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Doc Morbid posted:edit: about the Neo Geo AES: The UniBIOS is fantastic.
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Humphreys posted:The UniBIOS is fantastic. edit: Maybe I should say something about the Neo Geo MVS arcade system for those of you who aren't massive retro gaming spergs. MVS stands for Multi Video System and is an arcade board that supports more than one game at once (up to six, I believe), which made it a cost-effective system for arcade owners. No need to get a new purpose-built cabinet for a new game, just buy the cartridges and replace the games as you please! You guys in the US had these really cool red MVS cabinets, but here in Finland I only ever saw Neo Geo boards plugged into generic brown wooden cabinets (as a kid I always wondered what the deal with those was). These days, you can get consolized MVS boards that you can plug into your TV and use like a regular games console:  That is my consolized MV4FT. All the games are active, the system cycles between their attract modes and you just press start when it's at the game you want to play. MVS cabinets had a button to switch games, but as far as I can tell there isn't one on this thing. You do have the DIP switches on the side, though, so you can mess with the game settings however you please, change regions (blood was censored in the US region games) and that kind of thing. DMorbid has a new favorite as of 09:14 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Jul 12, 2015 07:45
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Doc Morbid posted:I bought one recently but haven't installed it yet. I hear it's supposed to be easy to install, but I've never soldered a thing in my life so I need to get some practice before taking a soldering iron to a Neo Geo (or outsource the job to someone who is more competent at that kind of stuff). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73uG5upHTpY skip to 7:00 For game switching check this PDF http://www.hardmvs.com/manuals/Jamma2NeoGeo4SlotPinout.pdf EDIT: pins d and 26 for select up and select down. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 08:09 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Jul 12, 2015 08:05
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Doc Morbid posted:(US region games generally had blood removed from them) This took way, way too long to parse and ended with me thinking of Neo Geo MVS carts hanging upside down while a butcher wearing a yarmulke sliced them near the top to rapidly drain the blood.
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Jul 12, 2015 08:55
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quote is not edit Anyway, that part should be a bit clearer now. I choose to believe what you posted actually is how they censored the US versions, though. DMorbid has a new favorite as of 09:18 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Jul 12, 2015 09:13
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Non Serviam posted:My job involves writing pretty much most of the time, and yet I've never felt that my keyboards at the office were unfit for the task (except in regards to some wrist position). The keyboards in question have no tactile feedback at all. Even a cheap membrane keyboard usually have a "click", but these are like pushing on a sponge.
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Jul 12, 2015 09:54
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Pushing on a sponge is nice. *foof* (or *squish* if it's wet) 
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Jul 12, 2015 10:02
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Jerry Cotton posted:(or *squish* if it's wet)
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Jul 12, 2015 10:50
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Non Serviam posted:My job involves writing pretty much most of the time, and yet I've never felt that my keyboards at the office were unfit for the task (except in regards to some wrist position). The main difference from a cheap membrane keyboard is that you don't get dud presses - if the key makes it down, it's registered. That's less of an issue on a good membrane keyboard, of course. The other thing is that presses on something like a model M are registered when it clicks, about two thirds down. You can learn to type without ever bottoming out keys on it, which is kind of pleasant. Of course, I typed this by hammering my thumbs into a glass screen with no tactile feedback at all, so you definitely don't need any specific mechanics to produce text.
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Jul 12, 2015 16:15
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Stumbled across some artifacts while cleaning out an old cabinet at my parent's house:
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Jul 12, 2015 16:22
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Does anyone else remember the Casablanca video editing appliances? I took a video production class in middle school in like 1999 and we used it for all of our editing, and adding transitions and effects. Star wipe after star wipe. It took loving FOREVER to render anything though. I think it ran on on Amiga OS? Anyway here's a video of some guy from the Netherlands messing around with one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZpf-9SoSzk
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Jul 12, 2015 16:56
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Root Bear posted:Stumbled across some artifacts while cleaning out an old cabinet at my parent's house: I have the PC XT my Dad bought when I was in high school in 1983 or 1984 along with these cool hardbound manuals. He was getting rid of stuff and asked me if I wanted it. It still works! I had kept my 5 1/4" floppies with games and documents and they still load. I wonder if there is anything I could actually do with it. Amazing how heavy and solidly built everything is.
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Jul 13, 2015 03:18
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Toast Museum posted:This must vary by franchise/region/whatever. The Goodwills here have uniform pricing by category. I think it's $4 for men's button-ups. It's the smaller local thrift shops that get cute with the prices. Around here it's on a store to store basis, pretty much. There's a Goodwill near me that that absolutely gouges their prices, and they do stuff like try to sell a lovely coffee maker for over $20.
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Jul 13, 2015 04:02
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Goodwill here started gouging on jerseys. Why yes, I'm sure someone will totally pay $20 for that Greg Lloyd Logo 7 Steelers jersey with half the screen printing scraped off.
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Jul 13, 2015 04:37
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There's not many deals to be had at any thrift stores anymore. That whole thing seems to have bled over into the yard sale world too. I used to be able to find all sorts of cool outdated tech at yard sales for next to nothing. Books, records, furniture and all sorts of other poo poo too. Seems like now all the yard sales I see aren't people just trying to make a buck or two while cleaning out the basement. Its professional yard salesmen that set up shop every weekend with all the poo poo they scooped up at other yard sales and marked up a few hundred percent.
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Jul 13, 2015 04:46
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Before there was a card swipe machine at every register, there was this: I haven't seen one of these in years. moller posted:Goodwill specifically but also thrift stores in general have gotten much better about making sure that (non-clothing) items of any value never reach their stores. In the case of goodwill the items go directly to ebay and sell for going ebay rates. So that explains why I can't ever find any decent electronics at Goodwill, aside from old CRT TVs marked at twice their worth, overpriced stereo systems with missing components and VCRs likely on their last legs. The last good thrift store finds I ran across were several Pentium 2 and Pentium 3 Dell Dimension PCs about a decade ago.
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Jul 13, 2015 06:09
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Before there was a card swipe machine at every register, there was this: And their unfuckwithable name: The Knucklebuster. That particular one looks a bit weak to knuck bustles tho
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Jul 13, 2015 07:29
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Before there was a card swipe machine at every register, there was this: My therapy office still uses this thing, it's great making a payment via card and then having the secretary lose the carbon paper behind her computer.
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Jul 13, 2015 07:36
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Before there was a card swipe machine at every register, there was this: At least in the UK, cheques are no longer a guaranteed means of payment since 30 June 2011.
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Jul 13, 2015 08:09
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Kerbtree posted:At least in the UK, cheques are no longer a guaranteed means of payment since 30 June 2011. That's cool, but that's a credit-card copying doohickey and has nothing to do with cheques.
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Jul 13, 2015 08:24
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Are those PCI certified?  Cheques belong in this thread though, for everywhere in the world except north america it seems. Over here you haven't been able to buy a chequebook for decades. You can cash international cheques at the bank but they will charge you an arm and a leg for it.
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Jul 13, 2015 10:24
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Before there was a card swipe machine at every register, there was this: 1) Did anyone other than Bartizan actually make those? That's the only brand I ever really noticed. 2) They're going to be not just obsolete but useless soon, now that they're heading toward financial account cards with the information screened or sublimated under the protective layer, rather than embossed.
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Jul 13, 2015 11:00
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I've seen a few credit cards without any embossed stuff already.
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Jul 13, 2015 11:09
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Before there was a card swipe machine at every register, there was this: Per SOP, every store in my company has to have one of these, including the one we opened up just this February. I've never seen anybody use it, I've worked in a store that just threw it the gently caress out because who cares, and my current store doesn't even have the carbon tickets you're supposed to use with them so it's completely useless. Not to mention- Sir Unimaginative posted:2) They're going to be not just obsolete but useless soon, now that they're heading toward financial account cards with the information screened or sublimated under the protective layer, rather than embossed. I see a lot of cards do this. My girlfriend's debit card is smooth plastic with the numbers printed on the back. Even if we had the stupid tickets these things have been nothing more than awkwardly-shaped dust collectors for a decade or more. Hell, we have cashiers who were born after the last time I remember seeing these things in action! I've had to explain to them what it even was and why someone would need it, and these are kids in college.
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Jul 13, 2015 11:13
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And I thought that having to swipe and sign was archaic, I didn't know anyone still had those things
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Jul 13, 2015 13:30
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Before there was a card swipe machine at every register, there was this:
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Jul 13, 2015 16:11
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Tubesock Holocaust was probably reading the Schadenfreude thread, where a story showed up about a guy freaking out and pulling a gun on a restaurant manager because the credit-card reader was down and the manager wouldn't let him leave. People in the thread started asking why the restaurant didn't have an imprinter. e: whoops, Schadenfreude, not STDH. Here's the post: Merijn posted:r/legaladvice is a constant source of schadenfreude. SneezeOfTheDecade has a new favorite as of 16:17 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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Jul 13, 2015 16:12
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Johnny Aztec posted:Okay, then I guess he can sit an wallow in self pity over not having a model M. Rather than try to do something about it. Yeah, sure, whatever. You think I'm just whining and haven't been actively looking for several years now? Working Model M keyboards sell for $50-$70 on ebay, and everyone (including e-waste collection facilities and thrift stores) know it, and if they're not just sticking it in ebay themselves then they're asking that $50-$70 price anyways. Which is bullshit for a keyboard, I don't care how fancy it is or how much I want one.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:21
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Sorry you don't get one.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:27
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Before smartphones were ubiquitous (with credit card apps), those little card-imprinters were very popular at street fairs and other locations where vendors had temporary booths set up. It was that or take cash only, or trust your customers enough to accept their checks. I also saw a store use one in the last few years when the power was out but I wanted to buy stuff anyway. Lucky they had one. Some vendors would just copy all the info down by hand, but those things made it much faster.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:28
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The last time I used one of those imprint captures was when our POS went down during a storm, back when I worked at a Circuit City. Not only did we have to do manual imprints but we had to bust out some ancient cards to hand write receipts.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:36
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Before there was a card swipe machine at every register, there was this: About two years ago, I stopped at a Wendy's drive-thru on the way home to grab a quick bite to eat, and when I pulled up to the window, the woman behind the window said the card and payment system was down and handed me one of these. It was actually really loving cool to still see one of these used as a backup means of payment should [SOME GIZMO] take a poo poo at an inopportune time. Sliding that thing and hearing the "  " sound really took me back and made me feel old at the same time.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:45
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Stick Insect posted:And as a result, embossed letters and numbers are also starting to disappear from cards. My credit card still has them, my debit card doesn't. What happens when you call the 1-800 number on the back of the card to get some help with something and the robot asks you to input your account number?
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Jul 13, 2015 16:48
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Phanatic posted:What happens when you call the 1-800 number on the back of the card to get some help with something and the robot asks you to input your account number? I think the numbers are still there, they're just printed directly on the card instead of being raised.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:51
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Phanatic posted:What happens when you call the 1-800 number on the back of the card to get some help with something and the robot asks you to input your account number? Sir Unimaginative posted:2) They're going to be not just obsolete but useless soon, now that they're heading toward financial account cards with the information screened or sublimated under the protective layer, rather than embossed.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:52
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Phanatic posted:What happens when you call the 1-800 number on the back of the card to get some help with something and the robot asks you to input your account number? How does not having the numbers embossed stop you from inputting your account number? They're still printed on the card.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:53
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rndmnmbr posted:Yeah, sure, whatever. You think I'm just whining and haven't been actively looking for several years now? Working Model M keyboards sell for $50-$70 on ebay, and everyone (including e-waste collection facilities and thrift stores) know it, and if they're not just sticking it in ebay themselves then they're asking that $50-$70 price anyways. Which is bullshit for a keyboard, I don't care how fancy it is or how much I want one. No, we know you're just whining because a new mechanical keyboard's price range begins at $50 assuming you can find it on sale. It's cool that you decided that more than $20 is a bullshit price for a keyboard, but the market has decided otherwise. And what do you value your time at, considering you've been at this for years?
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Jul 13, 2015 17:04
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flosofl posted:How does not having the numbers embossed stop you from inputting your account number? They're still printed on the card. Yeah but what if you're blind?
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Jul 13, 2015 17:14
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In Australia the numbers embossed on your debit card (normal savings/transaction account), are useless anyway. Those numbers aren't your account number, and that card is useless unless a swipe terminal is working for EFTPOS, (or you go to an ATM or bank branch and use there terminal at the teller). Those old mechanical/carbon things are still kept as a back up for credit cards (where the embossed numbers actually mean something). Businesses here still use cheques as well, also old aged pensioners sometimes use them for bills. We can use electronic everything, personal online funds transfers from savings, smart phones, paypass and all new tech. But old tech still remains as well, just like faxes. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 17:43 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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In America your debit card is almost always indistinguishable from a credit card - not just in the sense of "they work the same way" but as in "your bank issues you a Visa debit card that says VISA on it and looks and works just like a credit card on credit card machines, except the money comes directly out of your account instead of you paying it off later." Or you can get an actual credit card through your bank, which does have a line of credit, but shows up as simply another account on your bank website, and you can set it to automatically pay it off in full every month ... The point is, they're functionally identical.
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