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Chas McGill posted:Just remembered being excited about having a dvd drive that could etch stuff onto the top of DVDs. Think I used it once or twice. I wish they'd made lightscribe BD-Rs, even if they smell weird. I used the poo poo outta lightscribe in the day and still have about 100 Rifftrax discs with nice little labels  r u ready to WALK posted:That Casio label writer looks neat, but I'd worry about running out of the special thermal transfer ink. How many discs can you do with one ribbon? I dunno, this one's half-used and I've gotten through a dozen thus far. $22 to order a 3 pack of new ones Rev. Bleech_ has a new favorite as of 23:22 on Jan 28, 2023 |
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Dr. Quarex posted:Part of this has to be how absolutely terribly they marketed it; I literally had a gaming laptop that came with Lightscribe as a big highlighted feature and never once used it because it DID NOT COME WITH ANY COMPATIBLE DISCS and I NEVER ONCE SAW THEM AVAILABLE FOR SALE ANYWHERE ughghg I totally wanted to use it, too One of my old laptops has a LightScribe drive and it did come with two CD-Rs. I thought it was cool as hell but I also never found any more discs for sale and the labels on the included discs ended up fading in a few months. Wasn't there something that could burn labels into unused portions of the data side of the disc? Dip Viscous has a new favorite as of 00:05 on Jan 29, 2023 |
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Dip Viscous posted:Wasn't there something that could burn labels into unused portions of the data side of the disc? Yes, LGR covered it a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1pehz1hNtk
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That's the one, and holy moly no wonder I couldn't remember what it was called.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I wish they'd made lightscribe BD-Rs, even if they smell weird. I used the poo poo outta lightscribe in the day and still have about 100 Rifftrax discs with nice little labels I use white printable DVDs: 
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r u ready to WALK posted:That Casio label writer looks neat, but I'd worry about running out of the special thermal transfer ink. How many discs can you do with one ribbon? I’m not sure, I bought the same CD printer off EBay that the other poster bought, and am still on the OG ribbon. You can buy 3-packs of the ribbons on fleabay from a bunch of different Japanese sellers for like $25 so I’m not too concerned at this point. I wish I had a Primera like yours though, I’ve been using my Epson CD printer for ten years and it’s kinda janky.
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But…why? Also, wait, what?
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Two wheels is faster than one wheel. It’s just math!
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Gonz posted:But…why? They see me roline, they hatine.
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Gonz posted:But…why? Another weird tech relic for LGR to try out!
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I think one wheel scrolls horizontally. Back in the day screens were smaller and web devs hadn't phased out horizontal scrolling (I think at some point Opera would even reformat pages to eliminate horizontal scroll bars) so that would indeed be a handy feature. Those 4-way wheels never did feel quite right.
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I had a similar product and the second wheel was normally horizontal scroll but you could remap it to show up as mouse4 and mouse5 to be a huge poo poo in FPSs that didn't cap rate of fire.
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The answer to that was a horizontally aligned wheel on the side right under the thumb, not two slightly offset vertical scrollwheels Actually the real answer is an apple magic mouse but don't tell them I said that
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Blue Moonlight posted:They see me roline, they hatine.
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Dip Viscous posted:I had a similar product and the second wheel was normally horizontal scroll but you could remap it to show up as mouse4 and mouse5 to be a huge poo poo in FPSs that didn't cap rate of fire. drat, now I want one to map FOV to in Quake 2. Now the railgun has a scope!
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 Was dropping some stuff off at the local tip and checked out the tip shop there. There was some 2000s era Apple hardware there as well as the usually assortment of keyboards/mice/etc. Near the counter was a plastic 5.25" disk container with these disks as well as copied disks (for AppleWorks, which Apple recommends doing) in it. Checked all the disks for mould, all are clean. Going to connect up the Apple //e Platinum during the week and see if my drive will read them
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You Am I posted:
if we're posting old software here's some I got a while back: 
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Pham Nuwen posted:if we're posting old software here's some I got a while back: I feel like they missed out on an opportunity to call it “The Compact Disc.”
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MAME-powered calculator emulation, folks: https://archive.org/details/calculatordrawer 
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Took me a moment to realise those are two different TV consoles, I was wondering when did Super Mario Bros distributed on a vinyl record. There actually were a couple of games added to music records as an added bonus but those were for British microcomputers.
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oh wow you could fit all kinds of peanutbutter sandwiches into that badboy.
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After all these years I'm still somehow just floored by the idea that you can record what amounts to the sounds your modem made when you picked up the headset as a kid, play that back at the computer even if it was on a vinyl album, and get a whole game out of it. I grew up on PCs and the whole cassette thing has always seemed to me like some form arcane magic.
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I mean, it pretty much was. Like, I can code up a storm using modern tools and languages, but just trying to put myself in the headspace of inventing that poo poo from scratch, coaxing plastic and metal molecules to do my bidding by applying electricity here and there in just the right ways, gives me impostor syndrome like nobody's business. Whoopty-gently caress I can follow documentation, good for me
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I'd like to imagine that thing has a music visualizer built into it, It would only make sense at that point.
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coldpudding posted:I'd like to imagine that thing has a music visualizer built into it, It would only make sense at that point. Milkdrop 0.1a
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Humphreys posted:Milkdrop 0.1a Some time last year I was actually googling to see if there were some amazing new visualizers, because you could make some great stuff with modern GPUs. Didn't really find any. Some youtubers use reactive 3D graphics for their videos, but I think they are just something that creates a prerendered video. Does anyone know if there are any?
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coldpudding posted:I'd like to imagine that thing has a music visualizer built into it, It would only make sense at that point. Semi-relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wle0eqBwtL8
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Need an AI visualizer trained on old The Mind’s Eye videos.
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Milkdrop is still great honestly. I do wonder what those music streams use for real-time visualization though, I imagine they're running some game engine like Unity that's been tailored to the task.
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lobsterminator posted:Some time last year I was actually googling to see if there were some amazing new visualizers, because you could make some great stuff with modern GPUs. Didn't really find any. Or at least something significantly better than what we had 20 years ago. Which as you say does not really seem to exist
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lobsterminator posted:Some time last year I was actually googling to see if there were some amazing new visualizers, because you could make some great stuff with modern GPUs. Didn't really find any. I looked in to real-time visualisers a while back for use at live gigs, and the ones that were at least a little pretty absolutley hammered my CPU / GPU. This was on an iMac with a 4.2ghz i7 quad core and a Radeon Pro 575 with 4GB, so I didn't even bother trying it on my old MacBook Pro.
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It's probably just really poorly implemented. Real-time reactive visualizations with shaders can be done with just a handful of lines of code and even live coded so it's certainly not a CPU/GPU power issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNhQUksZYkY (Not the best examples but what I could find quickly while pretending to work.)
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Only big boards allowed in here gentlemen; Compuadd 286 board, 20mhz (25mhz piece)  Had some issues with it getting it posting because there is zero info on this board on the internet, except for a pic or two. Moved some of the Dip memory around, eventually got it to post. I need more Dram though.  
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHC438sW_2Q
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Mr-Spain posted:Only big boards allowed in here gentlemen; 2 things 1) that thing is huge and awesome 2) I really thought it was called Compudad
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I sat up nights with my blanket over my head and a flashlight and a catalog lusting over a CompuAdd 386/33
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Mods change my name to CompuDad
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You're no CompuDad of mine! <  >
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