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greg the peanut posted:Headphone jacks on disc drives.. what was the point of them supposed to be? It took a suprisingly long time for cd player programs to switch to just reading it as data and then playing it back in software by default. Edit: Like I think the version of windows media player that came with XP didn't even play back audio cd's as data by default. It supported it, but you had to specifically enable it, and before XP windows wouldn't have had built in support for that, so not being able to hear playback from audio cds because the internal audio cable wasn't connected was a common problem. mystes fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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I think that analog connection directly from the sound card to the cd drive for redbook audio also alleviated a lot of I/O bottlenecks that would have existed at the time. Playing CD audio seems like a trivial thing now, but, doing that entirely through raw IO to a CD drive that probably didn't have DMA to a sound card that might have even been on an ISA bus as opposed to PCI was a huge overhead back then and its only a dumb rear end that didn't connect that cable -- you can be sure almost every OEM out there would have done it
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Well I learned something. I remember connecting the cable inside the case (to the audio card), but I sure as poo poo never used the headphone jack.
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you can use it as an aux out for your audio cds
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funny tech poo poo: putting a video game cd in your cd player and hearing the game soundtrack
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Jabor posted:funny tech poo poo: putting a video game cd in your cd player and hearing the game soundtrack This is a PlayStation black disc.
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its why i had the psx game n2o, the rest of the cd was just crystal method's vegas still have it on a shelf here for some reason
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leper khan posted:This is a PlayStation black disc. a lot of ps1 games had redbook audio on them.
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I remember some lovely adventure game CD that had some demo tracks of the voice actors' band on it  learned about it in another game that had the feature of automatically playing your audio CDs as background music
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Jabor posted:funny tech poo poo: putting a video game cd in your cd player and hearing the game soundtrack I'd installed Civilization II on the hard-disk drive so I didn't need the CD-ROM in the drive while playing, but if there was one in there with music tracks on it, it would play them without any checking for which disc it was. So I once accidentally played Civ II with background music from Interstate 76. It wasn't a bad experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8MElGyS7vE
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'd installed Civilization II on the hard-disk drive so I didn't need the CD-ROM in the drive while playing, but if there was one in there with music tracks on it, it would play them without any checking for which disc it was.
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Quake shareware also. SMDH if you don’t hear Odelay every time you see Q1 screenshots.
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Jabor posted:funny tech poo poo: putting a video game cd in your cd player and hearing the game soundtrack lol I remember putting the grand theft auto CD in the stereo in my mum's car also the banging quake 2 soundtrack
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:also the banging quake 2 soundtrack i was mad for a little at doom 2016's score for cribbing so much from quake 2, which was by far my favorite 'metal' game soundtrack, but in the end i warmed up to mick gordon also the interstate '76 soundtrack was, like, pivotal to developing my appreciation of funk. a good game
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rip if u had a cd player that tried to play track 1
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makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_Mode_CD audio AND data 
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the n-gage actually i had two of them
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Michaellaneous posted:the n-gage surprised there isn't a sidetalkers gangtag
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psiox posted:surprised there isn't a sidetalkers gangtag once Jeffy is in charge
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Michaellaneous posted:the n-gage Nokia 3650 krew. it could run the ngage games with just slightly less shame
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Bulgakov posted:makes me think of ahhhhh fury3
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p'zone phone
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SideTacin
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psiox posted:surprised there isn't a sidetalkers gangtag the guy playing NGAGE while inhaling sports car exhaust
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Carthag Tuek posted:p'zone phone /pizza 
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eat pepperoni, m'lord
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A friend has used Ngages for years but has never played a game on one. He has a stockpile of them because they're liable to break. He also wears a purple velvet jacket all the time so its just a thing I guess.
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Agile Vector posted:eat pepperoni, m'lord
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3D Megadoodoo posted:A friend has used Ngages for years but has never played a game on one. He has a stockpile of them because they're liable to break. strong hel looks vibes
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3D Megadoodoo posted:A friend has used Ngages for years but has never played a game on one. He has a stockpile of them because they're liable to break.
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mystes posted:Can you even still use them? I think they predated 3g. wät What does it matter if they predate 3g. They don't predate GSM.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:wät
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mystes posted:I thought it wasn't possible to use pre-3g phones anymore but maybe I'm wrong? Anyway they will stop working when carriers only support VoLTE in the near future. GSM is by far the most wide-spread tech and there's no indication that 2G is going away in countries with consumer protections and human rights.
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They've shut down 3G and reverted to 2G in Norway.
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In the US it's the opposite. AT&T shut down 2G in 2017, and T-Mobile plans to do so by the end of this year. 3G is being shut down too, AT&T by February 2022 and T-Mobile hasn't announced a date but likely will do so around the same time. The CDMA networks (Verizon and Sprint, the latter of which will just disappear in a few years due to merging with T-Mobile) are on a similar timeline for their 2G/3G shutdowns. LTE is the new baseline for cell service in the US. EDIT: Also, having 2G enabled on your phone is a bad idea since its crypto is crapto and it has no means to authenticate towers making Stingray-style attacks trivial. Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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yes wrote a song for the game homeworld
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mdk’s end credits sequence was a music video for an obscure French band
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Michaellaneous posted:the n-gage I also had an N-gage. It was actually pretty sweet... There was this release: https://archive.org/details/N-Gage_Game_Library But apparently there is no N-gage emulator? I might have even played some Pathway to Glory if it were possible without the hardware...
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I just remembered that I really loved Hyperspace Delivery Boy on........some form of PDA? I wonder what ever became of that game? e: oh turns out I was unknowingly being made John Romero’s bitch the entire time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_Delivery_Boy! double edit: wow if you’re looking for ancient weird handheld stuff this appears to be the Mecca https://www.oldhandhelds.com Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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