Caz @caz@computerfairi.es
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Joined Nov 2022
Caz
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Forcefield was a performance art group from the late 90s / early 00s. (They had an installation in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and then immediately split up.)
They wanted a shot of one of their weird creatures interacting with an exotic computer for one of their short films, so I brought them into our museum and ran a little graphics program I had written on our #PDP12 for them. (I'm lying on the ground just out of the shot in this, reaching up to twiddle knobs.)
I'm faced with a decision:
A. Keep using my trusty Thinkpad T430 which has served me well but has an eye straining screen and is almost unbearably slow.
B. Accumulate more debt for one of those new framework laptops that look ugly but seem like a great financial investment.
I have a desktop for casual use and gaming, this would just be for programming.
The other day I realized that I've only beaten 15% of my steam library. It got me thinking: why do we keep buying games and never fully commit to them?
@mavica_again
I think there was 1 year i used media keys: 2003. Then I went back to doing it the old way because somehow pressing 1 button takes more mental commitment than what you're brain is used to. 
@null
I have a very mixed view of journalists in general. While many have good intentions I feel that many of them are very irresponsible and do not fully understand what impact their articles have on our minds.
@chel
Ive found that when you start one MMO, after you've sunk so much time into it, it's very hard to commit to others. So people are often disappointed when I tell them I mostly played RuneScape. Regardless of what people thought of it, that game was a godsend for people with bad computers and dailup.
Weed politics
I am glad though that despite the amount of conservatives in this miserable state we got weed legalized at least. Still ridiculous that over 40% of Missourians voted no though.
February cannot come to Missouri any faster. Just let me buy weed already!
@UnrealRonen was that early tumblr?
Though I do notice that the voice and Dectalk pronounce "sonic" a bit differently. maybe I'm just hearing it wrong?
On my journey to replicate one of the robotic voices in the Sonic CD OST, I turned to a Dectalk emulator and managed to produce a voice that's somewhat similar!
https://sndup.net/h2g3/
For anyone who wants to try the dectalk emulator out, it's available at https://archive.org/details/dectalk #retrocomputing
Trying to find the origin of the synthetic voice in one of the SOnic CD game tracks has made me begin researching old voice synthesis. Any recommended reads? #retrocomputing
Caz
boosted
The fedi is growing and striving to be that weird forum you were on in the early 2000s. We aren't there yet, undoing the damage of corporate social media platforms takes time
Would anyone familiar with #retrocomputing be able to tell me what voice synthesizer/software was used in this audio track for Sonic CD? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XYFNulUbQA&t=53s
I don't think it's commodore sam.
@hergaiety
I wouldn't mind those if i could actually understand what I'm looking at 😂
This unconventional song has been in my head for a week now, if you like weird #music give it a listen! https://youtu.be/TYj71N_U6Vc
@myotismac
Thanks! I've been needing some new stuff to listen to at work!
Double sided belts really are a gift to mankind. They decrease all the bad luck i have with belts by 50%.
@gwensnyder
Just keep in mind that any private message you send on mastodon can be viewed by the server administrator. Multiple server admins if you dm someone on another server.
- My project
- http://bitbang.social/@windowsarchive
- My Archive.org
- https://archive.org/details/@aeong
34 she/her.
Joined Nov 2022
