Re: Coronavirus chatter

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Well, this crisis offers a tempting opportunity for autocrats to seize even more power. If Hungary does not agree with the EU constitution anymore then she is always free to leave the union. [...] Orbán also told the EU council to fuck off and to concentrate on controlling the pandemic instead, …

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Re: Coronavirus chatter

Posted on 2020-03-28, 23:30

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Then I was curious as to why I only experienced really mild symptoms that where gone in 6 to 7 days and remembered working for the NHS and getting the HBV inoculations all those years ago and figured that may have something to do with it. What made you come to that conclusion? (I was inoculated …

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Re: Suitable streaming platform

Posted on 2020-03-26, 23:36

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Ok and anything for H264/RGB? Youtube does not support H264/RGB. I use ffmpeg's libx264rgb and yutube supports it nicely enough. libx264rgb with -crf 0 produces lossless RGB video. ffmpeg -i "%1" -sws_flags neighbor+full_chroma_inp -c:v libx264rgb -crf 0 [...other options...] %1.avi If the final …

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Re: Coronavirus chatter

Posted on 2020-03-26, 22:57

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as long as the virus isn't selectively targeting the rich and powerful nothing will fundamentally change imho Wouldn't change even if it did target the rich and powerful. Nature abhors a power vacuum. There's a tendency to believe that those who would take the place of $chosen_scapegoat would be …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-03-23, 00:57

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Been on an Iron Maiden live concert kick lately. Preemptively compensating for the fact that they'll probably have to cancel their coming show here, because pandemics. Two of the best: Maiden England '88 Maiden Japan (Live Nagoya '81)

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-03-13, 20:38

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Did we lose the ability to reply to a post in a PM, directly to that user (with quote and all)? I *think* that was available before the update - maybe I'm having a brainfart, but I can't find it for the life of me...

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Re: Has anyone played Genocide released by KaosKontrol in 1998 ?

Posted on 2020-03-12, 09:55

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...and at least one of those x86000 mecha 'Genocide' games had a DOS port, too. Rather good if you like that sort of stuff: https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/genocide-2 … -dark-communion

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Re: Misinformation about PC specs in the 90's (e.g. "they were terrible! The CPUs ran at 2 MHz or something!")

Posted on 2020-03-09, 14:36

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[..] for properly representing how things went back then instead of the idealized fantasy too often mentioned on these forums... Well, there's the problem. There's no universal "truth" really. Anything is relative and everyone has his point of view. But there is a reality , and some points of view …

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Re: SVGA minimum RAM?

Posted on 2020-03-08, 19:46

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640*480 (*8 bits/pixel ÷ 8 bits/byte) = 307,200.

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The Great 1988-89 VGA Compatibility/Comparison Run

Posted on 2020-03-07, 14:09

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PC Tech Journal's VGA compatibility test suite is still available online from various BBS dumps, but the magazine itself also had a couple of in-depth articles where they sic it on a bunch of contemporary VGA boards. Thought this was an interesting read: Part 1 - Nov '88: https://archive.org/details …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-02-24, 00:00

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Graviton II... addictive Gravitar clone. In glorious hi-res EGA/VGA! With trippy SFX! Which only work half the time!

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Re: Any users of non-popular (lesser known) vintage computers around ?

Posted on 2020-02-21, 15:24

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I realize that this depends on where you're from, but Apple II and TRS-80 were quite "mainstream" in North America - along with the PET, they were the "big three" in the first wave of consumer-oriented micros. MSX machines were also quite mainstream in specific countries.

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Re: Most popular game of January does not support English

Posted on 2020-02-20, 21:22

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Well, at least China remains as super-committed to transparency and openness as always, so nobody should have the least shadow of a doubt that the sanctioned numbers are anything but the gospel truth. Unless they're amazing racists, of course!

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-02-17, 22:33

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Personally, the old-style figures are the least of what bothers me with the default font. The horrible hinting takes that particular cake. ;) Oh hey, just noticed that the hinting looks *much* better in Windows now. Happy to see it fixed! (What was changed? A different/auto-hinted version of the …

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Re: CGA "optimal" palette (fantasy)

Posted on 2020-02-17, 19:23

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By the way: This is my color remapping code for Tandy/PCJr., EGA and VGA that changes CGA mode 5 to shades of gray: Nice - yep, that's probably the most compatible way to go about it. I did something similar in this old video which goes through a bunch of different tweaked 4-color palettes (some of …

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Re: CGA "optimal" palette (fantasy)

Posted on 2020-02-17, 13:34

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Something I've been wanting to try is a TSR similar to CHGCOLOR, but with a few enhancements: - Target VGA rather than EGA (so the 4 colors can be selected from the full 6-bit/channel range) - Support a separate mapping for each CGA palette (for cases where colors are switched during a game, using …

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Re: How to: Imaging/cloning a harddrive, using Linux only....

Posted on 2020-02-17, 08:39

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Not strictly "Linux only" -- I've used dd for Windows to clone/image hard drives and CF cards. It's a little tricky to come up with the correct device name to get the most complete image possible (e.g. MBR and partitions). You gotta run "dd.exe --list" as administrator and do a bit of trial-and- …

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Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-10, 20:07

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A console has a very specific set of hardware/firmware which all its games target. If there are optional configurations, they're mostly limited in range. DOSBox aims to emulate arbitrary points over the first 20 years of the PC platform's evolution. Multiple CPU generations, third-party hardware …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-01-28, 00:06

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if anyone know how to disable them via CSS please share, because changing the font doesn't seem to help for those. It's an OpenType feature. This should work (from https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/f/font-feature-settings/): :root { font-feature-settings: 'onum' 0; } Personally, the old- …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-01-11, 17:46

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I also can’t figure out why the spec sheet for your monitor says it’s an IPS panel but also that it uses FRC to render 8-bit colour. If true, maybe it explains why there is a bigger problem with this monitor, though I guess I also need to learn if any monitors don’t have this problem and are also …

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