Live streaming has become a very popular creative outlet for a number of people both young and old. It is a great way to share your passions with others and engage in a niche community. In the early days of Ninjalane and Hardware Asylum Dennis would do livestreams of his overclocking adventures to engage with readers and host hardware giveaways. Regular creators could livestream just about anything and expect to get some engagement. These days the Twitch landscape is dominated with VTubers and streamers with large assets for fun, profit and the exploitation of the platform’s largest demographic. While this is how streamers tend to attract viewers, the platform does reward creativity and showing people things they wouldn’t normally see.
Dennis has been planning a new game series that he called “Real Retro Gaming” where he will play Retro PC games on real retro hardware. Of course, you can play just about any game on a modern PC but, you often lose something in the translation with the experience being less than genuine.
The trouble is, streaming to Twitch of YouTube is easy for a modern PC and virtually impossible for anything not built in the past 10 years, much less computer hardware from the early 1990’s. In this episode the duo talks about the process required to stream real retro hardware on twitch using a plethora of components from video scalers, to audio adapters, capture cards and the HS14 HDMI Splitter from SilverStone.
Related Links
SilverStone HS14 4k HDMI Splitter Review
Elgato 4k Pro Capture Card
Episode 181 featured music:
Little People - Start Shootin' (http://www.littlepeoplemusic.com/)
