This probably sparked my obsession with see-through electronics. Ad: -"GASP! You're naked!" -"No, transparent, baby! No need to get all red!" These were launched a few weeks before my birthday and I even got the one I wanted as my first console ever! youtu.be/SE_s-FZ0qqk

Iran is safe until the US stock exchange closes for next weekend, unless the unredacted Epstein files leak before that.

Hm, my board (Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming) does have a line in. Will it die if I connect that to a speaker out (instead of line out) of an old sound card?

Do you think when the full extent of Nazi Germany concentration camps became known, there were people who had casually met, or just passed, Hitler before he constantly had 50 bodyguards & asked themselves what if I had just shanked that completely unsuspecting bitch? This post is about billionaires.

I chose not to pursue game design as a career because I love games and I love game design but I also know: if I had to do this 60-80 hours a week, possibly for someone elses project that I resonate less with, and constantly fear for my job, it would make me hate games and game design. No regrets.

I believe I just solved the mystery why eveybody believes the ALSFM in ALS120 based ISA cards sounds "accurate but muffled". Avance Logic seems to have integrated their stolen original OPL3 logic into the chip but all ALS120 cards only have (cheap) amplified speaker outs, no line outs.

Personally this isn't my favorite song, but Anatoly posts these regularly and there are some certified bangers among them for every taste.

I just wanted to give someone a heartfelt compliment on their content only to find that "only some people can comment" and frankly now I'll stay away from them. There's probably a good reason and I might be the A here but I don't want to feel like I may watch from afar but not even publicly speak.

Bluesky finally removed the "drastic content" warning on my joke of the year. Although to be fair, the way the VRAM is organized on that S3 *is* drastic content.

Been hunting a card with real OPL4 for a while, but did not realize that my Yamaha TG100 is apparently using the very same patch set, just with some (a lot) reverberate activated by default. Let's see if there's a way to disable it! The TG100 is still a comparably cheap device and easy to find.

Reminds me of my former co-worker, Ferdi, from Turkey, who used to eat sandwiches with bacon because "God won't see it when it's hidden between the bread slices". Bless him lol

I am very pleased to say that the full version of the game does indeed NOT have the sound issue, so the only remaining problem is that the game runs about four times too fast. Which is not an issue at all, since the music's tempo is not affected! I can record it this way!

I wanted to record a bit of Hi Octane (1995)'s first track music (Amazon Delta Turnpike), but for some reason the demo does not apply having the sound FX set to 0 volume, so it's not worth recording like this, with explosions & race"cars" zooming by all the time. Also horribly speed sensitive game.

Gave away my 14" non-Trinitron CRT because I'd only use my flat Trinitron-based 21" Eizo F931 but in hindsight it was a mistake, now I can't compare between shadow mask & aperture grille. And the Eizo is too big to fit on this super cool 2.1 setup that woul ideally sit between a desktop case and CRT

100% this. My wish for the future of technology and games is to have a "100% created without the use of AI" seal of quality. That would make it a little easier for customers, especially when slop inevitably gets harder to detect in the future.

There comes a point in every man's life where you realize you now relate less to your favorite Ninja Turtle but more to Pettersson.

Choose your fighter: Corner Hero Tinted Glass Door Gentleman Thousand Shelf Butler Y2K Pillar Styler

Just randomly found a switchblade lodged into a fence around 50m (150 feet) away from two schools. I carefully took it since I didn't want it picked up by the wrong person. Asked the popo what to do with it, might have been used after all, but they're so useless, they said throw it away.

He supports Russia. Keeping the criminals in power might very well be a means to support them, too. There sure is hell exists Kompromat about them and protecting your assets is common sense. As long as they are in power, they can act pro-Russian. Trump is a prime example.

A fine example of Emperor Wilhelm's style (built 1903-1905).

She said "fuck no" and I agree

Ugh, I just told someone that using some racist slurs was sadly still very common in the early 2000s in Germany, albeit less from a place of actual hate and more out of a lack of education, many people were not aware of how insulting the words used were. Not that that made it any less hurtful 1/3

Funnily enough, you could combine an ALS100+ with the AWE CT1920 to build the best AWE of all time lol, it doesn't even need more resources (aside from a second ISA slot) since the CT1920 only uses an IO address like 330, no IRQ or DMA.

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And then I remembered, I *have* one of them. These "Diamond Technologies DT-0297" cards are rebadged Avance Logic ALS100+. It may look like the shittiest budget card to be avoided like the plague, but it sounds EXCELLENT and on this one the wavetable connector even allows for big daughterboards!

Really the only thing that could be better about this card is that some have the wavetable connector doesn't allow for big daughterboards. Although some versions of the card are higher or have the connector rotated 90 degrees (or in the low profile version 180 degrees) and that works fine.

We had already established that the ALS100+ has an original (albeit unlicensed and disguised) OPL3 chip for FM synthesis, and that these cards only have a bad reputation because some of them have low quality amps (which only matters if you don't use line out) and others perpetuated half truths. BUT!

I hate german Karneval but sometimes their wagons hit the nail on the head

WTF man I knew Vanilla Ice was a dick but a fcking Ninja Turtle dancing with him on stage, performing "Ice Ice Baby" for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller? FUCK ALL OF THAT THE NINJA TURTLES ARE DEAD TO ME www.youtube.com/shorts/mQdWV...

The adventure game genre could actually be hit the least by this. AI can do slop stories and slop code, but is even more sh*t at thinking of riddles and least of all humor. And people who play adventures often appreciate hand-drawn graphics, too. Maybe we need a "certified AI-free" seal of quality.

I will not accept lectures about political strategy from someone who owns a funko pop

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free. ...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...

Weird how choosing an ISA sound card for DOS is both a science and a religion, but choosing a Windows 95/98 sound card is simply this

Is this well regulated armed militia going to overthrow the tyrannic government full of pedophiles soon?

Just found out there is a racing event in Germany that, borrowing from Fast & Furious' "Racewars" is called "German Racewars" and maybe it's just me but I feel like the name is not ideal.

Why is it called "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" when none of them are good and all of them are bad and ugly?!

You might not be seeing my latest post about a graphics card, because the second picture in it depicts Tony Shalhoub, portraying OCD-afflicted private detective Adrian Monk, lying in a coffin for reenacting a crime. And that got it flagged as "explicit" or "drastic". Both Shalhoub and Monk are well.

Oh come on, I do not agree with how hard this joke bombed. Let me explain it: these people lying on top of each other are resembling a couple engaging in sexual activity, where in this position the person on the bottom would be considered "the top" and vice versa. Sad Manfred noises.

In related or unrelated news: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Okay this is VERY confusing, which one is the top and which one is the bottom?! #Olympics #MilanoCortina2026 #2026Olympics #WinterOlympics

So much vibe coding going on now, was it too hard for you to copypaste the code you don't understand from stackoverflow, so you had to outsource it to the environment-destroying fakemachine?

Imagine the horror if this was not fake

Board revision 1.2 of this card is not only less picky with RAM modules, it also changed the two connectors to the front panel so you cannot accidentally plug them in wrong. Which is good, because otherwise I would have gotten the colorful one wrong.

I want to do some proper recordings of the Terratec EWS64 XL so you can fall in love with it, too - but my recording tool is doing weird stuff, sadly. Will attempt to fix that today.

If I wasn't broke af right now, I'd start collecting NDS RPGs before their prices get crazy, too. That handheld has a real banger library.

The "Please: RTFM!" on the back of the card is no joke. I had a bit of trouble myself, but also the web is full of misinformation from people who expected 100% authentic Roland SC-55 sound without configuring the effects processor, or who had average SNR because they screwed up mixer settings.

This case desperately needs some love. The speakers are shitty, and the equalizer doesn't really work, these stairway-like LEDs are supposed to light up equal to how loud each side currently is (going up and down while sound is active). But it stays at the minimum. And what a system to put into it?