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Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe

Imagined posted:

I've always thought HAM radio guys were the king of the nerds in the old traditional pre-internet heirarchy, above Linux guys, model train guys, and LARPers, before Tumblr added people like Bronies to the list.

I don't know how it is in the states but in my province you can apply for a custom license plate with your ham callsign on it, I've seen a few running around

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Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost

mobby_6kl posted:

This was just the first screenshot I grabbed off GIS so who knows why it's dithered. But back then Unreal (and many other games) could run in 16-bit color mode which was IIRC the only format some Voodoo cards supported and was faster than 32-bit on some others. So maybe that's it.

The story with the skyline is that there was a limit on how large of an image you could load into the game - either in resolution or in size (as in bytes), I'm not sure which. So the solution to still have a realistic-looking NYC skyline was to crop and then mirror the real skyline by reusing the same image. Here's another screenshot, it looks like there's a seam to the left of the statue of liberty, and then everything further left is repeated on the right side of the previous screenshot too, so WTC just got cropped somewhere. I tried to google for the original source but couldn't quickly find it. Anyway, they realized it and made up an in-game explanation that it was blown up by terrorists.



Anyway, nowadays you can load huge jpegs right into the GPU memory and it works fine.

I never ran 3dfx cards because they were garbage wrapped in marketing, much like Bose. I guess the card I had when I first played the game was 16-bit (or I had the wrong settings). I distinctly it being better when I played the game again a few years later, and it was so much prettier without all that mud-colored junk over the image.

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

This is the coolest thing you can do as a HAM radio guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpZqaVwaIYk

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Nocheez posted:

I never ran 3dfx cards because they were garbage wrapped in marketing.

Except for the part where Voodoo and Voodoo2 chipsets dominated the 1st and 2nd PC 3D graphics card generations, and were better than any of their competitors only by support, speed, and performance.

xergm
Sep 8, 2009

The Moon is for Sissies!

Phy posted:

I don't know how it is in the states but in my province you can apply for a custom license plate with your ham callsign on it, I've seen a few running around

It's the same in the US. How else would I tell other drivers what a giant nerd I am?

If ham radio chat stirred any interest, we actually have a goon thread in DIY.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2827275

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
HAM got a bit more interesting with satellite repeaters accessible by amateur operators, but it's largely still just boomers talking boring bullshit.
I listen with a smal Baofeng to local repeaters and it's bearable, but definitely full of people that fit the Unabomber profile. I don't have a license and don't really want one. I have no desire to ever hit the Tx button with these people, but listening is alright sometimes

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

wa27 posted:

This is the coolest thing you can do as a HAM radio guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpZqaVwaIYk

LOL! He contacts the space station and both of them start talking about equipment. Love this.

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost

Der Kyhe posted:

Except for the part where Voodoo and Voodoo2 chipsets dominated the 1st and 2nd PC 3D graphics card generations, and were better than any of their competitors only by support, speed, and performance.

Except they weren't. The RivaTNT and TNT2 were knocking on the door and beating the Voodoo in some aspects. I remember showing up to my first LAN party with a TNT2 and blowing away everyone who was still using Voodoo cards.

Here's a fun blast from the past:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia,87.html

Dr_Strangelove
Dec 16, 2003

Mein Fuhrer! THEY WON!

Jerry Cotton posted:

Well sure. Until they get activated. Then it's "detonate your relatives and fly to Petrograd". And the weather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=altSJMUmmHw

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Nocheez posted:

Nah, just watch this guy's videos instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNN8w2XlwY

Going to repeat for a new page that this is absolutely a pro click.

Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrl2FUWhEE

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost

Manuel Calavera posted:

Going to repeat for a new page that this is absolutely a pro click.

I'm overjoyed that you guys are loving it! Me wife even watches them with me, the host is a natural.

verbal enema
May 23, 2009

onlymarfans.com
i enjoy when people are in hot air balloon or that wierd trike plane

those fools cause so much chaos lol


also wtf is up with everyone's mics in those vids?

less than three
Aug 9, 2007



Fallen Rib

Manuel Calavera posted:

Going to repeat for a new page that this is absolutely a pro click.

Thank you, I missed this the first time but it has me in stitches.

Peanut Butler
Jul 25, 2003



mobby_6kl posted:

Anyway, they realized it and made up an in-game explanation that it was blown up by terrorists.

...did Ion Storm accidentally activate the lathe of heaven through a technical kludge?

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

Posting on page 666 (it was hard to find the right patches for this!):

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
Oh poo poo, HAIL SATIN

I had a friend in HS disown me cause I played doom on the sega 32x...he was a really confused christian dude and felt like me owning this game was going to ruin his life as well. He said "get rid of this game or we can't be friends." I laughed in his face!

worth it!
Also had it on PC lol.

Peanut Butler
Jul 25, 2003



LifeSunDeath posted:

Oh poo poo, HAIL SATIN

I had a friend in HS disown me cause I played doom on the sega 32x...he was a really confused christian dude and felt like me owning this game was going to ruin his life as well. He said "get rid of this game or we can't be friends." I laughed in his face!

worth it!
Also had it on PC lol.

I had a Catholic friend growing up whose dad was all about playing the demon murder simulator

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.

LifeSunDeath posted:

Oh poo poo, HAIL SATIN

I had a friend in HS disown me cause I played doom on the sega 32x...he was a really confused christian dude and felt like me owning this game was going to ruin his life as well. He said "get rid of this game or we can't be friends." I laughed in his face!

worth it!
Also had it on PC lol.

Should’ve played Super 3D Noah’s Ark.



(It’s a reskin of Wolfenstein 3D.)

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Nocheez posted:

I'm overjoyed that you guys are loving it! Me wife even watches them with me, the host is a natural.

Are the others just as good? Does he still do these videos? Because if so then a sub is in order because god drat was that quality. Rip Bitchass J-3 Cub.

e - also hail gay Satan, Seitan, both of whomst have said trans rights.

Mercedes Colomar has a new favorite as of 03:02 on Feb 11, 2020

less than three
Aug 9, 2007



Fallen Rib

Manuel Calavera posted:

Are the others just as good? Does he still do these videos? Because if so then a sub is in order because god drat was that quality. Rip Bitchass J-3 Cub.

e - also hail gay Satan, Seitan, both of whomst have said trans rights.

I was sent this one and it's good as well, so I'm probably going to binge on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fajm2QQ_Wck

SCheeseman
Apr 23, 2003

Platystemon posted:

Should’ve played Super 3D Noah’s Ark.



(It’s a reskin of Wolfenstein 3D.)

The irony is that Doom and Wolfenstein are some of the most righteous video games ever made being entirely about murdering masses of demons and nazis, while Noah's Ark is about kidnapping and drugging irate animals.

Rev. Bleech_
Oct 19, 2004

~OKAY, WE'LL DRINK TO OUR LEGS!~

Code Jockey posted:

This is extremely Fallout

I want to tag Science and dump all my points into it, and use that skill on this device to trigger a nuclear explosion and end the game

This past weekend I went nosing around an abandoned Voice of America transmitting site and all I could think about was the Fallout energy there.
To justify that interjection, enjoy these photos of old-rear end presumably-obsolete microwave equipment slowly rusting away in an auxiliary shed since 2006 or earlier.




hackin and whackin and choppin' that meat

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


Bethany, Ohio?

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011
my most obsolete demonic technology was my dick

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
Ham radio havers should throw off the "law" and start broadcasting tv, music, and internet to whoever wants it

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

SniperWoreConverse posted:

Ham radio havers should throw off the "law" and start broadcasting tv, music, and internet to whoever wants it

I'm pretty sure the other ham radio guys would triangulate your position and then call the FCC.

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:
Having multiple transmitters in different places and keep switching it up / driving them around.

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

taqueso posted:

Having multiple transmitters in different places and keep switching it up / driving them around.

Yeah...



(I don't know if you can do mobile ham radio without that sort of craziness, but I did a Google image search for "car with ham radio antenna" and got what I was expecting)

Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


Buttcoin purse posted:

Yeah...



(I don't know if you can do mobile ham radio without that sort of craziness, but I did a Google image search for "car with ham radio antenna" and got what I was expecting)

That's like, a full power antenna. You don't need that unless you live like forever away from the closest repeater.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.
These days, someone could use the Internet to triangulate a mobile transmitter in real time.

Hams might not have such a system on standby, but step on enough toes and they will find you.

Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


I doubt Hams would appreciate you hogging their bandwidth with internet noises anyway.

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK
Imaging having to goatse hams by just describing the picture in detail.

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


Weatherman posted:

Imaging having to goatse hams by just describing the picture in detail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television

quote:

Slow Scan television (SSTV) is a picture transmission method used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures via radio in monochrome or color.

"Television" is a misnomer, the one time I saw some crusty ham radio guy doing it, it was very akin to the experience of downloading an ancient porn GIF at dialup speed. But it would be entirely possible to goatse hams on the other side of the globe.

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

Kwyndig posted:

I doubt Hams would appreciate you hogging their bandwidth with internet noises anyway.

But KA9Q NOS is a thing? I guess the point of it was to be able to do FTP or something over ham radio, not to route between radio and the public Internet?

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
https://i.imgur.com/oGYH7Pq.mp4

Shut up Meg
Jan 8, 2019

You're safe here.

Extremely cool.

I also suspect that if you were to put it in a floppy drive, it would get utterly stuck.

Spy_Guy
Feb 19, 2013

Stoatbringer posted:

If can't output 5318008 it's no use to anyone.


Here's my cue.

Rev. Bleech_
Oct 19, 2004

~OKAY, WE'LL DRINK TO OUR LEGS!~

Known Lecher posted:

Bethany, Ohio?

no, the Greenville NC (even though all three sites are like 20 miles away) site. One of them is now an ECU lab, this one is now game land, only the third is still operating

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Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



Platystemon posted:

Hams might not have such a system on standby, but step on enough toes and they will find you.

Stepping on that many toes takes longer than you'd think given the prevalence of diabetes in ham radio.

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