|
CaptainSarcastic posted:I remember my friends and I referring to them as Packard Hell because they sucked even worse than Gateways. did you install Micro$$$ux Winblows on it
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 03:18
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 19, 2024 10:37 |
|
|
I absolutely installed weird pirate Windows “96” type poo poo on my family’s Packard Bell P75 and I’m not even sure anyone noticed. Even putting Windows 95 “Chicago” betas on there didn’t seem to bother anyone. Kinda miss those days.
|
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 03:24
|
|
|
I still use windows 96
|
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 03:53
|
|
|
Had a friend who was running Windows Neptune for fun circa 2009
|
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 05:36
|
|
|
Rev. Bleech_ posted:did you install Micro$$$ux Winblows on it Even changed the startup picture to Borgified Bill Gates and startup sound to the "You will be assimilated" speech. Anyone remember PowerToys?
|
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 06:05
|
|
|
Use the stereo mix as the source on ms sound recorder to turn part of your favorite midi into a wav and set it as the startup sound
|
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 06:19
|
|
|
rndmnmbr posted:Even changed the startup picture to Borgified Bill Gates and startup sound to the "You will be assimilated" speech. Power Toys still exist and add some cool poo poo these days https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
|
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 06:53
|
|
|
Grassy Knowles posted:I still use windows 96 That owns. I love that they have resurrected the "you are an idiot" javascript bomb under the WTF section. Made me seriously nostalgic trying to close it. 
|
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 07:18
|
|
|
Windows Longhorn was the best looking OS ever made. No need to fight me, because nobody can disagree with that.
|
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 14:03
|
|
|
evobatman posted:Windows Longhorn was the best looking OS ever made. I too have Bevo pride.
|
|
#
?
Sep 15, 2023 15:10
|
|
|
Grassy Knowles posted:I still use windows 96
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 00:53
|
|
|
Sweevo posted:It took way too long for PC case manufacturers to realise that fans bigger than 80mm existed. I was going to say 90s??? But you were right, it was definitely late LATE 90s. The long fan thing I bought was made around for the 90s because I remember seeing it at the PC expo a lot. You know, at those vendors that dealt nothing but fans. There were at least three at the one I went to. Also PC expos were cool poo poo and you could play cool games like "How many PCs are running the same demo", "Count the Re/boot style wizards/sexy ladies", or even "how many pc systems were playing Weezer that was on the Windows 95 disc?" Now that I'm thinking about it, air ducting was important since people were trying to cram systems inside the bog standard cases available since no one wanted to waste money on building new processes to make the wide variety we see today . Trying to move air in a lovely generic case was poo poo since you really only had the back and front to pull air in/out. And ducting is still a thing especially for blade servers. It's the only way to efficiently cool multiple CPUs and now GPUs EVIL Gibson has a new favorite as of 16:48 on Sep 16, 2023 |
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 16:41
|
|
|
Grassy Knowles posted:I still use windows 96 I was decluttering the other day and came across a CDR that had been marked ‘Windows 98 SE’ so I had a chuckle and threw it in the drive to see what was really on it. It was a Windows 8 install .iso 
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 17:44
|
|
|
Windows 8 fit on a CD?
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 17:58
|
|
|
I did a quick search for Windows 8 ISOs and most of them came up as being around 3-4gb as expected, but one copy of x64 Professional claimed to be around 400mb. Could be a suss fileset or maybe something stripped down, but maybe that’s what he has on that CDR.
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 18:26
|
|
|
It’s was a DVDr, sigh
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 18:50
|
|
|
EVIL Gibson posted:Also PC expos were cool poo poo and you could play cool games like "How many PCs are running the same demo", "Count the Re/boot style wizards/sexy ladies", or even "how many pc systems were playing Weezer that was on the Windows 95 disc?" The endlessly repeated clip of Arnold on the motorcycle in T2 to show off the multimedia experience
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 19:08
|
|
|
I've owned so many different versions of Terminator 2. I wish I still had them all so I could line them up.
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 19:15
|
|
|
Armacham posted:I've owned so many different versions of Terminator 2. I wish I still had them all so I could line them up. Army of Darkness was my constant repurchase
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 19:17
|
|
|
Armacham posted:I've owned so many different versions of Terminator 2. I wish I still had them all so I could line them up. Not different versions (unless you count different media as different version) but that's me and the AC/DC Back in Black album. I'd move or otherwise lose my copy, and replace it, again and again and again.
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 22:14
|
|
|
Armacham posted:I've owned so many different versions of Terminator 2. I wish I still had them all so I could line them up. Yeah that’s my most owned version of any movie ever too. Deservedly.
|
|
#
?
Sep 16, 2023 22:41
|
|
|
Armacham posted:I've owned so many different versions of Terminator 2. I wish I still had them all so I could line them up. Hi, it's me, I'm the problem it's me.  Various VHS, DVD, BD, UHD, HD-DVD, UMD, Cel, Laserdisc.... Not pictured is a few other different DVD and VHS versions that I do have.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 03:55
|
|
|
I was gonna say I do own a few copies of terminator 2 because everyone should, but the Matrix is probably the one I own the most of Not nearly as much as that collection above though, that’s amazing
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 04:32
|
|
|
Humphreys posted:Hi, it's me, I'm the problem it's me. Hell yeah, the matrix also rules
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 04:37
|
|
|
Beve Stuscemi posted:I was gonna say I do own a few copies of terminator 2 because everyone should, but the Matrix is probably the one I own the most of Oops forgot - also a legit VCD release.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 04:47
|
|
|
CaptainSarcastic posted:Not different versions (unless you count different media as different version) but that's me and the AC/DC Back in Black album. I'd move or otherwise lose my copy, and replace it, again and again and again. Back in Black sold 50 million copies but it was only to something like nine guys who moved around a lot.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 04:52
|
|
|
The CD of Back in Black I bought ~2004 is mastered differently and sounds like poo poo compared to the one I had before.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 05:13
|
|
|
Humphreys posted:Oops forgot - also a legit VCD release. Legit VCDs are a thing? I kinda forgot that was possible with how much the format is associated with ultra-cheap bootlegs.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 06:01
|
|
|
Yeah, a legit vcd isn’t super far off vhs quality. Most of the ones that would end up in the west would be the bootlegs, but I used to hit up a cool store that had real ones in its inventory. Format definitely had some benefits.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 06:22
|
|
|
Oh man that brings me back to the first Christmas gift I think I ever purchased with money, a DVD player for the family circa 2003. IIRC it was one of the cheapest I could find on Amazon and it turned out to not only be region free (super important since we were a bunch of Americans living in Germany) but would also play pretty much any well-formed VCD. This being before the era of affordable DVD burners it almost felt like some kind of  superpower.
snorch has a new favorite as of 09:54 on Sep 17, 2023 |
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 09:39
|
|
|
Doctor Bishop posted:Legit VCDs are a thing? I kinda forgot that was possible with how much the format is associated with ultra-cheap bootlegs.    I also have Blazing Saddles and Born on the 4th of July.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 09:49
|
|
|
I used to own a genuine Thai bootleg VCD copy of Theodore Rex and I'm still annoyed that I lost the disc during a move
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 10:06
|
|
|
I thought all DVD players could play VCDs back in the day? I used to bootleg movies from IRC bots all day long and yell at my little brother if he walked too close to the pc while a disc was burning.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 11:02
|
|
|
History Comes Inside! posted:I thought all DVD players could play VCDs back in the day? It definitely depended on the player, we had one that couldnt and most my vcds were watched on the psx with a gamars movie card plugged into the back for vcd decoding.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 11:08
|
|
|
Please, everyone knows the vcds you downloaded from irc are meant to be played on a dreamcast
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 11:54
|
|
|
Speaking of fans, this was my setup in 2005:  That case is a Thermaltake Xaser V Damier 5000+ I picked up from a big PC expo. Five fans built in: One on the front, one on the back, one on the top and two on the side, and a (fully manual) fan controller was also included. Heavy as all hell but it was toolless. The downside of all those fans and controllers? Wiring everything up and installing the temperature sensors. Two of the fans were wired to the big knobs, and the other 3 to the controller, with a channel left over for your CPU fan if desired. There's also an RGB cycling LED in the front door and that logo in the front also lights up in either off, on or blink modes, but it generated so much noise in blink mode it was audible on my SB Live 5.1. Never bothered to use the passthrough connectors that were on the top as they were just inconveniently placed and onboard sound was even noisier. With everything turned down it was already reasonably loud, turning everything up made it a lot louder. The inside was also a mess of wires that wasn't easy to maintain or clean up. As for other relics, I was also rocking a 4GB iPod Mini and a Nokia 6230 at the time. In other relic news I dug up my old Lumia 640 yesterday and spent several hours trying to get it back in working order. I had it running the Windows Insider preview which meant restoring it killed Edge for some reason, had to reinstall it using a separate MS tool that knocked it back to Windows 8, then had to use some script off the XDA forum to get 10 on there, followed by three additional updates. It's running but barely any apps still function. Pre-reset when Edge was it working it did give me this when accessing the store though: 
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 12:46
|
|
|
Sentient Data posted:Please, everyone knows the vcds you downloaded from irc are meant to be played on a dreamcast
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 13:25
|
|
|
F4rt5 posted:You mean usenet, surely? Na, there was/is a big thing about DCCing from IRC bots. Grassy Knowles posted:It definitely depended on the player, we had one that couldnt and most my vcds were watched on the [strike]psx[/strike] PLAYSTATION with a gamars movie card plugged into the back for vcd decoding. These! I got a couple of revisions:   
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 13:35
|
|
|
F4rt5 posted:You mean usenet, surely? There was a big pirating scene on irc, it was very obtuse, obnoxious, and involved a ton of hoop jumping.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 14:12
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 19, 2024 10:37 |
|
|
Beve Stuscemi posted:There was a big pirating scene on irc, it was very obtuse, obnoxious, and involved a ton of hoop jumping. Probably because there was an oldtimer Razor courier among us.
|
|
#
?
Sep 17, 2023 14:36
|
|