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Jim Silly-Balls posted:OG Unreal is a loving aesthetic holy crap. As far as I have been able to tell, it was the very first game to use particle effect flame and volumetric lighting straight out of the box.
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Oct 18, 2021 06:27
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:This is Unreal running at 30 FPS on a non-ATI RAVE driver using that Formac card and on the SGI 1600SW at 1600x1024. This is all 1999 tech running this. Is that software rendering or is texture filtering off/not supported by the hardware? (The fact that I even have to ask is because Unreal had a fantastic software renderer)
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Oct 18, 2021 07:10
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Humphreys posted:What a delightful old BIOS!: American Megatrends sounds like a cyberpunk corporation both in name and the old logo. I googled a bit and they are actually a relatively small operation (1000 people) but due to how omnipresent they have been in PCs ever since I got my first 486, I though they would be some huge conglomerate. 
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Oct 18, 2021 07:20
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BattleMaster posted:Is that software rendering or is texture filtering off/not supported by the hardware? (The fact that I even have to ask is because Unreal had a fantastic software renderer) Effectively software rendering at 30 FPS. I'll get a screen shot of it in Glide and true ATI RAVE. Sadly, the Mac port of the original Unreal never got the S3TC textures or OpenGL. I'll install Deus Ex or UT so you can see what the card can do with OpenGL
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Oct 18, 2021 15:39
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The Mac clone I always wanted was a Daystar Digital Genesis MP. Four 604e processors.
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Oct 18, 2021 16:47
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:This is Unreal running at 30 FPS on a non-ATI RAVE driver using that Formac card and on the SGI 1600SW at 1600x1024. This is all 1999 tech running this.
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Oct 18, 2021 17:35
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Steve Jorbs posted:The other tech relic here is that there used to be a game series backing the eponymous Unreal Engine. There still is its fortnite
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Oct 18, 2021 18:45
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:There still is
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Oct 18, 2021 19:21
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With Tim Sweeney at the helm it almost seems like it’d be more appropriate to call it something based on ZZT, but eh. Marketing.
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Oct 18, 2021 23:54
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:There still is It’s a shame that the Unreal Tournament reboot died in the arse, but I suppose other games occupy that niche now.
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Oct 19, 2021 00:13
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Every guy who bought this typed out both "80085" and "BOOBS" as a test.
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Oct 19, 2021 01:31
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tribbledirigible posted:Every guy who bought this typed out both "80085" and "BOOBS" as a test. It's an older code, but it checks out.
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Oct 19, 2021 06:47
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Why wouldn't you have another strap further up to help stabilize it? It reminds me of my old arm guard from when I did archery, and that had a strap on either end to keep it on me better
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Oct 19, 2021 08:46
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Code Jockey posted:Why wouldn't you have another strap further up to help stabilize it? It reminds me of my old arm guard from when I did archery, and that had a strap on either end to keep it on me better It's two pieces  The keyboard is basically a dock for the watch which is otherwise normal sized. Lets you input (a very small and limited amount of data...) to the watch. Things like information you want to remember, or even very simple basic programs IIRC. I wanna say it even had enough grunt to play very simple games too?
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Oct 19, 2021 10:29
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Bong brrrrring ting ting ting ting ting
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Oct 19, 2021 13:11
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I found my 3rd gen iPod and was surprised it charged up. Then I thought it was busted because I tried touch scrolling on the display and nothing was happening
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Oct 20, 2021 02:38
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Cat Hassler posted:I found my 3rd gen iPod and was surprised it charged up. Then I thought it was busted because I tried touch scrolling on the display and nothing was happening I think I had the 4th gen iPod. It was the last monochrome iPod. I love the look of the interface. It used the old mac Chicago font and it was nice and clear. It lost a lot of charm when they went color.
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Oct 20, 2021 10:12
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Since style is cyclical that means serif fonts are coming back baby!!! Can’t wait
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Oct 20, 2021 13:00
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Since style is cyclical that means serif fonts are coming back baby!!! I wish mp3 player chat was on a slightly longer cycle... (serif fonts are cool, I use Go Mono for programming: https://go.dev/blog/go-fonts)
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Oct 20, 2021 17:03
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Pham Nuwen posted:I wish mp3 player chat was on a slightly longer cycle... Civilized people use script fonts for programming. 
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Oct 20, 2021 18:35
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Actually that's scripting.
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Oct 20, 2021 18:40
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I told them loving kids they was gonna need cursive to program the killer robots and they didn’t listen!
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A friend of mine has one of those mental issues that makes him do stuff like I reviewed Forty Fixed Fonts and rated how good they are for programming.
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Oct 20, 2021 22:53
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Ha, I can vaguely imagine doing that - but I have come to be very tolerant (or uncritical, I guess) with my fonts. Besides, I like bitmap fonts, and think a slashed 0 is too much like a letter Ø. Good work, though, and I do otherwise mostly agree with him. For reference, SGI Screen - one of the best classic bitmap terminal fonts: 
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Oct 21, 2021 02:51
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Computer viking posted:Ha, I can vaguely imagine doing that - but I have come to be very tolerant (or uncritical, I guess) with my fonts. Besides, I like bitmap fonts, and think a slashed 0 is too much like a letter Ø. Good work, though, and I do otherwise mostly agree with him. I think I have been looking for this font for a very long time. None of my consoles ever look quite right... e. https://bitbucket.org/tarkasteve/sgi-screen-ttf/src/master/ Code Jockey has a new favorite as of 08:25 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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Oct 21, 2021 08:22
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One of my former bosses had her terminal font set to the Windows Script font and the terminal colors to pink text on blue. She also got fired for yelling at her subordinates and throwing office items at them when angry.
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Oct 21, 2021 08:43
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Origin posted:One of my former bosses had her terminal font set to the Windows Script font and the terminal colors to pink text on blue. She also got fired for yelling at her subordinates and throwing office items at them when angry. I like to think that if someone just changed their color scheme the person would be instantly docile and civil.
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Oct 21, 2021 13:20
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This guy looks at the various bitmap fonts used on early 8-bit and 16-bit computers. https://damieng.com/blog/tag/pixel-fonts/
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Oct 21, 2021 13:21
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Code Jockey posted:I think I have been looking for this font for a very long time. None of my consoles ever look quite right... Thank you. Now my Powershell looks civilized.
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Oct 21, 2021 15:17
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Origin posted:One of my former bosses had her terminal font set to the Windows Script font and the terminal colors to pink text on blue. She also got fired for yelling at her subordinates and throwing office items at them when angry. The last two companies I worked for both had ancient data servers storing all their backend data with more modern terminal emulators used to access those servers. There was some real eye-searing combinations that people set in those emulators.
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Reminds me of when I was in tech school in the air force and we were working in teams to set up two networks on each side of the room. My buddy and I were the two smartest so we were put in charge of our teams, and then each team had one of the two problem people and my team had the most annoying one. His only contribution to the team was setting the windows theme on the VPN concentrator to something worse than hot dog stand and said "this is what I use on my computer."
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Oct 21, 2021 17:07
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Cojawfee posted:Reminds me of when I was in tech school in the air force and we were working in teams to set up two networks on each side of the room. My buddy and I were the two smartest so we were put in charge of our teams, and then each team had one of the two problem people and my team had the most annoying one. His only contribution to the team was setting the windows theme on the VPN concentrator to something worse than hot dog stand and said "this is what I use on my computer." Rainy Day was always the best of the default color schemes. 
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Oct 21, 2021 19:25
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Rainy Day was the poo poo, oh drat I miss you Rainy Day Am I just remembering things for maximum hilarity or was the ratio of absolutely unusable color schemes to decent color schemes like 5 :1
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Powered Descent posted:Rainy Day was always the best of the default color schemes. woah that was a hard hit of nostalgia. Think that is what I always used as well.
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Oct 21, 2021 22:19
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I thought that was the theme I used, but apparently the colors are different. Or maybe they were different in Windows 98? Anyway, it sent me down the rabbit hole of backups I have. Apologies if no one gives a poo poo. Maybe Rainy Day theme screenshot memorializing my 1000th post 20 years ago.  Screenshots from the web site for "SimpleCam" also from 2001, a free app I wrote for people using the SA Goon Cam Portals since most cost money at the time. I have the source code (VB6!) too, so I could put that on Github and also post it in the coding horrors thread.    And finally, "An Awful Game". SA was enamored with the hentai game True Love in 2001, so I started making an SA-themed game with similar gameplay (without the sex). I also found a .dat file filled with dozens of SA-themed interactions (like seen in the screenshot) which I would share, but some of them are very early 2000s SA, and needless to say, not good. 
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Oct 22, 2021 00:25
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GI_Clutch posted:I thought that was the theme I used, but apparently the colors are different. Or maybe they were different in Windows 98? Anyway, it sent me down the rabbit hole of backups I have. Apologies if no one gives a poo poo. Haha this is awesome Pro favorites bar location in IE too BTW. Takes me back to when you could drag that bar around. How far we’ve fallen…
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Holy cow, I had completely forgotten about it but I'm pretty sure I used SimpleCam ~2004.
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