Captain Yossarian posted:

I don't even have one and now I feel lower then garbage

Germstore posted:

I have a 28 inch flat tube CRT HDTV that weighs like a hundred pounds. 28 inches used to be considered big.

Data Graham posted:

There was a time when a "compact" car actually was, you know, small



But now even a brand that starts out with its entire mission statement as "Make a good small car" has to make their homage car start out like 150% the size of the thing they're copying, and the very next thing they do is make a BIGGER AND BETTER version

I mean if "Mini" is just going to make an SUV like everybody else, why the gently caress bother, might as well make the badge just a big middle finger if you're going to still call it "Mini" when it's the same size as every other CR-V clone

Same with Fiat, yeah start out selling a 500 that's the smallest thing around and aww how cute, and then like clockwork "improve" it in response to "customer feedback" that says things like "not enough legroom/elbow room/headroom" and "couldn't you make it just a little bit roomier?"

Cojawfee posted:

This is how it works for anything in which someone offers to sell you something that can make you money in return. If the machine was guaranteed to make money, why the hell is he selling it to you? Even worse if you are leasing it. The same thing with bitcoin miners. If they are guaranteed to make a return on investment, why the hell would the company ever sell you one?

Cojawfee posted:

Cojawfee posted:

Purchase my internet kiosk or you'll never vote a thread 5 again.

Keith Atherton posted:

I have a coffee mug I got at Microsoft in the mid 90's. The front of it has a cartoon of what looks like a Mac II SI and underneath that "Online EMOTICONS"

The other side has these examples with the explanation underneath:

:-)))
Triple chins

'@_____
Snail Mail

#-)
Partied All Night


Basic smile


Frown

:-@
Very angry


Wink

{{{JOHN}}}
Hugs to John

$-)
Just Won Lottery

:-(O)
Yelling

=):-)
Uncle Sam

@<---<---
A Rose for You

Mak0rz posted:

I'm pretty sure the underscores are supposed to be the slime trail.

Germstore posted:

This makes me realize how good we have it now. On my phone I'll put barely coherent queries where not a single word is spelled correctly and google will just know what I mean.

Efexeye posted:

This is just..wrong? Google can even do follow up questions now with both typed and voiced queries. I had a buddy IM me last night that he needed something today so I said to my phone 'okay Google, set a reminder for tomorrow to bring my buddy his thing' and the Google lady said okay, would you like to save this reminder, and I glanced at the screen and said 'change the time to 8 am and save' and Google did it. All hands free, took about 5 seconds. It's gotten a lot better, RankBrain is improving things a lot. If you allow Google to train itself to understand you, well, that's helpful too

The Mentalizer posted:

From a few pages back, but I just wanted to point out that pretty much everyone has heard his work. While the 5.1 audio stuff may be a niche market, your friend's dad is one of the most highly regarded and well respected engineers in the business and has been since the mid to late 70s. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't heard something he's done, be it in stereo or 5.1.

Nierbo posted:

I could reminisce about PSX all day. How about the controllers without the analogue sticks. God they were woeful to hold after you had gotten used to its big brother.

Police Automaton posted:

all creative products do -and always have- sucked.

Police Automaton posted:

No proper MPU-401 intelligent mode compatibility.

8 track betamax posted:

My life has been reduced to downloading old dog games and meticulously curating them into my direct access dos menu now. Thanks computer relic thread!

JazzmasterCurious posted:

Others (like me) used config.sys <menuitem> with GOTO %CONFIG% in autoexec.bat

Buttcoin purse posted:

I knew someone who ran a BBS using it, but it was too expensive for me! Much like OS/2, it seems like it was probably a lot better than Windows in various ways and for various use cases but you had to invest the time to get it working and deal with incompatibilities so it's easier just to be one of the sheeple.

Humphreys posted:

http://www.midis101.com/free_midi/67281/Ein_Fall_Fuer_Zwei

No idea if or not.


EDIT: Holy poo poo, VLC can't paly Midi?

Sten Freak posted:

Found this site of C64 games emulations. Not sure how much works but there is a shitton of C64 stuff out there.
http://legacy.c64g.com/

Germstore posted:

Was it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmT80OseAGs

simosimo posted:

I was about 8-9 when I saw this in PC gaming mags and I thought it would be a fully 3D experience. How naive I was. Come to think of that, has anyone made a fully explorable Titanic? I'm still waiting on that poo poo.

Buttcoin purse posted:

Oh yeah, that reminds me, my C64 only displays garbled characters too

Mak0rz posted:

Sometimes they even copied each other!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf29ShkoAiA

kilogram posted:

We used to install the Quake 3 Arena demo on the school computers whenever we got our hands on them. Sometimes we played it in class if the teacher was away and then quickly alt tabbed out when they returned. It didn't always work. I imagine we must have been pretty easy to figure out too when everyone was giggling under their breath and giving each other looks.

8 track betamax posted:

Thank you I expect to be hired by lowtax for the front page anny day now

sinking belle posted:

When I was like 14 I taught a couple sixth formers in my house about a cool command called "net send *". the next morning everyone who logged onto the school computers was greeted with dozens of messages helpfully informing us about which teachers had big gaping vaginas. it was a lot harder to do fun computer stuff after that

Buttcoin purse posted:

Man I totally missed out on skifree, everyone loved it aparently. I found it, it looks kinda neat.

What LucasArts game would you have running on Windows 3.x?



I wanted to do the emulator challenge at the same time so I have a DOS prompt where Windows is emulating CGA (can't seem to use VGA!) and I'm running a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator in that and you can see what game I'm playing. The movie was so good the game must be amazing right? No this was just the first emulator I found that would work in a window in Windows 3.x and I have no idea what games were popular on the ZX Spectrum. Well I found a CP/M emulator but I don't even know what to run in that.

I should probably tidy that up so the windows aren't off the edge of the screen, so it doesn't look so dumb when you display it on a bigger screen. Would you like any more random crap? I was thinking of installing Visual Basic and making a window with a goony catchphrase.

Police Automaton posted:

IT really loves reinventing the wheel. In some revisions the wheel actually turns out to be square. This is working as intended.

WebDog posted:

But to convert to hot hot double sided action you need one of these for the full three-hundred-and-something kilobytes!

CaptainSarcastic posted:

You were ripped off. The only tool you needed to accomplish that was:

Gromit posted:

A friend of mind held a normal hole-punch closed, lined the hole of the floppy up on it and marked on the base of the punch where to hold the disk. Then you just flip it over and punch a perfectly-aligned hole every time with no special tools.