Were the 90s really this awful?

That's an extreme case, almost no one used laptops in the 90s outside of business men, and desktops sure as hell didn't use shitty monochrome monitors with colors that looked like a slightly better typewriter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface

x files is basically fucking boring and grey so much so you can hardly notice it droning on in the background unless cia niggers is involved then its kinda interesting

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>>58429752
>390MB hard drive

dang

>>58429789
not true, my step dad and I played a crap ton of SimAnt on his old lappy

>tfw remember my first Windows 95 machine perfectly
>being so excited when GTA 1 came out only to find out it was 80Mb and I only had a 36Mb hard drive

I sure did enjoy those 16Mb of RAM though, proper multitasking

>>58429752

cd windows 
win

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>>58430429
memories

>>58430429
>not setting PATH in autoexec.bat
I bet you don't even SWITCHES=/F

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Color laptops were extremely expensive back then.
I have pic related but it's broken. It was made in 1991 and has a color TFT LCD (VGA), not the DSTN shit that most color laptops had. Needless to say, it cost more than 12000 DM (around 6000$)

>>58429752
>DIR /W
>not /D /P

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>>58430528
And apparently this was the first laptop with a touchpad.

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>>58429752

>>58430534
dir /d didnt exist yet

>>58429752
it was just this year i took a shoebox full of old windows CDs and burned them in a 55 gallon drum full of trash, i had win95 win98se winnt4, win2k, and a few CDRs with various old windows software, i abandoned windows because Linux is free and better,

>>58430528
>>58430583
olivetti made some pretty nice looking shit

>>58430619
who asked for your blog???

>>58430619
you are worst than fucking vegans. There's a really short list of things worst than vegans. You are up there with pedophiles and people who talk in the movies.

>>58429945
my nigga
SimAnt is one of my favorite games in the history of gaming.

>>58429752
>He never play Warcraft II Tides of Darkness in Monochrome without sound
>He never played gorilla.bas in DOS with his girlfriend on a shared keyboard where fingers would occasionally touch
>He never installed Windows 95 via 30 floppy discs and see the glorious drum roll as it prepares internet explorer and desktop

you missed out

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CD-ROM Magazines had the best stuff ever, I regret having tossed those CDs now and not having backed them up before hand. There was shit there that I would value more today than the demos back then. Some had books inside, some had those small files with music demos that are hard to find today, I still don't know how you load those motherfuckers.

>>58433044
>30+ floppy disk software packages
>"missing out"
please nigger I have enough fun occasionally using my 36-disk office set on old laptops and I wouldn't wish that abortion on anyone

>>58433089
back then i had to print out the hentai and stories to fap in private. you can't fit much on 1.44mb disk.

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You are currently living in the worst age of computing, kids. Computers used to be unique and non-linear. Now it's all the same shit with a different sticker.

>You will never go to your local Tandy/Radioshack to buy components

Oh how I miss fucking around with config.sys and autoexec.bat to make any new game playable. NOT.

>>58433129
>You are currently living in the worst age of computing,

If anything its cheaper to get into computing today and much more fun, we're just all too distracted by the internet, porn, work and life. We also suffer from a lack of serendipity, we're all on a handful of websites, I still wonder to this day what the hell did I do on the internet 10 years ago.

Soon I'm going to get into a little bit of data hoarding and may get into RPI to learn how to make a few servers at home for file sharing or IRC.

>>58433129
you mean the age of two or three usable platforms and hundreds of mutually incompatible no-name platforms with garbage hardware, garbage operating systems and hilariously tiny, overpriced software bases that were obsolete within a few months and had no clear upgrade path? yeah those were the days indeed

it was a more exciting time but acting like it was actually better on a practical basis is showing your age (or your lack of it depending on how deeply tinted those nostalgia goggles are)

>>58432777
trips of motherfucking truth.

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god damn i just realized that is some really nice font going on this magazine, anyone know what this is?

>>58429819
Member when software was written well enough to take up a few MB rather than a few GB? I member.

>>58429752

>Were the 90s really this awesome

FTFY

>>58429819
>1993
>4 core CPU
huh?

the 90's were the best time for PC Gaming. Modern PC Games are "muh resolution lel", the 90's were about tits and exploding flesh, cuss words and making your own maps and shit

Consoles are now the premiere gaming devices, I shake my head and laugh at the teenagers today who consider spending 2000 dollars so they can enjoy another million pixels on their widescreen monitors "gaming"

>>58430429
>tfw i remember this from when i was like 3
>tfw had some edugames where i had to load in DOS

>>58431375
>people who talk in the movies.
So niggers?

>>58433239
well gaming is gaming isn't it? if its a old atari, an old NES, your old 486 running DOS games or a xbox running GTA V or angry birds on your wifes cell phone, its all gaming.

The thing that we had back then that we don't today is barriers, barriers of resources that caused us to learn how to overcome those barriers, and barriers that caused developers to use the shittiest machines to develop their games so they'd know it would work for everyone. Today if you're on the wrong platform then fuck you.

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>>58433236
"what is multiprocessing" - /g/

>>58429752
I once replicated every word in the Brain Age book in the startup console command line hoping that I can somehow get it to desktop, just so I can play my Reader Rabbit.
They were bad times, but good enough to play Mortal Combat with a one button joystick.

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>>58429752
>Were the 90s really this awful?- 37 posts and 9 image replies shown.
no. they were fucking great.

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>>58433236
It's an SGI workstation. Those things were beastly in their time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxLa6P6exc

>>58433150
I actually miss it.

>>58433222
>Megabytes
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65342

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What should I do with all of these?

>>58429752
nah, by end of 1992 win3,1 was all I used for 99.9% of the time

>>58433222
Remember when software was well written enough to fit on a series of punch cards that you had to read in the correct order?

ITT: le wrong generation faggots

the 90s sucked retards, almost everything today is infinitely better except single player vidya

>>58433222
How can software be made great again. It's soon going to be common for 60 GB vidya.

>>58436154
It was better when technology didn't pander to retards.

>>58436175
>he thinks technology didn't pander to retards in the 90s
What do you think AOL was? Why do you think Windows 95 got so popular?

Again, you're just proving that you're a faggot le wrong generation tool.

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>>58436175
ahem

>>58436224
>aid to Switzerland
kek. Based Bill bailing out shadowy banks.

REMEMBER WHEN COMPUTING WAS LIMITED TO VACUUM TUBES AND PUNCHCARDS AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE ALL THESE STUPID YOUNG FAGGOTS WITH THEIR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND MICROCHIPS

TRULY THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMPUTING, EVERYTHING PANDERS TO RETARDS NOW AMIRITE GUISE

>>58436197
>>58436224
Back in the 90s you had to know how to use a computer to use it. Now, it's getting dumbed down and locked down more and more so retards can't accidentally break their computer.

>>58436261
>Back in the 90s you had to know how to use a computer to use it.
Nice tautology, retard. Windows 95 started the "dumbing down" and was the most user-friendly OS at that point. But you don't know that because you're an underage faggot with nostalgia for a time you never lived through.

>>58436292
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

>>58435899
gold

>consumer technology
>backdoors on every level
>Intel ME
>AMD AMT/TrustZone
What went wrong?

>>58436261
>1984
>buy a Mac
>it just works
>2017
>buy a Mac
>they are actually harder to use

>>58436305
No, that's obviously you, since you seem to fetishize a time when 128k was blazing fast because you're under the mistaken impression that normies couldn't figure out how to use windows 95 (protip: they could and they did)

>>58436344
You severely overestimate normalfag intelligence, they're incredibly retarded.

>>58436305

He's completely right though, Windows 95 from a functional standpoint is virtually no different than Windows 7/Windows 10. Sure aesthetics are different and there are more functions in the latter, but Explorer as a whole is relatively unchanged.

The only thing that's less 'difficult' for today's machines is 3rd Party Software and Hardware, only because Windows 95 had mediocre plug and play support, but to be fair, that was literally the first implementation of it.

>>58436364
>i am le speshul snowflake xddd
murder yourself

>>58436389
No he's not. There were far less normalfags on the internet in 1995 and technology wasn't a fashion accessory yet.

>>58436340
globalists took over sillicon valley

>>58436414
> technology wasn't a fashion accessory yet.
What a meaningless statement.

>>58436414
But still more normalfags than 1975.

You were probably a normalfag by 1995 standards anyways.

>>58436414
There really weren't.
Internet was filled with normies BEFORE www.

>>58436438
Yes it is, being trendy and cool is what appeals to normalfags. That's why they buy a new iPhone every year to use a new button at the cost of a car.

>>58436451
I think with usenet being restricted to colleges and universities, the internet was more normie before the www (as a % of userbase) compared to now.

>>58436459
t. faggot who buys a new graphics card every two years

>>58436501
Why would I need to when my current one works fine?

>>58436508
>owning a graphics card
normie faggot

>>58436520
>normies
>building PCs
pick one

>>58436520
Now you're just throwing buzzwords around.

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>>58436543
Building a PC is the most normie shit ever, especially if it's for gaming.

I bet you watch "tech" youtubers for benchmarks too you fucking normie.

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>>58429752
This is what we had instead of Google and Wikipedia for learning about stuff.

>>58436550
Gaming is for normalfaggots, you can't deny this.

>>58436556
Only normalfags use normie

>>58436576
t. normalfag expert

>>58435899
>What should I do with all of these?

Start your own museum?

>>58436572
Outside of shit like call of duty, not really. I don't even play video games much anyways.

>>58436585
I rest my case

>>58436597
>being this defensive over your normalfag hobby
why don't you go upgrade your fashion accessory GPU normalfaggot?

I bet you use windows too because other operating systems are too hard, retarded normie needs dumbed down technology

>>58436612
I don't use windows, stop projecting retard.

>>58436639
sure you don't normie.

>>58430464
Dat aliasing.

You almost gotta wonder if the aliasing was done ironically. It's hard to believe that a multi-billion dollar company's marketing department would intentionally release their flagship product's logo and not bother to smooth out the pixels.

>>58436648
I don't, go be agrivated somewhere else.

>>58436661
>no proof
retarded windows normalfaggot detected

>>58429819
That's actually a lot, when I first started using computers, I was on a 40 megabyte harddrive.

>>58436673
You're an idiot who's mad as fuck right now. Fuck off.

>>58436158

You'd have to lose high res textures

>>58436659
This was supposed to be shown at tiny CRTs, it's so blurry the aliasing will make it worse

>>58433222
How do you fix that?

>>58436689
>F-FUCK OFF I C-CAN'T PROVE I-I'M NOT U-SING WINDOWS LIKE A RETARD BUT Y-YOU'RE THE ONE W-WHO IS MAD
Hello normalfaggot!

I see that dumbed down pandering technology has been kind to you ;)

>>58435105
Me too desu senpai.

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Based Roberta Willams pt. 1

>Back when I got started, which sounds like ancient history, back then the demographics of people who were into computer games, was totally different, in my opinion, then they are today. Back then, computers were more expensive, which made them more exclusive to people who were maybe at a certain income level, or education level. So the people that played computer games 15 years ago were that type of person. They probably didn't watch television as much, and the instant gratification era hadn't quite grown the way it has lately. I think in the last 5 or 6 years, the demographics have really changed, now this is my opinion, because computers are less expensive so more people can afford them. More "average" people now feel they should own one.

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Based Roberta Willams pt. 2

>I really think that the idea that women are somehow 'punished' or 'resented' in the computer industry is overblown. I never experienced any resentments or maltreatment by anybody in the computer industry about my gender. Never. In fact, it was the opposite; I always felt that the 'men' in the computer industry were happy to have me around. I never felt that it was a gender thing. I think that, perhaps, why you don't see a lot of women in the computer game industry (I don't know; maybe it's different today and there a lot of them) is because, at least in the old days, computer games and computers just weren't the focus of the average woman or girl. In other words, the women/girls themselves just weren't that interested. Now, you could say that that was because the games weren't designed with females in mind (which was probably true because the 'boys' were designing them...for themselves!), but, computers just weren't something that, at least in those days, the average woman was interested in. Even a lot of men in those days weren't all that interested in computers! Nowadays things are different; computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince all sorts of people that they want and need a computer in their daily lives. But, in those days, none of that was true. But, back to the 'female' thing: No, I never experienced any problem with being a female in a so-called male-dominated field. They were happy to have me. It was just really up to me to actually 'put' myself there. If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they just have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody, in reality, is keeping them out...in my opinion, anyway.

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>>58429752

the 90s were great

>>58437053
>>58437067
make point and click games great again

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>>58437072
even with those basic Dos frontends

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>>58429752
Not using FSN like a boss.

>>58434955
8==D

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>>58437108
You might be able to help me.

I used to have a DOS frontend installed but I can't for the life of me remember the name of it since it's been 20+ years since I had it.

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>>58429752
betshesda games were awesome

>>58437300
I thought that game was kinda scary when I was young.

>>58437211
hyperdos?

>>58437341
No, not that either.

It was just a loader that started just when the computer started.
The picture is how I remembered it.
Yellow buttons, in that position.
You could load DOS, Windows and other DOS shortcuts with it.

>>58429819
it's 390kb lad

>>58437421
It's 390 million bytes. That's 390 MB.

>>58433193
>dat AESTHETIC
Was that CD full of elevator music?

>>58435738
Demoscene is great

>>58430464
Reminds me of being back at school when the hard drives were so small they made everyone save their work to floppy disks to save space.

>>58433193
Future Pub. used to be a GOAT company until the late 2000s when they terminated 80% of their magazines

>>58430586
Ah shit now I want to watch /g/ the movie...I mean hackers now.

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>>58437108
Why would you use that over NC?

>>58430528
>>58430583
olivetti was THE shit back then

>>58435899
Individual componants are worth more than the completed machines, remember that before putting an ad on craigslist.

Collectors will pay silly prices for some old piece of hardware on ebay. I sold an old pentium MMX processor on there for 150gbp.

It's become popular therefore it's shit - the thread.

>>58435082
Top end 1G of vram model = $80,000. Could you imagine rendering CGI with less than 1 G of vram. Must have taken weeks.

>>58435899
shit's worth its weight in gold just for that mac clone

the PCs look pretty meh as display quality pieces but they could probably still do a thing or to

>>58435899
Sell the macs to hipsters, the rest part them out on ebay. Don't sell as complete machines as they are worthless when complete.

>>58434955
lel, they used to have this gimmick of having a girl on the front page next to a computer all the time. pic related is one of the few where she might be imagined to actually use it, usually it was almost like they were holding keyboards on their heads.

>>58437733
lmao you'd be lucky to get 4 MB in expensive as fuck TRAM modules on desktops (if you had any memory at all) and I don't think even the most loaded infinitereality Onyxes ever neared 1 GB, SGI was historically absolutely jewish when it came to dedicated memory on video boards, though they could make up with it with incredibly high bandwidth main system memory

don't think that was really significant to rendering as much anyway, more real-time textured graphics

>>58436261
<ZING!> I have come from the 90s to tell you that you're talking bullshit. Main reason computers back then seemed more refined and less focused on retards was because your average rig would cost in the range of 1000s of $, euros, whatever, where now it is in it's 100s. If you're going to splash that much cash for something you better make sure you can use it productively. I guess people like you make arch popular as if you're nostalgic about something you never experienced and needlessly strive to make things hard for you, so you can "really" learn computing <ZOMG!>

>>58436154
the 90s were great because we had computers, video games and all the other cool tech shit. the internet hadn't been infected by megacorporations and normies yet. kids actually played outside too, it was the best of all worlds.

besides, what exactly has been invented since the 90s that is worth a shit? the only progress has been in refining existing technology.

My mom deleted Aladdin from our 386 (with SoundBlaster) because Lieberman whined about Mortal Kombat. I was "being violent" by placing grocery bags in the hallway and jumping over them.

>>58433236
No, it's probably quad-socket.

>>58433088
I know a guy who worked on TuneLand. If you were to picture a "typical Texan" based on broad stereotypes of Texas, he looks like that. Fun guy.

>>58437300
its an impressive 3d game and it pre dates quake

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>This, Descent 2, Longbow, USNF, Worms 2

It was a good time to be an adolescent.

>>58437975
> using HTML humor

>>58438695

Once upon a time there were some small worms who got very very annoyed and decided to go to arms. In order to wipe out their vicious enemy counterparts, they developed some really cool weapons, such as Banana Bombs and Magic Bullets. They trained all night, and every day, so they would become proficient in their wormly ways. Sometimes they would shoot grannies just for fun, and laugh about it in the evening time! We apologise on behalf of all the territories that we went to the trouble of translating Worms2 into, but we didn’t have [the] time to translate these passwords. Not that they need to be done. We suppose that you are really expecting to see a wonderful cheatmode when [you] finish the missions. And you are right!

>>58438760
WE HAVE TO GO BACK

I just ordered a voodoo2 and a big box copy of quake. I already feel bad about the money I spent but maybe when they arrive I'll be happy for a couple hours.

>>58438809
https://youtu.be/O4hn0sa6zUA

>>58438865
I love those giant house maps

>>58430464
The computer in OP has 390 MB free disk space. I can't remember a single computer that had that amound of disk space when Windows 3.1 was in use.

Maybe some millitary data center, but not normal people.

>>58438945
My dad's computer in 1992 only had 110MB hdd or so

>>58430534
Always used DIR/W/A/S/P

Why not?

My first PC had a 40 MB hard drive and 4 MiB of RAM, no floating point unit and 512 KiB of video RAM. 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks

>>58434955
LOL italian mags.. Spanish ones had actual porn in the CD

>>58436292
Most people world around did not buy Windows 95, and probably couldn't get a hold of it because of several reasons so they probably didn't exprience it until 98 actually came out.

List of reasons why you weren't using Win95
>No CD drive
>Not enough HD space
>Not enough RAM
>Didn't want to lose 150MB of HD to the OS
>If it ain't broke don't fix it.
>Printers
>Scanners
>Faxes

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>>58437179
>>58437902
>>58439495
Found some moar.

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dat ZX Spectrum

>>58439600
>>58439557
>OS/2
The original vaporwave meme.
>hey bitch put this necklace on or I'll tell tony how you suck my dick
>yes daddy
>don't bend thos fucking pins bitch ill smack you
>do it daddy do it.

>>58433088
I've got a few of the mid-late 90s CD-ROM magazines lying around. Bunch of issues of launch, blender, net power and some others. I'd love to share them. Maybe I'll throw the isos up somewhere sometime.

>>58439656
Do it anon, put them on the internet archive.

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>>58439631
EGA Paint... anyone used that?

>>58439600
What baiku is this?

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this one is apparently from 1988. Xerox Ventura Publisher. wonder that that ran on...

>>58439699
There was a program for DOS that was much like paint with a black background and green borders, with mouse and paint like pallet in VGA colors. But I don't know what it was now.

>>58439717
>wonder that that ran on...
>GUI
Gee anon, I'm guessing a mac??

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>>58439720
Deluxe Paint maybe? I know a lot of games were drawn with it.

anyway, someone posted these pics in an imgur album last week and I saved them. no idea where they're from but women are (were) hot.

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>>58439738
I was gonna guess Xerox Alto but maybe it's Mac. Dunno...

Smalltalk V

>>58439738
Wikipedia says I'm wrong, it says it was made for PC to run under GEM

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>>58439746
>Deluxe Paint maybe?
it kinda looks like it but the pic description said amiga... i dont know id have to look into it. I want to hoard DOS software, I really should get started on that. There are custom solutions out there that are yet to be outmatched by commercial solutions and they simply functioned better with less bullshit.

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>>58439819
must be Amiga Paint then! That shit was way ahead of its time.

>>58439769
>GEM
Never heard of it! Damn cool.

>>58439819
there was a DOS version too

>>58439849
>Amiga Paint
wut, you mean Delux Paint, was the de facto for years

>>58436588
>>58435899
Shits not even anything special

>>58439849
>GEM
It was a GUI that ran on DOS before Windows GUI came along, it existed for a while after Windows 3 as a shell replacement for Progman.exe , I never got into shell replacements.

>>58439850
one of these days ill find it, but I think it was a little more archaic than that pic looks.

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>>58439861
Yeah, Deluxe Paint.

Is this an Amstrad?

>>58433129
This, it was amazing being there to see it all happen.
People born now will never know it.

>inb4 your nostalgia is lying to you, it was shit
I liked the difficulty of things.

>>58436309
>>58437553
>>58437783
>>58437799
>muh 0,1g of 0 carat gold!!
Retards.

>>58433129
As a kid in the early 90s, I used to stop off at radio shack on the way home from school and would camp out there for hours on most days. I got to know pretty much every employee and the manager. I would play on some of the computers, hang out with a few of the employees fixing shit in the back and would pick up some things myself. I learned how to solder and was eventually trusted replacing basic components like capacitors and resistors on things they were repairing. I even made a few bucks out of it, and was kind of treated like an unofficial employee. They surprised me with a name tag and gave it to me for my birthday one year and I still have it to this day.

My mom would actually know to call me up there if she needed to talk or for me to come home or knew to pick me up there on most days if needed. Sometimes I stayed way late helping put away stock, setting up displays or testing things with the employees which usually involved RC races in the parking lot. I'd end up with a ride home from the manager if I stayed til close since he usually closed every night.

Shit was magical and got me introduced to computers and electronics. I learned a ton back in those days. There were places like that all over the country. Not just Radio Shack, but mom and pop stores, other chains and places where people were passionate and knowledgeable about this sort of thing.

Shortly after I graduated college I went back there and the radio shack store was still there but it was much much different. Of course the old employees were long gone and the manager still worked for the company but in a different store across the state. I did pay him a visit too. Things changed quite a bit...

But there will never be places like that again. Places where employees and managers can actually share their knowledge and still get paid for it. Now days, most places that operate like this are run by unpaid volunteers. It's really sad.

>>58439896
I just watched a short vid of GEM in action. I like it!

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I'm guessing this is suppose to represent magnetic tape.

surprisingly, magnetic tape is still used heavily for backup even today!

even Amazon and Facebook have high-capacity magnetic tape storage systems.

>>58439896
>>58439941
GEM was the default GUI for the Atari ST.

They also supplied it with PC clones.

>>58439932
RIP ;_;7

What happened to this culture

>>58439966
god damn.. you just know they fucked before or after that.

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>>58439966
>your facebook account is going to be backed up forever

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this one is funny...

>winfax
I remember using that as a kid to send faxes for my dad!

>Win3.1
I remember when it came out

>Pentium vs 486
Ah yes, the Pentium era that changed everything. Loved that processor. DOOM screamed on it.

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>>58439994
prolly my fav chick from these covers. hot as hell.

>>58440017
not if you prevent it anon. Go full Elliot on them.

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Whatever happened to joysticks? No one makes/uses them anymore.

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>>58433129
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as "good old times", is in fact, just nostalgia, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, "muh retro". "good old times" is not an argument unto itself, but rather another nostalgic feeling by purposely forgetting about the bad shit, comprising a full feeling defined by "muh retro".
Many computer users deny the bad without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, idea that old times where better, and many of its users are not average of the bad memories, developed by your brain. There really is a luddite mindset, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the community they are in.
Nostalgia is the cancer: the idea that those times where better. That actually it was difficult, expensive hobby, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of your memories and circlejerk threads. Nostalgia is normally used in combination with the luddite threads, the whole system is basically a muh retro and circlejerk or retro thread. All the so-called “muh retro” thread are really just circlejerks.

>>58440085
Because they are only good for flight simulators.
Gamepads took over because they make more sense.

>>58438945
>I can't remember a single computer that had that amound of disk space when Windows 3.1 was in use.
have quite a few win 3.x systems that shipped standard with 540MB disks, even all but the lowest of the low-end budget systems were coming with 300MB minimum by 1994

>Maybe some millitary data center
those guys were already running disks of 1 GB or larger size though, 400 MB was fuck all in the high end

>>58439925
>misinterpreting my post
what I was saying is that mac clones were rare as shit and the whole lot is pretty nice just for that one system

>>58440116
>mac clones
there are no mac clones on that picture anon

>>58440085
You can buy them

But they're mostly targeted towards the flight sim crowd

>>58439685
I've been wondering where I could possibly put them. For a while I was trying to upload them to various trackers but could never find one that would allow me because the content was so mixed. But yeah, that's a good idea, anon. Thanks!

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>>58437053
>>58437067
>Phantasmagoria
opinion discarded

>>58440147
take another look, there's a nice little power computing box right below that garish blue compaq

originally thought the tangent was one too but I don't think so, there's no mention of them ever getting licensed

>ONLY 90'S KIDS WILL REMEMBER XD

You people make me sick.

>>58439979
Can't speak for other companies, but everyone knows how Radio Shack was basically gutted from the inside out and is nowhere near the same company it was in the past. A lot of corporate policy and BS make such things impossible these days, along with not caring who they hire or if they have any kind of skill whatsoever, as long as they can pounce on someone right as they walk on through the door to pressure them into buying a phone, they're hired! They also stopped paying their actually skilled storefront employees what they deserved, and when they realized they could find a better paying job that doesn't restrict them, but instead rewards them for their skills, the very last traces of knowledge in that company moved on.

Source: I climbed the corporate ladder at Radio Shack for almost 10years and it was bad.

>>58440266
Why? If you don't have anything to do in this thread because you weren't around those times why get butthurt?
20 years from now you can make thread talking about Core 2 Duos and shit too.
>remember when DX10 came out?

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>>58440115
>>58440153
true.

I wonder how many units they sell every year. can't be that much.

what's the Lamborghini/Cadillac of joystick world today?

Also, what are the most popular flight sims? MS Flight Sim? XPlane?

>>58440355
It always is and will be Competition Pro.
They just make them with USB now.

>>58429752
Yes, my father used XTreeGold on his 486, which by the way still runs with all the original parts and peripherals

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>>58440355

>>58437524
Best Commander

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>>58440404
>USB
I wonder how long before everything becomes USB-C and you can't find a USB-A plug anywhere.

>>58440451
Damn that looks good! Must be expensive as fuck tho.

>>58440465
>I wonder how long before everything becomes USB-C and you can't find a USB-A plug anywhere.
A few years. It took long for USB 3.0 to even become a mainstream thing.

>>58440324
liking things from the 90s is one thing

but 90s kid hipsters who see the decade through prepubescent rose-tinted glasses while acting like we live in some kind of dark age and never shutting the fuck up about it are insufferable

they know fuck all about the industry, fuck all about the actual state of things, fuck all about why things were the way they were, they aren't enlightened or smart, they just regurgitate romanticised anecdotes from other retards who had no idea either

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>>58440490
I know. I bought some really expensive USB-3 hubs so I don't have to always reach under my desk to plug some shit in and now everything's becoming USB-C..

I think you need to buy a new MoBo + (newish) CPU to even plug anything USB-C.

Shit sucks. Not gonna upgrade for at least a while because my current computer does everything I want and it's fast.

>>58440538
You're in the wrong thread.

>>58437393
GEM?

>>58440543
I agree.

But I hope the do the USB-C transition fast, It's annoying to have different cables, like microUSB, USB 3.1 and USB-C, I want USB-C to because the de factor for everything so we can get over with this shit. USB 2.0 lasted a long time and I hope USB-C will do the same, it's comfy to have a laptop and just plug in one cable to a hub that has display out, USB, audio and power the laptop at the same time.

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>>58440538
>we live in some kind of dark age

>we don't

>>58440604
nah I love '90s shit and have a lot of it, I just see it for what it is and appreciate the advantages the modern era of computing affords me to enjoy it to its fullest (and cheapest)

>>58440667
>espionage wasn't possible before the internet
>muh cyberpunk video game fantasies
you're the cancer I'm talking about, fuck off

I sured loved being a robot outcast in the early 1990s with no Internet

>>58440115
>Because they are only good for flight simulators.
they're good for any kind of game
I've played racing, action, platformers, sports games on a joystick. all were fine. especially when you're left handed but use the mouse with the right hand, then you can go joystick+mouse

>>58440776
>I just see it for what it is and appreciate the advantages the modern era of computing affords me to enjoy it to its fullest (and cheapest)
>Implying people here don't use modern tech or don't like it.
>Implying it wasn't great to be on the journey, we ended up here anyways.
>Implying some people didn't like the difficulty and market of the time.

>>58440776
>>espionage wasn't possible before the internet
It wasn't on such big scale

>>58440776
>>espionage wasn't possible before the internet

Now we can spy on everyone and analyze their activity in real time using AI

>>58440864
>implying two implications that were never even implicated
and yeah, I'm sure while you were barely able to take a shit by yourself your parents absolutely relished the "difficulty" while counting out every penny they blew on that $2,000 mid-range system that was obsolete before it even left the factory and pretty much useless in five years or less

the hardware may have been wonderfully engineered and much more exciting than today, but don't kid yourself if you think people actually enjoyed paying out the ass for it and watching it turn to hot garbage within a month

>>58440923
did we forget about the cold war already? do you really think it's difficult to hire a couple more goons at government-controlled post offices to snoop mail or trail/study people in the same ways modern intelligence services do now? we weren't simpering children unable to function without our telescreens telling us what to do in the pre-internet age, all that ultimately does is make the up-front data collection easier

>>58441397
we can't even take out a deranged spic that literally walked into a government institution and told them he was batshit, you give them far too much credit

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>>58429752
Will I get super sight with one of these?

>>58439966
Probably printer tape since there is a printer mega test inside

DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM AUTO

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>>58441560
good point.

>>58441448
Oh look, it's Justin!

You seem to be quite popular >>58440107

>>58441448
>but don't kid yourself if you think people actually enjoyed paying out the ass for it and watching it turn to hot garbage within a month
I actually worked myself and bought my systems, had a A1200 when it came out, a 486 a few years after it was release, second hand prices where cheap as fuck.

We always had fun.

>>58436158
Compression probably. The code isn't the cause of the inflation

>>58441548
No, just brain damage.

>>58436158
By adapting japanese mentality of designing software based on limitation on the hardware instead of the other way around. By setting a set limitation, ironically, they found plenty of creative and innovative way of fully utilizing the hardware to its potential.

In fact, Nintendo's Gunpei yokoi summed it up nicely
>lateral thinking with matured technology

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>>58441788
>attempting to use my own memes against me
nigger please, justin is my mortal enemy and lies on a transcendent level of shitposting I could never hope to reach in my mortal form

we've come to see eye to eye on a few things though, primarily that deluded, whiny wrong generation hipsters are the fucking worst and make the rest of us who actually know shit and love what we do look like retards

Anyone under 40 is underage b&

>>58431375
"Nothing wrong with pedophilia."

Regards,

New York Times

>>58441814
don't doubt it, not shitting on everyone who's into this shit after all, I'm calling him a retard for unironically saying that people enjoyed paying out the ass for less. who the fuck is longing to go back to the days when a "new" $1,300 system was years out of date and hopelessly destitute right off the bat?

the second hand market is of course always a different story, but it's an inconsistent shit shoot and even at that I'd say its arguably in a better state now than it was back then, you can feasibly pick up a system for under $50 nowadays that will last you five or more years depending on what you do, stuff lasts a lot longer and just does a lot more

>>58441548
I've got one of those. 1024x768 master race

>>58440634
Sorry, nope.
That looks similar to my 520ST OS though.

>>58441548
Did regulations change or those are still considered safe?

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My dad was a huge Mac-nerd and we always got Mac Warehouse catalog every month. It was one of my favorite things to browse through.

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>>58443142
LC580 and Performa from 1996.

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>>58443162
Newton! I remember when my dad got it from work... I played for hours with that stylus.

That was way before Palm Pilot came out (I owned several generations of Pilots... right up until smartphones became popular).

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>>58443193
Back then Apple used to make printers. My family owned one of the color StyleWriters (can't remember the model though).

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>>58443213
Apple also used to make a ton of other accessories way back then too. I still have Apple Extended Keyboard II with nice mech switches somewhere in my basement...

>>58429752
I wouldn't know. I was born in the 2010s :')

>>58443193
Did you know Newton was an ARM device? Apple use to own almost half of ARM.

>>58443462
>Did you know Newton was an ARM device? Apple use to own almost half of ARM.
Yes, I learned this piece of history few years ago. Before, I didn't care. Apparently, Apple invested heavily in ARM back then and putting ARM into Newton gave ARM a huge shot of confidence and allowed them survive the turmoil of late 1990s and early 2000s. And now ARM is in everything.

>>58443259
nice bait

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Pic related is the first computer our family ever owned. My dad got it in 1992 when i was nearly 2 years old. He kept it until 2001 using it as an archive computer in his office. His main computer was a Windows 95 HP Pavilion which he finally replaced in 2003

>>58429752

By the time the 90's came around Windows 3.x was a thing, so you actually had a nice GUI most of the time. If you needed to run a game, you just quit to DOS and memorized a few commands and you were done.

The 80's, though...yeah, that was pretty much 100% DOS prompt if you were a PC user.

>>58429752
You should use DIR /P instead of DIR /W, and your color scheme is all f*cked up, but other than that, I don't see the problem?

>>58436154
MS Paint was better back then
MS Word was better back then
Windows search was better back then
The botnet didn't exist back then
The internet was for nerds and geeks, not this repetitive normie consumerist trash we have today

>>58444289
Thats not my screen, thats from the X-files in 1994

>>58436659
I always thought it was a purposeful, stylized choice.

>>58437975
>what is inflation

>>58438945
Because the internet was less important back then, you could get away with using OS's after they were technically obsolete.

>>58444351
>Windows search was better back then
Literally, Windows 95 search is ten times better than anything else.

>>58443162
I own that Performa, it's a piece of shit.

>>58443259
>(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
What did he mean by this?

>>58440085
Loads of people still use them for flight sims and such where analog input is needed. They're still made by Thrustmaster, Logitech, MadCatz/Saitek, CH...

>>58444579
at the time, it was the greatest PC available, you dumbass.

>>58444351
>MS Paint was better back then
now it does antialiasing, which is shit because I used it to quick, basic .png editing

>>58445072
If memory serves, I don't think it added .png support until vista at the earliest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pa6SGYWADU

>>58445104
maybe you're right, I used vista for the past 4 years.

(yes I know vista wasn't the 90s but MS paint is still worse now)

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>>58437300

>clip

>>58445305
what barbecue is the best?

>>58445509

Vandy's

>>58445305
>glock brand glock
What did he mean by this?

>>58445221
Polaski heights in Athens or Clinton BBQ south of Macon.

>>58445619
not the cheap chinese ripoff version

>>58429752
for pc users yep

not for us amiga users though

>>58444144
have two of these, almost got three but decided against it because dealing with crackheads on craigslist is kind of dodgy and I still kick myself for it sometimes

always liked those pieces of shit though, they're pretty much what I always pictured the archetypal 386SX machine to be

>>58439932
the feels

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>>58445842
You have one? Monitor too? I was able to find a PCPartner alps clicky keyboard on ebay about 10 years ago but never a whole machine. For nostalgia I'd love to be able to have that system again.

>>58445795
yeah while PC users could at least reasonably expect their systems to ship from the factory with hardware from the most recent decade you guys could barely get your dicks up with shit that even apple thought was old news five years ago

>>58445918
Was Amiga mostly a UK thing? Or did Americans have it too? I never saw one in the 90s.

>>58445941
kinda, they were really popular in europe I guess, but stateside they didn't sell in significant numbers, I would say they weren't very competitive with PCs where it mattered (their mass storage options looked especially lame from my knowledge) for the bulk of the American market but there was also a pretty big marketing/branding stigma surrounding them as well, everyone I've ever talked to about it basically saw them as toys in the same vein as the 64 that were suitable for children and schools rather than serious work, and it feels like that's pretty much how Commodore marketed them here

>>58429752
cls

>>58445908
Mine don't have any peripherals, my first one was DOA from battery acid damage and my second one was pretty pristine but barren. The third one I mentioned was complete, which is why I regret not going for it. I just fucking hate CL.

>>58444999
Fuck no it wasn't, even Apple offered better models at the time. I bought it new, instant regret.

>>58445918
Amiga had the best version of Elite.

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>>58446061
bummer, someday Ill get my hands on one

>This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

>It's now safe to turn off your computer.

>get PlayStation for xmas
>take with to grandma's house
>cousin sees me shut it off
>OMG YOU HAVE TO EXIT FIRST >:((

>>58445619
people who know jack shit about guns just throw names around. Glock makes the firearm equivalent of a thinkpad. Some dumbfuck reporter thought Glock was both a type of firearm and a brand, and used that phrase. Origin unkown, now popular on the /k/ side of the internet.

>>58446287
You'll probably turn one up some day, they made a lot of these things.

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>>58445619
It's an old meme.

>>58429752
18+ board faggot.

reported

>>58429752
I fucked in the 90s, so they were awesome for me.

>>58446414
People born in 1999 are now becoming 18 anon...

>>58435899
build a modern pc in that Dimension? case

>>58446414
>18+ board faggot.
>Needs to have mom check his homework.

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>>58446388
fingers crossed

>>58445743
>>58445576
That's not how you spell Fresh Air

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What ports are these? I recognize some but not all

>>58446665
din-8 serial / audio in / audio out / adb / aaui ethernet / external display (which I think is just VGA) / HDI-30 SCSI / modem

looks like a powerbook 500 probably
maybe a later one, don't really know how long they tacked AAUI onto their laptops

>>58446665
>RJ-11
>parallel SCSI port
>video output???
>serial port???
>line-output
>line-input
>PS/2 or S-Video?
>power input???
Going from right to left, that's all i can really gather so far.

>>58429752
It wasn't all that bad for everyone....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pksFnwDSuEM