular the so-called "Majestic" line from TI are the real classics datamath.org/Album_Sci.htm
I was thinking Raytheon along with the obvious TI.
@@BertGrink My family had a TI-30, that I was not allowed to touch when I was young! Those red numerals were mesmerizing.
I literally used one in elementary school. Shit was the bomb!
Greetings from Argentina 8bit guy, I love your videos! I know a man who used to work in Texas Instruments as engineer and I have a little collection of Texas Instrument PLCs.
This is great! I’m a native Texan living in DFW and I worked my whole career in semiconductors. It’s a walk down memory lane for me
"It takes an hour to drive one way"
Or the London equivalent of 10 miles
Fortunately you can use the underground instead.
1 hour is may be 15 miles in Milano :D r
Or 3 miles on an NYC bus ;-)
I guess I’m grateful to live in western MA where I can drive from one side of the state to the other in 2.5 hours.
@@The8BitGuy No chance with this covid era :( too dangerous
The Texas triangle is actually a quadrangle.
- This comment was sponsored by the 17th International Geometry Symposium.
What is a symposium ?
Love the quick tour of parts of Texas! As a Florida man, I’m really impressed by the state and would love to visit.
Interesting timing. I just read: "The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution" which is about TI's contribution to IC's. Great read and very relevant to this series.
Should be "a microchip" instead of "the microchip". Semiconductors and ICs have their roots predominantly in Germany and Japan.
Bell Labs, Texas Instruments, Fairchild.
Farmers Branch representing! Also, while not at the genesis of the company, we're also home to several Cisco Systems offices. Thanks for the video as always.
Paanhaandle
My dad took me to work all the time, at TI in Sugarland(late 70s).
Howdy, from Ft Bend!
from sugar land too! now live in the loop but yep! I remember
@@RachelMcCarn
I had to get out; Im out by Brazos Bend, now.
Is that the plant in Staffard Texas. My stepfather used to work there in the 80s. I remember once he bought home a TI voice synthesizer for the TI994A computer. It didn't have a case, it was just the internals. They threw it out because it had a solder bridge which made it not work. He repaired it and we used it everyday.
Remember Micrografx in Richardson. I was a programmer there in the day.
maybe you could contact me.
I was a big fan of Micrografx Designer
Sure.
Love this trip down my computer memory. Texas Instruments, American Megatrends, Duke Nukedom. These addresses are such a huge part of my childhood. Thank you!
I'm going to do a similar series for the tech innovations of my home state -- Wyoming!
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*Series completed*
Wyoming, where the state tree is a telephone pole
@@stinky817 What's a telephone? Do you mean the Telegraph lines? I think they have those on the Union Pacific, down ol' Rock Springs way.
@@stinky817 wait, ain't that Nebraska?
At least you're not yuropoor
Population 600k. There is more people in one suburb of Dallas than in the whole state of Wyoming.
ION STORM was also founded in Dallas, they produced the game Deus Ex
But way more importantly ID was founded first and moved to DFW. lol
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_Pixel_Games Twisted Pixel also. (The Maw, Spoison Man ...)
Think blizzard entertainment have a place in Texas roo
Ion Storm had multiple dev teams. The one that worked on Deus Ex was located in Austin.
Been ordering electronic parts from Mouser since the 1970s. Excellent company, with superb customer service!
6:24 I would argue that Wolfenstein 3D was more influential than Duke Nukem.
Blow it out your ass!
At least DN had great sound bytes like that one.
Same argument can be made for Commander Keen. But that and Wolf3D were made by ID en published by Apogee.
But Duke Nukem was their own thing, and if there is 1 thing we can remember them for, it should be Duke Nukem 3D.
And not Duke Nukem Forever.
Spear of destiny was a better version of wolfenstein 3d . Lucky to have had a roommate who had that.
Agreed, W3D started the FPS.
@@redmatrix B A L L S O F S T E E L
I really feel like Silicon Prairie would have been a great title. Either way I have to love that you're doing this series. Keep up the great work!
I've heard the Metroplex called Silicon Prairie many times.
I love that you made a video dedicated to our home state. Adding to the size of Texas, I live around 6 hours south of you, in the same state.
I'm in Wales, to get to the welsh capital of Cardiff from my home city of Bangor in North Wales,it's a 5 hour drive. The distance, 180 miles.
Thank you for showing us around your hometown, it was nice!
It might amuse you to know that the Dallas TV series was a huge success here in Sweden!
That “lgr thrifts” section cracked me up
I enjoyed the trip over the Texas tech hubs. I think even more the trip itself through Texas, incredible and beautiful!
Fun fact: even some citizens in the Soviet Union were watching the tv-series Dallas. More precisely, Estonians in Tallinn, Estonia had access to Finnish television, and were following the series with enthusiasm and spread the plot twists to friends inland who couldn't watch it... Of course they also had access to many other western series through Finnish television. Right now Estonia is the most successful ex. communist bloc country. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not...
Dallas was crazy huge across the world. Here in the UK our comics did completely unrelated strips but just with characters named after J.R. Ewing, just because he was such a popular villain.
dallas was huge in a ton of countries, including those in the former USSR (like you said, if you could pick up YLE or Nelonen, you’d be able to get by with the dialogue and Finnish subtitles even though Estonian grammar is a lot different (i could go on for hours about the most notable differences but i wont), you could see it. it was so popular, in fact, that the song “The Day Before You Came” by ABBA has the line “there’s not, i think, a single episode of Dallas that i didn’t see.” my point is that the reply above me is correct in that Dallas was a HUGE show
also if you’re implying Estonia is the most successful former SSR because they got to see Dallas and the dramatic hypercapitalistic nature of the western world, i’d have to disagree with you. it took literally decades to turn Estonia into a place with free public wifi in all of Tallinn.
How’d you do that cool graphic of the Texas microchip
Renaud Scheidt drew that at my request. Not sure how he made it, though.
Not the guy but to give a guesstimated short answer it can be done with just about any well known 3d package software (Blender, Maya, etc..) that allows extrusions from a spline/curve either imported from a vector image format or drawn in by hand then a bevel modifier applied to round the top. A pin was then modeled and an array function was probably used to paste copies around the original spline/curve perimeter (or placed manually)... Some adjustments here and there and bobs your uncle ^_^
The 8-Bit Guy Now that the concept exists, the Texas shaped IC better show up on the X16. Heck, I’d even take a silk screen of it on the board, like how Microsoft puts Master Chief in the Xbox One S.
Thank you for this. I was born and grew up in Fort Worth, went to college in Dallas, but now live in Pennsylvania. This was a nice dose of nostalgia with some good history facts that even I didn't know. I can't wait to see more!
I worked in the semiconductor industry for just over a decade and I always hated going to Texas (in my case though, it was usually to visit HP or Dell). There was always so much driving, as there's no other way to get around, and we spent so much time in traffic. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, but I really don't miss going to Texas! 😂
For a dramatized history of the "Silicon Prairie" in Texas, check out the awesome AMC series Halt and Catch Fire.
The series is completely fictional. It's only very loosely based on history.
Great to see Joe and the old bunker. Loved visiting the team when we'd come down to talk Prey. Thanks for the memories.
Fascinating video. I think I've got a good impression of your home state now: it's like visiting Texas. The video's/images you use are very clarifying.
Wow. The state of Texas is very, very, very thinly populated! Texas: 29 mln people, New York city: 8 mln, The Netherlands (country): 17 mln. By the way: if I want to visit my parents who live 11 km (= 7 miles) away it takes me an hour using Public Transportation. So that 2 hour trip to your best friend is not that bad considering the distance, ha ha. ;-)
I played a lot of the Apogee games back in the day. Thought it was a 1,000 employee company!
Nice episode, good idea. Showing that there's much more than just California.
Oh man this is an absolutely brilliant series concept. Only thing missing from this episode was LGR dropping in with a quick Duke impression. Can't wait to see what's highlighted next
"Take Germany, add Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Nederland..." - Fuhrer intensifies
Suddenly anschluß
[Anschlusses internally]
He forgot Poland...
Lol would have been a lot easier just to steal land from Mexico
Could had added Luxembourg.
Oh god, they're doing LGR crossover episodes now
Its been 2 years but this is the best series you've ever done. In the 80's-90's I attended many tech conferences either in the DFW, Austin, or Houston area. Most of these companies were at these conferences so their names and products bring back many memories of the early days of computers and gaming. Access to things was much easier in those days. No masks, no military level armed security, no spying on your ever move, just a bunch of like minded folks loving the tech goodness!
It's 2:47 am, I have a maths test tomorrow, and I'm watching a video about Texas.
You’re probably learning more useful information in this short video than anything you received in that class in an entire year
Silver Fox as another rising senior in a bad private school in texas, i can assure you that we’ve learned a lot about the cornerstones of modern technology than we ever will in a comp sci class
Filipino viewer! That was really interesting! I was also super piqued when the Dallas chip said "Philippines". The history behind it was so informative and exciting! Thank you for making this video.
I'm surprised also to fact that Philippines has also a manufacturing plant of Dallas Semiconductor before. I'm wondering if my parents worked their also as they've worked as Security Guards to some of the semiconductor companies in Laguna. By the way, if my infos are correct, Dallas Semiconductor mfg plant is established in 1999 at Cabuyao, Laguna.
Fellow DFW Texan here! I've lived and worked in and around the Plano area off and on for a couple of decades now and consider it my primary home area, though I'm currently living in the Saginaw area of Fort Worth due to unforeseen circumstances. My dad used to work for Texas Instruments throughout the eighties and nineties and worked for a couple of other tech-related companies such as AT&T, Tyco, and GE. Love this video and appreciate the local love you're showing! Stay safe Brother!
I was gonna say that when you get around to visiting 11445 Compaq Center West Drive in Houston, I could probably buy you lunch or something. I work there, although I started after the HP acquisition, so I don't have any stories. I know some of the old Compaq guys, though. I don't have a clue how to get in touch with you.
Oh, I don't know that Dallas Semiconductor was ever a chip fab. From what I was told when I worked on the a system based on the DS-5000, they took other people's chips, combined them with other parts and potted them into a single package.
Dallas Semiconductor did indeed design and manufacture ICs. For example, the Dallas DS18B20 is a famous (among electronic hobbyists) digital temperature sensor, and the Dallas EEPROMs (similar to flash memory) are also quite famous because they use a proprietary 1-Wire protocol. Of course, they're no longer manufactured by Dallas, but Maxim.
0:39 Yep! Atlantic Canada, here. Thanks for the crash course of your state!
My father worked for TI but out of NJ and CT. He was basically a field tech and did a lot of traveling around NJ, CT, and PA.
Fun fact:
Houston, Texas's largest city, is located less than 5 miles from NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Because of this, the very first word EVER spoken on the Moon was "Houston."
That is incorrect. JSC is inside Houston city boundaries. Search GIS maps and you will see the entire JSC/Space Center complex is inside Houston city limits
And the first word spoken on the Moon was actually "okay"
@@bigdukem69 Yeah, saying something is "within Houston's city limits" really doesn't mean jack squat. I live in a subdivision that, at best, is a 45 minute to 1 hour drive to downtown but I am still within the city limits.
Johnson Space Center is about 5 minutes away from what any sane person would actually call Houston.
I want to know if anyone's found a copy of Duke Nukem 3D at that goodwill
TheRedCap he should most definitely bought that friggn robot. Dammit, what a wasted opportunity for an episode or even a gift for CLInt
I found a copy of it in a PC Gamer Magazine demo disc! Full copy too!
I found a copy of duke nukem Manhatten Project once there.
I bought the 3-Disc Duke Nukem 3D Killaton Collection when I was in high school back in '98.
It's the Atomic Edition which also includes the 'Duke it out in DC' expansion set and a playguide disc.
I threw out the nice carton packaging many years ago, but I still have the discs.
My copy came from a Goodwill
I love this series! Gets better every time I watch
That mailing address is on the same street as my friends house. Just a few houses down!!! :O
Another area that doesn't get much attention for its technological advancements is around where I live, South-Eastern Ontario (Think Ottawa to Toronto), also known as Silicon valley North.
Exactly. And we are 1.5x larger than Texas. Just don't get this attitude that the US is big.😂
The Kitchener-Waterloo area is a pretty big tech hotspot.
It was surreal watching RIM implode post 2007.
@@JasonStevens I know! I'm honestly still pretty bummed about their rapid decline. They had a lot of potential and a whole country behind them.
Awesome video David. I love the drone shots and the Texas IC thumb. Keep up the good work my man!
Can't wait for the episode where he'll talk about the best kind of Texas tech: Propane and propane accessories.
In a hank hill voice
best comment ever. lol
I tell you hwhat
Strickland Propane. Taste the meat, not the heat. Lol
That boy ain’t right.
Ideas from the deep! Listening to the “masters of doom” book was informative. And of course TI.
Monuments of Mars looks super rad. Thanks for including that. I want to check it out now.
Wow, I haven't been this early since David was using cream to retrobrite!
Hey! A fellow siren enthusiast
I haven't been this early since David was using a sling to slay Goliath.
Come on Dave... *You still got time to call this series TECH-xas*
Don't be ridiculous. TECH-sass!
Pun intended.
I read the title to the rhythm of "Two-Gun Tex from Texas", the hero of Gerry Anderson's "Four Feather Falls"...now there's an obscure reference nowadays.
I think we'll all compromise on Tech's Ass.
Very interesting to find out about the tech companies who were based out of Texas. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
"Come to Texas baby..." -Duke Nukem
I really enjoyed this episode, and the idea of this series. The place I'd love to see would be the Chase Tower in Dallas that housed Ion Storm.
This vid came as a surprise as I remember Texas Instruments but didn't realise so many other well known companies came from the same area! Looking forward to the rest of this series.
Max Payne was actually developed in Finland but I guess he's talking about the producer/distribution side of it
its likely they collaborated, most games today are lead by one studio, but developed by many
@@jayde_d First two games were developed in Finland completely, Strobo is right, the first one was only published here, not developed. (and only the first one, second was already by Rockstar)
3D Realms co-produced Max Payne. Their website has an in-depth article about the making of Max Payne. Trips back and forth between Finland and America, members of both teams visiting the other. It was Remedy's concept but developed with extensive help from 3D Realms
I don't think it was that common back then. Now days yes. What I understand the development and design was made wholly in Finland by Remedy Entertainment but the money came from the States.
Not saying there couldn't been a tight collaboration with Remedy and 3D Realms/ Gathering of Developers, example for the direction where the game was supposed to go, etc.