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Dr. Quarex posted:Yeah I got a little upset that I never heard about that thing (or the Toshiba Libretto he mentions at the end) back when my MS-DOS machine was dying and I probably would have been in the market to pay $500+ for an adorable era-appropriate laptop to replace it.
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Humphreys posted:There's a top bloke in the Aussie VHS collecting scene that does some really really awesome repros/reimagining of clamshell artwork. Will do international too. I'm blatantly shilling for him as he might be out of work soon due to some Government bullshit. that is sick as hell. I've seen some funky tape cases for like 4-6 cassettes before, but never a double vhs box. and the weyland yutani stickers on the tapes, amazing.
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LifeSunDeath posted:that is sick as hell. I've seen some funky tape cases for like 4-6 cassettes before, but never a double vhs box. He did this too, where there is a inner sleeve so you can raise the balloons:  
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Drastic Actions posted:I worked on something today that might be of interest to this thread. I wrote a little Web Server that proxies SA and rewrites its HTML into something less complex so older browsers can render it (and also proxies files and has SSL off 
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Trying to explain to old ladies what "Trumpet Winsock" is
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The new RMC video had a glimpse of a Compaq commercial starring John Cleese and it turns out there were a bunch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXNWAzmL3s
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an actual frog posted:you glorious bastard register your copy of opera, you cheapskate. how do you expect the devs to keep making great software
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Data Graham posted:Trying to explain to ladies at the bar what "Trumpet Winsock" is
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an actual frog posted:you glorious bastard   It's a later model too that works with 802.11g, but getting it to work on my wifi was a royal pain in the rear end. And for anyone else wanting to check it out themselves, I removed the code from that repo as I'm going to merge it with this project at some point.
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Horace posted:register your copy of opera, you cheapskate. how do you expect the devs to keep making great software On behalf of my boyfriend, who worked for them until the C levels butchered it and fired everyone for personal profit, leaving a mostly Chinese-owned, Polish-developed chromium skin to carry on the name: nah, gently caress'em.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Literal black magic going on here this is badass
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barbecue at the folks posted:Literal black magic going on here what
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Some Goon posted:It was the 90s and poo poo like that was cool. 
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an actual frog posted:C'mon now, the era that brought us "bleeding, dismembered hand as a mouse cursor" is uncool?? In Carmageddon, too.
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an actual frog posted:C'mon now, the era that brought us "bleeding, dismembered hand as a mouse cursor" is uncool?? nesticle and genecyst were the peak of emulation
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To me peak emulation was ePSXe, a modular PlayStation emulator in which each of the system's components were emulated individually via plugins you had to find and install separately, each with infinite combinations of configuration settings that you had to hand-select to find that perfect accuracy/performance/compatibility balance for each individual game Most of them were by this guy named "Pete" if I remember right
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barbecue at the folks posted:Literal black magic going on here Getting some serious Nightmare Creatures vibes from this.
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Mak0rz posted:To me peak emulation was ePSXe, a modular PlayStation emulator in which each of the system's components were emulated individually via plugins you had to find and install separately, each with infinite combinations of configuration settings that you had to hand-select to find that perfect accuracy/performance/compatibility balance for each individual game and every single plugin had at least three different game specific checkboxes in its settings. thered even be different plugins for the controllers and stuff. epsxe was horrible as all hell and is what made me distrust free software to this day
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Aix posted:and every single plugin had at least three different game specific checkboxes in its settings. thered even be different plugins for the controllers and stuff. epsxe was horrible as all hell and is what made me distrust free software to this day I had a Voodoo 3 during much of this time, so I got away with using Lewpy's Glide plugin which just worked with hardly any hassle  Never touched the emulator much after changing cards. It just became annoying. I did dabble again after upgrading my computer to something strong enough to take the software rendering plugin, which had the best compatibility and hardly any config to worry about (at the cost of running everything at standard PSX resolution and such).
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Mak0rz posted:Lewpy's Glide plugin Just install a Glide wrapper and use this, it's easy. Where people get in trouble is with upscaling and texture smoothing. Just play it at default PSX resolution, the defaults pretty much just work on any PC 2006 and newer.
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rndmnmbr posted:Just install a Glide wrapper and use this, it's easy. Nah even at native resolutions and such the hardware plugins had a huge host of compatibility issues. Before shaders it was really hard to get a PC graphics card to do a lot of the fancy effects you'd often see on a console. Or even basic effects like text window rendering or whatever, depending on how the programmers told the game to do it. Instead they'd approximate them in one way or another. It worked fine if you didn't care about it looking exactly like it does on real hardware. It's probably greatly improved now (it seems ePSXe is still in active development, but I dunno what Pete et al are up to), but back in the early 2000s thereabouts it was a pain if you didn't have a machine with enough juice to just use a software graphics plugin. And many people didn't. It's one of the main reasons hardware plugins even existed to begin with. Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 18:49 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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Aix posted:and every single plugin had at least three different game specific checkboxes in its settings. thered even be different plugins for the controllers and stuff. epsxe was horrible as all hell and is what made me distrust free software to this day That’s free (as in obnoxiously free) software in a nutshell: let’s give the user so many options that they wind up hating the software!
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:That’s free (as in obnoxiously free) software in a nutshell: let’s give the user so many options that they wind up hating the software! Don’t forget, documentation that was last updated at some point in the Middle Ages, and the only support available is a single forum post that says “RTFM”.
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That Coronation Street game looks like a banger e: n mash Data Graham has a new favorite as of 17:15 on Jan 22, 2021 |
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I just had to know more about this, and it's everything I hoped it would be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y34f0y9aiM4 Interestingly enough, it's a remake of a surprisingly nice looking Atari 8-bit game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xySy2HQ-eI
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I loved this game as a kid. And before you ask, yes, I'm a huge idiot.
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monolithburger posted:I just had to know more about this, and it's everything I hoped it would be Now I understand why gamers are so afraid of feminists, this game taught them that women are going to nuke the entire world!
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Buttcoin purse posted:Now I understand why gamers are so afraid of feminists, this game taught them that women are going to nuke the entire world! It's actually about ethics in mid-90's pre-rendered point and click adventure games.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Now I understand why gamers are so afraid of feminists, this game taught them that women are going to nuke the entire world!
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monolithburger posted:I just had to know more about this, and it's everything I hoped it would be I've seen enough demoscene videos and code to see those sweeping camera angles aren't co-incidental. I feel some coders did a bunch of terrain demos (especially that 'tree') and devs just did a voiceover of what they thought would make a game.
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