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Midjack posted:connectix virtual game station I loved this I played thru many psx games on my iMac. fuckiin os9 or the slot drive iMacs made fmvs run like poo poo. the tray drive iMacs were fine though. amazing how trash psx emulation manages to be 20 years on.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I just remembered that I bought a forums account instead of just reading it when it was free specifically to ask a question in shsc about fixing a hard drive that I'd totalled from torrenting in the days before checkpoints or whatever they were. Got to SA in like 1999 / 2000 because of the front page, I think by way of penny arcade Penny Arcade. Read the front page for years and registered for the forums once I turned 18 and got a CC, I think. Before SA I only posted on the Metroid Database Message Board. Aside from a few small collaborative fiction boards (which were and outgrowth of MDbMB) it's only been here and there. Funny you mention the maxtor, a buddy of mine just spun up his old external Maxtor (200 GB) after over a decade and the poo poo still ran. I had the same model and it died well before he stopped using his that';s for sure. Since I was a mac guy, first mass external HDD I had was a 160gb Lacie drive. Died. Had the 200 Maxtor, died. After that had a replacement Maxtor where my Firewire port wore out before the platters, and a 180 Seagate that lasted til I replaced it with a steady series of WD drives til the Thailand supply shortages.
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echinopsis posted:this thread isn’t about sad tech poo poo you just remembered i remember playing the phantom menace trailer on a loop in QuickTime on a power Mac at a compusa in like 98.
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Gentle Autist posted:i am forced to use ddg because of google’s evil bullshit but the results are much, much, worse bing time to shine
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:the fact that programs used to be able to arbitrarily change your default homepage I mean they still can you just have to install some win program with your eyes closed.
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I read fark briefly in like 2004 after finding out about the photoshop competition between fark and sa. sa really blew it out of the water there and it never made it to my bookmarks. fun by tech poo poo I just remembered: checking bookmarks
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I remember when tineye was like holding the power of god for finding a source.
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Dont those have like great battery life though
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greg the peanut posted:Those dongles that were supposed to go between the jack and your landline handset if you had DSL Some kind of wack rear end filter I think. When I first got DSL I thought they were blocking the hosed up tone you'd hear if you picked up the phone when you were dialed in with like a 56k modem.
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Wild EEPROM posted:serious Sam had a big crab that just followed you and attacked you non stop but you also couldn't kill it escape velocity nova had a character named captain hector that would say hi during the early use of the game as shareware. if you played too long without registering he would start to attack you. he was pretty strong but you could still shoot him down lol
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:The whole ATA / IDE thing which was not that long ago. Desktop computers were maxed out at a whopping two hard drives. And if you used a cd ROM or DVD drive on the same cable as the hard drive, the hard drive would run at 2,000 kbps or whatever the speed of the optical drive was as a Mac kid it was pretty bogus going from daisy chainable scsi to slave/master + 2 mega slow usb1 ports
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:scsi cards were absolutely a thing for PCs, they just cost more. I was just thinking going PowerPC to iMac, especially before burners were included by default
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I tried to make an adventure game when I was like 13 using hypercard and assets ripped from Marathon (sprites, sounds). That was good for like a week. Wasn't Myst originally developed in Hypercard?
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carry on then posted:the power Macintosh 5200 is another funy tech poo poo thing, we had some of those around. the library also had one of the all in one powermac g3 molars which i knew was ugly even then My mom used to bring home a computer over the summer (since the schools tended to get broken into and poo poo took over summer break, they'd lend out everything they could in the hopes they would see it again for the new semester) I loving loved the Molar mac. Her home computer was some ancient 68k LC, and my dad's was a 68k Performa. Having a G3 was like having access to a small god at the time, for me.
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Jonny 290 posted:hypercard was the fuckin poo poo drat now i want to fire it up on an emulator My dream old computer is a IIc withthe cute little monitor. My firned had one and 100s of pirated games when I was a kid we played with that thing til well after the n64 was out.
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yeah it’s funny it’s like the ultimate iMac; an all in one g3, but with a real mouse real keyboard, and serial scsi AND usb 1, plus floppy and possibly Zip drive.
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Dec 29, 2021 21:28
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yeah I never got the Zip drive click of death. I did have a syquest ez 135 that came pre loaded with Mac game demos so that ruled (until they died in a very non- clicky way).
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I never heard of the click til coming on here (my first Zip drive was usb so I think they’d figured out that poo poo well before). it was a godsend on precdrw iMacs. 6gb of store was infinite until it wasn’t (and we got roadrunner).
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Raluek posted:this is bizarre because they made an actual zip 750 It almost certainly is. I have the usb (purple) Iomega external burner, it's zip something can't remember if it's the 650 or 750.
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Dec 31, 2021 16:24
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I remember helping my mom in like 2000 put some things in storage at her school, and being dumbfounded by the 8 inch floppy drive on one of the computers hidden there. It was double confusing since the school opened in like 1996.
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it wasn’t hooked up though it was just, there. and the Milwaukee school system until 1997 was like all Apple ii and macintosh. I should have just taken it.
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KirbyKhan posted:Yo that girl had the hookup. Dreamcast was sold day and date to the announcement because someone though that was good marketing. Only true console heads knew to keep an eye out for the new Sega. I don't think that's true, dreamcast had a very slick marketing campaign and a memorable launch date (9/9/99). The sega saturn however, was like "surprise assholes, you can buy it today!"
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mystes posted:In America you're probably more likely to see diesel laptops with a button to roll coal thankfully(?) only like 2 Apple models actually get manufactured here.
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google, when you could actually find what you were looking for and not 100 identical news stories from one week in 2015 containing part of the term you searched
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the still do, and they still don’t. which is fine whatever but that def hasn’t changed unless they are 100% locked into the Apple ecosystem.
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I have a Kensington track ball from the nineties. it’s adb. and has its own adb to usb dongle!
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I consider rehooking up my br drive just this week so I can rip a few of mine since so many movies are loving impossible to find streaming.
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Corla Plankun posted:fark was my main comedy website when i was a dumb teen on the internet and for some reason i thought somethingawful and slashdot were the same site and every once in a while i would go to slashdot on my own (instead of following a fark article link) expecting a front page with funny jokes and then being really disappointed because slashdot wasn't being funny that day I remember being really mad at fark because SA didn't like it. not even on the forums just from the front page. to be fair I was like 13
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eschaton posted:better remove the PRAM battery if it hasn’t started leaking yet yeah you need to recap it, if it hasn’t popped some already it’s on the precipice. check out recap a Mac
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I had a syquest 135 until ‘99, then I had zip and felt like god
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back to 100 meg disks for a sec, the syquest 135 disks came with a few demos, most important of which were marathon 1, 2, infinity and pathways into darkness and I’ve spent more time cumulatively on those 4 games than probably anything in my life.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:freshman year of college we cleaned compusa's entire stockpile of aol cds out for a midnight hallway disc war in the engineering building. our floor of engineers my freshman year did like 5000$ of damage to the dorm according to our ra.
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Carthag Tuek posted:hey remember when printers actually loving worked? all ink jet printers are the devil
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our sharp tech that comes in to fix our decade old copier is retiring and the guy that filled in for him last time he was on vacation took 5 weeks to get the thing fixed, but it still wasn’t fixed, and ffs the regular guy had to come in and plug a cable all the way in that was loose.
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ClarisWorks, then AppleWorks
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as far as disk images go, I have to deal with way more .toast images than I'd imagined when messing with vintage mac stuff
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at ease on 90s school macs. if they didn’t set a password (as at my school) you could get to full desktop restarting and holding a key combo. I think I put snes9x on one in elementary school haha.
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