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Remember the Timex Datalink? It was an early predecessor of smartwatches that you synced by holding up to your computer screen which would strobe or something to transmit data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink Well, in the YOOL 2017, I just had to program a wireless adapter for a Pitney Bowes postal machine the same way. https://setup.smartlink.pitneybowes.com/connection You put your SSID and password into that page, then press start and hold the adapter up to your screen while it flashes in a spot to transmit the data. Only took me 6 tries or so to get it to work. The adapter connects to the postage machine via usb, so seems like maybe they could have used that to set it up on a PC first but nope. Flashy lights while I try to hold it perfectly still up against the monitor.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Actually, this particular computer and its brother the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 should be very easy to transfer to/from using a serial-to-USB converter. I had a computer teacher in junior high school who biked to work with a trs 80 in a side basket every day. The lab was all Apple IIe (with the odd IIc here and there), but he was a Tandy guy. I honestly have no idea what he did on it all day. I mostly played Conan and Bard's Tale on the IIe.
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Feb 10, 2017 01:49
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:As someone that just got hosed out of $250 via kickstarter, gently caress crowdfunding things that actually look complicated and hard to achieve. What did you back?
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Feb 28, 2017 20:20
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:I wish it was a story worth telling Wasn't familiar with this but holy crap they promised a lot for that price point. Wonder what they could've produced for a more realistic price.
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Mar 1, 2017 01:40
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I do appreciate how software forced you to gamble when you burned by picking a burn speed.
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May 30, 2017 01:02
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Browser chat reminds me of a couple things: I used the Camino browser on Mac for a long time. I don't remember at this point why I liked it. I also remember using iCab. First browser I ever used was NCSA Mosaic. I also played around with Lynx. To go from telnet and gopher to Mosaic was pretty neat. We around that time someone told me that a couple guys were compiling a list of all the web sites in the world at akebono.stanford.edu. (Until then, there was no good way to find a web site, someone else had to give you the address. Occasionally WAIS would prove useful ) If you found a new web site you could email him and he'd add it. That, of course, became yahoo. And those guys made a little money. Lastly, anyone ever play with Gopher VR? Not sure it added anything to the experience but it was kind of neat.
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Jun 23, 2017 15:06
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I just rediscovered this in a closet. I used to play this for hours. 
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Jul 8, 2017 15:07
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Croccers posted:Police 911/Police 24/7 and Police 911 2 The dude narrating reminds me of the guy in that epic katana unboxing video.
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Jul 18, 2017 14:13
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I'm hoping one of you guys can remember a game for me. It was a point and click style game, and I played it in 1992 or 1993. I had remembered it as being a Blade Runner game, but apparently the only blade runner game like that came in 1997 so it could not have been that. I played it on a mac. It was definitely a dystopian future kind of thing, but I really don't remember details beyond that. edit: Lots of time spent googling leads me to believe it was Rise of the Dragon. Flash Gordon Ramsay has a new favorite as of 21:35 on Jul 19, 2017 |
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Jul 19, 2017 21:28
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Trabant posted:Flashback immediately comes to mind, but I used a joystick for it on the Amiga. Don't think I ever played that, but it looks very similar to (and was published by the same outfit) as Out of This World, which was way cool.
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Jul 19, 2017 21:54
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Efexeye posted:neither one of those were point and click? No I edited my question post, Rise of the Dragon was the game I was trying to think of. I was just commenting on the other game.
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Jul 19, 2017 22:34
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oohhboy posted:That puckmouse is likely causes the most hand injuries of any inert object that isn't a rock. I still have my 20th anniversary Mac in the original box in my garage. I kind of want to set it up but I’m afraid I’ll find that it’s filled with spiders.
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Jul 21, 2017 23:54
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Data Graham posted:But you could always dual-boot back to OS 9 and enjoy the stripped-down battle-hardened speed of an OS at the utter end of its development and advancement timeline, one ridden with uncountable inappropriately kernel-level code hacks designed for speed and resulting in system stability about like this: And yet I'd still load three rows worth of extensions for important stuff like adding Oscar the Grouch to my trashcan or have the Makin' Copies guy say "Makin' copies" every time I made a copy.
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Jul 23, 2017 02:00
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I recorded everything in EP because I had like two tapes that were mine, so the quality of my recorded movies was extra lovely.
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Aug 1, 2017 21:25
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GutBomb posted:Some warez groups still have music playing in their installer while the game unpacks but it's not as cool because now it's just playing an MP3 using an MP3 library. I remember when I first discovered how much better mod files were than midi files. Actual music on my computer!
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Aug 22, 2017 15:25
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Just came across this in my desk: A Techtool Protege FireWire diagnostics drive. Has a bootable system plus all the Techtool utilities on it to fix hard drive issues. Pretty sure Apple changed the Firewire port as soon as I bought one. Not sure I ever used it other than to test it out.  edit: Turns out I have two of them. One for intel macs, the other for PowerPC.
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Aug 28, 2017 16:00
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My screensavers were the various after dark modules. Flying toasters being the best one of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cm7tv5cM8g
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Oct 17, 2017 14:36
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I was a Mac guy, so my fave flight sims back in the day we’re Chuck Yeager, F/A 18 (or maybe Hornet?), and a Red Baron game by (I think) Sierra. The hornet game allowed you drop a tactical nuke and the Red Baron game let you shoot dirigibles. Great fun.
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Nov 11, 2017 16:28
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I swear the Donkey Kong I had for Atari said Coleco on it. I think the cartridge was cream colored. Am I misremembering? Also, Dreamcast was the best console ever.
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Apr 10, 2018 12:41
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The computer store I worked at in the mid 90s had daily matches of Marathon 2 (and Infinity) once the owner would leave for the day. Which at one point led to the sales manager calling the receptionist a oval office during a match. Fun times. Speaking of Bungie games, did anyone here play Myth? I never got into it but it seemed like a great property that just disappeared once Bungie was sold.
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Apr 12, 2018 18:38
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I had a Syquest drive that I was a big fan of. Cartridges were reliable and I don’t seem to remember it being slow. It think the disks were more like a small hard disk than a big floppy though.
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May 15, 2018 23:51
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spog posted:OH, IN THAT CASE, MAYBE YOU COULD CONSIDER A HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER. I used this when I flew before I got my noise canceling Bose. Does a good job, and has multiple outputs so you can listen/watch a movie together with whoever is seated next to you. https://www.amazon.com/Upbeat-Audio-T613-BNC-Boostaroo-Application/dp/B000EIWCFE/
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May 18, 2018 14:45
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Definitely had my share of radio-recorded mixtapes. The best songs were the ones with the DJ over the intro "This is by special request from [Flash Gordon Ramsay]." Of course, that's when DJs were allowed to make their own programming decisions, and not just read pre-written bumps in between songs on a playlist sent to them by Sinclair.
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Jun 5, 2018 15:09
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Every time I use the PlayStation store on my ps4 it’s like using it for the first time ever. Stuff is never where I expect it to be.
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Jul 4, 2018 00:56
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Jerry Cotton posted:PS3 and PS4 Playstation Store also literally does not order games by price. It orders by price without discounts, sure, but that's literally useless. I’ve had first day edition games with downloadable content a few times and figuring out how to input the code and then download the content is always an adventure that takes me way longer than it should.
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Jul 4, 2018 01:26
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Do people still obsess over PS1 for having some amazing CD transport mechanism for audio CDs?
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Oct 1, 2018 14:32
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I used to go into a high end audio store with my buddy who was into that stuff. It was always weird what albums they'd use to demo the equipment. I don't think I ever saw them playing anything recorded after 1980.
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Oct 2, 2018 19:01
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I can see how they end up down that rabbit hole. When I’ve made things myself, be it small furniture or other craft projects, I end up in this iterative refinement kick, where I want to keep improving it and I’m dealing with smaller and smaller details/improvements each time. And I imagine audiophiles deal with that once they get their overpriced components in place, then it’s a matter of incrementally improving everything else in the chain. And that’s how you end up with a $3,000 power cord.
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Oct 2, 2018 21:32
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I had a Mac that I added 512k of VRAM so it would display more than 256 colors. Suddenly game’s that were dithered to hell and back looked halfway decent. Edit: Also had a later Mac (Centris 610 I think) that came with an fpu-less 68lc040 processor. I replaced with a full 68040 at some point. Later sold the machine and the buyer was having errors in excel. The math wasn’t working or something. I still had the old processor, though I had been using it as a paperweight for a year or so. Also, those of us in the shop would take turns trying to zap it with static electricity. I straightened the pins with a SIMM and swapped it back into the machine. Worked flawlessly and excel errors went away. Flash Gordon Ramsay has a new favorite as of 23:05 on Oct 6, 2018 |
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Oct 6, 2018 22:55
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iTunes was at its best when it was SoundJam MP. Everything apple did to it since they bought it seemingly took it down hill. It’s old and terribly bloated now, and the interface is the absolute worst.
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Oct 20, 2018 14:21
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doctorfrog posted:I guess I'll google for that, because Cyberpunk is unironically one of my favorite albums. Yes, yes, I have terrible taste in music, etc. Adam in Chains is a great song, you just have to set the file to start playing at the end of all the hypnosis poo poo.
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Nov 12, 2018 18:04
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Reminds me, I had a purely optical mouse in the early 90s that used a metal mousepad with a grid of dots on it for tracking. Worked great as long as the you kept the mouse and the mousepad aligned. Turn the mouse a few degrees and it would track sideways. edit: I say purely optical because at that time the apple mice were machanical-optical, with a spoked wheel that would pass in front of an ir "eye" inside when you moved it.
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Dec 5, 2018 15:54
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Qwijib0 posted:...like every ball mouse ever made....? Didn't know if I needed to specify. I assumed some were purely mechanical.
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Dec 5, 2018 16:01
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0toShifty posted:We were still using those optical mice at work until about 6 months ago when we "upgraded" to ball mice. My Mac LC had a 68020. i upgraded it with an FPU card because there was some sprite based shooter game that was really cool that wouldn't run without it. I don't remember the name of the game though. I played the hell out of some Sky Shadow back then though. Sound effects that weren't bleeps and bloops blew my mind.
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Dec 5, 2018 17:01
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We used to play Spaceward Ho on our appletalk network. Until Marathon came out, that is.
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Dec 14, 2018 22:25
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You have been eaten by a grue.
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Dec 15, 2018 16:14
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AFK
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Dec 21, 2018 17:46
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Had a rude, entitled customer call me because his computer wouldn’t come on. He was a big wig at one of our biggest clients and a total rear end. Said printer was on but computer wouldn’t power up. Asked him to verify that everything was plugged in, and he said it was. So I drop everything to make a visit to his house. Sure enough everything was plugged in. He had plugged the printer into the wall, and the surge protector into itself. When I pointed out that the surge protector can’t power itself he got even ruder. My boss wouldn’t even let me charge him for the visit. Dick.
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Dec 29, 2018 13:24
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Wait what is that person whose hands are sticking out to the sides doing
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oohhboy posted:That reminds me, was dead baby jokes an early internet thing? As a kid in 80s, I had the entire series of Blanche Knotts Truly Tasteless Jokes books. Dead baby jokes were a staple of those books.
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