*crack*

its no joke.. in 1999 Media One Roadrunner cable internet web pages would load *BAM* instantly... never needed to go beyond that... all this graphic garbage getting jammed in your face hogging resources popping shit up all over the place pages jumping up and down while things appear... its all so tiresome.

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delete this thread, i'm sad now

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>OOOOH WEE UUUU I LOOK JUST LIKE BUDDY HOLLY

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Shit yea. That ski game was nice too. U ever played Return to Zork? HoverRace?

youtube.com/watch?v=ApN2eLI4d-4

Isn't it amazing that basically having what at that time would have been an unthinkable supercomputer with fatter pipes than even the government has manages to be even slower and more dysfunctional?

Who would've thought we came from this to faggots and commies almost taking it completely.

computers were unironically more trustable electronic devices when only white people used them

8-bit color is enough

Plus you can rotate the palette registers and make the whole screen trip out with a tiny bit of bus traffic.

Isn’t 16 bit a covenant?

>Now these were the days
that they were
WWG1WGA

Ahh fuck

>>Isn’t 16 bit a covenant?
You're thinking 16-color.

Problem was they practically lasted forever, terrible business model. Peak for me was XP, I disliked 7 but got used to it after disabling half of the preconfigured settings and getting into the BIOs. Dreading having to do that shit all over again to make 10 bearable.

16 bit is an abomination before the lord. You can't get an even grayscale. 15-bit if you want to get cocky.

Just learn BSD, Arch, or Qubes, or how to use a disk boot OS. you will be less frustrated and happier for it.

This is now a /fash/wave thread

You're welcome
youtube.com/watch?v=G3HUp7LH5ig

This, FreeBSD is the shit, updates used to be a bitch, unless you can do a *nix vanilla kernel or LFS, keep playing with gay ass windows. *Nixbox all day

Yep, they don't make them like they used to

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A couple of friends and I made a mix tape of Amiga game soundtracks. I had a shitty RatShack mixer so we could play with taking voices in and out when they were panned hard left or hard right, fade it in and out, mix it with a different track etc. Fun times. Too bad I ran the levels a little too hot for the master tapes, but at least the whole thing comes off with this really warm analog synth style overdrive instead of digititus.

When Jow Forums comes to Jow Forums

>implying Jow Forums isn't redpilled on a wide spectrum of topics

This was before highspeed porn turned everyone into retarded degenerates. It makes me want to play minesweeper.

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Mmmm yeah, the Amiga Paula chip has a warm sound, they could have added a second paula in later miggys and it would still be good with 8 standard or 4 14-bit channels.

Little known fact, the Turbo buttons weren't made to give the option of making computers faster, but to slow them down by disabling it.

Lots of older games and programs used clock cycles for time instead of actual RTC. So as you got a newer faster computer, you could have "backwards compatibility" with older programs by disabling the turbo button.

It sounds backwards, but basic advertising won. Would you buy a computer with a "slow" button on it and sometimes enable it? Or one with a "turbo" button and keep it on all the time?

>mfw hitting red reset button on Tandy and it wipes out dad’s business software database. Cornerstone was shit but goddamn I nearly died at 8

I loved listening to the way the channels would drop in and out, even if there weren't any sound effects. I was first impressed by the way NES games would have channels drop out and you almost wouldn't notice if you weren't listening for why it did what it did, but but the people who would intentionally write the scores so the background tracks would keep peeking in just enough so that it sounded like more than 4 voices really had it down.

Meanwhile on mah 386 I was fighting with like AM synthesis or figuring out if I use 8kHz PWM modulation with the beeper speaker then I can get actual sounds but then it's screaming away at 8kHz the whole time.

I love this conversation

At one point, I had plans to use the beeper speaker together with my IBM ProPrinter because you could make that beep or run the tractor feed up and down or crank the printhead around. I was thinking the printer could be like my drum machine while I was trying to simulate lead and bass with the beeper speaker.

And then, right at the climax, the printer would spit the paper out, causing a paper out arpeggio with a light show while the PC took the solo.

NES music hardware like the C64 had very advanced circuitry for their class, of device they would hide an extra melody by playing it on several voices note at a time, that's so true. They sounded good. The musicians were very talented . Silver surfer had a real OST if you've ever heard of it. Do listen to it some time, the BGM1 and BGM2 tracks. youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlLl2j5THQ The Adlib yamaha opl chip was very very nice too. Wonder if they still make them. Miss this kind of sound. Just thinking off of your comment PC's ought have 3-4 buzzers in the day for music hehe.

Phenomenal

shut up you 32-36 year old faggot

Win 3.x, motherfucker. Fuck 95.

OPL3 was always a huge disappointment to me. You got a lot of opportunities for cheap, but it lacked that 8-bit character of the NES and sounded like the shittiest tryhard stuff if you weren't really careful about what you were trying to do with it. Still a total revelation if all you used to have was a beep speaker.
>BEEDALY-BOODALY-BOOBIDEE-DOO-BRRZRZRZ-BEEEP!

Gotta extract all the grit from that little speaker.

>FREE AS IN FREEDUMB
>FUCK CIA NIGGERS
and most importantly
>FUCK JANNIES

OPEN SOFTWARE FOREVER BABYYYY

You just awoke memories in the deepest recesses of my mind

I read that in a deep southern accent because of your flag. I wasn’t disappointed in my results.

*siiiip*

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display drivers are missing then

Thing about the NES is that it sounded good through your shitty TV, but then if you hooked it up to the hi-fi it actually really grooves. All the different voice wobbles and slides and the shitty drum track sounds still just werk.

Those were some good composers, though. Just the feeling of it. I used to write down my own arrangments for piano to try to capture how enthralling some of it was.

based and winpilled

I remember after my power Mac died, I got shitty black and white windows 3 machine.

Going from marathon and doom to black and white solitaire was painful.

They taught shitskins to code and made it cheaper to hire them.

I went into research, and it's really sad how it's all full of theoreticians, shekel-grubbers, and pajeet-style coders. Not many people really have a good grasp of everything top to bottom and have a have an ethic about wanting the right hardware for what you're trying to do and making it work somehow on the hardware you have. You'd prefer to think the profit motive would be about building the better mouse trap because you can.

You again

Oh gotta try that, man I miss this era, the limitations of these little machines pushed the musician dealing with the hardware to outdo himself, extracting every ounce of tunes from them.

Legendary PC fightin'.

The original Metroid was early and chintzy, but I was always impressed by the combination of techniques used to make it sound like there was echo and reverb going on.
youtube.com/watch?v=N5UrRI6WvNw

this was made with an amiga - techno may not be your bag though

>FreeBSD
It finally became more usable on desktops with modern GPUs since they ported newer versions of Linux's kernel-mode graphics drivers. Still not perfect though. They'll probably transition to wayland soon-ish. Ironically enough the transition might go smoother than it did for Linux.
And like you mentioned, freebsd-update/pkg can update your packages easily now. You can use it at the same time as ports to *some* extent. Having multiple versions of your packages in different jails is pretty convenient. ZFS is *very* well integrated. The overall system feels more coherent than most Linux distros. Some things are done better. Documentation used to be very good but it's not updated enough nowadays.
Development follows a rigid branching model. There's often 2 or 3 active major branches at a time. You can stay on the same branch for a while and there won't be too many unexpected big changes. You have to follow the minor branches though. They're not going to keep the minor branches updated for long. They don't have the resources to do that.
Still I really wouldn't recommend FreeBSD for people who just want to replace Windows. Or even a different Linux. Unless you really want to get to know it (and UNIX in general) it's going to be a pain in the ass. A lot of Linux programs that should be portable are going to be a bit buggy on it. It has a lot of drivers and most of them work very well but not as many as Linux. bhyve could have better emulated graphics support (you can bypass it but it's annoying to have to setup). VirtualBox supposedly works though. But not at the same time as bhyve.
I also love OpenBSD but it's missing too many things for common use for me.
What's your favorite OS and how do you review it pol?
Also does anyone have a pepe version of the little BSD daemon guy?

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hmm forgot link

youtube.com/watch?v=NTLs65dy1dc

I had an IBM back in the early 90s running Windows 3.1.... I can't describe how much I wish for time travel right now. Just thinking about it triggers all the comfy memories of the 80s / 90s era.

Closest thing I found. I guess it'll have to do.

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Dx2-66, workhorse of the 486 line. Early dx2-80s were very iffy, and the dx4-100 was expensive when it first came out.

based and obsoletepilled

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Thanks for link I will listen to it when back

Yeah , good stuff and times

Gotta walk the turtle , talk later if thread still up, or else keep it real my frens

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indeed they were, indeed they were

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I usually like the sound of vinyl, whatever the recording and/or playback equipment chains makes it just sound a fake version of bad digital samples. I'd rather go for some grinding, bubbling tape sounds for that.

I like early house and techno, but I think what puts it together is the DJ action and how everything gets tweaked, unless it's more than just something to dance to when you're high. I'm more of a trance and progressive guy when it comes to individual tracks.

Something about system 7 really makes windows 3.1 and even 95 feel clunky, even though it’s multi tasking was pretty trashy.

>Early dx2-80
I had to figure out how to torque down the motherboard screws just the right way so it wouldn't flake out when I was playing doom or doing something else intensive. Improvising a heat sink seemed to help. Thing was a monster for the day, tho.

3.1 didn't have preemptive multitasking. You had to keep calling yield all the time to give the OS a chance to decide if something else should get a chance.

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>tfw your favorite game is at the end of the tape
>wait 30 minutes so it can get all the way to the end of the tape
READ ERROR

THANKS ASSHOLE NOW MOM SAYS IT'S TIME FOR ME TO GO TO SLEEP MOTHERFUCKING STUPID PIECE OF SHIT IMAGINE BEING SO POOR YOU CAN'T BUY CARTRIDGES

>not using a pirated copy of realplayer

At least you didn’t have to home brew the entire computer like eastern bloc countries did .

I left my case off on my dx66 while my room was being remodeled and even with a thick layer of plaster and drywall dust on top it ran for over 10 years.

FUCK i wish i could go back bros its too gay i basically hate the internet now

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tru, but radioshack and libraries existed, so by the time I got to university I was the guy to piece some jackass hoopty shit together on a breadboard so we could build robats.

>Windows 95
Windows NT 3.1 was the shit

kek

Very nice, yeah I had a couple of relatives that had them for years past when they were obsolete. I also had an uncle who bought a first gen pentium 66. That was an expensive hunk of junk.

My portfolio is
>33% Jow Forums
>33% Jow Forums
>33% Jow Forums
>1% /vp/

For me, it's TempleOS, the manifestation of God's will.
But I really use Debian with i3

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>wanting the 90s-00s internet back
Literally why.

So you got your archlinux internet hate machine mining bitcoin?

I remember using windows for the first time when I was little. It was cool that I didn’t need my dad to put the commands in to play games.

NT 4.0 was objectively one of the best OSes of all time. Couldn't make it so much as flinch with my dual celery box with SCSI no matter what I threw at it.

Dual + SCSI was the key.

>tfw downloading lesbian porn from sugarwalls.com at a college library in germany to floppy disk because 56k home internet was too expensive

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Web 1.0 was much faster. Less cluttered. We could have easily stuck with that while still adding in richer media content, but nooooo everything has to be custom ad scripts now.

Rocking Doom 2 for 48hrs straight with friends back in 93/94 that's why...O and the internet back then was lime the wild west compaired to today

like*

>Friday night
>Open NetZero
>Ask dad if I can use the phone line for the rest of the night
>Dial up that ISP and get connected to the cyber world
>Put in my StarCraft Brood War cd and play using my friends cd key
>Connect to Battle.net, HUGE ass NetZero add on top displaying over the game, too poor to afford proper ISP
>Play Hot Chick Madness, Mad TV, stack tower defense all night long

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>tfw parents are away for the weekend
>drag your amp, sub, and speakers down and plug them in
>it's night-time, so cheap phone charges
>spend half the night playing two-player doom with you buddy and shittalking each other the whole time, except when it came time to team up
The world of two-player games. Probably lost some hearing from turning it up so loud it sounded like I was in a war zone.

Those truly were the best of days

Was born in 1990 and still think everything is the same as Windows 95. I still look for the "my computer" icon on the desktop and get pissy when I can't find it.

I beat the whole thing two years ago, played it since I was 5 and I’m 25 now. Felt so happy.

BeOS was *the* superior OS. What could have been.

GNU/Virgin
>talks shit about higher level programming languages for being too easy (python, JS, Java)
>prefers an even higher level programming language Lisp
>spends all day running sudo apt get update and messing with his .bashrc screwing everythign up

Chad Programmer
>CTO at $1B startup
>wrote the database himself in Go, the most scalable distributed proprietary database, optimized for millions of ACID transactions a second
>has sex with japanese wife daily, because he is an open weeaboo
>spends weekends monitoring doctoral defenses at Stanford and donating to his alma mater
>albsolutely forbids use or mention of any GNU/Garbage license garbage software
>used to be a emacs user until he realized his naivete and only vim now for everything
>enjoys VSCode and contributes to it

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Checked and there's nothing like oldskool 12" dual voice coil sub a few feet away where you can feel it hitting and vibrating your whole chest cavity. It's just not the same at all as all these earbud things. It's like when you can feel hard thunder from way up in the atmosphere roll over you and shake things.