Re: Another one bytes the dust (archive.org)
Posted on 2015-05-20, 19:32
And even that's preferable to websites using google to search themselves. I completely detest such an utterly reckless dependence.
Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance
Posted on 2015-05-20, 19:27
"NET Runtime Optimization service", that one alone is capable of making your computer unusable.
Re: Types of games that age well
Posted on 2015-05-20, 19:22
Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance
Posted on 2015-05-20, 19:16
This is baloney of the highest order. A well groomed, finely tuned WinXP instalation you can't beat performance-wise.
Re: A new, SNES/Megadrive-ish cartridge based console is incoming!
Posted on 2015-05-17, 17:42
"Originally, I just wanted it to be a 2D machine," Kennedy told Venturebeat. "But if we spend an extra five, ten, twelve dollars, can we beef it up enough to go to that next generation? We’re sort of playing that game with ourselves right now, where we want to draw the line for developers and what …
Re: Does such game(s) exist?
Posted on 2015-05-16, 20:06
Re: Another one bytes the dust (archive.org)
Posted on 2015-05-14, 07:47
If you're merely presenting static information to the user, you can't possibly justify going beyond html 3.2; it is sufficient, and everything else vanity.
Re: Another one bytes the dust (archive.org)
Posted on 2015-05-14, 06:24
smeezekitty wrote: What an abomination modern sites are You have not seen an abomination till you have seen what google did to the dejanews archive.
Re: Most forgettable games
Posted on 2015-05-13, 10:38
I always considered "Z" (1996) to be an extremely dull, forgettable game, but after doing a quick research, it apparently wasn't.
Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer
Posted on 2015-05-13, 08:36
Outstanding piece of software. Thank you so much for this synth. Only the midi volume control is grayed out from "Sounds and Audio Devices", and the midi volume slider from the mixer, even though functional (as in clickable-movable), has no effect whatsoever. Just posting as the readme doesn't …
Re: Food - Recipe handouts
Posted on 2015-05-13, 03:05
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2015-05-13, 02:47
Too many clues on the last shot, way too many. It should be relatively easy for anybody, even someone who's never seen or played that game, to show up with the correct answer after googling for a combination of words relating to both classic video games and Bible content, and that assuming it hasn't …
Re: Have you ever personally cracked a CRT?
Posted on 2015-05-12, 02:59
I've heard breaking a CRT is quite memorable You heard wrong. In reality it's pretty boring. considering what a powerful vacuum exists within You want something powerful?, stick your tongue in the second anode (actually, please don't) I had a physics teacher once who reminisced about the experience …
Re: Best Doom ports for dos
Posted on 2015-05-12, 02:39
For a 486, you'd do well to go with a patched up version of vanilla Doom with expanded limits and greater stability: Doom+ You know, I thought about this, and the thing is that any scene that could benefit from such a patch, because it exceeds the original limits, will probably be way too slow for …
Re: My First MEGA Copyright Notice
Posted on 2015-05-12, 00:14
A problem here is the popular stereotype of video game programmers: overpaid, oversexed, underworked, and living basically rock star lifestyles. Think John Romero in his prime. Kids don't feel guilty about stealing from them any more than they feel guilty about stealing from actual rock stars. …
Re: wow this is slow
Posted on 2015-05-02, 20:00
Newer versions of Opera (which are built on Chrome) and some other browsers will not let you remove Google as a search engine, and many will force it as a default due to branding agreements I remember a lot of people complaining about it as it was introduced in 12.15 and the Opera team completely …
Re: wow this is slow
Posted on 2015-05-02, 19:25
Opera 12.x is/was great (and it's a shame Presto was replaced with WebKit/Blink/Chromium); just to point out though: they have released a more recent update, 12.19, to address Heartbleed. That's probably the last update that 12.x will ever receive though. You can get it here: http://www.opera.com/ …
Re: vinyl making a comeback?
Posted on 2015-05-02, 03:44
I've seen people cutting CD quality audio on vinyl, which defeats the very purpose of using vinyl, unless we're talking this moronic DJ thing. Personally, all the music I'd ever want to listen to is already on vinyl and it's been so for decades now. Maybe just a fad, maybe not.
Re: wow this is slow
Posted on 2015-05-02, 01:53
candle_86 wrote: As for adds and such Addblock plus suits my needs just fine I personally have no use for it, but I've seen some heavily list-based (many servers) add blockers waste a lot of bandwidth with overkill updating schedules. Watch out for that too.
Re: wow this is slow
Posted on 2015-05-02, 01:02
If people had even the slightest idea about the kind of spying that goes on behind the curtains while running a mainstream browser and all the bandwidth wasted in establishing unsolicited connections to "familiar", "inoffensive", "statistics-gathering" servers such as google's...it's grotesque. Get …
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