I'd like to propose this thread for discussing very old computer discussions. We're talking about old software, old hardware, old sites, old magazines, old games. As long as it is reto, it belongs here.
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I'd like to propose this thread for discussing very old computer discussions. We're talking about old software, old hardware, old sites, old magazines, old games. As long as it is reto, it belongs here.
Maybe this qualifies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DqJwmzG6Fk
My first two games on my first PC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OYlmdhOZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSGPiNqbg0
Duke scared the shit out of me back then
I played Resident Evil 1 on PC with a Voodoo 1 accelerator card :D when everyone else were playing RE 2 on the Playstation 1. I remember this game was so hard to play with Chris that I used a guide to hex edit the save file to add guns and ammo. I know, cheater hahahaha.
Here's the full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4b9rObJWo
I got the game from a colleague at school in 2002, way after it was released. Couldn't play it at all because my hardware was very low. I had a 233Mhz machine with 96MB of ram and 1MB Video. It was working but the display was behind with about 5 seconds of the actual sound. The biggest lag I ever discovered.
I missed a lot of games in my childhood. Actually, I haven't played any computer games older than 2001.
DirectX was so revolutionary, it had to be shipped in a CD.
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachme...chmentid=17775
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachme...chmentid=17776
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachme...chmentid=17777
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachme...chmentid=17778
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_IQuote:
The Digi-Comp I was a functioning, mechanical digital computer sold in kit form. It was originally manufactured from polystyrene parts by E.S.R., Inc. starting in 1963 and sold as an educational toy for US$4.99.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx5Iawpm5Kg
Now that's a toy, not the crap that is being sold today.
Doesn't look like you can do too much with it... on the other side, this and its BASIC interpreter plus 4 kilobytes of storage took me to places that alone I'd never have found :smilie4:
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachme...chmentid=11590
Windows 95 Printer Test Page
https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/ava...ed/PRINTER.PDF
Also unsure if it qualifies, but here we go.
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachme...chmentid=17880
I got this router as a throwaway present yesterday (i.e. it was going to be thrown away and I asked if I could keep it, with positive results). It was supposedly a brick, yet seems to work fine after a factory reset.
Apparently, back in 2002 a good VPN router cost $500 or more, and Linksys thought they could be successful by offering this for "just" $150. The encryption schemes supported are hardware-accelerated DES and Triple DES, with MD5 or SHA-1 authentication, all of which are either obsolete or deprecated nowadays. Furthermore, no custom firmware is available. It still works fine as a "normal" router or a switch, however.
I'll probably put it on sale; demand for non-wireless routers among home customers is basically zero, but you never know, and it's not only what you've got but how you show it.
Oh man, I would kill for that! That router was the beginning of all 3rd party router firmwares. DD-WRT source code was actually stolen from linksys, and this router was the first to come with what we now call DD-WRT.
Any chances you're confusing it with the BEFSR41? This one can't be flashed with anything other than official firmware (which isn't even available anymore!).
Attachment 17885
I grew up with the 1987 logo. But I so love the 1980's logo.
The company is so fucked up now... Even by their logo you actually can tell they had smart key people in the company back then and not morons like now.
both are good, 1987 is more professional, 1980 is more warez-like (or like a band logo)Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Razor
also, their definition of 'smart' probably has a lot to do with increased profits, among other user experience unrelated things, which mostly arrive per default, as alternative OS-s aren't up to the task yet
This is my favorite kind of installer: Attachment 17962
Have no idea what installer is it but I love those progress bars. Very professional installer with realtime view of CD and Floppy drive usage and HDD space. You don't see that today.
Back then, functionality and usability was the basis of computing. Nowdays it's only eye-candy. To look good even if it doesn't work.
I never really knew what they were supposed to represent. An icon of a hard disk and "Low" written below sounds like low-level disk activity or something :eyebrows:
PS: I believe this is an old version of the WISE Installer. The first version of Half-Life used the same one.
I always thought that Microprose copied Microsoft's logo and some other stuff. If you look at this intro, you'll find their quite similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT8yLBx7RUg
As for me, I once thought Microsoft had a division that manufactured networking equipment because...
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachme...chmentid=18029
hoping to mod my xbox soon. just need a 2gb usb stick that works with the program im trying to use. then all the good snes/nes/arcade games will be up and running again =) its just not the same on an emulator on the pc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUBeHWVHh9U
Have I impressed you, anon?
Impressive, so that's where the 1x cd-roms were back in the day. Always wondered why my first cd-rom was already at 2x! :confused:
The tragedy of knowing and liking this kind of stuff is
1. you need money to get them from the so-called collectors that are only interested in the money
2. you need a place to store them
3. you require big desks to use them on, old hardware are more bulkier in size than newer hardware.
Wish I had the money to buy a big mansion with separate room for specialized gaming gaming. 1980s gaming room, 1990s gaming room, 2k gaming room and so on. With the look and feel of those days... A big room used as a library for CDs, and floppies and original books. I would die a happy man.
then you could invite sbi members for a few weeks vacation in your mansion where everyone would be gaming through these era'sQuote:
Originally Posted by Master Razor
those not into gaming could be amazed by your electricity bills and such :biggrin:
The first point can be less of a problem than you think. So many people are standing on goldmines, don't know (or care about) the value of what they have, and will sell it to you super cheap, or even give it away. See this and guess who anon123 is =]
http://ms-dos5.tumblr.com/post/15482...n-of-you-at-my
However, no. 2 and 3 speak to me and are a big letdown. I would collect so much stuff and never throw away anything if I could. But I had to get rid of or leave behind so many things, because this apartment is so small...
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachme...chmentid=18045
Which is your favorite? I think I like the 1995 one the most.
Every time a new version of Windows was released, I thought "there are no more ways they could reinvent the logo after this"... I was wrong, of course =]
1995, obviously. But I also wouldn't mind 1992.
Windows 8 for me, it seems simple and clean.
I loved DOOM, Hexen, Heretic game-family back in the day. Nothing ever came close to them in regards to gameplay, store, even soundtracks. Games such as these were thought to be fun not like these days where you first hire psychologists to make the game addicted and then make it fun.
John Romero is the last of dying breed I'm affraid. And I am too. Have a lot of respect and love for old-school programmers, administrators who are just in the business for the love of doing it and not money. Unfortunately there aren't many people like him left. :cry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwqGlFjgAOw
What could be more retro than this?
https://commodorez.tumblr.com/post/1...ing-stream-the
https://github.com/OBattler/86Box
This is a sort of middle point between DOSBox and VMWare... it's not a full-fledged virtual machine, but it emulates the BIOS for the components. You can choose the corresponding ROM for each computer part (motherboard, video, disk drive, sound, network card, even disk controller) and build anything from an 80s XT to a (comparatively) modern Socket 7/8 computer with a Pentium II.
I can't wait to install Windows 95 with it =]
I remembered eMule. Such a slow, malware-prone, piece-of-crap p2p application. It was even worse than DC++.
And I've always wondered why eMule was way more popular than DC++.
Let me tell you about that time I downloaded Norton SystemWorks from eMule and the file ended up an XXX anal movie...
I eventually became better at detecting fakes. Using eMule over dial-up on 2002 felt so exciting, though :soMuchWin: (At least, until the phone bill came)
afaikQuote:
Originally Posted by Master Razor
seeding a lot was a way to speed it up, getting data chunks with higher priority than others
the app itself was not malware-prone, but there were people filling the network with malicious and fake contents
there were public indexing sites for trustworthy files
it came earlier than DC++, it was open to all, the network allowed integration in other apps (shareaza) alongside other networks, you didn't have to bother with channels, private channels, where only a certain kind, a certain amount of shared material was allowed, there were other popular apps at the time (napster, kazaa, audiogalaxy, winmx, soulseek), etc.
eMule's chunks are always 9.5 MB, and you need to have at least one complete chunk before you can upload anything. Compare this with BitTorrent's pieces, which are dynamically sized and can be as small as 16 KB. Downloads in eMule aren't slow per se, but the vast majority of your time is spent in queues... waiting until you can finally start. And the consequences of not being connectable are more severe than in other filesharing methods (the waiting becomes even longer, and many servers won't accept you at all), it's essentially mandatory if you want to get anywhere.
Filedonkey!