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Beve Stuscemi posted:A guy has been mad forever on the internet and will likely die mad At which point Nissan will throw 10K at whoever has the power of attorney, and they'll get the domain
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The worst snipe
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lmao nissan.com owns petty domain squatting ftw
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May 18, 2023 17:41
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its been like that since at least the mid 90s. i remember laughing at it when my grandpa wanted to look at buying an altima
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Agile Vector posted:on the other hand, the death animations and scenarios for KQ6 were so thorough I think we specifically tried to find every way to kill alexander This was how we played Space Quest III, too. We actually finished that game, and by "we" I mean myself and my older and younger siblings, and that's the only PC game we every played together, in particular my sisters had little interest in the other games we had for the PS1 (not Playstation 1, the IBM PS-1 we had) but they were on board for finding new ways to get decapitated or ground to a paste or otherwise hilariously die in every scene.
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May 18, 2023 17:50
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pretty sure that guy died a few years ago.
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May 18, 2023 18:12
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I used to go to some dudes house and he’s copy amiga disks ar $2 a pop and he had a huge catalog and he’d used x copy pro and most games would copy with normal copy mode but prince of persia required you to used the ULTRA SLOW mode and I wish I knew why or what special stuff it did I spose it was easy enough for amiga games to use their own driver implementation so maybe they could look at the entire sector including parity bits etc and and make custom use of them idk
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May 18, 2023 21:29
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in my experience whenever you used slow write it was because something had gone wrong with a normal mode copy and you'd rather play safe than have to buy more disks
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May 18, 2023 21:32
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I remember this specific game (i’m sure it was prince of persia) required this mode. it also took ages to read the sector amiga games weee plagued with disk errors tho. playing a game with no errors was a treat. somehow monkey island 2 that was on 12 was ok i look back now at the dude who sold the games. i was like 9 and id call up ask to come over and my mum would sit there while i chose from his catalog and it’s only later in life when I smelled BO that it reminded me of his place so he must have smelt bad. i had no idea piracy was illegal and he just ran this real money for pirates goods out of his garage. he had thousands of games and programs. maybe they got mailed to him deluxe paint 😍
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May 18, 2023 21:37
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slow write [guitar] take it easy
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Mantle posted:Lol what's the story behind this? One of the few times a large company actually found out after loving around
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it used to be a thing, don't know if it still is, for anime fansubs to have a big "this is available for free at [sub group's website], if you paid for this you got ripped off" message at the start of episodes on the subject of selling stuff you probably shouldn't be selling, kinda reminds me of the paid emulators you get on android these days though i guess that's a thing bleem and connectix started
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May 18, 2023 21:43
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laserghost posted:Can't count how much computers I have "fixed" during that era by disabling Active Desktop that some definitely non-tech-wise family friend enabled trying to change their wallpaper in that era i used to ‘fix’ a lot of computers for people by just unchecking a long list of bullshit in their startup items
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leisure suit larry had age gate questions that worked amazingly well to keep me and my buddy from playing the horny game. i remember stuff like ‘what kind of drink is a screwdriver’ and ‘what would you use a prophylactic for’. we were totally stumped
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May 18, 2023 21:57
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fixing computers by uninstalling norton
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echinopsis posted:I used I'm probably bullshitting here trying to remember where I've read it, but I think Prince had an unique "fuzzy bit" in one of the floppies' sectors, which otherwise should be a defect in the manufacturing, but was precisely made like that because it was hard to copy using home copiers like x-copy and the game code knew to expect this bit. Although this kind of sector fuckery was more common on Apple II scene than Amiga, but again, I'm bullshitting
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May 18, 2023 22:20
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a lot of floppy disk games used various ways of loving with the way the disk was read as a form of copy protection. idk about prince of persia on amiga specifically but usually things like that needed special tools or modes to copy them and some didn't work at all
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May 18, 2023 23:07
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normal copy mode would just do a byte by byte copy of the disk, but since the amiga floppy controller just read the raw magnetic transitions and passed them to the CPU for software decoding the disk format could be literally anything and didn't have to be split into sectors or even separate bytes. so nibble mode used a different (slower) algorithm for determining what the data on the disk actually was
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May 18, 2023 23:09
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f-15 strike eagle ii looked like an unformatted disk to dos and windows, but had a boot sector to launch the game if you booted from the floppy
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On the subject of stupid computer tricks, the X-Men game for Sega Genesis told you at a certain point to "reset the computer," but required you to press the physical reset button on your console. I'm honestly curious whether the reset button actually (briefly) generated an interrupt of some kind that they hooked into, or they discovered some quirk of the manufacturing that could be detected at run time before the reset fully happened.
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May 18, 2023 23:30
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resetting puts the CPU into a known default state, but it doesn't clear any of the RAM. so i guess you'd just put a flag in RAM somewhere and then check it as part of the bootstrap code
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the best part of that was that there were later revisions of the mega drive/genesis hardware without a hardware reset button, so the game was unbeatable on those systems.
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and there were a couple of developers playing around with how consoles handled ram at the time, the most famous obviously being the stop 'n' swop system rare were considering for banjo kazooie but were told no you're literally going to get people to break their console doing this. i still enjoy devs loving with the actual physical hardware, like i think zelda phantom hourglass on the DS needing you to close the system to imprint a map, though screaming "I WANT IT" into the microphone to get an item then saying "yeah you could've just pressed A" was funnier
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Leperflesh posted:fixing computers by uninstalling norton good one
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fond memories of going to computer shows and for a while there was always one vendor with bleem or bleemcast running on a big honkin' 19" CRT  computer shows
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i still have the bleemcast GT2 disc around here somewhere. i bought it at sears on clearance lol of course i also have the leaked version that works with a ton of games too
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i also had the official dreamcast magazine and remember an ad for bleemcast when it was supposed to be in the form of "disc A will play 500 games, disc B will play xxx" etc they were gonna release controllers and memory cards too. shame that never happened, it would've been cool
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[90s educational rap] Don't copy that floppy! [/90s education l rap]
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git apologist posted:leisure suit larry MEMORY UNLOCKED
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DELETE CASCADE posted:MAMMARY UNLOCKED
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njsykora posted:and there were a couple of developers playing around with how consoles handled ram at the time, the most famous obviously being the stop 'n' swop system rare were considering for banjo kazooie but were told no you're literally going to get people to break their console doing this. Iirc the reason was developers discovered the newer revisions of N64 cleared the RAM much faster than the old ones, making the cartridge swapping virtually impossible?
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laserghost posted:Iirc the reason was developers discovered the newer revisions of N64 cleared the RAM much faster than the old ones, making the cartridge swapping virtually impossible? i think that came in as well but the many interviews i've read with rare people on it say consistently that nintendo specifically shut it down as soon as they told them what they were doing. fortunately it lived on in the xbox 360 versions where the stop 'n' swop items gave bonus cosmetic parts in nuts and bolts, including a mr pants figure
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read that as mr hands at first
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European 8-bit micros had a copy protection mechanism in the 80s called Lenslok. Basically a chunk of plastic that you had to hold up to a pattern on the screen and it would display a few letters that needed to be typed. It was an absolute pain and only worked on TVs of a particular size, too small or too large and you ain't playing the game.
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Yeah but like 11 games used it, most famously original release of Elite and Digital Integration's flight sims, and only UK distributors were arsed to use it. It's a symbol of an era but barely made an impression on the industry overall
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Volmarias posted:On the subject of stupid computer tricks, the X-Men game for Sega Genesis told you at a certain point to "reset the computer," but required you to press the physical reset button on your console. I'm honestly curious whether the reset button actually (briefly) generated an interrupt of some kind that they hooked into, or they discovered some quirk of the manufacturing that could be detected at run time before the reset fully happened. i believe the early genesis consoles generated an interrupt and the console resets were software based for awhile
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iirc the Genesis X-Men game effectively ran a coldboot attack on itself.
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javastations. they were these little boxes where i guess they were dumb terminals but also only ran java applications??? like i am on record as saying Java is Fine but these things were awful i was a TA and one of my duties was to monitor a lab that had like 20 of these and the entire year I never saw one finish booting.
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