This 1996 PC Was Obsolete Before You Got It Home: AST Advantage 622
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Unboxing and testing a minty AST Advantage 600 series! A lower-end Windows 95 desktop computer from the mid 90s that bundled lots of software and games with a 100MHz Intel Pentium CPU and a whopping… 8 megabytes of RAM. Whee. Let's get this one up and running for (maybe) the first time! ● LGR links: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● Archived images of the model 622 restoration media: https://archive.org/details/ast-advantage-600-restore ● ISO images of the Mayo Clinic/Bellybutton and Eco East Africa discs: https://archive.org/details/mayo_button https://archive.org/details/eco-east-africa ● All background music licensed from: http://www.epidemicsound.com 00:00 An intro and overview 02:28 AST Research history 05:26 Unboxing the PC! 12:41 The computer itself 14:27 Inside the case, battery check 17:42 A light cleaning 18:02 First power on! 20:49 Windows 95 setup 22:06 AST OEM software 25:10 Hover! 26:05 MIDI music test 26:58 More AST bundled software 28:56 Microphone test – it's awful 29:21 Fun & Learning...? 29:58 Data disc, AVI files 30:33 Eco: East Africa 32:06 Mayo Clinic 32:57 What is a Bellybutton? 34:20 Welp, lots of things don't work 35:30 Oregon Trail II 37:13 Raptor Call of the Shadows 39:08 Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition 42:04 WinQuake 44:17 Tomb Raider for DOS 46:14 Valuing the undervalued, outro #LGR #Retro #Computer
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