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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrFikVG44MY
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Honestly what pops into my head is theme hospital music
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Jan 20, 2022 14:38
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The Transport Tycoon soundtrack.
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Jan 20, 2022 16:12
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The only time I ever saw those speakers was at my friend's house when he tried to show me a movie he made in Stunt Island and I was absolutely horrified to hear the awful MIDI soundtrack for the first time after only hearing my system's sampled soundtrack
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Jan 20, 2022 16:18
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Computer viking posted:The Transport Tycoon soundtrack. Tycoon Jazz is the best genre of music.
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Jan 20, 2022 16:18
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Tycoon Jazz is the best genre of music. A disproportionate amount of my aimless humming is tycoon jazz.
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Jan 20, 2022 16:41
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Passport.mid as played on a Roland SC-55 MKII 🤘 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12sfyzWu_88
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Jan 20, 2022 18:09
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Who wrote that, Harold Faltermeyer?
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Jan 20, 2022 18:13
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Data Graham posted:Who wrote that, Harold Faltermeyer? Brian Eno e, holy poo poo Harold Faltermeyer has had the coolest career, and also this picture of him: 
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Jan 20, 2022 18:13
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Not to your liking? How about some unnecessarily high definition Super Mario 64 music then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM6Co6IUBxU Every video on this guy's channel is like this. It's amazing. These are supposed to be made by hunting down the original samples used to make the game tracks and recreating them. Edit: - on the topic of Harold Faltermeyer here's a really good recreation of the Axel Foley theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXMb768dGNI Vanagoon has a new favorite as of 18:30 on Jan 20, 2022 |
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Jan 20, 2022 18:20
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Tycoon Jazz is the best genre of music. Dunno if you've heard this, but they redid the soundtrack with a live band https://youtu.be/jSFsrmLhC00
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Jan 21, 2022 10:43
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GrandMaster posted:Dunno if you've heard this, but they redid the soundtrack with a live band I hadn't, thank you. I'm listening to it right now at work but it just... the sound is wrong. (Also it's badly produced so the sound is also wrong in another way.)
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Jan 21, 2022 13:10
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It was this and Transport Tycoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQGSbVkkOdM
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Jan 21, 2022 14:40
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I hadn't, thank you. I'm listening to it right now at work but it just... the sound is wrong. (Also it's badly produced so the sound is also wrong in another way.) It's a bit treble-heavy, and it's really weird to not have that crunchy OPL3 sound - but it's also very neat to hear a proper piano/saxophone take on Sawyer's tune. So thanks - I did not know that existed.
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Jan 22, 2022 03:55
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https://twitter.com/mightyjabba/status/1485637228915212296?s=20 https://twitter.com/mightyjabba/status/1485637247206633489 https://twitter.com/mightyjabba/status/1485637260766810112 Pretty neat little gadget for the mid-90s
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Jan 24, 2022 23:04
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Modular slots were such a “where you off to next, Future Boy” thing Like the PowerBook G3 where you could pull out the hard drive and chunk in a CD-ROM drive or another battery or like, a dinosaur cloning pod or whatever
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Jan 25, 2022 00:34
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Data Graham posted:Modular slots were such a “where you off to next, Future Boy” thing Thinkpads had something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_UltraBay I only ever saw them with a CD-ROM drive, of course.
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Jan 25, 2022 00:52
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I’m pretty sure all of the major laptop oems did that. Dell had the slot that could take a CDROM, another battery, a floppy or an extra hard drive.
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Jan 25, 2022 02:05
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m pretty sure all of the major laptop oems did that. Toshiba did it.
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Anyone know if those laptop bays were designed to any standard, or were they all OEM-specific? This device looks like it’s using PCMCIA, a standard that seemed to lend itself well to wild peripherals.
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Jan 25, 2022 02:34
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Yeah all the laptop internal expansion bays were proprietary I think some of the small proto-netbooks had peripherals that connected over a cable to a pcmcia card
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Jan 25, 2022 02:38
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I just added a second SSD to my 2010 MacBook pro with one of those optical disc caddies. It wasn't proprietary.
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Jan 25, 2022 03:11
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Pham Nuwen posted:Thinkpads had something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_UltraBay My think pad which is not very old came with a cdrom but I bought a hard drive caddy for :tenbux:
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Jan 25, 2022 03:14
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Mantle posted:I just added a second SSD to my 2010 MacBook pro with one of those optical disc caddies. It wasn't proprietary. Right but that was a regular sata drive in a caddy not made by apple
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Jan 25, 2022 03:25
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Blue Moonlight posted:Anyone know if those laptop bays were designed to any standard, or were they all OEM-specific? cathode ray dude (a retro tech youtuber) keeps talking about specific dell models that had the swap out drives also have USB ports on them if you wanted to use them as a standard external, which is great
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Jan 25, 2022 03:42
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Only the floppy drives have a USB port, which is still great
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Jan 25, 2022 03:46
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All this modular talk reminds me of that Motorola Android phone they tried to market as the brains of a modular system. Seems like it was before or around when chromebooks started appearing. I thought it sounded awesome until I tried it and realized how terrible Android was at running windowed applications.
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Jan 25, 2022 03:56
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m pretty sure all of the major laptop oems did that.
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Jan 25, 2022 04:20
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Right but that was a regular sata drive in a caddy not made by apple Mine is a generic caddy not made by Apple. It just turns an SSD into the shape of a generic optical drive which Macs used to use
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Jan 25, 2022 04:53
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Motorola had that phone where you could snap accessories to the back like a DSLR camera or a subwoofer or even a projector. They were hundreds of dollars but the company guaranteed that they would be forwards compatible with the next phone And then they never made another one
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Jan 25, 2022 15:01
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remember those SD cards (and also CF cards, I believe?) that had built-in wifi adapters? I think the idea was that the pictures you took on a DSLR would instantly appear on a PC? It was kind of a good idea, I'm not sure why they didnt catch on
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Jan 25, 2022 15:48
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:remember those SD cards (and also CF cards, I believe?) that had built-in wifi adapters? I think the idea was that the pictures you took on a DSLR would instantly appear on a PC?
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I wish they were easier to find (all brands are pretty much unavailable on amazon), because as a T3i-haver, it would be nice to have, and I dont have any plans to upgrade my camera body any time soon
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Jan 25, 2022 16:01
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Which was the stupid phone with the commercial where someone snapped on a bigger lens and then a cheetah growled Every single time that played I remember thinking that company was going to lose so much money
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Jan 25, 2022 16:38
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I wish that WiFi SD cards were more common and available in larger sizes because I want my SNES rom cart to be wifi connected to load new roms easier. I tried a little SD card wifi passthrough thing I got on Aliexpress but it didn't work reliably and it might have been responsible for killing a couple of SD cards..
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Jan 25, 2022 16:42
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:remember those SD cards (and also CF cards, I believe?) that had built-in wifi adapters? I think the idea was that the pictures you took on a DSLR would instantly appear on a PC? While EyeFi (who I think were the first big player in the field) went out of business, it seems like there's a few competitors still around - Toshiba has a line, for instance. The anecdotal evidence I have is that while I've seen them mentioned in camera discussions often enough that there is/was a niche market, they never got adopted by average consumers.
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There's also things like this: https://www.amazon.ca/axGear-Wirele...cs%2C60&sr=1-25 Looks like it would solve the issues of size and file corruption, put a nice big verified sandisk card in there and off you go. Anybody ever try it?
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What do goons think of the frame.work laptop as a platform? Is it a future tech relic or here to stay? Would one backwards-compatible hardware release be enough to convince you?
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I really like what I see in the Frame.Work laptop, and the reviews from Right To Repair folks have been generally very positive. There are two reasons I haven't already bought one: I'd like a stronger video card and I don't really need another laptop right now. With Covid continuing, I'm not really traveling or working backstage, so my existing desktops suit my needs, with an iPad handling 95% of mobile needs. The real test obviously will be how long they last as a company and how long they'll support old hardware. Personal taste is that four years is the effective minimum, but if they keep parts available (either exact or backwards-compatible) for five years or longer, that'd make me feel very happy with them. I have a friend who needs to replace a broken Macbook, so I'm going to try to sell him on a new Frame.Work.
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I'm also looking at it as my next laptop, but I'm just waiting for my 2010 MacBook Pro to really die. I've recently replaced the battery, added SSDs, upgraded to 8GB and did the capacitor mod to fix the video card crashing and it's really just good enough for what I need it to do, particularly because the high quality of the human touchpoints like trackpad and keyboard. The thing that's pushing me off it is not really the hardware getting old, but the EOL software support first from Apple limiting the OS to High Sierra and next from applications dropping support for High Sierra recently. I might make it an Ubuntu laptop once I run out of ways to virtualize the system requirements.
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