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other people posted:Also I just remembered playing The Incredible Machine (TIM). That was a lot of fun. Hell yeah
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other people posted:Also I just remembered playing The Incredible Machine (TIM). That was a lot of fun. Kitfox88 posted:Hell yeah
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:fired a lot of the team in the layoffs iirc, not sure that means it is going away, but surely people are starting to realize that this wont be some huge product segment. hololens’ last big hope was the army expanding its pilot and they haven’t, it’s still going because hellworld but it’s just a few mil and not enough for ms to maintain the whole product line
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the pcx image format at one point, loads of diy dos shareware games used it, but i haven't seen a .pcx file in so long.
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qirex posted:hololens’ last big hope was the army expanding its pilot and they haven’t, it’s still going because hellworld but it’s just a few mil and not enough for ms to maintain the whole product line right, yeah, when you've built a technological boondoggle that the military goes "hrm, that doesn't look worth spending billions of dollars on" you know it is time to wrap it up.
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Beeftweeter posted:these are the same thing lol looked it up, the movie database was called Cinemania, but it did come bundled with Encarta with ”multimeda pcs” with Windows95.
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qirex posted:hololens’ last big hope was the army expanding its pilot and they haven’t, it’s still going because hellworld but it’s just a few mil and not enough for ms to maintain the whole product line guessing ms will attempt a panicked reversal of this decision once tim apple releases the ar goggles. or maybe they could completely flop, who knows
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i do not think that apple's vr thing, if it actually exists, will be world-changing. things people wanted: a computer with an easy to use picture based interface a portable music player that stores your whole music collection a cell phone that can go on the internet things people generally do not want: a computer screen that hangs off your face and makes you dizzy
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no, but going by things like the watch it's probably going to get something about the user experience right that hasn't been gotten right yet, and this is going to cause the microsofts and samsungs of the world to call an emergency meeting and start some staffing projects because gotta react
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other people posted:Also I just remembered playing The Incredible Machine (TIM). That was a lot of fun. the successor: https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker/ my kids love it.
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carry on then posted:no, but going by things like the watch it's probably going to get something about the user experience right that hasn't been gotten right yet, and this is going to cause the microsofts and samsungs of the world to call an emergency meeting and start some staffing projects because gotta react i don't even know the user experience on any current devices, and have not bothered to find out, as there is no level of sophistication there that would make me choose to wear a headset for any task in my life. like, there's bound to be *some* market, but no way this is a mass market device. i don't think people in general like wearables very much, the watch is doing well, but i think its level of market penetration is getting to be limited by people simply not wanting to wear one.
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when I worked at GE Healthcare, we had hundreds of hololensii and I never saw them used for anything other than playing Tetris and other games
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:the pcx image format I think original Worms could import PCX pictures to be used as levels, never checked how it's supposed to work at all, but reading about this in the tips section of the gaming mag fired up my imagination. Just draw levels in Paintbrush and import them into the game, no biggie
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PCX was a reasonably simple format to parse, and you could use any bit depth you needed so it was a good choice in the 4-colour CGA era when most other formats only supported 2, 16, or 256 colours. CGA didn't last long, but i guess PCX was already common enough that it stayed around due to inertia Sweevo fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Mar 19, 2023 |
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i don't even know the user experience on any current devices, and have not bothered to find out, as there is no level of sophistication there that would make me choose to wear a headset for any task in my life. i don't know how many times to rephrase what i'm trying to say, but i'm not talking about market performance, and i'm not really interested in whether a singular yosposter will care about it. i'm talking about what execs and corporate directors tend to do whenever apple makes a splash with some new product announcement, whether it's a success or not, right away as a reaction. i just thought it was amusing they were drawing down hololens so much so close to the rumored unveiling, because it seems like if it has any legs at all they'll panic and reverse the decision
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:the pcx image format i have an old 'teach yourself game programming' book from the early 90s that has a whole chapter on pcx parsing. it was basically the standard back then the video files used by quake 2 use a home-rolled codec and were created from a series of pcx files run through their tool that did some additional compression on them, and had restrictions like "don't change palettes when not on a black screen or it will look like poo poo". real babby's first video codec stuff, but, tbf, it was the 90s and you couldn't just hop online and grab the source for a royalty free codec back then for quake 3 and beyond they move to their roq codec, which was a more refined version of the codec used for the 7th guest/11th hour designed by Graeme Devine, who wound up at id at that point The_Franz fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Mar 20, 2023 |
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carry on then posted:i don't know how many times to rephrase what i'm trying to say, but i'm not talking about market performance, and i'm not really interested in whether a singular yosposter will care about it. i'm talking about what execs and corporate directors tend to do whenever apple makes a splash with some new product announcement, whether it's a success or not, right away as a reaction. i just thought it was amusing they were drawing down hololens so much so close to the rumored unveiling, because it seems like if it has any legs at all they'll panic and reverse the decision you are rather confusing your point by going "going to get something about the user experience right" then, seems entirely irrelevant if you aren't trying to argue for it being some kind of success.
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speaking of image formats, XBM where it's basically a C source code file with some conventions also I appreciate whoever did the sample image on that link  same, OP
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:you are rather confusing your point by going "going to get something about the user experience right" then, seems entirely irrelevant if you aren't trying to argue for it being some kind of success. it's the entire reason why a lot of the market reacts when apple puts something out, even if others were trying that same product and not doing as well. mp3 players, smartphones, tablets, and watches. then you came in with the typical nerd self-centered "if i'm not interested than no one is" smugness, which i remember absolutely loads of circa 2015 when the rumors about an apple watch were reaching their peak.
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won.net its DNS config seems to be real hosed up rn quote:;; Got answer:
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Progressive JPEG posted:won.net reminds me of gamespy. played a lot of star wars battlefront 2 online through that
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haha. this takes me back to being real mad about changes in counter strike 1.6 and continuing to play 1.5
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yummycheese posted:haha. this takes me back to being real mad about changes in counter strike 1.6 and continuing to play 1.5 it takes me back to playing arc, the mean poo poo people would say when you'd pop them, and gliding into attacks because of dial-up lag spikes
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yummycheese posted:haha. this takes me back to being real mad about changes in counter strike 1.6 and continuing to play 1.5 well yeah, they significantly slowed it down and made the animations weird 
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:the pcx image format https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110829 
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there is some funny stuff you can find entering bug IDs manually this is the earliest one I could find https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35 quote:PREF_Cleanup is not called when Navigator exits quote:leaks on exit are low priority; yes we should fix this. quote:Marking Verified/Won't Fix
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quote:go find better things to do with your time timeless.
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Progressive JPEG posted:won.net Duke3D multiplayer 
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windows vista came in home basic, home premium, business, and ultimate also came in N versions for europe also there was the starter version which limited you to three programs at a time also came in the signature version with a bill gates signature
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Bill Goatse
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Bill Goatse lol
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Wild EEPROM posted:windows vista came in home basic, home premium, business, and ultimate wasn’t there also an enterprise edition or did that get added for 7?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:wasn’t there also an enterprise edition or did that get added for 7? there was and it was basically ultimate
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hello, captain foo said I should be posting in yospos so I picked this thread does anyone remember the BBC microcomputer? I lived in england when I was a teenager for a bit and it was a line of computers made by Acorn for the BBC, as in the british broadcasting people, and they got put in schools a lot we had old ones and also new ones called Archemedes computers Also I appear to have 15 .pcx files in an old folder made by myself or one of my siblings, here's one for your enjoyment  e. this file is from 1992 so it's almost definitely my little brother's and I think we had a little graphics program that made these, or possibly an app on Prodigy
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Leperflesh posted:hello, captain foo said I should be posting in yospos so I picked this thread lol hi leper
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