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Alright, this is meant to be a successor to /y2k/ on the old 8chan, however I have expanded it to include both the 1990's and the 2000's and NSFW content is allowed, provided it's actually related to the purpose of this board and doesn't violate any of the site's core rules.
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>>5169
Same to you.
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Has any of you, Zoomers born in 1997, seen twin towers or witnessed 9/11, even if you were 3 or 4 back then?
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>>5370
>depending on my mood it's either "haha 9/11 funy joke epik prank"
It was a horrific event, but I still like to joke about it and all.
>and we're still feeling the effects of that because of dup's total retard war that's totally going 100% according to plan trust me you stupid goyim
fuck im mad now
dup's gay war looks like it's shaping up to be a bigger quagmire than dupya's neocon wars were. The dumbass just couldn't say no to a Jew. I hate to say it, but I kind of wonder if we'd be in this same situation if Harris were in office .At least dup is exposed as a fraud, which was the silver line I had in mind for if he screwed the pooch with his second term.

Despite all the screaming about "Bushitler" back during the dupya years, but the problems of that era look like they could be nothing compared to what this war could potentially bring on.
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No.5372 
>>5371
>I kind of wonder if we'd be in this same situation if Harris were in office
You see what's happening in NYC and Europe, and you want more of THAT?!
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No.5373 
>>5372
>You see what's happening in NYC and Europe, and you want more of THAT?!
I just mean as far as the war is concerned. The Democrats are shills for Jewish interests too, but dup's family have been known as Zionist toadies for a long time. I've heard that they were such fervent Zionists that Fred Trump used to get mistaken as actually being Jewish.
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No.5374 
>>5373
>I just mean as far as the war is concerned.
There wouldn't have been a war as that wasn't a part of the plan. The U.S. was supposed to just slowly fade off the world stage to be replaced by West Taiwan in all matters, if not create that "Multipolar world" that Dugin and his fanboys have been pushing.
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No.5375 
>>5371
harris would've been her own special shitfest, mostly of the brown and troon variety. she might've pushed back on israel a little bit but bibi wanted someone demented enough and someone he had enough blackmail on to do his greater israel for him, and kammy wasn't it
we're probably not gonna see an actual good candidate for a very very long time, if at all.

>>5372
>>5374
you sound retarded tbh
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>ITT: Vidya of the 90's and 2000's


Keep it limited to the scope of this board, so basically Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Generation consoles only for now. 


For those who don't know what consoles are part of which generation, here's a quick rundown of the time frame we're talking about...


>Fourth Generation: SNES, Sega Genesis/Sega CD
>Fifth Generation: PS1, N64, Sega Saturn
>Sixth Generation: Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, OG Xbox


Discussion of games from the Seventh Generation consoles (PS3/Wii/Xbox 360) is allowed as well, but I'd like the thread to mainly focus on the 4th-6th console genererations since the 7th Gen era carried over into the 2010's and a lot of the games from that era onward obviously have far more in common with modern gaming than stuff from the 16-bit consoles or the PS1 and PS2 eras.
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No.5227 
>>5226
*Craig
No.5228 
>>5226
Nintendo Power wasnt enough like RAW magazine
No.5229 
>>3827
Its so mature for its age. 
and somewhat more paletable than 
other cyberpunk games-not just point n click
No.5230 
>>5134
I just read this article and I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for compiling all this info and making it easily available so what remains of Pure Dragon does not become lost media. I was so sad to learn about that animated pilot which had not been archived.
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>>4856
That's one reason I mostly prefer match-based games where there's no lasting commitment involved. I can just play a session and then move on with my day. I'm mostly a PC guy, but, like you said, older games are also good for that. The original Castlevania is one I remember getting pretty good at. I've beaten it maybe two or three times. I struggled fighting Dracula at the end, but once I got his pattern down it wasn't that hard at all.
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Let's have a new thread without a tonne of broken images.  Have there been any new forms of /retro/ media (could be movies, games, anime, websites, etc.) that wanted to look old and actually succeeded?

There's an artist called BlueTheBone who makes "retro"-styled animations, cheesecake, and porn.  Like any modern hack, he overdoses on visual clutter and uses filters that don't actually resemble the time period he's trying to emulate - but despite that, I think his style is consistently decent.  If he relied less on computers and filters, then I think he'd be a much better artist, but that goes without saying for most contemporary artists.

The really weird things happen when he tries to make modern character designs and media look old, like pic 2.  It isn't exactly wrong, but there is something perplexing about viewing characters and series that were developed specifically with modern aesthetics in mind.
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No.5358 
>>5357
Thank you! I'm glad the diagrams were useful, they were the most challenging part of the article by far but I felt they were needed.
>I've had some time recently to work on something that's been on the back-burner for a while, should be useful and historically interesting.
You've definitely piqued my curiosity... I'm excited to see what that will be, and a little impatient haha. :-D

>>5352
I'm always lurking here and occasionally posting when I find or make something interesting, but due to real life matters I'm not as active as I'd like to be. There's a lot of material on my computer that's slowly but surely being worked on, and I believe eventually all of it will see the light of day.

>>5351
Thanks :-) I'm open to suggestions for other communities where I can post this.

>>5350
POV-Ray can be challenging especially to newcomers, but if you're interested in the subject matter then maybe start with Part 0 of my tutorials. It should be much simpler and easier to grasp than the latest article.
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No.5360 
>>5358
>I'm open to suggestions for other communities where I can post this.
NTA but the official newsgroups are still decently active https://news.povray.org/groups/
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No.5364 
>>5360
https://www.povray.org/resources/
> 		

The POV-Ray Newsgroups are the best place to get help from other users, find discussion about POV-Ray and much more. These newsgroups are hosted on our own server and as they are not connected to Usenet they do not suffer from spam and similar problems. 
>You may either access the newsgroups with any standard newsreader at news://news.povray.org/ or use our web view at http://news.povray.org/. For the web view you need to enable cookies in your browser, and in order to post messages via the web interface you first need to register. 
Now I have an example to show that usenet can be used to power a standalone forum.
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No.5365 
>>5360
>>5364
I found an archive of POV-Ray's old Usenet messages here:
https://archive.org/details/pov-ray-usenet-archive-mbox
I haven't yet checked the contents of this archive, so I don't know if there's any overlap between it and what's currently on the POV-Ray website, but I thought I'd share it regardless.
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No.5366 
>>5365
I was curious and it looks like the newsgroups started sometime in 1997:
https://web.archive.org/web/19971212011214/http://www.povray.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/19971212012629/http://www.povray.org/groups.html
<The povray.* news groups are here as a test. They may or may not stay, depending in part on how much (and how) the POV-Ray community ends up using them.
Now here we are near 30 years later, talk about a lot of history!
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Which ones are your favorites?

Pic related
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They're all playing for me now.
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Just saw the Double Dragon film, and it was unironically a very etertaining movie. Yes, it was silly and extremely stupid, but it also had something "earnest" about it inronically enough. Much more so than all of the recent productions that try to "replicate" that cheesiness of 90's sci-fi and fantasy films.
No.5361 
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The complete first season of ReBoot has been remastered from the original tapes and is now available to watch for free on jewtube
https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLebOl1sFZbNlZPmxjlN-orD4VOnybu9Fp
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No.5362 
>>5361
POTD
No.5363 
>>5361
>related:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=L00jx-GH2w8
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One thing I loved about the 90's was the overabundance of bootleg merchandise, T-Shirts in particular.

The myriad knock-off shirts with Bart Simpson were so common in the early 90's it even became a meme.

You also had a lot of other common targets of bootlegs such as Sonic, TMNT, Sailor Moon, and as always, the big name rock bands and rappers.

After copyright enforcement got more stringent, you did not see this type of stuff as often, not even at the usual venues like flea markets, gas stations, fairgrounds, and any town with a major tourist  trap nearby.
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No.3810 
>>3808
Yes, it was Jordan at his peak. However, the Bulls in the 90s were officially discussed as a Dream Team. Only sports news I have seen come close to how the Bulls were dominating in the 90s is Tom Brady and company in football.
No.4437 
I got one of those bart simpson gulf war shirts haha
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No.4439 
>>4437
Remember where you bought it?
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No.5356 
>>4439
ebay
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I would probably wear this fake Operation Highjump design if the shirt fit well.
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Latest version of Signal running on Windows 7 with Second System (https://www.patreon.com/posts/second-system-2-138036875) software installed. 

I still use Windows 7 as my main OS and probably will be able to continue doing so for at least a couple more years using the Second System software (as well as VxKex and windows 7-specific forks of some programs). 

Ask any questions you may have, and feel free to post anything relevant. 

I know windows 7 is not very retro but I thought it would be of interest here. Thread is of course open to other older OSes like XP, 98, DOS, old Linux or UNIX, etc.
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No.5269 
>>5268
Thanks! Hmm, sounds interesting. I was already leaning towards OpenBSD, so I'll probably investigate that approach.

Any specifics detail advice would be appreciated here.
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No.5285 
>>5269
Have you decided on anything yet? I'm just kind of curious. As someone who isn't very good with computers past being able to install and set up basic Linux distros, OpenBSD always came across to me like the final boss of PC neckbeard wizardry. With the negative direction Linux seems to be headed as far as freedom is concerned, I think of it almost like a final frontier.
No.5353 
>>5246
But does VPN work on winxp so you can go torrent your 20+ year old tv shows rather than browse gay websites in modern censorious times? A broken browser could still find magnet links I'm sure, but then again firefox is needed to use the high seas now as it has malicious ads if you don't have ublock and such installed so chrome isn't going to cut it now that I've thought about it so never mind. 
>>5241 (OP) 
At least it had a classic mode.
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No.5354 
>>5353
>At least it had a classic mode.
I preferred the classic look too.
No.5355 
>>5353
>But does VPN work on winxp
It worked the last time I tried it, it took me some time to figure out how to set it up properly but it worked
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Anyone else here /retro/maxxing? I've realized there is no point in denying myself happiness and gigacoziness and I may as well go all in on my retro obsessions even if it's a bit weird. 

I could list a bunch of things I'm doing but I'll start with just a couple here

>film photography
I have never bought a digital camera and I have stopped being a NEET lately. I have a small comfy job so I have some money and I buy rolls of film on occasion and I carry a late '90s point and shoot camera with me almost everywhere I go. It's fun and super comfy. I also started developing black and white film myself, at home.

>computer
I have set up my windows machine to look like windows 98 (not completely accurate but I've changed over the icons and use a classic theme, etc. 

And on my linux machine I have set it up to look like some versions of UNIX from the late 80s to early 90s.

And for my browser I use Pale Moon and I have it set to look like Netscape.

>music
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Has anyone used Fieldstation42? https://github.com/shane-mason/FieldStation42

I just started looking at it and it looks like it could be the software I've been wishing for for years. It lets you simulate broadcast TV with your own programming.

I hope to set it up soon myself, if I do I'll post about it here.
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No.5337 
>>5336
>if I do I'll post about it here.
Please do! Thanks Anon.
No.5338 
>>5335
I'm not sure. My taste is pretty autistic, so it can be kind of hard to find things that satisfy me. The arcade one seems kind of cool. I'd rather get one of these though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuPJpSKuqUc

I already have the AY3, which admittedly doesn't get much use, but I'm more of a fan of the sound of the NES style of chip sound. Since I'm pretty satisfied with my collection, I'm trying to lay off buying any more synthesizers (and with a Hapax and a Picotracker in addition to software options, it seems like my sequencing options are covered). The hapiNES wouldn't take up much space though. It's the larger HapiNES L version that would interest me, since I don't even think the smaller one has MIDI.

If I didn't already have a good FM synth collection, I might be looking into MiniDexed. What I have would be overkill for most people.
>>5336
Looks neat. I'll be interested in hearing about your experiences with it.
No.5339 
>>5336
https://www.instructables.com/How-To-Save-Analog-TV/
<TL;DR: RF Modulator -> Analog TV Amp -> Coat Hanger
>;)
No.5347 
>>5335
the po33 is cool. also the ko2. good samplers
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So, what are some of your favorite memories of the old internet?


Can be websites, memes, events or any other aspect of the days of Web 1.0 and 1.5


For a quick reference, here's what I would define as Web 1.0 and Web 1.5


>Web 1.0: Usenet, Geocities and Angelfire, AOL (1991-2001)
>Web 1.5: Early YouTube, ED, 4chan in its "wild west" days, MySpace, YTMND, Newgrounds and the peak years of dA and Fanfiction.net (2001-2008)


You also had cross-generation stuff like GameFAQs and IMDB which are still around today, although sadly IMDB's infamous message boards are gone
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No.5284 
Wait, is my00stv dead? Oh n-
>https://www.myretrotvs.com/
what a save
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No.5288 
>>5284
You really can channel surf on this one, huh? Have to figure out how you can do that time-wise. -I have never owned cable television.-
No.5343 
https://markprindle.com/

This unique music review site, which began in 1996 and stopped being updated in 2011, was one I read a lot in high school toward the end of its run. I still go back and read it sometimes.
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No.5344 
>>5343
Oh I remember this, I used to read it in college.
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No.5345 
>>5344
I first found it when I was searching for information on Killing Joke, and the off-kilter sense of humor kept me coming back. I even like reading his reviews of bands I don't have much of an interest in for that reason.

He's a pretty thin-skinned guy from what I've heard though. Someone I talked to on an imageboard in the past said they were friends with him on Facebook at one point, but he got pissy over political differences and unfriended them. I still enjoy his work in spite of that.
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Retro /tech/.
 
PDAs, pagers, old mobile phones, mp3 players.  I miss them.  They were so less intrusive to privacy.
 
It sounds really weird, but I'd love it if I could somehow still have a pager as opposed to a cell phone.
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No.5294 
>>5293
There's a good chance I'd be interested if I didn't already have a phone that works for what I need it for.
No.5295 
>>5293
I personally would be happier if they cheaped out on the camera and whatnot to bring down the price, or just make a dumbphone with these aesthetics. Still, if the bootloader is open so that you can install whatever OS you want then maybe I'd be mildly interested.
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No.5296 
>>5295
>or just make a dumbphone with these aesthetics
Yeah, I can't say I'm big on smartphones anyway. I didn't even bother getting one until a few years ago when I was short on options, and even then I don't use it much.
No.5310 
>>5293
Bad timing and consequently bad pricing.
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No.5311 
>>5310
Yup looks like a nice object but the pricing is way to big to makes it interesting for me
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