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If I attach this giantass solid copper heatsink to my Athlon that is so loving heavy that I have to knock holes in the top of my case and suspend it with fishing line I can get an extra 80 MHz before the CPU overheats and literally torches a hole through my motherboard? Well poo poo there's no downside here!
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 08:24 |
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Kindergarten Camp posted:Vintage Dosshell which I remember had options to select some fascinating color schemes like grimy green and hot pink. Ahh, it takes me back. I don't think I'll ever be as amazed by a user interface as I was by hundreds of random interfaces I saw back then when I was a kid. Aurora Text Editor was a pretty awesome-looking DOS editor: snocked posted:icq - mirabilis My ICQ number was only 6 digits long, how long was yours noob? pre:1COSMO.ZIP 489964 03-28-92 Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, part 1. New | series by Todd Replogle, author of Duke | Nuke'Em. EGA. Item Getter posted:
I worked somewhere in the late 90s that used them to send files to other companies, but I think they were moving to Zip disks. gently caress you iomega and your click of death and gently caress you to the lawyers with your class action settlement that said that I should get $20 off my next iomega purchase. Buttcoin purse has a new favorite as of 13:34 on Dec 22, 2015 |
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LOL, you guys with your windows games. Pure joy comes in waiting for a 20 minute load time just so you could hear a digitized Devo song before you play a game.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 13:41 |
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mess.be
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 13:42 |
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gaim trillian
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 13:47 |
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They just don't make game boxes like they used to, I like the old art styles.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 13:50 |
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http://i.imgur.com/flZFdWF.gif (big gif) Mercury_Storm has a new favorite as of 14:42 on Dec 22, 2015 |
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I actually bought the full versions of Jazz Jackrabbit and One Must Fall 2097 through one of those screens. Also my memory of 3DFX cards is hazy - part of me remembers being super excited to upgrade from a Voodoo3 to a Voodoo5, but I also recall every 3DFX card I ever had to be a buggy piece of poo poo
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 14:27 |
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PromethiumX posted:Interstate 76 has the best soundtrack of any game I've ever played. Would unironically platinum tier buy into this. I have tried so many hacks but the physics engine just cannot run.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 14:45 |
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being the first person you knew to jack off to computer images
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 15:18 |
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I had saved up a bunch of money and begged my dad to help me order a nice video card for our PC (can't remember which one sadly, probably like an early Nvidia or ATI Radeon). I even made sure that the motherboard had the right slot to accept the card. I finally convinced him to buy it for me, it arrives, and it turns out it was too long to fit. There was some piece of plastic attached to the opposite side of the video card slot on the motherboard (part of one of the RAM bays or something IIRC) so it wouldn't seat all the way in. But I said gently caress that and after a bit of sloppy research determined I could probably cut a slot through the plastic wide enough for the videocard could fit through without damaging the RAM or whatever component it was next to. So I used a dremel to painstakingly do that and it worked minutes later i was owning little bitches in q3 building computers was pretty fun whe i was a kid
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 15:24 |
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Mak0rz posted:I had my NES and SNES connected at the same time with their RF switches in serial. I was too afraid to turn them both on at once because I thought they would explode. Now I know nothing damaging would happen, but what would it have done? Would it have made the NES signal interlace with the SNES signal or just give you scrambled garbage? honestly not qualified to know but my guess would be probably a random-ish looking scramble of both with a bunch of weird discoloration to boot
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 15:26 |
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The best was to have 2 accounts, one you actually try to win on and one that you keep at level 2 but give the most expensive gear in the game so that you can kill just about any other player except a higher level one with the same gear. People who were trying to win would kill the dragon and then delevel back to 1 and lose all their gear so even if there was someone you couldn't kill, within a week they were killable again. (You did level 2 because you couldn't attack a lower level player in their room while they slept.)
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 15:42 |
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thathonkey posted:I had saved up a bunch of money and begged my dad to help me order a nice video card for our PC (can't remember which one sadly, probably like an early Nvidia or ATI Radeon). I even made sure that the motherboard had the right slot to accept the card. I finally convinced him to buy it for me, it arrives, and it turns out it was too long to fit. There was some piece of plastic attached to the opposite side of the video card slot on the motherboard (part of one of the RAM bays or something IIRC) so it wouldn't seat all the way in. I bought a VooDoo card in 1999 that was like this. I had to remove some of the HDD cages to fit it all in there. The card also had its own power supply that plugged into the surge protector.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 15:46 |
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there was a little local computer shop near my school (this is where i bought deus ex pre-goty in a box) and one time they showed me an AGP video card someone had tried to return where they actually cut the slot bit of the card that inserts into the motherboard down to make it fit in an ISA slot
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The Goatfather posted:there was a little local computer shop near my school (this is where i bought deus ex pre-goty in a box) and one time they showed me an AGP video card someone had tried to return where they actually cut the slot bit of the card that inserts into the motherboard down to make it fit in an ISA slot Ah yeah I did the opposite... there was no way in hell I was putting knife to that card that poo poo cost like $250-300
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Bonzo posted:I bought a VooDoo card in 1999 that was like this. I had to remove some of the HDD cages to fit it all in there. The card also had its own power supply that plugged into the surge protector. Pretty impressive considering that card wasn't unveiled until 2000 and was never actually released.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylhF4zUDDtE
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The Goatfather posted:there was a little local computer shop near my school (this is where i bought deus ex pre-goty in a box) and one time they showed me an AGP video card someone had tried to return where they actually cut the slot bit of the card that inserts into the motherboard down to make it fit in an ISA slot
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 16:02 |
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Msg#: 935 *EREWHON* 09/25/83 01:23:00 (Read 90 Times) From: xxxxxxxxxx To: ALL Subj: US PHONE FREAKING USA Phone Freaking is done with a 2 out of 5 Code. The tones must be with 30Hz, and have less than 1% Distortion. Master Tone Frequency = 2600 Hz. >1 = 700 & 900 Hz >2 = 700 & 1100 Hz >3 = 900 & 1100 HZ >4 = 700 & 1300 Hz >5 = 900 & 1300 Hz >6 = 1100 & 1300 Hz >7 = 700 & 1500 HZ >8 = 900 & 1500 Hz >9 = 1100 & 1500 Hz >0 = 1300 & 1500 Hz >Start Key Signal = 1100 & 1700 Hz >End Key Signal = 1300 & 1700 Hz > Military Priority Keys 11=700 & 1700 ; 12=900 & 1700 - I don't recommend using these. ( The method of use will be explained in a separate note. DO NOT DISCLOSE WHERE YOU GOT THESE FREQUENCIES TO ANYONE!
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exmachina posted:Would unironically platinum tier buy into this. I have tried so many hacks but the physics engine just cannot run. I would love to be able to play Interstate '76 again. Such a good game, I spent so many hours playing it, mainly the deathmatch mode against bots (or just driving round exploring the various levels) but I never got far into the story. Really want to try it again now I'm more patient and understanding of game mechanics.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 16:27 |
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Not truly ancient, but those insanely well done flash cartoons by guys in Japan. poo poo like this. https://youtu.be/o5FqRzUlXsg
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The_Franz posted:Pretty impressive considering that card wasn't unveiled until 2000 and was never actually released. ok so that may not be the exact model in the picture but I did have one. It also functioned as a TV capture card but performance was poo poo and I ended up returning it.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 17:20 |
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I actually bought the full versions of Jazz Jackrabbit and One Must Fall 2097 through one of those screens. I started with a Diamond Monster card that had a poor man's Voodoo chipset (Banshee, I think it was called). Thing wasn't great, but it was serviceable for my lovely old computer that didn't have more than ISA and PCI slots. A couple of years later I got one of these bad boys: (pic not mine, which is spooky as gently caress because I also got the exact same monitor as the one pictured just a year after that). Pentium 3 500MHz, a DVD drive, came packaged with Windows 98 SE, and it had an AGP slot! Inside the slot was an ATI Rage (either a Rage Pro or Rage 128, can't remember) and man I could not wait to see what that baby could do so I fired up a couple of games and... everything looked like hot garbage. Colors and textures just didn't render properly and even the text boxes in Final Fantasy VII were hosed up. Thinking back on it I probably just had a junk card, but after days of loving with drivers and fixes and none of it working I gave up on it and managed to snag a Voodoo 3 3000 from a family friend. All of my games looked great since, even if I technically downgraded my hardware.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 18:19 |
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Do they come and update it to keep it from going obsolete?
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or was it so much power that you never needed another computer again
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Ratjaculation posted:Somethingawful
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 18:58 |
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dad gay. so what posted:Msg#: 935 *EREWHON* Using this right now thanks dad gay!
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Captain Yossarian posted:thanks dad gay! yo it says not to disclose where you got the frequencies!
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 19:23 |
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Does anyone remember that "3D Body" simulator game, I think from Microsoft? You could fly around various anatomical regions of the body and like hunt down viruses and cancer cells or something?
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Cyril Sneer posted:Does anyone remember that "3D Body" simulator game, I think from Microsoft? You could fly around various anatomical regions of the body and like hunt down viruses and cancer cells or something? Yeah that sounds very familiar but I can't remember what it was called much less who made it sorry
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Mak0rz posted:I started with a Diamond Monster card that had a poor man's Voodoo chipset (Banshee, I think it was called). Thing wasn't great, but it was serviceable for my lovely old computer that didn't have more than ISA and PCI slots. A couple of years later I got one of these bad boys: I'm the AOL PC badge.
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Cyril Sneer posted:Does anyone remember that "3D Body" simulator game, I think from Microsoft? You could fly around various anatomical regions of the body and like hunt down viruses and cancer cells or something? I thinks a modern "Fantastic Voyage" could be cool as loving poo poo.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 19:44 |
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The golden age of edutainment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlS86FYlCtg
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Mak0rz posted:The golden age of edutainment microsoft used to produce a lot of interesting software actually
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JakeP posted:The best was to have 2 accounts, one you actually try to win on and one that you keep at level 2 but give the most expensive gear in the game so that you can kill just about any other player except a higher level one with the same gear. People who were trying to win would kill the dragon and then delevel back to 1 and lose all their gear so even if there was someone you couldn't kill, within a week they were killable again. (You did level 2 because you couldn't attack a lower level player in their room while they slept.) Yeah, good times. I tried to start a private server for it a few years back, but it's impossible to get people to play it.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 19:57 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU1rOZx0nz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ylWONP4Y7A i remember the first time i watched this one and was like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jms0pB4yes8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJxq53At75M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COS-7Zbn3Ig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJWYlbsK9r4 RISCy Business has a new favorite as of 20:05 on Dec 22, 2015 |
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duckjob.wav idspispopd I remember using various hAx0r programs like AODrugs to spam AOL chatrooms with macros and then "punt" people when they IMed me. I was an antisocial little prick.
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mrwuss posted:48871154 42017806 Goddamn I can't even remember my phone number from back then but my ICQ number is still burned into my head
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