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I have a room dedicated to these dark arts.
@PodunkPotato @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @ShowMeYourLibrary I used to have a stack of blank cdrs on my desk
replenish that supply
microcenter was sellin dvd-rw cheap af last time i was there.
microcenter was sellin dvd-rw cheap af last time i was there.
@koropokkur @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary a usb drive that fits in your pocket today holds way more information than cdrs did they're obsolete mediums now.
But can I pay Dragon's Layer or Space Ace on a usb drive?
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19Actually LaserDisc if I recall.
@Humpleupagus @mancat19 @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary @koropokkur Love LaserDisc anybody that countersignals it is a israeli DVD shill
such a good medium when thy first started making em.
the lasers were really good quality and could read thru any surface scratches that did happen. until bluray, the lasers and cd quality were so poor a lightly scratched cd was unreadable.
the lasers were really good quality and could read thru any surface scratches that did happen. until bluray, the lasers and cd quality were so poor a lightly scratched cd was unreadable.
@koropokkur @Humpleupagus @mancat19 @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary metal layer oxidation (disc rot) kinda killed that and other mediums ngl
Bring back magnetic tapes.
My 486dx2/66 had a tape drive.
@Humpleupagus @mancat19 @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary @koropokkur One of the biggest local radio stations still runs off a 486 btw. Had to do a recovery there like 10 years ago. Crazy, the software works as the day it was distributed complete with the HD radio shit (track titles, station names, etc)
I thought I was such hot shit back then. I still remember the night I installed the Windows Chicago Beta (win95 test release). I was like... you other fuckers are living in the stone age. Then I played doom just like before I installed it.
You're up past your bedtime, grandpa. Did you sneak past the night nurse to get back to the PC?
@Hoss @Humpleupagus @mancat19 @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary @koropokkur Now that you mention it, it's always talking about his "long hair" and his "amazonian wife" and he's always dealing in something shady as fuck, are we sure its not this guy?
yeah space ace and dragons layer were both laserdisc games. i love don bluth's style. he even kept that style in titan ae
@koropokkur @Humpleupagus @mancat19 @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary I just want to roll out this take: 3do was great. Full motion video games was a great idea, a cool gimmick and I wish it stuck around. The astronomical licensing fees for 3do and the like 2500$ in today's money price tag (it was like 799 back in the 90s iirc) killed it. I was in awe at that console, man
edit to add an image, pure sex:
you could daisy chain the controllers too which was something unheard of, even today
edit to add an image, pure sex:
you could daisy chain the controllers too which was something unheard of, even today
speaking of panasonic, do you member that gamecube colab they did? that one was stupid expensive as well.
@koropokkur @Humpleupagus @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary @graf SNES is the earliest game system I've played aside from arcade/pinball type machines
@mancat19 @Humpleupagus @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary @koropokkur I had Commodore 128/Atari 2600 -> NES -> SNES -> N64 and then IBM's Canadian Discount BrandTM Ambra desktop with a Cyrix mediaGX 133mhz processor in it. First time I ever played Fallout I was 12 years old (I think mid 1998, my brother downloaded it from a BBS)
My first computer was an at&t 8088. It had a 10mb hdd.
@Humpleupagus @mancat19 @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary @koropokkur My brother got a TRS-80 I was super jealous of. My parents bought the Commodore because it came with like 3000 floppies of games, software all kinds of shit. Used to play the FUCK out of California Games
@koropokkur @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @Humpleupagus @PodunkPotato @ShowMeYourLibrary @graf well ok I guess what counts as technology on second thought because everyone's played blackjack and that's older "game technology" than SNES