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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

spog posted:

What's going on with this? According to ebay, they are still making this 2009 phone and I can buy a new one for �230

Surely not the same specs?

Same specs as always - My ebay win on the N900 was 40 pounds including international shipping thanks to seller not listing it right

# ? Aug 10, 2016 13:39

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# ? May 27, 2024 18:01

Grim Up North: Dec 12, 2011

Boiled Water posted:

I'm amazed a vga / dvi only monitor is still alive.

I still have a VGA only monitor (manufactured eight years ago) as a second screen. I don't like reading on it too much but it's fine as a video monitor.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 13:42

Rectus: Apr 27, 2008

Humphreys posted:

Nokia N900 - always wanted one. They were marketed as hackable by Nokia themselves and the idea of dual booting Android and a full Linux Distro are appealing to me. If only its slideout keyboard was on a pivot like the N97.

It also runs Maemo by default. At least at the time I used one, the Android port to it didn't have all drivers working, I don't think you could even use it as a phone.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 14:07

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Rectus posted:

It also runs Maemo by default. At least at the time I used one, the Android port to it didn't have all drivers working, I don't think you could even use it as a phone.

Yes, I bought it for nostalgia and anice little 'hackable' thingo. It's mostly nostalgia for a flagship device I couldn't afford at the time (much like my Atari Jaguar Purchase).

# ? Aug 10, 2016 15:05

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Humphreys posted:

Yes, I bought it for nostalgia and anice little 'hackable' thingo. It's mostly nostalgia for a flagship device I couldn't afford at the time (much like my Atari Jaguar Purchase).

The Jaguar was just a clusterfuck of bad decisions and taking the cheapest possible route to something, but sometimes I wonder what might have been.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 15:34

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

whiteyfats posted:

The Jaguar was just a clusterfuck of bad decisions and taking the cheapest possible route to something, but sometimes I wonder what might have been.

The name Atari and who owns the IPs has always been like, five times removed from the original seventies company that everyone since then has been capitalizing on. The Jaguar never had any potential.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 05:59

Grumbletron 4000: Nov 30, 2002; Where you want it, bitch.; College Slice

Humphreys posted:

Well poo poo,

I went down the rabbit hole on phones, and have two older mobile phones on the way for about $100.

I still have my Sprint Treo 650 that I bought back in '05. I loved that thing. It really was one of the earliest phones with alot of the features of modern phones. It was a fat old girl but people marveled that I had functional internet, a camera with video and an emulator that played all the old school Roms. Last time I took it out the drat thing fired right up. Still had all my pics and contacts in there too.

Does anyone know off hand if it's possible to make it functional again on a cheapo prepaid plan? It'd be fun to have it around again just to have another phone around. Mostly for nostalgia though.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 06:49

Karasu Tengu: Feb 16, 2011; Humble Tengu Newspaper Reporter

WickedHate posted:

The name Atari and who owns the IPs has always been like, five times removed from the original seventies company that everyone since then has been capitalizing on. The Jaguar never had any potential.

The Jaguar was actually the last thing Atari Proper did, then Tramiel and friends saw the writing on the wall with the failure of the Jaguar, Lynx, and Falcon and just bailed on the company and let it fall apart.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 07:00

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Humphreys posted:

Yes, I bought it for nostalgia and anice little 'hackable' thingo. It's mostly nostalgia for a flagship device I couldn't afford at the time (much like my Atari Jaguar Purchase).

I remember back when I liked using computers for the sake of using a computer, and "hackable" was a solid positive. That was before I ran out of patience with fixing broken poo poo. Now, every time I have to open a session to my server I start in with the expletives after five minutes.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 07:13

Horse Clocks: Dec 14, 2004

Humphreys posted:

Nokia N97 (not the mini) - will use this as my daily. The physical keyboard and landscape aspect are great. It's old and runs Maemo not Android. But it's more than I need for a phone/messaging device. I had one of these on launch day and was sadly stolen in a somewhat funny story I won't get into now.

it runs symbian. The N900 is the one that runs maemo.
I've wondered how using a symbian phone would hold up for day to day use. Probably terribly, I doubt anybody builds functional apps for them these days.

Humphreys posted:

Nokia N900 - always wanted one. They were marketed as hackable by Nokia themselves and the idea of dual booting Android and a full Linux Distro are appealing to me. If only its slideout keyboard was on a pivot like the N97.

I bought one of these on launch. Despite its copious shortfalls and just general shittiness, I loved it. Wish I didnt sell it.

Will you buy the 3rd party upgrade?

# ? Aug 11, 2016 07:14

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

whiteyfats posted:

The Jaguar was just a clusterfuck of bad decisions and taking the cheapest possible route to something, but sometimes I wonder what might have been.

The Jaguar lives on as a a dental camera

# ? Aug 11, 2016 07:23

90s Solo Cup: Feb 22, 2011; To understand the cup
He must become the cup

Boiled Water posted:

I'm amazed a vga / dvi only monitor is still alive.

My most recent monitor is a used LG LED made sometime in 2015, so yeah...I was surprised it had VGA and DVI, but no HDMI or DisplayPort.

90s Solo Cup has a new favorite as of 09:26 on Aug 11, 2016

# ? Aug 11, 2016 09:02

Teriyaki Hairpiece: Dec 29, 2006; I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.

I would love my Nexus 6P way more if its touchscreen had a corresponding physical keyboard the size of the screen, hinged at one side, with both pieces snapping together. That could even be an option, you could have your regular smartphone with or without the keyboard half.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 09:05

Veotax: May 16, 2006

axolotl farmer posted:

The Jaguar lives on as a a dental camera

It was also almost a Kickstarter scam

# ? Aug 11, 2016 09:05

El Estrago Bonito: Dec 17, 2010; Scout Finch Bitch

Tubesock Holocaust posted:

FTFY

These are still pretty popular in some areas because drug dealers like them. I know a few years back in London you could easily sell these for around a hundred pounds a piece and certain cell retailers were selling customized ones with paint jobs and such for significantly more.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 09:07

90s Solo Cup: Feb 22, 2011; To understand the cup
He must become the cup

El Estrago Bonito posted:

These are still pretty popular in some areas because drug dealers like them. I know a few years back in London you could easily sell these for around a hundred pounds a piece and certain cell retailers were selling customized ones with paint jobs and such for significantly more.

I'm shocked. Around here, the cheapest phones you could get are throwaway LG and Samsung flip phones with Tracfone or Net10 prepaid card plans.

_{_{Yeah, that post was actually meant for another thread, but whatevs.}}

# ? Aug 11, 2016 09:29

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Veotax posted:

It was also almost a Kickstarter scam

My favorite console scam was the Phantom.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 09:52

KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle

whiteyfats posted:

My favorite console scam was the Phantom.

The most appropriately named vaporware product ever.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 10:04

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

KozmoNaut posted:

The most appropriately named vaporware product ever.

Didn't the feds go after the guy behind the Phantom?

# ? Aug 11, 2016 10:08

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Horse Clocks posted:

it runs symbian. The N900 is the one that runs maemo.
I've wondered how using a symbian phone would hold up for day to day use. Probably terribly, I doubt anybody builds functional apps for them these days.

Ah of course - I knew I mixed something. I get drunk and excited and just spew out posts.

Horse Clocks posted:

Will you buy the 3rd party upgrade?

What is this you speak of? I'm hoping you mean some hardware mods.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 12:03

George RR Fartin: Apr 16, 2003

Elliotw2 posted:

The Jaguar was actually the last thing Atari Proper did, then Tramiel and friends saw the writing on the wall with the failure of the Jaguar, Lynx, and Falcon and just bailed on the company and let it fall apart.

When I was a kid I lusted over the Lynx, which compared to the Gameboy I got on Christmas 1991 was like The Future. There was one at some retail store nearby that I would always check out when my parents dragged me along, and it had California Games on it. I would play that stupid game for fifteen or so minutes usually before my parents were done with whatever they were doing and pulled me off it.

I set up a Retropie recently and grabbed some Lynx roms for it. Even outside the small form factor, there is a lot of unrealized potential in the thing -- it did sprite scaling better than my Genesis does (though the absurdly low resolution isn't really doing anyone any favors). It's a shame that there are so few decent games for it; most are just this sort of "beta-test" level dreck with interesting concepts and awful execution.

I've also realized in my years of emulating that there is a distinct late 80's Atari sprite style. I can't quite explain it, but all their little character sprites and the font for scoring are very similar/identical in all their games.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 14:08

Shugojin: Sep 6, 2007; THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...

whiteyfats posted:

Didn't the feds go after the guy behind the Phantom?

Yeah?

I think he also bought and then crashed a Ferrari Enzo so lol

# ? Aug 11, 2016 14:12

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Shlomo Palestein posted:

I set up a Retropie recently and grabbed some Lynx roms for it. Even outside the small form factor, there is a lot of unrealized potential in the thing -- it did sprite scaling better than my Genesis does (though the absurdly low resolution isn't really doing anyone any favors). It's a shame that there are so few decent games for it; most are just this sort of "beta-test" level dreck with interesting concepts and awful execution.

Do yourself a favour and load up Batman Returns on it. I've had a Lynx since I was a kid and that drat game is great. The title music is amazing as far as I'm concerned (let it loop). Also depending which buttons you push to enter the game from the main menu - you get a different set of enemies on the levels.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 14:16

BattleMaster: Aug 14, 2000

Shugojin posted:

Yeah?

I think he also bought and then crashed a Ferrari Enzo so lol

No, that was the Gizmondo guy, who blamed the crash on a German guy named Dietrich who was never located and probably never existed.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 14:18

empty baggie: Oct 22, 2003

Grumbletron 4000 posted:

Does anyone know off hand if it's possible to make it functional again on a cheapo prepaid plan? It'd be fun to have it around again just to have another phone around. Mostly for nostalgia though.

I still use my GSM 650 as a backup phone. It uses a SIM card though, so it's easy to just swap SIMs, and I'm assuming the Sprint version does not have a SIM tray. Still, I don't see any reason why you couldn't get it hooked up somewhere.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 18:00

Sentient Data: Aug 31, 2011; My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

If it's sprint, you should look into something like ringplus - free plans pop up often on slickdeals, though you need to be able to jump on signing up within a really short window. I haven't signed up for one myself, but here's a thread from a recent one that should give you a lot of in-depth info on it

# ? Aug 11, 2016 19:26

Horse Clocks: Dec 14, 2004

Humphreys posted:

What is this you speak of? I'm hoping you mean some hardware mods.

Somebody has built and sells a replacement logic board for the thing, doubling the cpu-core count, and increasing the ram. It also makes it bigger.

Can't remember the name tho.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 19:39

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

WickedHate posted:

The name Atari and who owns the IPs has always been like, five times removed from the original seventies company that everyone since then has been capitalizing on. The Jaguar never had any potential.

So many Ataris.

First, Bushnell/Dabney: Atari Inc.
That got split into Atari Games Inc. and Atari Consumer Electronics Division. Atari Games Inc. got sold off to Namco.
ACED got sold to Jack Tramiel of Commodore fame and renamed Atari Corporation.
Atari Corporation got sold to Hasbro and became a subsidary, Atari Interactive. Infogrames bought Hasbro, licensed the name from Atari, and eventually renamed itself to Atari Inc.

The Atari that developed the Jaguar was the same one (Atari Corporation) that developed the Atari ST, which was a fairly successful machine.

# ? Aug 11, 2016 21:40

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

There is also the band.

# ? Aug 12, 2016 03:30

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Horse Clocks posted:

Somebody has built and sells a replacement logic board for the thing, doubling the cpu-core count, and increasing the ram. It also makes it bigger.

Can't remember the name tho.

Holy poo poo! It's the Neo900.

https://my.neo900.org/index.php?id_product=2&controller=product&id_lang=1

A bit rich though at roughly 1000 Euro just for the DIY kit.

But thanks for letting me know about it.

# ? Aug 12, 2016 04:04

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Shugojin posted:

I think he also bought and then crashed a Ferrari Enzo so lol

BattleMaster posted:

No, that was the Gizmondo guy, who blamed the crash on a German guy named Dietrich who was never located and probably never existed.

ahaahah Tjock-Steffe :sweden:

# ? Aug 13, 2016 19:20

treiz01: Jan 2, 2008; There is little that makes me happier than taking drugs. Perhaps administering them, designing and carrying out experiments that bend the plane of what we consider reality.

axolotl farmer posted:

This is such a great picture. It does make me cry a bit to know that the world is down one Ferrari Enzo.

# ? Aug 14, 2016 00:41

mostlygray: Nov 1, 2012; BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

Phanatic posted:

The Atari that developed the Jaguar was the same one (Atari Corporation) that developed the Atari ST, which was a fairly successful machine.

The 520/1040 ST was used for audio processing and midi for decades after they were obsolete. We had one of each when I was a kid and always used them for desktop publishing in grade school/junior high. You also could get really bad-rear end games for it. You could play arcade quality games when everyone else was stuck with the original Nintendo. 8mhz 68000 Motorola ftw!

We used to go to Atari User Group sessions and trade shareware and buy software. It's so cool to hook up a synth to your computer and natively do midi sequencing and then play Gauntlet until you want to kill yourself from the "Death" sound effect.

I loved my ST. Too bad that Atari screwed the pooch.

Also, I miss Gauntlet. That was the best co-op game ever.

# ? Aug 14, 2016 03:36

Shugojin: Sep 6, 2007; THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...

treiz01 posted:

This is such a great picture. It does make me cry a bit to know that the world is down one Ferrari Enzo.

It died a noble death to create that picture

# ? Aug 14, 2016 03:48

Toys For Ass Bum: Feb 1, 2015

I wonder how many cheap DVD players actually have DVD burners inside, but they just use them for playing discs. Does anyone even make DVD-ROM drives anymore?

# ? Aug 14, 2016 04:59

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

wayne curr posted:

Does anyone even make DVD-ROM drives anymore?

Probably New Old Stock:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/External...725.m3641.l6368

EDIT:
Speaking of N.O.S and obsolete tech. Found these valves/tubes at work yesterday.

Quality phone photo!

Humphreys has a new favorite as of 07:03 on Aug 14, 2016

# ? Aug 14, 2016 05:03

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

mostlygray posted:

Also, I miss Gauntlet. That was the best co-op game ever.

A CHALLENGER APPEARS!

So many quarters wasted... :negative:

# ? Aug 14, 2016 05:08

El Estrago Bonito: Dec 17, 2010; Scout Finch Bitch

Tubesock Holocaust posted:

I'm shocked. Around here, the cheapest phones you could get are throwaway LG and Samsung flip phones with Tracfone or Net10 prepaid card plans.

_{_{Yeah, that post was actually meant for another thread, but whatevs.}}

Well in most of Europe you can just buy the prepaid SIMs and toss them into whatever phone you want. The old school Nokias became popular because they are durable but also because they have a sort of immortal place in the culture of British and European drug dealing, back when having a pimped out Nokia was a status symbol.

# ? Aug 14, 2016 10:27