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I used to have pretty much the exact same one back in the UK. Crystal Xbox and an Executor 3 modchip.
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My smartXX modded box is in a closet somewhere. I forget why I chose that over the xecuter, some checkbox feature I'm sure
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A little project I'm building up this weekend, best damned clear resin print I've ever done! Cross-quoting from the Retro-Games thread.
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namlosh posted:Is there a good documentary on this stuff? I don’t think people or I realize how crazy it was… I mean forget Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and tell me more about the NASA rocket scientist who was into satanism and the people into Trepanation and all that. Didn’t they all live in the same house at one point? You mean Jack Parsons? Dunno about documentary but there was a pretty decent-ish t.v. series from a few years back called Strange Angel that dramatized parts of his life, unfortunately cancelled right at the point that L. Ron Hubbard was introduced.
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May 20, 2023 12:56
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I use an Xbox to watch foreign-region DVDs. Put in a more quiet fan of course. ...and to play the handful of Xbox games that don't run on a Series X, of course.
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Hellequin posted:You mean Jack Parsons? Dunno about documentary but there was a pretty decent-ish t.v. series from a few years back called Strange Angel that dramatized parts of his life, unfortunately cancelled right at the point that L. Ron Hubbard was introduced. Yeah that was the one I was thinking about… there were a lot of crazies in California at that time though and it would be interesting to see how they all fit together. Maybe a long video essay by a YouTuber! Get me Dan Olson, STAT! e: I should pay the tech relic tax and say that I fired up my old CRT last night and hooked it up to a DVD player just to make sure it still worked. It’s a Mitsubishi XC3760 (37-inch Presentation Monitor) and I only had composite cables handy. It looked so bad I thought it might be broken at first, but I just think it’s interference and the fact that I was pretty close up to it. Could probably use a recap too. namlosh has a new favorite as of 16:19 on May 20, 2023 |
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Humphreys posted:You wouldnt happen to still have that specific XBox would you? XBoxs are kinda my 'thing' and I need one with that front panel for my collection/hoarde. Please post your collection/hoard because while I don’t have a collection I think the OG Xboxes are cool as hell
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May 20, 2023 19:11
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Hellequin posted:You mean Jack Parsons? Dunno about documentary but there was a pretty decent-ish t.v. series from a few years back called Strange Angel that dramatized parts of his life, unfortunately cancelled right at the point that L. Ron Hubbard was introduced. 
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Please post your collection/hoard because while I don’t have a collection I think the OG Xboxes are cool as hell You are asking a dragon to show off their hoard. Be careful what you wish for.
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   my buddy said he actually had this cassette.
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Can't be a GT soundtrack, there is no Moon Over the Castle.
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Kafouille posted:Can't be a GT soundtrack, there is no Moon Over the Castle.  90s synth menu music from those versions.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADkiLVm49ME
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rndmnmbr posted:e. One shining jewel of a K6-2 433 mounted to a voltage regulator board that would run in a Socket 5 system, used to upgrade a Packard Bell. Like tears in the rain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJRhFU27Wl0 Aha! I always wondered where this particular piece of hardware came from. That was the weirdest drat Packard Bell system I ever found, someone spent a lot of money and effort to upgrade it beyond all reason. One of these, a Rage 128, 64mb EDO ram, an AWE64, and an IDE controller card to get the 20gb drive working. I should have never broken it up for parts, alas.
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I had a pizza box Packard Bell from like 1996? and I upgraded it beyond all reasonable standards. The first thing to go was the awful soundcard/modem.  Not my pic but this thing was AWFUL. ISA soundcard/modem. yeah great packard bell just poo poo on my chest next i love it
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poo poo like that was hilarious next to the "single chip on a PCI card" stuff even at the time.
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I have an XBOX DVD remote and receiver free to a good home. Anyone interested? Vancouver BC if that helps. Works well with XBMC! https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/xbox/images/3/36/Xbox-dvd-remote.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20200809232155 Mantle has a new favorite as of 02:36 on May 24, 2023 |
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Mantle posted:I have an XBOX DVD remote and receiver free to a good home. Anyone interested? Vancouver BC if that helps. Works well with XBMC! I'd be interested in this if shipping to the US is an option.
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May 24, 2023 18:38
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kynikos posted:I'd be interested in this if shipping to the US is an option. Yeah I don't mind shipping if it's not too unreasonable. Can you DM me your address so I can get a quote?
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May 24, 2023 19:02
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Can't believe I just bid 21€ for a mehhy NMB RT6655TW just because I want to have a complete Osborne system. But I did.
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May 25, 2023 09:40
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Eh if that's the worst thing you'll waste money on then you're well ahead of most people.
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By popular demand posted:Eh if that's the worst thing you'll waste money on then you're well ahead of most people. I recently bought a Windows 98 -era mushy Compaq keyboard for more  (The original keyboard for my first "new" PC compatible was destroyed by coke at the turn of the millennium.)I actually use that system, though, because my LASER printer will not work with any Windows newer than 98SE.
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May 25, 2023 09:56
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Probably a bitch to export documents in a format that computer can use, or are you strictly using PDF and somehow not growing murderously frustrated at the load times?
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By popular demand posted:Probably a bitch to export documents in a format that computer can use, or are you strictly using PDF and somehow not growing murderously frustrated at the load times? Word can save in Word 97 format. Most of the stuff I print is older files anyway.
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May 25, 2023 10:34
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I'm surprised to find out that it's still supported. But then again businesses are often lagging behind in tech so it must make sense to Microsoft.
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By popular demand posted:I'm surprised to find out that it's still supported. Of course if it's something I'm writing, I can just use Office 97 on the system with the printer. Or Lotus Whateverthingy. It has Word Perfect.
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I hesitate to ask, but what can that old printer do that a newer one can't? Like...I assume there's a good reason you keep using that old printer and don't just buy a cheap Brother laser for, like, $80. Or is it just good ol' goon stubbornness? "It WORKS, dammit! I just have to export any file I write to Word 97 format, burn it to a CD*, boot up my Win 98 PC, wait ten minutes for it to finish booting, load up Word 97, put the CD in the the tray, open the file, hope the formatting didn't get hosed, and then I can print just FINE!" *I guess Win98SE can support some USB drives if they're small enough and in FAT32 format?
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May 25, 2023 15:21
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I personally only trust printers that are compatible with Champions 4th Edition's HeroMaker
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Buying an 80-dollar printer that you know will need a 90-dollar toner cartridge real soon seems like a dumb idea when you already have a printer with a cartridge that has been going for twenty years already. Also the new printer 100% won't work with your next Windows, either.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I hesitate to ask, but what can that old printer do that a newer one can't? Like...I assume there's a good reason you keep using that old printer and don't just buy a cheap Brother laser for, like, $80. Yeah, you need to install a modern universal USB driver to not need brand-specific drivers, but once you do that you can plug in a 32GB FAT32 drive and it works more or less as smoothly as on a modern system. Beats me about the draw of a printer that old though. Also Win98 era systems don't take horribly long to boot in recent experience, at least if they're not starved for RAM or packed with startup programs. If you're running one today I imagine it's probably got plenty of RAM for the era and maybe flash storage. Incredibly long boot times seemed to be a bigger issue in the Windows Vista era since vendors were selling Vista machines with bare minimum 512MB-1GB configurations and lots of bloatware, and the sheer amount of files that had to be pulled from a spinning disk was far larger by then.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Buying an 80-dollar printer that you know will need a 90-dollar toner cartridge real soon seems like a dumb idea when you already have a printer with a cartridge that has been going for twenty years already. That "the bundled cartridge is tiny" scam seems more prevalent in inkjets? Brother lasers have been very decent about it in my experience, I've been using the original toner for years. I may print less than you, though. Also, it's wild what is supported by CUPS these days. Can I ask which printer you are using?
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Killer robot posted:Yeah, you need to install a modern universal USB driver to not need brand-specific drivers, but once you do that you can plug in a 32GB FAT32 drive and it works more or less as smoothly as on a modern system. Beats me about the draw of a printer that old though. Yeah Windows 98(SE) is a mature system, now. You still can't leave it on for long times without it making GBS threads itself but you can't have everything. USB works fine (not that I even have a USB drive that big) but also you can just grab files off the network.
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Computer viking posted:That "the bundled cartridge is tiny" scam seems more prevalent in inkjets? Brother lasers have been very decent about it in my experience, I've been using the original toner for years. I may print less than you, though. LBP-800 something-or-other. (Not U, because it's not USB.)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Buying an 80-dollar printer that you know will need a 90-dollar toner cartridge real soon seems like a dumb idea when you already have a printer with a cartridge that has been going for twenty years already. Modern printers have ditched the "cheap printer / expensive ink" thing and are doing the "expensive printer / cheap ink" thing now. We picked up one recently, an Epson 8550, and it's great having big bottles for each ink color and a reservoir to squeeze them into instead of expensive cartridges that last a short period of time. We also splurged and got the 6 color model, so we have two shades of black and a grey ink.
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Chainclaw posted:Modern printers have ditched the "cheap printer / expensive ink" thing and are doing the "expensive printer / cheap ink" thing now. We picked up one recently, an Epson 8550, and it's great having big bottles for each ink color and a reservoir to squeeze them into instead of expensive cartridges that last a short period of time. We also splurged and got the 6 color model, so we have two shades of black and a grey ink. Well, OK. Last time I looked at new printers was at least three years ago 
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Chainclaw posted:Modern printers have ditched the "cheap printer / expensive ink" thing and are doing the "expensive printer / cheap ink" thing now. We picked up one recently, an Epson 8550, and it's great having big bottles for each ink color and a reservoir to squeeze them into instead of expensive cartridges that last a short period of time. We also splurged and got the 6 color model, so we have two shades of black and a grey ink. I'd absolutely love this but since ~2010 I've moved from "printing lots constantly" to "using the printer every couple of months" so I most recently got one of the cheap printers with expensive ink.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Buying an 80-dollar printer that you know will need a 90-dollar toner cartridge real soon seems like a dumb idea when you already have a printer with a cartridge that has been going for twenty years already. Well I slightly was wrong, seems the budget Brother is a shockingly high...$120: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/brother-hl-l2320d-black-and-white-laser-printer-gray/4499400.p?skuId=4499400 It takes TN-630 cartridges that are the absurd price of...$40: https://www.amazon.com/Brother-Cartridge-TN630-Replacement-Replenishment/dp/B00LGCUPQU Or the high-yield TN-660 for $60: https://www.brother-usa.com/products/tn660 I don't know how many more pages it gives, on average, but it it's more than 1.5 the amount of pages, it's a better deal. For the record, I have a Brother B+W Laser I bought back in 2014, a slightly better version of that one (mine can scan and has wifi) and I bought one toner cartridge with it. I used the "starter" cartridge for a couple years, then switched to the other one, and have been using that since. But I'll admit I don't print a lot, maybe a few pages a week? 3D Megadoodoo posted:Also the new printer 100% won't work with your next Windows, either. But...you're CURRENT printer doesn't work with current (or next) Windows, so that's kind of a moot point, yeah?
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Killer robot posted:I'd absolutely love this but since ~2010 I've moved from "printing lots constantly" to "using the printer every couple of months" so I most recently got one of the cheap printers with expensive ink. My partner prints out a lot of art, and she was getting frustrated by all the print shops either shutting down, drastically cutting hours, or just doing a poo poo job at printing.
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I send this text message to my brother in law in response to him asking for printer tech support and it sums up my feelings on printers pretty well
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My sister and her husband get a new printer every two years because they need (well, needed) one for a certain hobby of theirs. Then they curse the things when they stop working either due to planned mechanical failure, or them buying a new computer with a new OS due to either one pouring a drink down the keyboard. (They always buy laptops despite never taking them off the desk.)DrBouvenstein posted:But...you're CURRENT printer doesn't work with current (or next) Windows, so that's kind of a moot point, yeah? No it proves my point. Also it works with a version of Windows I have.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:LBP-800 something-or-other. (Not U, because it's not USB.) Yup, some madman has reverse engineered the protocol it uses and written a CUPS driver for it, which only works with the parallel port version. Which means you could theoretically set up a linux print server for it that accepts jobs in a more sane format, and print to it from a modern machine. I can see perfectly good reasons to not bother, of course.
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