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I had my Treo 650 until 2012. I loved that that keyboard.
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2016 04:29 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 01:26 |
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woodch posted:I should have snapped some pictures of the basement at the business phone joint I worked at before I left/got laid off. An entire basement nearly filled with 30-plus-year-old phone systems in various states of disassembly/functionality. Shelves and shelves of Lucent/Avaya system components and cabinets, many boxes packed with gross, decommissioned Lucent/Avaya phones, loads of ancient Toshiba gear that NO ONE was ever going to use again. I'm convinced that the building is being physically supported by most of that junk. I have a fully maxed out IIfx, with a Radius Rocket Board, maxed out RAM, and a 2MB Raster Ops Video Card running 8.1along with a IIci with a Daystar 601 PowerPC board. I keep them around because they were dream machines for me on their original release (I also have a Next Cube for the same reason).
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2016 19:18 |
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nigga crab pollock posted:i found an old mod called navy seals that itself is a very radical quake mod. but with the limitations of the hardware ends up working, kind of well actually, as an oddly paced high stress cover shooter? its not like anything i've ever played. it's like a bunch of seemingly bad things working together in unison to make something good or at least i see some potential. ive made a bunch of lovely test maps to see what the 3ds is capable of and i mean its still janky but at the same time its like some alternate timeline ps1 era shooter (jank and all) so i wanna make a little campaign. half to just say 'i made a first person shooter for the 3ds' The guy who did Navy SEALS is Gooseman whose next big mod project was Counterstrike so...
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2016 22:28 |
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nigga crab pollock posted:navy seals status: I love the sounds of the MP5 and the shotgun in that mod. What are removing from the weapons code? Hopefully not the Mode switch.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2016 01:06 |
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thathonkey posted:there is a pretty cool story on ars technica about crazy people that still use OS 9 I have a pair of G4 Towers that run it because I cannot find OS X Drivers for my Formac ProFormance 3 video card which drives my sweetass SGI 1600SW
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 19:57 |
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Kai's Power Tools had an extremely iconoclastic UI for a commercial program. It was terrible and there were so many complaints from the paying user base they reverted it to a more useable by non-developer endusers.
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# ¿ Oct 1, 2016 00:03 |
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I rest my case.
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2016 02:42 |
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barbecue at the folks posted:I've only seen black and white pictures of the SX-64 - the quality of design really surprised me (I always keep forgetting that Commodore was a) American and b) not only about mass-market designs like VIC-20/C64). That keyboard design is tasty as all hell and oh my god those blue highlights I guess I know without asking that someone has already turned one of these into a regular old PC with a small LCD screen and gotta say, the prospect does intrigue me. It would be ridiculously cheap and easy to convert too. Plenty of room to slap a NUC in there (or four) or just a standard ATX mobo even.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2016 16:17 |
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Humphreys posted:I decided to check out a few old web 'memes' and I went down the deep end: Jesus that was ten years ago? Not going to lie, I watched that entire posted video and still enjoyed it. Gary is just so loving happy while he's lip syncing this stupid rear end song.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2016 16:21 |
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Kelp Me! posted:I think this was posted a while back, but I'll see your boating sim controller and raise you the Steel Battalion setup: Mine still works too! And the answer is Mechwarrior series
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2016 21:55 |
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:Class of '03 Class of '80....
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2016 01:58 |
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When I was in high school we used dumb terminals and the Madison Metropolitan School District's Time Sharing System. That's right , I learned to program COBOL and Fortran on a DECWriter II and a Texas Instruments Silent 700. We could check out a NCR 2660 terminal to take home and connect on a built in 300 baud modem with acoustic coupler.
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2016 13:13 |
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah I built a video projector using one of those and a LCD flat panel display that I took apart. It worked great actually.
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# ¿ Nov 6, 2016 04:50 |
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Humphreys posted:Well when everyone moved from sliderules... My dad got a TI-30 when they first came out, before that he did all his calculations on a sliderule and he taught me how to use one.
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# ¿ Nov 6, 2016 16:18 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:
DLPs for video projectors too. e:fb.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2016 14:59 |
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PinkoBastard posted:
My Treo had the best nubbin keyboard. So good for texting.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 18:02 |
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:To this day I sometimes write notes for myself in Palm OS Graffiti.
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2016 00:06 |
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Kelp Me! posted:Pirated DVDs are (or at least were) a huge thing in lower-middle class urban areas. 10 years ago you couldn't have a meal at a restaurant in Newark without at least one person walking in with a backpack and going around to all the tables selling VCDs of popular movies and/or terrible cams of movies currently in theaters. All over Oakland and most of the flea markets in the East Bay.
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 00:49 |
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My 31 seems like it could take a close proximity nuke.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2017 19:51 |
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One of these is still lurking in my closet... Terrapin VCD Recorder. Last time it was used was probably 2001.
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# ¿ May 30, 2017 22:55 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:One of these is still lurking in my closet... Just pulled it out and turned it on for the first time in 16 years. It works! Played my VCD of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and recorded off my DVD player. Yes, the image looks like complete rear end, but dammit it works!
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# ¿ May 31, 2017 05:02 |
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Holy poo poo! Some of the things in that auction... https://ubidestates.hibid.com/lot/32247922/gridcase-model-1530/?ref=catalog https://ubidestates.hibid.com/lot/32247925/gridpad-model-1900-with-case/?ref=catalog https://ubidestates.hibid.com/lot/32222672/gold-album--put-the-hammer-down-/?ipp=100&ref=catalog https://ubidestates.hibid.com/lot/32247970/historical-artifacts--box-1-of-2---/?ipp=100&ref=catalog https://ubidestates.hibid.com/lot/32248000/cue-cat-samples/?cpage=2&ipp=100&ref=catalog https://ubidestates.hibid.com/lot/32248182/bust-of-charles-tandy/?cpage=4&ipp=100&ref=catalog
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# ¿ May 31, 2017 12:02 |
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I loved our big C-Band dish. It came with the house and my dad and I spent a summer getting that thing running in the late-70s. Watching interstitial stuff during commercial breaks could be hilarious on national news feeds.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 20:09 |
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doctorfrog posted:Tucows was somehow too big. I ended up visiting nonags.com for a curated catalog of cool freeware that didn't nag me to register. I still have my Handspring Prism and it works great.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 01:25 |
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Casimir Radon posted:So was Titanic and the 60s Dr. Doolittle. Dr. Zhivago and Ice Station Zebra too.
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2017 09:13 |
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Efexeye posted:found this in a box of detritus that could probably be its own thread, i have video cards going back twenty years in there I still have mine and use it to run my home theater, projector, ceiling fan and some other stuff.
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# ¿ Aug 3, 2017 21:06 |
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azurite posted:Hey now, the FM + PSG chips in the Mega Drive produced some of the best video game music of its generation. Those shadows. Amazing piece of work.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2017 10:16 |
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evobatman posted:I loved flight simulators in the 90s, and used to pick which game to buy based on the weight of the box. I probably spent just as many hours with the manual for EF2000 as I did with the game. Falcon 4.0 was the champ for that.
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# ¿ Nov 10, 2017 19:06 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:I recently read a contemporary review which wasn't great. And I guess what you said above could be said about Star Citizen too If you look carefully you can find Humbug Scoolbus's real name in the credits for both the PC and Mac versions of Falcon 4. The Mac version was one of the last flight sim projects I worked on.
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2017 15:51 |
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Aubergine Mage posted:I'd give anything for a new Falcon game. So would I
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2017 22:14 |
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Star Man posted:And the greatest video game console ever was the result of that. Dreamcast? e:fb
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2018 16:21 |
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Quote-Unquote posted:My good man let me introduce you to a little thing called GetRight, to ensure your downloads always get completed! The thing that wrecked me was the fact that the original Demo for Kingpin Life of Crime was 109MB. We downloaded it on the Optical at work because even with ISDN, it would have taken forever.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2018 18:14 |
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I still have my MSI U100 Wind... I put Mint Linux, an extra GB of RAM, and a 100 GB SSD in it and it's still my inflight entertainment machine.
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# ¿ May 17, 2018 22:38 |
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2018 03:27 |
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empty baggie posted:Steely Dan is the ultimate audiophile music. So loving true. I had a friend who went big for DVD audio just so he could hear an 'absolutely pristine' copy of Gaucho.
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2018 17:03 |
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The first video card I bought was a VillageTronic MacMagic. It was a weird 2d/3d board using Voodoo 1 for the 3D on a daughter board and a 4MB S3 set for the 2D. I also had a Techworks Gamewizard Voodoo card. My 2000 vintage G4 currently has a Formac ProFormance 3 hooked to an SGI 1600sw, and a pair of SLI 8MB Voodoo 2s for gaming.
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# ¿ Oct 7, 2018 20:11 |
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I have my frankly stupidly large mp3 collection backed up with CrashPlan.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2018 23:02 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:I'm running OS 9 on a first gen iMac and it's a matter of constant frustration. The loving cooperative multitasking alone means a single misbehaving program can very well require a reboot. I got it to play old games (installed Myst already) and mess around with old software, but like half the time I'll download something and transfer it via FTP (since SFTP is a nonstarter as far as I can tell) and then the OS just has no clue how to open the file. I have a pair of G4 Towers (1999 vintage) that run 9.2/10.1 and they are still fun to dick around with. The tricked out 550mhz (overclocked) one has paired Voodoo2s, 1.5GB RAM and a Formac ProFormance 3 card to run an SGI 1600SW flat-panel.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2018 14:17 |
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I started with 10 and moved up to 10.1 and 10.2, but 10.2 was always kind of unstable with the overclock. I run mainly games on them these days, as well as having Codewarrior installed so I can screw around with programming them. There are no drivers for the Formac card for OS 10 of any version, so that's why 9.2 is the primary OS on that machine. That 1600SW is an amazing monitor.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 01:04 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 01:26 |
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promising carl posted:lol, I remember downloading the 65MB Diablo demo over dialup. Took about 10 hours. 109MB Kingpin Life of Crime Demo. A group of us used our work's optical connection to download that one.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 16:49 |