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thathonkey posted:i remember game genie never working ever and i think i also had a similar thing for snes that was just as bad. was that like a hex editor or what specifically anyone kno? Check my post a few posts above - first video explains it. EDIT: poo poo new page, have some Woz 
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oops got excited and skipped a bunch of posts. yeah that video is good. gameshark was the other thing i was thinking of. edit: i was hoping there would be more technical details about how the codes translate into the applied hack, how it gets applied specifically in terms of software and hardware interaction but this is good too thathonkey has a new favorite as of 09:55 on May 14, 2016 |
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thathonkey posted:edit: i was hoping there would be more technical details about how the codes translate into the applied hack, how it gets applied specifically in terms of software and hardware interaction but this is good too Yeah I was wondering this too. I found this page: http://tuxnes.sourceforge.net/gamegenie.html I haven't read it fully but I at least saw an explanation of what the weird sequences of letters are: they encoded the address and data values so it wasn't so obvious what the code was doing. Someone should make a Game Genie Genie that just shows you hex 
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A friend of mine runs a reasonably popular blog about old CD-ROM multimedia stuff, and he's ran into something interesting that he can't get his claws into yet. He's found a video on an old MacAddict demo disc of the magazine's editorial staff going out to a baseball game to see a team that no longer exists play at a park that no longer exists. Unfortunately, it's a .moov file, which appears to be an older Mac OS version of the old Quicktime .mov format. Any ideas how he'd go about converting this to a format that Youtube wouldn't just kind of stare at in confusion? My knowledge of video codec conversion starts and ends with dropping stuff into AVIdemux or a FFMPEG batch file.
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Quick google search suggests Roxio Toast 14. Did he tried it?
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The Kins posted:A friend of mine runs a reasonably popular blog about old CD-ROM multimedia stuff, and he's ran into something interesting that he can't get his claws into yet. Link to your friend's blog?
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Link here too on Apple forums where a guy had to do some digging/converting with an old Mac https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1762487?start=0& Is your friend using a Mac, or PC? The Joey Pepperoni post talks about different codecs that MOOV used and would likely be required to open the file, then convert to another format. Might be a good starting point at least 
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The Kins posted:A friend of mine runs a reasonably popular blog about old CD-ROM multimedia stuff, and he's ran into something interesting that he can't get his claws into yet. Can you link to the blog
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The Kins posted:A friend of mine runs a reasonably popular blog about old CD-ROM multimedia stuff, and he's ran into something interesting that he can't get his claws into yet. First try playing the video into VLC and see if it can play it. If it can't you got some real work to do. You'll be able to convert it if you can get it into vlc
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Buttcoin purse posted:Also, trivia/ Would that be "Blue Book"?
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: the image I linked to has a ".iso" file but it's not really an ISO 9660 image, it's in the older High Sierra format.
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RVWinkle posted:Would that be "Blue Book"? As far as I can tell, High Sierra never got a color-coded book. The blue book seems to define one of the data+music variants. I think High Sierra expects US-ASCII characters, while ISO9660 has some way of specifying which 8-bit charset you are using; except for that they are mostly the same. (The Joliet extension bolted on Unicode support, Rockridge added longer filenames and pathnames, and El Torito enabled booting a PC from a CD. There's a 2013 revision of ISO9660 that adds at least the Joliet parts to the official standard.) Computer viking has a new favorite as of 00:41 on May 15, 2016 |
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all of the technology it takes to write out different languages and symbols (but mainly english) on a computer screen is loving insanely complicated but weirdly interesting in my opinion. man im glad they already invented unicode by the time i got into programming. hope you like binary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4
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thathonkey posted:all of the technology it takes to write out different languages and symbols (but mainly english) on a computer screen is loving insanely complicated but weirdly interesting in my opinion. man im glad they already invented unicode by the time i got into programming. Unicode is a mess. It's better than the good ol' code pages, but ho boy is the video wrong about it solving all issues. Aside from the unicode domains that for a short time was every phishers dream, it's also a coding nightmare: https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/
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fair complaints and that dark corners article is a good one actually i was looking for it when i made that post thanks for pulling that in. the guy in the video is a bit over enthusiastic about the whole thing i just like the explanation of how it works
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Do email scammers and scambusting websites count? I used to read many of the stories with glee, especialyl when they got the scammers to do ridiculous stuff and send photo proof. http://www.419eater.com/ I guess now it's evolved into these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZduI2PNbcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfel_qO4rCE
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Last Chance posted:Link to your friend's blog? Regular Nintendo posted:Can you link to the blog BOOTY-ADE posted:Link here too on Apple forums where a guy had to do some digging/converting with an old Mac
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The Kins posted:Unfortunately, it's a .moov file, which appears to be an older Mac OS version of the old Quicktime .mov format. I was never an Apple expert, but I think it would be correct to say that MooV is the file type code for QuickTime, as stored in the resource fork on MacOS versions prior to OS X. I think it's probably likely it's still a regular (but contemporary, so old) QuickTime file and the file type code was used as the file extension. Of course there's still the question of how to play or convert old QuickTime files. mplayer was able to play the 1999-ish .mov files I got from archive.org's AOL file downloads, so I imagine mencoder could probably convert them. mencoder isn't that user friendly though Also maybe the files in question are older still.thathonkey posted:all of the technology it takes to write out different languages and symbols (but mainly english) on a computer screen is loving insanely complicated but weirdly interesting in my opinion. man im glad they already invented unicode by the time i got into programming. Pfft, everything was fine before we let dirty foreigners use computers  klafbang posted:Unicode is a mess. It's better than the good ol' code pages, but ho boy is the video wrong about it solving all issues. Aside from the unicode domains that for a short time was every phishers dream, it's also a coding nightmare: https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/ Nice, thanks, I knew it was bad but I didn't know half this stuff! Humphreys posted:I guess now it's evolved into these: It doesn't matter if you're real tech support person or a scammer, if someone tells you they have a Packard Bell PC you should hang up.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:an even better FMV type game was Prince Interactive Just quoting this for the new page
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The Kins posted:My bad! The Obscuritory. Thanks, I was about to ask for the link too This is great, http://obscuritory.com/essay/securing-the-open-future-of-advocateless-game-preservation/ addresses some things I've been thinking about lately, like "what are archive.org thinking, are they going to get taken down?"
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double RIP. I mentioned bowie fansite teenagewildlife.com in this thread earlier, then Bowie died. I hope I didn't post any websites about anybody else famous 
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That series of educational software I started using daily on my windows 95 at AGE 2 and understanding everything that was taught instantly. Never being able to connect to the internet before 2nd grade since my old house's windows 98 in Orrington ME had no internet cord attached. Getting Rutgers autism intervention and learning how to assemble a radio, a sock puppet and other things with my first specialist in preschool. Said internet literally exploding my perspective about everything and becoming my life upon moving to Portland area in 2002/3. Learning everything about the birds and the bees/anatomy with ADAM software series at age 5! That's right motherfuckers I learned sex ed by MYSELF! Drew a cardiovascular system too. Also bringing neighbor's AP college textbook on human anatomy to Kindergarten each day, reading it every night. Pirate's Cove, Fish Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, Insaniquarium, more educational games, learned about AIDS at age fuckin' 7. My childhood loving rocked before puberty hit.
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Grouchio posted:i have high functioning autism shocker
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Grouchio posted:Learning everything about the birds and the bees/anatomy with ADAM software series at age 5! Hey, I did too  (well, around that age) but it was from the book "Where Did I Come From?", books are retro tech right?
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GBS - That series of educational software I started using daily on my windows 95 at AGE 2 and understanding everything that was taught instantly. Never being able to connect to the internet before 2nd grade since my old house's windows 98 in Orrington ME had no internet cord attached. Getting Rutgers autism intervention and learning how to assemble a radio, a sock puppet and other things with my first specialist in preschool. Said internet literally exploding my perspective about everything and becoming my life upon moving to Portland area in 2002/3. Learning everything about the birds and the bees/anatomy with ADAM software series at age 5! That's right motherfuckers I learned sex ed by MYSELF! Drew a cardiovascular system too. Also bringing neighbor's AP college textbook on human anatomy to Kindergarten each day, reading it every night. Pirate's Cove, Fish Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, Insaniquarium, more educational games, learned about AIDS at age fuckin' 7.
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Knowledge Adventure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-gVQtxbe8U Get fun. Have smart.
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8 track betamax posted:GBS - That series of educational software I started using daily on my windows 95 at AGE 2 and understanding everything that was taught instantly. Never being able to connect to the internet before 2nd grade since my old house's windows 98 in Orrington ME had no internet cord attached. Getting Rutgers autism intervention and learning how to assemble a radio, a sock puppet and other things with my first specialist in preschool. Said internet literally exploding my perspective about everything and becoming my life upon moving to Portland area in 2002/3. Learning everything about the birds and the bees/anatomy with ADAM software series at age 5! That's right motherfuckers I learned sex ed by MYSELF! Drew a cardiovascular system too. Also bringing neighbor's AP college textbook on human anatomy to Kindergarten each day, reading it every night. Pirate's Cove, Fish Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, Insaniquarium, more educational games, learned about AIDS at age fuckin' 7. 
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Computer Relics - Before the Age of Autism we were just Nerds. Somehow typing that out made me remember how much fun it was to Telnet into the LA Public Library catalog system to see if the book I wanted was at my local branch. Sweet sweet command line interfaces.
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i am glad command line interfaces still have tons of legit uses nothing gets me hard like reading man pages
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Well, every Veterans Administration hospital in the US still makes its employees use a program with a command line interface in order to request vacation time or sick days. This means learning to program a few lines of code if you want time off. God Bless America! 
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Oyak posted:Well, every Veterans Administration hospital in the US still makes its employees use a program with a command line interface in order to request vacation time or sick days. This means learning to program a few lines of code if you want time off. God Bless America! god dammit.
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Negrostrike posted:Knowledge Adventure. Wire you looking at me like that?
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 whoa this company is still in business they were poised to transition into VOIP pretty smoothly i guess 
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8 track betamax posted:GBS - That series of educational software I started using daily on my windows 95 at AGE 2 and understanding everything that was taught instantly. Never being able to connect to the internet before 2nd grade since my old house's windows 98 in Orrington ME had no internet cord attached. Getting Rutgers autism intervention and learning how to assemble a radio, a sock puppet and other things with my first specialist in preschool. Said internet literally exploding my perspective about everything and becoming my life upon moving to Portland area in 2002/3. Learning everything about the birds and the bees/anatomy with ADAM software series at age 5! That's right motherfuckers I learned sex ed by MYSELF! Drew a cardiovascular system too. Also bringing neighbor's AP college textbook on human anatomy to Kindergarten each day, reading it every night. Pirate's Cove, Fish Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, Insaniquarium, more educational games, learned about AIDS at age fuckin' 7.
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thathonkey posted:
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FilthyImp posted:Computer Relics - Before the Age of Autism we were just Nerds. Sometimes I compile linux open source or kernels just because I think my CPU isn't working hard enough and I want to watch it burn.
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neato burrito posted:Y'all motherfuckers never played a game loaded from a cassette tape on a regular antenna TV on a non-centering joystick with one button. Long live TRS-80.
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8 track betamax posted:Hey maybe there is a reason literally everyone around the world, regardless of age, ethnicity, culture, and creed complain about how everybody got they noses glued to a telephone screen no they don't lol it's mostly just olds
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