badmojo wrote on 2021-12-27, 02:44:

I confess that I never get a floppy drive's cable plugged in correctly the first time, ever.

you monster!

It's almost as though they invented something precisely as annoying as USB-A ...before USB even existed! 😳

What is this wormhole of repeated asymmetrical farce we've stumbled into?

Shreddoc wrote on 2021-12-30, 02:43:

It's almost as though they invented something precisely as annoying as USB-A ...before USB even existed! 😳

You think that's annoying? Try not mixing up the mouse and keyboard PS/2 ports, if they are not color-coded.

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Meatball wrote on 2021-12-30, 14:34:

badmojo wrote on 2021-12-27, 02:44:

I confess that I never get a floppy drive's cable plugged in correctly the first time, ever.

I used to have the same problem, but I just recently figured out (magically... in my head) the "red" wire is pin 1... for 20-odd years I never noticed.

Don't rely over much on the "red stripe towards the power connector" thing though, it's 95% correct, but that 5% will bite you in the ass, particularly with floppies and more ancient HDDs.

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Meatball wrote on 2021-12-30, 14:42:

When I used to work at Best Buy when I was 20 as one of my three jobs, I convinced one of my coworkers I knew what a 486/DX was, when I barely knew what a 486/DX was or how to spell 486/DX.

As a sometime customer, that wouldn't work on me at Best Buy, seems to me the staff can't even read the shelf labels, like Me:"How much RAM has this one got?" BB:"250GB SSD" ... so these days I'm in Best Buy like... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEhHEOIYgMY

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Meatball wrote on 2021-12-30, 14:52:

Turok: Dinosaur hunter is my favorite game of all time... there I said it.

You like fog huh? Perhaps you have scottish inheritance. 😉

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in the mid 90's playing shareware games i came across cat splat it was a cat shooting game instead of shooting clay, cats would fly in the air and if you shoot it you score and it splatters i confess i loved it probably that most shareware was crap 🤣

Yeah I remember it looked amazing in 1996 or what ever, but I only played the demo. I bet there is s no fog patch but I'm not even going to attempt to Google it. 😀

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I think the Atari ST soundchip was a failure. Even at the time. What an absolute shame.
Every tune I've ever heard coming out of it has made me regret having ears. Well, except some demoscene stuff.