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The Fool posted:If he had specified desktop os, would you have been less insufferable? He's the most insufferable person here, and that says a lot. So... probably not, unfortunately.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Let me put it this way: when they decided to call the third Xbox Xbox One I was glad because I thought it would stop hell idiots on Youtube from calling Xbox "Xbox one". My joy was short-lived of course since now they call Xbox "Xbox one I mean the original Xbox not Xbox One LOL" which is even worse. you mean the: xbox, 360, xbone, xboners there i fixed your problem
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Plinkey posted:you mean the: xbox, 360, xbone, xboners Oh wow I didn't know you can do a search+replace on other people's Youtube dialogue like that 
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TestingJerry Cotton posted:Oh wow I didn't know you can fart a penis on other people's gay saxophone like that
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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh wow I didn't know you can b̷̢͚̦̣̫̰̰̥̞̌̚u̸̯̐̓͊̓̀̂́͛̀͆͋̈́̓̉̐t̴̨͇͉̐t̷͔̘̮̞̔̽̏͒̐̎͂̋͆̿́̽͘ a f̶̨̧͙̦̘̣̩̞̥̩͔̙̥͚̭͐̈̽̉̑̓͘ä̴̧̗̤̭̖̖̰̙̟̖̥̗́͐̔̒ͅr̷̖͛͑̋̎̓̃͝t̴̨̢̙̲̜͍̬̣͇͓͚̘̄͒͑͜͜ on other people's b̷̢͚̦̣̫̰̰̥̞̌̚u̸̯̐̓͊̓̀̂́͛̀͆͋̈́̓̉̐t̴̨͇͉̐t̷͔̘̮̞̔̽̏͒̐̎͂̋͆̿́̽͘ f̶̨̧͙̦̘̣̩̞̥̩͔̙̥͚̭͐̈̽̉̑̓͘ä̴̧̗̤̭̖̖̰̙̟̖̥̗́͐̔̒ͅr̷̖͛͑̋̎̓̃͝t̴̨̢̙̲̜͍̬̣͇͓͚̘̄͒͑͜͜s like that Something's wrong.
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Plinkey posted:you mean the: xbox, 360, xbone, xboners  xbox, xbox three hundred and sixty, xbox three hundred and sixties, xbox one, xbox ones, xbox one ten.
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I don't care if it makes me insufferable, I'm still going to get annoyed when people call Alien and Aliens "Aliens 1 and Aliens 2"
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Plinkey posted:To be fair the OSX/Linux gaming scene has gotten much better thanks to Unity and Steam. There's a lot more thought put into it now and games are built for it from the ground up since 5-7 years ago. Which was right around when Steam Machine was trying to be a thing. Osx isn't half bad, I don't think they get all the AAA stuff but theres a pretty good selection What's maddening is that just as osx was becoming a semi-viable platform, they announced they're retiring opengl support in favor of their proprietary api. So while I think a lot of devs using unity and the like published to osx "for free" by checking a different box at build time, if there's extra effort to optimize for metal that's probably going away soon
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Regular Nintendo posted:What's maddening is that just as osx was becoming a semi-viable platform, they announced they're retiring opengl support in favor of their proprietary api. So while I think a lot of devs using unity and the like published to osx "for free" by checking a different box at build time, if there's extra effort to optimize for metal that's probably going away soon
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Fallom posted:VMs are hot garbage until they can simulate a Voodoo 2/3 and SB16 in 98SE imo Windows 98 SE and Sound Blaster 16 probably aren't much of a challenge for lots of emulators and hypervisors. Voodoo 2 might be a bit more rare but PCem has it: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/06/23/using-voodoo-2-emulation-pcem-86box/ Jerry Cotton posted:Running Linux inside a virtual machine on a Windows box would literally defeat any possible practical purpose of running Linux at home. You could put a shortcut to start a VM full screen into your Startup group and maybe avoid the Windows UI until you want to play a game.
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The Kins posted:I believe Unity and Unreal support Metal natively (at least on mobile), and for everything else a toolset has been put out to translate the Vulkan API into Metal. It'll be a pain, but probably less of a pain than dealing with Apple's awful OpenGL drivers. Oh cool, I totally missed this. That's good news
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My favourite thing about the xbone is how it keeps quietly losing saves. I don't use it much, but I've got a boyfriend who was a big fan of the 360 and has a bunch of xbone games - and he really can't depend on his saves (or even settings) surviving system updates. He has talked to MS support about it, and at one point they merged two separate accounts (one US, one EU) with the same username for him. I really don't get how that could happen in the first place, we've never even logged on outside Europe. Either way, that cleared up some weirdness - but his saves still randomly fail when he tries to go back to older games. Of course, this could be fixed by having a way to export and import saves, but yeah that's not going to happen.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Windows 98 SE and Sound Blaster 16 probably aren't much of a challenge for lots of emulators and hypervisors. Voodoo 2 might be a bit more rare but PCem has it: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/06/23/using-voodoo-2-emulation-pcem-86box/ Oh wow. I didn't even realize PCem was a thing. I know what I'm playing with later.
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BattleMaster posted:I don't care if it makes me insufferable, I'm still going to get annoyed when people call Alien and Aliens "Aliens 1 and Aliens 2" They are going to hell.
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Jerry Cotton posted:They are going on an express elevator to hell.
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BattleMaster posted:I don't care if it makes me insufferable, I'm still going to get annoyed when people call Alien and Aliens "Aliens 1 and Aliens 2" It still bugs me whenever I look at my headphones and instantly remember Jodie Foster wearing here headphone backwards (left channel to right ear not the wearing upside down). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRoj3jK37Vc
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Fallom posted:The compression is deliberately part of “the aesthetic”. i mean out of all the music genres to exist on floppy vaporwave is one that actually makes sense
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I have a few vaporwave floppies, and while it's certainly A E S T H E T I C the first few listens I ended up downloading the bandcamp versions and loading those into my Google Play Music instead.
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azurite posted:Oh wow. I didn't even realize PCem was a thing. I know what I'm playing with later. I should mention that there's also a fork, 86Box, which I think aims to have more experimental stuff in it. And then there's at least one fork of that I've seen mentioned somewhere. Humphreys posted:It still bugs me whenever I look at my headphones and instantly remember Jodie Foster wearing here headphone backwards (left channel to right ear not the wearing upside down). Wasn't there an old Sound Blaster where the channels were reversed? Probably not relevant in this case. Also: Will emulators emulate the reversed channels? Do the aliens transmit in stereo? It wasn't aliens, it was Jaffar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHuu5-T_hTc&t=45s
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Music on floppy disks just seem like demos without the cool visuals so what's even the point?
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I believe it's typed A E S T H E T I C E S T H E T I C
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It seems a bit like the feelies that came with Infocom games.
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Buttcoin purse posted:I should mention that there's also a fork, 86Box, which I think aims to have more experimental stuff in it. And then there's at least one fork of that I've seen mentioned somewhere. Hmm these are all very good questions. Now I'm going down a rabbithole of old soundcards. drat I wanted an Extigy when I was younger. Also remember at school our computers had a 5.25 bay soundcard breakout with little speakers inbuilt.
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Humphreys posted:Hmm these are all very good questions. Now I'm going down a rabbithole of old soundcards. drat I wanted an Extigy when I was younger. Also remember at school our computers had a 5.25 bay soundcard breakout with little speakers inbuilt. I always used to want to make one of those by just getting a blank face plate, drilling some holes in it, and routing some extension cables through the case, out the back and into the jacks in the back of the audio card. Now they're just a standard thing in cases, lucky I didn't waste my time  I found https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=46201 which confirmed my memory: quote:If I recall correctly, SB Pro 1 had reversed stereo and it was fixed with SB Pro 2, but many 'compatibles' remained reversed. And then there's the software which might be reversing things to compensate.
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I was the rebel with an Aureal and I hated you smug SB16 assholes
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I ran a Soundblaster well into the 2000s because it made life a lot easier when booted into Linux.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I ran a Soundblaster well into the 2000s because it made life a lot easier when booted into Linux. Don't be silly! Linux doesn't have sound :P (well I've never got it working properly)
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Humphreys posted:Don't be silly! Linux doesn't have sound :P (well I've never got it working properly) The worst isn't even that it never works, it's when you complain and 40 000 smelly shits on the Internet immediately pop out for the old "IT WORKS FOR ME" song and dance. e: They're lying, anyway.
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Jerry Cotton posted:40 000 smelly shits on the Internet Its weird if you sign your post in the middle of the post
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Humphreys posted:Don't be silly! Linux doesn't have sound :P (well I've never got it working properly) Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as "Linux" recording that shipped with Redhat to test audio. i played it many times when i got my 486 audio working but didn't have any thing to play
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That's on kernel.org somewhere if you want to relive your sound configuration days. It's mostly useful when people are saying Linux wrong though.
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Linux still doesn't seem to be able to play nice with Wifi either. At least not USB Wifi adapters, I have tried several and it never even acknowledges them, except for an entry in lsusb.
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Linux is good for when you really need to get something done because it's impossible for YouTube or podcasts to distract you
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I just realized that I haven't had to gently caress around with ndiswrapper in forever and that makes me happy.
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Arms_Akimbo posted:Linux is good for when you really need to get something done because it's impossible for YouTube or podcasts to distract you I know we're joking around here but legitimately since like 2010 I've never really had any trouble with Linux audio and I'm the kind of weirdo who starts with a stripped down install and adds individual packages as I need them rather than installing a full desktop suite right off the bat. I think Intel HD audio did a big part of it, we're no longer trying to support 50 different audio cards, most everything is just hda or, if you're running on some ancient piece of poo poo, ac97. I've pretty much only used desktops and Thinkpads for the last 8 years or so though, so maybe scrub garbage poo poo for idiots to compute with at the circus doesn't work so well
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The real fun in Linux is when you have a newer video card. I had to go into my BIOS to enable the onboard video so I could boot into linux, then install an nvidia driver, and then swap the HDMI back to the video card and hope it worked.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I know we're joking around here but legitimately since like 2010 I've never really had any trouble with Linux audio ...and that absolutely doesn't help the thousands who have. Meanwhile literally no-one has had trouble getting sound on Windows or whatever the current Apple OS is called. e: You smelly poo poo.
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