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Achmed Jones posted:oh dang i thought my garage stereo had a cassette player; it doesn't. idk part of me wants to fix that, part of me wants to never actually USE a cassette again i have a couple of my favourite albums on cassette because they're cool to have and dirt cheap, also i got a mid-2000s sony micro hi-fi system that has a cassette player so i obviously needed something to play on it. i haven't fallen far enough to want to try repairing an old walkman though. yet.
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Shaggar posted:a good wireless keyboard will come with a proprietary dongle that will never give you issues 2.4ghz is god's own wireless technology.
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Beeftweeter posted:those little usb-ps/2 adapters were pretty neat i still have one of those by my tv because i like having it
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polyester concept posted:the mouse also worked for the game vegas stakes but not for the port of sim city 2000 that came out after the mouse
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yeah nintendo did the port of the first game apparently because a bunch of people there were obsessed with it, then maxis did the 2k port themselves Beeftweeter posted:lol archive.org has the psx version i have a copy of the ps1 version, the manual is large but it does support the playstation mouse, consoles in the 90s really loved having a mouse, i think you can use it in the ps1 port of final doom as well as all the point and click adventure games that got ported to the ps1 like myst and the five disc version of riven: the sequel to myst 
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Progressive JPEG posted:"luxury" android phones like vertu i have never heard of this and that is absolutely a company seeing people buy gold iphones and thinking android people would do the same
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hey now if anything i wish teslas were more gaudy just from how boring they look
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Feb 2, 2023 16:14
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there's always a place in the opinion column world for useful idiots
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Feb 3, 2023 19:23
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actually it’s wadsworth in clue
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jobs knowing full well he had the telcos by the nuts and refusing to let them slap their logo on the iphone remains one of his biggest accomplishments in the uk at least our mobile companies are relatively benign, probably because we’re a small enough country that a company can actually build its own infrastructure across the whole country and we don’t end up with just one provider in a region
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Feb 14, 2023 15:52
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to be honest the funniest thing is that they thought they could go to full ballin' we control the loving music industry now era apple and still expect to be able to make demands
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sony's flailing trying to find a removable storage standard they could own in the 2000s was amazing
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Doom Mathematic posted:Are the new Walkmen any good? if you want a dedicated music player they’re probably your best option now apple’s fully killed the ipod
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DamnGlitch posted:didn't it come down to HDDVD not letting porn publishers license or something like that? I seem to remember it being a replay of BETA v VHS with Sony learning from their experience. you could also point at cd, dvd and bluray all being in the most popular consoles (only just in the case of the ps3) of their respective gaming generations, certainly people talk a lot about how many people bought a ps2 just to use it as a dvd player, then 4k bluray ended up in the ps4 pro when that came out meanwhile on xbox you needed an additional drive to play hd-dvds, my brother bought that, i laughed at him
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Sweevo posted:the porn thing is a myth. sony had no say in what could/couldn't be released on Beta. VHS won because it was cheaper i remember reading that vhs went hard on courting rental stores too, so if you wanted to rent a movie vhs was the only real option NoneMoreNegative posted:There were a couple AliX """"High End"""" anroid-based music players in a recent emailshot, they looked suitably futuristic but I have no idea if they were actually 'good' products. They weren't cheap either, at least in the several-hundred-dollar category meaning of 'cheap'. fiio have been in the audio game a long rear end time, i have their m3 pro player and it's a nice little thing, i see zero reason to get any of their top end stuff because most of them use the same DAC anyway, they just go hard on sending stuff to youtubers to make faces at like omg they sent me a $1500 device! personally if i was buying a replacement for this ipod it'd be something like the shanling m0 which is basically an ipod nano or the xduoo x2s which is hella cheap but also ugly as sin
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Mantle posted:I remember programming my first VCR that supported those TV codes that told it when to start and stop rather than having to manually enter that data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_code people these days love to talk like these were incredibly complex unknowable glyphs and not a 6 digit number you plugged into your vcr from the tv guide, we had a videoplus vcr and it was a heavily used feature
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yep i was looking around a few years back and found the best cheap bluray player is still a ps3 now you can get them for about £40-50 while pawn shops still want £70-80 for a standalone bluray player
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they rebooted that show a few years back with dara o’briain and it was bad because they tried to make it an actual competition the weapons expert transitioned though and it was fun watching her do the same goofy weapon demos she did on the original series in far less practical clothing
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jammyozzy posted:You misspelt x-fire x-fire loving ruled and was probably responsible for multiple homosexual awakenings with the amount of hot people (and AJ) in tight latex suits and big stompy boots, shame only one episode is on youtube in any kind of acceptable quality while the rest is roughly 160p and also split into 8 parts each, also shame it got completely derailed by being a goofy gameshow about global terrorism that started airing in august 2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykZkGvx5BDo
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all this is really telling me is that the most famous thing amstrad ever made was actually long after its time
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Beeftweeter posted:windows 8 was pretty much memory holed i'm honestly surprised we haven't had any "windows 8 was good actually" takes like people have for vista Cybernetic Vermin posted:id take the windows 8 start screen over the windows 11 start menu every day of the week wasn't this just the windows 10 start menu?
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:there aren't very obtrusive ads in 11 I would like there to be no ads in my computer operating system
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:mostly fair, but with ubuntu and windows both being out (probably macos too tbqh, i have no idea of status, but bound to be nagging about apple tv or icloud poo poo somewhere) you just wind up a bit off the mainstream at this rate. i use a macbook and macos does not constantly shove ads in my face, though hearing that even linux distros are getting infested with ads now is quite funny
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:ios has nagged me to hell about icloud, apple arcade, and apple tv, in various places, but macos being the more serious sibling i sure don't know that it does anything of the sort. oh yeah ios does that a fair bit, but none of that's come to macos yet, also every few weeks my pc bugs me to link my pc to my phone on startup and no absofuckinglutely not why would i do that
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echinopsis posted:games where you had to waggle the joystick as fast as possible to win many a sinclair joystick was destroyed by daley thompson’s decathlon, though it’s also possible they were destroyed by someone breathing on it too hard
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Roosevelt posted:i think starfox was 70 yeah i think all the games that had a thing packed in were £70 here, lylatwars with the rumble pak, pokemon stadium and the transfer pak, dk64 and the expansion pak etc
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Leperflesh posted:hello, captain foo said I should be posting in yospos so I picked this thread yeah it was part of the bbc computer literacy program and they basically had it made so it could be the computer used on screen in a show about computers (because itv had a successful show about computers) as a general thing so they wouldn't appear to be endorsing one specific system. it was heavily education focused, so didn't sell much to home users but acorn ended up making a slightly cut down version called the electron which was much more popular and is also the old micro I look up the most during late night ebay sessions. the computer literacy program still exists, its last hardware project was the bbc microbit which was basically a programmable PCB with 2 buttons and 15 leds brought out to capitalise on people thinking the raspberry pi would lead to a new computing revolution. though the microbit only cost I think £7 for schools so it was affordable to buy a load of them to focus a coding class around. I think there's some episodes of the computer programme and its successor micro live on the iplayer, richard osman did a collection a while back and he's a loving nerd so a bunch of them got pulled out the archive and it's fun seeing micro live constantly talking about how the micro was a millstone around acorn's neck as the company slowly crashed and burned. though at least they didn't get bought by amstrad.
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Leperflesh posted:that is some cool history, most of it I didn't know, I was in the UK because my dad was working for IBM (I've Been Moved) and back in the US previously I'd played oregon trail on apple II and commodore stuff plus playing zork on the IBM and that was about it. And then there I was in a british computer class with these absolutely alien computers, I don't recall if we did stuff in BASIC or what, maybe LOGO? Or maybe some weird specific flavor of programming language, it's hard to remember. i think it was a version of basic because the electron used the same version and had basic commands as keyboard shortcuts printed on the caps, seriously look at how good this thing still looks. 
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they put locking wheels on trollies in the uk briefly before realising kids found it fun to roll them out the car park to see the lock snap on and then they all went back to coin locks
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The_Franz posted:talk about video game school where you learn to tighten up graphics in the interview thread reminded me of when sony made that reality show where the grand prize was getting a job as a video game tester like it was some otherwise unobtainable dream job, and not the game industry equivalent of being a burger flipper at a fast food chain they did 2 seasons of that, it was hilarious because the final challenge in the first series was basically the ending of the wizard only with uncharted 2 instead
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Sagebrush posted:i wish computer companies -- actually any companies -- still had fun themes like cow print instead of this totally sanitized insipid cargo cult minimalism that has grown like a cancer from the apple stores. i'd settle for the windows logo being 4 colours again, i'd prefer for it to be a recognisable shape and not just a 2x2 grid of squares too
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Sagebrush posted:flat ui is bad enough but when you combine flat and monochrome it's just ughhhhhghghghghghghghghgh it's actually worse now, they got rid of the slanting  it's even more galling because the microsoft logo at least still has the colours 
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:patreon trying to charge everyone a fee for every person they backed rather than on the monthly lump sum patreon’s constant loving with poo poo is hilarious because they could never change anything about the site ever and rake in millions of dollars a month but that doesn’t show GROWTH so they have to keep ruining it
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picasa is one of the few things i was actively using when google bought it and was enraged when they shut it down because no other image library software at the time did what i was using picasa for
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my uncle had the external zip drive and it's how i got into emulation because he had discs just loaded up with mega drive games
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Hanging a Zip 100 disk around my neck like Flava Flav my old computer teacher in high school did this with his 32mb usb drive because it was a flex when all the students were still carting around boxes of floppies
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startropics on the nes also had a letter in the box that you needed to finish the game, so if you got a second hand copy that didn’t have the letter you were hosed modern digital versions put the letter in the digital manual which I enjoy
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