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Rambus RDRAM. Man intel had some great hardware bets in early 2000 between Itanium, Rambus, and Netburst.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:that's Greenwich naval college in the background what the gently caress checks out
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# ? May 21, 2021 11:50 |
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Hed posted:Rambus RDRAM. Man intel had some great hardware bets in early 2000 between Itanium, Rambus, and Netburst. love all their projected marketing charts too. why yes itanium surely will take over also lol intel is shipping it until june. hp took orders until dec 31st of last year.
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# ? May 21, 2021 15:24 |
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Hed posted:Rambus RDRAM. Man intel had some great hardware bets in early 2000 between Itanium, Rambus, and Netburst. is rambus still doing NHL sponsorships?
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# ? May 21, 2021 18:09 |
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ramdoubler https://daringfireball.net/2019/01/ram_double_engst quote:The most amazing thing, in hindsight, isn’t that compression and clever virtual memory techniques could double your memory — it’s that Mac OS was so open that something as low-level as RAM Doubler was even possible. Effectively, a Mac running RAM Doubler was running a fork of the OS — not just a subtle fork but a fork where the entire memory manager was written by a third party. well, that is one way to put it.
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# ? May 22, 2021 03:26 |
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this isn’t funny though this is great RAM Doubler ruled, Connectix was awesome, RAM Doubler and Speed Doubler were some of the best system additions for the classic Mac OS ever created
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# ? May 22, 2021 22:06 |
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bleem!
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# ? May 23, 2021 00:13 |
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whatever happened to the connetrix peeps anyway
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# ? May 23, 2021 00:13 |
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eschaton posted:this isn’t funny though this is great i liked the one they had where you could bisect your lovely control panels and figure out which one crashed on boot maybeg that was kaleidoscope? man the 90s is a long time ago
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# ? May 23, 2021 00:27 |
kitten emergency posted:whatever happened to the connetrix peeps anyway
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# ? May 23, 2021 07:07 |
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i watched this for the first time a couple of weeks ago and man it is hilarious how bad it is 160gb is deece tho
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Gentle Autist posted:it is hilarious how bad it is
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# ? May 23, 2021 08:26 |
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eschaton posted:this isn’t funny though this is great don't forget Connectix Virtual Game Station A few months ago I found my copy of it while cleaning out my basement, I had bought it just before Sony memory holed it and could never bring myself to toss out the CD
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# ? May 23, 2021 19:37 |
kitten smoothie posted:don't forget Connectix Virtual Game Station
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# ? May 23, 2021 19:50 |
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Laslow posted:available games on your mac system ducked up if true
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kitten smoothie posted:don't forget Connectix Virtual Game Station if it ever needs a good home I would be happy to buy it from you
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# ? May 23, 2021 21:52 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:i liked the one they had where you could bisect your lovely control panels and figure out which one crashed on boot that was Conflict Catcher from Casady & Greene it was written by Jeff Robbin (who also wrote SoundJam and became the VP in charge of iTunes to this day) it was a side project while Jeff worked on Copland’s NuKernel microkernel at Apple, because back then you could do such things
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# ? May 23, 2021 21:54 |
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Laslow posted:it was really drat good. if you had that cd it basically multiplied the available games on your mac system by an absurd degree. and it was also a landmark legal case when it comes to how to perform clean-room reverse engineering, as Connectix did everything by the book and kept detailed records, and that’s why Sony ultimately settled the suit and bought Virtual Game Station from them to bury (if Sony had been smart they’d have kept selling it, paying Connectix to work on it as contractors, and giving them complete access to improve it to get additional game sales and serve as the basis of future-system emulation of past systems)
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# ? May 23, 2021 21:58 |
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kitten smoothie posted:don't forget Connectix Virtual Game Station still have mine, and the mod chip hack to let you play imports and burned copies. was great.
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# ? May 23, 2021 22:29 |
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edutainment multimedia software
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Progressive JPEG posted:edutainment multimedia software Oh yeah! Browsing Wikipedia will just never be the same as popping this bad boy in the CD drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgCt2sljFEE
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# ? Jun 7, 2021 15:32 |
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remembering now how I bought a CD drive in 1994 from the microcenter mail-in catalog and it came with a CD that had "1000 applications" on it it had 1000 zip files of the weirdest 1992-1993 shareware poo poo downloaded from BBS's, and they fluffed up the count by including like six different versions of pkunzip
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# ? Jun 7, 2021 15:46 |
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new istp idea encarta mindmaze but using wikipedia
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Wild EEPROM posted:new istp idea whoa
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kitten smoothie posted:they fluffed up the count by including like six different versions of pkunzip this poo poo was so infuriating though ultimately i guess we /were/ just browsing clipart cds for binaries
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kitten smoothie posted:remembering now how I bought a CD drive in 1994 from the microcenter mail-in catalog and it came with a CD that had "1000 applications" on it magazine cover cd-roms where they were determined to fill all 650mb, so they had 15 different genealogy database programs, 30mb of usenet posts, and siterips of weird pre-dotcom websites
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# ? Jun 7, 2021 18:06 |
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Heat.net, wherein SEGA wanted to give us pretend money for playing certain video games at certain times, with a business model of ????? Also, the in retrospect somewhat ambitious game 106, which wanted to be able to handle a million users (not necessarily simultaneously). And the mechanism of griefing by dropping a ton of garbage tier items into a user's plot of land, which just murdered framerate since each dropped item was animated, to the point that you might need to get a GM to clean up your plot for you. And the fact that each player rode a hoverboard around the map which is a pretty interesting way to deal with walking animations and lag. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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The dichotomy of dialup users and broadband users in games, wherein dialup users had to lead their targets by their ping times in FPS, and broadband users had to deal with dialup users just warping places and poo poo.
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My young, naive lack of understanding of the difference between a filetable and the actual contents of a floppy disk, and the fact that the operating system says that the file exists when the disk is physically damaged, leading to disappointment as it turns out I lost my copy of Carrier Command to sand, feet, and a messy bedroom, far before I realized it.
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VRML
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MAG, the massive action game
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The Lawnmower Man
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waffleimages
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imagesocket loving imagesocket
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# ? Jun 10, 2021 10:36 |
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more like imageSUCKit
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eschaton posted:imagesocket oh my god
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thanks imageshack
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Captain Foo posted:thanks imageshack thx kthx.cx
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