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rndmnmbr posted:If you're really jonesing for Mechwarrior, Mechwarrior 2 runs perfectly in MechVM I know VM is not VR, but it made me think of it. I then realized that -- to my idiot self -- Mechwarrior is the killer app for VR. As in, I would actually buy a headset for that. Best I could find out, MW5 was rumoured/mostly confirmed to have VR support, but has been delayed to sometime this year. Given how VR hasn't really done much to help itself, it might be too much to hope it'll be out and good.
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Trabant posted:I know VM is not VR, but it made me think of it. I then realized that -- to my idiot self -- Mechwarrior is the killer app for VR. As in, I would actually buy a headset for that. Have it VR but still with something like a Steel Battalion controller!
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Trabant posted:I know VM is not VR, but it made me think of it. I then realized that -- to my idiot self -- Mechwarrior is the killer app for VR. As in, I would actually buy a headset for that. Vox Machinae is pretty awesome, multiplayer only but super polished with a fully interactive cockpit with hand tracked controls. Not technically mechwarrior/battletech but it's really trying to be. SCheeseman has a new favorite as of 13:43 on Feb 22, 2019 |
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Lowen SoDium posted:I just wish that Multiplayer BattleTech 3025 had gotten a full release. It was a blast when it was in beta, then they just pulled the plug on it. Interesting to hear someone mention this, as I worked at kesmai at the time.
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Feb 22, 2019 14:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpnoZ0fTRyA
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Feb 22, 2019 20:07
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XkyRauh posted:Given that the old Interstate '76 was based on a modded Mechwarrior engine, would it allow that game to run on modern architecture? I don't know how closely related the two games are, but I've seen cases where even having the original source code for the base game doesn't make it trivial to make an updated engine for the derived game. It's quite possible that there would still be a bunch of work to do.
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Planet X posted:Interesting to hear someone mention this, as I worked at kesmai at the time. Do you know anything about it that you're allowed to say? I played it and was kind of bummed out when it was canned. BattleTech licensing was in a weird spot at the time so I've been wondering if that was why.
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I just built a dim-bulb tester to help with the 6 free tube radios I picked up yesterday. Basically you wire the outlets in series, then use an incandescent bulb of approximately the same wattage as your radio to prevent a dead short if there's something wrong in your radio. If the radio has a short, the bulb will burn at full brightness. If the radio is OK, the bulb will light dimly.
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Feb 24, 2019 00:09
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That's pretty neat but why arent there pictures of the radios?
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Feb 24, 2019 00:51
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Johnny Aztec posted:That's pretty neat but why arent there pictures of the radios? They're all stacked up in the shed at the moment. I'll try to take some good pictures soon.
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Feb 24, 2019 00:57
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Pham Nuwen posted:I just built a dim-bulb tester to help with the 6 free tube radios I picked up yesterday. If you're the type of person who takes in old tube radios, you'd probably like this Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=channel?UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q. He loves radios and sound production. He's done a few videos on radios and radio tuning, and one cool video taking apart and explaining a Superheterodyne receiver. I'm currently watching "What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work?" I just finished his video on Dolby noise reduction.
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Feb 24, 2019 01:04
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:If you're the type of person who takes in old tube radios, you'd probably like this Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=channel?UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q. He loves radios and sound production. He's done a few videos on radios and radio tuning, and one cool video taking apart and explaining a Superheterodyne receiver. I'm currently watching "What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work?" I just finished his video on Dolby noise reduction. And if you're into restoring old radios, definitely give Mr. Carlson's Lab a look. He's a genuine electronics wizard who makes incredibly in-depth videos showing how he fixes and restores electronics of all vintages (from the early tube days up through pretty modern stuff).
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:If you're the type of person who takes in old tube radios, you'd probably like this Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=channel?UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q. He loves radios and sound production. He's done a few videos on radios and radio tuning, and one cool video taking apart and explaining a Superheterodyne receiver. I'm currently watching "What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work?" I just finished his video on Dolby noise reduction. Technology Connections is the fixed link, and yeah he has a great style.
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I've been binge watching these guys' YouTube channel. They're restoring & rebuilding old horse-drawn vehicles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVcE8gho4k
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Mr.Radar posted:And if you're into restoring old radios, definitely give Mr. Carlson's Lab a look. He's a genuine electronics wizard who makes incredibly in-depth videos showing how he fixes and restores electronics of all vintages (from the early tube days up through pretty modern stuff). Mr. Carlson is great, but you pretty much need to be an electrical engineer to understand him. He’s sort of what EEVBlog would be if Dave didn’t care if you could follow what was going on. Fender Anarchist posted:Technology Connections is the fixed link, and yeah he has a great style. Huh. I clicked the link in the preview before I submitted, and it was fine. Thanks for fixing it. Zopotantor posted:I've been binge watching these guys' YouTube channel. They're restoring & rebuilding old horse-drawn vehicles. I’ve watched a few of their videos. I like the one where they are putting metal bands around enormous wagon wheels. Really dry narration, though. They are obviously builders and not presenters.
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BattleMaster posted:Do you know anything about it that you're allowed to say? I played it and was kind of bummed out when it was canned. BattleTech licensing was in a weird spot at the time so I've been wondering if that was why. The wikipedia article has about as much as I can remember. I worked for Kesmai for a few years working as a customer support lead for online games on their Gamestorm service. Being on the support side and not close to EA corporate at the time, I didn't have much insight into the development decisions. I think all in all it came down to being post dot com crash. I recall some rumored issues with the network code, but since EA closed the studio in 2001, it probably just came down to a monetary decision, and the fact that they were closing Kesmai and they may not have seen wider accessibility / potential in it. They ended up closing Origin and Westwood studios (who were both doing online games) a few years later. I mainly worked on Majestic and other stuff at that time, which is a whole other story. Like you say, I do recall some licensing issues with Fasa, as I think MSFT owned Fasa and were at the time putting effort into Mechwarrior. If you are familiar with any of Kesmai's games and want to talk in PM, that's fine too, as I don't want to derail the thread too much, but I don't know how much people care about derails in this thread.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Mr. Carlson is great, but you pretty much need to be an electrical engineer to understand him. He’s sort of what EEVBlog would be if Dave didn’t care if you could follow what was going on. While you do need a certain baseline of electronics knowledge to follow him, I actually find that he does a very good job of explaining exactly what's going on when it's not obvious from that baseline level of knowledge. I'm not an electrical engineer (though I do follow a lot of general electronics channels on Youtube and I did study the basic theories of electronics in a physics class in college years ago) and I have no trouble following him, for the most part. I figure that if you're at the point where you are building a dim-bulb tester for old radios, you're probably at that level of knowledge. And a lot of his content is about sharing the practical knowledge you get from spending a lot of time working with vintage electronics that you won't get from studying theory. EDIT: vvv The videos where glasslinger makes their own tubes are just amazing. They're doing a lot of good work to preserve a nearly-lost art. vvv Mr.Radar has a new favorite as of 00:23 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Mr. Carlson is great, but you pretty much need to be an electrical engineer to understand him. He’s sort of what EEVBlog would be if Dave didn’t care if you could follow what was going on. I stumbled across glasslinger on Youtube and they repair old tube radios, TVs, and the like, with the added gimmick of their cat getting in the shot every now and again, and sometimes sporting the most amazing frocks. It's not technical, but just pleasing to watch and they really know their tubes.
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Mr.Radar posted:While you do need a certain baseline of electronics knowledge to follow him, I actually find that he does a very good job of explaining exactly what's going on when it's not obvious from that baseline level of knowledge. I'm not an electrical engineer (though I do follow a lot of general electronics channels on Youtube and I did study the basic theories of electronics in a physics class in college years ago) and I have no trouble following him, for the most part. I figure that if you're at the point where you are building a dim-bulb tester for old radios, you're probably at that level of knowledge. And a lot of his content is about the practical knowledge you get from spending a lot of time working with vintage electronics that you won't get from studying theory. Gromit posted:I stumbled across glasslinger on Youtube and they repair old tube radios, TVs, and the like, with the added gimmick of their cat getting in the shot every now and again, and sometimes sporting the most amazing frocks. It's not technical, but just pleasing to watch and they really know their tubes. I am not sure if I’ve seen that channel. Your description. sounds familiar. I’ll have to have a look.
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Planet X posted:I mainly worked on Majestic and other stuff at that time, which is a whole other story. Well then, thank you for the fun summer memories that game produced! I graduated from HS June 2001 and that game and its AIM weirdness was a big summer timewaster. As an aside, There was also a HalfLife mod called Master sword or something that featured a medieval fantasy theme. It's the last "game of the 90s" I think of since I stayed up all night downloading it and played it maybe 15 minutes before never touching it again. In my defense, it was like 2am on Sept 11 and I needed sleep. Waking up that morning sure was something.
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Hello and welcome to Mr Carlson's Lab. Today im going to remove the cover from this old piece of equipment. To do that I'll need to remove these 6 screws located here, here, here, here, here, and here. So as you can see I've removed these six screws located here, here, here, here, here, and here. Ok so now that the screws are removed I can now remove the cover by lifting upwards. I am now lifting upwards to remove the cover. Ok so now you can see that removing these six screws and lifting upwards I have removed the cover....
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Majere posted:Hello and welcome to Mr Carlson's Lab. Today im going to remove the cover from this old piece of equipment. To do that I'll need to remove these 6 screws located here, here, here, here, here, and here. So as you can see I've removed these six screws located here, here, here, here, here, and here. Ok so now that the screws are removed I can now remove the cover by lifting upwards. I am now lifting upwards to remove the cover. Ok so now you can see that removing these six screws and lifting upwards I have removed the cover.... Should I keep working on this? Comment below if you want me to keep working on this. Leave a comment on the webzone so we can decide if I should fix this or just put it on the shelf.
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I love the old weird stuff he fixes but get so turned off at him rewording and repeating everything constantly. He recently had a 45 minute video where he diagnosed and repaired a faulty transistor in the first 4 minutes of the video.
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Still better than the EEVBlog guy, who would ramble for 30 minutes at the start, then diagnose the transistor, then re-diagnose the transistor five more times using different multimeters.
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Sweevo posted:Still better than the EEVBlog guy, who would ramble for 30 minutes at the start, then diagnose the transistor, then re-diagnose the transistor five more times using different multimeters. His voice can be irritating but I enjoy his videos and even helped on one so I might me kinda biased.
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Humphreys posted:His voice can be irritating but I enjoy his videos and even helped on one so I might me kinda biased. 10 PRONT"Awww would you look at this what a disgrace what a bodge job awww just look at it I mean come on look at it awww what a terrible post why would they do this would you look at this I mean look at this sentence awwww it's just... it's just why would they do this. ";:GOTO10
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The teardowns are occasionally interesting, when they're not just opening up a ten grand piece of lab equipment and pointing at black rectangular ASICs for twenty minutes. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 17:29 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:10 PRONT"Awww would you look at this what a disgrace what a bodge job awww just look at it I mean come on look at it awww what a terrible post why would they do this would you look at this I mean look at this sentence awwww it's just... it's just why would they do this. ";:GOTO10 Great scott!
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EEVBlog is very good. His lectures on theory are good. I bought one of his branded multimeters. It is also good.
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New Teachmoan out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLlgNbzWJFo Wow I want that little boombox, recording was a cool feature.
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BogDew posted:The article also points out something that's obsolete - lead based solder. Europe has banned any lead in it's solder but America has a 60/40 mix. It's a cost cutting method to cover international sales. This is necroing a comment from years ago, but that makes it even more poignant. Lead based solder is not obsolete. A handful of industries (aerospace and defense, chiefly) still use it because there's no good alternative. Tin primary solder does not do well in vacuum environments, it produces tin whiskers:  It'll produce them in atmosphere as well, but vacuum makes it happen faster. They'll punch through conformal coat and short things that shouldn't be shorted, damaging components or killing your data. SOP for space is to only use leaded solder, and take ROHS parts and use leaded solder on the leads to alloy the tin, reducing the risk of tin whisker generation. Leaded solder is here to stay until they find a solder alloy that has the same electrical and mechanical properties and also doesn't have the deleterious effects like 90+% tin does. Also 60/40 isn't a cost saving measure, that was the standard solder composition until Europe switched to lead free solder.
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OniPanda posted:60/40 isn't a cost saving measure, that was the standard solder composition until Europe switched to lead free solder. Some of us would argue that it is still the standard, for being easier to work with and (given adequate ventilation) not more dangerous to use than lead-free solder. The fact that it's also half the price isn't hurting it.
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I wonder how much RoHS has increased electronic trash due to brittle, dry or cold joints and tin whiskers.
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Lurking Haro posted:I wonder how much RoHS has increased electronic trash due to brittle, dry or cold joints and tin whiskers. None since everything is literally designed to break or brick in three years anyway.
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Jerry Cotton posted:None since everything is literally designed to break or brick in three years anyway. I mean stuff not even clearing QA or the warranty period. The caps right next to the heatsink won't care much about the type of solder, of course.
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Is unleaded solder your white whale or something? Who cares, it's all conflict minerals in the end.
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OniPanda posted:Also 60/40 isn't a cost saving measure, that was the standard solder composition until Europe switched to lead free solder. Yeah 60/40 is used because it comes close to minimizing the melting point:  Lead free solder has a higher melting point and is annoying to solder as a result A ~62/38 Sn/Pb mixture actually has a lower melting point than either of the metals in their pure forms
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Yeah, usin lead-free solder to do surface mount soldering without a reflow oven sucks. Especially with components linked to a pour. Jerry Cotton posted:None since everything is literally designed to break or brick in three years anyway. Aerospace/defense is designed to last decades. Get the gently caress up out of here with that nonsense.
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OniPanda posted:Aerospace/defense is designed to last decades. Get the gently caress up out of here with that nonsense. Yeah and they're not using lead-free solder so not relevant to the question that was asked.
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