USB4VC - Using Modern Input Devices on Old PCs 

Looks like tentative pricing is planned to be for the USB4VC Baseboard+Plates+Fasteners kit to cost $30, ADB P-Card $40, and IBM PC P-Card $50 since it has more components and more protocols. Still needs a Pi on top of that though, so here's hoping that whole supply chain gets sorted sometime soonish.

clint, your enthusiasm over older hardware getting newer capabilities is rather infectious. Don't ever stop keeping the long forgotten alive.

I can definitely hear the pleasure in your voice that you didn't have to troubleshoot offscreen for days scouring the archives for drivers and compatibilities etc

That windows 98 startup sound never gets old

A protocol-converter that hat 10 times the computing Power than the PC where to play the vintage Games on.... Wow.

I love that nearly every week there are people coming up with ways to further old tech's lifespan and even capabilities.

Wow, when you were describing it's concept I wasn't expecting it to have such robust features. What a useful little piece of hardware.

Unbelievable. Just a couple of weeks ago I decided to use arduino as DIN keyboard DB9 serial mouse emulator with an usb hat on it and then here you go, there are other people thinking similarly! Love the idea!

After a 3 decade it career i seem to have a side job as hoarder of converter cables so i applaud to this gem! Also the use of the word 'Nifty' to describe the device is quite appropriate.

Seeing Clint Crack himself up is just icing on the cake. I love this project. Makes me want to build a machine

What this thing needs is drivers and support for vintage expansion card slots. Even allow software configuration from vintage machines. This thing is incredible.

I just randombly found this video, but you brought me back decades ago with that sound it make as the desktop shows up. I started with windows 95 as my dad was teaching Microsoft Office at the first highschool with computers in my city somewhere in West Africa. All I did on his PC was play Prince of Persia and some F1 racing game I forgot the name of.

I love watching blerbs - especially when Clint is so happy with a new thing to play with. THESE VIDEOS ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS [SCRIPTED] LGR

This would be great to have if you had an old PC on display at a meet up. Watch people's faces when you pass them a PS5 controller!

You know, this could actually go a long way as an accessibility option for retro enthusiasts with physical handicaps.

This is super cool, I love it. I have a serial (RS-232) to PS/2 mouse converter for my 486 which lacks PS/2 mouse support. But this is on an entirely different level. I've dreamed of making a mechanical keyboard but the lack of Retro PC support was somewhat of a barrier. This opens some doors. Thank you for the blerb!

Those Kioxia Excera were selling for like £3 on Amazon not so long back, I bought a bunch of them for my consoles. Fun fact: Kioxia used to be Toshiba Memory but they were spun off into thier own thing; they have thier own NAND fabs in Japan.

The Flirc project is also excellent which solves a similar problem. Converting the signals from Infrared Remote Controls to USB keyboard signals which work on any device with USB keyboard support. Great for Kodi HTPCs. There are some clever people out there.

Since it's all in software, this could also double up as a neato TAS box. Recording input to a file, and playing it back.

I love that he used a label maker to categorize the stuff for the back of the box... my kind of dude!

Real nice little project that surely helps many with getting old hardware up & running that happens too lack peripherals.

You know what must be done for a blerb now: using a Sony PS2 controller on an IBM PS/2.

This video made my night! So fun to see the functionality and how much you enjoyed it.

Ah yes my favorite old-school inputs, the Dualsense, the Xbox Series Controller, and the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. Classics.

I know you brushed over it, but that duckyPad is exactly what I've been looking for. Being a linux user, I can't bring myself to spend $150 on an elgato since I have to use the open source software to run it anyway, and that's surely over 80% of the cost. This looks much nicer, with better switches, and runs on linux! Honestly it looks like a steal at $70, hope you do a video on it Clint.

Thank you for sharing your insane blerblings Clint. I love these.

Ho Lee Schitt!! That is an AMAZING product right there, particularly considering it's just a prototype at the moment! So versatile, and working almost perfectly! I can foresee this being *VERY* popular when it goes on sale as a finished product. Really well-done!!

Just got mine today after supporting the kickstarter back in Feb, thanks Clint! Never would have known about it!

Aaannnddd... pledged. Thanks for letting us know about this Clint. I love supporting awesome open source projects like this.

This is so great! I was just looking for a USB to PS/2 solution a couple weeks ago and was shocked that nothing really seems to exist. But this does that and so much more! I backed the Kickstarter.

Bru that's so damn intuitive man. Chef kiss to that man. Dude needs to keep going. I appreciate these/this dude's time to develop this.

I'm so glad he left the "Tinder" blooper in right there at the end.

Thank you lgr this is so cool since controller gaming has been viable on modern PC for last several years with different softwares it is so cool to see this on old PC with modern input device.... Really awesome video!

fascinating device. definitely would like to see a video of you building and testing the other device too!

Even Dos is a jerk with Direct Input controllers /s. This project is cool as hell, what a time to be alive. Its like retro-futurism but it actually works.

Wow this is an amazing adapter for us retro enthusiasts. Thanks for the review!

Love the concept! The ultimate compliment to this would be a video converter/scaler with connectors for older sources (CGA/ETA, RGB 15hz, old Mac 15 pin, etc..) and bundled into a single modular KVM so you can have numerous modern + retro devices share a common set of modern input peripherals and display.

Oh my goodness I'm so used to you pulling out some random black 80s/90s box with white writing and sepia tone pictures I thought I was having a stroke when I looked away and looked back at the video and one of the pictures was moving. You and your tablet fooled me in the most amazing way lol.

This actually blows my mind. Such a cool little device!

You thank us for watching your blurbs; we thank you for making them!

I really like the Weird side of vintage tech, and you do that rather well! :P

Yay!! I want it even though I don't even have a vintage computer

Clint’s childlike giddiness is one of the most uplifting things one can hear.

dekuNukem! I immediately recognized that name because I have been using his Nintendo Switch Reverse Engineering Github repository for a project. I am making a chip (ESP32) pretend to be a Switch Pro Controller and his repo was essential. Congrats to the dude for making such cool hardware, too!

What an awesome device! I also have fallen into the mechanical keyboard rabbithole that has taken over contemporary tech RU-vid as of late. I would love to hear your take on today's modern mechanical keyboards and switches from a retro perspective.

Looks like Clint has a new favorite oddware! Amazing little device!!

This is a awesome project. If they could eventually get it working for Unix machines such as Sun I could see it being useful. If somehow they got it working for NeXT machines I could see that being especially useful as without a working keyboard those cannot even be turned on let alone used. So much potential.

EDIT: Holy crap, this can emulate AT keyboards too? This thing could replace a drawer full of adapters. This thing is *_rad_* I'd been working on something like this, but just for IBM PCs, using an MCP4451 to simulate the potentiometer for a flightstick. It looks like Deku had the exact same thought. Very cool! It's really well put together, really dig the modularity and design. Big props to dekuNukem

Love how this channel is growing

Awesome prototype. side note, those speakers never get old to me.

Whelp there went some money. Backed and excited to get mine for both PC/XT/AT and Apple ADB. Such a cool project.

I had forgotten how loud those BigFoot drives were. I used to work in a PC shop when they were on the market, and they were the most RMA'd drives we shipped. It's a miracles yours still works!

22:06 "How do I hold on?" We're here for you, Clint.

Seeing new and old technology merged like this is just amazing I think. A RaspberryPi, PS5 and old IBM computers working together. Just great! :D

I love this! Not just this is a well thought out project by one of your fans to make modern input devices work on vintage machines, also is it one of those amazing Raspberry Pi projects that show just how versatile these are thanks to the GPIO. Really, really cool stuff and I imagine, other than the luck of Bluetooth a Pi 1 would be plenty already to make this work.

I was confused when the piece of paper you were holding started scrolling lol, it's rare to see screens on video that dont have any moire artifacts. We're living in the future!

This thing is rad! You should showcase this on the main site. it's worthy.

Holy cannoli, I love everything about this. And it has ADB!!

Everyone today has the possibility to use the most advanced technology and create mind boggling stuff, and so much of the effort is used to create things like this that just makes people like us with 40 years old computers happy. The world is a wonderful place in some aspects.

I've been looking for this for years... Preordered!

this blew my mind! great video bruv!

Great video Clint.

That thing is awesome! Well done dekuNukem.

This is great! I've been looking for something exactly like this recently.

Absolutely fascinated by this device!

The guys that developed this are straight up GENIUSES! It's really amazing what they've done here...

I don't think I have ever seen Clint so happy. Now he got a use for this Model F77. 😁

wow, what a cool project, thanks for showing it off!

That joystick menu reminded me of trying to setup my Logitech Wingman Rumblepad as a kid. We're definitely spoiled in the day and age with xinput. Even emulators do a great job with automatically mapping to Xbox 360 or xbone controllers.

This is just awesome!!!! Kickstarter here I come!

How Blerby. Good stuff. NGL seeing it run on that IBM XT was pretty cool.

I use that Aptiva case as my daily. Modern stuff fits in it perfectly

I like how "high" the trees look in the background ☺️

Could use a modern steering wheel for some dos driving games

Oh hey, now you can use the USB Gravis Gamepad Pro in DOS like it's a regular one.

Best part of this video is how happy it made you.

Haptic feedback is created using just sound files so in theory that could be emulated as well using the in game sounds

I have wanted this sooo badly for sooo long! I will pay him literally any amount of money for one of these!!

What a useful project. I like it!

I'm amazed your tiny keyboard/pad still works. Mine lasted a week before ignoring the dongle and refusing to connect.

I've been using it now for a few months with a 2.4Ghz dongle + BT keyboard and a 2.4Ghz dongle mouse, also tried XBox One and 8bit.do M30 controllers and it feels great. Now I don't need my old joypads anymore (Gravis and others) as the M30 is far better. Can even switch the keyboard to Bluetooth for typing on the laptop next to my DOS / Win98SE PC and back without it causing problems. I'm really happy with it and don't want to miss it ever again! Thanks for making me aware of it's existence! :D

This is such a game changer! Unreal

Very neat plugin for people with retro computers. I don't have any of those, but at least I got to listen a little to the model f keyboard in this video. Looking forward to receiving mine. It has been somewhere over a year that I ordered it, but I think I ordered a industrial grey like the one LGR uses.

That is really cool! I gotta get me one of those!

That is very awesome. Seeing a PS5 controller playing games using Windows 98 is amazing.

It's really a great thing you can use an old Pi to complete this set. Actually, it may be its saving grace. At the moment, anything Pi-based has poor expectations to succeed if it requires the newest and greatest since new Pi prices are a complete deal breaker. And although supposedly that should change one day, who knows when the day will come. Yes, a considerable number of people already had modern Pis bought before the shortage, but the present situation has a huge impact on the prospects of projects like this. You don't typically want to swap a single Pi around lots of builds, unplugging and reconnecting lots of cables and stuff.

The controller I currently personally use for PC and Android gaming is the Sunwaytek Syozen Z2. Sure, it can be a major pain in the butt to update and (sometimes) connect via bluetooth but it's still a major treat to play games on. Almost all of its buttons use mechanical switches like a mechanical keyboard so it's a must buy imo.

I feel like this is just asking to be built directly into an Isa card. Just amazing!

I gotta say, I have a macro pad diy kit thing (the Adafruit macro pad rp2040 with a very similar design), and it's become a pretty essential part of my computer usage process. Did not expect how useful a 4x3 pad of keys, OLED, and rotary encoder to switch layers would be

Yeah, safe to say I was stunned when I plugged in a wired ps3 controller into windows 98se and it had no problems recognizing the various inputs on it, letting me use it pretty much straight away. This project takes that to the next logical level. Well done!

Absolute madness... love it

Wow this is a really cool project. I hope it succeed, it would really helpful and fix so many issues. The main concern is the raspberry pi, more now than the cost are high. Maybe it's a thing for a future version. The other thing is that amount of cable connection and power adapters.

Wizardry indeed, what a great little project!

Oh my god that skiing game!!! Too much fun ol school style

I'd swipe right on this product and the free Kailh Navies were such a nice touch favorite out of the box switches.

Nice project specially for XT. Anyway, I used to have an USB keyboard with my Pentium-MMX back then as my motherboard had AT port + 2 USB ports, I think this will more useful for PCs older than Pentium where USB wasn't available out of box.

This is so cool. It's like a project I started for myself ages ago that started as a means to let me use a Dreamcast keyboard (and controllers) on any PC...then feature creep took hold and I went from there, eventually wanted to include the ability to use any controller I wanted on OG Xbox but I lost interest before then...I did add support to use othe controllers on Megadrive and PSX but that's trivial

Descent with a controller sounds awesome

I never thought I would see a Dualsense controller working flawlessly with Windows 98

Du-hude, this is the content I live for.