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2 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

"1 MB of RAM? Only a supercomputer has that!"

lmao

wow that is one old game

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3 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

"1 MB of RAM? Only a supercomputer has that!"

lmao

Found the game!

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So today while derping around in the basement I found a 40mb ide hdd

And..  I erased everything.. 

Now it won't be formatted into fat, fate or ntfs.. 

 

(iirc 1990 hdd) 

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2 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

Found the game!

Wow, those are some pretty intense graphics! Looks like only a supercomputer could run that...

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2 hours ago, themctipers said:

So today while derping around in the basement I found a 40mb ide hdd

And..  I erased everything.. 

Now it won't be formatted into fat, fate or ntfs.. 

 

(iirc 1990 hdd) 

I did the same thing with my 85MB HDD. It still works like new though so I can build a proper 386 DX40 rig :D

 

Edit: It needs FAT not FAT32 (called FAT in Windows 10, 8.1 and if I remember correctly 7)

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1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

Wow, those are some pretty intense graphics! Looks like only a supercomputer could run that...

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http://www.myabandonware.com/game/superkarts-2t0/play-2t0

 

You can play it in your browser.

 

Also, super cool, it appears you can play it with a VR headset (VR headset not detected or something was mentioned in the console before the game started.)

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45 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/superkarts-2t0/play-2t0

 

You can play it in your browser.

 

Also, super cool, it appears you can play it with a VR headset (VR headset not detected or something was mentioned in the console before the game started.)

Maybe it was one of those games designed partially for that VR headset thing Nintendo tried to make in the 90s... interesting...

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I have one grow up in the time when there was not user on the pc then my dad let famly on his main mac on the main admin user to print paper or ask to do something on my lap that he use once in a whill and I have to concince him to use guest user instead of my user in the beginning it is quite funnly  

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1 minute ago, Karakofire said:

My roommate said pouring mercury directly on a motherboard won't short it out cause water can only short out electronics.

I get the feeling that in this context, you meant to say "only water can short out electronics.", not "water can only short out electronics."

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I have one, when I was like 9 years old and wanted a computer to do things like play stupid flash games and listen to music, so I asked my parents for a laptop (which they didn't want to spend too much on because it was my first computer) and as I always complained about our families (crappy dell) desktop being slow, they wanted to get the fastest laptop they could while not spending much money, so they thought if the laptop was thicker it must have more room for faster parts and would be faster, and got me this like 1-1.5 in thick hp laptop.

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Had a customer purchase a machine bring it back 4 days later complaining it was running hot after his "computer friend" had worked on it.

After getting it on the bench and opening the case I immediately noticed that said "computer friend" used literally a whole damned economy size tube of thermal paste on a stock Intel cooler during his re-installation of a heat-sink that didn't require it. It wasn't even attached by the clips anymore, just glued on with paste so badly it defied freaking gravity. ROFL

 

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Customer brings back a computer complaining it cant connect to the internet "after a question and answer session" I discovered that he didn't install the drivers for his Cricket wireless dongle. Also discovered that he took it to another "shop" where they charged him $260 dollars and discovered during inspection "also stole." His Windows 7 COA, 4 GB of Ram, swapped his 500GB drive with a 80GB "then the final cherry on top." Reinstalled using some extremely dubious Windows XP ELITE edition "all of this before proclaiming how horrible "we were" that we had sold him junk, and he should get a refund because we lacked integrity. I was honestly skeptical of this tale, until I called said shop & "they literally hung up on me the second I mentioned the customers name." and wouldn't accept calls from our number afterwards.

 

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4 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

I did the same thing with my 85MB HDD. It still works like new though so I can build a proper 386 DX40 rig :D

 

Edit: It needs FAT not FAT32 (called FAT in Windows 10, 8.1 and if I remember correctly 7)

there was an option with fat or fat32, i chose fat.

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138 is a good number.

 

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4 hours ago, Jinx67 said:

Reinstalled using some extremely dubious Windows XP ELITE edition

Found it, it is actually called windows xp 8 elite edition. Already activated and apparently "copyrighted" to Mohamed Elshinowy. You know it is good when it comes with winrar 4.20

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i had a scammer from microsoft call me because my computer had a virus so i entertained her by pretending to be a noob. i just described the contents of pornhub and pretended i didn't know how to get off the site or close my browser. i left the phone next to the computer speaker with a video playing. when i came back they had hung up

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45 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

+3200% the price. I love you PS4 games.

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To be fair, this markup is kinda deserved considering the huge amount of manpower and skill required to develop the game. As well, on man phones, even though the markup is a few hundred%, really Apple is the only one that makes a huge profit from selling smartphones if I remember correctly. Often the cost of hiring people to design, engineer, put together, and create custom software for the phone costs a lot of money.

 

EDIT: That's not to mention that selling games online for PC technically costs basically no money at all, in which case the markup could be considered a few ten thousand, a few hundred thousand, or even a few million percent xD 

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2 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

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Microsoft and Sony take a bigger sum from every purchase than Steam.

 

1 hour ago, DocSwag said:

To be fair, this markup is kinda deserved considering the huge amount of manpower and skill required to develop the game. As well, on man phones, even though the markup is a few hundred%, really Apple is the only one that makes a huge profit from selling smartphones if I remember correctly. Often the cost of hiring people to design, engineer, put together, and create custom software for the phone costs a lot of money.

 

EDIT: That's not to mention that selling games online for PC technically costs basically no money at all, in which case the markup could be considered a few ten thousand, a few hundred thousand, or even a few million percent xD 

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11 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I get the feeling that in this context, you meant to say "only water can short out electronics.", not "water can only short out electronics."

Yup. That's what I meant.

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Wow, normally i would not go into topics like this because there is always someone who will have been me but i did and the responses were utter trash. If you don't understand don't respond!!!!!

 

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16 minutes ago, mcraftax said:

Wow, normally i would not go into topics like this because there is always someone who will have been me but i did and the responses were utter trash. If you don't understand don't respond!!!!!

 

I don't really get it... were the other responses like totally wrong or something? I'm a networking noob so halp me plz. Show me the way of the force!

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Laptop (I use it for school):

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16 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

I don't really get it... were the other responses like totally wrong or something? I'm a networking noob so halp me plz. Show me the way of the force!

Basically i was in rage mode after reading a few threads on networking which had lots of completely misleading answers.

 

Other stuff, i apple discord is amazing to reed, was it @themctipers that mentioned that? thanks

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20 minutes ago, mcraftax said:

Basically i was in rage mode after reading a few threads on networking which had lots of completely misleading answers.

 

Other stuff, i apple discord is amazing to reed, was it @themctipers that mentioned that? thanks

look like they figure it out and make sence

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3 hours ago, mcraftax said:

Basically i was in rage mode after reading a few threads on networking which had lots of completely misleading answers.

 

Other stuff, i apple discord is amazing to reed, was it @themctipers that mentioned that? thanks

yeah..

apple discord is amazing, however there are only so much stupidity they can pump out in two months.

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