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Maybe someone can identify this game I'm thinking of. Pretty sure I was playing it on a Macintosh Classic, but it may have been an Apple ][e. It was text-based, but had b&w images every time something changed. You as the adventurer were being punished for having a tryst with a princess. I remember eventually encountering big, flying (?) demon that you had to fight. It made a growling sound every time it attacked you and typically it would kill you.
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RabbitWizard posted:Remember the timed puzzle with the forklift in the elevator in Grim Fandango? It was bugged in the CD-Version if you had a processor that was too fast or had a new feature or something. Extremely well, I am quite familiar for reasons that should be obvious. But was unaware of this. Did the Remaster fix it?
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Platystemon posted:Macs had the opposite of only one font, partly because desktop publishing was a big part of their market, but mostly because Steve Jobs had sat in on a typography class or two. i had a mac as a kid and windows always seemed a font desert until calibri/cambria etc
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shovelbum posted:i had a mac as a kid and windows always seemed a font desert until calibri/cambria etc
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Windows sucked because it didn't have ATM built in like the OS of champions, OS/2.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Windows sucked because it didn't have ATM built in like the OS of champions, OS/2. lol p sure the machine at the local credit union still runs OS/2, it's a hardy green-and-black display with really satisfyingly chunky buttons apparently most ATMs run on XP these days
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I started a job in the electronics industry recently and one of the machines I work with is controlled by a MS-DOs-based program. No big deal, makes sense, but so can't help but chuckle at the Windows 98 Second Edition OEM sticker on the tower.
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Peanut Butler posted:lol p sure the machine at the local credit union still runs OS/2, it's a hardy green-and-black display with really satisfyingly chunky buttons Adobe Type Manager
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Back in the IE6 era, a lot of web based programs were objectively worse than the terminal emulators they replaced. They were slow, unstable, had horrible user interfaces, but you could click on a button instead of reading a screen full of text.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Adobe Type Manager Yeah, but wouldn't it have been fuckin sick if you could dial up to your bank and print out real money from your account.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Adobe Type Manager oh lol well weirdly enough, OS/2 was super common on automatic teller machines back in the day no idea about its rear end to mouth capabilities tho
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Peanut Butler posted:oh lol well weirdly enough, OS/2 was super common on automatic teller machines back in the day Hardly weird. If you wanted to run a GUI* on IBM PC-compatible hardware (for convenience I guess), what choice was there? *) This was right around the time ATMs started having GUIs as far as I can remember.
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Konstantin posted:Back in the IE6 era, a lot of web based programs were objectively worse than the terminal emulators they replaced. They were slow, unstable, had horrible user interfaces, but you could click on a button instead of reading a screen full of text. I have bad news about modern web-based programs
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Krispy Wafer posted:How does "The Authentic Colonization" mod rank in the scale of Colonization versions? Last time I checked it fixed most of the balancing issues and clearly broken things of civ4col but added a large amount of grind which was originally abstracted away. Probably as a whole, net positive but IMHO too much unnecessary complexity for the sake of authenticity.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Extremely well, I am quite familiar for reasons that should be obvious. But was unaware of this. Did the Remaster fix it?
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I don't know which of the obsolete tech threads is better suited, but here is this amazing re-imagining (?) of everyone's favourite: The creator has a lot more stuff along that vein here: https://www.instagram.com/julienrivoire/ edit: found via this piece which has an interview with him as well. Trabant has a new favorite as of 21:16 on Aug 23, 2019 |
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Aug 23, 2019 21:14
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It whips the llama's rear end.
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GreenNight posted:It whips the llama's rear end. Oh gently caress i forgot about this lol
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Trabant posted:I don't know which of the obsolete tech threads is better suited, but here is this amazing re-imagining (?) of everyone's favourite: The back had better be one giant fuckoff triple-screen for Milkdrop
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LifeSunDeath posted:Oh gently caress i forgot about this lol WINAMP WINAMP WINAMP It really whips (baaaaa) the llaama's rear end!
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I remember there was a dumbass visualization plugin for Winamp that was a tie-in for A Knight's tale where knights fought to the tune of the music. (not very well)
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Techmoan had a video about a Sears only cassette format. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJUYI3XkvT4 I had no idea cassettes were from Europe. A friend of mine still use winamp on his phone for music. I think he still has the same playlist from then as well.
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I watched that earlier and that's American as gently caress to do. The tape is a different size, the holes are in different places, and the tape heads are put in upside down. Once someone buys the Sears tape player, they can only use Sears tapes.
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twistedmentat posted:A friend of mine still use winamp on his phone for music. I think he still has the same playlist from then as well.
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Cojawfee posted:I watched that earlier and that's American as gently caress to do. The tape is a different size, the holes are in different places, and the tape heads are put in upside down. Once someone buys the Sears tape player, they can only use Sears tapes. He put a pinned comment shortly after the video released saying the following: Techmoan posted:UPDATE: While I was putting this together I had a vague memory in the back of my head that Sanyo had made a visually similar but incompatible cassette. However when I checked I couldn't find any mention of it. Well a couple of people have confirmed this in the comments - and searching for 'Sanyo Tape Cartridge' instead of 'Sanyo Cassette' reveals a few results with pictures that match this cartridge.
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Trabant posted:I don't know which of the obsolete tech threads is better suited, but here is this amazing re-imagining (?) of everyone's favourite: Nostalgia trip right there.
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stevewm posted:He put a pinned comment shortly after the video released saying the following:  Funny that. It also makes sense since by that time probably most of what Sears was selling was rebranded Japanese electronics.
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Cojawfee posted:I watched that earlier and that's American as gently caress to do. The tape is a different size, the holes are in different places, and the tape heads are put in upside down. Once someone buys the Sears tape player, they can only use Sears tapes. He describes it as 'one of the most cynical formats ever created' and all I could think was 'oh, honey'
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ishikabibble posted:
Almost all US house-brand electronics were rebranded Japanese stuff since probably the early 60s. Until some time in the 80s, when they became rebranded Korean stuff because Japanese stuff was too expensive.
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Shut up Meg posted:He describes it as 'one of the most cynical formats ever created' and all I could think was 'oh, honey' Sony: "Hold my beer."
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Shut up Meg posted:He describes it as 'one of the most cynical formats ever created' and all I could think was 'oh, honey' He's covered all those too, HE KNOWS
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twistedmentat posted:I've played a few modern adventure games, like Kathy Rain. Only once did I have to google a solution to a puzzle and that was only because what I needed to do was not actually the direction you were given I usually have to google a couple of puzzles, even in really well-thought-out games like Machinarium. I just fail the Read Developer's Mind roll.
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Trabant posted:I don't know which of the obsolete tech threads is better suited, but here is this amazing re-imagining (?) of everyone's favourite: Someone NEEDS to make that a reality. I've spent half an hour with the idea rolling around my head and I TECHNICALLY know how I would make it. I am also a very lazy man.
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Yeah, ngl I would totally rock one of those in real life.
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Humphreys posted:Someone NEEDS to make that a reality. I've spent half an hour with the idea rolling around my head and I TECHNICALLY know how I would make it. I am also a very lazy man. You spend months designing, testing, and making a prototype and then running a Kickstarter and before you've even shipped the first one there's 18 counterfeits on alibaba.
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Yup, that's pretty much guaranteed to be the fate of any individual/startup who tries bringing it to market. I do wish someone would try it though. On the other hand, there are a bunch of manufacturers who could have a polished version out in 6 months. Except the market size is dozens of dorks like us, which is a rounding error of a rounding error for any large company 
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Can we create a fake kickstarter campaign with fake prototypes and then just buy the counterfeits?
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shovelbum posted:Can we create a fake kickstarter campaign with fake prototypes and then just buy the counterfeits? Now, this guy is onto something.
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shovelbum posted:Can we create a fake kickstarter campaign with fake prototypes and then just buy the counterfeits? No, because the counterfeits aren’t whole-cloth replicas based on your publicity photos. They need you to send your designs to factories so they can copy them.
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