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If Daft Punk - Aerodynamic doesn't blow your subwoofer up, nothing will.
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Jul 8, 2021 05:33
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I used to listen to this one internet station that had the same playlist for years (probably still up, even). A few tracks had various points where they would cut out or reset or what have your so after awhile you'd be like oh hey this is about to cut out it's the same file as always. Also made me laugh when I'd hear a not hosed up copy elsewhere.
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Jul 8, 2021 06:36
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The majority of my early mp3 collection was ripped 56kbps shoutcast streams. They would start with a bit of the previous track, and sometimes it's still a little weird to hear these songs without the "intro".
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Jul 8, 2021 06:47
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Look at all these dweeb who don't have taped copies of records where the song skips ahead a-- different part of the song lol
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Jul 8, 2021 07:03
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Dip Viscous posted:If Daft Punk - Aerodynamic doesn't blow your subwoofer up, nothing will. White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" is a good bass test (I know it's a guitar, not a bass, but still).
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Jul 8, 2021 07:04
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snorch posted:The majority of my early mp3 collection was ripped 56kbps shoutcast streams. They would start with a bit of the previous track, and sometimes it's still a little weird to hear these songs without the "intro". *guitar solo*  You are listening to the new Nevermore album, This Godless Endeavor, out on Century Media Records. This track is called Sentient Six.
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Jul 8, 2021 07:13
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The Nickelback song that til this day still has a smoke alarm *blip* if you listen close enough. Also made it to the music video.
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Jul 8, 2021 08:36
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CaptainSarcastic posted:White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" is a good bass test (I know it's a guitar, not a bass, but still). Annihilation by DEDSA is good one too. I saw the music video at a film festival, and the droning synthy bass sounded loving amazing coming from beefy cinema grade subs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT3ghirfi2g
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Jul 8, 2021 08:44
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Last Chance posted:It sounds like something a label or just a jerk would create in order to pollute file sharing services with songs that looked to to be around the correct file size and length but were just garbage. Labels really did that! I had a version of Robot Rock by Daft Punk that just repeated the first four bars of the song over and over again. I never heard the real song on radio, so for years I thought it was just them leaning a bit too much into the "robot" gimmick 
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Jul 8, 2021 08:50
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Humphreys posted:The Nickelback song that til this day still has a smoke alarm *blip* if you listen close enough. Also made it to the music video. That reminds me of the Ben Folds Five song Steven’s Last Night in Town where a cordless phone (itself basically a tech relic at this point) rings in the background right at the crescendo of the song. It’s around the 2:50-3:00 mark: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LOdkcM-yR3M
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Jul 8, 2021 09:51
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Oh yeah forgot! Another mail day and this time a little brother for my Oculus Development Kit, a DK2! Too lazy to list spec differences, but my silly brain is very happy having both of them now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift
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Jul 8, 2021 12:07
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Where do you get the latest software that is still compatible with DK1? I still have mine somewhere in the basement. I made the mistake of not archiving the correct nvidia drivers and supporting software for my eMagin Z800 so now it's pretty much a nonfunctional tech ornament   Half-Life 2 in janky VR stereo mode was pretty cool in 2006 though
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Jul 8, 2021 14:21
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Wish I had sold my barely used Vive when I could have gotten some money for it. In a box it will sit till it is needed in the future I guess.
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Jul 8, 2021 14:28
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r u ready to WALK posted:Where do you get the latest software that is still compatible with DK1? I still have mine somewhere in the basement. It's a right pain in the rear end. But these are now display queens. I barely use my PSVR and last week got a VIVE Cosmos that I tested for an hour and got busy pulling a lawnmower apart in the shed. If I'm too lazy to play my last and currentish gen VR stuff (and my Samsung GearVR for my drone) I really don't have to to get these oldies going. (Saying that, if anyone has a VirtualBoy I will pay for it, really regret selling mine) All nvidia drivers are available - theres a specific archive: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
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Jul 8, 2021 14:43
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The funniest thing about the 3dvisor was that shortly after i bought it, they doubled the price from $900 to $1800 and pivoted from consumer to industrial customers. I bet I could have made my money back and more if I had sold it. The company is still around selling oled microdisplays to the defense industry to this day
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Jul 8, 2021 16:20
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r u ready to WALK posted:The company is still around selling oled microdisplays to the defense industry to this day What's interesting to me is a lot of companies involved in VR in the 90s ended up in the defense business. One of my in-laws ran a popular gaming accessories company back in the day, and they're doing the military/industrial thing too now. Deeper pockets I guess.
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Jul 10, 2021 01:37
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r u ready to WALK posted:The funniest thing about the 3dvisor was that shortly after i bought it, they doubled the price from $900 to $1800 and pivoted from consumer to industrial customers. I bet I could have made my money back and more if I had sold it. What was it's 3D like? EDIT: This is amazing to see! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-qEDjUJYY Humphreys has a new favorite as of 09:15 on Jul 10, 2021 |
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Jul 10, 2021 08:14
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I'm getting some signs of life from the 3dvisor, I'll see if I can put together a winxp machine with a geforce 6800 and the required drivers eventually to take some photos of the microdisplays. The 3d effect was pretty good with lots of adjustability. Just putting them on and looking at the glow of the display I'd say the field of vision is somewhere between a 15" and 17" laptop display on your lap, i think the specs say 40 degree FOV. It's tiny and laughable compared to modern VR but at least there's no distortion. The other big limitation is that the head tracking is just 3DOF with accelerometers so it only tracks rotation. It was usable as long as you sat down in a chair. But the biggest problem is that they made no effort to block out surrounding light, you can see everything around you in your peripheral vision and it ruins immersion. Maybe it was done that way on purpose to make the experience less nauseating.
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Jul 10, 2021 09:41
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 Finally picked up one of these after wanting one since I was a kid  Only trouble is to replace the HDD with a CF card, I have everything but a floppy disk  I have a floppy drive and CF > IDE converter, but I need a boot disk to install Windows onto the CF card.
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Jul 11, 2021 07:10
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Kazy posted:
Jealous! Selling my 110CT is one of my biggest obsolete tech regrets. I love those things, if someone made something with that general layout but modern hardware under the case I'd buy it in a second, the bezel mount pointer was awesome.
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Jul 11, 2021 07:41
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The easiest workaround is probably to use a different computer to prepare the card with a bootable dos partition and a local copy of the win95 / win98 installation files I'm rebuilding my AthlonXP 3000+ / nForce2 / geforce 6800 for the 3dvisor   
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Jul 11, 2021 07:48
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Humphreys posted:What was it's 3D like? I'm starting to remember https://i.imgur.com/kD3FOXh.mp4 The lenses and displays aren't terrible though 
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Jul 11, 2021 10:13
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CaptainSarcastic posted:White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" is a good bass test (I know it's a guitar, not a bass, but still). Not only a good song, but the first record I ever bought.
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Jul 11, 2021 10:16
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r u ready to WALK posted:The easiest workaround is probably to use a different computer to prepare the card with a bootable dos partition and a local copy of the win95 / win98 installation files Did you build a retro PC in a powermac shell, or is that a classic mac running emulation (or, more fun, a PC-on-a-card)? edit: Or is the mac serving as a monitor stand for a tower under the desk?
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Jul 11, 2021 12:31
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a little of everything, the mac has a usb wombat and is connected through a kvm so it can share the screen with some pcs it also has a DOS card but I haven't had time to set it up properly yet    
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Jul 11, 2021 12:53
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This is absolutely glorious… Really want to know what the tape measure and random screw next to the monitor stand on the right was/is going to be for. Probably a lot more questions, but that’s all that I could focus on at the moment
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Jul 11, 2021 13:49
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super nailgun posted:Jealous! Selling my 110CT is one of my biggest obsolete tech regrets. I love those things, if someone made something with that general layout but modern hardware under the case I'd buy it in a second, the bezel mount pointer was awesome. You may be interested in the GPD Pocket line  Having the blackberry-style trackpad in the upper right corner and the mouse buttons in the left is a fantastic design imo
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Jul 11, 2021 15:58
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super nailgun posted:Jealous! Selling my 110CT is one of my biggest obsolete tech regrets. I love those things, if someone made something with that general layout but modern hardware under the case I'd buy it in a second, the bezel mount pointer was awesome. Have you seen the GPD Micro? Mine fits in a cargo pocket and is so handy. It doesn't have the trick pointer of course, but the rest of it is wonderful. https://www.gpd.hk/gpdmicropc e:fb! Humbug Scoolbus has a new favorite as of 16:11 on Jul 11, 2021 |
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Jul 11, 2021 16:09
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flavor.flv posted:You may be interested in the GPD Pocket line I actually had a GPD Win for a bit, mainly used it to play FFXI. Also thanks to this thread, I was able to format the CF card and get the drive replaced! Also upgraded to Windows 98 while I was at it.
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Jul 11, 2021 20:00
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Have you seen the GPD Micro? Mine fits in a cargo pocket and is so handy. It doesn't have the trick pointer of course, but the rest of it is wonderful. Holy poo poo I love it and it's going on my list. The serial port would make it great for dicking around with my network switches.
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Jul 11, 2021 20:34
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Tim Hunkins is a treasure. Stick until the end! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNcP7KgWaXg
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Jul 11, 2021 20:39
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Kazy posted:I actually had a GPD Win for a bit, mainly used it to play FFXI. FWIW win2000 also works pretty well on old pentiums. Back when I was a poor student all I had was grandma's crusty old compaq laptop from '98 (a worthy contribution to this thread in its own right, if I could still find it in my parents' attic), and of all the operating systems I tried on it, 2000 proved to be best for modern use.
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Jul 11, 2021 20:52
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Windows 2000 was a very underrated version of Windows. I ran it for years, until finally bit the bullet and pirated a copy of XP SP2.
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Jul 12, 2021 01:53
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rndmnmbr posted:Windows 2000 was a very underrated version of Windows. I ran it for years, until finally bit the bullet and pirated a copy of XP SP2. For some reason this made me picture someone who had incredibly unfortunate timing and their sole experiences with Windows have been ME, then Vista, then Windows 8.0.
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Jul 12, 2021 02:59
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I did 3.1, 95, XP, 7, and 10. Our Pentium II was bought far enough along that Dell sent us the 98 upgrade but it didn’t work for some reason so we just kept using 95 into 2001. Honestly didn’t have many problems with 95.
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Jul 12, 2021 03:08
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I've spent at least a little time using every version of Windows since 3.1, and it's amazing to me to think how inconsistent the experience has been. I actually saw Vista work well on some machines, but they were much more the exception than the rule. One of my favorites was XP 64, which almost nobody ran and had a reputation for being flaky or difficult, but was always great for me. I was sad to have to retire it.
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Jul 12, 2021 03:51
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CaptainSarcastic posted:For some reason this made me picture someone who had incredibly unfortunate timing and their sole experiences with Windows have been ME, then Vista, then Windows 8.0. Yo
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Jul 12, 2021 03:56
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I've spent at least a little time using every version of Windows since 3.1, and it's amazing to me to think how inconsistent the experience has been. I actually saw Vista work well on some machines, but they were much more the exception than the rule. A big portion of that is down to drivers. If you have a system with components with well-written drivers for whatever version of Windows you're running, you'll be fine. Windows ME and Vista were, to me, totally fine. But it was also having the right combo of hardware that worked well for them that helped out a lot.
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Jul 12, 2021 03:57
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Drastic Actions posted:A big portion of that is down to drivers. If you have a system with components with well-written drivers for whatever version of Windows you're running, you'll be fine. Yeah, I didn't spend much time with ME but had to support Vista, and the main difference between with machines where it was a good experience and the ones where it was mildly bad to terrible was drivers. I was honestly surprised the first time I ran a machine using Vista that actually ran well and was a good experience.
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Did anyone else have an .MP3 with a random robotic voice that came on in the middle and said. "THIS IS A NON-COMMERCIAL DEMO FROM MONTERNET" [not sure on the spelling there, just guessing]? The, uh, Polish version of the theme song of Asterix Versus Caesar does not sound right without it. I recognize that Monternet seems to have been a Chinese telecom thing since 2000, but I got this song in 1999 from someone else's computer in our apartment building's network and I have no idea why it would be in English if it were related to that anyway. (it really is a good song, particularly knowing nothing about its origins as I did initially [no Asterix hate though]) Wow when did I write this? Thanks, Awful App, for remembering all my shameful drafts Wow, I am impressed. Windows Vista being hated always bothered me since I thought at the time it was the best version yet. Then, fortunately, Windows 8 came out and I literally still to this day do not know how to reliably get back to the main... Tiles? Is that what the default screen is even called? The Tile Screen? Ugh. So gross
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