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I just realized I lost most of my miscallaneous music stuff (cords, adapters, etc.) in the last move - I can only assume the bag found it's way to recycling despite my every effort to avoid that very thing happening. poo poo happens, at least it's great good excuse to update my MIDI and synth poo poo to current spec 
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Qwijib0 posted:https://ultimate64.com/U2P_Cartridge_Black There's also stuff like this if you want the full 1980s Euro tape loading experience, today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoMxl_RqQlQ Seriously, I knew no-one who could afford a disk drive for their C64, such wealth was simply unimaginable. Tapes were easy and cheap to bootleg, too 
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I'm beginning to understand why people said Saturn was a monster to code for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRG_v8XpC0 Why would you do this?
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So this thread took a weird turn towards Bad Internet, didn't it
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Sep 30, 2018 12:18
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Is there a thread on audiophile bullshit? Seems like it would be a good opportunity to laugh at idiots with way too much money to burn and the people gleefully fleecing them.
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Oct 2, 2018 09:59
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Ahh, that's the stuff, thank you
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poo poo, most men of a certain age have weird and often expensive hobbies, be it miniature trains, woodworking, motorcycles or modular synths. The thing about audiophiles is the sheer uselessness and insanity of it all. Many of these people have gone through divorce because of their obsession with imaginary sound waves and didn't even think twice about choosing the $100/ft cables over their family.
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Oct 2, 2018 21:02
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Late 90s - early 2000s were a wild time, my 1997 P133 without a 3D card became obsolete immediately and was replaced by a 700mhz Athlon with a GeForce 2 three years later. After that, a 1400 thunderbird and some radeon card in 2004. Each upgrade cost some serious moolah, I still can't understand how my dad afforded it all.
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Oct 8, 2018 06:56
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Vanagoon posted:iTunes was and is an abomination of a program sure, but do any of you remember the Quicktime player that tried to make you buy the "pro" version just to play videos full screen? I always wondered as a kid how awful Mac users must have it, they had to use QuickTime Player for everything. The horror. I do remember that some version in the late 1990s had rad soundfonts which sounded awesome when you played .MIDs through it. I was used to my SB Pro's usual FM synth and was blown away by the sound quality. We often just sat in my room listening to .MID files (I had hundreds downloaded from random GeoCities MIDI sites) and marveled at how realistic music sounds through QuickTime 
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Oct 20, 2018 13:40
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Are shoutcast radios still A Thing? I recently went looking for Monkey Radio to find the original 24/7 chill study beats stream and it had been dead for a decade or so, lol. Luckily someone had made a Spotify playlist with most of the songs, which also tells just how much of even relatively obscure stuff is in Spotify these days.
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Oct 21, 2018 07:13
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I quit moving my mp3 collection from hard drive to hard drive two computers ago. The few albums I can't play from Spotify are tucked away in my Google Drive or streamable from youtube. Spotify just works, the recommendations are excellent and have helped me to tons of music I would've missed otherwise. Storing CDs just seems dumb now, if I wanted physical media, I would start doing the whole vinyl thing with its attractive covers and such. Luckily I'm a poor millennial renting near a major city with my wife, so I'll never have the space for such folly! barbecue at the folks has a new favorite as of 07:34 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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There's nothing quite like poking around an old hard drive from 15 years ago and accidentally stumbling unto your old teenage porn stash. Some quality memories right there.
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Oct 22, 2018 04:51
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Diablo 1 had a nice atmosphere going for it, the soundtrack was great and there wasn't any needless cinematic lore to ignore. I can't even imagine how lovely it must be today but back then it packed a good punch. The OST is still great.
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Nov 6, 2018 21:51
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Holy hell, finally someone else who remembers Haunted House! I still have my copy. The game had surprisingly good puzzles and such for a multimedia kids game of its day. I also remember spending a lot of time with the Spooky Piano and other "minigames". It's still real fun in that horror for kids kind way, heck, someone should do a gbs let's play come next Halloween  edit: also it still scared me a few times as a grown rear end adult, poo poo gets crazy after a certain point
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Nov 19, 2018 15:42
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QuakeWorld was explicitly designed for modem play and used a lot of guesswork to make the game seem a lot smoother than it was. Good times, even on a 56K.
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There's also the issue of perception of quality. Anyone who's done any A/V related work knows that good sound weighs a ton and light and flimsy-feeling equipment invariably craps out on you at the worst possible moment. Packaging that home hi-fi receiver into a large and heavy proper metal enclosure gives it that reassuring heft that is the sign of good equipment instead of cheap trash, whether that perception is legitimate or not in a consumer-grade setting.
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I'm still running a X230 that I bought used in 2014, the battery is shot but the thing itself just Keeps On Trucking. It's built to withstand all abuse I've thrown at it, lmost all parts are user-changeable on the cheap and the hardware is still pretty reasonably powerful - why get a new one? (It's also the last model to have the classic IBM design cues and I hate change.)
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Jan 3, 2019 07:46
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Jerry Cotton posted:Too bad Radio Mafia doesn't do their "I'm almost related to a celebrity" call-in show anymore. Or exist 
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Jan 4, 2019 11:45
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doctorfrog posted:This reminds me of an ad I saw in the early 90's of a cheesy $19.95 TV antenna that came with a tiny satellite dish thing on it. It claimed to "pull signals right out of the air." I can respect this level of craft in swindling people who don't know better. I'm certain the person claimed that they got a whole new level of reception from it, too.
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The good ole days of software piracy on the high seas of bulletin board systems were the bomb, too. A friend with an older brother who had access to a 1337 h4x0rz warez bbs was a friend indeed, and just being kiddies filling floppies with games felt like living in Shadowrun times. Ahh.
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I just remembered I have an old 2007 MacBook stashed away and thought of resurrecting it with a new SSD, boy howdy those things are cheap these days. What version of OS X would you recommend? I'm mostly thinking of using it to dick around and record poo poo in good old GarageBand with my FireWire mixer that doesn't have Win10 drivers.
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Feb 17, 2019 21:07
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Turns out the install packages for 10.6. and 10.7. don't have GarageBand on them, I'd have to somehow dig up the original 10.5. install discs that came with the MacBook and those got lost two or three moves ago. I just wanted to record some tunes on ye olde laptop, Apple! 
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Feb 19, 2019 21:12
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The hours I spent fiddling with "Now playing" scripts for mIRC
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CaptainSarcastic posted:loving Microsoft Works. Oh my god Microsoft Works. Just dealing with different versions of .doc files was retarded enough but Works actually was a completely different beast than the Office suite and used a proprietary file format for everything. It was common at the time, but still, gently caress that poo poo.
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FilthyImp posted:
Basically, yeah. The Works suite had a neat idea behind it in that the different functions were actually integrated under the hood in a way that made running the whole thing at once possible on low spec systems with minimal memory footprint and performance requirements. This was back when running both Word and Excel would grind your mom's lovely Dell Win95 tower to a screeching halt.
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gently caress you for reminding me that Windows XP used to require third party software to get Wi-Fi working, now I have flashbacks to how muchly that sucked. I switched to a new MacBook (Intel OS X 10.5) in 2007 and I remember being blown away by how simple poo poo like connecting to a wireless network... just happened? USB things just worked? For a while OS X really was a whole different world from Windows, slick, fast, and carefree.
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Windows 10 is a perfectly usable operating system and definitely a step forward from 7. My 2012 Thinkbook runs 10 without any hitches and it's pretty good, definitely on par with anything else. Every update makes it better. The tracking stuff can be blocked.
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TotalLossBrain posted:How do people get so unreasonably attached to an OS? I believe it's a holdover from the good old days when teenage nerds like us could define their entire identity through the OS they used. Micro$oft Winblows, am I right? 
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Lazlo Nibble posted:Definitely worth a read; his subsequent attempts at digital contrarianism, not so much. Unless you enjoy seeing just how wrong a human being can be in print! He's also an incredibly sweet maths nut with a certain peculiar obsession: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
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My 1990s computing experience distinguished between Appz and Gamez, which together made Warez.
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Lol @ teenager me thinking that retro computing stuff would come down in price as time went on so I got rid of all of it before 2007 or so because it was just taking up space in my storage. I would really like to have my A500 with a 4mb memory upgrade back, please. 
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I'm jealous I'm a bit too young to have experienced the time of feelies. Infocom had some frankly amazing stuff back in the 1980s. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy came with all this: Yes, that's a small plastic bag with the label MICROSCOPIC SPACE FLEET on it
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I remember guarding the family phone for hours just so my Megadrive rom download would finish. I still remember being floored when a mate of mine showed me Sonic running on his Pentium back in 199...7, I guess? It really felt like the computer had done something I sincerely thought impossible.
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The eighties loving sucked outside computers being fun and manchildren going all 80S KIDS need to get something new to obsess over before all our culture is just reboots of children's franchises from 1985 and synthwave youtubes.
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I read Exploitation Now, Sexy Losers, Megatokyo, PvP, and Penny-Arcade religiously while in junior high, sometime in 2000-2003. That's probably not even all of them. Oh, and Something Positive! And Sinfest. Jesus Christ that's a lot of bad comics. 
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My first mp3 player was this beast of a machine: I sank a good part of my first ever paycheck on that sorry thing back in 2002. It used CF cards which was really nice back in the day.
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I treasure my Microsoft Optical Mouse and known that when it dies, I lose a part of my hand. It's the only mouse that somehow truly fits me.
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Regular Nintendo posted:Iirc he had an arduino and raspi in it (this was like 6-7 years ago) and ran an irc client on it that just listened for stuff like "/yosvape turn on" or "/yosvape 300" for temp (totally paraphrasing the irc commands) and it would report into the irc channel its temp as it warmed up and be like "ready for WeEeEeD" when it hit its target The only successful goon project
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