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Dead Inside Darwin posted:excuse me i will beat you into the ground if you DARE insult my beloved sewer shark again lol i loved sewer shark and night trap but those were probably the WORST offenders of "not a real game"
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Oct 9, 2013 19:40
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and if you say anything bad about night trap i swear
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Oct 9, 2013 19:41
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oh no you did not feel the gamers wrath!!!
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Oct 9, 2013 19:42
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i'll never forgive fmv for making GBS threads up ~mai konsoru waifu~ the 3do, if those companies had made literally anything else there might have been more than five decent games for it
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Oct 9, 2013 20:30
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dragons lair as a childe i watched my dad play dragons lair. now im gay for dark souls
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THANKS DAD 
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being gay for dark souls reminds me a lot of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9SiDtJLaU&t=1s
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Oct 9, 2013 20:56
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syscall girl posted:the hexxagon puzzle was the unbeatable one but you had the option to beat the game without finishing them all, which annoyed my 13 y/o completionist self to no end huh? i don't recall that, I thought they were all pretty linearly arranged there was the help book, which if you kept asking it how to beat the hexagon it would lower the AI for your next attempts
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Oct 9, 2013 22:29
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Install Windows posted:things might have gone differently if good quality video compression was available at the time and runnable on the various systems. because what we got out of it was typically under an hour of unique video if it was high quality or a few hours at low quality on each CD. in addition to the limited cpu power for decompression, you also had to be able to stream the data off a CD-ROM a typical CD-equipped computer at the time had a 2x pio-4 cd drive; something just a year or two older would have a proprietary matsushita or similar. no atapi dma magic to take load off the host cpu so you had to fit your video inside of a totally unbuffered 150 kb/s stream that also took like 50% of the CPU cycles just to get the data off the disc
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Oct 9, 2013 22:37
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i'm launching my kickstarter today: a server + geyser combo why you gotta spend all that money heatin up your water and then spend some more to cool down your server welcome to the future: combination datacenter + hot spring resorts are just a decade away
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Oct 9, 2013 23:29
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AtomD posted:i'm launching my bitcoinstarter today:
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Oct 9, 2013 23:40
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AtomD posted:i'm launching my kickstarter today: this is literally how "free unlimited power" schemes are described you have the hot server you put water thru it then you put the water in a turbine i guess and it makes power then you use that power to power the server and pumps FREE ENERGY
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Oct 9, 2013 23:53
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:in addition to the limited cpu power for decompression, you also had to be able to stream the data off a CD-ROM weren't most CD-ROMs back then SCSI even on the PC side of things?
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Oct 10, 2013 00:38
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~Coxy posted:weren't most CD-ROMs back then SCSI even on the PC side of things? my first cdrom wasnt a scsi, i think i bought it around 95-96
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Oct 10, 2013 00:43
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~Coxy posted:weren't most CD-ROMs back then SCSI even on the PC side of things? They were all over the place back then. You had IDE, Panasonic, Sony and SCSI connectors for CD ROM drives. I remember some Sound Blaster Pros/16s being massively long to cover all the connections back in the day.
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Oct 10, 2013 00:56
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i remember a cd drive that had a plastic caddy to hold the disc so you could get sickkkk speeds like 5x
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Oct 10, 2013 01:12
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JawnV6 posted:i remember a cd drive that had a plastic caddy to hold the disc so you could get sickkkk speeds like 5x my first cd burner was like that i thought it was soooo cool until i realized it was complete garbage
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Oct 10, 2013 01:20
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~Coxy posted:weren't most CD-ROMs back then SCSI even on the PC side of things? all the ones i ever had were ide
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Oct 10, 2013 01:36
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fritz posted:all the ones i ever had were ide i got my first one used in 95/96 from some skeevo who was talking about guys he knew who just got busted on charges of downloading child porn and how whats the big deal anyway
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Oct 10, 2013 01:37
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~Coxy posted:weren't most CD-ROMs back then SCSI even on the PC side of things? scsi cdroms were always rare and expensive. you found them on unix workstations and like $25k macintoshes and that's about it really early PC CDROMs used proprietary busses. later ones used IDE/PIO or ATAPI. they still used SCSI-like commands, but they weren't SCSI electrically and didn't have SCSI-grade brains. at no point was scsi like, a default choice, unless it was an external CD-ROM in an enclosure
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Oct 10, 2013 01:45
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PCs were always kind of a hack job every kind of device had a SCSI spec to fit it: SCSI tape, SCSI floppy, SCSI CDROM, SCSI zip drives and then every fuckin device type had some wretched hack to connect it to a PC on the cheap: tape drives hooked to floppy busses, CDROMs controlled by IDE/PIO, parallel zip it's kinda weird to think there was a time when the interface card could cost you as much as the peripheral you plugged into it. USB and firewire and eSATA have spoiled us with cheap ports.
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Oct 10, 2013 01:51
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JawnV6 posted:i remember a cd drive that had a plastic caddy to hold the disc so you could get sickkkk speeds like 5x caddys were not for speed. they were intended to be semi-permanent enclosures to protect the disc from handling. if you paid $300 for a CDROM encyclopedia, or $2k for a library database, you really wanted to protect the disc notably audio CDs never had any kind of a caddy setup. nobody really worried about damaging a $20 audio CD while putting it into the transport
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Oct 10, 2013 01:53
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~Coxy posted:weren't most CD-ROMs back then SCSI even on the PC side of things? that was immaterial anyway, since no cd drives were going to exceed the throughput of even a slow connection method back then
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Oct 10, 2013 01:57
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Install Windows posted:that was immaterial anyway, since no cd drives were going to exceed the throughput of even a slow connection method back then it was a really big deal for cpu usage and interrupt load. a pre-ATAPI, non-SCSI CD-ROM would just lock up your PC solid while the disc was being read. ...which is how we started this. FMV games had lovely video because they had to stream off the discs with terrible constraints
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Oct 10, 2013 02:00
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:caddys were not for speed. they were intended to be semi-permanent enclosures to protect the disc from handling. if you paid $300 for a CDROM encyclopedia, or $2k for a library database, you really wanted to protect the disc the best solution for this, especially for public handling type situations (libraries, school computer labs, etc) that was better than caddies was those this thing:  lock it up in the desk enclosure and nobody had to do anything. massive storage for that day and age. i grew up in a rich area tho
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Oct 10, 2013 02:01
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Sniep posted:the best solution for this, especially for public handling type situations (libraries, school computer labs, etc) that was better than caddies was those in jr high i vaguely remember towers of external CDROMs, such that there would be a separate drive for each disc, somehow tamper-resistant to prevent you from taking the disc. but that was a long time ago. i can't really picture it exactly
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Oct 10, 2013 02:03
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:scsi cdroms were always rare and expensive. you found them on unix workstations and like $25k macintoshes and that's about it hah even macs weren't that expensive but I get your point I've seen a lot of soundblasters with SCSI ports but I'm guessing those were the middle-class choice
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Oct 10, 2013 02:05
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:in jr high i vaguely remember towers of external CDROMs, such that there would be a separate drive for each disc, somehow tamper-resistant to prevent you from taking the disc. but that was a long time ago. i can't really picture it exactly so basically the lovely improv version of the cdrom changer i posted. Although, the changer was dog slow. But it kept poo poo away from curious hands. i also recall those same machines had the mouse ball lock plate glued down and thus the ball was so filthy you could barely use the machine and nobody seemed to care except the kids trying to use it, the grownups running it were just like eh thats those computers for ya
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Oct 10, 2013 02:11
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Sniep posted:so basically the lovely improv version of the cdrom changer i posted. Although, the changer was dog slow. But it kept poo poo away from curious hands. are you loving kidding me how in the gently caress could they expose mouse balls to loving underaged children, they'd get sued right back into the 1860s jesus christ
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Oct 10, 2013 02:16
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Duscat posted:are you loving kidding me idk if your joking or not but you do recall that mouse balls were stolen as a prank like every single day if those plates weren't glued on, right
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Oct 10, 2013 02:25
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you put a group of 12 year olds in a computer lab before htere was the internet (web) (thus they don't want to be there) and tell me how long it takes to disable all the computers cuz they have no mouse balls
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Oct 10, 2013 02:26
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and how angry it makes hte teachers and librarians especially, - laffo city -
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Oct 10, 2013 02:27
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Sniep posted:idk if your joking or not but you do recall that mouse balls were stolen as a prank like every single day if those plates weren't glued on, right ikd either, i mean how could that possibly be a joke when so many children are going unthought-of Welcome to the spring home!
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Oct 10, 2013 02:29
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it was a really big deal for cpu usage and interrupt load. a pre-ATAPI, non-SCSI CD-ROM would just lock up your PC solid while the disc was being read. idk we had a special sound card cd rom drive and it didnt have any cpu hogging problems. some creative sound blaster combo thing.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:56
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Sniep posted:you put a group of 12 year olds in a computer lab before htere was the internet (web) (thus they don't want to be there) and tell me how long it takes to disable all the computers cuz they have no mouse balls i carried around an optical mouse around in middle/high school so i didn't have to deal with this
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Oct 10, 2013 02:58
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Install Windows posted:i carried around an optical mouse around in middle/high school so i didn't have to deal with this lol ok i just used the books and minimum effort to do the research until i handed in the homework i didnt finish days later
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Oct 10, 2013 02:58
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Sniep posted:lol ok yeah but you're like 10 years older then me. we used computers a whole lot more
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Oct 10, 2013 03:01
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fair also you are right when i was in middle and high school we had lab time that was quite rare, using a computer wasn't a normal thing in the library, and was usually occupied by a class doing their computer time. i imagine that changed quickly.
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quote:mouse balls
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