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https://spacehey.com/ Myspace is back... in
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Oh god, thats the stuff right there!!
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Nov 13, 2021 03:36
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:I wish Superdisk had become more widely adopted, holy hell. While I’d never experienced the click of death firsthand (though I have seen it happen), about a third of my Zip disks lost their data and became unusable when I was in art school. For how much those goddamned things cost, that was intolerable. Not going to bother checking the exact dates since during 90's the regional availability of tech was a thing. Here the superdisks were too little too late; the zipdisks had similar capacity and larger market share with similar costs of entry, and CD-RW burners were becoming a thing and they also covered that "I need a CD-drive" thing when you upgraded to Pentium-level stuff.
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Nov 15, 2021 18:42
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This Is the Zodiac posted:https://spacehey.com/ i forgot i had an account there. updated it
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Nov 15, 2021 21:04
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I mentioned this in the GBS 90s thread, but span zips. If you were pirating big games, like maybe 20 megabites, you could use a compression program to break it up into multipart zips or rars. Just have to hope that one doesn't get corrupted or the disk is bad or whatver. It is funny when you discover that game you buy on CD was only like 50MB, when the disk holds 600.
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Nov 15, 2021 21:22
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twistedmentat posted:I mentioned this in the GBS 90s thread, but span zips. If you were pirating big games, like maybe 20 megabites, you could use a compression program to break it up into multipart zips or rars. Just have to hope that one doesn't get corrupted or the disk is bad or whatver. When we took trips to visit family in Hong Kong in the 90s my dad took us to the pirate software malls in Sham Sui Po. We quickly learned to buy two copies of games because invariably one of the 3.5" spanned install disks would be corrupt. It was still worth it because the pirated copies were 1/10th the price of the legit box back home.
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Nov 17, 2021 04:42
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https://youtu.be/ijdcyyLcUok RIP Dave
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Nov 21, 2021 14:42
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Yeah splitting large releases up into 1.44MB spanned zips was a thing long past the age of floppies. I think it was more for recovery and redundancy. If you had a corrupt chunk or it was missing, there were usually also 1.44MB parity files to reconstruct it.
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Nov 21, 2021 22:58
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AlternateAccount posted:Yeah splitting large releases up into 1.44MB spanned zips was a thing long past the age of floppies. I think it was more for recovery and redundancy. If you had a corrupt chunk or it was missing, there were usually also 1.44MB parity files to reconstruct it. BTW I still saw this online after the advent of high speed being everywhere. Like you'd torrent an episode if family guy and it would be a bunch if 1.44 Meg rar files.
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Nov 23, 2021 15:51
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People did it for a while after floppies too. They'd split say a 600MB CD-rip into multiple 20-30MB files. I guess it was so you didn't have to re-download the entire thing if it failed or got corrupted.
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Nov 23, 2021 16:28
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Back in the dial up days, having a Download Manager was a necessity. Being able to resume a download from your favorite ROM site or whatever, especially when those downloads got into the 10s of MBs - that was magic to me.
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Nov 23, 2021 16:52
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On a 56k modem, downloads are limited to about 2 megabytes/minute (or slower; it's been a while). So breaking up an entire CD worth of data was really essential.
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Nov 23, 2021 17:01
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twistedmentat posted:BTW I still saw this online after the advent of high speed being everywhere. Like you'd torrent an episode if family guy and it would be a bunch if 1.44 Meg rar files. I see what you did there.
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Nov 23, 2021 17:33
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ultrafilter posted:On a 56k modem, downloads are limited to about 2 megabytes/minute (or slower; it's been a while). So breaking up an entire CD worth of data was really essential. More like 400KB/min, and you'd be happy if you got 300K.
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Nov 23, 2021 17:37
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Wasn’t the split files also due to things being distributed on Usenet?
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Nov 23, 2021 18:32
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DrChu posted:Wasn’t the split files also due to things being distributed on Usenet? Yep. Originally Usenet had a 60,000 character limit per message. So you'd use something like uuencode to convert binaries to massive text strings. But you'd have to break it up. Over time the limit per message went up but I don't remember the timeline for that.
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Nov 24, 2021 03:15
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OK, so why the gently caress do people still split files up into spanned archives these days?
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Nov 24, 2021 03:45
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GWBBQ posted:OK, so why the gently caress do people still split files up into spanned archives these days? One download service struck down parts 2 and 4, but they're still good on another service.
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Nov 24, 2021 03:57
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GWBBQ posted:OK, so why the gently caress do people still split files up into spanned archives these days? Some hosting services have limits for what people can download without a paid account. For people on poo poo connections, downloading chunks might be more successful than trying to grab large files.
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Nov 24, 2021 03:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmrAOmzlrq4 I sometimes think they're saying "Ancients of Youtube". KLF 3AM Eternal
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Nov 25, 2021 12:58
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GWBBQ posted:OK, so why the gently caress do people still split files up into spanned archives these days? Momentum. Also dunno how true this is, but someone once told me some torrent clients had issues with large files, but small files were just fine.
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Nov 27, 2021 04:00
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A lot of file hosting sites won't let people download files over a few hundred megabytes unless they buy a premium account, so splitting a large file into a few pieces lets more people download it. They also often limit the download speeds for free users, and like to drop connections when the server gets busy. So it's less of a kick in the teeth to only have to retry one 500MB part at 50KB/s instead of starting an entire 4GB file again.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:10
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“Tremor Pak”? Was there a MadCatz Rumble Pak knockoff or something? And what does that say next to the “limit 1 customer” thing, “No dealers”?
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Nov 27, 2021 20:46
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I shall see your 90’s Black Friday ads and raise you the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6pK5on50A
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Nov 27, 2021 21:01
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twistedmentat posted:BTW I still saw this online after the advent of high speed being everywhere. Like you'd torrent an episode if family guy and it would be a bunch if 1.44 Meg rar files. That was mostly because of outdated pirate scene rules. If your release didn't follow the standards, it got nuked. I believe x264 took a loong time to be allowed in the "real" scene, but the torrent releasers didn't care.
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Nov 27, 2021 21:34
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afen posted:That was mostly because of outdated pirate scene rules. If your release didn't follow the standards, it got nuked. I believe x264 took a loong time to be allowed in the "real" scene, but the torrent releasers didn't care. I was grabbing torrents in the late aughts that still had it that way. They were really behind the times. It's great downloading a 3 gig JAV video thats split up into hundreds of smaller rar files.
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Nov 27, 2021 22:02
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:“Tremor Pak”? Was there a MadCatz Rumble Pak knockoff or something? And what does that say next to the “limit 1 customer” thing, “No dealers”? Probably a memory card / rumble hybrid, there were a number of those.
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Nov 28, 2021 01:40
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:“Tremor Pak”? Was there a MadCatz Rumble Pak knockoff or something? And what does that say next to the “limit 1 customer” thing, “No dealers”? Probably the same knock off rumble pack I had
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Nov 28, 2021 02:44
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Yeah it was a cheaper knock off. I'm not sure if the official rumble pack needed batteries, but this one did. I remember starfox 64 came with a rumblepack
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Nov 28, 2021 02:48
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:“Tremor Pak”? Was there a MadCatz Rumble Pak knockoff or something? And what does that say next to the “limit 1 customer” thing, “No dealers”? Yep, “no dealers”. I’m not sure if it was a legit worry about their stock being bought up for cheap then resold, or if it’s one of those things to make it seem even more enticing to customers, like “our prices are so low, if we didn’t put that in the ad we’d be swarmed with dealers because we sell for cheaper than wholesale DIRECT TO YOU!”
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Sekhmnet posted:Yeah it was a cheaper knock off. I'm not sure if the official rumble pack needed batteries, but this one did. The official rumble pak did need batteries. A few third-party ones didn't though iirc.
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Nov 28, 2021 05:22
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The official rumble pak did need batteries. A few third-party ones didn't though iirc.
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Nov 28, 2021 12:50
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GWBBQ posted:Feeding that thing AAA batteries might be the most '90s thing imaginable. Feeding anything that isn't a remote control for a TV or a smoke detector batteries feels really weird; and I was born in 1978. I think I have a wireless keyboard that has/had batteries in it, but I haven't looked at in like 10 years so its more like I have a wireless keyboard with a battery chamber filled with rusted and busted batteries leaking battery guts all over. I used the battery compartment of my AT-AT toy to hide my weed in as a teenager....
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Busket Posket posted:Yep, “no dealers”. I’m not sure if it was a legit worry about their stock being bought up for cheap then resold, or if it’s one of those things to make it seem even more enticing to customers, like “our prices are so low, if we didn’t put that in the ad we’d be swarmed with dealers because we sell for cheaper than wholesale DIRECT TO YOU!” Bought up and resold is definitely a thing. The big one I've seen in recent years is the TI graphic calculators. They go on sale for back to school, and scumbags buy them up to resell them for profit. It's double scummy when there are additional incentives (example: $10 coupon for every $200 spent). It's why a lot of places place unenforced buying limits.
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Busket Posket posted:Yep, “no dealers”. I’m not sure if it was a legit worry about their stock being bought up for cheap then resold, or if it’s one of those things to make it seem even more enticing to customers, like “our prices are so low, if we didn’t put that in the ad we’d be swarmed with dealers because we sell for cheaper than wholesale DIRECT TO YOU!” I don’t know about the PlayStation but the N64 was in short supply in 1996, and along with Tickle Me Elmo dolls, they were being sold in classified ads at a markup that Christmas season. As I was lucky to be able to snag one on Black Friday that year—the first and last one I ever did—I didn’t really pay attention to the situation in ‘97.
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Antioch posted:Back in the dial up days, having a Download Manager was a necessity. Being able to resume a download from your favorite ROM site or whatever, especially when those downloads got into the 10s of MBs - that was magic to me. Fetch for Macintosh was so cool back in the day. You could always pause FTP transfers and restart them. If you lost connection, it would continue where it left off. Then one day it just kind of went away. It was a cool client though.
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What is the most 90s guys name? For some reason i feel its Todd or Kyle.
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twistedmentat posted:What is the most 90s guys name? For some reason i feel its Todd or Kyle. Darren
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