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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh I like parallel too. I wish someone made an actually functional USB-to-Centronics adapter. Is it even possible to make? We just don't know. I looked into this a while ago. It looks like the only USB devices are actually just USB printer devices so they can't be used for anything other than printing. However, if you're on a desktop you can get PCI Express cards with fully-functional parallel ports on them.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh I like parallel too. I wish someone made an actually functional USB-to-Centronics adapter. Is it even possible to make? We just don't know. I bought a USB to parallel adapter recently because it was out cheap but then I realized I'm too lazy to hook up my old printer to see if it even works, and in fact what I really wanted was to be able to maybe use it for a project one day controlling some digital lines but it has the Centronics adapter instead of DB-25 like I thought it would, so it's just going to sit in its box until I die I think. I guess if you want to just toggle pins on and off you can just buy something like http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/ICs/FT245R.htm which isn't convenient for hooking up a printer but can be programmed to do what you want (if I recall correctly, that particular product can do that). I just wanted to do it the old fashioned way 
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GutBomb posted:S3 Virge My 300MHz Pentium II came with one of these. It was slower than CPU rendering in a lot of 3D games and had issues with transparency, but it was apparently good enough to play some games that required a 3D card like Motorcross Madness. I ended up replacing it with a 16MB TNT1, which soon after got replaced with a 32MB TNT2.
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BattleMaster posted:it's made out of standard ribbon cable and IDC connectors too so you can make it out of a couple dollars of new material Here's how I made one with a modified floppy drive cable. http://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/How_to_make_a_Voodoo_2_SLI_cable Also... HELL YES! I played MegaRace so much, it was disgusting! Fasdar posted:Thread Content: thehoj has a new favorite as of 14:38 on Jun 2, 2016 |
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the proper crimping tool/the connectors/ribbon cable are really not that expensive you guys.Smoke posted:My 300MHz Pentium II came with one of these. It was slower than CPU rendering in a lot of 3D games and had issues with transparency, but it was apparently good enough to play some games that required a 3D card like Motorcross Madness. The infamous 3D-deacelerator.
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You don't even need to use a crimping tool with those kind of connectors, but as I said you can do it with all-new material for a buck or two instead of using a floppy cable. Of course if you have a floppy cable laying around then go ahead
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No you don't but tools are fun. Good tools are even more fun. If you do this once, yeah you really don't need to buy a tool, if you do that semi-regularily, it's worth it. But then again, I like buying tools.  I distinctly remember a 3D racing game I played a lot where you could build your own tracks, but damned if I can find it again. I thought stunt car racer, but no, I don't think that's it. It might beat 4x4 Offroad racing in the racing games that I played a lot. (4x4 hasn't really aged all that well, but it was one of the games I bought with my Amiga) EDIT: \/\/ Yes! \/\/ Thanks! Police Automaton has a new favorite as of 15:33 on Jun 2, 2016 |
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Sounds like Stunts.
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Here are two other games that stole many many hours of my childhood.. I LOVED these games. Galactix https://youtu.be/sAMM5vqtxKg Dink Smallwood https://youtu.be/DRfjGnhbISk
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Mechanism Eight posted:Serial's neat but back in the day a PC's parallel port could be coupled with little more than a resistor DAC to play music How do people figure out this stuff?  "But You can use 2 covox with 2 LPT ports to get stereo sound. On 12MHz 286 (without addon 287 processor) I got 15kHz sampling rate on Screamtracker 2.3 (NOT 3.2)."
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Bonzo posted:There is a bit of a downside. I volunteer for an organization that takes in old PCs to fix up and donate to families and people in need. Up until a few years ago we had more CRT monitors then I cared to count. We find that LCD monitors are not donated as much because they never really break down and since family PCs no longer need to be upgraded every 2 or 3 years, people just hang on to them. So now we have PCs to give away but run short of monitors. We can't even give the CRTs away so we just send them for recycling. On the flip side, I'm starting to see lots of LCD monitors in the local thrift stores. They're usually the square 4:3 ratio kind with VGA-only connections. Those stores still have plenty of CRT TVs selling at absurd prices ($59 for a 32-inch CRT?  )
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Dick Trauma posted:How do people figure out this stuff? That was honestly just a thinly veiled excuse to post some rad 4 channel mod tunes. I built a mono version a few years back with basic resistors but it sounded like rear end even on a much faster 486 sx 33 
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:On the flip side, I'm starting to see lots of LCD monitors in the local thrift stores. They're usually the square 4:3 ratio kind with VGA-only connections. 4:3 would make them useful for retro stuff but they're usually all 5:4. 4:3 lcds aren't very common
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I have memories of an old animation / drawing program, probably for Mac. It had a demo of triangles (or possibly squares) jumping up and rolling down snowy slopes while a jaunty music played. I feel retarded even typing it out, but the vocals literally went "la la la, la la la la la la", rising in note until it went down again. It also had a tool to shape a spherical rendering of an image, a world map by default I think. You could shape the profile of the rendering, turning the globe into whatever shape you wanted and then send it bouncing around the screen. Please old computer stuff thread, help me with my weird memories / fever dreams.
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Bubblyblubber posted:I have memories of an old animation / drawing program, probably for Mac. It had a demo of triangles (or possibly squares) jumping up and rolling down snowy slopes while a jaunty music played. I feel retarded even typing it out, but the vocals literally went "la la la, la la la la la la", rising in note until it went down again. This was Iggy's Wreckin' Balls
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It was 2000 or 2001 but I used to have one of these babies. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-RM-AV3000-Universal-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B000066AX5 loving thing was the size of a large smart phone and took 4 or 6 AA batteries. Also the one I got only had Japanese instructions so I had to use the pictures to figure it out.
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Dick Trauma posted:"But You can use 2 covox with 2 LPT ports to get stereo sound. On 12MHz 286 (without addon 287 processor) I got 15kHz sampling rate on Screamtracker 2.3 (NOT 3.2)." Who has two parallel ports?! For the cost of an extra parallel port and two Covox Speech Things (I assume the Covox product being referred to) surely you could buy a proper sound card? Or is this just one of those "because I can" projects, not something that more than one person has ever done?  Bonzo posted:It was 2000 or 2001 but I used to have one of these babies. drat, don't think I'd even heard of universal remote controls back then 
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Universal remote have been around since the eighties. Not often with that LCD touch screen, but they've been around for a long time.
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Logitech still makes absurdly overpriced universal remotes (which apparently control everything that has electricity running through it in your home) http://www.logitech.com/en-us/harmony-remotes
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Guaranteed to control everything, and for none of your guests to know how to use it.
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GutBomb posted:Nut often Good advice.
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Bonzo posted:It was 2000 or 2001 but I used to have one of these babies. My uncle used to have an insane universal remote with a huge LCD screen. This was in the mid 90's. The thing was about the size of a TI-84 calculator, of not bigger, with at least twice as many buttons. I'm not sure what the screen was for. It was dead for as long as I remember.
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Regular Nintendo posted:Guaranteed to control everything, and for none of your guests to know how to use it.
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You'd think HDMI-CEC would have improved things but nope. Chromecast uses it and it's super convenient but that's the only thing I own that actually uses it.
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Germstore posted:You'd think HDMI-CEC would have improved things but nope. Chromecast uses it and it's super convenient but that's the only thing I own that actually uses it. Playstation 3 & 4 use it. Can even navigate with my TV remote. Pressing the PS button on the controller will switch the input too. If my cable box could loving do that I would never need to manually switch inputs.
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SLOSifl posted:Playstation 3 & 4 use it. Can even navigate with my TV remote. Pressing the PS button on the controller will switch the input too. If my cable box could loving do that I would never need to manually switch inputs. I bought a Playstation 3 remote control because I didn't realize my old-rear end TV remote worked with it. Found out by accident. (Same with my Xbox 360 remote control being able to control my laptop that had an infra-red eye on the front.)
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hdmi-CEC is huge best buy dadbait. Several times my friends have gone HAVE YOU SEEN THIS poo poo? loving FINALLY, waving a hdmi-cec tag under my nose, then about seven hours after they get their tv home I start getting "dude this is loving bullshit, nothing works" texts
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They got the part where the TV recognizes that a device is HDMI-CEC, they just haven't gotten any other features to work.
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GutBomb posted:Universal remote have been around since the eighties. Nut often with that LCD touch screen, but they've been around for a long time. Steve Wozniack invented them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CL_9 That Sony remote was a bitch to program. You had to point the remotes at each other and then press a button on the Sony and then the same button on your other remote.
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I own a (rather popular) small CRT TV that for some god drat reason simply will not work with any universal remote*. I mean I could get a replacement for like :tenbux: but, then again, I could get a new TV that comes with a remote for :tenbux: * Or, rather, no universal remote works with it. I doubt there's any technical reason for that.
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Wow i had no idea about this HDMI-CEC thing. That is great thanks for cluing me in! Hopefully my old rear end LG supports it. Anyone know if xfinity x1 cable boxes do by chance?
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thathonkey posted:Wow i had no idea about this HDMI-CEC thing. That is great thanks for cluing me in! Hopefully my old rear end LG supports it. Its xfinity so my guess is no
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Regular Nintendo posted:Its xfinity so my guess is no Same here the x1 is actually pretty decent i mean all things considered. Not like it could be worse than their previous box that was designed in the early 90s...
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thathonkey posted:Same here the x1 is actually pretty decent i mean all things considered. Not like it could be worse than their previous box that was designed in the early 90s... I had one that had some nice ui that was a slow piece of poo poo anytime you actually hit a button and it was what made me finally dump comcast
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Regular Nintendo posted:I had one that had some nice ui that was a slow piece of poo poo anytime you actually hit a button and it was what made me finally dump comcast That sounds like the x1 haha. The uverse box is better but their service sucks even worse somehow
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Regular Nintendo posted:This was Iggy's Wreckin' Balls I'm glad I Googled that, but it was for sure on a computer. I didn't have an N64 until I bought a used one a couple of years ago.
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Bubblyblubber posted:I have memories of an old animation / drawing program, probably for Mac. It had a demo of triangles (or possibly squares) jumping up and rolling down snowy slopes while a jaunty music played. I feel retarded even typing it out, but the vocals literally went "la la la, la la la la la la", rising in note until it went down again. The triangle thing doesn't ring a bell, but I know there was an After Dark screen saver module called "Globe" that would let you pick an image to wrap onto a sphere and send it bouncing around. It was particularly cool with a mercator-projection map of the Moon that I had found somewhere. The jumping shapes might have just been another After Dark module from a package that I hadn't
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Jerry Cotton posted:I own a (rather popular) small CRT TV that for some god drat reason simply will not work with any universal remote*. I mean I could get a replacement for like :tenbux: but, then again, I could get a new TV that comes with a remote for :tenbux: I would really try a remote from one4all. From what I gathered through here-say they are backed by the company that issues out all the iR commands to each brand and keep a database. Here is their range. http://www.oneforall.com/remotes.html I haven't had an issue with any TV with one of the Essence 2 remotes. They have a dedicated 'my poo poo doesn't work' phone number and tehy can get you the right programming codes even if they aren't listed in the manual or a auto scan doesn't work. If all else fails - there is a JTAG port inside the battery compartment for extra fiddling.
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Powered Descent posted:The triangle thing doesn't ring a bell, but I know there was an After Dark screen saver module called "Globe" that would let you pick an image to wrap onto a sphere and send it bouncing around. It was particularly cool with a mercator-projection map of the Moon that I had found somewhere. GODDAMN THINKIN' THINGS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJP-VOC7IDM Globe shaping starts at 3:40, crazy animation thing starts at 12:00. What a relief to finally figure the name out.
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