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Mak0rz posted:Man I do not miss the days of music players with lovely UIs (or skins with lovely UIs). I was rocking the default Winamp 2 skin for as long as I remember. I skipped Winamp 3 because it was poo poo and set Winamp5 to the old 2 skin immediately after installing it. Those of us running Linux could theme XMMS (Linux Winamp) to match the rest of the desktop, or at least GNOME. It definitely got us laid. Like, a lot. 
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Dec 30, 2015 21:26
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Casimir Radon posted:I have a cassette adapter. I'm not kidding.  Through which I stream all my poo poo in Google Music. The future is now
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Dec 30, 2015 21:29
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Casimir Radon posted:I have a cassette adapter. I'm not kidding. I still use one too. My 2005 Honda came with a 6 disc changer with cassette adapter, but no AUX input.
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Dec 30, 2015 21:40
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Brainworm posted:Those of us running Linux could theme XMMS (Linux Winamp) to match the rest of the desktop, or at least GNOME. I remember using an esd driver to be able to play my music over wifi to my main media machine that had the sound system hooked up. Today this is considered nbd but in 2003 it was pretty bad rear end. I haven't run Linux in forever. 
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Dec 30, 2015 23:03
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Brainworm posted:Those of us running Linux could theme XMMS (Linux Winamp) to match the rest of the desktop, or at least GNOME. pretty sure i used that theme (in windows though of course since i actually did want to get laid)
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Dec 30, 2015 23:05
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That buckling spraannnng keybrrd
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Dec 30, 2015 23:44
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Why did all old computers use that crappy white plastic that always went to a shade of piss yellow if left in sunlight? Great fun could be had if leaving a stencil with rude messages on top of a computer for a decade or two.
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Dec 30, 2015 23:48
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My favorite part of towers was that if you put it on the floor, your mouse had to plug into it via a seventy-foot-long cord whose weight always dragged your mouse off the back of the desk unless you taped it to the edge or something. Even modern-day cheapo PC keyboards don't have USB hubs in them. It made me so mad, having been used to Macs with desktop buses and mice that plugged into the keyboard since day one.
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Dec 30, 2015 23:51
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DarkMalfunction posted:Why did all old computers use that crappy white plastic that always went to a shade of piss yellow if left in sunlight? It wasn't just computers - good luck finding a Super Nintendo that's not yellowed to poo poo these days
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Dec 30, 2015 23:52
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drunk asian neighbor posted:It wasn't just computers - good luck finding a Super Nintendo that's not yellowed to poo poo these days Even if you lived in your parent's basement with no windows?
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Dec 30, 2015 23:54
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I don't know why people are so keen on deleting files like mp3 collections. There's record label fuckery which means a streaming service might not have your favorite album in the future even though it's there now. Plus data caps especially on cell phone plans will make local storage come back in a big way.. Not to mention an 8tb hard drive can be had for like $150. Condense every fuckin DVD you ever owned, rip every cd you ever had, make a folder of every photo you ever took and throw it in the closet. It takes up less space than a shoe. I don't get it. 
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Dec 30, 2015 23:58
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Facing Worlds CTF is my jam. Steam has Unreal Tournament Game of the year version on sale for $3.
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Data Graham posted:My favorite part of towers was that if you put it on the floor, your mouse had to plug into it via a seventy-foot-long cord whose weight always dragged your mouse off the back of the desk unless you taped it to the edge or something. I have never in my life seen anyone have this problem. What gets me are the people who must buy wireless everything even though the keyboard and mouse never leaves their desk. drunk asian neighbor posted:It wasn't just computers - good luck finding a Super Nintendo that's not yellowed to poo poo these days Try Retr0bright. It's cheap to make and actually works.
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DarkMalfunction posted:Even if you lived in your parent's basement with no windows? 
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Bonzo posted:Steam has Unreal Tournament Game of the year version on sale for $3. lol who pays for games  me, the answer is me 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_NEVAIXFJw
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Dec 31, 2015 00:24
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 Bits and Bytes was a Canadian television series, produced by TVOntario in 1983. It starred Luba Goy as the instructor, and Billy Van as the student. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VaBYw3swyg
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DarkMalfunction posted:Even if you lived in your parent's basement with no windows? No doubt. My Dreamcast has been left in storage for the greater part of a decade inside an old chest and it's turned from white to a weird yellow. Speaking of which, I loving loved the DC when I got it. Phantasy Star Online and Crazy Taxi were the poo poo. Sonic Adventure 1 on the other hand, has not aged well at all. That camera is wacky as gently caress.
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Dec 31, 2015 00:51
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DarkMalfunction posted:Why did all old computers use that crappy white plastic that always went to a shade of piss yellow if left in sunlight? Beige is the color of THE FUTURE 
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Data Graham posted:iTunes redeemed the sinful music world and saved us all from monthly streaming subscription fees and self-destructing music collections... but then once we stopped caring about being able to burn CDs or make video soundtracks or play our music anywhere but on our phones, music itself stopped being a commodity we wanted to own. The streaming model, slow and steady, overtook it. Makes me think of all those poor bastards that got burned hard from music sharing. Anyone remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0eNa85qDZs Popular Thug Drink posted:iirc when it was about to go gold it was just barely over the max size of a single cd so they had to trim some stuff, one of the little corners they cut was by cutting out half the skyboxes and then mirroring them Oh yeah that's right. I remembered it having something to do with efficiency.
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Faggots.
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Riosan posted:No doubt. My Dreamcast has been left in storage for the greater part of a decade inside an old chest and it's turned from white to a weird yellow. Did anyone ever use the Windows CE capability? Or actually play online with the modem?
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Dec 31, 2015 01:33
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I remember trying to play Dreamcast online with a modem but I don't think it was successful. First thing I remember working was PS2 with the ethernet adapter you could buy.
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thathonkey posted:I remember trying to play Dreamcast online with a modem but I don't think it was successful. First thing I remember working was PS2 with the ethernet adapter you could buy. Oh gently caress, was that the thing you could put the hard drive in on the bigger/older PS2 models? That brings back memories, I don't think I ever actually used the online functions though.
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Dec 31, 2015 01:36
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nah this was just an adapter to allow you to go on the internet, i forgot it has a phone jack as well. it just takes up the expansion bay, i think they made a hdd expansion as well but you couldlnt use both at once:
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thathonkey posted:nah this was just an adapter to allow you to go on the internet, i forgot it has a phone jack as well. it just takes up the expansion bay, i think they made a hdd expansion as well but you couldlnt use both at once: I always found it weird how they went from "like a computer" size with the big PS2 to the really small slimline PS2, and then reverted that progress with the next generations. fake edit: also thank gently caress for ninja [timg]ing that image, holy gently caress
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I remember on the Colecovision port of Pitfall that you could run up to one of the walls in the underground area, quickly tap the controller in the opposite direction, then reverse it, and slide through the wall. Didn't help that much as far as exploits go, though.
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thathonkey posted:nah this was just an adapter to allow you to go on the internet, i forgot it has a phone jack as well. it just takes up the expansion bay, i think they made a hdd expansion as well but you couldlnt use both at once: I used that thing for 1 game: SSX3. After a certain point it was worth more than the system itself on eBay/Gamestop (I might be wrong but I think it might have been needed to play  back in the day?)Same thing with the Gamecube modem attachment; I can't remember why it was so valuable though, and the only game I can think of that used it was Phantasy Star Online. Come to think of it, the Gamecube had a lot of peripherals that are now much harder to find/worth more than the actual system: the modem, the Wavebird, the black 251 memory card... Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 02:04 on Dec 31, 2015 |
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i think gamecube stuff is still sought after mostly because smash bros melee is so popular still
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Also for the Wii, IIRC there are 3 specific games that can be used to mod a Wii to play , and only 2 work anymore: the original was Twilight Princess, and nowadays it's Smash Bros (which drives the price of it even higher than it's already-super-popular status), and...Lego Indiana Jones. I haven't checked to see if that game is worth a ton nowadays because of that (doubt it though).
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thathonkey posted:nah this was just an adapter to allow you to go on the internet, i forgot it has a phone jack as well. it just takes up the expansion bay, i think they made a hdd expansion as well but you couldlnt use both at once: It had an ATA connector on the back. At least mine did. http://blog.ahfr.org/2005/02/so-you-want-hard-drive-in-your-ps2.html?m=1 I can only remember playing Twisted Metal 2 and some other robot shooting game with it.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Also for the Wii, IIRC there are 3 specific games that can be used to mod a Wii to play for the Wii i had to do a hardware chip modification to use that was when it first had come out there might be software only now. dreamcast was awesome cause you didnt have to do poo poo. just burn some game straight to CDR and it would play no questions asked. lol
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thathonkey posted:for the Wii i had to do a hardware chip modification to use Sega CD was like this too. So few people knew about it though because CD burners weren't common at that time and lol Sega CD
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Dec 31, 2015 03:15
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I surfed the internet on an Indy workstation when I was around 12. 
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my dad had an ISDN line installed from his work when i was like 9 or 10. this was in the day when 28.8 dial-up was the most common speed in home (before 56k even). poo poo was sick. then he lost his job there and i got bumped back to 14.4 cause our neighborhood had ancient phone lines that couldn't deliver any faster.
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If you never harvested porn from BBS servers at 1200 baud then you don't really understand the struggles we used to go through.
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Dec 31, 2015 03:22
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thathonkey posted:for the Wii i had to do a hardware chip modification to use Yeah, now it can be "soft-modded" and is a fairly simple process if the system hasn't been updated past a certain point (this may have changed, though). It took me a couple hours to do mine mostly because I was taking my time and reading instructions 2-3 times to make sure I didn't brick a 2 week old console. Once done, it's very seamless and user-friendly unlike my jailbroken PS3.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:If you never harvested porn from BBS servers at 1200 baud then you don't really understand the struggles we used to go through. lol I remember finishing many times before the image finished loading. Good times.
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Three-Phase posted:I surfed the internet on an Indy workstation when I was around 12. I remember doing the same on Indy's, as well as some O2's. I don't know what I was expecting, but it had that mythical "SGI" legend surrounding it. Then you use it for an hour and you're all "Hmmm, yeah, anyways.... this blows. Let me go back to a Windows PC please."
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