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Buttcoin purse posted:Please post a screen shot of your menu.  Anyone remember DesqView?
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Centripetal Horse posted:DOS=HIGH,UMB
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I miss Apple DVD Studio Pro in the TiBook days, when authoring software on the PC was crap. Direct support of Photoshop layers and you could alter the player register flags. One of those is the "unskippable" flag which cheap unlicenced players tend to ignore. Capturing The Changeling (with George C Scott) from my VHS copy and creating fancy animated menus etc was a good learning experience.
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I seem to remember that Apple released a firmware upgrade for their SuperDrives in the G4 days, because some writeable CD's would start spinning so fast they would shatter. If I remember correctly, the drive tries to identify the blank CD's write speed capability. If not found for whatever reason (unknown manufacturer most likely), instead of defaulting to a slow speed, the motor would spin at max speed and not slow down. It's too long ago to find with Googling, apparently.
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Aug 22, 2016 18:27
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DiVX ;-) started as a hack/crack of a Microsoft MPEG-4 codec, Xvid came as an open source alternative, then DiVX ;-) became DivX or whatever and tried to go legit with their own code and licenced hardware but by then everyone in the "scene" had switched to Xvid and now everything is x264 and proper MP4. The warez scene is always quick to switch to new-fangled codecs and I believe it's much because of Xvid and proper containers (Matroska and MP4 proper) we don't have to deal with a ton of crap codecs and AVI any more, thank God.
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I think most Psygnosis covers were created in-house for each game, but I can't remember. Kim Justice has created a few interesting documentaries about the old developer/distributor powerhouses, and the one on Psygnosis is no exception. Lots of interesting tidbits about the development and business practices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvYlxnHOY-Q
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Nov 24, 2016 10:48
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Trunko posted:Anybody have any experience switching back to a simple flip phone handset? Thinking Bout going that direction and just keeping a small tablet in by bag for any smart phone type tasks. I had to use a Sony W595 for six months before I got a new smartphone last Christmas. And only a computer at home, no tablet. It was refreshing reading more books and having to note appointments on paper before inputting into gCal when I got home. It was hell.
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I used Central Point Desktop for Win 3.1 back in the day.
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Did someone buy Akers Mic's estate twenty years ago and only now put it on the shelf? Film Vinyl lol
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Vanagoon posted:The Xing mp3 encoder was one of the very worst. It made garbage files that sounded like they were being played from underwater I used the original reference Fraunhofer MP3enc for a long-rear end time since the 128Kbps files it produced sounded better than Xing 160Kbps ones. It was more effective in busy areas that would leave cymbals washy. Not in the audiophile sense but really noticeable.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Was I not supposed to use Dreamweaver for websites? It was fine as a code editor and asset manager kinda thing, I never used much of the autogenerated functionality. I guess most people did though 
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TotalLossBrain posted:Tornado, Apache, and Hind were just as heavy. Some European shop did those. I still load up Chuck Yeager's Air Combat in DOSBox once in a while. Although my CH Flightstick is long gone, I have just as much fun with a Logitech F310 gamepad.
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The Sausages posted:I enjoyed that, love the guy's enthusiasm, reminds me of one of my high school math & science teachers. You should see how he runs his Klein bottle webshop  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Anyone actually use something like this? I have seen similar gadgets, but those were Vesa Local Bus. There were also VLB IDE controllers that supported 4(!) hard drives, I borrowed one of those with 2x1GB drives full of scene stuff and Linux Torrents. Pick and choose what to copy to my (then also large) Conner 540 MB.
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I think after Word 6, when they saw that WordPerfect for Windows kinda bombed? e: Version jumping is a tech relic, hopefully. Word jumped from 2 to 6 because WP finally gave in and made a Windows version after 5.5 if I recall correctly, and Word 2.0 was the king on Windows before that. Microsoft were really scared of WP back then. F4rt5 has a new favorite as of 04:19 on Apr 22, 2018 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:B j <long press on "o" then swipe up to צ> r k We have one more key, it's where the right half of your left shift would be, and a big-rear end enter key.  Some keyboard enthusiasts over here in Scandinavia use an ANSI (US) layout instead of ISO (European) because in addition to the small left shift we also have the {, }, [, and ] keys on AltGr + 7, 0, 8 and 9 respectively. The <> is next to the small left shift. For coding, having them where our זרו cluster is, near the enter key like in an ANSI layout, is more efficient. Seriously, take a look at this Norwegian crap: 
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Ruflux posted:He's... not really wrong though? Well, yeah, 'cause it can - if you're *extremely* patient?
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May 17, 2018 10:47
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Humphreys posted:Overpriced = yes. poo poo = no. They do have some interesting tech but oversell it.
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May 18, 2018 13:38
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Looks like the MSX version I played as a kid. Couldn't understand what to do at all. Intro soundtrack kicked rear end, though.
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Not Operator posted:I too went from Gentoo to Mint
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Humphreys posted:We had this really dodgy independant video store and mum got some cartoons. First was Akira which sent her mental with the blood...but Kite was the last straw. Scarred for life with tech relics. F4rt5 has a new favorite as of 10:03 on Jul 20, 2018 |
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Computer viking posted:Norway is generally an early adopter - see the recurring moaning about the US being behind in money transfer and payment methods for examples. Yeah, it's worth it waiting a night or a full 24 hours for votes to be counted, and be able to actually trust the counts. They're properly supervised, so ballot stuffing is something an entire community of people would have to back for it to work, and even if the biggest county (Oslo at ~600,000 people) cheated it would't matter. Computer viking posted:I'll admit I'm surprised that we haven't tried to implement something. It's not like we've been afraid of moving almost everything else online, behind national id systems of varying quality. Everything else here, though, is online. Banking? Banks don't even have cash tellers anymore. You can literally not go into your bank and get cash. Everything's online banking and cards (we're slow with RFID though, only now seeing a marketing push for "tapping".) e: Which segues into tech relics: Checks. Not used since the late 80's here when ATM's took over. We've had this discussion here before (or in another thread) about the completely decentralized US banking system. "Oh, there are so many states, small banks and actors, that a centralized online debit system is not possible". Seriously, I don't even have a proper credit card, only BankAxept, which still enables me to go to an ATM in Greece and get cash money. But I won't get any if my account is dry, 'cause they're all online and can see my balance. No excuse, US, get with the program. F4rt5 has a new favorite as of 15:21 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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It's like the Harman/Kardon DVD-1, their first DVD player - it was worth getting just for the audio DAC and use as a CD player. If you were into that sort of thing.
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I saw Jesus vs Santa from a Vivo file. Think it was 160x120 and around 30 megs lol
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Oct 23, 2018 17:41
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I use the numpad. WASD? What about 8456. 0 is duck, 7 is jump, slash is run, asterisk is menu (inventory or whatever), plus is use, minus is discard. Everything clustered together perfectly in one area. Yes, I'm left-handed
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I played and finished the original x-com a year ago, still better than the new one. Never can finish Fallout though.
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You Am I posted:
Ugh, a Vibra 16, the *worst* SB card.
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Barudak posted:AFAIK it works because their office has software to manage USB access and is programmed to look for thumbdrives that are registered to trigger it. Im not sure but apparently when you plug it into another computer that doesnt have that software it doesnt do anything, its just a normal blank thumbdrive. Yeah that's what I thought. Endpoint security, which has become really topical with GDPR and all. Which brings me to what I thought would be a tech relic: Local exclusion. When movies premiere the same time as in the US and we get them on Blu-ray when they're released there (it used to take months a few years ago) and that region coding thing is a thing of the past, why do some websites just cut access to European people? Like, once on a while when I follow a link from HN I get the "we can't show you this because GDPR" and I "you're based in the IS! Why do you care I'm from Europe?
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Jerry Cotton posted:My first thought was "why are there two beepers That was my first reaction too
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spaceblancmange posted:Maybe he hates immigrants more though.
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I remember Mickey Mania for the SNES was 850 NOK ($85) when it came out, due to the ROM size? Insane.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:. I remember the Adlib version being a decent version of it, I thought the Adlib and Genesis used the same Yamaha FM chip, so I have no idea why it sounds like crap on the Sega...
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Nah, even a crap Cirrus Logic 1MB onboard could handle SVGA 800x600 at 256 colors. Images stil didn't look *great* dithered to that but better than 16 colors anyway
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Humphreys posted:Thanks for that. I really want to get back into it for all the hacky goodness. (my and my old boss used to cardshare over a decade ago - I paid through the nose for ISDN as dialup wasnt fast enough for the datastream of the card). If time does not fool you, man, I feel sorry for you being on ISDN ten years after it was pretty much a relic 
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TheDarkOfKnight posted:TV station. One of these machines will be brought back to operation because they want to transfer a bunch of 1” tapes we have in the bomb shelter. I’m going to have to get some more pictures of the crazy stuff we have going on around here before we gut the studio next week for a full remodel.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Yeah I got a little upset that I never heard about that thing (or the Toshiba Libretto he mentions at the end) back when my MS-DOS machine was dying and I probably would have been in the market to pay $500+ for an adorable era-appropriate laptop to replace it.
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Enos Shenk posted:It's also amazingly uncomfortable to use unless you're a fingertip mouse-pusher. I prefer something chonky enough to curve to my hand, so the one time I tried to use one of these I despised it. Waaaaay too thin.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Apple's mice have generally sucked (I've used a couple "Magic" mice and they suck), but for a while there they were making some nice keyboards. The G3 iMac keyboard was serviceable, but a lot of the G4 tower models had keyboards I was actually fond of.
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