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Jyrraeth posted:Made the lie detector project too and was very disappointed, though at the time I blamed it on having to use the wrong resistors since I ripped out the usefule ones. I bet if you had the right resistors that lie detector would have worked perfectly!
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an AOL chatroom posted:DirecTV's "Black Sunday" hack was pretty legendary This is pretty cool. How much do operations like this cost (everything from brainstorming to planning to execution, including the previous card-killing updates before the hack) compared to the profits lost from signal-jacking customers? I have a feeling it's not actually worth it.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Oh yeah, also we all know DOOM was pretty cool, but some of you might not be aware that people have made new engines for it with all sorts of modern OpenGL features, and other people have made 3D models for the enemies and objects and new high-res textures, so with some effort downloading and installing stuff you can play DOOM and it can look like this: Playing doom like this sucks actually 
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Bonzo posted:Buying a Linux distribution theultimo posted:Buying a web browser lol
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PinkoBastard posted:Lost countless hours to all of them except Redneck Rampage. Think it's hold up to a playthrough now? Not a chance. Duke, Wang, and Blood are still fun to play, but RR did not age nearly as well. PinkoBastard posted:Also the original Hexen was so loving badass at the time. Hexen ran on the Doom engine, not Build 
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SopWATh posted:LOL if you started with this rather than a Voodoo Banshee.  Unwrapping this at Christmas nearly made me poo poo myself: box says AGP tho, but mine was the PCI edition because my computer was lucky to have more than one PCI slot, let alone AGP: 
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Jan 7, 2016 21:54
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blugu64 posted:Buying a Linux was legit because it was either $5 for a disk (or floppies) or waiting 2 days for debian/slackware to download True. I never bothered messing with Linux until I had a high speed connection, and I guess the $60 is justified by a comprehensive manual. Still lmao at paying money for a web browser even back then. mng posted:3dfx was such a complete mess in the end you mean to tell me this is ridiculous and stupid and not actually loving rad?? 
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Jan 8, 2016 00:49
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Code Jockey posted:was the best controller since this, king of PC gamepads, the Gravis Gamepad This was the best when I got it because I finally could play NES, Gameboy, and Genesis emulators with it because they only need 4 buttons! I also played through all of Ultimate Doom with that fucker somehow. I later upgraded to a Gravis Gamepad... PRO:  My gameport white pad spontaneously died on me one day so I replaced it with the black USB version! ...which also eventually died.  Those controllers were the loving best. I guess the OG Gravis Gamepad was iconic enough to be the icon Wikipedia uses for its Video Games portal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Video_games LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i played the poo poo out of rayman and shareware arcade games on one of these bastards, but it doesn't compare to... I had one of these too! Could not get it to work worth a drat at all. I have no idea why.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Also holy poo poo the Pro looks like a PSX controller. Did it come out before or after the PSX? Wonder how nobody made a stink about that. I'm pretty sure the Playstation controller came first. There are countless "four face buttons, four shoulder buttons" controller designs like that one as far as I know.
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you were warned posted:Remember those radiation shields people used to put on CRT monitors? I didn't, either, until I came across this picture in a terrible real estate listing for a disgusting house: Do you live in eastern Europe?
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Did anyone else have this bargain bin gem? It was a treat for all of your senses, but mostly hearing and seeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94nbLl95unw
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slidebite posted:I think had one of those and it fell apart pretty drat fast. The Gamepad Pros were pretty fragile, yeah. It only took a month or so of use to make the buttons "soft" (i.e. they no longer clicked when pressed), and the d-pad was always way too sensitive.
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slidebite posted:This was the best early internet era gaming magazine going. Printed on super nice paper, decent articles and good interviews (for the most part). Red Face Man looks pretty bored.
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Haier posted:I played this so much after I discovered it on bootleg disc someone gave me. It was really good for the time, and I loved the freedom that it gave the player regarding leaving the track and doing whatever the hell I wanted. A lot of games didn't allow that back then. Driving around the map way outside of the game's intended play area just for the hell of it was always something I liked to do in racing games. Big Red was pretty good at giving you that freedom. It's why games like Top Gear Rally and San Francisco Rush are the only racing games I'll play that aren't kart racers. I also had a demo (I think it came with my Diamond Monster Fusion 3D card) for a game called 4x4 Evolution that had huge worlds surrounding the tracks for some reason. There was nothing to find out there but sweet jumps, but it was pretty fun to explore. If you travel too far all you find is totally flat land, but all the maps repeated indefinitely like a RPG world map so you can drive indefinitely and get some sick speed. For some reason there was a really sharp car-height ridge that ran the entire length of the seam where the world repeats. Hitting that fucker at top speed was pretty funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFzDSJXLiM&t=4s
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Typical Pubbie posted:NextGen was the first gaming mag I ever bought with my own allowance. The best was magazines that came with discs loaded with demos and (occasionally) full versions of games and software. Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I remember a fluff news piece about the flying toaster like "screensaver takes world by storm!" jfc tbh it kind of did because it and "man stranded on beach" are the only non-stock screensavers anyone ever talks about even 25 years later. E: Johnny Castaway is the name of the stranded man screensaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXIKeTVcyA Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 03:39 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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simosimo posted:PC gaming demos you say?! Carolina Crusher is taking a detour! LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i had a pc demo disc that included both a pc version of zelda 1 and a birthday cake item for the sims. it was a good year. what? 
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Limewire? Viruses. Viruses and questionably legal pornography.
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I forget there was a time when hardware decoders were necessary.Squashy Nipples posted:More handheld goodness, here a primitive Space Invaders clone from Bandai: I know a guy who found one of these at a landfill along with two complete and fully functional Super Nintendo systems and a couple of cartridges, including DKC1 and 2
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Tyson Tomko posted:Still catching up on the thread but wanted to post something I ran across this past weekend in my garage. Nerdy as poo poo but also nostalgic as poo poo I remember when I first saw a computer that turned off automatically after shutdown and I thought it was some magical space aged poo poo.
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Data Graham posted:Haha, I just looked that up a few weeks ago. I never realized it actually had meme-level currency. Group X were pretty big, yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFF3pVOHtoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIeOULX79VA
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red19fire posted:One of the related videos is the 'ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny'. I wonder what ever happened to these early newgrounds stars. Lemon Demon aka Neil Ciceriga was once a goon and left because people made fun of him for claiming he "invented a new animation style" known as "animutation"
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This game loving rules and I'm sad it doesn't really exist anymore 
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Ehud posted:I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Literally all of my friends growing up were batshit nuts over HOMAM 3 and I just didn't get it. I hated the games so much and I still don't know why. I just don't find them enjoyable at all.
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The Kins posted:Most of the old games are on GOG and there's a spiritual successor (by which I mean it's the exact same goddamn thing but with a different name) by the same devs on Steam called Contraption Maker. I did not know this!
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Egbert Souse posted:Also, does anyone remember Graal? I remember playing Graal on dialup with my lovely computer back in 1999! Wowzers! The only reason I found it and thought it was at all interesting was because it came up after searching "link to the past for computer" on Ask Jeeves. The Kins posted:The Amiga Graphics Archive is a great site that preserves a lot of this pixel artwork, and details the weird technology quirks that artists had to exploit to make it look so good on mid-80s hardware. Being a gamer from the Amiga era must have really been something. A lot of the games I see look fantastic and have pretty amazing soundtracks for the era. Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 06:43 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Humphreys posted:The CD-ROM was also Redbook compliant and all the soundtrack could be played using a normal CD Player. I used to play the poo poo out of the audio more than the game (I had a lovely Ipex P75 at the time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBVDVr_IDc E: whoops thought this was the videogame chat thread oh well Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 09:33 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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mcbexx posted:Remember the ZX Spectrum? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28
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Mechanism Eight posted:
Here lies andy. peperony and chease.
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Here's something I missed out on as a kid, because it pre-dates me: loving ownage C64 video game music. Seriously listen to this rockin' poo poo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcgruWlXnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoGFV_xxR64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYyXfj9Wxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf29ShkoAiA
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sinking belle posted:Machinae Supremacy No joke Machinae Supremacy is how I found out C64 music was so rad! I used to listen to them all the time, and a lot of their music is pretty good. My favorite song is still Super Steve. Except for the Edge Wizardry theme, that one I discovered from a collection of original SPC (Super NES sound file) compositions simply titled "Public Domain SPCs" I found on Zophar's Domain. Also discovered the kickass Space Harrier theme from the same collection. Man, anyone remember Zophar's Domain? 
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Mak0rz posted:Except for the Edge Wizardry theme, that one I discovered from a collection of original SPC (Super NES sound file) compositions simply titled "Public Domain SPCs" I found on Zophar's Domain. Also discovered the kickass Space Harrier theme from the same collection. gently caress yeah I managed to find the Wizardry cover I remember. I was never involved in computer/console demoscene, but it's pretty amazing poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvP6QnOST0g
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Hell yes this song loving owns. They remastered it on one of their albums and made it suck but the OG version is great. E: Jyrraeth posted:So I was looking up stuff about my parent's first computer: Our first computer was the humble Tandy 1000:  We had our share of 3.5" floppies with edutainment games like Reader Rabbit, Treasure Mountain, and one game I'm sure I'm the only person that ever laid eyes on let alone played: Alf's Thinking Skills! We also had Family Feud and Classic Concentration. Those games loving ruled. However never had Jeopardy to complete the Prime Time Game Show Videogame Trifecta. It had a hard drive with some games installed on it (including a massive exploration-focused Star Trek game) and a simple drawing program. We eventually lost the instructions on how to run them and they quickly became forgotten. We didn't know a lot about how to use a computer, so the idea of getting DOS to pull up a list of directory contents to find them again was beyond us. Bonus Tandy 1000 and depressed cat: 
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error1 posted:c64 music is way cooler when performed live on a hacked 80s electric organ by a swedish musical genius Machine Supremacy were from Sweden too. Why are they all Swedish?
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ShiroTheSniper posted:Best 8bits era song: Solstice Theme for the NES Thanks for this. Thick as a Brick is one of my favorite albums ever and this was very clearly inspired by it!
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you were warned posted:This just made me remember that when I was little, one Halloween my mom took me "trick-or-treating" during the day at a shopping center that was doing it for some reason. Most of the stores had candy, but I got a few weird things, like a keychain for a smooth jazz radio station, and a Whiz Kids comic book from Radio Shack. This one, I think: Wow I retract my statement. The Tandy 1000 was not humble at all!
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Buttcoin purse posted:Thanks to the front page I learned that the intro to Bad Cat is also great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQnouu_ehs
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I loving hate video guides ughhgh. Jesus yes. There's god drat nothing worse than Googling "how to do thing in such and such" and having to
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pepito sanchez posted:i almost forgot about this: Sega's peripheral-happy period got pretty insane in the end. It didn't help that there were multiple designs of the SMS and MS/Genesis (and I think even a combo console) available. I was a Nintendo kid growing up and my parents begrudgingly agreed to get me extra games and gimmicks for birthdays and Christmas. They do not know how lucky they were.
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