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Horace posted:Oh, I love these. I'd forgotten all about them until a couple of months ago when I found some magazines from the early 00s. Here's an ad picked at random: I would scan these, use a bitmap editor and import them using a regular nokia data cable. I remember spending a lot of time getting various programs working and uploading those logos, but in the end, probably changed the logo twice ever. It's hilarious to even contemplate spending money on 28x32 monochrome BMPs, isn't it?
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WebDog posted:Gaming of the future as seen from 1979. Oh. I have that book, and I remember that last panel about "hyper realistic graphics" and whatnot. Playing even non-AAA titles always brings me back to that quote. The other day, my wife asked me where I took a particular photo - it was a screenshot from The Forest. Even though that passage reads like a generic adverisement, it's pretty much bang on. That first panel though, it seems like they drastically underestimated the increase in computing power. "In 10 years, computers will be a hundred times faster". If that books from 1979, by 1989 they were probably tens of thousands of times faster. The rest of the book is pretty good for a kid's introduction to computers as well.
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Collateral Damage posted:People have always and still do underestimate Moore's Law. Tell me about it. I have some old scraps of paper in my stuff from high school, where a few friends were making up crap about what computers they'll have in what turned out to be circa 2003 or so, roughly. This was in the mid 90's, and it has stuff like "500mhz pentium 7 with 256mb RAM, 5 Gb hard drives (etc)". Maaaaaaaasively underestimated reality. I am totally scanning and posting these if I come across them in a clean up.
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Aug 3, 2015 14:12
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John Big Booty posted:A long time. Back when you knew it was time to go to bed when a re-run of M*A*S*H* came on. Ah, you just caused a flashback of THE TONIGHT SHOOOOOW WITH DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVID LETTTERRR *click*
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Aug 16, 2015 14:39
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TotalLossBrain posted:Computer memory old school! Ferrite memory: Isn't ferrite memory so drat stable, that these might well have the same data stored in them?
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Aug 19, 2015 16:28
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El Estrago Bonito posted:2008-2011 was a really bad period for laptops. Too many were leaning on really awful core 2 duo processors (instead of the superior for the time AMD offering) and the ultra lovely Nvidia 9800M chipset, which was just an awful fit for a laptop. That whole series ran too hot in normal towers, IDK why they thought cramming a card with the average temp of a blacksmiths forge into tiny laptop bodies was a good idea but it reduced them all to ash in a short time. Reading this post on a C2D T7500 with Nvidia 8600M - you are absolutely spot on about those temps.
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Sep 3, 2015 18:26
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Fo3 posted:What's wrong with yours? Is yours a DV-9500 by any chance? The one that comes with 2 hard drives, because back when they came out it was the only way to have 320gb. Most of the time it's ok, but when you have anything that uses the graphics card and/or heavy CPU utilisation, the temps climb up to 75°C. A friend of mine who was working in computer service told me long ago to sell it while it was still working and worth something since they often overheat to the point of damaging the board. Basically it's just a matter of being judicious about letting those temps get high. It's also from that era where you can't just get at the fan and clean it - that requires a full disassembly.
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Athenry posted:I remember using this. My old Performa 6115 couldn't handle anything else while encoding. It also only had a 600MB hard drive, so I kept MP3s on many many zip disks. I've never seen that one before. We had a windows MP3 encoder at some point, which was a lovely speed boost from l3enc.exe - a DOS based MP3 encoder that we were using for a while before. It was amazing to see MP3 compression the first time - it was met with disbelief and calls that it was a trick. How can you squash a 60MB .wav file into a mere frew megs?!!?
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Humphreys posted:Obsolete and I need it now!: And not cheap/hard to find a PCI-E parallel port too 
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carry on then posted:I still get a kick out of UT2004 playing a "holy poo poo" sound clip when you max the graphics. Which is much less impressive when you're playing on an ultraportable laptop and it still hits 60FPS. My mates and I still to this day call putting a game into highest detail as "holy poo poo mode".
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:IIRC I needed drivers for the CD drive, ethernet, monitor to get it above 640x480 in 256 colours, USB, sound, and probably a couple of others that I'm forgetting now. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but drivers from that era seem quite hard to find. There is at least one VESA universal driver that's been written specifically for windows98, it's even working for Win98 VMs. Perhaps you can try it? This should be it: http://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/vbempj_x64.zip, from this page: http://www.navozhdeniye.narod.ru/vbemp.htm
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While I agree in the business world. The medical world still relies heavily on faxes - the reason being accessibility, simplicity and above all else - staunch reliability. For all the problems with faxes in general, there's still a degree of certainty that sending a fax will more often than not, just work. Also these exist:  (Just search ebay for usb fax)
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Aug 4, 2016 10:09
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WebDog posted:Aussie nostalgia overload here: Oh wow. I have a few of these and around 3 years ago I scanned them in for a thread here. I also contacted the gamesmen guys and showed them the scans. The guy I emailed said that they'd been wanting to do that for a while and that they still had mint copies somewhere at the store. It's so good to see that they've finally gotten around to it.
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Powered Descent posted:That's cooler than what I had. To move anything that was too big for floppies, I had to resort to a null modem, a serial cable, and a copy of Laplink that someone at school had given me. Your story is almost identical to mine from around the same era. Reading it is almost too strange.
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WebDog posted:Oh yeah. Wasn't there a batch of mystical Athalons with certain wafers that could get clocked to 1.3ghz? Ah, the AXIA core athlons. AXIA was part of the manufacturing code, has something to do with the production run, and they were notably good overclockers. spog posted:Want to convert your AMD processor 700Mhz to a 1000Mhz chip (back in the day when PC performance was everything to do with processor speed )? Except, on the athlon 64, AMD was wise to the trick and so they added an etched out lane to stop shady pencilers from unlocking. And so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RrTRuGc6mg (that music still plays clearly in my head, note for note)
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I have headphones on and I heard the 15kHz signal quite clearly (and now it stirred up some pseudo tinnitus). Late 30's. I thought that my hearing was worse than that. 
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spog posted:Ditto: I have a few of these in different sizes and they all work very well. 3xAA for the car, 2xAA for taking the bins out, 1xAAA pocket carry and they are all as bright as gently caress and cheap enough not to worry about. This is from approximately a million pages back, but drat if you didn't post my thoughts word for word.
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Arrath posted:IS IT SELECT OR MOVE I made this exact same complaint a couple of years ago (in games, while GBS was going through it's akward phase) and was bitched out by a few goons for being "exacting" in wanting a particular kind of control scheme. The rightmouse thing has ruined far to many RTSs for me preciesley because I just don't ever seem to get truly used to it. TA, C&C, red alerts & generals - can work those with an interface that's barely perceptable, but switch to rmouse and I'm fumbling everything.
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May 21, 2018 16:19
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:i mean it can work but the level design has to be really, really good to make it happen. in HL1 i was literally stuck in a cluster of rooms with no apparent exit and nothing triggering a cutscene or anything (I think there was supposed to be a ladder in a certain spot and it wasn't there for some reason?). in HL2 I ended up in a big open area with... no apparent exit except the place I came in from. I can totally sympathise with you on this, because I have fleetingly had the same experience in a few games but have always managed to find the way forward after a short while. Don't ever try descent! 
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Humphreys posted:Wow. I haven't used it yet, but now there's a thing called pay ID, and you use your phone number as your reference. With this you're supposed to be able to transfer money across banks within a few minutes. I mean, this should have been in place about 10 years ago, but it's cool to at least have something now.
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Cojawfee posted:Here's some obsolete technology for you. I've been building an 8 bit computer out of TTL chips. Are you Ben Eater?
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