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A couple of pages back was the x is closer to y than now posts and now LGR just did a HL1 turns 20 video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEtOTFJCXA I guess I must be approaching my Half Life 
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In the early/mid 90s my family had an Apple II and dot matrix printer. The only game I can remember playing back then is Glypha (Joust clone) and a bunch of weird visual-Zork-like hypercard games. Running into enemies in those games spooked me real bad as a kid. I can't find youtube videos of them, and it was long enough ago that I don't remember their names. One of them involved you being in a zoo I think? They were like those tile-by-tile turn based first person RPGS. Around 1996-2000, the family computer was a Mac Performa. One of the CDs we had was a library of OLD mac shareware, somewhere between 500-1000 games. One that I fondly remember is Shadow Keep. It was my first roguelike game, long before I knew what that even was. It reminds me a lot of Elder Scrolls games, because you can attack passive/friendly NPCs and guards will come to gently caress your poo poo up. There's no set order of area/quest completion. Right off the bat, you can just wander around the continent, finding new areas/biomes and dungeon entrances. Exploring new areas and finding that you're way "out of depth" was fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEA67hW2-Y8 The other game I have vivid memories of playing on that Performa is Gahan Wilson's Ultimate Haunted House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mWuZGFC4JA I remember getting really uneasy playing it alone in the evening. It's a click and point puzzle game. You have to go through this haunted mansion full of classic movie monsters and more, to collect 13 keys before the timer hits 13 o' clock. It had spooky ambient music a lot of the time. Besides monsters that were part of the set/decor for each room, you could always run into a random encounter that would poo poo your pants in the middle of trying to solve a puzzle. Sometimes your interactions could make things worse, like feeding the carnivorous fish in the animal room too much. It would burst out of its aquarium and join the pool of random-encounter monsters. Scared me shitless back then. I think the haunted house one still holds up. It's a little slow to navigate, but pleasantly weird and spooky in a way that would only scare a kid.
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Nov 19, 2018 07:33
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Holy hell, finally someone else who remembers Haunted House! I still have my copy. The game had surprisingly good puzzles and such for a multimedia kids game of its day. I also remember spending a lot of time with the Spooky Piano and other "minigames". It's still real fun in that horror for kids kind way, heck, someone should do a gbs let's play come next Halloween  edit: also it still scared me a few times as a grown rear end adult, poo poo gets crazy after a certain point
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Nov 19, 2018 15:42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z4FVl4lxYM
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Nov 22, 2018 21:30
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Fascinating article about computing behind the wall: Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along The game at the top of the page is actually playable, too.
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Nov 23, 2018 05:23
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My friend's family had a Robotron back in the day, right before the wall came down. That thing sucked rear end very badly. I have much fonder memories of the C64/Amiga/PC years that followed right after that.
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Nov 23, 2018 05:59
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JediTalentAgent posted:Didn't Rambus RDRAM have a short burst in PC popularity around the late 90s/early 00s until DDR RAM came out? I worked at an electronics recycler circa 2008 and when we tore down systems for parts, RDRAM and DRDRAM sold for excellent prices on ebay. The terminator/dummy chips were worth posting for auction as well. Did that have use as parts/replacement for enterprise rack unit poo poo, or was it just dwindling supply for old (in 2008) home computers?
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Nov 27, 2018 05:48
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Probably mostly for mission critical hardware that can't be migrated to a new machine for whatever reason and a few people who really just wanted rambus. I worked in a computer store from 2007-2009 and had never seen rambus before then but encountered it a few times. One person even brought in some server with two pentium 3s, SCSI, and ECC RAM. People hold on to everything. That was a weird crossroads between weird old hardware and new standardized hardware, as well as the switch from 32 to 64 bit. There was some guy who refused to get Vista and wanted XP 64 no matter what despite there being gently caress all for drivers for it.
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Cojawfee posted:Probably mostly for mission critical hardware that can't be migrated to a new machine for whatever reason and a few people who really just wanted rambus. I worked in a computer store from 2007-2009 and had never seen rambus before then but encountered it a few times. One person even brought in some server with two pentium 3s, SCSI, and ECC RAM. People hold on to everything. That was a weird crossroads between weird old hardware and new standardized hardware, as well as the switch from 32 to 64 bit. There was some guy who refused to get Vista and wanted XP 64 no matter what despite there being gently caress all for drivers for it. I ran Windows XP Professional 64 on my main desktop for several years, and never had a driver problem. Ran video cards, wireless cards, everything was just fine. I think I did have to do a little detective work on a wireless dongle or something like that, but still got it working. I've always found it weird that the OS is usually referred to as having driver problems when I saw so few of them when I ran it.
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Nov 27, 2018 08:04
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Wasn't XP 64 just the 64-bit version of Server 2003, but repackaged for home users?
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I had a PC with RDRAM and Win2k. Played the hell out of Everquest on that machine and I changed zones faster than almost anyone. Thanks RDRAM!
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Nov 27, 2018 14:28
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Sweevo posted:Wasn't XP 64 just the 64-bit version of Server 2003, but repackaged for home users? XP 64-bit edition is Windows NT 5.1, same version as regular 32 bit XP. But the only reason you would run 64-bit edition instead of x64 is if you hosed up in life badly somehow.
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I thought it was yours and I was jealous, but it's from some guy on PC world back in 2012 https://www.pcworld.com/article/260143/one_week_with_the_commodore_64.html
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Nov 28, 2018 11:11
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Fo3 posted:I thought it was yours and I was jealous, but it's from some guy on PC world back in 2012 Oh no. No way in hell we could have afforded a computer in the 80s.
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Nov 28, 2018 11:23
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I could never afford the disk drive or especially a monitor but me and my brother saved up pocket money for 2 years to buy a s/h c64 in 1986 or 87. But anyway, I wasn't talking about the 80s, but if that was yours recently.
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Fo3 posted:I could never afford the disk drive or especially a monitor but me and my brother saved up pocket money for 2 years to buy a s/h c64 in 1986 or 87. Nah. We never had one, so I don't have nostalgia for it.
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This picture made me smile
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Nov 28, 2018 13:28
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Goddamn the Teradrive is insanely loving cool, both aesthetically and functionality-wise
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Nov 28, 2018 15:55
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I need to set mine up again.  Those monitors are fantastic by the way, and can do s-video via chroma/luma to s-video adapter. Great for retrogaming.
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Seriously pro click. I wish his Teradrive powered on, though.
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Laslow posted:XP x64 edition is Windows NT 5.2, the same OS as Server 2003. Just to clarify, since I had to look this up: "64-bit" is the Itanium edition. Running that today would be kind of neat; the Itanium is a rare and curious beast. Running it as your main OS back in the XP days would probably indicate that you took a wrong mental turn somewhere, though.
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I ran to XP 64 because I was an idiot 20something that though more bits means more gooder.
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FilthyImp posted:I ran to XP 64 because I was an idiot 20something that though more bits means more gooder. Hell yeah same. And I could never get CoH to run right. Had a 3.4ghz engineering sample P4 CPU that I bought off of [H]ardForum, as well. That was a room heater. The horrors of finding and running SSE2 AND 64-bit compatible software and drivers 
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Computer viking posted:Just to clarify, since I had to look this up: "64-bit" is the Itanium edition. Running that today would be kind of neat; the Itanium is a rare and curious beast. Running it as your main OS back in the XP days would probably indicate that you took a wrong mental turn somewhere, though. They weren’t rare so much as they were slow and overpriced and therefore didn’t sell much. The only reason you would buy them is if you were incompetent or owed your HP sales rep a huge favor. Running it today would be lame because you’re stuck with mostly IA64 MS OEM programs, which isn’t interesting, or running regular Win32 programs worse than on a Cyrix Winchip. But the case badge is kinda neat I guess.
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The pro move was running Windows NT for Alpha
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I only compute in an air that smells richly of thick leather-bound books
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The pro move was running Windows NT for Alpha For when you drank Apple's Kool-Aid about PPC performance, but couldn't bring yourself to run MacOS 8.
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To be fair, pre-X macOS was garbage. E: holy poo poo, I found it, the most 90’s tech article https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-8/windows-nt-powerpc-no-more Beve Stuscemi has a new favorite as of 03:07 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:To be fair, pre-X macOS was garbage. This reminds me, I was an avid reader of Montgomery Gabrys' Apple Doomsday Clock way back when: https://web.archive.org/web/20040207211552/http://www.netherworld.com:80/~mgabrys/clock/back.html Lots of great "Apple is Dooooooomed" from their worst days in the late 90s Vanagoon has a new favorite as of 03:21 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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Laslow posted:PowerPC or bust, pal. Oh god that was a poo poo show. I reverted to 7 as it was so, so, so much faster. 9 was a lot better given the low bar and was an ok upgrade from 7. They couldn't have jumped to OSX and x86 fast enough. Early on I drank the PPC Kool-Aid, but whatever lead it had if it existed was falling away quick and the writing was on the wall. x86 was going to win and everyone was going to take a leap to windows.
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I worked with a guy who preached the megahertz myth right up until the death of the last G5, and he was also very sure that thunderbolt would be the dominant form factor over USB3. He believed it to the point we had a wager going with money on it. He got fired before the time was up on the wager. He was pretty great.
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x86 won't save Apple when everyone else has moved on the the processor of the FUTURE!
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m sort of surprised the actual is that high HP sold it to their big iron customers as a replacement for VAX platform that was carried over from their Digital Equipment Corporation acquisition. The volume was extremely low but mainframe prices are insane.
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RVWinkle posted:HP sold it to their big iron customers as a replacement for VAX platform that was carried over from their Digital Equipment Corporation acquisition. The volume was extremely low but mainframe prices are insane. None were mainframes by strict definition, but yeah Itanium was the follow-up VMS architecture, taking the place of Alpha which took the place of the VAX.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:To be fair, pre-X macOS was garbage. Plus we got that weird phase with x86 daughterboards that just straight loving ran DOS and you could swap between them anytime. It might be easy to write it off as form-over-function but the alternatives were skewed equally far the other way.
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SLOSifl posted:Pre-X or classic macOS was garbage technically but actually owned. I loved using it, especially over DOS or those Apple ][s at school. Under the hood it’s literally those stick things from Blair Witch but was fundamentally different in ways that made it worth it. I'm running OS 9 on a first gen iMac and it's a matter of constant frustration. The loving cooperative multitasking alone means a single misbehaving program can very well require a reboot. I got it to play old games (installed Myst already) and mess around with old software, but like half the time I'll download something and transfer it via FTP (since SFTP is a nonstarter as far as I can tell) and then the OS just has no clue how to open the file. It's also really hard to specify to a search engine that I want software for OS 9, not OS X.
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Oh MacOS 9 sucks for sure. Don’t forget that until Windows XP, the consumer Windows line was a shitfest of legacy 16-bit underpinnings too. Edit: Apple just failed to release their Windows 95 equivalent stopgap multiple times, letting Microsoft sit on NT even though NT 4 was nearly consumer-ready. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 06:33 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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Won't deny I was looking at the NetBSD page for macppc today...
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