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Rip anyone who bought a late generation intel Mac. Those are gonna have a crazy short lifespan
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Rip anyone who bought a late generation intel Mac. Those are gonna have a crazy short lifespan Ask me about how last year I bought an Intel Mac Mini. And an Intel MacBook Air.
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Lowen SoDium posted: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. Not for nothing, but every SNES game ever takes up maybe half a gig. Are you regularly loading up new romhacks or something?
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 Running IE 1.5 from Windows NT 3.51 on Windows 11. The backward compatibility in Windows is nuts.
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Drastic Actions posted:
Hey, do you have PM? I’ve got some questions about this setup for something I’m doing for work relating to old browser support.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Hey, do you have PM? I’ve got some questions about this setup for something I’m doing for work relating to old browser support. Yeah, you can send a PM 
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Blue Moonlight posted:Hey, do you have PM? I’ve got some questions about this setup for something I’m doing for work relating to old browser support. Sales people promised the client your project would support IE 1.5?
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Neito posted:Not for nothing, but every SNES game ever takes up maybe half a gig. Are you regularly loading up new romhacks or something? Surely you mean Mb? A cart with half a gig of anything in that era would be the size of the SNES itself.
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spookykid posted:Surely you mean Mb? A cart with half a gig of anything in that era would be the size of the SNES itself. The sum total of every SNES game ever released.
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Lol at the margins in those title bar labels, 35 years and Microsoft is still like “graphic design is for nerds”
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spookykid posted:Surely you mean Mb? A cart with half a gig of anything in that era would be the size of the SNES itself. No a complete set of ROMs for the SNES is like half a gigabyte, so juggling games on and off of an SD card should only be necessary if you bought a vintage memory card to go along with your vintage gaming. It makes sense if you’re downloading romhacks and stuff though.
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History Comes Inside! posted:No a complete set of ROMs for the SNES is like half a gigabyte, so juggling games on and off of an SD card should only be necessary if you bought a vintage memory card to go along with your vintage gaming. I have a floppy loader for my SNES and changed that floppy drive out to a USB stick emulator... unlimited Floppies!
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Ahh the entirety of the SNES library. There's my hosed up reading comprehension quota for the day.
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Tech Relics: I ordered a brand new tech relic to help get my other tech relics going  
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My copy of the snes library is 2.6G compressed, but that includes roms for ever region etc.
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RoastBeef posted:My copy of the snes library is 2.6G compressed, but that includes roms for ever region etc. So every game 6+ times, because ROM packs insist on including every broken mis-dump that has ever existed for some unfathomable reason.
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Sweevo posted:So every game three times, plus every 30 year old broken miss-dump that ROM file packs insist on including for some moronic reason. If they’re in 7zip format then it doesn’t make that much of a difference. I remember a set I downloaded once had a ~3MB 7z extract to over 200MB of ROM variants thanks to hacks and variants.
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Sweevo posted:So every game 6+ times, because ROM packs insist on including every broken mis-dump that has ever existed for some unfathomable reason. Don’t forget US, EU, and JP versions of each game, where the only difference between the US and EU versions are the number of “u”s in game text and replacing “ninja” with “hero.”
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At least those are noticeably different of you look closely. I could not find a single difference between Chrono Trigger [US], Chrono Trigger [o1], and Chrono Trigger [!],
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Tech Relics: I ordered a brand new tech relic to help get my other tech relics going I have an USB floppy drive too! It feels kinda weird to hear and see a floppy appear as a drive on a modern computer.
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Whenever I need a USB floppy drive I just dig out my http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Panasonic_PV-SD4090
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I guess it's time to bring CRD into the conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWwp3vVtElw Cojawfee has a new favorite as of 20:19 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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I’ve been yelling CRDs name from the rooftops for months. They’re a pro click on YouTube
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I love CRD and I thank the thread for turning me on to him. He just dropped this an hour ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOKpkWnrq4w I never thought he would stop being best friends with that gorgeous beast of a JVC, but hey, people change, situations change.
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To be fair that deck is mighty impressive
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i got that laptop/usb floppy drive he mentioned, because he mentioned it in another video months ago. it is indeed, real good.
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I was doing Helpdesk when those floppies were shipping with new dells and every one of those laptops that we got in to decommission we kept the floppy because they were so drat handy This wad of course when floppy drives were still handy for normal it work
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Also, weirdly, windows 10 appears to have not so great floppy drive support? Either that or my drive is flaky When I put a disk in and open the a: drive, windows reads the disk. If I go up one level to Computer, swap the disk and then go back into a: it just shows me the contents of the old disk without re-reading the disk. I have to unplug the drive and plug it back in to get it to read the new disk Is there a way to get windows to stop caching the drive contents and force it to reload every time I access the disk (F5/Refresh doesn’t work) Also it’s entirely possible I’m doing this wrong since it’s been forever since I’ve had to think about floppies Tech Relics: Getting floppies working correctly in windows 10 Beve Stuscemi has a new favorite as of 01:01 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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Lol it thinks it's USB windows 10 is so precious :3
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Also, weirdly, windows 10 appears to have not so great floppy drive support? Either that or my drive is flaky It might be your drive. I did a quick test with my USB floppy drive and it reloaded correctly when I swapped the disk.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Also, weirdly, windows 10 appears to have not so great floppy drive support? Either that or my drive is flaky I think Cathode Ray Dude mentions something about that in his floppy video.
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barbecue at the folks posted:I love CRD and I thank the thread for turning me on to him. He just dropped this an hour ago: CRD got SASSY in that video, love it.
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Straight shittin on other workflows I’m sort of surprised CRD isn’t a goon. Seems like a natural fit.
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Sweevo posted:So every game 6+ times, because ROM packs insist on including every broken mis-dump that has ever existed for some unfathomable reason. GoodSNES and the like have a bunch of bad dumps because the original idea of the tools back in the dial-up days was that you could run them on your directory of random poo poo you got from Bob's Quality ROM Barn and find out what it was. Instead of not having any idea what something was, the tool could tell you that something was definitely bad, or an overdump that is otherwise good. Plus all of the Super Peepee Bros. hacks. If you just want clean copies to play the games, these days there's stuff like No-Intro sets.
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Even though people have hardly used floppies in like 15-20 years, Windows drive lettering still skips A: and B:.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Even though people have hardly used floppies in like 15-20 years, Windows drive lettering still skips A: and B:. Didn't Zip drives often end up as B:, or am I misremembering that? Zip drives were awesome for like the 2 years they were relevant.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Even though people have hardly used floppies in like 15-20 years, Windows drive lettering still skips A: and B:. Windows still bans you from naming files things like CON, COM0, LPT1 and other things because those were reserved names in DOS.
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Cojawfee posted:I guess it's time to bring CRD into the conversation. 3.5 floppy disks seem to have 300RPM as their rotation speed in the spec, which means that for a normal disk you can read at most 5 tracks per second. So for an 80 track disk the minimum for a full disk would be 16 seconds. I wonder if any of them spin faster than the spec, or if they are just more clever in how they read/write data than standard drives.
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Cojawfee posted:Windows still bans you from naming files things like CON, COM0, LPT1 and other things because those were reserved names in DOS. At least CON still works the same as in DOS. I know because I've used it on Windows 10 for reasons.
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