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Grassy Knowles posted:so tired of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo
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Gonz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fak431cxRxU I watched that and thought it seemed pretty unwieldy to use as a gaming device. Good video as usual from Clint, though.
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It took a long time for FPS controls to evolve into the standard WASD+mouse everything uses now. Loads of 90s games made you walk by moving the mouse forwards or by using one of the buttons. And the PC never had a normal digital joypad/joystick so people were trying to play games on analogue flight joysticks (which is also a shitshow because the game port was designed for two joysticks with two buttons each, so that's why you had all kinds of hacks and special software to get more buttons that broke compatibility with many games)
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Kazinsal posted:They're often incomprehensible machines with virtual isolation (ie. a fog machine) and they live in someone else's datacenter, so yeah, mainframes count as a cloud. Grassy Knowles posted:why wouldn't they? yeah that's what i was thinking too. no new ideas in technology, eh?
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Light Gun Man posted:yeah that's what i was thinking too. no new ideas in technology, eh? just new terms for consultants to make ridiculous amounts of money from
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Sweevo posted:It took a long time for FPS controls to evolve into the standard WASD+mouse everything uses now. Loads of 90s games made you walk by moving the mouse forwards or by using one of the buttons. And the PC never had a normal digital joypad/joystick so people were trying to play games on analogue flight joysticks (which is also a shitshow because the game port was designed for two joysticks with two buttons each, so that's why you had all kinds of hacks and special software to get more buttons that broke compatibility with many games) For a while there I played Quake with a 3-button mouse where I had (IIRC) right button bound to forward and mid button bound to back.
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Sweevo posted:It took a long time for FPS controls to evolve into the standard WASD+mouse everything uses now. Loads of 90s games made you walk by moving the mouse forwards or by using one of the buttons. And the PC never had a normal digital joypad/joystick so people were trying to play games on analogue flight joysticks (which is also a shitshow because the game port was designed for two joysticks with two buttons each, so that's why you had all kinds of hacks and special software to get more buttons that broke compatibility with many games) These are the first computer game controls I ever used, back in 1971. I remember at the time my young brain struggled with translating them into the onscreen action. 
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The entire idea of "each thing this server does runs in its own little container" is also another mainframe reinvention. At least the modern equivalents are just a minimal linux userland (for containers) or VM-optimized linux distro (for cloud work and such) instead of the IBM style where the VMs run one of multiple available container OSes that are all different from the hosting OS - and from each other.
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Dick Trauma posted:These are the first computer game controls I ever used, back in 1971. I remember at the time my young brain struggled with translating them into the onscreen action. Nutting Associates sounds like the 70s high class version of JO Bros
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Sweevo posted:It took a long time for FPS controls to evolve into the standard WASD+mouse everything uses now. Loads of 90s games made you walk by moving the mouse forwards or by using one of the buttons. And the PC never had a normal digital joypad/joystick so people were trying to play games on analogue flight joysticks (which is also a shitshow because the game port was designed for two joysticks with two buttons each, so that's why you had all kinds of hacks and special software to get more buttons that broke compatibility with many games) And of course I use my nose to hit P, and my foot pedal for back, and
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Grassy Knowles posted:it was the first game i put on my ipad and the first game i rage deleted to difficulty
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Dick Trauma posted:These are the first computer game controls I ever used, back in 1971. I remember at the time my young brain struggled with translating them into the onscreen action. lol, your first computer game controls were on the first computer arcade game
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Enos Cabell posted:Nutting Associates sounds like the 70s high class version of JO Bros they got bought out by Ligma Corp in the 80's
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LifeSunDeath posted:they got bought out by Ligma Corp in the 80's What the gently caress is the 80's
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Enos Cabell posted:Nutting Associates sounds like the 70s high class version of JO Bros When you're having an affair with a coworker, but you still wanna keep things professional.
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Gonz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fak431cxRxU 
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BattleMaster posted:What the gently caress is the 80's Twenty years ago.
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Trabant posted:Twenty years ago. 
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Pham Nuwen posted:For a while there I played Quake with a 3-button mouse where I had (IIRC) right button bound to forward and mid button bound to back. One of my dad's friends did this for Quake II. Not bad at all in the days when the middle mouse button was just a button and not a wheel. When I started playing Doom in 1994 I used HJKL + left handed mouse. 
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Dick Trauma posted:These are the first computer game controls I ever used, back in 1971. I remember at the time my young brain struggled with translating them into the onscreen action. Twenty-five cents? loving hell.
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Gonz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fak431cxRxU I won one of these in an online raffle that seemed so easy to win in the late 90s/early 00s.* I never used it, but one of the guys in my clan did because he said he could creep quietly without footsteps with the analogue movement. I wish it had survived my parents selling my childhood home, it seemed quite well built. *Also won an XBOX raffle in 2004. Odds of winning used to be so good in the forums era.
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Mantle posted:I won one of these in an online raffle that seemed so easy to win in the late 90s/early 00s.* I never used it, but one of the guys in my clan did because he said he could creep quietly without footsteps with the analogue movement. I won every contest in a specific issue of PC Powerplay magazine back in the day. They randomly drew from correct answers and my name came up 4 times. The drawing was honoured but they changed my name in the published results to negate cries of shenanigans.
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A crosspost from the newspaper comic strip thread. A 1981 newspaper being mined for old comic strips also turned up this:Haifisch posted:Special from the 81 paper: COMPUTERS
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I love this guys smart-rear end way of doing stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXAXJaUU2UY
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Humphreys posted:I love this guys smart-rear end way of doing stuff I appreciate how relatable his frustration is.
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I went through some boxes in the attic, I don't even remember where half of this stuff comes from!   More here: https://imgur.com/a/6Dm2way
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That motherboard with cooler, three ram sticks and two cards slotted in (no identifying name visible in the photos) looks to have a few bulging caps. And why so many Matrox cards, good god
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Just wanted to share a dream I had: I was at some computer museum and they were phasing out an exhibit on these crazy kabuki-style teletype battlestations from the late 70s/early 80s, and letting us call dibs before they sell everything for scrap. They were these self-contained workstations decked out with world clocks, printers, auxiliary graphical displays, and all sorts of dials and knobs and bells and whistles. Imagine if you will some combination of these images, but centered entirely around a TTY terminal :      Thanks for dreaming with me 
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Arivia posted:That motherboard with cooler, three ram sticks and two cards slotted in (no identifying name visible in the photos) looks to have a few bulging caps. That's a Fujitsu-Siemens motherboard of all things, the caps look pretty gone. We used to stuff the Matrox cards in our home servers just to get video out, and since nobody wanted them back then either, they were free.
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I remember when my friends would whisper the name ~MATROX MILLENNIUM~ in hushed tones, like it was the impossible holy-grail component that nobody could afford but if you somehow got one your computing experience would be TO THE MOON
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Data Graham posted:I remember when my friends would whisper the name ~MATROX MILLENNIUM~ in hushed tones, like it was the impossible holy-grail component that nobody could afford but if you somehow got one your computing experience would be TO THE MOON First PC I built fully from scratch had a Matrox Millenium in it, served me well through the 3dFX Voodoo era.
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Enos Cabell posted:First PC I built fully from scratch had a Matrox Millenium in it, served me well through the 3dFX Voodoo era. Mine had a whole 4MB of ram in it!
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It was better when graphics cards had ridiculous names instead of boring numbers. 4650 4670 4680 4850 4870 vs Rage Fury Turbo Voodoo Banshee Titan Thunderbolt Triggershot Detonator Ringmaster Dragon Fist Warlock Colossus Sweevo has a new favorite as of 15:17 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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After they fell behind in the general GPU, they leaned hard into the multiple monitor space. Traders used to have a bunch of them in there 6 monitor setups
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Data Graham posted:I remember when my friends would whisper the name ~MATROX MILLENNIUM~ in hushed tones, like it was the impossible holy-grail component that nobody could afford but if you somehow got one your computing experience would be TO THE MOON That couple of generation of cards had an addon kit to get video in/out which was the main tool used to make camrips, it had pro grade chips and it could pretty much remove any video noise/artefacts. namlosh posted:After they fell behind in the general GPU, they leaned hard into the multiple monitor space. Traders used to have a bunch of them in there 6 monitor setups They now use intel and amd cards with modded drivers, they stopped making their own cards a few years back.
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Sweevo posted:It was better when graphics cards had ridiculous names instead of boring numbers. I really feel like the Roll Fizzlebeef could outrun the Blast Hardcheese if they’d just optimize their drivers better, since the Stump Beefknob is impossible to find on store shelves.
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The box art for 90’s GPUs was always totally over the top. There’d be some random Voodoo2 card that would have a VR werewolf Pope on the front of it, shooting lightning bolts out of a staff at F-16’s.
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I remember there being some early graphic card demo you could mod so it would remove the clothes from the sexy elf lady.
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