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i remember getting into the hauppage hardware mpeg-2 encoder boards so that i could run my own lunix PVR setup with mythtv it was kind of cool but undoubtedly the jankiest linux experience i've ever had, which for me is a whole lot linux snipe 
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i had to get a capture card maybe 8-10 years ago to digitise some camera tapes for my family. the software installed itself to load at startup, and every time it opened it pegged the CPU at 100% for 10 minutes while it scanned for channels, and the PC would just lock up for ~30 seconds every time you pressed a button on the IR remote
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that sadly sounds about right. i used to use a pile of open source alternatives to record/watch tv because the bundled software would occasionally decide it couldn't find my tuner and it never found a channel lineup they were cryptic and obtuse, but they wouldn't strangle my system for resources so it was a fair trade. i also had a set of scripts for virtualdub, eventually, to clean up noisy analog recordings that was pretty great until digital tuners were affordable
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Agile Vector posted:the first upgrade i bought after starting college was the cheapest tuner i could find then started recording shows off the campus cable package ah, a fellow cool college dude! I think I still have some rips of the Critic from before dvds came out and some random stuff from Conan O’Brien, things like that. I need to make sure that stuff is still safe…
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The Leck posted:ah, a fellow cool college dude! I think I still have some rips of the Critic from before dvds came out and some random stuff from Conan O’Brien, things like that. I need to make sure that stuff is still safe…  nice! i had mission hill rips and a ton of sci-fi channel b movies that i'd snag when they aired as late night filler. mission hill's second go on adult swim later was handy since i'd gotten my setup just so by thenfor mission hill, i kept them after the dvds because they released without the licensed music until some fans merged the tracks
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it also committed the unforgivable UI sin of trying to make the software look like a piece of real AV equipment, so it was all simulated dials, rotary switches, and tiny status LEDs love to chose menu options by clicking and holding on an unlabelled dial and then dragging the mouse left and right to move a selection bar vertically next to some text labels Sweevo fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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psiox posted:i remember getting into the hauppage hardware mpeg-2 encoder boards so that i could run my own lunix PVR setup with mythtv you won't be needing any of this hardware with linux. none of it has drivers
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akadajet posted:you won't be needing any of this hardware with linux. none of it has drivers linux is the only os on which my 20+ year old capture card actually still works, because there were never official windows drivers for it beyond win98 it's a bt848 card that dumps raw frames without forcing things through a hardware encoder like modern capture devices, so it's still great for things like digitizing old vhs tapes
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My first real capture card was an avermedia pcmcia express (or 2? i forget) card it was so fuckin rad to open winamp and watch broadcast the price is right on my laptop, or tune in to the local classic rock station over fm nostalgia for the days of analog broadcasts
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The_Franz posted:it's a bt848 card ohh man that takes me back
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cyberman
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rotor posted:cyberman holy moly Beeftweeter posted:ohh man that takes me back
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Beeftweeter posted:holy moly i literally owned one
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guess what motivated me to buy this $100+ peripheral when i was still broke af
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answer: I got insanely owned at Descent during a LAN party
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lmao really need to get overload next time it's on sale but imo nothing will ever touch descent 2 for an incredibly sick soundtrack (also i kinda liked what little i remember of the story)
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rotor posted:i literally owned one so did i, i won it as a door prize at a software expo remember those? lol
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if there were a descent 2 level pack for overload i would buy it in a heartbeat. also if it had the original weapons. in the game there's something that is obviously a laser, a plasma cannon, a smart missile, etc but i want the actual set. gimme the omega cannon and earthshaker missile i still have my old original descent 2 CD somewhere, with a scratcher robot on it. it plays the soundtrack in a CD player. remember when games did that? rad Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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Sagebrush posted:if there were a descent 2 level pack for overload i would buy it in a heartbeat. DO NOT PLAY TRACK 1
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some dreamcast games had a little message if you popped it in a cd player. like i remember sonic adventure had sonic telling me not to do what i had already done, followed by extremely loud bits yelling at me for my intransigence  iirc there were some wallpapers and maybe a screensaver too
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Beeftweeter posted:DO NOT PLAY TRACK 1 but that was a great merzbow track
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Sweevo posted:i had to get a capture card maybe 8-10 years ago to digitise some camera tapes for my family. the software installed itself to load at startup, and every time it opened it pegged the CPU at 100% for 10 minutes while it scanned for channels, and the PC would just lock up for ~30 seconds every time you pressed a button in the IR remote i almost went this route but then i found a pretty affordable dvd+vcr combo that would let me record vhs to dvd. dvd ripping was super easy and i only had ~15 tapes to do. this was also cheaper than taking it to a place that specialized in doing this sort of thing.
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I had an internal 14.4k modem on a Pentium 75, and when I upgraded to an internal 33.6k card the computer would slow down whenever it connected because it was one of those that used the host cpu (which i didn't understand at the time). thought i was forever stuck on 14.4 until i got an external 56k and of course had no problems.
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also to connect to my first internet isp from windows 95, after creating the dialup connection shortcut i had to go into the advanced settings (following my isp's instructions) and tick something like "show terminal window" which showed the user/pass prompt from their *nix login box i guess. had to type both manually every time. a few months later i changed isps and followed the same instructions but it didn't work. i explained what i was doing over the phone and they said what the gently caress are you doing just put it in the normal windows username box also i never had windows 3.1 but trumpet winsock was once a requirement for the web and it was invented in my town. they made some money but then operating systems just made their own versions.
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that was a winmodem lol most of the functionality was in drivers which did not exist for other platforms
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the pinnance of modem stupidity had to be 'shotgun modems'. it (theoretically) doubled the bandwith since it used two phone lines at once, but you needed an isp that supported it, and few did. plus, when you added up all of the extra costs for multiple phone lines and such, you were likely getting into isdn or idsl price territory
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gabensraum posted:also to connect to my first internet isp from windows 95, after creating the dialup connection shortcut i had to go into the advanced settings (following my isp's instructions) and tick something like "show terminal window" which showed the user/pass prompt from their *nix login box i guess. had to type both manually every time. my first isp was sorta like that -- by default upon logging in you were dropped in a unix shell and had to type ppp or something to start the ppp session. fortunately they shipped login scripts with their evaluation copy of trumped, so you didn't really have to worry about it
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gabensraum posted:also i never had windows 3.1 but trumpet winsock was once a requirement for the web and it was invented in my town. they made some money but then operating systems just made their own versions.  also, beame & whiteside tcp/ip stack for dos, which you needed if you wanted to play multiplayer quake before winquake/glquake was a thing
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nudgenudgetilt posted:my first isp was sorta like that -- by default upon logging in you were dropped in a unix shell and had to type ppp or something to start the ppp session. fortunately they shipped login scripts with their evaluation copy of trumped, so you didn't really have to worry about it was there any real advantage to a shell account other than being able to idle in irc 24/7?
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The_Franz posted:was there any real advantage to a shell account other than being able to idle in irc 24/7? it was a prerequisite for ~hacker stuff~ according to an entry in the anarchist cookbook i read when i was like nine years old
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The_Franz posted:was there any real advantage to a shell account other than being able to idle in irc 24/7? you couldn't use it to idle in irc -- they aggressively terminated processes when a user hung up. the isp offered web hosting at isp.com/~yourusername, which mapped to public_html in your home directory on the unix box, so it was nice to edit poo poo in the shell. the dialup shell was *way* snappier than using telnet to connect -- i don't think they offered ssh. you could also upload files via zmodem, but honestly it was way easier to start a ppp session and use ftp for that.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:my first isp was sorta like that -- by default upon logging in you were dropped in a unix shell and had to type ppp or something to start the ppp session. fortunately they shipped login scripts with their evaluation copy of trumped, so you didn't really have to worry about it Looking back it's amazing how much the knowledge barrier has changed in order to get online. I don't even remember where I learned what PPP was or how to run scripts before the https://www. By reading usenet and README.txt files?
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for me it was lots of calls to the isp tech support asking dumb questions like "why does my 14.4 modem only download at 1.5KBps?" it was a small isp, and i always called on the weekend, so i ended up on a first name basis with the owner (who did weekend support).
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nudgenudgetilt posted:for me it was lots of calls to the isp tech support asking dumb questions like "why does my 14.4 modem only download at 1.5KBps?" it was a small isp, and i always called on the weekend, so i ended up on a first name basis with the owner (who did weekend support). 
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Mantle posted:Looking back it's amazing how much the knowledge barrier has changed in order to get online. I don't even remember where I learned what PPP was or how to run scripts before the https://www. By reading usenet and README.txt files? lol does https://www. get autotagged e: lmao it does
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