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Rappaport posted:Settlers 2, a city-builder game from 1995, had a multiplayer mode that was split-screen, and both players had to use their own mouse. Lemmings on Amiga also had a two player mode with two mice. Because joysticks and mice used the same port so you could use either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAedz3nWn9E
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lobsterminator posted:Lemmings on Amiga also had a two player mode with two mice. Because joysticks and mice used the same port so you could use either. By either you mean that nobody owed two mice, so the second player had to use the joystick which sucked for controlling lemmings.
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VictualSquid posted:By either you mean that nobody owed two mice, so the second player had to use the joystick which sucked for controlling lemmings. Sometimes a friend brought their own mouse with them so we could play it!
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I don't read French but just stumbled across this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Giscardpunk/ Which is a goldmine for pictures of retro-futuristic French design and architecture from around the 1970s. Goddamn those concept cars were something else.
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I was cleaning out a box from my high-school and college years (late 1970s) and found these. Apologies for the way Imgur pixelated the first. This was one of the first mass-market programmable calculators. Mine has the bulge on the back to accommodate American batteries; IIRC it no longer runs on batteries, but does just fine when plugged into the wall adapter. Contemplate punching programs in using that keyboard; I think I did it once.  This was a checkbook calculator: it fit into the top of your checkbook holder (IIRC it originally came attached to its own checkbook holder), and, as you can see, you could balance your checkbook as you made payments. Needless to say, I didn't, because I never balanced my checkbook. Balancing a checkbook, if you're young enough to have no idea what that is.
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Even without the logo I’d have guessed this was a Sinclair just from the 3 times overloaded keys.
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Zopotantor posted:Even without the logo I’d have guessed this was a Sinclair just from the 3 times overloaded keys. They had some good designs too! Trabant posted:Yes, but look at these: (I know, I'm comparing barely-more-than-four-function apples and programmable scientific oranges) Too bad the Sovereign was a very expensive power hog which lasted for a nanosecond in the market. PS If you have a silver-plated non-Jubilee edition you're open to selling, please let me know?
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Sinclair pocket calculators are pretty obsolete and failed, but you can add an entire extra layer of obsolete and failed (not my photo): Radio Shack sold a stencil model of a lot of popular pocket calculators, from just about everyone except HP. I assume that means HP never licensed their calculator designs and everyone else did, but I don't know anything about the details.
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VictualSquid posted:By either you mean that nobody owed two mice, so the second player had to use the joystick which sucked for controlling lemmings. In our house we had two Amigas with their own mice so it would've worked fine for us, we never played split-screen lemmings though
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Zopotantor posted:Even without the logo I’d have guessed this was a Sinclair just from the 3 times overloaded keys. 
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At least color code them! 
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I still have my 48GX and use it somewhat regularly
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Man, I miss the solid chunk of the HP calculator keypad. And RPN. Five-enter-three-plus-seven-dividedby .
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SLOSifl posted:At least color code them! Mint and purple, yuck. Give me the orange and blue of the 48SX. Actually no, you don’t need to, it’s right there in the drawer.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Man, I miss the solid chunk of the HP calculator keypad. And RPN. Five-enter-three-plus-seven-dividedby . I bought old used hp48g calculators as my production calculators as an engineer until about three years ago when I basically switched entirely to mathcad and related things. Rpn isn't much of a thing anymore unfortunately.
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I have a 42S. It's epic
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I was going to ask if anyone could recognise this calculator I had in the early 80s from a brief description, but Google finally came to the rescue. The Sharp EL-120 had a green vacuum fluorescent display that worked with 9 digits internally but only displayed 3 at a time. It also had a dedicated count button on the side that would increment the number on the screen.
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/psychotronica_/status/1623502134435102720?s=20&t=Q2RuI5FPKqF1pUqpJkHGXQ Thanks for posting this. I'm a huge pinball nerd and have played Xenon plenty. No idea this much thought was put into the project.
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/psychotronica_/status/1623502134435102720?s=20&t=Q2RuI5FPKqF1pUqpJkHGXQ <3
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/psychotronica_/status/1623502134435102720?s=20&t=Q2RuI5FPKqF1pUqpJkHGXQ This owns “In the future women will listen to Beethoven’s 5th on chips they wear as earrings” Lol, yup
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Hey, yeah, Bluetooth earrings when??
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Still a little too heavy to hang from the ears yet. If people are willing to sacrifice battery life for portability I could see them in as little as a year if a company set out to make them.
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Suzanne Ciani with an amazing vintage synth: https://youtu.be/f9tlhC1jSlo
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namlosh posted:This owns well those piezoelectric speakers they use for greeting cards are very light so technically that earring chip was possible decades ago, for a certain fidelity of listening to Bach.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Suzanne Ciani with an amazing vintage synth: Not vintage at all, 200e's are new-ish. Unless 2004 is vintage in which case I might as well just crumble to dust and blow away on the wind lmao. SavageMessiah has a new favorite as of 01:53 on Feb 10, 2023 |
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SavageMessiah posted:I might as well just crumble to dust and blow away on the wind lmao. Oh, just like in the vintage film Avengers: Endgame?
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SavageMessiah posted:Not vintage at all, 200e's are new-ish. Unless 2004 is vintage in which case I might as well just crumble to dust and blow away on the wind lmao.
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Wipfmetz posted:Just for reference: Someone born in 2004 is now 18 or 19 and is allowed to drive and drink and marry. There are people alive now whose grandparents had not yet met in 2004. (Even, depending on jurisdiction, without any laws being broken in the process. For instance where I live the general age of consent is 16. It is very rare for someone that young to actually become parents but in a population of 5 million it does happen from time to time. (Dear gods, my own kids are approaching that age range now. Not quite ready to become a grandpa just yet, thanks.))
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/psychotronica_/status/1623862712756277248?s=20&t=SQbMjVNI7KJDntt0hRJ_cA That last one with the wireframe VHS tape is legit great
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Wipfmetz posted:Just for reference: Someone born in 2004 is now 18 or 19 and is allowed to drive and drink and marry. not all at once though
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Everyone born in the 1990s is still a kid tho. I think some people born in the early 1980s can vote now.
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Wipfmetz posted:Just for reference: Someone born in 2004 is now 18 or 19 and is allowed to drive and drink and marry. It's not vintage if it's newer than the 80s and that's final  .Actually on the 200e in particular, it's still being produced which precludes being called "vintage" imo.
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SavageMessiah posted:It's not vintage if it's newer than the 80s and that's final I think the actual dividing line is "when I was a kid is never vintage"
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"Current" is anything from up to 100 years ago. (Knowers know.)
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poo poo that was new when I was kid is nearly 60 years old so it's absolutely vintage.
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namlosh posted:That last one with the wireframe VHS tape is legit great And anything that uses Cerrone's Supernature as the soundtrack is also awesome.
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