Adventure in a a charity shop the second (1/?)
I never did show these "interesting things" two days ago.
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First of all I found something that will upgrade my PC into the past millennium. I do love the box though.
Why does it have a joystick port? Is this something sound cards did back then?
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Adventure in a a charity shop the second (3/?)
I could have bought the entirety of the internet! Imagine all the power I could have had.
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Adventure in a a charity shop the second (4/?)
Oh I forgot to label the last image
This shareware disk of puzzle games had the weirdest rendering of a lemming on it with regard to the hair.
I just noticed it's pacing back and forth between the back and front
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Adventure in a a charity shop the second (5/?)
I wonder if they have Kill Bill here
The bootleg copy in front hid another kill bill (don't remember which part) and when I picked it up I noticed the disc was loose. I wasn't expecting the culprit to be Sesame Street though.
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Adventure in a a charity shop the second (6/?)
Random plug
(This is actually the last thing I took a photo of, but it's not a high point to end on)
I'm not sure how much use this has. The other end is a male plug of the same type. (DVI apparently) Quite the modern look to it though.
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (7/9?)
Woops should have been part 7
I didn't realize until now that I was making my OCs too complex for what I needed (softness)
(Almost done don't worry)
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (8/9)
At some point Campari thought that this was going to sell their stuff.
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (9/9)
What I actually got: A copy of Lomax that requires Windows 95-era stuff so I can't run it. The manual disk has manuals for 4 games at once.
Tom and Jerry in Fist of Furry, which I suck at these days.
Also saw two rerelease copies of Sonic 3D, one from Explosiv and one from Reload. The Reload one also had an Explosiv disc in, for Windows XP. The Explosiv box had a similar disc with Windows 95/98 version on it so I'm guessing someone's been naughty.
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (7/9?)
@BatElite
I wasn't worrying. Plus. The more you do, the more you "talk," and I like "hearing" you talk.
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (6/?)
@BatElite Yeah, that's an Apple-brand (OEM, maybe actually counterfeit) DVI Dual-Link extension cable.
Extensions this short are never for actually extending the length. In general, you plug in the extender before putting the computer or monitor in its permanent location, and the extender makes it easier to plug in and unplug the main cable.
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (1/?)
@BatElite
Yes, actually. The PC joystick port was also used as the MIDI port for keyboards, electronic drum kits, and similar. As such, they often came on sound cards.
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (1/?)
@Terxbor Ah that's interesting.
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (1/?)
@BatElite
Should be noted, though, that the actual MIDI port is actually a full-sized DIN connector. But because DIN is too large for a PC extension slot, a DA-15 serial port was used to take its place.
Which surprises me that it's called DA size, because DB is larger (i.e. DB-25 serial and parallel ports) and DE is smaller (DE-9 serial port and Atari/Sega joystick port).
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (1/?)
@BatElite
If memory serves, yeah. Joystick ports were just a thing that was on sound cards. They for some reason doubled as a game controller card. To the point that all the way through to Windows XP at the minimum, game controllers showed up in device manager under the heading game and sound devices or something like that
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (1/?)
@BatElite If we remember right, it is something sound cards did back then. I would guess it was just a convenient place to put them, since any computer one would play games with a joystick on would probably have a sound card, and the sound card itself didn't need many external connectors, leaving room for a joystick port on the back panel.
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (2/?)
Rest in 3 or so pieces, CD under the stairs.
They always die too young.
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