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We've been using Jitsi for conference calls with DOS Game Club for many years now.

It's simple, it's free, you don't need to sign up, it works right from the browser (although there is an app if you want that). Your call duration isn't limited. It just works.

Truly difficult to understand why people keep using Zoom or Teams or whatever.

@literalgrill Alas I've only seen 3 or 4 episodes of the series myself, but I'll make a note to check this video later. πŸ‘

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mostly i browse what's coming out on steam each week cause every once in a while i run into something like this store.steampowered.com/app/326 and i'm like what the fuck

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"Damien what do you want to do when you retire?" I want to hope I have enough time and money to buy those stupid rare records and rip them in FLAC and put that shit on soulseek

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i think the reason i don't quite grasp the popular form of tone indicators is because my brain is too fixated on incorrect meanings that make no sense. i just spotted a "/lh" and immediately thought "oh, short for 'loadhigh', we're loading this post into DOS extended memory"

Decided to "redesign" the Weasel Center Shelter for Old and Abandoned Computers today. Well, "redesign" is saying a lot there as a word, when what I actually did was swap three background images, reduce the contrast of one of them, and change the font color. But still!

netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelt

This did also slightly bury the lede of me adding a section to said website to explain (and embed) the Quake Benchmarks spreadsheet.

netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelt

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This is Quake running on CGA. Normally Quake requires VGA (320x200 256 colours), but WinQuake can actually run fine on any card supported by Windows 95.

Now, CGA doesn't support Windows 95. But turns out with a little manual hex editing, it can start with a CGA driver from Windows 3.0 (I believe no one succeeded in doing this before). And with Windows 95 kind of sort of running on CGA, @gloriouscow recommended to try if Quake would run. It does, and it is almost playable. Definitely more playable than Doom8088 on MDA.

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It is a long-standing tradition for Microsoft to use a runtime copy of Windows as a part of Windows Setup. But the copy is so stripped-down, it cannot run anything but the setup program (winsetup.bin).

OR IS IT?

A mini-challenge for myself: create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer but not using any other Microsoft products.

Lots of nostalgic and weird screenshots in this 🧡 thread

@tommorris some guy yesterday joined one of my discords and was bragging about how he ported some very specialized game editing software using Claude and it "only" cost him Β£200 a month. he would listen to no reasons why that was a completely fucked up thing to be doing.

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hmmm. do you think steam link is going to work well on my oscilloscope

@ann3nova Nice - found a golf club. (Had to edit the GUI colors to make it visible though.)

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@mavica_again make them call an ICE all-hands meeting there first

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Was digging around the Wayback Machine to try to find some old Tseng Labs drivers.

Behold their website from 1997. Best web site ever.

#retrocomputing

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