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Thankfully the old-rear end computers in the library back then didn't even have sound cards, so I never had to deal with listening to the sounds this thing makes. Silence is definitely preferable.
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Nov 27, 2013 00:26
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Let's Play Dos 6.2!!! yessssssss next up config.sys and autoexec.bat
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Nov 27, 2013 00:27
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Oh my god you're playing the whole thing using the PC speaker... the PC speaker is basically just designed to make beeps when something goes wrong or your bios doesn't boot! It can only play one note at a time... soundblaster guys!!!! get Creative! Bet you never heard an AWE32... JFairfax fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Nov 27, 2013 00:37
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JFairfax posted:Let's Play Dos 6.2!!! yessssssss DosBox is easy, you don't have to manage conventional memory, HMA, and choose between EMS or XMS while trying to run a CD-ROM game with your soundcard and mouse enabled. Did the FILES= and BUFFER= lines really ever do anything?
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Nov 27, 2013 00:48
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Yeah, you guys need to pick Sound Blaster Pro - hit the spacebar to move the selection in the setup menus. It sounds pretty nice running in my DOSBox, and Mario has voice clips and everything.
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Oh my god yes, I never had this game but this is such a piece of poo poo. ...but this is still better than Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, gently caress that bitch who doesn't exist  I cannot wait for when you guys play Mario is Missing. Before anyone whines about it because it was on the NES, it came out on the PC FIRST, then got backported down to SNES and NES so it's gonna pop up a bit later in the series if these guys ever plan to do it. I really hope that if you do, you play the PC version. It has everything  Also...there's a loving Typing of the Dead: Overkill?! ...are you loving serious? That's so awesome, holy poo poo this game AND IT HAS SHAKESPEARE DLC WHAT But you have to change that audio thing to something other than PC Speaker in future updates okay? Never pick PC Speaker, that's like the cheapest basic thing. Also did anyone notice that the sound made when Kyle clicked on the menu options sounded EXACTLY like the pause sound from Super Mario 64? FinalGamer fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Nov 27, 2013 01:09
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okay, watching you use DOSBox mounting actually made me cringe. the problem you were having in entering the mounting command is that any folder name longer then 8 charters requires a ~1 after the 6th letter. so Documents would be docume~1. ' are fine however.
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Nov 27, 2013 01:32
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Why the semicolon?!
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Nov 27, 2013 01:46
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I don't think I've ever heard such a computerized cacophony, and I've got a CD with a track that consists of 300 baud modem noises. Ouch. Keith is wrong, by the way; it is "New York" City. When the English got the colony from the Dutch they renamed the whole area New York after the Duke of York (who would later become James II). The city that grew up on Manhattan Island and environs was then named after the colony of New York. Also, English didn't drop the ball on spelling zucchini. We imported it straight from Italian, so blame them.
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Nov 27, 2013 02:13
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I learned that two spaces after a period is apparently now wrong just two months ago. That was all I was taught through Highschool. I still instinctively added two spaces after every period in this post, but the forums automatically cut it down to one.
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Pneub posted:I learned that two spaces after a period is apparently now wrong just two months ago. That was all I was taught through Highschool. I still instinctively added two spaces after every period in this post, but the forums automatically cut it down to one. If it makes you feel any better, nobody makes rules for English and people who genuinely get worked up over stuff like whether there should be one or two spaces after a full stop are silly. If you want to put two spaces in, just do it.
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Did you guys realize which sound card you should be using before you finished or not?Reveilled posted:If it makes you feel any better, nobody makes rules for English and people who genuinely get worked up over stuff like whether there should be one or two spaces after a full stop are silly. If you want to put two spaces in, just do it. As far as I can tell, the only time the 2 spaces are required is when you're writing an official memorandum; any other time, it's just courtesy when typing in small print so sentences don't run together. Eyre Kneed fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Nov 27, 2013 02:51
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Reveilled posted:If it makes you feel any better, nobody makes rules for English and people who genuinely get worked up over stuff like whether there should be one or two spaces after a full stop are silly. If you want to put two spaces in, just do it. gently caress English.
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This one space/two space thing has been bugging me, so I decided to look it up. Currently, the APA style guide says to use two spaces after periods that end a sentence and one space after others, Chicago Manual of Style prefers one, and MLA says it's up to personal choice. The main argument in favor of two spaces is readability, but that's more a matter of what you're used to. Looking up the history, the two spaces thing began as an artifact of how books were printed before the end of the 19th century, when rigid spacing requirements caused extra space between sentences. As mechanical devices like Linotype machines and typewriters (both of which allow more variety in spacing than older printing systems) became popular two spaces began to fall out of use, at least partly because one space is faster and easier to type than two spaces. With computerized printing there are very few restrictions on spacing after sentences (and between words, letters, and lines, as well) and one space is taking over as the norm. Finally, there was this exchange on the CMS FAQ: quote:Q. About two spaces after a period. As a US Marine, I know that what’s right is right and you are wrong. I declare it once and for all aesthetically more appealing to have two spaces after a period. If you refuse to alter your bullheadedness, I will petition the commandant to allow me to take one Marine detail to conquer your organization and impose my rule. Thou shalt place two spaces after a period. Period. Semper Fidelis. If there's a better argument in favor of one space, I don't know what it is. Golden_Zucchini fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Nov 27, 2013 03:36
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I'm a two spacer too
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Nov 27, 2013 03:40
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Was this sponsored by Raisin Bran?
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Mario Teaches Typing, now part of this complete breakfast.
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all the art is the antithesis of mario style art.
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When you're a kid writing a paper in school, sometimes you get desperate for ways to pad out space.
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Golden_Zucchini posted:Finally, there was this exchange on the CMS FAQ: A better argument in favor of one spacers being pedantic sissies, you mean? (I was taught the double-space style and still kinda prefer it, but I actually don't type that way anymore. I blame HTML, really.)
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praise the ; \o/
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Shintaro posted:A better argument in favor of one spacers being pedantic sissies, you mean? I was taught one space so two space never sat well with me, but whatever. To each his own, I suppose. Anyway, I almost forgot in all the spacing chat, but Mario moving through the bonus levels reminds me of how I always imagined the black guys in this move: 
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Nov 27, 2013 05:15
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"Stop dot" made me laugh so hard I had to pause the video.
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Sound Blaster, no pro. The reason they don't want you to type words is that typists were originally working off of written words, so you can type faster if you type letter by letter. edit: I really need to not live comment this. 1 word is 13 characters including spaces. edit2: taking a typing class in 1994, I had the 2 spaces after a period drilled in to me so hard that it's the only way I can type now. Also, double spacing on a Blackberry adds a period to the end of the last word automatically. So live with my double spaces I guess? Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Nov 27, 2013 05:55
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I could have sworn this game sounded much better than this.
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Man this was the only Mario game in my house for a long time (we were a Sega family before I bought a Nintendo 64 years later) but it was on a Mac so watching you fiddle with DOS both makes me go "heh, you plebs have to do it the hard way  " and also "man the pc speaker kinda has some charm but at the same time you're missing out on some awesome faux-Italian accents"
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QWERTY was made to speed people up, not slow them down. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/221/was-the-qwerty-keyboard-purposely-designed-to-slow-typists
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Patter Song posted:I could have sworn this game sounded much better than this. It absolutely did. This happens all the time with any kind of computer emulation, these things always wind up sounding like this even though they sounded perfectly fine when played on the proper platform.
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Toad's looking practically nightmarish on that title screen. I think he might be taxidermied.   e: if they kept the music output selection on pc speaker, it's no mystery that the game sounds like poo poo. pc speaker is the worst choice on that list.
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Nov 27, 2013 07:46
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I am so glad you're playing this game. There's just one more that you need to cover, and then my childhood is complete.
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Gimbal lock posted:Toad's looking practically nightmarish on that title screen. I think he might be taxidermied. Every character looks nightmarish. They all look like strangers wearing their faces as masks.
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From the looks of it, I'm assuming Nintendo gave them the license but zero art assets (or help regarding thereof). They all look like the sketchy versions of Disney (etc) characters you see painted on small childcare businesses.
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This is literally unwatchable because of the sound effects.
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Nov 27, 2013 12:43
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Wow I do not remember mario teaches typing sounding so horrid.
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Gimbal lock posted:Toad's looking practically nightmarish on that title screen. I think he might be taxidermied. I knew I had seen that face before! 
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Patter Song posted:I could have sworn this game sounded much better than this. It did. But if they pressed enter to get out of the menu without changing anything instead of spacebar to set a better music card, you get the pc speaker crap. Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Why the semicolon?! If you put your fingers on the default positions for ten-finger typing, they are on asdf jkl; for regular US keyboards. So that's the letters (and semicolon) they usually start training with. Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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