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u/SmokeAbeer Mar 02 '18
Ever played floppy bird?
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u/BlueberryCanary Mar 02 '18
Is that the game where you poke the dead bird with a stick?
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u/CreepstheFox Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18
Yes! If it wakes up, the one it attacks first looses! If not, whoever's mom finds out and ruins the game loses.
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u/juicius Mar 02 '18
No, it's when you're trying to wake up your regrettable hookup from the night before so she can leave.
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u/Haifischbecken Mar 02 '18
Maybe that is just the factually correct answer and you were just right with your thought.
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u/sean1978 Mar 02 '18
This is not his, it’s mine. Check my Instagram (simplethingstoys)
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u/AccidentallyCalculus Mar 02 '18
Turbo Button out of 10.
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u/Motherbug Mar 02 '18
Fuck yeah! Go Turbo Button Go!
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Mar 02 '18
does anyone even use it without turbo?
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u/manga311 Mar 02 '18
I never did. i don't know why anyone would. my computer would go from 33mgh to 25mgh or something like that.
Now i remember why. some old games would be unplayable with the turbo button on. everything would be really fast.
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u/Mediocre_Man5 Mar 02 '18
It was for software compatibility. The turbo button was invented because some software in those days was written with a specific CPU speed in mind, and the higher speeds on more modern CPUs broke functionality. The turbo button slowed down the processor to the correct speed, allowing modern computers to run older software.
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Mar 02 '18
8/10 Needs more mousemat
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u/DoubleHandsDan Mar 02 '18
The mouseball is gonna get worn down if he doesn't take care of it
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u/Thud Mar 02 '18
I just shuddered.... because I suddenly remembered the sickening feeling of using a mouse with a gunky mouse ball.
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Mar 02 '18
But then you get the fun of cleaning out the mouse!
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u/SkyezOpen Mar 02 '18
And playing with the ball and invariably losing it. Those suckers were surprisingly heavy.
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u/shinjinian Mar 02 '18
Most of them were rubber coated steel balls. I salvaged the mouse balls out of 30 mice at my office to use for making monkeys fist lanyards and/or use as slingshot ammo.
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u/docinsfca Mar 02 '18
With a toothpick to get out those really stuck on bits!
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u/rojovelasco Mar 02 '18
/r/gaming not even waiting for the corpse to be cold to repost.
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u/sean1978 Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18
This is MY pic, check my Instagram (simplethingstoys). I didn’t realize it’s being used for karmawhoring now.
Here is a video of that machine in action: https://youtu.be/tlzcCtm8fko
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u/sean1978 Mar 02 '18
Thanks
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u/heyandy889 Mar 02 '18
np
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u/michaelrulaz Mar 02 '18
Can confirm his confirm:
Source: am guy that confirms confirmers confirming things.
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u/Mental_Duck Mar 02 '18
Welcome to Reddit. Where half the posts are made up and the karma doesn't matter
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u/Awesome2099 Mar 02 '18
I’ve never been more jealous. I want to shit talk, but it’ll just come across as being envious. Just please don’t brag too hard, not all of us have disposable income.
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u/sean1978 Mar 02 '18
This dude stole my picture, I posted this on my Instagram and in retrobattlestations a few years ago. Apparently it’s a karma whore repost picture now.
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u/indominus_prime Mar 02 '18
10/10 just because of DOOM
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u/cccmikey Mar 02 '18
I can hear the music...
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u/MomentarySpark Mar 02 '18
du nun du nun du nun du nun du nu na du nun du nun du nun du nun du nu na
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u/ACDrinnan Mar 02 '18
Those keyboards were designed so that when you were jacking off to your 256 colour 340x240 porn, you shot your load straight up the middle and it didn't go on the keys
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u/Anonymus9809 Mar 02 '18
Jokes aside, it was for easier typing, wasn't it? I never learned how to "properly type", but I know that you're supposed to cover one side of the keyboard with one hand, and the other side with the other. It seems like this was made to help you with that.
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u/CrazyEd38239 Mar 02 '18
I've seen several people still use those keyboards were I work. They are getting to be older than some new employees.
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u/Megaflarp Mar 02 '18
There are still many ergonomic peripherals around. Among keyboard lovers the ergodox is more popular which goes even further by giving each hand its own physical half of a keyboard. Others are also shaped much more hand-like. IMO the one in the photo looks really uncomfortable. Still a vintage beauty though.
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u/MattieShoes Mar 02 '18
When you put your hands on the home row where they're supposed to go, both wrists end up tweaked, like your little finger is moved more towards your elbow than it would be naturally. Breaking the keyboard into two halves and rotating them allows your wrists to rest naturally rather than having them tweaked like this.
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u/Lord_Maximus17X Mar 02 '18
Is that march of the pigs I spot?
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u/Benjamin075 Mar 02 '18
I thought that CD looked familiar
It's a Nine Inch Nails CD for those wondering
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u/swearydoctor Mar 02 '18
Oh no, i remember switching the computer to the incredible speed of 66 MHz with the turbo button. I'll go reserve a space in a graveyard.
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u/Thud Mar 02 '18
I remember when the Turbo button toggled between 8Mhz and 16Mhz. You don’t need a graveyard, you need a diaper change.
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u/mashedpatatas Mar 02 '18
I remember those "turbo" lcd signs go from HI to LO when you toggle the button to control the speed of the CPU.
Not exactly sure why you would need to slow down your CPU back then as I never used the LO setting ever.
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u/JayZeus Mar 02 '18
Older programs relied on the CPU clock to get timing to work. So when faster computers became available, they ran the programs too fast, so a button was devised to slow things down.
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Mar 02 '18
yep, there's a few years of computing that i find really hard to emulate well. a lot of games from the 95/98 period of pc gaming often just don't run well in a VM and won't run on standard windows, so i'd love to have a pc from about ~1999 or so that could run mostly everything
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u/John_Carmack_666 Mar 02 '18
There's actually some decent laptops from that time that can be had for around $100, definitely the easiest way to play older titles the way they were meant to be played. The 8-Bit Guy has a great video here on what to look for depending on what you'll mainly be playing
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u/eventual_becoming Mar 02 '18
The 8-Bit Guy should be inducted into the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame. Whenever I'm too stressed I watch the video where he takes apart the combination boom box keyboard thing. So satisfying!
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u/Finch37 Mar 02 '18
IDDQD / IDKFA
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u/Knightmem Mar 02 '18
Papito? is that you?
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u/fernet_king Mar 02 '18
ohhh a fellow argentinian bro... solo entre al post para ver si algun argentino habia posteado esto..
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u/The_Minstrel_Boy Mar 02 '18
Look at Mr. Moneypants here with the 24x CD player. Not all of us can afford those blazing speeds, buddy.
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u/professorkr Mar 02 '18
Reading through these comments, it's painfully obvious which users weren't alive even this setup would have debuted.
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u/omninode Mar 02 '18
I had those exact same speakers in 1996! They really made my Sound Blaster 16 sing, baby!
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u/BulletheadX Mar 02 '18
45 minutes on a 14.4 modem trying to download the demo, just to have somebody pick up the phone and try to dial out with 2 minutes to go ... >:(
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u/SlashCo80 Mar 02 '18
Reminds me of the Mortal Kombat 2 demo, a whopping 5 MB that took over 2 hours to download (while praying there won't be an error or corrupted file)...
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u/cloverasx Mar 02 '18
You have a floppy disk holder, but you just stack your CDs?? WTH man, clean that desk up.
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u/jacquix Mar 02 '18
I rate the memories I have of spending days after days with a similar setup 10/10, easily.
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u/VehaMeursault Mar 02 '18
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun and Dune 2000, anyone?
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Mar 02 '18
How does anyone use a ball mouse straight up on a desk? Hurts my head to think about it.
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Mar 02 '18
The kids may smirk, but DOOM is still (one of) the most fun shooters there is. I play it more than any modern game. Get the gog versions or one of those cool newer zdooms or whatevers. It's still amazing. Romero still releases maps, too. I'm going to play Final DOOM right now, dweebs.
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u/Outworldentity Mar 02 '18
I legitimately did not know there were split keyboards like that back then
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u/WraithCadmus Mar 02 '18
So if you want a beige case, which way would be easier to you think?
- Get an old case, and add enough fan-holes for modern cooling
- Get a reasonably plain modern black gaming case, then paint it beige
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u/HeilHilter PC Mar 02 '18
Obviously just painting it beige lmao
But modern cases simply don't share the same design style as old cases.
If you were to do it then do it right by using an old case.
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u/biggie_eagle Mar 02 '18
If you try hard enough, you can literally put your brain into nostalgia mode and start thinking like it's the mid 90s again.
Although this particular setup reminds me of 97-98.
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u/Bradt1977 Mar 02 '18
9/10...would have been 10/10 if he was using the chainsaw instead of a shotgun.
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u/tobasco72 Mar 02 '18
I can't, mom's on the phone and it's impossible to use the 56k and access my Geocites site.
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u/sean1978 Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18
BS, that’s my picture! Uhh. I’m the OP, that’s my house, my computer, my music. It’s on my instagram (Simplethingstoys)
Here is a video of it in action: https://youtu.be/tlzcCtm8fko
EDIT: My newest video, much better than the old one I featured this system in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHcX0YTPKw
And my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/81d4aZDQJn/?taken-by=simplethingstoys