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Trabant: Nov 26, 2011; All systems nominal.

# ? Jun 1, 2020 21:09

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# ? May 25, 2024 14:45

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

Bill gates lookin like Jeffrey Dahmer on prom night there

I think it�s the glasses

# ? Jun 1, 2020 21:45

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Bill gates lookin like Jeffrey Dahmer on prom night there

I think it�s the glasses

Careful who you make fun of

# ? Jun 1, 2020 21:51

FilthyImp: Sep 30, 2002; Anime Deviant

Bill looks like he's sporting a 10" monster there.

Big willy style for sure. :circlefap:

# ? Jun 1, 2020 22:41

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

FilthyImp posted:

Bill looks like he's sporting a 10" monster there.

Big willy style for sure.

# ? Jun 2, 2020 01:04

Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

Trabant posted:

this guy fucks

# ? Jun 2, 2020 01:12

Robnoxious: Feb 17, 2004

barbecue at the folks posted:

This explained something I have always wondered about but never enough to actually go and figure out what the hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktIY7VbrUs

Interesting, but I still don't understand it.
My keyboard is all over the loving place in comparision (filthy American typeset)
I have no Scroll Lock but I have PrtScn and I still don't know what Insert is supposed to do but it's there.

All I learned is I can type the pound sign without any Alt-ASCII code necromancy? :/

Edit for page 420 blaze it! :420:

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# ? Jun 2, 2020 01:54

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

The insert key toggles whether you insert new text or replace old text. If you click into the middle of a line of text, one mode will just add in new character, the other mode will just replace whatever the next character is with the one you type. Can't think of a reason why you'd want to do that when you can just delete things.

# ? Jun 2, 2020 02:00

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Cojawfee posted:

The insert key toggles whether you insert new text or replace old text. If you click into the middle of a line of text, one mode will just add in new character, the other mode will just replace whatever the next character is with the one you type. Can't think of a reason why you'd want to do that when you can just delete things.

Because it's much quicker?

# ? Jun 2, 2020 02:03

wa27: Jan 15, 2007

mobby_6kl posted:

Nice try, that's Tony Hawk.

# ? Jun 2, 2020 02:05

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

I'm already smoking weed, have been since mid day. Computers are cool!

# ? Jun 2, 2020 02:05

Robnoxious: Feb 17, 2004

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Because it's much quicker?

It's toggle part, for me, that makes it more of a PITA than it should be.
I remember using it in the DOS days of word processing back when Word Perfect was the Gold Standard.

Not so much no more.

# ? Jun 2, 2020 02:09

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
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Robnoxious posted:

Interesting, but I still don't understand it.
My keyboard is all over the loving place in comparision (filthy American typeset)
I have no Scroll Lock but I have PrtScn and I still don't know what Insert is supposed to do but it's there.

All I learned is I can type the pound sign without any Alt-ASCII code necromancy? :/

Edit for page 420 blaze it!

Yeah I was watching it while hungover yesterday, it really did not help.

# ? Jun 2, 2020 03:36

Buttcoin purse: Apr 24, 2014

Cojawfee posted:

The insert key toggles whether you insert new text or replace old text. If you click into the middle of a line of text, one mode will just add in new character, the other mode will just replace whatever the next character is with the one you type. Can't think of a reason why you'd want to do that when you can just delete things.

It's handy if you're making ASCII art and you need to replace something which lines up when using a fixed font, so you want to replace characters without adding or removing any, e.g if you figure out what step 2 is here and want to fill it in but you want the boxes to still line up:

code:

+-------------------+   +--------------+   +----------+
| collect underwear |-->|     ???      |-->|  profit  |
+-------------------+   +--------------+   +----------+

I probably used it for that sometime in the last year :corsair:

# ? Jun 2, 2020 04:43

GI_Clutch: Aug 22, 2000; by Fluffdaddy; Dinosaur Gum

Insert is one of those keys that I really can't think of the last time I pressed it on purpose (90s DOS word processing, probably). Just on accident, then I need to fix whatever I just messed up. However, that one time worked provided me a laptop that didn't even have an Insert key (not even with Fn pressed), boy, did I vent my frustration. My current laptop does have Insert, but it is missing Scroll Lock and Pause/Break.

# ? Jun 2, 2020 15:14

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

I think it was this thread that had funky CD shaped stuff. Completely forgot to show one from my archives:

# ? Jun 3, 2020 14:47

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Double post poo poo

Humphreys has a new favorite as of 13:09 on Jun 6, 2020

# ? Jun 3, 2020 14:52

monolithburger: Sep 7, 2011

Heh, upper deck. :itwaspoo:

# ? Jun 5, 2020 09:25

EVIL Gibson: Mar 23, 2001; Internet of Things is just someone else's computer that people can't help attaching cameras and door locks to!; Switchblade Switcharoo

MadCatz around 2010 hooked up with Philips to make GAMEERRRR "Cyborg" AmBX lights.

AmBX is their term for ambient lighting which would change color depending what's on the screen. They had to write drivers that would hook into primary windows screen and then send certain color/hues to the mini stations you placed behind your monitor edges.

You can actually get this working in Windows 10 which is basically ignore everything on Madcatz's site and go directly to Philip's page to download the drivers (with some right click '.inf' installation action) and adding a new startup for the ambx lightning service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXUDor8tpd0

It works really well and whatever is on the primary screen will send accurate colors to the stations depending which edge of the monitor they are on and how high the lights are off the desk (table, mid, high)

# ? Jun 6, 2020 17:31

empty baggie: Oct 22, 2003

Since Philips was involved, I guess that's the precursor to Hue Play. I have three of the play bars attached to the back of my TV with their HDMI sync box attached. It's a pretty cool effect, and they just recently added DolbyVision support to it. It also works without the box on a computer by running the Hue Play application.

# ? Jun 6, 2020 20:39

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Does anyone have any reliable sources for a PCMCIA to LPT/Parallel port adaptor?

I'm looking at making use of my old PSX Action Replay with the port on the back and do some fiddling.

Not me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5-aKlcGSE

# ? Jun 8, 2020 14:36

peter gabriel: Nov 8, 2011; Hello Commandos

empty baggie posted:

Since Philips was involved, I guess that's the precursor to Hue Play. I have three of the play bars attached to the back of my TV with their HDMI sync box attached. It's a pretty cool effect, and they just recently added DolbyVision support to it. It also works without the box on a computer by running the Hue Play application.

I have a 50 inch Philips plasma in a bedroom that has this stuff built in, and I know it's older than 2008 for sure, it works really well. It has two vertical light strips behind the TV and they change to mimic whatever is on screen and project colour on the wall.
I mainly still have it because it is heavier than the Earth and also has a side effect of warming up any room.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 20:28

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Humphreys posted:

Does anyone have any reliable sources for a PCMCIA to LPT/Parallel port adaptor?

I'm looking at making use of my old PSX Action Replay with the port on the back and do some fiddling.

Not me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5-aKlcGSE

any clue what the parallel port was supposed to be used for? I remember n64 had one too for some obscure additional hardware.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 20:48

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

LifeSunDeath posted:

any clue what the parallel port was supposed to be used for? I remember n64 had one too for some obscure additional hardware.

The original NES had a weird port on it. I feel like a lot of them were either for developer reasons or some kind of planned future peripherals that never came to light.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 20:58

blatman: May 10, 2009; 14 inc dont mez

I wouldn't be surprised if the NES was originally planned to get a version of the Famicom Disk System that would plug into that but google suggests the most common rumor is "modem"

edit: might have also been for running internet gambling in minnesota? https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/19/business/minnesota-cancels-plan-to-play-lottery-on-nintendo.html

blatman has a new favorite as of 21:14 on Jun 8, 2020

# ? Jun 8, 2020 21:11

Plinkey: Aug 4, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Wasn't the N64 bottom port for the N64 DD that never got out of prototypes.

I mean it was basically just 'expose the entire data bus and some other bits, just incase for the future' but it worked out OK for the genesis

# ? Jun 8, 2020 22:43

Cartoon Man: Jan 31, 2004

The 64DD released in Japan with like 5-10 games and promptly flopped. Never made it to the States when they realized it was a failure.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 22:52

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

the American version of the 64DD got to the prototype stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64Bx0WKh7M

# ? Jun 8, 2020 23:39

Rev. Bleech_: Oct 19, 2004; ~OKAY, WE'LL DRINK TO OUR LEGS!~

WITCHCRAFT posted:

I've been scoffed at by the few people I know IRL that are really into music like I am, every single time I mention that I still use SoulSeek. "That still exists? Why are you still using it?"

but it is my most reliable source when I want to get some obscure track or album. The stuff that isn't on any streaming service, and you can't even find a torrent for.

Suddenlink watches for and clamps down on BitTorrent traffic (at least if it's not hidden behind a VPN) but don't know poo poo about Soulseek, just sayin'

# ? Jun 9, 2020 00:01

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

LifeSunDeath posted:

any clue what the parallel port was supposed to be used for? I remember n64 had one too for some obscure additional hardware.

For debugging etc
http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=274

And a video about updating them to UniROM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68E8v6BJk6s

Humphreys has a new favorite as of 06:41 on Jun 11, 2020

# ? Jun 9, 2020 04:57

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

And sorry for second post but new content:

Just acquired this little fella:

I will NOT be putting UniROM on it. It came with the original shittily printed manual with edits/erratas and highlights. It's kind of adorable.

And because I like to go down these sorts of rabbitholes...

I must have this monstrosity!

From what I can tell it works like all other Action Replays but has hardware to enable MP3 playback. Kinda neato!

# ? Jun 17, 2020 12:35

gourdcaptain: Nov 16, 2012

Humphreys posted:

And because I like to go down these sorts of rabbitholes...

I must have this monstrosity!

From what I can tell it works like all other Action Replays but has hardware to enable MP3 playback. Kinda neato!

...what are the composite jacks on the back for? Does it only output the MP3 audio over those?

# ? Jun 17, 2020 13:14

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

gourdcaptain posted:

...what are the composite jacks on the back for? Does it only output the MP3 audio over those?

I assume so, looks like the fly-lead runs to the AV Multi-Out and the cart runs as an interposer sort of thing. I'd love more photos of the one I pasted as it's dimensions appear would cover the serial socket. Yet has a socket on the side of the cart.... These things are asking more questions than answering. Until I buy one.

# ? Jun 17, 2020 13:56

Pham Nuwen: Oct 30, 2010

Speaking of tech relics, I acquired two free Amigas this week, both with Video Toaster cards. It's a strange environment but the hardware is well-designed: cases open up nicely, expansion cards have nice little guide slots on the front of the case to align them, etc. Looking forward to trying out some games.

# ? Jun 17, 2020 15:33

Veotax: May 16, 2006

gourdcaptain posted:

...what are the composite jacks on the back for? Does it only output the MP3 audio over those?

I'm pretty sure the wire coming out of the side plugs into the PS1's video out port, so I probably acts as a pass through for some reason.

Maybe it can't get the PS1 to play MP3s so it's done on the device it self?

# ? Jun 17, 2020 17:59

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Veotax posted:

Maybe it can't get the PS1 to play MP3s so it's done on the device it self?

That's probably it. The PS1 is only 33mhz and doesn't have an FPU, so it's probably not quite fast enough to play anything except <64K mono files. So the add-on probably has an MP3 decoder chip in it and the PS1 is just used to stream data from the CD

# ? Jun 17, 2020 18:27

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

Looking at it, most fast MP3 decoders are integer only, but the R3000 (and R3000A) have especially strong floating point performance; they are supposedly like a middling 486 on ints, but closer to a good pentium1 on floats.

And no, I don't know how that works out for actually decoding mp3s on the thing. I have a feeling you wouldn't be able to wring decent-bitrate stereo out of it no matter how fancy you got.

# ? Jun 17, 2020 23:14

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Well if/when I get one, I'll pull it apart and let you all know what decoder chip is onboard.

EDIT: Couldn't help myself and got one of these and bidding on another:

Humphreys has a new favorite as of 09:53 on Jun 19, 2020

# ? Jun 18, 2020 08:38

minato: Jun 7, 2004; cutty cain't hang, say 7-up.; Taco Defender

LifeSunDeath posted:

any clue what the parallel port was supposed to be used for? I remember n64 had one too for some obscure additional hardware.

The official PlayStation devkits were PCI cards, but they were very fiddly and unreliable unless you had a very specific PC config. They were also expensive ($10k+). So it was often easier & cheaper to do development, debugging, and testing on regular PlayStations, connected via a parallel port and a $30 Action Replay.

The slot that the Action Replay connected to on the PlayStation was actually a direct connection to the bus, so anything plugged in there had full control of the system. Obviously this also meant that it was easy to load software to allow playing "backups", and no games ever used the port, so Sony eventually removed it in later models. (the serial port went the same way. I can only recall 1 game that used it)

# ? Jun 19, 2020 17:19

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# ? May 25, 2024 14:45

SubNat: Nov 27, 2008

Humphreys posted:

Well if/when I get one, I'll pull it apart and let you all know what decoder chip is onboard.

EDIT: Couldn't help myself and got one of these and bidding on another:

... a VCD/password toggle? What on earth does that do?

These products seem so strange, but I guess there was a reasonable period (especially over in asia) where a VCD adapter would make sense compared to buying another piece of electronics.
I remember my parents buying a stereo in ~98 explicitly because it had videoCD support.

# ? Jun 19, 2020 18:46

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