- With the power of Photoshop, almost any modern computer can be used to dramatically alter an image with shocking speed and realism. But what if we didn't
have a modern computer, (video player rewinding) or modern Photoshop? Corridor Digital apparently figures that art is the product of
the artist, not of the tool. And came up with the idea of doing a visual effects challenge. Where the participants are forced to use the very first Adobe
Photoshop, version 1.0. Their only problem is that
they didn't have a machine capable of running it. Or that is to say, they didn't have any machines
outdated enough to run it. Now, we can solve that. But, (clears throat) if that was actually their only problem, this video wouldn't be over
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your wallet bulge down. And use offer code LINUS to save 10% and get free worldwide shipping. (upbeat music) Photoshop 1.0 was originally
released back in 1990 for the Macintosh platform, and then handed over to the
computer history museum in 2013, including the source code. So you can actually play
along at home if you like, using an emulator like Basilisk II which incidentally, is an
excellent way to transfer files to and from an old school
Mac using a SCSI2SD board. Now of course, we didn't wanna go too easy on the Corridor crew, especially after our beef back in 2017. And the phenomenal performance of Apple's system 7.5.5 operating
system on modern hardware would have violated the spirit
of Nico's ancestral journey in my opinion. And for that matter, so
would a right mouse button. So we enlisted the help of our good friend ♪ Brian The Electrician ♪ Who hooked us up with
this Macintosh LC 475, one of many sub models
of the Quadra's 605, released during the dark ages in 1993. This is in between Steve
Jobs' departure from and then later return to Apple. It's got a Motorola 68LC040 processor clocked at 25 megahertz, four megabytes of onboard memory with a 16 megabyte
expansion module installed and 512 whole kilobytes of video memory. It took some doing to make a macro S image that was both bootable on our emulator and on our bare metal hardware. But with a little Linux magic, a bootloader and an OS
image, we were ready to go. Now, this computer isn't
totally period correct. We originally wanted to
use, oh, where'd it go? There it is. This Macintosh II. It's got worse specs all around, but unfortunately the magic smoke escaped from its power supply and it's
really expensive to replace. So I have to pay respects. While we're at it, our SD card right here, even though it's a micro SD, is significantly faster. Not to mention higher capacity than the original 250 megabyte, three and a half inch scuzzy hard drive. But enough talk, let's turn it on. (delightfully giggling) It's still cool. Right, you have to hold
it, I forgot about that. (chuckling) Yup, ooh, games. Okay, here we go. Kansas River Crossing. We don't have $5, so. Oh, dang. Oh wow. (chuckling) Linus and John, we go in boys. Okay, you've reached the
big blue river crossing. Well, caulking it didn't work last time. (both laughing) Oh no. Oh, I lost everything. (laughing) Well, I lied. We managed to finish the game. (mimics shooting) Oh shoot. Wait, what is it? Did I die already? - [Anthony] I think you died. - Anthony also tells me some of the applications are interesting. iCab? - [Anthony] Oh well, that's what happens when a
program crashes on macOS. Yeah, the whole system is gone. - Wait, what? The program crashed and now the entire system
needs to be restarted? - [Anthony] Yup. - How stable is Photoshop 1.0? - Not too crashy or it didn't crash on me but I would probably
recommend saving often. - Well, if it's anything
less than perfect, that could be a significant problem for the buyers down there. Can I take a moment to admire though that Apple automatically
resumed where you left off, way back then when windows didn't add that functionality till like
a couple years ago? That is super cool. It's a web browser. - [Linus] Man, Apple.com
should do something special for you when you access it from like a machine from 30 years ago. - [Anthony] I think it failed because it tried to redirect to HTTPS. But Google should work. - This is exciting. Oh, I wanna get Spectre. So this is the right thing, right. - [Anthony] Oh, it's going to HTTPS. - They're all HTTPS. - [Anthony] In the assets
folder, I have a few things. So like images and-- - [Linus] Oh, cool, oh, fun. Corridor Digital.png. Holy crap. Just opening an image. Anthony I don't think they're
gonna feel to do this. (Anthony chuckles) - [Anthony] Oh, why? It wasn't corrupted before. - Oh my God, the whole system... - You know, it's less charming after the umpteen billions of time you've done this. - [Narrator] A few moments later. (Linus chuckles) - [Linus] Oh no. Lttstore.com, by the way, we got boxers and all
kinds of great merch. But this reminds me of
early internet (beeps). Where it's like vaguely
sort of skin tones. - [Anthony] You got the dithering, you got the low resolution. - [Linus] Yeah. You know, from here, it
doesn't look that bad. - [Anthony] If you go far
enough away, it becomes retina. - [Linus] Not quite retina. Hold on, maybe a little, a little farther. It's actually kind of amazing. It's like art, where like up close it doesn't look like anything, but then far away it's like, oh yeah, that looks really good from here. What about this video though? So what resolution is
this video file, Anthony? - [Anthony] 320 x 240. - [Linus] Uh huh. - 12 frames per second. And I believe this is
using Sorenson compression. I could have used motion JPEG but it was same performance, and it looked like kind of bad. - [Linus] Yeah, this looks not bad. - I tried interlacing
it for more performance but it didn't really help. - I mean, theoretically though from far enough away, anything
becomes retina, right? So, you know what, big difference. If the frame rate wasn't so choppy it would be kind of usable. Of course, the Corridor guys won't be doing anything with video and they won't be using
quick time to edit photos. Let's get to the main
event, Adobe Photoshop, 1.0. Wow, the launch speeds are
better than the modern one. - [Anthony] Hey.
- Hey, got him. - Let's see if it at least performs a little better here. Uh oh, were you expecting that? - No, not really. - Had you tried opening any pictures yet? - [Anthony] Yes, but not that one. - How about 1080 in 1920 x 1080, it's not that many. (Anthony chuckles) - [Anthony] The timing - 640 x 480? - [Linus] There it is. Okay, brightness and contrast. (gentle music) Oh, okay so we can go for
like a moodier look here. Wait, is it doing the whole screen? (Anthony laughs) - What? - [Anthony] They're
hooking into the system API so that they can give
you real-time preview. - The problem though, is
that modern or ancient, I don't really know how to use Photoshop. So we're gonna grab a couple of our Photoshop veterans and
see what they make of this. Let's see if our resident master of memes, A-prime, can do anything with this. Have you ever used, such an
early version of Photoshop? - [Alex] No, I've never even
used them from that era. I mean, these tools haven't
really changed since like, well, they're still pretty much the same. - They've added some, but
overall, you're still I think (indistinct), or maybe not. That's interesting. - Oh God, is it really taking that long? (both laughing) - This is less like editing
photos and more like chess. - Yeah. - Once you take your hand off it-- - Yeah, so it's gradient. Yeah, sure.
- Okay. - Things have changed... - For the better. That seems like drawing. Yes, ah, yes. Responds at times. (laughing) - Yeah, okay. Wait, how many undo states do I have? No, no, noooo! Noooo! Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, Oh. - Oh, hello. Oh, Oh. - [Linus] Oh. I'm getting
another eye in my forehead face. - [Alex] Sounds like the
kind of stuff I like to do. Okay, let's do that again. (laughing) - [Alex] Okay, this is gross. (both laugh) - He's picking my nose. - Yes, I do that in my dreams, wait. - Double-click on the tool. - Double-click, oh, right. - Ooo. - Now, you're pig Linus. Pig sad Linus. - [David] Pig-Spider-Linus - [Linus] Just make sure
you don't go too fast with your actions here. You got one undo state. - What if we had more than one undo state? What if we don't disregard? - [Linus] Oh, okay. That's a little rough. (laughing) I need help. (both chuckle) - I need to get out of this. - This feels like an ink blot
kind of session, you know? Like you show, you show Alex this picture. It's like, What do you see? - [Alex] I see nightmares. - What if I were to say,
"Look, I really don't "think the microphone fits
the vibe of this image "you're creating." Can it be removed? It doesn't seem, that's a good skin color. Ideally, I'd be, you know, like replicating every little dot there but there's, that's a jawline there, very, very not regular at all. - Yeah. - I'm talented. - You know, not bad. I mean, well, okay. You made it a little worse there. - I'm just trying to just make this a bit more thorough. There you go. - Not bad. I mean it's bad, but. - It's nice to be reminded of how are things have come since, as well as, or not quite far they are. Some things change, some things don't. - Our next contestant was born well after this software came out. - It's Sarah - What am I supposed to do with this? - Well, you're the artist. - I seriously don't even
know where to start. - I mean, you're a Mac user though, right? You daily drive Macs, so
this should be no problem. (Sarah chuckles) - Even though I'm a graphic designer, I use Photoshop rarely. So I, this little bar right here is still a little unfamiliar to me. I'm gonna draw a mustache on you, I think. - Okay. - Sad Linus needs a beard. We're gonna do an update. - How's that ball nose treating you? You ever seen a ball mouse in your life? - I think I have, like
when I was very little. - Now, when you draw on your own eyebrows, my understanding is
you're supposed to delete the original ones first, right? - I guess so, but how
would I do that here? Whoa! (giggles) - It's drawing. (giggles) - It's a process, it takes time. - Let's do this smudgy smudge. - Wow, that's not bad. - You actually do have
eyebrows now kind of. Well, not to say you didn't before, but... - [Linus] Yeah, but now there's fresh, new eyebrows, exciting eyebrows. - Exactly. Okay, now your eyebrowless. - Oh, there's another really cool feature of this computer. Check this out. It's actually got a holder
for 3D-printed save icons. (Sarah chuckles) - You mean a floppy disk? - Yeah, okay. (Sarah giggles) - Hey, I was born before the 2000s, so I've still got a
little bit of age on me just not as much as you do. (chuckles) Ooh, let's see what fonts we've got. - It's got literally four Comic Sanses and then like eight other options. (laughing) - [David] To be fair, I
added the comic Sanses. It was like pulling teeth,
I'm not adding fonts. (Sarah laughs) - Okay, I've heard that New
York is a good mono type. So let's try that. This is kind of an interesting panel. I like it. It's simple and clean unlike the modern day stuff that we have. Oh, except, oh, I have
to type it before, okay. (Linus laughs) - I'd love to like spend
a week just using this and see how good I could get at it. - Would you, though? - Oh, that's way too small. Let's do 150, oops. (chuckles) Oh my gosh. - Just put in a second one, genius. - [David] Sad Linus, sad Linus. - [Sarah] Every time I see
the beard that I drew it's... This looks like an album cover. - Sad Linus and the Linuses. - I can truly do this all day, I'm not even joking. - [David] Even with all the waiting? - It would take all day. - Even with all the waiting, I think. I mean, listen, I sat on support calls for like eight hours straight. If music was moist, this
would be moist music. - Yeah, no layers,
that's pretty rough hey. - Yeah. - It's like, okay, that
text is just on there now. - True. - [Linus] Oh my God, that leg. - [David] I mean, yeah you've got like the spectral Linus in the background. - Exactly. - [Anthony] Why is Linus sad? It's because the other Linus is sad. (Sarah giggles) - I think the tool is
like a minute behind you. You might wanna hold off on that. - Okay, yeah. - So the system doesn't crash. - And you'll give her a second to think. - So if it crushes you're done. - [Linus] Could spectral Linus be happy? - Oh, okay, I see where you're going. Uh-oh. (giggles) Oh no, oh my God. - [David] Oh, it's so good. - Oh boy, you know now
that you've done something, there's no undoing. - That's okay. - Okay, there's only one undo state. - [David] Yeah, you undo and you're ready. That's all you get. - Okay, that's fine. Look it. We got a happy Linus now. (chuckles) - Yeah. - Is there an eyedropper tool? Oh, there we go. Can we make sad Linus more sad? - This is what we've reduced our literal professional
creative people to. - More eyebrows. Let us know if you want this on a shirt. - Drawing clowns in glorified MSP. - Did you just call yourself a clown because I'll take it. I'm gonna leave it at that. There we go. - [Linus] Okay, is this
your completed masterpiece? - I'd say so. I would totally go ahead
and try to use this again. It has the tools that you need. It would just be way more
challenging to try to create the things that we create nowadays. But yeah, I enjoyed it. - Do you think Corridor will
succeed in their VFX challenge? - I don't know, we'll see. Enjoy that, I'll see it in my nightmares. - [Linus] I'll save it. - [Anthony] Save as... I wonder what this looks
like on a real computer now. - [Linus] I know, right? Yeah, I have no idea. - [Anthony] Yeah, 'cause
they're not seeing the real time what it's supposed to look like, you know? - [Linus] Huh. Wow, yeah I'm very curious. Of course, Nico and the
rest of the Corridor crew could have easily bought
a Macintosh on eBay. We still haven't really explained
why they needed our help. Well, okay. To get things working as
smoothly as you just saw took some doing. First, it's hard to make a video about working on a computer
without capturing the screen. And unfortunately this
device predates Apple's built-in screen recording by a fair while. In fact it's even older than QuickTime. So we had to figure out how to convert this proprietary
Apple display connector to something that we can capture. Enter this little doodad. It's a dongle that
converts Apple's connector to standard VGA. Using little dip switches
to select the monitor type, by adjusting the resistance and choosing which wires are used for which type of sync. The switches are currently
set up for a VGA monitor with separate, horizontal
and vertical sync, which happens to be perfect for hooking up to the open source scan converter. To learn more about this
incredible little gizmo, you can check out Anthony's
short circuit video. But the TLDR is this. It can take a high quality analog signal, be it RGB or component or even SCART. Is that the SCART connector right there? Nice, and then both upscale and convert it to HDMI
with virtually no delay. This gives us an extremely
sharp image directly out of the Mac, which we can then pipe through an HDMI splitter
out to the monitor and the capture box for
simultaneous real time capture. As you guys already saw
with the settings dialed in, it can look extremely good. Just like you can look
extremely good with a sick RAM or SSD scarf from lttstore.com. Of course, Corridor probably won't be getting as clean capture as ours. That's because at 640 X 480 resolution, our machine is limited to only 256 colors. I think they're probably gonna want a little more than that. And good news, it is possible. Apple boasted support
for thousands of colors. With the only catch being, that you've got to drop the
resolution to 512 X 384. (sighs) Guys, to put that in perspective that's the resolution of the
original Macintosh from 1984. So I sincerely hope those
guys like chunky pixels. Oh, on the subject of chunky pixels, get subscribed because
we're gonna get our hands on a Phillips CDI and experience
the biggest train wreck of the CD era of gaming. Finally, artists wanna focus
on art, not infrastructure. So we needed to devise a way for them to get their project files on and off of this thing. Now, opening it up and
pulling the boot SD card, and putting it in a reader on a separate computer is an option, but it can only be read in Linux once it's formatted this way. And of course, it would
require the machine to be shut down every single time. Not really ideal. Now, floppies, assuming that we could find any working ones, could work but we're limited to very small file sizes and
they're notoriously unreliable. So instead we opted to add an
ethernet controller plugged into the processor direct slot. And presto change-o no. So you can't just plug a machine like this into a modern
network and expect it to work. That would be far too simple. Old hardware like this doesn't even know what to do with modern conveniences like, auto-negotiation of link speeds. And it'll just keep
resetting over and over and over again, until we make sure that what we plug into it
is exactly what it expects. And that is 10 megabits
per second, half duplex. Thankfully though, even though our switch didn't allow us to configure it that way, on modern PC network cards,
you can still do this. So we used internet connection sharing on a companion windows
machine to get our Mac online. From there, the easiest way
to transfer files is FTP. Which we're actually
running on Anthony's machine over there and we can connect to it from the Mac using fetch. It's not exactly, it just works, but it's a whole lot better
than firing up Basilisk II, and rewriting our SD card every time we want to transfer a file. So we're calling it here. This is good enough. All that remains then is to
ship the whole entire setup down to quarter digital
and see how they fare. You know, I almost feel bad for them except that they asked
us to do this so. (laughs) Anyway, thanks to the
magic of video editing, you guys get to go forward in time to when they have already
completed the challenge, whatever that looks like. And we're gonna have that
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Corridor Digital's video. Why not check out our video on why I pay Adobe $10,000
a year for this software? Or well, I mean the the newer version that's significantly more robust.
Linus and Jake should do a "sponsor segment" battle.
About a month ago, I found out I work with a guy who helped get layers added to Photoshop. He was working with Adobe then.
I couldn’t fathom Photoshop without layers (neither could he, it would seem...), but even that was an innovation at one point!
I do find it funny that he didn't go easy on Corridor. In a teasing way.
Great videos!
Here's a slightly bonkers idea for a future video in a similar vein: Back in the '90s, there was an amateur dev kit for the PS1, sold officially by Sony, called the Net Yaroze. It allowed basically anyone to create games or interactive media for the PS1. Now, given that you're working on a Philips CDi video, you could try to create a moderately interactive experience similar to the ones found on the CDi, like a photo and video slideshow (an actual game, even a simple one, would probably be outside of the scope of a video) that embraces the abilities and technical limitations of the PS1 in an entertaining way.
These dev kits are still floating about. Not cheap, but not entirely out of reach either and you probably know someone who could lend one to you.
That was a great video!
Genuine question as I’m not on this sub often, but why do videos from Corridors channel never get posted? The video relating to this one is up but it’s not posted on the subreddit at all?
I’ve noticed it a lot, is there some rule I’m not aware of?