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George RR Fartin posted:But I found a lot of things I go for as an adult are effectively "what would 15 year old me have killed for" so I built up an old moped or got a neo geo mvs working on my old tv, that sort of thing. The person I'm keeping up with is the unrealistic expectation of what was cool from a 15 year old in 1996. I'm doing the same exact thing but my target year is more 1998 (though, we get into the early 2000s or back to the late 80s) And it's going very well I am very much enjoying watching TechTV and recorded broadcasts of SNICK on a PVM while messing with the best palm pilots money can buy. You can actually download a graffiti keyboard for Android now. Seems like it'd be miserable without a stylus but, still, you can do it.
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BrainDance posted:I'm doing the same exact thing but my target year is more 1998 (though, we get into the early 2000s or back to the late 80s) Ha, I got my old Palm Tungsten out a few months back only to find it won't hold a charge (works basically ok on charger, but that kinda defeats the purpose). I'm willing to open my old ipod video to fix the audio and replace the drive but I don't know that I have it in me to spend any real money to replace the battery in this thing; I recall it being like $40 for a battery when another Palm is also $40 on ebay. Did get the little folding keyboard working with bluetooth though. I have....no real need for it (I guess I could write the great american novel on my phone now), but it's cool as hell.
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George RR Fartin posted:Ha, I got my old Palm Tungsten out a few months back only to find it won't hold a charge (works basically ok on charger, but that kinda defeats the purpose). I'm willing to open my old ipod video to fix the audio and replace the drive but I don't know that I have it in me to spend any real money to replace the battery in this thing; I recall it being like $40 for a battery when another Palm is also $40 on ebay. I had a Tungsten E myself. I always wanted to get a keyboard for it, but never did. I threw it out around about a decade ago, but I kept the stylus and I still have it around...somewhere. Handy for the resistive touch screens I work with regularly.
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I have a Handspring Prism which still works amazingly well but not for anything I need.
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I'm glad all the tech that I wanted as a sad child in the 90's is actual garbage.
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One thing that drove me nuts on palmOS devices (unless there was a fancier one I never saw, and Treos don't count) was that if the device was ever unpowered, everything was gone and you had to start all over when you recharged it/replaced the batteries
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm glad all the tech that I wanted as a sad child in the 90's is actual garbage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6qxixgQJ4M
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm glad all the tech that I wanted as a sad child in the 90's is actual garbage. I am honestly never glad I asked my parents for a Virtual Boy.
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I asked my parents for a gba e-reader  I still have it, and have an ebay watched search for the Mario party card game they published that used the eReader to put Mario party mini games inside a card game
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I had a virtual boy because I bought it at a card show. My brother saw this poor guy lugging it from show to show and I got the thing with 6 games for like 85 bucks. The system was fun and inventive, but the end product was quite shoddy for a "portable" system.
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I loved using graffiti on my old Palm m125, I used to be nearly as fast as my typing would be today.
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I tried out a Virtual Boy when they set one up as a demo at the local Blockbuster Video. (How's that for the most 90s-est sentence ever?) The game was whatever the pack-in tennis game was. The 3-D effect was a fun little novelty but I still couldn't imagine using the thing for more than a few minutes at a stretch.
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I always had fun playing Red Alarm when I tried it out at Toy R Us
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I still have my Treo 650 somewhere.
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I have a Handspring Visor Neo floating around somewhere. I was very proud of it until i saw the competing offering from Sony that was only a tiny bit more expensive but had a color screen that could display digital images and even play video. The Neo was a huge piece of poo poo.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I still have my Treo 650 somewhere.
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I had the Sharp Zaurus and it kicked more rear end than it had a right to. Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA https://a.co/d/ibn9aZW
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You know when i bought the Neo i really had a moment where i thought that having a pda was literally going to change my life. No more forgetting dates or names or contact info (back when we still memorized contact info), no more running late for things, just no more being a god drat mess all the time. After using the thing for like 10 minutes i realized that it really wasn't any more sophisticated than the SEGA IR-7000 Communicator that i had a a kid a few years earlier. I don't think the term "PDA" had been adopted by the time this thing was introduced but that's basically what it was. A digital address book that had an avatar creator so you could make a little picture for each person in your contacts list. Robust scientific calculator. A clock / calendar with alarms. There may have been a note or checklist app too but i forget. Best of all was wireless messaging, data transfer, and a 2 player game where contacts from your respective address books did a pokemon battle against one another. Of course this was all via infrared (hence the IR part), so your range was like 20 feet max but it was still tight butthole. The Visor Neo was somehow worse. Twice the size but with no physical keyboard. I could type faster on the IR-7000's stiff plasticky keys then i could ever input in graffiti, even after learning all the characters by heart and with months of practice. Granted the apps it could run were more varied and sophisticated, and you could manage your data and apps from PC. So yeah my $250 pda from 2001 was only slightly more useful but significantly less cool than a $60 kid's toy made by Sega in like 1995.
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Is anyone out there cataloging and preserving old handheld/PDA software? My nostalgia is for pocket pc more than palm, but the few times I've done half hearted searching, it seems like it's unfortunately lost media.
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Waste of Breath posted:Is anyone out there cataloging and preserving old handheld/PDA software? My nostalgia is for pocket pc more than palm, but the few times I've done half hearted searching, it seems like it's unfortunately lost media. You can find some on Myrient, which is a pile of "preserved software," so presumably I shouldn't link to it. But the amount of things redump's got listed from pocketpc/palm feels like a drop in the water compared to even just the mess of shareware you'd be able to find on tucows or whatever 20 years ago. Most of that crap's probably lost to the ages. Palm pilot's probably still quicker than unlocking and flicking though your phone to find a notepad app, but an actual notepad and a pencil would definitely be quicker. Probably the most useful thing I could do with my tungsten is use it as a tv remote. Not like anyone else would have a palm laying around to IR over a note or card or anything. One nice thing is that I did manage to find an actual japanese mahjong game for palmos, feels like on ios every time I've looked it was all just various flavors of chinese mahjong or solitare.
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5= Pimp 10= Dick 19= Bumfights 20= Fuggit got it
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LifeSunDeath posted:5= Pimp Irish prime numbers
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Nocheez posted:I had a virtual boy because I bought it at a card show. My brother saw this poor guy lugging it from show to show and I got the thing with 6 games for like 85 bucks. The homebrew stuff that’s going on for it seems cool but the price of entry is way too high at this point. Kind of a bummer.
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holefoods posted:The homebrew stuff that’s going on for it seems cool but the price of entry is way too high at this point. Kind of a bummer. I used to feel this way about loads of things but then I did the maths, and there's way too much cool and neat stuff for anyone to experience in a lifetime anyway, and a shitload of it is either free or basically free. The old Latino had it right; "arse long, PS Vita short".
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I used to feel this way about loads of things but then I did the maths, and there's way too much cool and neat stuff for anyone to experience in a lifetime anyway, and a shitload of it is either free or basically free. The Vita can run lsdj, lgpt, picoloop, music 2000, what more could I need?
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/friendschurches/status/1670310384010403840?s=20 So that is why it is called cumbrian.
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Grassy Knowles posted:The Vita can run lsdj, lgpt, picoloop, music 2000, what more could I need? I think that was the point! (I'm not good at Latin, only got an old M in it.)
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Okay I finally thought of a technology from my childhood that wasn't lovely: giant instructional manuals for games
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Okay I finally thought of a technology from my childhood that wasn't lovely: giant instructional manuals for games i was digging through some old boxes and found a bunch of old pc game manuals as well as things like the Wing Commander magazine. they used to put effort into that poo poo. 
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VictualSquid posted:So that is why it is called cumbrian. northern English kind of seems like a joke played on the rest of the English speaking world, from medieval Cumbrian right up to "SPESS MEHRENS".
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Powered Descent posted:I tried out a Virtual Boy when they set one up as a demo at the local Blockbuster Video. (How's that for the most 90s-est sentence ever?) The game was whatever the pack-in tennis game was. The 3-D effect was a fun little novelty but I still couldn't imagine using the thing for more than a few minutes at a stretch. One of my childhood memories involved trying out a demo Virtual Boy at the local Toys-R-Us. Got hella eyestrain from just 5 mins of gameplay.
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holefoods posted:The homebrew stuff that’s going on for it seems cool but the price of entry is way too high at this point. Kind of a bummer. I've owned multiple Virtual Boys. I got my first one for $30 on clearance at toys r us when they were just trying to get rid of them. Owned almost a full set (besides the obvious couple super expensive games. Which, it's only like 20 games lol) and I will defend the VB as an actually cool system way ahead of its time. Even things people rag on it for I think made it unique. But, now, playing it on a modern VR headset in an emulator is way better than playing on actual VB hardware. You get a better sense of scale, you can move your head around, more options. It's one of the few things where emulators are just way better than the original hardware and I don't see a reason to play on original hardware anymore. The only reason now to play an actual VB is to play it just once to get a feeling for the cool display tech (a red LED rapidly bouncing off mirrors just feels different from any normal display) There's a Virtual Boy emulator for Oculus headsets, Virtual Boy Go, it's not on sidequest anymore though so I'm not sure what happened there. Hopefully it still works on modern headsets, I had it on a Quest 2 but, with OS updates, who knows. I do think the games are still worth playing, too. Not just for nostalgia or interest in the console. Things like VB Wario Land, the VB Panic Bomber (really good sense of depth in that one), Galactic Pinball (has a Samus cameo so I consider it canonically a Metroid game), even Mario Tennis for a bit, they're actually great games people should play. BrainDance has a new favorite as of 04:31 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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I have emulated the VB Wario game and thought it was great and I do remember playing the tennis game at Blockbuster. For some reason I had never even considered emulating it in a VR headset (probably because I don’t have one). My impression of the system is that it sort of seems like the last gasp of slightly off-beat Nintendo before they sort of fell in line and decided they wanted to be video game Disney.
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It was the end of Gunpei Yokoi at Nintendo, and he was like off-brand Miyamoto. During his time at Nintendo there were sorta two Nintendos, Miyamoto Nintendo and then weird Nintendo. It's why, like, play the original Mario Land. It's clearly a Mario game but it just feels off, like an alternate universe Mario. That was Gunpei Yokoi's Nintendo. The Virtual Boy got him fired which feels real lovely to me. He makes one bad call (and it could have worked, but they screwed it up in a lot of ways in its development) but he's the guy that made the Gameboy. You're really gonna just ditch him after that? And in a butterfly effect sort of way I blame them for his death, had he not been fired he probably wouldn't have been in that car. He would have been in his office working on the GameBoy Master Edition or something.
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uber_stoat posted:i was digging through some old boxes and found a bunch of old pc game manuals as well as things like the Wing Commander magazine. they used to put effort into that poo poo. Oooooh this brought back memories. I had a pirated WC but I had forgotten that I had a nice photo copied and bound manual for it.
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LifeSunDeath posted:5= Pimp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68YmGO3tn70
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BrainDance posted:It was the end of Gunpei Yokoi at Nintendo, and he was like off-brand Miyamoto. During his time at Nintendo there were sorta two Nintendos, Miyamoto Nintendo and then weird Nintendo. I don't think it went down like that. The Virtual Boy bombed, but that wasn't the end for Yokoi. He was overworked and stressed out by the office politics at Nintendo and was unhappy with the direction that the company was taking with the N64, so he bailed to start his own company. Another excuse to post a wonderful LowSpecGamer video, it's a good take on how it went down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlNBSOzKu7g
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BrainDance posted:I've owned multiple Virtual Boys. I got my first one for $30 on clearance at toys r us when they were just trying to get rid of them. Owned almost a full set (besides the obvious couple super expensive games. Which, it's only like 20 games lol) and I will defend the VB as an actually cool system way ahead of its time. Even things people rag on it for I think made it unique. This was exactly what I wanted to post, except the emulation stuff. I've got a Valve Index so I haven't tried it yet, but I owned almost every game because you could find them for literally a dollar to 5 at most. No one wanted that poo poo, and I gladly played the hell out of that system for a couple of years when I was like 12. I could never see that happening for any adults, though.
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My virtual boy is currently in the shop right now getting a video out mod installed. I also just got a flash cart for it finally.
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