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3D Megadoodoo posted:I said good. No flight simulator is good. (Unless you count Corncob 3D as a simulator.) I ordered Corncob 3D randomly from one of those mail order PD disk places back then. You only had the name of the game and a few words of description to go by. Sometimes you found something good, mostly you got crap. Corncob was one of the better ones.
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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)? Glider
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GutBomb posted:Glider
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Hey! I'm doing that with my IIfx! Finding the 64pin RAM that beast needs though has been...interesting As of early 2021 there was one guy selling brand new RAM for the IIfx on eBay. He's got a big thread over on 68kmla. If he's not selling anymore then good luck, that RAM was unobtainium before he started making it again.
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longview posted:As of early 2021 there was one guy selling brand new RAM for the IIfx on eBay. He's got a big thread over on 68kmla. Is it this guy? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401282102630
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WonkyBob posted:Is it this guy? That's a ROM.
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WonkyBob posted:Is it this guy? This is the guy: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234168096212 He's been warning for a while that supplies/motivation are running out, though he did say the previous batch would the last one as well. Make of that what you will, but I wouldn't advise you to wait since this is basically the only source of RAM in any real quantity. FWIW I've yet to come up with a case where 64 MB wouldn't cut it (A/UX as a server could be one case where you'd want more than 64 MB). Note: the startup RAM check will take several minutes on the stock IIfx ROM with these amounts of RAM. This replacement ROM https://www.bigmessowires.com/mac-rom-inator-ii/ bypasses the check and will boot much faster, it also provides a basic built in System ROM-disk useful in those cases where you'd otherwise need some kind of boot floppy. Has stuff like HD SC Setup and ResEdit built in.
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longview posted:This is the guy: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234168096212 Oh I have all the RAM, I ended up scavenging it from ACER Laser Printers (the only other piece of tech that used that form factor) and jumpering a pin
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lobsterminator posted:I ordered Corncob 3D randomly from one of those mail order PD disk places back then. You only had the name of the game and a few words of description to go by. Sometimes you found something good, mostly you got crap. Corncob was one of the better ones. OK you... ordered Corncob 3D based on the name??? I mean it's a great game but I only got it because of a review in a magazine.
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Den GutBomb posted:Glider In.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:OK you... ordered Corncob 3D based on the name??? Nah I think it was more the one sentence description. Probably like "Amazing 3D simulator where you shoot aliens"
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r u ready to WALK posted:https://i.imgur.com/p7Y3Sdz.mp4 That's cool! What OS are you running? That docking station with USB looks tasty, I only have the small port replicator for my 110.
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It has 64mb and seems to work great with win98se for dos gaming goodness. I just had to grab the toshiba graphics driver and irda driver, everything else worked out of the box on 98se
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Posted about these in the PYF purchases thread -- got a couple of Seiko pyramid speaking clocks sold as broken on ebay. Their gimmick was that you push the top of the pyramid and a voice will read out the time. Old hat now, but a first at the time (1984). One was fairly easy to fix by re-soldering a few wires: https://i.imgur.com/iI3ECNe.mp4 The other one was beyond repair (corroded PCB, courtesy of a battery leak in days past) so now it houses a tiny MP3 player that's more or less one of those greeting card mechanisms. Had to put this on it: https://i.imgur.com/b7QOSyG.mp4
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Trabant posted:Posted about these in the PYF purchases thread -- got a couple of Seiko pyramid speaking clocks sold as broken on ebay. Their gimmick was that you push the top of the pyramid and a voice will read out the time. Old hat now, but a first at the time (1984). this is incredibly 80s cyberpunk
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Time is eternal.
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Trabant posted:The other one was beyond repair (corroded PCB, courtesy of a battery leak in days past) so now it houses a tiny MP3 player that's more or less one of those greeting card mechanisms. Had to put this on it: I love you.
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Trabant posted:Posted about these in the PYF purchases thread -- got a couple of Seiko pyramid speaking clocks sold as broken on ebay. Their gimmick was that you push the top of the pyramid and a voice will read out the time. Old hat now, but a first at the time (1984). I want one!!!
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Warbird posted:Post the other one you made No idea what you're talking about! In response to what bowmore posted about my repaired clock: bowmore posted:wow that sucks I taught the modded one a trick: Trabant posted:Maybe you'll like the other one more?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUSnKyg9p4 Oof, poor Lurch 
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You Am I posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUSnKyg9p4 That's just really shittily packaged. 
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Quasar was the coolest brand name Just sounded so awesome, literally technology from space
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Data Graham posted:Quasar was the coolest brand name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH9gBp3fojQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd6lxwjX2Bk This new video about early attempts at optical mice is pretty neat.
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I had one of those Mouse Systems ones on a Sun box in the lab around 1999. It was hilarious because the metal grid mousepad was almost square, and rotating it 90 degrees would make it just go all fucky and sort of work but not really usably. Someone who didn't get what was going on would just swear and fume and assume the mouse was broken somehow.
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Data Graham posted:I had one of those Mouse Systems ones on a Sun box in the lab around 1999. It was hilarious because the metal grid mousepad was almost square, and rotating it 90 degrees would make it just go all fucky and sort of work but not really usably. Someone who didn't get what was going on would just swear and fume and assume the mouse was broken somehow. Stealing the ball out of someone's mouse was a good one, too.
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You Am I posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUSnKyg9p4 Infuriating.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Stealing the ball out of someone's mouse was a good one, too. Now the closest thing is putting a sticky chunk of post it over the sensor with a crudely drawn middle finger.
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This is now my favourite thing in the universe.
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We had one of these when I was a kid, and it was a throwback even then. My dad picked it up at a garage sale and put it in his basement workshop so he could watch the game while he was working on something. The space helmet aesthetic was undeniably cool looking, but I think its actual function was to obscure how small and crappy the black-and-white screen actually was.
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Cojawfee posted:I keep thinking about this one. Aren't those things flying around as robots canon in the Fallout universe?
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