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by einr 3y ago
Not just the Amstrad PCW series, but also the Amstrad CPC home computers as well as the ZX Spectrum +3 (produced after Amstrad bought Sinclair)
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by einr 3y ago
https://gekk.info/articles/images/explorer/98_explorer.png All this crap to the left in Explorer windows that takes up space for no good reason. Active Desktop. Uglier icons that are inconsistent with the man
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by einr 3y ago
And after all that, you'd still have a 68020 under the hood. You could, of course, spend an eye-watering amount of money on a 68040 accelerator... and then... you're still not going to beat the DX2/66. (Let's not even
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by einr 3y ago
Using line number 1 instead of 10 seems like an easy 1 byte save.
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by einr 3y ago
Sweden does. (I know because I live in Sweden.) https://polisen.se/om-polisen/polisens-arbete/polisens-befog... Relevant part: "Om polisen skjuter mot en person ska de sträva efter att bara för tillfället osk
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by einr 3y ago
EPS is definitely still in semi-common use in the graphic design & printing industry. It has been replaced by PDF as an export and interchange format but you will still come across tons of (legacy) EPS logos and assets from companies th
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by einr 3y ago
The Wii is a faster Gamecube. From memory, the CPU runs at 700-something MHz instead of 485 (?) and the graphics are faster too.
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by einr 3y ago
The Wii U was a somewhat underwhelming console with poor marketing that therefore did not sell very well. The Xbox One launch was a shitshow of controversy full of the kind of tonedeaf and user-hostile garbage that Microsoft has made itself
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by einr 3y ago
I think the spanner in the works is that the CD-ROM bundles an MS Access runtime executable that is 16-bit and therefore will not run on 64-bit Windows. If you look in the top left of the window in the screenshot, the icon looks like Access
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by einr 3y ago
It’s Microsoft Access, ”works only on Windows 98” seems highly doubtful, especially as the screenshot in the post is Windows Vista…
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by einr 3y ago
You'd really think that Sony would have figured out that every single storage medium they've ever made has been an utter failure, but Sony is gonna Sony. This is a little funny in a thread about floppy disks, considering that th
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by einr 3y ago
If you’re willing to buy/be given/dumpster dive some e-waste, there are endless old-but-not-vintage PC motherboards that can be had for minimal money (like, $10-20 with CPU and RAM) that will still accept a 5.25” floppy drive and
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by einr 3y ago
If I can't pull my c64 with hardware available back in the day (or hardware one could realistically built back in the day) I'm not sure saying "runs on c64" is correct. A 16MB REU could absolutely have been built in th
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by einr 3y ago
C64 caps are generally fine and do not need replacing. The most common things to spontaneously go bad of ”old age” on a 64 are probably RAM chips and the PLA, and of course the power supply is a time bomb.
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by einr 3y ago
I sysadmin a bunch of Macs and every time I have to talk about Apple's mail client to users -- as opposed to the generic concept of mail -- it's a whole ordeal. "Do you use Mail? Uhh, Mail.app, you know, Apple Mail, the built
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by einr 3y ago
PICO is the PIne COmposer -- the editor that came with PINE, the e-mail client.
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by einr 3y ago
The CR2032 on a PC motherboard does usually last for about a decade, and the BIOS (or, well, UEFI) will scream about the CMOS battery being dead when you boot it. It will not refuse to boot, but it will tell you that the battery is dead
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by einr 3y ago
If you wanna dig real deep, the first use would have been on the Power Macintosh 9600. It's subtle -- you can just about see it in the Wikipedia photo -- but it has a translucent blue plastic latch button on the top of the machine that
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by einr 3y ago
You could sell the Power Mac G5 from 2003 today and it would still look pretty sleek and modern. Yes, it has an optical drive and Firewire ports, but on the whole...
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by einr 3y ago
Where did all of these folks go? Zine writer Jason Farnon, who likely is the same Jason Farnon from the AWA issue in the OP although I don't know this for certain, wrote this article in his zine I Bleed For This? in 1996: http:&#x2F
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by einr 3y ago
This is a nitpick, but early PC BIOS with C/H/S addressing could address up to 504 MB (1024 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors) just fine. There was nothing stopping you from using a 32 MB drive, like the article implies. What you d
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by einr 3y ago
* No standard ISA slots, instead a bulky and expensive ”sidecar” system * Partially incompatible with regular IBM PC software * Max 128K RAM IBM likely did this stuff on purpose to avoid cannibalizing PC sales, but it ended up killing the J
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by einr 3y ago
NT 3.x, 4.0 and 5.0 (2000) which the presentation are about were, at least, quite free from commercial junk. It was only when consumer and professional Windows merged into one with XP that the enshittification started -- but that being said
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by einr 3y ago
To be fair, a desktop tower computer is not usable without using an external keyboard and mouse either.
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by einr 3y ago
This is not an argument in favour of a search engine/browser penalizing HTTP servers.
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by einr 3y ago
This is extremely neat and I will probably try it on one of my actual Windows 3.1 machines :) A suggestion (which seems easy enough to implement, I might give it a try if I can get the build environment set up): make the system prompt custo
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by einr 3y ago
You pay the OEM once, for a Windows 7 key, and then you run on that -- because it keeps working, with Microsoft's implicit authorization -- for the next 15+ years. They 100% would not let you do that if they cared to charge for Windows
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by einr 3y ago
I think there's a tendency recently towards keeping the Apple-esque minimalism in terms of shapes, but moving the materials to softer, warmer, speckled, textile or textured, and the colors to earthier, more natural. You can see these t
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by einr 3y ago
The idea is that by forcing games to include the trademarked Nintendo logo in the game ROM, an unlicensed dev would be guilty of trademark infringement if they used the logo.
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by einr 3y ago
In practice it has been free for home users for many years. I assume the only reason they still keep up the facade that Windows costs money is so they can sell it to OEMs and volume licenses to businesses, which still makes them big bucks.

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