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No Techmoan video this week so far. Bummer.
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Aug 21, 2021 20:01
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Message on Patreon says it took longer than expected and he doesn’t want his donors to lose their exclusivity window so it should be on regular YT tomorrow. I also got a little worried when I woke up as the dude is usually super regular, glad all is ok.
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Aug 21, 2021 20:19
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EL BROMANCE posted:Message on Patreon says it took longer than expected and he doesn’t want his donors to lose their exclusivity window so it should be on regular YT tomorrow. Cool. Thanks.
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Aug 21, 2021 20:43
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Which was, IIRC, just a 486DX with a different pinout, that disabled the onboard 486SX and took over as the CPU entirely.
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Aug 22, 2021 09:39
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EL BROMANCE posted:Message on Patreon says it took longer than expected and he doesn’t want his donors to lose their exclusivity window so it should be on regular YT tomorrow. Mister Kingdom posted:Cool. Thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc_oFZpqe8k
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My first PC was a 33Mhz Cyrix 486DLC that my parents paid way too much for in the early 90s. The 486DLC was technically a 386DX with the 486 instruction set and a small L1 cache. The 33Mhz model had performance similar to a 25Mhz 486SX, but had the slight advantage of being able to use a 387 FPU. Being a barely teenage brat at the time I insisted to my friends that it was at least as fast as their 486DX computers and in fact more letters after the CPU model was better!
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Sep 1, 2021 11:49
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My family's first PC was a 386DX4 from the same era. It ran Doom alright if you added a big enough border. Incidentally found this while looking for 386DX4 related things on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWj2HT_BxdI
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Sep 1, 2021 12:25
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Haha, I tried running Doom on a 386 SX and it ran OK in a postage stamp. My brother and I used to do deathmatch over a serial cable and one of us got the Pentium 90 that was actually able to run the game properly. It was a bit of an advantage. Seems crazy to say it in today's world of Internet multiplayer games, but it was a huge thrill to move a man on one computer and see him move on the other one.
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Sep 1, 2021 13:01
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Collateral Damage posted:My first PC was a 33Mhz Cyrix 486DLC that my parents paid way too much for in the early 90s. Hi five for fellow 486/33 person! We got it in 1993 and it was way too expensive for my mom to pay. But I am thankful. That PC served me very well. I only got a better computer in 1999 when I got a proper job. I basically missed most new games between 1995-1999. Which is probably good because I was forced to do more productive things with my PC.
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My dad got me a 486DX/66 with a dual speed CD-ROM in early 1995 from a local nerd who wanted to early adopt to Pentium and sold his old rig at a discount. I didn't realise at the time how good I had it, that beast ran Doom and even Dark Forces!
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Sep 1, 2021 13:58
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SCheeseman posted:My family's first PC was a 386DX4 from the same era. It ran Doom alright if you added a big enough border.
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F4rt5 posted:I thought only the 486 had a clock-quadrupled version? Only the 486 had doubled and tripled versions (DX2 and DX4). The 386 just came as the SX and DX, which also mean completely different things on the 386 vs the 486
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Sep 1, 2021 17:42
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Sweevo posted:Only the 486 had doubled and tripled versions (DX2 and DX4). The 386 just came as the SX and DX, which also mean completely different things on the 386 vs the 486 With 486 SX meant SuX!
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Sep 1, 2021 17:51
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lobsterminator posted:With 486 SX meant SuX! Holy poo poo I can't believe I memory holed this
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F4rt5 posted:I thought only the 486 had a clock-quadrupled version? The SCheeseman has a new favorite as of 20:18 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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Sep 1, 2021 20:15
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Sweevo posted:Only the 486 had doubled and tripled versions (DX2 and DX4). The 386 just came as the SX and DX, which also mean completely different things on the 386 vs the 486 Think my first (self-built) PC had an AMD DX4 100 chip.
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Does the DX signify it is for donkey sanctuaries?
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Sep 1, 2021 23:14
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I have a Commodore branded IBM compatible PC that has the mega crap 486SLC chip in it, which was a hopped up 386SX
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My dad had a bridgeboard PC emulator card with a 486SLC chip for his Amiga 2000. It sucked, unless you really needed to run Windows 3.1 business software. Wolfenstein 3D was playable, but Doom ran at slideshow speed no matter how small the window was. TIE Fighter and X-Wing were almost playable on the lowest graphics settings.
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We had a Gateway 386 and Dark Forces was playable on it. I do believe we needed a boot disk for it though.
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I tried every imaginable way to manually manage my memory to get Dark Forces to run on my 386DX/20 with 6MB RAM, but it wouldn't run. I got Slackware to install on it though, 5 floppies!
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Mantle posted:I tried every imaginable way to manually manage my memory to get Dark Forces to run on my 386DX/20 with 6MB RAM, but it wouldn't run. I got Slackware to install on it though, 5 floppies! I installed Slackware for the first time maybe 1996. I think I still had a 14.4k modem then. It was quite the ordeal, downloading the install disks (it was way more than 5 floppies then), writing them to actual disks and then installing it. I did end up really enjoying it and it was good to learn Linux as a teen. Helped a lot as a future computer toucher.
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Ubuntu used to mail out CD-ROMs of the installer for x86 and PowerPC for free. I had a stack of them! EDIT: Content, I can never remember if I posted VIIV stuff. I used to sell Media Centre Computer stuffs branded for the VIIV Eco-system  
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Sep 2, 2021 08:31
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Just ordered 64MB of RAM for my SE/30, if only so I can run Netscape in all its glory. It's kind of incredible how many programs will crash system 7.5.3 on either startup or exit. Nethack in particular is hilarious because it spawns infinitely-refreshing bomb messages about stack & heap colliding.
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Sep 2, 2021 16:43
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Pham Nuwen posted:Just ordered 64MB of RAM for my SE/30, if only so I can run Netscape in all its glory. Do you have macsbug installed? I seem to remember it did a good job at intercepting that stuff and allowing you to recover more gracefully, but it's been a couple decades so I'm not sure.
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Casimir Radon posted:boot disk look mister, you can have a mouse or sound and you'll like it
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Sep 2, 2021 16:56
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Do you have macsbug installed? I seem to remember it did a good job at intercepting that stuff and allowing you to recover more gracefully, but it's been a couple decades so I'm not sure. I'll get that installed, thanks for the tip.
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I know this isn't the Hideo thread but what would be good games for a Mac IIcx or IIci (I can never remember which one I have)?
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Microsoft Flight Simulator, all wire frames and vague triangles edition
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Data Graham posted:Microsoft Flight Simulator, all wire frames and vague triangles edition I said good. No flight simulator is good. (Unless you count Corncob 3D as a simulator.)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I know this isn't the Hideo thread but what would be good games for a Mac IIcx or IIci (I can never remember which one I have)? Crystal Quest, Sky Shadow, Lemmings, Loderunner, pretty much any game by Ambrosia software
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Crystal Quest, Sky Shadow, Lemmings, Loderunner, pretty much any game by Ambrosia software Man, I don't think I've played Lemmings in like ten or fifteen years - dunno why. Anyway thanks for the recs.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Crystal Quest, Sky Shadow, Lemmings, Loderunner, pretty much any game by Ambrosia software Having sudden flashbacks to hours spent in my basement on my 68040 Performa playing Escape Velocity and Harry the Handsome Executive.
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Neito posted:Having sudden flashbacks to hours spent in my basement on my 68040 Performa playing Escape Velocity and Harry the Handsome Executive. They also did Chiral which I remember liking but nothing else about. Maybe Maelstrom too?
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Pham Nuwen posted:Just ordered 64MB of RAM for my SE/30, if only so I can run Netscape in all its glory. Hey! I'm doing that with my IIfx! Finding the 64pin RAM that beast needs though has been...interesting On a positive note, I'm now running Classilla on my OG G4 Tower (500Mhz of power!) and OS 9.2.1.
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Neito posted:Harry the Handsome Executive. That game was so great, I'm surprised it didn't come back with an iPad reboot
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an AOL chatroom posted:That game was so great, I'm surprised it didn't come back with an iPad reboot Is Ambrosia even around anymore? Last I saw their last updates were some weird OS 9/X apps for power PC.
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