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People who respond like you have are either being willfully obtuse about how awful search has gotten or honestly do not remember how it was 5-10 years ago. As others have mentioned, SEO has all but made search useless for anything outside a narrow window of need. I used to be able to do "deep dives" into the dusty corners of the internet to find things using google and now it's about useless for that.

And I've /recently/ hunted for something obscure, couldn't find it, managed to find an old bookmark to it, the server was still online and the content I wanted was still there. And no amount of crafting of a google search would bring it up. And the server in question didn't contain copyrighted material which would have resulted in a takedown block or anything like that.

It's frustrating how /bad/ Google has gotten for anything other than fairly basic, high level "searching".

The die-off of 32bit really is the biggest obstacle to this sort of hobby. There is *plenty of 15-20 year old hardware that is more than fast enough for daily use that is 32bit only, though.

However, x86_64/AMD64 came out in 2003. so there is also a crapload of 15-20 year old hardware that /is/ 64bit. Even the super low end Celeron 430 I mentioned in another comment which is from 2007, single core, 1.8ghz, 512kb l2, 800mhz fsb, supports 64bit.

The allowance for RDP/VNC and similar also kinda negates all this, imo.

There is also no frequency restriction. You can (and I did) clock something like a single core Conroe-L Celeron 430 that is normally 1.8ghz to ~3-4ghz (I managed ~4.1 on mine but seems most people probably could only do around 3.5-3.6ghz which is still a gigantic overclock). I guarantee you that would run almost anything you throw at it that isn't gaming or video editing with gusto.

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I just realized the Celeron 430 is 16 years old now. Augh. Time keeps on slippin' by.

These challenges always crack me up. Unless you are doing a couple specific things that really stress hardware (higherend graphics work, audio work, video work, that sort of thing) you should be able to do 99% of everything on the listed restrictions with /ease/.

The fact a lot of common things will run like crap on that says a lot about the state of things these days.

Granted, this is an artificial restriction and most software that wont like it was never intended to run on it blahblah...

I still happily can use my Portege 3110ct for daily use and it's a pentium 2 300 w/ 192mb ram, 60GB IDE SSD, 800x600 display. The main issues I have with it are the resolution of the screen and having more RAM /would/ be nice.

The allowance for remote access kinda entirely negates the point of this, too, imo. RDP/VNC/etc to something more powerful is cheating lol. With that allowance you just need a decent screen, input, and a fast enough framebuffer and network for it to not be painting pixels the entire time. Which means you could, conceivably, do everything on damn near anything from the 90s up. And quite a few 80s workstations would give you enough oomph for remote access if you tried hard enough.

Finally. I want something like this for video. I’ve been hoping it’ll get added to topaz because I want kill freaking TV channel logos etc

Yep. Talked to him this morning. He was actually far enough north from the epicenter that it he didn’t even feel it heh.

Glad yours is Ok too!

Seeing a Gunstar on the cover gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling :)

Still nothing on my end. How about your team member?

I normally would agree but he is usually online at these times due to work schedule etc :/

I have a friend in Turkey. They haven’t been online for an hour or so. Hoping they are ok :(

I still have CalmiraXP on my childhood i386. It’s great lol

I refuse to buy or even play any game that requires an internet connection for /non-online/ play. It's complete bullshit and people REALLY need to vote with their damn wallets and stop supporting this sort of overreach.

Contiki has always amazed me. One of my future projects has porting it to some random old system I like and expanding the functionality on it. Maybe even I retire. sigh

That is so damn pretty. I love the older machines.

god, I miss my NeXTs. This pains me everytime I see it, lol.

No shit? I even specified that? I wasn't complaining specifically about the volt but in general with the direction everyone has/is moving.

ah, I had conflated the models then. That at least is good to know.

capacitive meaning a surface that registers your touch through capacitance change caused by your skin touching the surface. Like how basically all modern touchscreen works.

As someone who has literally cut and crimped fuel lines to cut off a cylinder, used JBWeld to temp seal heads and blocks, pulled injectors, disconnected spark plugs etc etc to get something to limp back home.. yep.

My main beef with EVs (and I own a Chevy Volt PHEV that I /adore/) is the fact they are rolling blackboxes. My Volt is the least shadetree mechanic friendly vehicle I have owned other than maybe my VehiCROSS I had for awhile. I know most people don't care, but it irks me. And I will not own a pure EV anytime soon for a host of reasons and that is a big part of it.

This desire manufacturers have of making their vehicles IAP Vehicle-as-a-Service (ICE and EVs) really pisses me off and I plan on driving my Volt (which has the OnStar modules entirely disabled so I have 0 analytics/metrics/tracking happening) forever. I miss my 100% analog 1981 VW Rabbit LS diesel. sniff.

The safety crap with Teslas is one of my main gripes..

No haptic feedback /capacitive/ turn signals etc? wtf?

Probably so :) I've heard tale of those glorious places with no/almost no meetings.

looks wistfully into the horizon

I hate working on teams because my time is constantly taken up with and interrupted by "meetings" and meetings to plan meetings, and bullshit meetings for more meetings about meetings.

And then I have to involve all these random people and have more meetings and then meetings about more meetings again. Then when I am halfway through finally implementing The Thing, there is a meeting about why it is taking so long and then a meeting about being able to manage the costs better and then a meeting about the minutes of that meeting and then a meeting to go over the prior 6 months of meetings to give a rundown to the Big Bosses who then schedule more meetings.

It's a fucking wonder anything ever gets done anywhere. The "We gotta be a team!!11" obsession seems more to help people justify their pointless job positions half the time than to actually benefit anyone or anything.

Or maybe I am just grumpy. But based off 30 years of personal experience and the experience of colleagues and friends and family.. I don't think so.

But lets have a meeting about this and go over some teambuilding exercises to help us leverage all our skills!

Can you imagine it on like the Tapwave Zodiac? I wish i kept mine. Palmos game system. Analog joystick and all. Was so awesome.

What’s great, too, about the been tube version is that both CPUs are actually used. At least with the dual 6502 version. I’m assuming the ARM may be a bit different.

Always wanted a cybiko. Had a jornada 720! Great devices for the time.

The game is very colorful. I loved it. Here’s the original website for it.

http://www.harbaum.org/till/palm/elite/index.html

And apparently he either released or something else a v1.0 with the source code and it is up here:

https://palmdb.net/app/elite-palm

I didn’t know this copy existed till a few minutes ago. I’ve only played the one I had which was a version 0.9.5 or 9.7 iirc. So now I’m curious to test this out.

Space trader for palmos is the bomb! I spent way way too many hours playing that.

.. I may have that on my current android phone using a palmos emulator. There’s also an actual android port of it too though.

Did you ever get to play the leaked Elite 3D port for palmos? The dev couldn’t get rights for release so abandoned it. I cracked and released it after that. I was a beta tester. It’s a hoot. Works well. Even has a plug-in for the vibrator on the Palm M5xx series.

Amusingly, I had similar thoughts.

This sort of things blows my mind. Such an impressive amount of lnowledge and work.

And who is surprised?

This is disgusting and I love it

How in the hell can a Mac Pro cost that much? goes to Apple’s online store