theultimo posted:

Or Retropie on a raspberry pi 3 for 35 bucks a full featured emulator system up to 32 bit

My Rhythmic Crotch posted:

He has done a lot of fairly amazing, low level optimizations to the emulator source to eke out performance and fix issues, but unfortunately the project isn't really marketed with that as the focus. That's my guess why it hasn't got more traction.

slidebite posted:

I posted this in the retro gaming thread but I did some cleaning in the garage and consolidated my old systems that I've had since the mid 90s and haven't touched in years.

Jesus Christ posted:

holy gently caress I loved this when I was a kid, is there a version that works with modern computers?

wayne curr posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5sAsZyRm_k

quote:

22.2 or Hamasaki 22.2 (named after Kimio Hamasaki, a senior research engineer at NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories in Japan) is the surround sound component of Super Hi-Vision (a new television standard with 16 times the pixel resolution of HDTV). It has been developed by NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories. It uses 24 speakers (including two subwoofers) arranged in three layers.[1]

mng posted:

The entire floor is actually a subwoofer.

Keith Atherton posted:

I was the UX designer for MSN Messenger 6 in 2003 or so. Since I'd never used an IM client before it's amazing that it turned out as well as it did.

JediTalentAgent posted:

Disposable digital cameras that you'd hack so you didn't have to go and exchange them/turn them in at the drug store to get your photos developed.

thathonkey posted:

Didnt microsoft have a chat app that attempted to make the conversation look like an illustrated cartoon or comic?

quote:

Microsoft Comic Chat (later Microsoft Chat, but not to be confused with Windows Chat, or WinChat) is a graphical IRC client created by Microsoft, first released with Internet Explorer 3.0 in 1996. Comic Chat was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander, with Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds Group and later a group he managed in Microsoft's Internet Division.[2]

JediTalentAgent posted:

It wouldn't have to be 'just books' either.

Even in the modern age, you could have updated the stock to reflect more modern needs and tastes. Flash drives, USB cables, emergency sewing kits, prepaid forever stamped envelopes, etc. in addition to just books.

ShiroTheSniper posted:

Microsoft's Allegiance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(video_game)



drat that was fun. I know it still runs today but dam that I loved the vanilla experience.

I used to spawn a slow rear end bomber at the beginning and moving thought sectors using the most indirect route and fartest away from the wrap gates to not be detected by scouts and warping at the ennemy base sector and blowing the HQ up.

Glorious 2K space MMO hero right here boys!

GutBomb posted:

Does anyone remember audiogalaxy? It was an mp3 search engine that also had a file-sharing component. Basically you would search on the website and tag what songs you wanted from which users, then it would send that info to your audiogalaxy client (which I used on a Linux shell account to download mp3s quickly during the day to the shell account and then would log on to and download them from the shell at night on the aforementioned half priced ISDN)

The cool thing was you could find absolutely anything on audiogalaxy, no matter how obscure. If someone had ever shared a file on there it would remain in their search results forever. Then whenever they reconnect to the service anyone that had queued downloads of their shared stuff would start downloading. Sometimes you'd have to wait a few days but there was never anything I wasn't able to find.

WebDog posted:

Hello my PDA of 1998!
These were a bit of a thing around the 90's as not everyone could afford a flashy Palm PDA with touch screen stylus so this was the bargain option. Granted there were beefier models with better calendar features and so on.
And yes 32kb of space to stuff in your life!

Mak0rz posted:

at that boomerang-shaped N64 controller

Augmented Dickey posted:

Palm OS was designed way before USB mass storage was a thing. Honestly I don't remember having many issues with Hotsync other than it being ridiculously slow, since it was over a non-USB serial connection.

I think some of the later models had a SD slot that you could just load apps to, not sure how that worked though.

mng posted:

WAP to an address to buy your $1.99 polyphonic ring tones, heck yeah.

Jerry Cotton posted:

There's no way for me to get my sweet sweet Ein Fall für Zwei polyphonic ring tone off my dead gay Libresse-looking Nokia

Jerry Cotton posted:

That's the worst thing I've ever heard in my life. Why would anyone even bother making that?

8 track betamax posted:

Try keyword....................................................ZZT

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Stuff

Efexeye posted:

It worked up until like...2010? Windows 7, I think? Haven't even bothered to plug it in to my last two machines.

Kilo147 posted:

Apparently there are cheat codes for Space Cadet 3D Pinball. Typing bmax before you start your first ball but after everything lights up and poo poo gives you infinite balls. hidden test with the space allows you to control the ball with the mouse. The two don't work together, for what it's worth.

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

I usually get them on sale; often times as little as $60. And this is over the course of the past 5 or 6 years, so it really isn't even a noticeable amount of money. I just want all my stuff in one place. It's mostly DVDs ripped to ISOs, VHS tapes I converted to gigantic DV files, and AOL files from 1996.

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Yeah I use it a lot for Plex/XBMC. Plex you need a decent machine, by the way. So I went with a Core i7 (one from years ago) and considering it's running 24/7 with 14 hard drives, I shudder to think about what that's doing to my electricity bill. I am guessing about 1 dollar a day or so?

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Now you're taking me back.

My friend would come over and we'd go to keyword Gamepro and people would ask for help in video games and we'd give fake tips (like those assholes that told you how to revive General Leo, but not nearly that assholish). This was comedy gold to us as 12 year olds, and it was a good use of our free time.

Quantum of Phallus posted:

Germstore posted:

Someone posted this on r/programming. It is basically 90s.mpeg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBYz9syhNAA

mng posted:

I still use Winamp and have been since like 1999. Is that weird?

Regular Nintendo posted:

Nah I want the oldschool poo poo. I was hoping there was some third party ppc-dosbox type environment

Buttcoin purse posted:

Oh I see, I always associated the QuickTime application and .mov files with movies, but I was wrong!

Turdsdown Tom posted:

VMTools has a client that supports 95/98/Me and includes a video driver and a mouse driver. The stuttering/low FPS you're experiencing is most likely caused by the generic mouse driver Windows installs - I just finished a 98SE install, manually installed the VMTools mouse driver, and now everything is fluid like it should be.

No need to gently caress around with SciTech, since VMware still supports 98 as a guest client.

Buttcoin purse posted:

Yeah, do you get points only for depth, or also for breadth? e.g. obviously you can do some layers of nesting, but should you also do two sets of nesting at once, like Windows 10 -> Hyper-V -> Linux -> PCem -> DOS while also running Windows 10 -> QEMU -> Windows XP -> Basikisk II -> MacOS?

Vanagoon posted:

The first 100% Flash site I came across was Gabocorp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-ESJS911c

I thought it was cool as poo poo, in 1997.

Centripetal Horse posted:

Speaking of the demo scene, there is a demo I have been trying to locate for years. It would be old enough that three-dimensional graphics were still pretty awesome just by virtue of existing, and everything 3d on a computer was obviously made out of blocks. I don't remember the group who made it, and I don't remember the competition it showed up in, if any. The gist of it is that you're peeking in on this wonderful scene of an idyllic little town (I think), possibly in the midst of some celebration. The camera flies around while mellow music plays, and eventually we reach the heart of the scene, which is two figures ice-skating. It turns out the whole thing is taking place in a music box.

I may be mis-remembering a lot of that, but there were definitely ice-skaters* and mellow music. I'm pretty sure there was a really nice fade-in and fade-out, too.

* Unless they were dancers. They might have been dancers. Probably dancers.

Buttcoin purse posted:

That's cool, but I don't want to have to pay for it, and if I 'd it then there'd be this sort of chicken and egg problem

Robnoxious posted:

I'd like to think I could move up into IT at my company and make sweeping improvements but I think our entire system is held together with chewing gum and bailing wire because it certainly acts as if it is.

Kinda like how if you want a IT job with the IRS... you MUST know Pascal and Fortran because that's how far behind the curve they are.