Jim Silly-Balls posted:

When will the M1 machines be able to run iOS apps? That’s what I’m interested in

Gonz posted:

This is fairly rad, as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1wWY1YD-M

LifeSunDeath posted:

NES games in the states were like 50-60 bucks in the 90's I think...which is 100 bucks today.

You Am I posted:

Everything is run from a 16GB hdf image in my case, but you can setup your own hdfs on there or even just run adfs from a Gotek

Pham Nuwen posted:

I think I just got the world's least-worn TiBook for $30. Now I just need to figure out how the hell I'm gonna burn an OS 9 CD in TYOOL 2021.

Fil5000 posted:

I hadn't clicked the video yet but immediately knew who this was from this comment.

Also my favourite appearance he's had in a video is one where he met up with the 8 bit guy in London and all the photos of them together are hilariously awkward.

SCheeseman posted:

My family's first PC was a 386DX4 from the same era. It ran Doom alright if you added a big enough border.

Dip Viscous posted:

Would that have any chance of working in a busy area? I'm just barely old enough to have seen acoustic couplers, but from what I remember of them you could lose connection from something as minor as a neighbor slamming their car door a little too hard.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Lol how on earth do you write bios software that’s only good for a 5 year period?

Pham Nuwen posted:

My wife and I were talking the other night about how annoying it is to try and search through all the streaming services. We figure it's only another couple years before someone starts offering package services where you e.g. pick 6 streaming providers for $50/mo (cheaper than buying them separately at $11.99 each!) and maybe it provides some unified way to search across them all. Or maybe such a thing already exists and it's just not big yet?

lobsterminator posted:

I watch most movies and shows from my laptop lying in bed. If you're watching alone it's fine. The screen is bigger than a huge tv watched from a couch relative to your distance anyway.

A big TV with a good sound system is great, but I'm not enough of a film/tv watcher anymore that it would make sense.

Sweevo posted:

More content. There are private trackers that have everything down to local TV shows - because people upload everything they can just to get their ratio up.

WITCHCRAFT posted:

The thing that took me longest was going through my giant pile of poo poo to get rid of stuff I won't listen to anymore, and migrate the keepers to new storage. Sifting through it manually got me back into stuff that I hadn't listened to in a long while and still enjoy. And then since I haven't listened to that artist in years, might as well see if they released new stuff and download that and put it into the "to listen" pile.

I deleted probably half or more of the stuff I got through. Like you said, sometimes it's just some weird poo poo that caught your fancy for a bit but when you listen to it now... no thanks. That one goes in the trash.

If it works for you, streaming music is the most convenient way. My other half has a subscription and they can listen to all the music they want, whenever they want, wherever they want, on any device, with no ads. That's livin' in the future! That's good poo poo!

I used spotify for a while and finding out the song/album/artist you want is not on there happens pretty rarely even if you are a music weird. The thing that made me go back to local storage was when an album would be available, I would add it to my library or playlist, then later when I wanted to listen to it again the license lapsed or something and it was no longer available. You can still see it in your playlist, but it's greyed out and you can't listen to it. It rubs me the wrong way badly enough that I will go back to hoarding my poo poo by hand, even if it takes me so much more time. I like my music enough to waste all that time on it.

lobsterminator posted:

I try to make an Amiga ProTracker chip tune every xmas. I still haven't figured out this year's song, but here are some of my previous ones. If/when I get a new tune done I will share it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S52WYY2EB6E

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BcCJwzRumk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs7BEGz4tg4

rndmnmbr posted:

What with the price spike on retrocomputing stuff, there's a mountain of hardware I wish I hadn't disposed of. Piles of 486s, DX2s, DX4s, AMD 5x86s, Pentium Overdrives in both 63 mHz and 83 mHz flavors, every imaginable stepping of Pentiums from 75 mHz to 266 mHz, K5's, K6's, motherboards and memory to fit all of it, Trident and S3 and ATI Rage cards of every flavor, and so. many. damned. soundcards of every possible make. SCSI cards by the bucket, and every bit of network gear I had that wasn't 100baseTX. So much stuff that's apparently worth money now.

All because Grandma told me to clear out the closet in the guest bedroom so she could put her quilting stuff in it.

e. One shining jewel of a K6-2 433 mounted to a voltage regulator board that would run in a Socket 5 system, used to upgrade a Packard Bell. Like tears in the rain.

Computer viking posted:

A bit newer, but I just just grabbed my 2007 thinkpad T61 (Centrino Duo! Vista license sticker! 5:4 screen!) down from a shelf to rip a 2008 CD - it was the newest thing I had around with a working CD or DVD drive.

The battery is completely dead, the bezel is cracked, and the hinges are iffy - but otherwise it Just Works. It booted into Ubuntu 11.04, and it's wild how nice my old linux desktop still feels. 11 years is apparently not that long - though the 15 years of hardware advances are more immediately obvious.

e: I miss the full height keyboard, though - and while 5:4 may be a bit much, I'd love to at least get a 16:10 screen again.

barbecue at the folks posted:

Sharopolis has a video up on what was actually possible with the Famicom Basic. Interesting stuff, I don't think I've seen any of this before elsewhere:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUI0YBR5q8k

an actual frog posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRSd4SR2Z8

barbecue at the folks posted:

I have an old Yamaha QY-70 kicking around and while writing the above post I realized that it would serve perfectly well as a MIDI synth for retro gaming. It's fully General MIDI compatible and everything! A video by a random someone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_q9Gx_5lGU

It's basically a 16 channel MIDI sequencer and a real high quality Yamaha tone generator from 1997 jammed into what could be described as a musical Game Boy. It takes 6 AAs for a few hours of composing action on the go. I still use it to put together ambient ditties and to drive my small collection of crappy cheap synths. It's one of the weirdest pieces of old music tech I know and I love it to bits.

LifeSunDeath posted:

had some engineer buddies in college and they all had their own credit card numbers memorized for quick usage...At the time I thought it was a dumb trick, but now I understand some people just love to memorize long numbers.

Dip Viscous posted:

Memories of mid/late 90s computer desks that inexplicably had a door on the front that killed the PC with overheating and the owners that had no concept that it wasn't normal to buy a new PC every 5 months.

r u ready to WALK posted:

IKEA would still love to sell you one https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/kolon-floor-protector-44881100/

barbecue at the folks posted:

Anyone else had ISDN? When we had it installed (around 1999, I think?) they had to put in an extra phone line, so I had blazing fast 128k internet and a private phone number. poo poo was baller. And obsolete in a couple of years when suddenly cheap DSL was a thing.

Computer viking posted:

The Norwegian national telco pushed ISDN for everyone back in 90s, so that's what we got for our first internet connection. We used it a fair bit, so it was nice to have separate lines for phone and Internet- and I could sneak in some hours of using both lines if I wanted to download something.

Not cheap, though - but IIRC it was just a fixed extra cost per month over plain phone, and about the same cost/minute for the calls?

lobsterminator posted:

My first 3D software was a version of 3D Studio for DOS. The UI sucked, but I managed to make some ok things. Later I used 3DS Max professionally and did some advertising visuals.

Sentient Data posted:

Please, everyone knows the vcds you downloaded from irc are meant to be played on a dreamcast

Beve Stuscemi posted:

There was a big pirating scene on irc, it was very obtuse, obnoxious, and involved a ton of hoop jumping.

History Comes Inside! posted:

Nah IRC was the place to be for the discerning early to mid 00s pirate.

r u ready to WALK posted:

Turns out twisted pair doesn’t work every well without actually twisting the pairs.

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

The prerennial problem that shuffle gets implemented as random?
Because random can return the same value a lot more than people expect, but shuffle isn’t meant to be random.
It’s meant to pick a random song among the ones that haven’t had as many plays
Only audio player that gets this right is foobar2000.

afen posted:

hello there

Dick Trauma posted:

https://twitter.com/Aftermath_site/status/1778440642252755173

mobby_6kl posted:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Finally, the Zilog Z81