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things u wish stayed

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well there are a few hardware items i wished that remained in use, or more common. what ones do u wish were still around

superdisk- still around but hard to find. great drive to get. similar to zip except disks look like a floppy. holds 2 flavors 120MB and 200MB. uses optical technology and has an added plus. it is backwards compatible with floppy disks. I scored one from my moms work and i am impressed by it. its fast and easy, plus it is USB. i really use it because i did not install a floppy in my new system and there has been a number of times i needed to use one.

syquest optical drive- fast and reliable. optical disks hold a max of 230MB. reads and rights as fast as a hard drive can. takes abuse. however i do believe syquest stoped makeing the drives, but they still make the disks. the only bad part is that most of them are SCSI based, though i like SCSI USB and firwire are easier wires to work with. I dont know if they made any one the drives in a USB fashion.

though i have others, cd-r/rw, jazz drives and tape backups these are the best i have used.

zips are common but dont like abuse, and i think they are still magnetic based(correct me if i am wrong)

Jazz drives hold a shit load, next to a USB hard drive or DVD disk, but also dont like abuse. plus they can be bitches alot. infact mom's office use to use them until the got superdisks(which they still use) i can get an unlimited supply of jazz disks but i dont use that drive.

what drives, hardware and other computer related items do u wish still remianed

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hey i have been playing around with a tandy 1000 286 system. honestly the CGA on it sucks. I have seen much better CGA on other computers.

how about DOS coming back
I wish windows remained a operating enviroment(like the x windows sytem on unix/linux)

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heh

I want xtree gold to come back

there's an old 286 next to me with that on it

and some furry porn enema stories I wrote when I was twelve

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The ability to run old games well. It's a good thing that there are projects like DosBox to bring some of that back into functionality, as well as the source ports of DOS games to Windows (I downloaded the Duke Nukem 3D port for Windows the other day, haven't tried it out yet).

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Yeah it would be cool to have DOS back in all future version of Windows, if only so people would stop making all those confounded "I have XP and Doom doesn't work, what do I do?" threads :)

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i hope to one day see the return of the super nintendo!

does that count?

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Tobester said:

and some furry porn enema stories I wrote when I was twelve


you too huh?

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I had a 120mb superdisk drive. It was sweet being able to read normal disks much faster, but it died.

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Ugh, I hate my zip drive. The disks often go corrupt on me.

I wish the Dreamcast hadnt died. If only so that I wouldnt feel so silly about having bought one.

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Use3D said:

you too huh?

Good gawd. How many people here are me?

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Tobester said:

and some furry porn enema stories I wrote when I was twelve

Dude, that's not normal. In fact, it's bizarre.

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yeah I miss dos

good old days of dir/w and format c:\ and cd gay\pron\

sure, guis are nice but theres a loss of power

its like havinb a big dick but never getting it hard

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Tobester said:

yeah I miss dos

good old days of dir/w and format c:\ and cd gay\pron\

sure, guis are nice but theres a loss of power

its like havinb a big dick but never getting it hard

Hmm...

excuse me for questioning your sanity.

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DooMBoy said:

Dude, that's not normal. In fact, it's bizarre.

Define 'normal'.

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fraggle said:

Define 'normal'.

Found this on MathWorld:

The normal vector, often simply called the "normal," to a surface is a vector perpendicular to it. Often, the normal unit vector is desired, which is sometimes known as the "unit normal." The terms "normal vector" and "normalized vector" should not be confused, especially since unit norm vectors might be called "normalized normal vectors" without redundancy. When normals are considered on closed surfaces, the inward-pointing normal (pointing towards the interior of the surface) and outward-pointing normal are usually distinguished. The normal vector is commonly denoted N or n, with a hat sometimes (but not always) added to explicitly indicate a unit normal vector.

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fraggle said:

Define 'normal'.

See what Fredrik has already written. I meant it's not exactly normal for someone to see and write furry enema porn stories.

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Fredrik said:

Hmm...

excuse me for questioning your sanity.


I was declared insane by a psychologist back in 2000, but now im totally sane.

Fredrik said:

All that "normal" bullshit.



Dude, does it just suck being you or what?

GO FINISH VRACK3 GOD DAMNIT

NO ONE WANTS ANY OF YOUR SARCASTIC HIPPIE SHIT

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Assmaster said
I wish the Dreamcast hadnt died. If only so that I wouldnt feel so silly about having bought one.

That's a beastly system with still very much to offer (still more than GameCube, X-Box, PS2 IMO). And you shouldn't feel silly if you bought it yesterday.

It's just hard to find the good stuff anymore. But you can always burn your own NesterDC v7.1 or SMEG.

I wish Saturn stayed, heh.

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DooMBoy said:

See what Fredrik has already written. I meant it's not exactly normal for someone to see and write furry enema porn stories.

No, the point I'm making is there is no such thing as "normal".

Do you think its "normal" to be playing a 9 year old game with long outdated graphics and features? By some people's standards, you're an abnormal freak.

Of course, theres nothing wrong with playing doom - its just rather uncommon nowadays. Everyone is different and "normal" people do not exist.

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I fucking love Doom. Hey Danarchy do you have a working C64? I do, it has two drives and a shitload of pirated games. I should get those old disks out of the humid basement...

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Yeah, my brother threw an ax at my head casue I smashed his c64.

It's not like he was using it for anything tho.

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fraggle said:

Do you think its "normal" to be playing a 9 year old game with long outdated graphics and features? By some people's standards, you're an abnormal freak.

Well, let me say this to you: you're the mastermind behind FreeDoom, a complete TC for Doom, which is a 9 year old game. Also, you've did some programming (and made your own port) for source ports, which bring life to a 9 year old game. By some people's standards you're an abnormal freak.

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DooMBoy said:

Well, let me say this to you: you're the mastermind behind FreeDoom, a complete TC for Doom, which is a 9 year old game. Also, you've did some programming (and made your own port) for source ports, which bring life to a 9 year old game. By some people's standards you're an abnormal freak.

You're missing the point entirely.

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dreamcast
saturday anime ( scifi channel )
doomworld POTD
snes games ( last i heard blockbuster was throwing them away and i should have picked them up.

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things i wish WOULD go away. the big SCSI and IDE cables. hell even the round IDE cables are too big for me.


furry enema porn?? man i dont even want to know. sounds made up but then agian there are people who like german shit movies. both are too sick for even me to think about. lets keep to the supject people

computer and games hardware u wish was still around

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Things I wish would go away:

AOL
those speakers mounted on the sides of monitors
Optical devices
Dell
Internet tax

Certain television shows:
The Lifetime channel
The Oxygen channel
Country Music Television

Certain Canadians:
Pamela Anderson
Celine Dion
David Duchovny
Alan Thicke
Alex Trebek
AndrewB

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Time (well it has to go when it is the "right time")
Doom
Being with your loved ones

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