/retro/ - Y2K

>>5053
>i think it's worth the hassle to see a small pond of shitposting as long as a couple anons swim through it and post their efforts
I've felt ambivalently about this in recent years. Alt boards like this one and boards dedicated to productive stuff like /agdg/ can have a fair amount of signal in all the noise, but more general boards like /v/ have used up whatever good juice they had from 2015-2020.

/tg/ has managed to be the exception to all this, being a board of not-as-productive-as-they-used-to-be anons that just keep to themselves and talk about things they like. Even being attached to the tumorous mass of /a/ hasn't affected them beyond a couple of yaoifags shitting things up.

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Wormy, from The Dragon (what TSR's Dragon Magazine was originally named). But I was too young to read it from the beginning, I only found some back issues at local library. And the strip was already gone by the time I started buying the magazine in the late 80's. The author suddenly went MIA, and they replaced it with some very lame and boring comic strip featuring a chick with big tits (but that alone isn't enough to make a good comic). So I guess the new one was probably drawn by Larry Elmore, but I can't remember the name because it was so incredibly bland and boring.
Anyway now it's easy to find the entire Wormy saga in PDF. I guess they made it easy for us when they released (for sale) all the Dragon 1-250 issues on CDROM a long while ago...

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>>5103 (OP) 
I got hand-me-down comics from my older brother back in the '90s. I remember a few contemporary Superman issues. Archie too. There some black-and-white comics in what I believe would be considered digest form (I think there was an Archie one and ones with origin stories of Popeye and Superman) as well as some older comics I don't really recall. Those ones were old enough that they had those classic old-school ads. Pic related is one I always thought looked cool, but after seeing what the actual product looked like as an adult, I don't think I would have liked it as a kid. Speaking of ads, I had an Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comic as a kid that had this Metal Gear advertisement that made me want to play the game. I was disappointed when I got around to trying it and it wasn't an action game like I was expecting. I think I mentioned that story in a different /retro/ thread. That ad is one of the main reasons I can remember that comic. Later on I remember even having one of those Kool-Aid Man comics. I'm not quite sure when that was. I'm positive there are more comics that I'm forgetting.

My mom had a pen pal who lived in England, and she was kind enough to send my family a bunch of British children's comics when I was like 10 years old. Like The Beano and that sort of thing. I really liked them. They felt like a breath of fresh air compared to the usual superhero comics. I rec

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Here are some gag comics I have just remembered.

>>4344
I used to be a clean desktop person, with just one or two icons, and at some point, for some reason, I stopped. It was around the same time I stopped using most applications in fullscreen mode. Now, I normally have a web browser open in windowed mode so I can see my beautiful wallpaper(s) behind it, and I like having a few icons on the desktop. On my main Windows 7 computer, I purposefully left out shortcuts that have icons I just think look nice. It's almost like decoration. In a way I treat the computer desktop in the same way I treat my real desktop, as a workspace that I use, and clean up afterwards, but some things stay on top. 

I have a folder on my desktop that's like a miscellanous drawer into which I occasionally sweep random junk that's accumulated on the desktop. And when I'm working on something on my computer I just dump files on the desktop instead of making a temp folder. And then at the end I delete what I no longer need and file things away. Now that I'm used to the way I do things I don't want to change. My desktop will remain somewhat messy. It's home.

>>4368
>I have a folder on my desktop that's like a miscellanous drawer into which I occasionally sweep random junk that's accumulated on the desktop
I do that too, although my desktop is also filled with tons of other crap. It's a mess.

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I was going through my Matt Furniss music collection and noticed that I can't seem to find this Atari ST track on YouTube anymore. Search engines are so crap that I can't find any more information on it, but for all I know it might be tagged wrong. Maybe it's irrelevant, but I thought I would upload it here in case anyone is interested.

>>5100
Thank you for your service, Anon. Yandex often works better for me than jewgle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iASMolEGr9k

>>5009
I agree, the original is hard to beat. It's one of those things that's a perfect point in time, really captures the feeling of the emerging genre. Hard to replicate that feeling 25 years later

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i heard the around the world WUBWUBWUBWUB remix at the gym again today and now i'm mad

>>5012
I argue all remixes are terrible. I work with a guy that's too cheap to pay for a streaming service or buy albums but won't pirate, so he'll download remixes and covers as a loophole. I've heard enough butchered music to cement my opinion.

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>>4281
>>5012
>>5013
Never underestimate the power of a good remix. Ignore all the modern trash and listen to these.

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Do old internet remixes count?

>>5043
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g2Ywx1mLIE

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>>5037
>>5038
>>5043
CATCH THE WAVE

>>5070
Funny. I don't think they ever solved that did they?

>>5097
Hearty lulz

>>5063
I hope this leads to other old home computers getting a renewed version. Like the Spectrum but especially like some of the rarer ones like the SAMCoupe or the Timex Sinclair.

>>5064
>I potentially want to see some older developers and composers getting some new work because of this
That would be great.

>>5069
The ends are just basic composite connections.

>>5092
just get an RCA-to-whatever adapter with an end that'll fit your speakers. Probably 3.5mm, but maybe yours are weird.

>>5063
I bought the Commodore 64x case for mitx. They're still offering it. I tried to shill (raise awareness) of it over the years. Sean who's one of the people involved with this even though Perifractic is the point man is a great guy.
>>5072
Maybe you should tell that to Leo on his forum for 'Commodore' OS.
>>5087
Spectrum was already brought back?

>>5093
Yeah, that's what I figured. I'm going to have to see what I can find.

>>5083
actually i finally found someone who did an autistic benchmark
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6_bfZ4nuE]
its like what i already said and its really obvious when using mmx [8:00], these old programs that were heavily optimized with these now legacy instructions usually run like garbage on modern cpus where the focus on optimizing is using newer extensions instead of these old obsolete ones that really should just be removed but hey its backwards compatible.. which for intel just means it 'can' run old program, if it runs like shit thats your fault for using out dated legacy stuff

thats basically the attitude for a lot of things

>>5085
>but hey its backwards compatible
If this is really the case, then why do game constantly show errors with trying to run "16 bit" software? I've even had this fun with trying to install some Windows 98 games where they outright refuse to work on my PC running W7 64 bit.

>>5086
thats an os problem, im just talking about hardware, you can still run a 16bit os like dos on a modern cpu and run 16bit programs no problem, when you start using a modern os then yeah its up to how compatible the os is with your program, thats like running a linux program on windows, you either use emulation or boot linux, its not a hardware issue

>>5088
>thats an os problem
Okay, that I get

Here's another question that I have, this is in regards to something like MMX. Now I get the fact that we have "newer processes" that are suppose to be "faster" and more efficient in regards to processing some data, but are these actually faster?

What I mean is something similar that I see with the modern ray-tracing meme. One of the biggest reasons people are pushing for the tech is that it would supposedly lessen the load on developers to make things like proper reflections and lighting in games (Among other things). However the trade-off for using such tech is that it requires far more power than games that came before, prior games which did have elements like proper lighting and reflections (Even if superficially). Is that what is going on here? Are the replacements for processes like MMX actually proven to be faster in application and usage, or are they only theoretically faster and made to seem like the "Better" option because of Intel's shenanigans.

>>5089
mostly yes, its not really comparable to ray tracing, thats always going to be the slowest way to render
with cpus if you had to do something tedious like add 1 to 1000 32bit pixels then with mmx, which has 128bit registers, you can do 4 pixels at a time so its 4x faster than using 64bit registers, but with avx you have 256bit registers so you can 8 at a time, with avx512 you have 512bit registers so you can do 16x pixels at once, so obviously youd think more is better, since obviously if you can do more data then its faster but it gets complicated because a cpu is still a physical machine so passing electricity on gigantic 512bit registers is going to create way more heat than registers that are 1/4 its size, so while you can do more data you actually still slow the cpu down since it will thermal throttle and it does that preemptively because its guaranteed to go volcano mode when using those instructions, the instance you use a single 256bit or 512bit register the cpu immediately downclocks, i think the penalty is 20% 50% respectively but thats a small price to pay when you can process 8x-16x the amount of data, however if the programmer is stupid and only does a single avx instruction and isnt really using these for bulk data processing then you trigger the downclock penalty and effectively slowed the cpu down for nothing, and your normal instructions are running at 1/4 the speed now for a while, so nor

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>>5024
In hindsight, growing up with:
- infinite free emulated video games
- infinite free Flash games and animations
- wide cultural expectations of filesharing for music and movies
- the intersection of good video games made by white dudes
- geeks running the internet and having fun
was pretty much perfect.

I don't want to get lost in reminiscing, so I'll just say that the abundance of digital media and internet preservation have made it easier than ever to see how boring and lame things are. The only thing The Powers That Be have going for them is cultural inertia, and they've been digging up the corpses of 80s toy lines at an alarming rate. It can't last forever, and if we're willing to make new stuff ourselves then it'll stand out.

>>5029
>I don't want to get lost in reminiscing
>and if we're willing to make new stuff ourselves then it'll stand out.
Both great perspectives, Anon.
Forward!

>>5029
amen anon
>if you build it they will come
we have to create the world that we want to see, and when people see how much better it is, that movement will only grow.

https://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/
>I’ve been making web pages since 1995, since 2000 I’m collecting old web pages, since 2004 I’m writing about native web culture (digital folklore) and the significance of personal home pages for the web’s growth, personal growth and development of HCI.
>So I remember very well the moment when Tim O’Reilly promoted the term Web 2.0 and announced that the time of Rich User Experience has begun. This buzzword was based on Rich Internet Applications, coined by Macromedia,1 that literally meant their Flash product. O’Reilly’s RUE philosophy was also rather technical: The richness of user experiences would arise from of use of AJAX, Asynchronous Javascript and XML.
>The web was supposed to become more dynamic, fast and “awesome,” because many processes that users would have to consciously trigger before, started to run in the background. You didn’t have to submit or click or even scroll anymore, new pages, search results and pictures would appear by themselves, fast and seamless. “Rich” meant “automagic” and … as if you would be using desktop software.
>As Tim O’Reilly states in September 2005 in blogpost What is Web 2.0?:2 “We are entering an unprecedented period of user interface innovat

Making a Neocities page looks fun. I really loved the internet when it was full of blogs, forums and personal sites. I sure miss it.

There should be more english 2chs

Oh, I've been using world2ch for a few months now. I have a few threads

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>>13 (OP) 
It kind of still is? Jurassic World is still out there, and there are games like  Dino Hazard: Chronos Blackout and Dinosaur Fossil Hunter, and there's band named Victorius that has at least two albums about dinosaurs and another band named Ultra Raptor, et cetera...
I mean, it might be not that mainstream, but mainstream today in general is a weird thing, as I really wonder who can even enjoy 90% of mainstream content. Yet obviously someone enjoys it, since it refuses to die out.
But among the non-mainstream stuff, dinos are still quite a big niche. You just have to dig for it.

I've got some dino stuff saved here and there but most of it's way earlier than from 90/2000s or even the 80s.
>>4640
I think the "feather wars" might have split a lot of people on whether dinos are cool or not. Pop culture wise people prefer dragons to big birds.

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>>5039
In my own experience, it goes even further than that. I realized as I got older that I preferred the really antiquated depictions of dinosaurs over what it seems they were actually like. Especially the more fantastic versions from pop culture.

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>>4640
>you just have to dig for it

>>3522
Found the Prehistoric Shark doc.
https://archive.org/download/shark-week-prehistoric-sharks-dc-1998