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thathonkey posted:i'd just always get sound blaster live I used to keep Soundblasters around in large part because Linux played nicely with them. Hasn't been an issue for a few years now, though. Trying to get onboard sound working on a dual-boot was way more trouble than it was worth, and a lot easier to just throw in a PCI soundcard and be done with it.
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Google the PS3 controller prototype for extra laffs.
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Police Automaton posted:all creative products do -and always have- sucked. Yeah oh boy was the Sound Blaster 2.0 poo poo because
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yeah oh boy was the Sound Blaster 2.0 poo poo because No proper MPU-401 intelligent mode compatibility. Came with Lemmings tho
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Police Automaton posted:No proper MPU-401 intelligent mode compatibility. Ah yes a thing that about 100% of users had absolutely no use for.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Ah yes a thing that about 100% of users had absolutely no use for. Calm down dude, I'm half-serious. Still really hate creative products tho, especially the later ones with their terrible, terrible drivers. Also really don't like how they shaved off every penny wherever they could on their overpriced products&their very aggressive market behavior. They buried a lot of competition that did a lot of things better technically just because they were in early. They don't really deserve the reputation they have.
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8 track betamax posted:My life has been reduced to downloading old dog games and meticulously curating them into my direct access dos menu now. Thanks computer relic thread! Play Balloon Challenge.
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Police Automaton posted:Calm down dude, I'm half-serious. R.I.P. Aureal, my SQ2500 and subsequent Turtle Beach Santa Cruz were so much better than Creative's products
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Police Automaton posted:all creative products do -and always have- sucked. I guess you've never used a creative Zen mp3 player.
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8 track betamax posted:My life has been reduced to downloading old dog games and meticulously curating them into my direct access dos menu now. Thanks computer relic thread! Please post a screen shot of your menu. My DOS menu which my dad created worked like this: AUTOEXEC.BAT ended with: CLS TYPE MENU.TXT MENU.TXT contained e.g.: (1) XTree You can guess what 1.BAT ran. Because I was 31337 I replaced MENU.TXT with MENU.ANS and not only made it look nice, I changed the color of all the menu entries for things I had to delete off the hard disk due to lack of disk space. Remember lack of disk space?  Someone's probably gonna trump me with "remember lack of space on your tape".
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I guess Sound Blaster is like DOS and Windows: you could get better products, or cheaper products, or maybe even both better and cheaper at the same time, but there's definitely a benefit to going along with everyone else rather than using something that's a bit unique, not as compatible, etc. My Sound Blaster Pro (2?) seemed to just work with pretty much everything and had some backwards compatibility, I don't remember ever needing to mess around with compatibility TSRs.
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Buttcoin purse posted:My Sound Blaster Pro (2?) seemed to just work with pretty much everything and had some backwards compatibility, I don't remember ever needing to mess around with compatibility TSRs.  I loved my old Sound Blaster Pro. I used that thing for years, moving it from computer to computer, until they stopped putting ISA slots in motherboards. (Which was also about the time motherboards started getting onboard sound, which was a very convenient bit of timing.) I never had a video card with anywhere close to that kind of lifespan. It seemed like they were coming out with a new kind of AGP slot every year...
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Yeah I think mine started its life in my 386, then moved on to a 486, a Cyrix 5x86 and finally got moved to a Cyrix 6x86 machine. It might still be alive, one day I'd like to find out. I think the only problem I had was the volume knob eventually came unscrewed and I was too lazy to pull the machine out of the desk and open it up to fix it. It was so convenient having the volume knob on the back of the machine too, but oh well it was better than no volume knob at all!
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For my personal computing needs, I haven't used speakers for maybe 3 years. Just various headphones/headsets. Still love my Logitech G930s
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Buttcoin purse posted:I guess Sound Blaster is like DOS and Windows: you could get better products, or cheaper products, or maybe even both better and cheaper at the same time, but there's definitely a benefit to going along with everyone else rather than using something that's a bit unique, not as compatible, etc. True, but only up until the Live! series. I had an early one, and between the hardware incompatibilities (though that was probably Via's or nvidia's fault), the crashy drivers, and the lack of Linux/BSD drivers (creative are not great at publishing hardware documentation) I was never too happy with it. These days I use a cheap USB DAC/headphone amplifier. Works on absolutely everything, sounds good, and unlike several built-in soundcards I've used it doesn't have weird screechy background noise when I scroll webpages. (I can only assume that most motherboards have very mediocre noise shielding.) Computer viking has a new favorite as of 11:07 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:Please post a screen shot of your menu.  Anyone remember DesqView?
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JazzmasterCurious posted:Others (like me) used config.sys <menuitem> with GOTO %CONFIG% in autoexec.bat Heh OK kiddo 
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Police Automaton posted:Calm down dude, I'm half-serious. I had an AWE32 with extra SIMMs attached back in the day. It was awesome for playing games with MIDI soundtracks and for playing MIDI files, and I miss it terribly. What now bizzatch 
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JazzmasterCurious posted:Others (like me) used config.sys <menuitem> with GOTO %CONFIG% in autoexec.bat for creating optimal memory boot options. MSCDEX and Norwegian keyboard layout stole a lot of memory I needed for games and Scream Tracker Yeah that was good too once it finally came out, although I think it was limited to 9-10 configurations, and I certainly didn't have one per program! quote:Anyone remember DesqView? I knew someone who ran a BBS using it, but it was too expensive for me! Much like OS/2, it seems like it was probably a lot better than Windows in various ways and for various use cases but you had to invest the time to get it working and deal with incompatibilities so it's easier just to be one of the sheeple.
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Buttcoin purse posted:I knew someone who ran a BBS using it, but it was too expensive for me! Much like OS/2, it seems like it was probably a lot better than Windows in various ways and for various use cases but you had to invest the time to get it working and deal with incompatibilities so it's easier just to be one of the sheeple. I think all the BBS people ran Desqview at one point. I'd be extremely surprised if most of the ones I knew paid anything for it. Or the BBS software.
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Weatherman posted:I had an AWE32 with extra SIMMs attached back in the day. It was awesome for playing games with MIDI soundtracks and for playing MIDI files, and I miss it terribly. What now bizzatch Try in DOS with general midi support with all the games. I'll wait. AWEUTIL.EXE? What were they thinking?
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WebDog posted:
lol you can still buy these goddamned things. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00005T3S8/ref=mp_s_a_1_17?qid=1459951941&sr=8-17&pi=AC_SX132_SY191_QL65&keywords=digital+organizer also appearantly you can still buy NIB Palm devices? Which is kind of incredible actually http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0007...6kAL&ref=plSrch
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Augmented Dickey posted:lol you can still buy these goddamned things. I directly attribute games on my Palm III/Vx/Tungsten to my drop-off in academic success starting around sophomore year of high school. Also Treos were the best because they were basically smartphones before smartphones were a thing (and so none of my college professors realized I could access the internet from my phone). Also the Treo keyboards were way easier to type on than the Blackberry keyboards
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Also Treos were the best because they were basically smartphones before smartphones were a thing (and so none of my college professors realized I could access the internet from my phone). Also the Treo keyboards were way easier to type on than the Blackberry keyboards Counterpoint: that loving ActiveSync thing. It was a pain to set up and half the time it didn't work at all. I always wanted to grab the engineers responsible, shake them, and tell them to make their next device show up as a plain old USB mass storage device so at least you could just move files back and forth yourself (perhaps even using something other than Windows), and then make whatever overcomplicated "sync" bullshit they wanted into an (optional!) layer on top of that. I never got the chance to do that, but apparently some of them got the message anyway, because a few years later Android devices came out and that's pretty much how they worked. Apple still hasn't gotten that particular usability memo, sadly.
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Powered Descent posted:Counterpoint: that loving ActiveSync thing. It was a pain to set up and half the time it didn't work at all. I always wanted to grab the engineers responsible, shake them, and tell them to make their next device show up as a plain old USB mass storage device so at least you could just move files back and forth yourself (perhaps even using something other than Windows), and then make whatever overcomplicated "sync" bullshit they wanted into an (optional!) layer on top of that. I was gonna say, same except my loving iphone manufactured in tyool 2016 What's worse (or better) is that apple super-duper sandboxed individual apps in 8.x so you can't even pull stuff out of your device with iExplorer and the like
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Powered Descent posted:Counterpoint: that loving ActiveSync thing. It was a pain to set up and half the time it didn't work at all. I always wanted to grab the engineers responsible, shake them, and tell them to make their next device show up as a plain old USB mass storage device so at least you could just move files back and forth yourself (perhaps even using something other than Windows), and then make whatever overcomplicated "sync" bullshit they wanted into an (optional!) layer on top of that. Palm OS was designed way before USB mass storage was a thing. Honestly I don't remember having many issues with Hotsync other than it being ridiculously slow, since it was over a non-USB serial connection. I think some of the later models had a SD slot that you could just load apps to, not sure how that worked though.
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Augmented Dickey posted:I think some of the later models had a SD slot that you could just load apps to, not sure how that worked though. Active sync was horseshit, but considering the demographic they were aiming for "Tell the computer what folder to copy to your PDA" was probably their best solution. AS over Bluetooth was horrible rear end though.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Please post a screen shot of your menu. Doing this...
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Checked into a forum I used to post on compulsively 10 years ago. The places is incredibly dead compared to what it was like way back when. The I guy I thought was an awful sadsack 10 years ago is still posting, and still a sadsack. He started there in 1999, and is still at it. 20 years isn't all that far away at that point.
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Augmented Dickey posted:Palm OS was designed way before USB mass storage was a thing. Honestly I don't remember having many issues with Hotsync other than it being ridiculously slow, since it was over a non-USB serial connection. I had an MP3 player (Pine D'Music 32MB) that used a parallel interface to transfer songs. The bundled program woudl copy any folder. So I used it like a USB stick for my University work.
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gently caress your hipster iPhone, my iPaq had gapless mp3s with crossfading, GPS navigation, games and multitasking in 2003 ...and it still works 13 years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtqEZyLb-Os
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Casimir Radon posted:Checked into a forum I used to post on compulsively 10 years ago. The places is incredibly dead compared to what it was like way back when. The I guy I thought was an awful sadsack 10 years ago is still posting, and still a sadsack. He started there in 1999, and is still at it. 20 years isn't all that far away at that point. Don't talk about lowtax that way
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Humphreys posted:I had an MP3 player (Pine D'Music 32MB) that used a parallel interface to transfer songs. The bundled program woudl copy any folder. So I used it like a USB stick for my University work. I used to do this with my Creative MP3 players by zipping the folders I needed, renaming the file from .zip to .mp3 and loading it up. Kind of a clunky method but worth it to use my 40gb player as storage back when like a 4gb USB drive cost over $100.
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blugu64 posted:Don't talk about lowtax that way
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