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SATA card

Posted on 2023-04-09, 13:05

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Hello - I haven't been on here in quite some time (don't know if anyone remembers me or not) Anyway, I have a question. It seems like the only drives you can get now are SATA. So Is tarted looking at SATA cards. First, it seems like a lot are PCI-express (which I cannot use - we are talking about an …

Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-16, 22:56

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Maybe not any one thing. Perhaps it started with windows XP and that product activation crap. I now have a copy I never activated and was saving for a better machine and now cannot use it at all. Couple that with video games that cannot be run without some online account. The last game I played was …

Re: The moment you were hooked

Posted on 2022-07-16, 22:50

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For me it was a shareware version of Radix: Beyond the Void. The last game I had played was on a Commodore 64, so that was like jumping forward ten years all at once. Completely blown away.

Re: club myce gone

Posted on 2022-07-13, 10:50

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Yes - it was oriented towards optical media. People used to discuss media brands, post scans of media, etc Topics looked like this: Brand X is on sale at store Y this week..... I just got brand X at store Y and the media code is Z..... I think it's to the point no one is using optical media anymore …

club myce gone

Posted on 2022-07-08, 10:45

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I don't know how many people know club myce (what used to be CD-Freaks) but it has been taken down. Gone. I used to spend a lot of time browsing the site (probably too much) End of an era!

Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2022-06-30, 23:54

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Wow - what a thread. I hadn't logged on in a while, but I had to reply to this one. I got started with Duke3D - even had a book for it. But REALLY got into it with the Qoole level editor. I remember one spring break I worked all week on a map - like 12 hours a day for seven days. At the end of that …

Re: CED disks

Posted on 2021-09-07, 22:03

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Yeah I know what they are - we had one. I was toying with the idea of an analogy between collecting old computers versus old CED disks (when so many better alternatives are available to the latter The difference is - the people collecting CED disks are basically nuts at this point, whereas people …

CED disks

Posted on 2021-09-06, 22:18

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Totally not related to computers, but just curious if anyone remembers the old RCA selectavision CED disks. Every once in a while find myself reading up on them. Interesting idea, but It was a terrible format that really killed RCA. There are still people collecting them to this day (three decades …

Re: YOUR favorate game era.

Posted on 2021-09-03, 22:55

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Would definitely say 93-99 - that is really a huge range, covering everything from doom and duke3d all the way to half life and unreal. Maybe I got old, maybe it just wasn't new (to me) anymore, but it seems like nothing truly original came after that. Sure we got games with fancier graphics and …

Re: Why people still love XP

Posted on 2021-08-31, 20:53

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Along these same lines (okay maybe same lines from previous page).... Has anyone every looked at screenshots from some of the earlier tests of win95? It is really interesting to see how it "evolved" from 3.1 A while back I reinstalled win95 just for kicks after a decade of 98se. It seemed - somehow …

Re: Why people still love XP

Posted on 2021-08-21, 12:06

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XP hit a sweet spot - it was the last fully backwards compatible OS. It was modern enough to have NTFS and support for external drives, and yet it would still run 3.1 apps. At the time it came out it seemed horribly bloated, but compared to more recent versions of windows it seems positively …

Re: format question

Posted on 2021-08-21, 12:02

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I wound up reformatting the drive NTFS and I am a lot happier with it. The problem I was having with ex-fat is that the minimum file size is too large - files were taking up MUCH more space than they should - couldn't fit the same files as I could as a magnetic drive of the same size. I was kinda …

Re: CD-Burners

Posted on 2021-08-13, 10:01

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I have not bought any since Yuden sold out to CMC - they have such a bad reputation I can't see those being good. verbatim disks *COULD* be good - but too much outsourcing and you never really knew what you were getting. The last digital movie ones I got were absolute GARBAGE

Re: CD-Burners

Posted on 2021-08-09, 21:23

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Scratching durabililty aside... the 'best' blank DVDs must IMHO be the (non-CMC!) Taiyo Yuden/JVC 8x DVD+R . At least vs error levels (PIE/PIF). (with longevity/storability not tested sufficently to say either or...) When I one day just for 'fun' tested this error scanning program I randomly had …

Re: CD-Burners

Posted on 2021-08-05, 13:53

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I am really finding myself wishing I had stocked up on DVD before the good brands disappeared. My favorites were the Maxell high grade with hard coat - you could store them in wallets without worrying about them getting scratched up

Re: CD-Burners

Posted on 2021-08-04, 21:21

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bestemor wrote on 2021-08-04, 16:49: As for discs and quality, I found this site to be a treasure trove of information: https://club.myce.com/c/blank-media/32 (and other sub-forums there as well, for various burners) OH YES!!!!!! I spent many hours on that site!!!!!!!

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