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DamnGlitch posted:back to 100 meg disks for a sec, the syquest 135 disks came with a few demos, most important of which were marathon 1, 2, infinity and pathways into darkness and I’ve spent more time cumulatively on those 4 games than probably anything in my life. nice
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DamnGlitch posted:back to 100 meg disks for a sec, the syquest 135 disks came with a few demos, most important of which were marathon 1, 2, infinity and pathways into darkness and I’ve spent more time cumulatively on those 4 games than probably anything in my life. that rules Bungie made such loving good games should have included Minotaur too
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for a while the Macintosh was king of network gaming because it was the only easy platform for ad hoc network gaming thanks to AppleTalk over Phonenet and trivial portability Mazewar, Netrek, Bolo, Minotaur, Spectre, PID, Marathon…
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eschaton posted:for a while the Macintosh was king of network gaming because it was the only easy platform for ad hoc network gaming thanks to AppleTalk over Phonenet and trivial portability
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FMguru posted:one of the programmers for spectre:vr was (is?) a yosposter, and one year a lucky yospos secret santa recipient got the actual apple extended keyboard ii that was used to code most of s:vr as their gift my highschool had 190cs powerbooks for my year and we played the hell out of spectre and marathon 2 multiplayer, over the 10Mbps ethernet that we had from memory.
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FMguru posted:one of the programmers for spectre:vr was (is?) a yosposter, and one year a lucky yospos secret santa recipient got the actual apple extended keyboard ii that was used to code most of s:vr as their gift that’d be me (I did some playtesting and tried to port it to PowerPC) and it was an Apple ADB Keyboard
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eschaton posted:that’d be me (I did some playtesting and tried to port it to PowerPC) and it was an Apple ADB Keyboard spectre:vr kicked rear end, thank you for your contribution to that classic mac didnt get very many games (esp compared to dos/windows) but the ones that it did get were often over-the-moon excellent
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burning swine posted:tax: MyIE2, the first tabbed browser, which was released as an extension of internet explorer 4 kind of miss these stupid crowded interfaces with colorful icons, panes and search bars everywhere. just like look at all that stuff I could potentially click on!
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Hed posted:kind of miss these stupid crowded interfaces with colorful icons, panes and search bars everywhere. just like look at all that stuff I could potentially click on! often on a 1024x768 screen resolution too sometimes i boot up my old 2009 laptop to do something on it and the usable space on the interfaces is so small. especially if you are using anything modern that kind of expects a retina resolution because the guis are still busy af and all the context hints in a 2022 ide are so much richer than it used to be 10y ago makes me wonder how did i ever do things back then
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:my opinion is Zip disks are fine, served a very important purpose for the time, and are remembered as being worse than they really were people who have never used a zip disk: "lol they bad, click of death, broken disks destroyed other drives lmao" people who actually used one: "u wot? they're fine, kinda slow though"
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trilljester posted:hahahahahah Active Desktop... did anyone actually use that? apple it&s used it because nobody knew how to use windows properly enough to launch internet explorer to get to appleconnect
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eschaton posted:that’d be me (I did some playtesting and tried to port it to PowerPC) and it was an Apple ADB Keyboard  i loved your game! spectre vr was the first macintosh game i bought after playing the freebie spectre challenger on my family's performa 430. the box is long gone but i have the floppies and manuals still. i regretted never mailing off for the shape disk or getting spectre cd. good times!
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Beeftweeter posted:apple it&s lol freudian slip i guess. thats another one too, the department is "is&t", information services and technology "IT & poo poo" is a far better descriptor
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FMguru posted:me: *updates local copy of yospos.xls* wasn't a classic mac but one of my few fond memories of my earlier school years was the teacher letting me stay inside during recess and play MDK on the classroom's imac  though there was the semi regular class playing math blaster and oregon trail and poo poo on the old rear end apple IIs tho
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not even a page backnudgenudgetilt posted:there are some relatively new bangers on there
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oops im sorry I saw like 15 unread posts and thought through my brain and didn't think of it
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Wild EEPROM posted:cuil how did it get so much hype
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Nitr0 posted:oops im sorry I saw like 15 unread posts and thought through my brain and didn't think of it thanks obama
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i must've been one of the few people who actually had the click of death, if you were lucky you could avoid it but that poo poo really did trash several drives and disks that said everyone talks about zip drives but nobody talks about jaz drives
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the click of death isn't the thing where bad disks destroyed drives (which isn't a real thing btw, unless you deliberately damaged the disk in a specific way) the click of death was where your drive just got louder and more unreliable and eventually stopped reading disks at all.
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Sweevo posted:the click of death isn't the thing where bad disks destroyed drives (which isn't a real thing btw, unless you deliberately damaged the disk in a specific way) the "click of death" is the drive slamming the read head back to the start position after failing to read a sector like, it's literally a "click" noise. it's not the drive motor getting louder or anything.
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i was paraphrasing. but yeah your drive makes a noise and goes from doing it occasionally to doing it more often and then constantly
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yeah we had the click of death but even after it started the disks were still readable
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I remember buying one of the first DVD-ROM drives around '97 -- it was the Creative... DXR2? Software MPEG2 decoding was out of the question back then, so everything had to occur through a hardware-accelerated expansion card: Notice the two VGA ports. One was an input from your existing graphics card. The DVD player software would render a pure blue rectangle over where the decoded stream should be superimposed. The card would multiplex the original computer video output and the MPEG2 stream, outputting the result over the second VGA port. This almost certainly degraded the picture quality, but I never noticed. Meanwhile, the composite and S-Video ports would output just the full-screen MPEG2 video for use with a TV. It wasn't a bad way to get started with DVD, considering many players at the time started at $500 and the DXR2 kit was about $300.
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ardiem posted:I remember buying one of the first DVD-ROM drives around '97 -- it was the Creative... DXR2? Software MPEG2 decoding was out of the question back then, so everything had to occur through a hardware-accelerated expansion card: I have that card in my beige mac g3 minitower!
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if you optioned your yosemite with a dvd-rom you'd get a discrete decoder, but iirc it was just an extra riser on the same rage 128 the base model has iirc mine has an unpopulated row of 0.1" holes where the header would go
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ardiem posted:I remember buying one of the first DVD-ROM drives around '97 -- it was the Creative... DXR2? Software MPEG2 decoding was out of the question back then, so everything had to occur through a hardware-accelerated expansion card: loving owns. our gateway had a tvtuner expansion card, i remember watching digimon on it after school cause the main tv in the house was always busy. still can't believe my parents were assed to actually run a coax cable to the pc
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Volmarias posted:
deepfreeze
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when cd-roms were new they needed a special controller which was usually bundled on sound cards, until a bit later they moved to ide interfaces
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funy video tech LGR just did a thing about the original Slingbox (the SB servers are getting shut down so this is the last chance to test it working) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XDlvegECG8 I'm surprised it went as flawlessly as it did here for him 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:funy video tech LGR just did a thing about the original Slingbox (the SB servers are getting shut down so this is the last chance to test it working) i was legit surprised that it found the video stream right in the wizard
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tak posted:deepfreeze Yes, this was it.
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My brother bought a RealMagic mpeg card which was a mile long and it came with The Horde game and there was like real video playing in the game which we were all amazed by. I don't think we ever did anything else with it.
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post hole digger posted:I wanted a tv tuner card so bad as a kid the first upgrade i bought after starting college was the cheapest tuner i could find then started recording shows off the campus cable package as a kid i carefully recorded tv shows on our vcr and would live-edit out commercials, the tv tuner was like magic in a bottle to me
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