RetroRen

The fans in my desktop are.. even bigger than the old days, but they're mostly Noctua and dead silent (except the video card's fans, which are.. I dunno, awful). I don't miss the fan noise all that much. The one thing I do miss, though, is the sound hard drives used to make!

I've been playing the Patreon extremely-early access tech demo of this, and it's amazing. There's so much potential, and so much improvement over their prior projects!

My favourite joystick. Still have a couple. Was great for all games with that short throw, *except* the ones that involve hardcore fire button spamming...

* - chat logs and memories are per-session and per-user. They're no different than say storing it on Google Drive or such...until OpenAI scrapes that data, of course.

That's awful. While the story being in the memory or context of ChatGPT doesn't really matter*, OpenAI scrapes that data eventually and turns it into training material, which means it will become part of ChatGPT's neural net in future updates (assuming that hasn't happened already)!

Fortunately my old desktop is a Sandybridge-E, so when I converted it to Linuxy goodness, it didn't care about the video card. It's nice to see it tear through workloads when Microsoft was all "nuh-uh" about it.

I've had some problems in the past with AMD CPUs and ATi cards. When I was setting up my new rig (AMD 5600x), I was initially using I think Debian 11 with some sort of older ATi card, and it kept on exploding. Switching the RTX 2070 to it solved that issue, but it was kinda baffling.

Ugh, I should get off my lazy butt and write some Pathfindery (PF2e) CRPG...seems like it's not gonna happen otherwise.

Heck, yeah!

The googly-eyed wrath of the older Power Mac! Uh... some sort of G4, right?

The magic of open source. Don't like how something's done? Fork it, and change the way things happen!

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With the state of the game industry nowadays - gems hidden amongst mountains of AAA garbage and shoddy asset flips - if there isn't a demo there's a good chance I'll pass.

Watching others play a game only goes so far for evaluation.

Uh, they keep using that word, but I do not think it means what they think it means...

I'm not an Apple fan (anything past the Apple II series that is), but I do like it when old computers are brought back to life.

One of my faves!

Ah, that's the same type of 1084s that I had.

Old man threw it away when I left it with him. I'm still angry about that to this day.

Yep, the 1571 definitely goes with the C128. It's compatible with the C64, but the C64 can't leverage the fast transfer...at least not directly/natively.

Holding down the Commodore key (or typing GO64 at the prompt) will get you into C64 mode, which is where mine spent most of it's time.

I've noticed that scrolling is faster here than on Xhitter. I guess Xhitter has 4096TiB of javascript running at all times or something?

Your bio says you "own too many floppy disks". LIES!!! There's no such thing as "too many floppy disks"!

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Yay Eye of the Beholder!

Pentium III covers a broad range of chips, heh.

Quick searching seems to suggest that a Profile 3 is a Socket 370 system?

Yay Subnautica!

That's one of those Sharp X68000s, isn't it?

I'd love to have one of those!

That's actually a Commodore machine you have pictured there. Jack Tramiel and Shiraz Shivji were involved in it's creation.

Just like how Atari engineer Jay Miner was the lead designer for the Amiga.

The tech world was really flexible back then..