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Probably never forget the 90s ISP tech support days when we would try to sign up all these tech-illiterate rural types who had heard about the Information Superhighway and had a computer from the 80s that their son had set up for them, like this one horse farmer guy who came in with the thickest slowest drawling hick accent I'd ever heard. We got his account all set up for the Real Actual Internet, and at that point he started asking about whether he would get access to (and he leaned on every distinct syllable): AY OH AYOLL
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Lowen SoDium posted:I miss the days of old script kiddy AOL client hacks like AOHell and others. Most of their features were childish at best (like flooding some one IMs with down) to completely useless (things that were supposed to give you admin powers or whatever but didn't work) https://www.angelfire.com/ky/peschel/punters.html I was always a FateX dude myself. And yes, most things never worked. I remember getting a client/server set in the late 90s called Boyfriend and Girlfriend, and you could wrap the server in another random .exe file without too much issue than mess with your friends remotely. Got picked up by AV instantly of course, but fun regardless.
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EL BROMANCE posted:https://www.angelfire.com/ky/peschel/punters.html I was always a FateX dude myself. And yes, most things never worked. I don't remember Boyfriend/Girlfriend, but we used to do that same thing with Back Orifice. Cult of the Dead Cow also made a toll for wrapping B.O. in another exe named Silk Rope. I remember loving with so many of my friends back in the day using those tools. never anything nefarious, but stupid poo poo like sending pop up messages that said things like "Please insert your penis in the CD-ROM drive now" and then cause their CD rom drive to open.
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Lowen SoDium posted:I don't remember Boyfriend/Girlfriend, but we used to do that same thing with Back Orifice. Cult of the Dead Cow also made a toll for wrapping B.O. in another exe named Silk Rope. Yeah it was a way simplified version of BO/Sub7 etc
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Lowen SoDium posted:I remember loving with so many of my friends back in the day using those tools. never anything nefarious, but stupid poo poo like sending pop up messages that said things like "Please insert your penis in the CD-ROM drive now" and then cause their CD rom drive to open. loving with someone that had both a printer and a webcam to watch their reaction over is one of the things from my script kiddie phase that I am most able to look back on and think "yeah that actually was hilarious".
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I haven't put any video public where I appear or talk, but I had recorded a bunch through the years. I was deleting some from my youtube and noticed this from 2013. A video where I go through writing a simple C64 BASIC program. I should have kept up with the project. Maybe I'll continue it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72aa3Ys5eTs
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I see Techmoan did not post a video this week. Anybody here a patreon subscriber?
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Mister Kingdom posted:I see Techmoan did not post a video this week. Anybody here a patreon subscriber? He's been talking about it for a while in his monthly patreon vlogs but his life is in a pretty depressing state right now. His mom recently passed and he's having to run around trying to care for his late stage dementia dad and settle him into a care home, as well as deal with his own laundry list of medical issues too. So he's not had much time to make videos, and the few that he has put out all under performed per Youtube's analytics so it's just really discouraging all around.
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ishikabibble posted:He's been talking about it for a while in his monthly patreon vlogs but his life is in a pretty depressing state right now. His mom recently passed and he's having to run around trying to care for his late stage dementia dad and settle him into a care home, as well as deal with his own laundry list of medical issues too. So he's not had much time to make videos, and the few that he has put out all under performed per Youtube's analytics so it's just really discouraging all around. That sucks. I hope it all works out for him. His is the only YouTube channel I actually look forward to every week.
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There’s always new CRD while you wait https://youtu.be/ZIrQX5bvzow
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Discovered HC-06 bluetooth modules and figured I could add Bluetooth to one of my old Apple IIc machines. Well after a few failures, I finally got it working! I can use ADTPro over Bluetooth straight to the IIc. The board:  The red board is a TTL-RS232 level shifter from my local Microcenter. It had a DB-9 connector on it which I removed as I didn't need it. The Bluetooth module is on the right side. It is an HC06 Bluetooth module. Exposes itself as a standard Bluetooth serial profile. Its serial output is 3.3v level while the IIc is standard 12v/-12v, hence the need for the level shifter. The small blue module at the bottom is a 5v to 3.3v power regulator. Success! Sending a disk image from the IIc to ADTPro on my PC via Bluetooth.  Works just fine at 115200bps. The Bluetooth module is neat. It is configurable via AT commands like a modem. Appears as a regular serial port in your OS when paired. You can change the Bluetooth device name it shows up as. So of course:  Going to mount the board inside the computer under the keyboard. Its powered by 5v from the IIc mobo, so it will be on whenever the computer is on.
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Humphreys posted:I had a weird combo back in 2002 when I was in the military. A Teac (I think) CD Walkman that actually could burn audio from a Line-in. Paired with my Nokia 5510 that had USB and headphone out means I could technically transfer files from my email account and play them on the MP3 player function of the phone into the CD Walkman. Thanks for this reply. Reminds me of making/recording music in the late 90's
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This is a interesting interview with film composer David Arnold where he reminisces the early days of scoring with computers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDZCZgllreQ
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lobsterminator posted:This is a interesting interview with film composer David Arnold where he reminisces the early days of scoring with computers. This video rules. Arnold’s been responsible for a lot of great scores throughout the years; Stargate is probably my favorite.
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Oh, how I love wacky 90’s/early 2000’s mice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgDh3ZRtzJg
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Funny how the most expensive one was the absolute worst.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I like how hell, same
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 Had this Apple IIc Plus surrendered at work a months ago or so. Store shut down and I was able to bring it home with me. I hope to find a boot floppy for it and can play around on it. They also turned in an ImageWriter LQ printer but it was beat up and I never got a good photo.
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Hell yeah, my first computer worth the name. Wright in a benis
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DJOprahSpinfrey posted:
It should have BASIC in ROM so you should be able to play with it even without any floppies (if you don't mind doing some typing).
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On my Retro Movie discord channel, tonights stream is:   I've also got an an experimental Multi-Cam going, ready to show off a movie, the front panel, and the internal rail system showing the laser assembly moving when changing sides of Laserdiscs: 
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Thats awesome. Most 8mm carts are just airline movies lol
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I found a retro channel that does great histories of Nintendo stuff, using a lot of research from non-English sources that don't often come up in the Anglophone retro sphere. I never knew how much of a clusterfuck Virtual Boy's development was, even considering the end product. Poor Gunpei Yokoi! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tLop5KLEq4
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Tech Relics - A wild night of ladies’ clam chowder wrestling
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It's showtime with Hackers Running it live and having the usual fun shenanigans 
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 e: unironically branding an AV product ᴘʀᴇᴄɪꜱɪᴏɴ TurboDrive™ is a delightful relic, too
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Humphreys posted:It's showtime with Hackers RISC is very good
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DJOprahSpinfrey posted:
With a serial cable and ADTPro you can bootstrap it without a disk and use it to write disk images to floppies. Assuming you have some floppy disks. My post above I am doing exactly that, just over a Bluetooth serial link.
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Humphreys posted:On my Retro Movie discord channel, tonights stream is: Your Hi8 deck (which is awesome) reminds me to ask in here if anyone has seen a source on a MiniDV deck that'll play back PAL tapes in the US that isn't a stupid price. I think just because the units are getting worn out and there's still just about enough demand for them, the price is going the wrong way for me. There's the Sony DSR-11 and there's a JVC deck I know about that do what I need, maybe there's more. My tapes aren't always the best so wanted to use a deck rather than grind through a MiniDV cam which is what I was doing before to transfer my collection.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Your Hi8 deck (which is awesome) reminds me to ask in here if anyone has seen a source on a MiniDV deck that'll play back PAL tapes in the US that isn't a stupid price. I think just because the units are getting worn out and there's still just about enough demand for them, the price is going the wrong way for me. There's the Sony DSR-11 and there's a JVC deck I know about that do what I need, maybe there's more. My tapes aren't always the best so wanted to use a deck rather than grind through a MiniDV cam which is what I was doing before to transfer my collection. You aren't going to find a PAL DV Deck without bidding against me sorry. I have a lust for my old editing stuff, and a hatred for my old employer which I know has at least 4 HD-DV Decks stashed away that won't sell online cos they are old fuddy duddies.
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How bout this, I’ll not bid against you and you pass me down the good stuff when you’re done! 
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Oh that song came back very clearly for something I haven't heard or thought about for almost twenty years.
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Computer viking posted:Oh that song came back very clearly for something I haven't heard or thought about for almost twenty years. Hell yeah right into my 90s heart... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCbAEkfXSDE
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3D Megadoodoo posted:A shop nearby has an MT-32 for sale for 355€ and REALLY want to just go and buy it, because I have a lot of games that would benefit from it that I haven't played yet. Wait, are they really that expensive these days? I've got an MT-32 that I bought second hand from some guy for like 20 euros in the early 2000s. Works just fine, but with MT-32 emulation being pretty drat good these days and MIDI ports being pretty drat rare these days, I don't have it hooked up to anything.
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get one of these and you'll be able to use it wirelessly with all your modern computers https://www.thomannmusic.com/yamaha_md_bt01_wireless_midi_adapter.htm I have three sets of them so far and they are great, who needs wireless bluetooth speakers when you can have wireless bluetooth midi players
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Wait, are they really that expensive these days? I've got an MT-32 that I bought second hand from some guy for like 20 euros in the early 2000s. Works just fine, but with MT-32 emulation being pretty drat good these days and MIDI ports being pretty drat rare these days, I don't have it hooked up to anything. I think the price surges are linked to retro youtube getting popular while people have been sitting at home due to COVID. Folks see a piece of kit they dreamed of having in the 1990s featured on LGR and instantly start scouring eBay for it. A lot of stuff that was just e-waste some ten years ago is now premium merchandise, not in little part because a lot of stuff naturally just gets thrown away before it becomes the random target of the next retro boom.
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