Holy crap have these types of blogs become rare from me lately. Anyhow, y'know how I have that little tidbit on my user page on posting a blog from a late 90's-era computer?

I kinda maybe sorta bumped it up a notch. I'll prolly post a blog from that system sometime else, but short to say, I've built a system using a mix of period-correct hardware from the late 90's and early 2000's. What can it do?

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Had to pass it through a denoising tool to get rid of the graininess too after such a massive resolution drop from 8k down to 1080p.

EDIT: needed to downscale it further to 75% 1080p because the file was over 8mb.

Still looks good though ngl

or at the very least, i've become the person that's gonna put out the announcement video to kick off the event :V

more on that later when i post the video lol

Correction: they still have some intel macs that'll stick around for a bit longer. There's still a few more planned.

IT WORKS! POSTING ON FIMFIC VIA SURFACE RT! IT DIDN'T BRICK!

Essentially, all it does is make the story lists on the front page, (new/updated stories + popular stories), as well as the related stories list on the side of story pages, scrollable.

It also shortens the list down to a preset size, making it so you don't have to scroll the entire site page just to find a story.

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Now that I've archived the disks, I've decided to try out the program in DOSBox with the currently-in-progress chapter of Pony-Me. Outside of being slightly buggy when dealing with a file format that's almost thirty years newer than the program itself, it actually works surprisingly well!

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I found a dusty cassette recording of 7 year old me from nearly a decade ago singing "God Bless the USA" in the kitchen at my old house.

And I found a RadioShack cassette player in the same box I pulled from storage.

Also, I now have a pile of blank, unrecorded cassettes.

I'm no longer able to hit those high notes. And yes, I was singing along to myself because why not.

Took about half an hour to get the texturing done, and the color saturation rendered a bit wonky, but here it is.

Nearly forgot to make the render, too. :P

The center black diamond-thingy is actually a dark purple, but rendered grey no matter what render settings I chose.

EDIT: heck, I have a camera. Here's an actual pic for comparison:

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Why is it that every Pentium 2 system I've worked with always has the same problems?

No matter what I've done, every Pentium 2/i686 based PC that I've worked with always seems to have a problem that ends up with lines upon lines of I/O errors when all I'm trying to do is boot a freakin' live CD that works with i586 machines.

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I'm just gonna hope it all goes well. I'm on the final stretch of ~150 updates, and this time, I'm not going to install any updates marked optional, no matter what. And if I happen to end up accidentally doing so, I'll follow what one user on the support page said they did, and fully shut down the system and start it again instead of a soft reboot like what normally goes on after an update.

Got talks going on in our alliance, and let's see if we can beat the competition in the playoffs!

In a very creepily similar way to the computer that preceded it.

When I first built my current PC, I ended up cannibalizing my old PC for parts, placing the RAM, GPU, and Hard Drives into my new computer.

Just a few minutes ago, my new PC crashed.

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Oh crap. I almost forgot again.

Intel's x86 architecture has been around since the 8086, which was the company's first commercial 16-bit chip.

x86, while originally 16-bit, was eventually extended to 32 bits with the introduction of the 80386.

Funnily enough, AMD actually brought upon the 64-bit extension of x86, with their Athlon-64 lineup.

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First up, Google Chrome, because of course.
Just finished reinstalling Office 2019, though I'm gonna pay a bit more mind to backing up my documents folder from now on.
Gonna be going through browser extensions next, and then maybe Minecraft.

Specs:
300MHz Pentium II
128MB SDRAM
8gb HDD (currently represented by an 8gb SD card for easy file transfer while installing software and drivers)
Nvidia RIVA 128 with 4mb graphics memory
US Robotics 56k modem
Hitachi CDR-8330 CD-ROM drive
Zip 100 drive
Floppy drive

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SO.

The 74ls273 is a pretty neat device. 8-bit flipflops with an output enable and a clear contents signal. All in all it's pretty nice. Only problem? No input enable. You throw a hunk of data at it and it'll swallow it up even if you don't want it to.

The solution? the 74ls173. The '173 has both input and output enable pins, plus a clear contents pin. The only problem? One, it's only 4 bits, so I've gotta double them up.

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Three years straight of making it all the way to the quarterfinals and then losing.

Let's hope for next year.