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I loving love old Psygnosis.Mak0rz posted:I've never heard of any of those games (except Lemmings of course). I get the feeling that none of them are as rad as their box art. Agony in particular owns bones! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLs4eyhnRIQ
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Mak0rz posted:Okay that's fair, but if I bought that Agony game I would be pretty confused about being a lavender owl flying through the forest. I'd still probably enjoy it though. You're right, there really is no connection between the art and gameplay in many of these cases. Just wanted to point out that the games were fun in their own right, even if slightly... misrepresented by the box 
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goose willis posted:I never had one of those and I always wondered how the hell you were supposed to type on those tiny keys Carefully yet poorly.
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Nobody ever says that!
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H2SO4 posted:They say that, but you can't hear it because you loaded Linux and don't have any soundcard drivers. 
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^  wallaka posted:Vise. Technically, non-US spelling of the word is 'vice.'
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Casimir Radon posted:As a youngster we didn't have cable or satellite, and didn't get it until I was 18. Just i time for Discovery and History to start their decline into the garbage channels they are now. I was convinced that network tv showed porn late at night, if only you stayed up late enough. I stayed up a few times to watch episodes of Pamela Anderson's shittastic syndicated series, V.I.P, waiting in vain for someone, anyone, to take their clothes off. Of course it never happened. You're thinking Europe. Hell, in some parts (  ) they didn't wait much past 9pm back in the horrible, horrible 90s.I went to Romania for work couple years ago and the hotel TV had a channel that would show you a glimpse of the, ahem, action but would then lock up and ask for a pin -- parental controls-style, not PPV. And as you might imagine, the hotel didn't bother changing the default. Samsung's is 0000
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Vanagoon posted:Do not be hating on the Demoscene Excuse you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHH1zu_ZAec
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Gromit posted:You say that as if the Hardwired demo never existed.  http://i.imgur.com/agjJjhe.gifv Trabant has a new favorite as of 03:25 on Jul 14, 2017 |
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Flashback immediately comes to mind, but I used a joystick for it on the Amiga.
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Efexeye posted:neither one of those were point and click? You're right, it's just that Flashback has that dystopian feel. That whole Another World (aka Out of This World) and Flashback / Fade to Black genre was a thing of beauty.
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Vinyl is great because it limits your ability to easily skip songs. I know that sounds like the least likely "feature" to like, but I feel you end up paying a lot more attention to the album. And if it's by someone who actually put thought and care into the flow of the record, it really shows. It's also what makes it unforgiving if the record has a bunch of filler songs -- which they overwhelmingly do -- so throwing just anything on the player can be frustrating.
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Iron Crowned posted:Keep in mind the title track for Black Sabbath's second album was a filler track, and it's probably their most well known song. Just goes to show you Sabbath's greatness! ... that couldn't be sustained, but what can?
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Iron Crowned posted:Black Sabbath was always Tony Iommi's band, no matter how much Agreed on the former, but on the latter... It becomes sooo much harder to strike that gold post-Sabotage. Or to put it in terms of my "play without skipping" approach: I'm a lot more likely to do that with their first 4 albums than anything that followed. (I've got your back on Dio being a better vocalist though) A relic:
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JnnyThndrs posted:I just wish I'd have bet some serious cash in about 1986 that Ozzy would outlive RJD, I woulda had no trouble finding takers. Ozzy and Iggy Pop: 
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The idea of downloading contents of old floppies makes me wonder if it's possible to catch some ancient virus that way. Some scourge so old that isn't even recognized as malicious by today's antivirus software. I'm sure the OS architecture is different enough to make that impossible, but it could totally be the plot of some crappy movie! As the last resort for stopping the virus, the NSA recruits the world's top hackers... or those that were back in 1993, now stuck in middle management at uncool places like IBM and HP. The original author of the virus (played by Kevin Smith) is threatened by prison time and agrees to help, but needs to recruit his old BBS contacts, whom he had never met in real life and who are nothing like what he expected. Along the way they rediscover the passion and camaraderie they lost by selling out to megacorps, as well as earn the respect of their government handlers. It's "Office Space" meets "Space Cowboys" (working title "Office Cowboys?"). Cameo appearances by Kevin Mitnick and Bill Gates. 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, $7 million domestic gross, out of theaters in 5 weeks.
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Vaxine posted:I would unironically watch this! Buttcoin purse posted:And yes I'm afraid your movie idea sounds too much like something that could really happen. Sweet, the market has spoken. See you on Kickstarter!
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Negrostrike posted:RealPlayer: It really whips the llama's rear end! That better be an intentional misattribution
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Pham Nuwen posted:Delay line memory: use a speaker to induce waves in a tube full of mercury. You basically beep out the bits into this tube of mercury, then as each bit propagates to the end of the tube it gets picked up by a microphone and looped back around to the start of the tube again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory Thank you for posting about this, because it's just 
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SSHH-P PTOING It's like one of those "BIFF" punching exclamations in the old Batman show.
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Dude's got both a legitimately impressive set of technical skills and a bonkers mind.
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Horace posted:They don't mind a bit of fire. Ah, that warm analog sound.
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We do have Quake to thank for SA, he posted appropriately enough in the Tech Relics thread.barbecue at the folks posted:Counterstrike I was baffled that CS became the phenomenon it did when Action HL was soooo much more fun.
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oohhboy posted:Hasn't Action HL turn into Urban Terror or am I making a mistaken connection? I think Urban Terror was a Quake thing? Probably inspired by Action, but unrelated as far as I remember.
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A couple of relatively recent examples of ancient hardware still in use: C64 used for balancing driveshafts (I think) in a mechanic's shop in Poland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqA8YBwwCl0 And an Amiga 2000 that ran (still runs?) HVAC for 19 schools: http://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-controls-grps-heat-and-ac_20180329064517550/1086705524 Basically, Commodore products will outlive us all.
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There was manufacturer-specific activity in e-commerce around the same time as the Amazon Ascendancy kicked off. Dell was one good example of embracing online shopping -- I remember reading their conversion was something like 20% higher online vs. quotes delivered via phone/fax, so of course they pushed it. I think Gateway had the same foresight. But other than that... Yeah, general-purpose shopping choices were slim. I think Overstock was the only other place that had a chance at challenging Amazon early on. My guess -- with nothing to back it up other than a gut feel -- is that no retailer was willing to eat (some or all of) the cost of shipping before there was a critical mass of online orders to justify it. So they passed high shipping costs to customers, who balked at the cost and therefore didn't order, which failed to produce the critical mass of orders. Those retailers that were willing to roll the dice probably came out ahead or at least survived long enough to get bought out by someone else.
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JazzmasterCurious posted:We have one more key, it's where the right half of your left shift would be, and a big-rear end enter key. I'd hate having a small left shift key, esp. since I find myself never using the right shift (or alt, control, windows) key. Even worse are the small-backspace keyboards.
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You know how we have the occasional vinyl derail? Hold my beer: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/vaporwave-floppy-disk-trend-666085/ quote:Sterling Campbell had co-founded a cassette label and a VHS tape label in Ottawa, but needed a new creative outlet after moving back to Cornwall, Ontario, to be closer to his daughter. 
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Buttcoin purse posted:Has there ever been a good advertisement for something which is as essentially boring as an operating system? Could you be any more wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b71rpN1iJKA
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Plinkey posted:I've got good news... I've got better, NSFW news.
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SlowBloke posted:the insane man/woman behind that thing Come on. You know it's a man.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:All those pornos will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. "Tears" Right
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It's about ethics in videogame development.
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Regular Nintendo posted:modem to modem games of duke and red alert That was so much fun though. Those two, plus Quake and Blood, were in heavy rotation for me and my best friend in high school. Which reminds me... In first person shooters, do you play with the mouse inverted or not? Until I tried toggling that, I could not figure out how people could possibly play those games using a mouse. It seemed just impossible. Inverted mouse forever
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Buttcoin purse posted:Have you ever played a flight simulator, flown a plane, or suffered a traumatic brain injury? Just trying to figure out why you have things so backwards Undiagnosed brain condition is probably the best explanation! Or it might be because I played Magic Carpet before Duke Nukem and Quake, and I'm pretty sure it's control scheme was like that of a flight sim. And if anyone thinks inverted mouse is bad, feast your eyes on someone who WASD-ed wrong: quote:Here's how I play PC games, which was quickly coined The Wes Maneuver: It gets worse still. From another guy in the same article: quote:right mouse button to go forward (naturally), pinky on Left Ctrl, thumb on Left Alt and Spacebar, ring finger on Shift, middle finger on A and W, index finger working W, Z, S, X, and occasionally, the almighty C. And you better believe that my mouse is inverted.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:ICQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wnQcZ3HaBQ Also, jfc, they are the original Virgin/Chad 
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You Am I posted:Hi first time poster in this thread. Since the old Computers thread in Games forum is pretty much dead, might as well come here and spam my old computer stuff. Never don't post Amiga stuff.
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Laslow posted:Then sure, the idle money can make interest while they get better volume pricing if they can set it up like that and they don’t need it for operating costs or cocaine. Much like in banking, cocaine is the operating cost.
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