tuo posted:

I remember misjumpering a loving expensive six-channel workstation-level ATA RAID system once, can't even remember the manufacture. Took half a day to get it working, and three weeks later, a firmware update killed the whole thing. Support (rightly so) simply answered with "lol, RAID is no backup, fool, just restore from backup".

Good days, good days (of course I didn't have a backup, because I planned to get that up and running next

e: Promise

Rotten Red Rod posted:

It is in quite a few games! They're just mostly MOBAs, unfortunately, and come with all the MOBA trappings that ruin the enjoyment of the game for everyone except those who are already good at/enjoy MOBAs.

Too bad, because I've always wanted that same thing - a Battlefield-like game where the players play the heroes, and I always enjoy every game that meshes co-op and PvP. Titanfall 2, Destiny 2's gambit mode, L4D's versus mode... All of them are a ton of fun, and Dark Souls' very different (but also very fun) form of invasion appeals a lot to me, and I'm looking forward to Doom Eternal's version of it.

On the flipside, bots designed to feel like players... Are not fun. I remember buying Brink on release for Xbox 360 (I know, I know) and a particular problem for the version on that platform was that the servers (or peer-to-peer connection, whatever it was in that game) couldn't actually handle enough people to fill up a game, so every game would be more than half bots. It got even worse once the player count (very quickly) dipped too low to sustain any full games, but even on launch, almost every game I played was half or more bots, and you could REALLY tell.

Liquid Dinosaur posted:

So will the AI know to run and jump out of windows to save time?

Colostomy Bag posted:

Any work on Microchannel?

Contingency posted:

Would it not be PR ratings instead? In the Pentium era, if Intel had a 200 MHz Pentium, AMD and Cyrix had a "PR-200" or similar that was clocked lower than 200 MHz. It was supposed to be Pentium-equivalent. It wasn't.

peter gabriel posted:

Yeah that was there angle, it was always funny, they were the poo poo tier PC which was fine, but Cyrix was all "aaactually it says 233 right on the chip " and it just totally wasn't - I have loads of fun memories from back then, that shop was a pit of financial despair but a constant laugh

TheAgent posted:

lol that no mans sky is adding another free giant expansion, that changes them from opengl to vulkan and gives full VR support (including consoles)

just lol

Jobbo_Fett posted:

The computer is perfect and will only perform optimal actions that are simultaneously visually pleasing to all human players within a preset radius.

XK posted:

Putting my cat to sleep in about an hour.

XK posted:

Putting my cat to sleep in about an hour.

XK posted:

Putting my cat to sleep in about an hour.

XK posted:

Putting my cat to sleep in about an hour.

XK posted:

Putting my cat to sleep in about an hour.

XK posted:

Putting my cat to sleep in about an hour.

XK posted:

Putting my cat to sleep in about an hour.

XK posted:

It is done.

It was hard, but I had to help my little buddy.

Hav posted:

No, that was IBM only, and we could only afford knoc^h^h^h licensed hardware.


This was pre-Pentium; tail end of the 80486 and the days of competing SSE and microcode that meant absolutely nothing to the end consumer. 'It's ST' and Cyrix would exit the processor fab marketplace with the Pentium. I think IBM gave up at some point, too.

My processor stash does have an AMD K5 with a PR-100 marking though. I did think I had some Cyrix, but they weren't popular compared with some of the other chips fabs. I'm fairly sure that I have more processors than this, but my plan to mount these in a frame has slid, and slid...

I have a similar plan for a full-height MFM 10Mb hard drive. It's like two house bricks, but comparing it with a common or garden microsd card has just entered the ludicrous stakes.


233 was one of the more problematic base x multipliers as I recall.


See, it is possible for a company to completely turn things around....

peter gabriel posted:

What is the place with the elevators or trains or poo poo like that, lots of NPCs etc? What planet do I go to etc, I have no desire to try and find out in game but would to go there for good times and space adventure

Sarsapariller posted:

When you're looking at the star map, hold down the middle mouse button and move the mouse to zoom in and out- scrolling the wheel doesn't zoom far enough.

XK posted:

It is done.

It was hard, but I had to help my little buddy.

Dogeh posted:

I used to have the NexGen586-P90 thinking it would run better than the Pentiums. It didn't.
But it ran way better than the K5.
Which made AMD buy the company a year or two later.
It had no math co-pro meaning a lot of programs ran like crap on it, like 3DS MAX.
I've stuck with Intel ever since.

Grubby Hobo posted:

I'm not sure I've ever heard a worse excuse for incompetence.

Star Citizen: Sometimes, you have to step backwards to go forward

XK posted:

It is done.

It was hard, but I had to help my little buddy.

Mirificus posted:

XK posted:

It is done.

It was hard, but I had to help my little buddy.

Hav posted:

Hardest thing you can ever do. Hang in there.


Hmm. 386’s had the 387 socket for the co-processor for math. 486SX was partially crippled versions of the DX that couldn’t hit the fabbing levels, but I don’t know of a pentium without a maths processor, but I didn’t touch the NexGen stuff. I think I still have the 387 floating around.

A bunch of really dodgy computing is coming flooding back, though. Like when the athlons came with external traces for the cores, and you could use a conductive pen to join some dots on the substrate.

XK posted:

It is done.

It was hard, but I had to help my little buddy.

XK posted:

It is done.

It was hard, but I had to help my little buddy.