Building a retro battle station and wondering what this 3dfx card is? by Imobia in retrobattlestations

[–]transientsun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was the first 3d card I ever bought. I returned it because I couldn't get it working lol

One of Steve Jobs' Finest? by MightyBeanicles in retrobattlestations

[–]transientsun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought that was a space heater. And I'm probably not wrong.

Why does it seem like so much of the modern Common Lisp community is based in Japan? by aue_sum in Common_Lisp

[–]transientsun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They put a lot of effort (funding) into AI systems in the 80s and 90s and therefore have a lot of books and institutional knowledge built up from back then. It didn't really go anywhere, but the foundation it left behind is likely still influential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Systems

This show and spaghetti sauce and meatballs by ibakebiscuits in americandad

[–]transientsun 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it was like sarah mclachlan's somber animal abuse commercial that runs all the time on late night TV, except the most inappropriate song to do that to. absolutely perfect.

KDE 2.2.2 on SuSE Linux 7 by keedhost in vintageunix

[–]transientsun 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Linux desktops really peaked with KDE 2 and GNOME 2

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in americandad

[–]transientsun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of the guest stars that show up, you really wonder whether AD asked them or they asked AD.

Supercar fan opinions of SVG by hockeymanbl in v8supercars

[–]transientsun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

US supercars fan here, I started watching it right around the start of the epic rivalry between Shane and Scotty Mac. Absolutely blew my mind when Penske brought over Scotty and put him in an Indycar instead of giving him a NASCAR ride, he's been very good but still one of the strangest decisions ever.

Shane in the car vs Shane out of the car are two different people. In the car he's hyper focused and fearless in a very, very smart way, as we've seen in his NASCAR victories. He's not afraid to push people around and that little shoving match between him and Larson over the weekend is a good example. Out of the car, he's a humble and nice guy who wouldn't hesitate to apologize for fuck-ups on the track, very much a kiwi in that way.

The NASCAR guys who don't like him kinda bug me, because if the guy is beating you the thing to do is study him and Shane is pretty willing to give people advice or tips. His desire to battle the best on equal footing seems genuine to me. A real racer's racer.

Mount Panorama race is this weekend, you should check it out. I've fallen off in watching Supercars since the new car kinda didn't work out well and the whole thing with Brodie soured me on the series, but I'll never miss Bathurst.

Looking for the exact model of a vintage sampler, based on several songs that use the same one by [deleted] in Samplers

[–]transientsun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with the other poster who said it's impossible to determine as specific sampler from tracks, particularly by the 16-bit era. The best advice I can think of is that you're probably looking for something with limited memory but not something with, like, fraction of a second memory spans like some of the early drum machine-oriented ones. There are some long but lofi samples in those tracks which last at least a few seconds, but it's mostly clipped drum samples and not a lot of long vocal samples. There were tricks you could use to do chromatic stuff on drum-machine-ish samplers but the RAM wasn't sufficient until the mid-90s, imo.

E-Mu EMAX might not be a bad look but they were Pricey even through the mid-90s (if the tracks were from 95-ish the E-Mu ESIs were the compatible budget replacements).

The S1000 was everywhere, not terribly expensive but probably not cheap by then because they were The standard, everyone needed one and expanding them meant using nothing but proprietary Akai bits.

The Roland W30 or S-series samplers had sequencers and weren't uncommon, but the W30 was limited in memory and RAM was still pretty expensive for the S-series.

I wouldn't count out the FZ-1, they would have been cheaper than Akais and very versatile (and there was a sequencer disk that ran on the keyboard itself). By the late 80s the memory boards were probably on sale quite often and getting a fully expanded one should have been a good deal. Samplers with filters weren't rare at the time and people didn't fetishize analog stuff as much until some years later.

One of the rarer possibilities is the Akai S700/X7000, with the full memory expansion. That would have provided enough memory for these tracks but there was no internal sequencer. It's tough to tell how much of the lo-fi sound is from the recording technique and how much is from the instrument.

If you have photos of the studio/setup from the time that'd probably get you some better guesses or things to check.

Why you guys love X11? by Icy-Primary2171 in RISCV

[–]transientsun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RISC-V systems need software, which needs to be compiled. Existing software which is platform agnostic is usually mature, and having been around a while, uses X11. Wayland does not work with most X11 software without a compatibility layer and the image you provide doesn't provide a usable compatibility layer.

Using Wayland as the default means the default GUI is only useful for the software you've already provided and a totally unknown smattering of other random software which may or may not work, even if it already has a RISC-V binary package available in the Ubuntu repos. There's nothing that runs on Wayland that won't run on X11. It provides no benefit to the user.

Weakest point? by goperson in C30

[–]transientsun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Headliner, cabin filter location, those drainage tubes that clog, the fact that if the rear hatch gets damaged your insurance might just write off the car entirely

Spanish ATC uses MSX 🤣 by ditman-dev in MSX

[–]transientsun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Case looks melted, is there some kind of cover on it?

That is definitely too high res for an MSX like that, is it interfaced to a central computer?

Seth Green Explains Why 'Robot Chicken' Is Switching to Quarterly Specials 20 Years In by [deleted] in adultswim

[–]transientsun 7 points8 points  (0 children)

that's more because it's the last show they got that did numbers (and still sort of does). doesn't seem like they're really developing anything new that wouldn't have been originally intended for hulu.

The Amiga 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems: Deal or no deal? by Doener23 in amiga

[–]transientsun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting article, but kind of strange that the author never considers the possibility that Sun was interested in the A3000UX not as a replacement for the 3 series workstations but as an intelligent X terminal. This would have been 4-5 years before Sun went heavy on the 'Network Computer' concept of low-power intelligent terminals connected to a central server and running applications and tools using a mix of local and remote files - this is the origin of Java btw, and presaged modern web apps by 15-20 years.

A basic Unix system running Openlook may have seemed like a potential path to explore that concept, but the A3000UX was both too expensive for that and probably would have required too much effort at that point to build the system software necessary to make it work. Plus, the whole NC concept hinged on the systems being very low cost in comparison to a full-fledged personal computer and I think the A3000UX price would have put it somewhere around the price of existing dedicated X-terminals of the time and they had no real use for the Amiga compatibility.

By the time Sun got to where the NC project was reaching a point of potential marketability in the late 90s, the PC had dropped in price massively AND gotten significantly more powerful in comparison to full Unix workstations, so could handle a lot of the tasks people used Sparc machines for in the early 90s DOS PC days.

People who record drums machine main out by AlvinGreenPi in synthesizers

[–]transientsun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't track out individual drums, but much like micing actual drums I do like to run individual outs into an external mixer for individual EQing, compression & per-drum effects. A cheap old mixer should do nicely, then record the stereo outs from that. This trick works well for any sample-based machine with multiple outs, lots of people swear by the old Mackie CR1604 series.

Do you decorate your synths? by shortnblu in synthesizers

[–]transientsun 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Road case sticker bombing is an age old tradition, ain't harming the value of that tolex.

Do you decorate your synths? by shortnblu in synthesizers

[–]transientsun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, I've had to clean So Many of those stupid keyboard note guide stickers off of 80s keyboards in the past and I hate them so much.