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Humphreys posted:I'll reach out to Nigel at least anyway and give him a list of what you have. Thanks I know there is more Marantz stuff in there as well but the only 2 I know off the top of my head are an 1152DC and an 1180DC that I used to use for mobile DJ work.
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Pubic Lair posted:Thanks I know there is more Marantz stuff in there as well but the only 2 I know off the top of my head are an 1152DC and an 1180DC that I used to use for mobile DJ work. I edited my last post to say I already emailed him. I used to sell the Marantz gear and genuinely loved them. Not at an audiophile level of love, jsut that I appreciated their equipment and could sell them honestly (I was a bad salesman for a number of higher profit brands accordingly...)
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I always liked the design of the 70's era Marantz gear ever since I picked up my 1152DC in a pawn shop. That and they are near bulletproof. 
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I've got a 1970s Technics stereo receiver that once belonged to my father. I am perfectly willing to believe I will die before that beast does, the only maintenance it has required is airing out the dust every now and then and cleaning the knobs with electric cleaner every two decades or so. poo poo was built to last back then.
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Lowen SoDium posted:I always pronounced it Geo-Cities but one time I heard someone pronounce it like it rhymed with atrocities (which may have been more accurate for it's content). I have always read it in my head as rhyming with atrocities (but never actually used it in a sentence). I assume it's actually pronounced geo-cities because it started out with sections named after actual cities and geographical areas, but it's severely lacking the flow of gee-ossities
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sinking belle posted:This reminded me that there was this bizarre social stigma about playing a game boy with the sound on at the school I moved to in 1999. Like, it was somehow "babyish" to not have the volume turned off, it wasn't even an "it's annoying to other people" thing. Using headphones was the absolute worst thing you could do because that meant people would see that you really cared about video game noises and that was just awful and sad. Well obviously turning the sound down means less battery usage and thus more game time, idiot! 
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Light Gun Man posted:Well obviously turning the sound down means less battery usage and thus more game time, idiot! That just reminds me of the laughably terrible battery life of the Game Gear. My old first-gen brick Game Boy lasted forever on 2 AAs, and the Pocket was even more efficient and only used 2 AAAs. Meanwhile the Game Gear basically had the battery life of a modern smartphone, and it only took 8 AAs!
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drunk asian neighbor posted:That just reminds me of the laughably terrible battery life of the Game Gear. My old first-gen brick Game Boy lasted forever on 2 AAs, and the Pocket was even more efficient and only used 2 AAAs. Meanwhile the Game Gear basically had the battery life of a modern smartphone, and it only took 8 AAs! Full color was well worth it though. One of the only things I have ever shoplifted was actually batteries to feed my Game Gear addiction. A buddy of mine had the TV tuner and we used it to watch Jerry Springer on the way to a field trip in the 6th grade. While a black and white TV was nothing to get excited about the novelty was a thing to behold being jammed in a bus for hours at that age. I feel like it was an AM/FM tuner too but I could be making that part up.
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Gay Weed Dad posted:Full color was well worth it though. One of the only things I have ever shoplifted was actually batteries to feed my Game Gear addiction. The color was cool, but the screen was poo poo, viewing angle was terrible on it. Man, all the original Game Boys were so awesome. The original just for what it was, the Pocket was so tiny and sleekly designed, and the Color was awesome too except for the color schemes. Even the Advance was pretty neat, although the GBA SP was miles better.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:The color was cool, but the screen was poo poo, viewing angle was terrible on it. I remember the Lynx having a decent enough screen, but also poor battery life
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Jul 14, 2016 19:52
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I had a Gameboy Pocket. Still do actually. My parents refused to buy me anymore batteries so I was often forced to sit next to a socket, taking the joy of portability out of the equation.
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Oh yeah, and those lucky JP gamers that got the Game Boy Light, AKA a Pocket with a backlight. I remember being really drat jealous of that.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:The color was cool, but the screen was poo poo, viewing angle was terrible on it. Yeah Nintendo definitely seemed to work alot of the kinks (especially ergonomics) out of their devices as they evolved. At the time I couldn't believe how awesome the graphics of the Game Gear were for the form factor, Sega slashed prices at one point which is the only reason my parents would've ever entertained buying such a contraption. The only handheld that I've owned that I liked any better was my PSP but that was namely because the homebrew community had a field day with the 1st gen PSP pretty early on.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:That just reminds me of the laughably terrible battery life of the Game Gear. My old first-gen brick Game Boy lasted forever on 2 AAs, and the Pocket was even more efficient and only used 2 AAAs. Meanwhile the Game Gear basically had the battery life of a modern smartphone, and it only took 8 AAs! First gen Game Boy used 4 AA's, and the Game Gear took 6.
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empty baggie posted:First gen Game Boy used 4 AA's, and the Game Gear took 6. I feel like a dumbass on the Game Boy one. Never owned a GG though, I just remember my friends that did constantly complaining about how fast the batteries died and how they took a shitload of them. Gay Weed Dad posted:Yeah Nintendo definitely seemed to work alot of the kinks (especially ergonomics) out of their devices as they evolved. At the time I couldn't believe how awesome the graphics of the Game Gear were for the form factor, Sega slashed prices at one point which is the only reason my parents would've ever entertained buying such a contraption. The only handheld that I've owned that I liked any better was my PSP but that was namely because the homebrew community had a field day with the 1st gen PSP pretty early on. Yeah I bought a PSP long after the system was officially dead and it's the best pocket emulator ever. I much prefer playing GBA games on my PSP than on my actual GBA. Love that drat thing. Anyone ever own a Nomad? They looked cool but IIRC they were expensive as hell and the screen wasn't great, I remember reading a review talking about how Phantasy Star IV was basically unplayable on it. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 20:11 on Jul 14, 2016 |
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I feel like a dumbass on the Game Boy one. Never owned a GG though, I just remember my friends that did constantly complaining about how fast the batteries died and how they took a shitload of them. I always wanted a Nomad for my collection/hoarding. Still haven't gotten around to it yet. I would LOVE a Pandora and their new version which is coming out - but wow are they are expensive and I don't even play the games I already own on most of my systems.
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Humphreys posted:I always wanted a Nomad for my collection/hoarding. Still haven't gotten around to it yet. I would LOVE a Pandora and their new version which is coming out - but wow are they are expensive and I don't even play the games I already own on most of my systems. I had never heard of a Pandora until you mentioned it; seems like the came out at the wrong time with smartphones really coming into their own around the same period. The Pyra does look pretty cool but the pricing scares me!
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Gay Weed Dad posted:I had never heard of a Pandora until you mentioned it; seems like the came out at the wrong time with smartphones really coming into their own around the same period. The Pyra does look pretty cool but the pricing scares me! If the Pyra is ever actually available for general purchase, I'll be pretty loving shocked. Pandora was vaporware back in 2006 when I first saw it and Pyra looks like more of the same, as much as I want one.
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Wasn't the Pandora's main issue its horrific lead time? At time of announcement the specs were pretty potent but- several years later- when it was available it was, as you say, outclassed by an average smartphone. Pyra is being headed up by EvilDragon right? He seems to have his poo poo together but a colleague of mine had one of the first gen pandoras and while it's a neat geek toy I don't really get it? I say this as someone who owned a Sharp Zaurus
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Mechanism Eight posted:Wasn't the Pandora's main issue its horrific lead time? At time of announcement the specs were pretty potent but- several years later- when it was available it was, as you say, outclassed by an average smartphone. Pyra is being headed up by EvilDragon right? He seems to have his poo poo together but a colleague of mine had one of the first gen pandoras and while it's a neat geek toy I don't really get it? I say this as someone who owned a Sharp Zaurus all I want is a Linux box that fits in my pocket, has a cell radio, and actually runs regular Linux software not whatever hosed-in-the-head nonsense Google has decided to slap on top of a Linux kernel. I'm serious, I'll write my own SMS client and cellphone dialer if I have to, I've done it before. It's supposed to come with telephony capability, so if it ever comes out I'd buy one and ditch my Android phone. I don't give a single gently caress about the video gaming capabilities, I just want a personal device that I actually control (again, gently caress you Google).
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Pham Nuwen posted:all I want is a Linux box that fits in my pocket, has a cell radio, and actually runs regular Linux software not whatever hosed-in-the-head nonsense Google has decided to slap on top of a Linux kernel. Wow, I'm pretty happy with my Droid. Does what I need it to; I didn't even root the current one.
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sinking belle posted:This reminded me that there was this bizarre social stigma about playing a game boy with the sound on at the school I moved to in 1999. Like, it was somehow "babyish" to not have the volume turned off, it wasn't even an "it's annoying to other people" thing. Using headphones was the absolute worst thing you could do because that meant people would see that you really cared about video game noises and that was just awful and sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeqpopmFv7Y Oh and also thank you as I will finally remember to tell my dumb story about my youth now My friends and I were walking to school excitedly discussing some amazing demo (probably Second Reality, we had not really seen anything that topped it by the mid-1990s when I think this took place) and how we were sure if we could make a demo that good we could all get hired as a result. The most enormous good ole' boy farm kid at the school was walking not too far away from us, and he turned around and angrily said "HOW THE HELL YOU GONNA GET HIRED DOING A DEMO???" All of us froze in utter confusion and terror and I think I muttered like "uh...you never know?" and that seemed to satisfy him and he resumed walking. Years passed and I always wondered what in the world he could have possibly thought a "demo" was. It took until, like, earlier this week when remembering this story to realize he probably thought we were talking about some sort of home demolition or demolition derby or something. I guess I can see how that might not really be that useful for your future job prospects.
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Pham Nuwen posted:all I want is a Linux box that fits in my pocket, has a cell radio, and actually runs regular Linux software not whatever hosed-in-the-head nonsense Google has decided to slap on top of a Linux kernel. You could probably build something acceptable out of a Raspberry Pi if you wanted, with the benefit of being able to plug a real keyboard and mouse in so you don't go completely insane thumb-typing.
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sinking belle posted:This reminded me that there was this bizarre social stigma about playing a game boy with the sound on at the school I moved to in 1999. Like, it was somehow "babyish" to not have the volume turned off, it wasn't even an "it's annoying to other people" thing. Using headphones was the absolute worst thing you could do because that meant people would see that you really cared about video game noises and that was just awful and sad. Ironically, people wore the headphones with the volume up to keep from hearing people mocking them. It was a vicious circle.
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Shlomo Palestein posted:You could probably build something acceptable out of a Raspberry Pi if you wanted, with the benefit of being able to plug a real keyboard and mouse in so you don't go completely insane thumb-typing. Pyra's got USB ports so you could plug a keyboard and mouse into that too. It's also got the LTE module incorporated... buying a modern cell radio and wiring it up to a Pi would be challenging. People have done it with 2G radios, but 2G is being phased out and obviously the data rate would be poo poo anyway. I've been down the Pi route and I think with a lot of experimentation you could get something with the features Pyra promises, but bigger and clunkier. I'm actually seriously pulling for the Pyra to hit real production (meaning: an "order" button on the page, not just this pre-order crap) because at about $700 USD for the best one (4GB RAM and the LTE radio) it's in cellphone territory, but unlike cellphones I'd expect one to last longer than a year or two.
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Pham Nuwen posted:all I want is a Linux box that fits in my pocket, has a cell radio, and actually runs regular Linux software not whatever hosed-in-the-head nonsense Google has decided to slap on top of a Linux kernel. You could try one of these if price doesn't bother you coupled to a Raspberry Pi Zero (if you can get one) plus whatever screen and input devices you want: https://www.cooking-hacks.com/3g-gprs-shield-for-raspberry-pi-3g-gps-audio-video-kit Or if you are lazy, use a USB 3G modem that is commercially available, I have 3 sitting here doing nothing and might make a project of it and break out its USB if you want to avoid the whole 'sticking out the side' business. EDIT: The pros of a USB stick are most support extended AT commands.
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Dr. Quarex posted:This makes me so profoundly sad. What level school was this? If it were like junior high/middle school I could understand how some arbitrary set of social mores had formed that declared digital beeping was uncool, but it still breaks my heart to envision a place where this would not be appreciated
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Pham Nuwen posted:all I want is a Linux box that fits in my pocket, has a cell radio, and actually runs regular Linux software not whatever hosed-in-the-head nonsense Google has decided to slap on top of a Linux kernel. i think there are versions of android with the proprietary stuff replaced with ~free open source~ versions but lol if you expect that to be something that even vaguely resembles modern android. unless you're getting all stallman and demand an unlocked baseband in which case good luck, buddy just use a custom rom and don't install google services if you hate google so much. custom roms are for idiots in tyool 2016 but hey if you really dont want google on your android tahts how you do it nigga crab pollock has a new favorite as of 14:58 on Jul 16, 2016 |
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There is that Ubuntu phone project. Use that.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Pyra are they still trying to hock this garbage? isnt this like the third or fourth iteration of the pandora. the huge hype for that thing was completely unrequited, the build quality was bad and software support was even worse. thats ignoring the bad hardware its the type of thing thats ~designed for versatility~ to impress linux nerds but half of the poo poo doesnt work. you wont hear people complaining about it though because its ~versatility~ lets you circumvent the glaring hardware and software design flaws. why do you need to be able to plug a mouse and keyboard into a portable device with a touchscreen, analog pointers and a full qwerty keyboard? because they suck so bad you need to plug a separate keyboard in to use it. but thats actually a Good Thing and a Reason You Should Buy It. check and mate, scrubs with locked down hardware and software 
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nigga crab pollock posted:are they still trying to hock this garbage? isnt this like the third or fourth iteration of the pandora. the huge hype for that thing was completely unrequited, the build quality was bad and software support was even worse. thats ignoring the bad hardware In support of this post but less harsh I tried to take a photo of my standalone RaspiPi with touchscreen, wifi, 3G and battery but the gods of live demos were harsh and the SD was corrupted  I'm in no mood to get it running after my win10 upgrade drama and I just wanna play vidya now I'm drunk.
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i will be fuckin harsh towards questionable hardware because nerds especially will gush about stuff that straight up doesnt work well the first android phone i got was poo poo by any reasonable measure but i never found a single negative thing or review, and when trying to fix the absolutely broken radio was told that mine was working better than others and i should stop complaining, it was a powerful phone for a competitive price  i then bought a phone that could hold a 3g connection for more than 4 hours before the battery died.
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nigga crab pollock posted:i will be fuckin harsh towards questionable hardware because nerds especially will gush about stuff that straight up doesnt work well I too would love a blob free OSHW but I think we are stuck with Bunny if we want 'everything' Humphreys has a new favorite as of 16:48 on Jul 16, 2016 |
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THE INTERNET on April 4th, 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8
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Bonzo posted:THE INTERNET on April 4th, 1998 Of course THE INTERNET involves mIRC and Anime
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I should watch more. :-( I suck
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Drastic Actions posted:Of course THE INTERNET involves mIRC and Anime What else is there?
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 I bet there was a direct correlation between using a graphical IRC client and liking anime. At least using regular IRC as a control group. Were there ever any analyses done of relative popularity of shell IRC versus client programs? Would such studies have even been really feasible? I always assumed at the time that the vast majority were using IRC, but it is probably due to the selection bias of the kinds of channels I hung out on.
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I think you'd all appreciate this. http://www.cameronsworld.net/
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Star Man posted:I think you'd all appreciate this. lol that is amazing but I was afraid to let it keep loading. e: I don't think my PC is powerful enough!
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