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I used an Xecuter 3 solderless chip which was great if you were like me and wanted to mod your Xbox, but didn't want to pay anyone to do it and were scared to death of breaking something. The Xbox mod scene had everything setup so well. Easy to follow instructions, forums, and FAQs for everything. Even installing your own hard drive and locking it in case you wanted to use it for XBL was super easy. Buying a used Xbox just to mod it was the best thing I ever did for my home theatre. I was downloading a bunch torrents and just wanted to watch them in the living room easily with a remote. XBMP was pretty much the only option to do that. Once you got everything set up it was actually way easier to use than having a full on PC hooked up to your tv. Emulators worked great. And it was nice to rent Xbox games and just open a program and click one button to copy it to the hard drive. I still miss that setup whenever I try to get Kodi in the FireTV stick to connect via SMB to a Windows 10 PC. It straight up doesn't work and it super frustrating considering I've been using that software to connect to Windows for over a decade without issue.
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nigga crab pollock posted:The menu system is used for the squad ai I think? (literally no clue what that entire feature is or how to use it since there's no documentation) that and the weapon mode switching that I want to get rid of anyways. Maybe? in fact I don't even really know what's up with it Looking at the makefile thing I might be able to just comment out all the bot poo poo. I'll give it a go tomorrow. You need plat or something so I can stop making GBS threads up this thread. 
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oh my god i figured it out. gmqcc has different modes and this poo poo is not compatible in default, you have to run it in 'original quake c.' i kept hitting the same weird error like you said and i ended up finding people complaining about the source code and what compilers didn't work i still had to gut the poo poo out of the code to get rid of the squad modifications but it compiles! the source code is absolutely not the same version as the distributed since there's some weird broken poo poo due to filename discrepancies and some weird differences
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Xbox modding was a great time. Such a feeling of accomplishment when you got a new install on the menus started populating. Eventually, I got everything down to exactly the way I wanted it, and just made the whole thing a disk image so I could bang out a couple of consoles a night. That copy of 007: Agent Under Fire made me quite a bit of money for a couple of years.
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nigga crab pollock posted:oh my god i figured it out. gmqcc has different modes and this poo poo is not compatible in default, you have to run it in 'original quake c.' i kept hitting the same weird error like you said and i ended up finding people complaining about the source code and what compilers didn't work That is very weird. I tried the -std=qcc flag and it barfed even more than normal. The readme says something about how the standard compiler can't compile it. Alls well that ends well 
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Are they still making new versions of XBMC (or whatever it's called) for the original Xbox
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EugeneJ posted:Are they still making new versions of XBMC (or whatever it's called) for the original Xbox Last I knew it changed name to Kodi to avoid the stigma (and potential lawsuits) of being linked to a system as old as the Xbox
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I played through all of Turok through n64 emulation literally a week before the remaster appeared out of nowhere on steam. Glad I did or else I would have spent money on a game I remembered liking but is actually awful. That said, the choking sound effects and blood spurts that happen when you shoot a guy in the neck in that game make for one of the most hardcore FPS enemy deaths even with the terrible n64 era models.
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EugeneJ posted:Are they still making new versions of XBMC (or whatever it's called) for the original Xbox apparently the latest release was in february 2016 so yeah i guess so
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Tato posted:I played through all of Turok through n64 emulation literally a week before the remaster appeared out of nowhere on steam. Glad I did or else I would have spent money on a game I remembered liking but is actually awful. Sorry but Turok is great 
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Mak0rz posted:Sorry but Turok is great Yeah and the PC remaster is a really nice improvement on it. It plays way better with new mouse+keyboard controls and the pushed back fog makes areas look a lot nicer and also feel a lot less maze-like. I wouldn't pay the 20bux regular price but it's not a bad pick on discount. I'm really looking forward to what they do with Turok 2.
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nigga crab pollock posted:yeah this is the zip that comes with the mod Some things occurred to me about this post: Why are you complaining about it being "loving ancient", I thought we were all here because we love stuff that is loving ancient? Is the problem that you're running 64-bit Windows? Is it a DOS application? If both of these are true then there are probably not-too-hard ways of making it easy enough to still run it. I don't know if you can get DOSBox to pass parameters through to an application it runs, but MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 might be suitable, this post which is fortunately for me in English explains how you can wrap a DOS .exe file into a Win32 or Win64 .exe file. I know you already solved the problem but thought I'd point out this alternative solution anyway.
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Gobblecoque posted:Yeah and the PC remaster is a really nice improvement on it. It plays way better with new mouse+keyboard controls and the pushed back fog makes areas look a lot nicer and also feel a lot less maze-like. I wouldn't pay the 20bux regular price but it's not a bad pick on discount. I'm really looking forward to what they do with Turok 2. I never got past the swamp in Turok 2 because by then I'd played some PC FPS games and, no, just couldn't. Give me some remastered CEREBRAL BORE.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:OK, I think I kind of understand what's going on. I don't suppose either of you have a link handy to an article on how video outputs work on older systems? It's pretty interesting to me that the raw video on a game is substantially different from what actually shows up on-screen. Sorry, I actually don't know much about it! I'd be interested in knowing more too, actually. The retro gaming thread might be a good place to ask, if it's still going. doctorfrog posted:I never got past the swamp in Turok 2 because by then I'd played some PC FPS games and, no, just couldn't. Give me some remastered CEREBRAL BORE. That level's music is something else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObzyVBobrg (really picks up at the 1:50 mark) Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 07:18 on Sep 3, 2016 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:Some things occurred to me about this post: it was a twenty year old program with 16 bit constraints with modern 64 bit alternatives available. why bother there is no glory or charm or really any way a compiler from 1997 is going to be better than a modern one besides accidentally parsing broken code. the code was hosed anyways, that was the problem. nigga crab pollock has a new favorite as of 07:47 on Sep 3, 2016 |
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drunk asian neighbor posted:OK, I think I kind of understand what's going on. I don't suppose either of you have a link handy to an article on how video outputs work on older systems? It's pretty interesting to me that the raw video on a game is substantially different from what actually shows up on-screen. It's not exactly what you are looking for, but related. A quite interesting pair of videos explaining how graphics was done back in the days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfh0ytz8S0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rsycfDliZU To see some of the effect, compare how CGA graphics can be done using composite and lots of modern knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXx3orN35Y And another video from the same guy explaining why it works. This is similar to what happens on composite out (basically, composite sucks and blends, and if you know exactly how, you can abuse it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc There's also a bunch of articles about how the 8088 MPH demo is done, including how they get colors by exploiting the composite blending at https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/8088-mph-how-it-came-about/; especially http://8088mph.blogspot.nl/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated.html and http://www.reenigne.org/blog/1k-colours-on-cga-how-its-done/ klafbang has a new favorite as of 10:42 on Sep 3, 2016 |
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Excellent post; those videos are really good and informative.
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Hello In the year 2004 this fan blower made sense.  "I have a lot of empty slots, why not get lots of air moving between them!" I forgot if those fans blow out or suck in; pretty sure it was the latter.
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Those remind me of the stock Dell fans/fan housings Say what you want about the overall quality of their systems, the OEM guys had some great features sometimes. Those plastic clips that let you hot-swap hard drives and other bays were awesome.
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EVIL Gibson posted:Hello Hey now you don't want your sweet Athlon rig to overheat, do you  e: that sick double-blower cooler at 58 seconds though 
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I remember when that video was new, it didn't take long before motherboards included emergency temperature power cut features  And AMD fixed their poo poo pretty well with the Athlon 64, it's a shame they never managed to regain their lead after they finally lost the performance crown to the newer Pentium M based intel chips. The whole intel/AMD relationship is pretty weird, there's a ton of technology and patent sharing going on behind the scenes even though they are technically fierce competitors.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Those remind me of the stock Dell fans/fan housings I have an Optiplex in a closet for a Plex server and the blue HD caddies are pretty sweet. Airflow sucks though, they shoved them in the bottom of the case with only 1 fan, an 80mm exhaust, in the whole system.
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Bovril Delight posted:I have an Optiplex in a closet for a Plex server and the blue HD caddies are pretty sweet. Airflow sucks though, they shoved them in the bottom of the case with only 1 fan, an 80mm exhaust, in the whole system. Yeah, the airflow is terrible, my drives used to get really hot. I used to think Dell cases were nice but I guess it's because I was comparing to the cheapest generic cases available rather than good brand cases.
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I bought an $11 fan controller that plugs into SATA and has 6 fan connectors. It has an off setting as well as low and high. The front grill works well to zip tie a fan on, I put a 140mm there and it's done wonders to drop the HD temps. Not the prettiest but it's in a closet.
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Three-Phase posted:The motherboard SATA data port? That sounds kinda unorthodox Sorry, the power connector. SMAKN PC Fan Hub Supports 6 Ports 12V 3pin Fan Cable https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015BY38MG
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navy seals status: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93b6F5GHHm8 forking a twenty year old codebase 
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Mechanism Eight posted:e: that sick double-blower cooler at 58 seconds though I had one of these back in the day:  It was reasonably quiet and cooled pretty well provided you didn't run it at full speed. The included bracket was either for your free front 3.5" slot(because you only needed one floppy drive) and there was also a bracket included to install it on the back in a spare slot(Like in front of that ISA slot on your motherboard that you didn't really need anymore) But this one always looked even more awesome:  Had a white blinking LED on front and a red LED in the back and true to its name was pretty drat loud too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfmTeJRE6dE
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EugeneJ posted:Are they still making new versions of XBMC (or whatever it's called) for the original Xbox Yes http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/
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nigga crab pollock posted:navy seals status: Bitchin'! 
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nigga crab pollock posted:navy seals status: I love the sounds of the MP5 and the shotgun in that mod. What are removing from the weapons code? Hopefully not the Mode switch.
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Techmoan has a piece of hi-fi equipment from the early 70s and holy hell, look at how clean it's laid out when he finally opens it up (11:50). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkCIdufSGS8
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Techmoan has a piece of hi-fi equipment from the early 70s and holy hell, look at how clean it's laid out when he finally opens it up (11:50). Yeah my dad gave me some SAE rack-mount stuff he's had forever and it is all incredibly solid. Not quite as old as the one in that video though.
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Techmoan has a piece of hi-fi equipment from the early 70s and holy hell, look at how clean it's laid out when he finally opens it up (11:50). More things need oscilloscopes.
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Oh man, those tiny nixie tubes and that tuning knob. Perfect.
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A personal tech relic I saw when I first joined the company I work at now was the little portable Philips CD/Tape/Radio in the warehouse. It was the exact model I bought when I was maybe 12. sadly mine has died by now. That loving thing is sitting there in a warehouse collecting dust blaring out music 24/7 and probably been around for 20 years.
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Some of my co-workers were amazed at this innovative piece of technology they witnessed me using today:
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Jerry Cotton posted:Some of my co-workers were amazed at this innovative piece of technology they witnessed me using today: Surely that amazing discovery can bring about world peace.
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