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Powered Descent posted:I wonder if anyone ever ran that and Stacker and Doublespace on the same system, and how badly they all stepped on each other's toes. But how will it work with my Cyrix 386 to 486 Upgrade processor?
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Powered Descent posted:I wonder if anyone ever ran that and Stacker and Doublespace on the same system, and how badly they all stepped on each other's toes. I think i can remember people who did that and they played nicely, it just didn't give any benefit over running either one of them (as you no doubt expected)
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I still remember Stac Technologies suing Microsoft over Double Space, winning the case, then being brought by Microsoft The first computer I had was supposed to have a 120MB HDD, instead had a 80MB and the dodgy gently caress put Stac on it
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It's funny that "reports a bigger but wrong number" was such a prolific grift back in the day.
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Mak0rz posted:It's funny that "reports a bigger but wrong number" was such a prolific grift back in the day. Nothing's changed. Look at my Grindr profile for a start.
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I was a big fan of QEMM, which I think worked to at least some degree. I got a lot more games running, but I did hit a few compatibility issues. Then I just got good at configuring config.sys and autoexec.bat, and didn't need anyone to manage my memory for me 
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Mak0rz posted:It's funny that "reports a bigger but wrong number" was such a prolific grift back in the day. I'm just amazed that there are so many 2tb thumb drives available at wish.com
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I'm just amazed that there are so many 2tb thumb drives available at wish.com Yeah I was thinking there's a distinction between lying about the capacity of removable storage media and "hey install this program to magically double your memory!" But now that I think about it there kinda isn't.
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Mak0rz posted:Yeah I was thinking there's a distinction between lying about the capacity of removable storage media and "hey install this program to magically double your memory!" There is a difference. RAM doubler software was not a scam. They used compression to fit more (uncompressed) bits in the same physical space. They assumed you'd be getting 2:1 compression all the time, and they made it look like you had twice as much RAM instead showing compressed size using half as much RAM. Their approach was arguably dishonest, but it was not a straight up scam like those 2TB thumb drives. e: on the 2TB thumb drive - I work with people that design the kinds of flash chips that go in those thumb drives. A couple of years ago, a group of them were in China for work and they saw one of those drives. They knew it was a scam but wanted to know the details, so they bought one, brought it back, and took it apart and analyzed it in one of the labs. It was labeled "1 TB", but internally it was a single 128Gbit chip with a loopback to make it look like 1TB. Azathoth Prime has a new favorite as of 23:45 on Sep 22, 2020 |
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Oh I always assumed those RAM doubler things used disk caching or something, like an early swap file.
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I remember using a freeware product called FreeMem that I think just told Windows 95 to flush as much as it could to swap. I got a kick just running it and pressing the More RAM button and seeing the results on a graph.
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Azathoth Prime posted:There is a difference. RAM doubler software was not a scam. They used compression to fit more (uncompressed) bits in the same physical space. They assumed you'd be getting 2:1 compression all the time, and they made it look like you had twice as much RAM instead showing compressed size using half as much RAM. Their approach was arguably dishonest, but it was not a straight up scam like those 2TB thumb drives. It's also a tech relic now, but I used to have memory compression enabled on my Palm Pixi via a custom kernel. You could also over/underclock if you wanted. WebOS was the coolest.
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At least one of the old RAM doublers didn't do poo poo. Also, in terms of tech relics, I saw a webtv at the thrift store the other day, are those even usable for anything anymore?
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I bet it was as useful as the Floating Point Unit Coprocessor Program I had for my Performa 68k 
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quote:The company sold over 600,000 copies of SoftRAM95 at a list price of USD $79.95, GBP £60 or 170 DM. 
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Some Goon posted:At least one of the old RAM doublers didn't do poo poo. no poo poo, in 2013 or so I found a boxed never-opened WebTV at a Walmart where it was on sale for the princely sum of $189.
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azurite posted:It's also a tech relic now, but I used to have memory compression enabled on my Palm Pixi via a custom kernel. You could also over/underclock if you wanted. I think I posted about my Pixi in this thread a while ago. Wireless charging, real keyboard, it was just so cool. Edit- found it, it was 6 years ago lol. The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I miss my Palm Pixi. Clicky keyboard, wireless charging, multitasking, cloud-based data sync, all that in 2009. The Fuzzy Hulk has a new favorite as of 04:46 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Some Goon posted:At least one of the old RAM doublers didn't do poo poo. Yeah LGR did a video on this one. I thought they were all like that, which is why I made that post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rxssVFeKr8
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I wanted a Nomad so bad as a kid. I had a gamegear though, and playing road rash and streets of rage still ruled. Same, but for some reason I wanted the CDX more, I tried to convince my parents it was worth it becuase it was a portable CD player too, which were like 200 bucks at the time, and we had one of those conversion vans with a tv so I could actually use it on trips.  of course they were like 499.99 or something at the time so that wasn't happening because I already had a genesis and sega channel at the time which is another tech relic that has basically come back around to be mainstream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T3mGCzrNUg
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:no poo poo, in 2013 or so I found a boxed never-opened WebTV at a Walmart where it was on sale for the princely sum of $189. This reminded me of the old Consumerist feature where they would feature ridiculously out of date tech for sale in Walmarts. I think there's plenty of thread appropriate content in that link, even though it trends a bit later than most of the stuff here.
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there was a copy of wave race: blue storm for gamecube that was at the local Wal-Mart from the launch day of that console in 2001 for around a decade. I think I snapped a photo of it in 2010. never dropped a dime from its $49.95 price either.
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Up until a fire a couple of years ago that made the Walmart near me throw out all of the stock, they still had shareware CDs on the shelves (not a display rack, just mounded up on the shelf) that said "Windows 95 & higher" on the requirements. Wow, 1000 solitaire card games on one CD-ROM!
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Didn't a goon get banned for browsing the forums using WebTV once?
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Didn't a goon get banned for browsing the forums using WebTV once? Radium claimed they did. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1563942
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This stat certainly stands out as a relic.radium posted:Around 400 requests out of 2,500,000 were from mobile phones. For contrast, there were 1100 requests from Lynx (a text-based browser).
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Code Jockey posted:Oh I always assumed those RAM doubler things used disk caching or something, like an early swap file. Downloadmoreram.com
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torgo posted:This reminded me of the old Consumerist feature where they would feature ridiculously out of date tech for sale in Walmarts. I think there's plenty of thread appropriate content in that link, even though it trends a bit later than most of the stuff here. My local Walmart had sealed copies of the GTA trilogy for PS2 up until probably 2018
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Ah man I miss The Consumerist. Was one of my regular visits back in the day.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Radium claimed they did. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1563942 It would be pretty neat to get a weekly automated post sharing those sorts of things IMO. Maybe leave off the search terms though, yikes.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Radium claimed they did. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1563942 Wow I forgot how prolific the F-slur was back then. Yikes. Also regdate shaming. There’s a guy in the thread shaming someone’s opinion based on an ‘05 regdate when his own regdate was 21 dec ‘04. They are the tech relics.
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M/M necrophilia discussion I'm guessing
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Data Graham posted:Wonder what search terms get people here these days. Nobody comes here who isn't already an elderly forums veteran. There's only about 7 posters in total and all the rest are alts of them.
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Sep 23, 2020 18:09
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So, "something awful login"
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Moo the cow posted:Nobody comes here who isn't already an elderly forums veteran. Yes forms poster Moo the cow is correct. They are also attractive and smart, so everyone should listen to what they have to say.
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I wonder whose alt I am.
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I wonder whose alt I am. Edit: Crap double post Edit: oh crap
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I have an alt that I created before the paywall went up. That’s how old I am. I also don’t think I’ve logged into it since the paywall went up lol
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Sep 23, 2020 19:15
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Trying a password I haven't used in 20 years: "hello old friend"
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Data Graham posted:So, "something awful login" 
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