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ShiroTheSniper posted:Second Reality demo. drat that I looked at it often. I'm still amazed that they did it that small (one 3.5" disk IIRC). I like the tribute ports better than the original! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPW40ygds4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwV-Gz0_Nhc
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Dec 27, 2015 19:35
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you were warned posted:This all made me remember these bad boys, found in every room of my elementary school: I bought one of those off the local craigslist earlier this year, it even has the TV card in it that displays amazing 320x240 video  I thought it would be cool to have a retro mac around the house but there's a rattling fan deep inside it and the CRT flickers like hell so eh  At least I can say I own a blackintosh from Apple's goth phase
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Dec 29, 2015 08:47
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I wonder what will happen to the mac pro trashcan, I would kill for a new tower mac pro with skylake or modern xeons that you could stick a bunch of pcie cards in, instead of having two dozen cables dangling off the side of your cylindrical space computer the cheese grater macs were basically perfect, why did they have to change them 
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Dec 29, 2015 21:08
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Fun fact, the reason drives never increased beyond 52x was that at those rotational speed there's a real risk of the disc shattering from the centrifugal forces. The manuals would warn about inserting damaged or cracked disks, and if something actually exploded inside the drive good luck getting all the fragments out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7x1Hu29Wc
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Jan 7, 2016 08:23
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I miss the golden age of multimedia cdrom games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZk40mKbqO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDIjIwATh5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GQTfMDlLf8
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Jan 20, 2016 18:45
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c64 music is way cooler when performed live on a hacked 80s electric organ by a swedish musical genius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l1YWXrGjyA He should go on tour worldwide, I'd pay good money to see it live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNqffWhmXA&t=370s
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Jan 22, 2016 08:46
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Psh I don't know what are you guys on about, CGA had AMAZING graphics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNRO7lno_DM
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Jan 23, 2016 17:43
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One of the greatest things about that 8088 mph demo is how much of it they have documented in detail, explaining exactly how and why it works Go read http://8088mph.blogspot.com , it's well worth your time Especially http://8088mph.blogspot.com/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated.html if you want to know how to get that many colours out of something that never supported it 
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Jan 24, 2016 08:53
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No system is too old for the demoscene! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Wk9Oi_Fsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXWyUUQ2EtI
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Jan 24, 2016 11:45
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Please don't leave your CDRs in direct sunlight Oops Fortunately it was just an old BeOS installation disc, at least I think it was.
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Jan 25, 2016 11:01
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Code Jockey posted:Noooo my storage server is full of WD Reds and my desktop big storage drive is a WD Black Nerd chat: Everything WD has made in the last five years has been pretty solid in my experience, I really love the WD Red series for their almost silent operation and use them everywhere now. I think I have almost 20 of them in total and they all still work. (one of them produced some bad blocks last year but it seems to have remapped them and subsequent ZFS scrubs didn't report errors) I have a bunch of old dead WD Greens though, as well as a bunch of dead Seagate LP drives. Some series are just junk. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/ is a good read that should make Seagate owners really nervous!
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Jan 26, 2016 08:20
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Depends on the cable, some of them had different wiring on the master and slave plug and supported setting the drive jumper to "cable select" Others had the same wiring on both plugs and you had to set the master and slave jumper correctly on the devices, and most of the drives had a whole bunch of jumper pins with no explanation of which jumper did what. Old computers were awesome!
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Feb 3, 2016 07:22
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Is there a site like http://www.folklore.org but for microsoft? Did any of your coworkers ever threaten to piss on Bill Gates desk?
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Feb 6, 2016 10:24
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Stop it, you're giving me traumatic flashbacks to my phone support days, desperately trying to explain to the nurse that you have to hold the power button on the computer to force it to turn off after a bluescreen and they repeatedly just turn their monitor off and on because they don't know what the box under the desk is for
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Feb 11, 2016 18:04
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Peter Molydeux is a genius and I won't have anyone telling me otherwise 
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Feb 13, 2016 11:01
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The scrollbar in OSX is mostly just a visual indicator now, you're not supposed to use it to start scrolling. Everyone has either a scrollwheel or a touchpad that supports two-finger scrolling so you don't have to mouse your pointer to scroll. You can still grab it if you absolutely want to but I doubt many people do
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Feb 20, 2016 15:18
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Just google G5 to ATX conversion, you'll find lots of information and ready-made kits. I wouldn't do it to a working mac though, fortunately almost all the water cooled high end G5 powermacs sprung a leak after a couple years so there's no shortage of broken ones. I don't think Apple will experiment with water cooling again anytime soon! http://rknochenmuss.ch/G5leak/G5.html
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Feb 22, 2016 07:59
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I would not get a Titanium powerbook, the fan in those is annoyingly loud. It's a shame because the rest of the machine looks and feels really nice (apart from the paint chipping) For retro mac gaming I would consider an old iBook, they are more than powerful enough and fairly quiet. The older models are completely fanless,even! I have a white iBook G3/500 and a bondi clamshell G3 that is 250mhz or something. Most of the games of the 90s were made to run on anything from 33mhz to 200mhz so any of these laptops will do just fine.
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Mar 1, 2016 10:22
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It's really annoying, I think a huge part of the blame lies with ARM for stealing the mass market through tablets and phones. Intel is sitting pretty on a slowly dwindling desktop PC CPU market and AMD is in the dumps Fingers crossed we will see some substantial jumps this year, but I'm not getting my hopes up. At least graphics cards performance is stil progressing at a good pace...
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Mar 4, 2016 19:16
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It's a shame the Dell M2010 had so many hardware issues, I love the shape and the sheer ridiculousness of it This is my favorite video review of it, annoyingly not on youtube: http://www.cnet.com/videos/20-inch-laptop-on-the-london-underground/
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Mar 7, 2016 16:14
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It's funny how much people hate frame interpolation, a technology that is actually very cool and good and entirely optional. It's only a shame that there isn't a quick button on the remote to enable/disable it.. you usually have to dig down into menus and it tends to stay off because of that for most people. It is true that the interpolation and added clarity will make bad acting and budget special effects EXTREMELY visible and it removes some of the "movie magic" but if you have it enabled on a big budget 3d animated movie it looks loving stellar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yN3od3nie8 It's also very neat how it can often interpolate console games that are locked to 30fps so that it looks like they are running at 60 or 120fps. You will need to deal with 2-3 frames of delay though so it only works well for third person action games like GTA, uncharted, assassins creed etc.
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Mar 16, 2016 21:56
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Yeah gently caress high framerates, that's why the N64 was the best console all the games were so cinematic! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGI-gIMSQMQ That's also why I play quake on my 486 instead of a pentium
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Mar 16, 2016 22:10
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Movie snobs just melt down completely when you challenge their 90 year old video technology. It's incredible. Guess we're stuck with 24fps forever. The difference between a single interpolated frame and a keyframe is completely negligible. Why do you think modern video compression works? You can strip out a shitton of redundant data and just keep track of motion vectors, with full keyframes every 20-40 frames or when the picture changes too drastically. Interpolating every other frame uses the same concept, find the motion vectors and halve them to generate an intermediate state. It introduces slight artifacting where a foreground object is moving faster than a background object, someone is walking behind a grid, picket fence etc because you don't have all the information you need, but the advantage of not getting a headache easily outweighs the drawbacks of faint halos around complicated moving objects and the occasional garbled subtitle. Just from a engineering perspective it's really impressive how convincing and reliable the interpolation has become, it's a shame it's lost on a lot of people.
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Mar 16, 2016 22:46
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You only have two eyes anyway!
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Mar 17, 2016 17:51
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Can't you wire two modems directly together with a punch of old phone wire? Is the POTS network really required?
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Mar 20, 2016 09:57
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Augh those specs of dust all over it  For retro stuff, the Amiga does best with one or more cheap 4GB CF cards. If you try to use a larger one you have to be very careful when you set it up because the stock filesystem driver in the ROM will wrap around and corrupt the disk if it tries to write past the first 4GB
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Apr 4, 2016 09:19
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gently caress your hipster iPhone, my iPaq had gapless mp3s with crossfading, GPS navigation, games and multitasking in 2003 ...and it still works 13 years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtqEZyLb-Os
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Apr 7, 2016 12:45
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The most amazing thing about that old ipaq is that it still holds a couple hours usage worth of battery charge on the original, decade old battery. My other, one year older ipaq 5450 is completely stone dead though so I don't know what kind of magical hardware they put inside this one
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Apr 7, 2016 15:43
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WAP was really hard to use, thankfully there are youtube tutorials for this extremely relevant technology now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tlQEou57Vo
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Apr 7, 2016 17:59
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I'm sure it was a big hit with doomsday preppers, but it would probably get destroyed by the EMP shockwaves anyway once the nukes start falling
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Apr 8, 2016 08:16
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Why isn't there a HTML standard for a default "next page" action that browsers can use? Then you could use the back/forward buttons on your mouse or keyboard shortcuts without having to hunt for the link to the next page, instead of disabling the forward button when you're at the the most recent page in your history. Most sites with infinite scrolling spam your browser history with rendering the back button useless, that poo poo needs to stop.
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Apr 11, 2016 18:17
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Computer viking posted:There is, and it has existed since HTML4: <link rel="next" href="page2.html" /> in the header. I believe it was one of the things opera used for its half-magical prev/next page buttons. I've wasted 30 minutes trying to get this to work on safari, chrome, firefox and opera and nobody seems to support it anymore, apart from using it to prefetch stuff. Apparently it's mostly used by search engines and content indexers to figure out the ordering of documents? The closest I got was the help page for the old Presto-based versions of opera: http://help.opera.com/Linux/11.00/en/toolbars.html Too bad, meta links like that would be really convenient for keyboard navigation.
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Apr 12, 2016 15:33
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wayne curr posted:Speaking of lovely old roleplaying games. They don't want to fragment the user base as long as they're still raking in piles of money off their users. All the user created content would most likely become orphaned and you'd have to recreate everything in a new, redesigned graphics engine. There have been many competitors over the years but they all fail because they are somehow all worse than SL. Right now everyone is working on brand new virtual worlds for VR though, even Facebook demonstrated some concepts this week.
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Apr 14, 2016 06:42
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It still has close to a million active users, if you are willing to have no shame whatsoever there's still good money to be made 
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Apr 17, 2016 13:13
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Humphreys posted:And have to just link this cos well, someone will complain about it being NSFW, won 64k of the year when it was released: This thing is so loving good, I still remember when my jaw hit the floor the first time i heard the quality of the voice synth they crammed into 64k along with all those procedural boobs
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Apr 29, 2016 15:53
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Speaking of demos, I kind of want an Atari Falcon030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpwlZgQPCpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTGnZTDUKd0 There were some really cool home computers around before the PC crushed all competition
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Apr 29, 2016 21:31
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thathonkey posted:pyf windows 3.1 theme Oh come on, you know there can only be one  Also I am extremely disappointed that it isn't a YOSPOS theme yet
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May 1, 2016 09:03
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Data Graham posted:This happened a couple of weeks ago. microsoft are job creators, just think how many guys would be out of a job if you automated all those menial data entry tasks
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windows 10 is patronizing as gently caress and it's really infuriating. But it seems to be affecting all microsoft products made the last couple of years, not just windows.  There are some competent engineers working on core technologies like drivers that can crash and restart without bringing down the whole system, the directx 12 stuff, lots of new metrics etc but almost everything was also in windows 8.1 and it's all buried beneath a mountain of bad decisions, ugly UI and "modern" apps you don't want to use because they are less functional than the old ones.
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