no
other than the backwards compatibility thing, minidiscs would be a good replacement for cds and dvds if they could fit all their shit onto them
because if someone asks for a cd you have to hand it to them carefully and treat if like a fucking princess so it dont get scratched
minidiscs you could dropkick from across the room and get it to them on the rebound
god, fucking tell me about it
consoles made the same fucking mistake
cartridge to CD/DVD was a step in the wrong direction
No, because if they didn't do this, you would need like six to ten cartridges to fit a single game on.
just make cartridges with larger capacities!
this isn't complicated
no
other than the backwards compatibility thing, minidiscs would be a good replacement for cds and dvds if they could fit all their shit onto them
because if someone asks for a cd you have to hand it to them carefully and treat if like a fucking princess so it dont get scratched
minidiscs you could dropkick from across the room and get it to them on the rebound
god, fucking tell me about it
consoles made the same fucking mistake
cartridge to CD/DVD was a step in the wrong direction
No, because if they didn't do this, you would need like six to ten cartridges to fit a single game on.
because... for some reason the capacity of a cartridge would never increase. we have things like micro SD cards that can fit 4 fucking gigs...
my family had a laser disk player. i hated having to stop halfway through a movie and having to flip the disc. also, beta was awesome. robocop on betamax was the best thing i ever saw till i laid eyes on an hd set
I got an MP3 player for Christmas in like 1999. It was some old RCA piece of shit, it was all bulky with a screen the size of a postage stamp. It had no internal memory, and used compact flash cards. Between a few cards, I think I had like 256 MB of storage.
so what, tack on a couple bucks to my price
it's an investment
they'll last for 30 years like these damn atari 2600 carts i've got lying around
it's not a couple extra dollars
snes and n64 empty carts cost the manufacturers about $30 a pop, guess how much blank CDs are
well if they are saving all that money by using a cheaper media what in the blue blazes am i paying $60 a game for?
It didn't take hundreds of staff in an office 4 years and millions of dollars to create River Raid. Nowadays games are big productions. If you like you can download cheap or free games from the internet that still have 2D graphics and one level if you like. That'll be pretty damn cheap.
so what, tack on a couple bucks to my price
it's an investment
they'll last for 30 years like these damn atari 2600 carts i've got lying around
it's not a couple extra dollars
snes and n64 empty carts cost the manufacturers about $30 a pop, guess how much blank CDs are
well if they are saving all that money by using a cheaper media what in the blue blazes am i paying $60 a game for?
It didn't take hundreds of staff in an office 4 years and millions of dollars to create River Raid. Nowadays games are big productions. If you like you can download cheap or free games from the internet that still have 2D graphics and one level if you like. That'll be pretty damn cheap.
I got an MP3 player for Christmas in like 1999. It was some old RCA piece of shit, it was all bulky with a screen the size of a postage stamp. It had no internal memory, and used compact flash cards. Between a few cards, I think I had like 256 MB of storage.
It was the shit.
Haha, I remember this one rich older kid who had a special little case for his MP3 memory cards. He had about a dozen, and we all thought he was the coolest thing.
I got an MP3 player for Christmas in like 1999. It was some old RCA piece of shit, it was all bulky with a screen the size of a postage stamp. It had no internal memory, and used compact flash cards. Between a few cards, I think I had like 256 MB of storage.
It was the shit.
Haha, I remember this one rich older kid who had a special little case for his MP3 memory cards. He had about a dozen, and we all thought he was the coolest thing.
man... flash storage has gotten really really cheap.
Tell me about it. I bought a flash drive in 2003. It cost me $45 and it was on sale. Guess how much storage capacity it had.
128 megs!
I'll put that in perspective.
In 2006 I recieved another flash drive that was also 128mb for free as a promotional item from HP's sales team because I was looking into multi-function printers for the office I worked in. It was the same as giving someone a pen or a coffee mug or a pad of post-it notes with your logo on them.
I can buy a 1gb (that's 1000mb) flash drive at Blockbuster Video now for $20. It's a name brand and everything. You can probably buy these things at the gas station now too.
i remember thinking zip disks were the shit back in 8th or 9th grade
at the time, my school had a tiny tiny little computer lab with about 12 computers in it
the i.t. guy was a friend of a guy who was a friend of my dad
with a few other guys, we had sweet lan parties
quake 2 with some crow t robot and something else add-on all on a zip disc
Oh man Zip Disks. I found a whole stack of those when throwing away crap in the office. They had all of the backups of our newspaper files from around 2000-2005. The girl that lays out the paper snatched them away from me before I could say anything about tossing them out. She got all manners of uppity when I suggested we just burn the whole lot of them onto a DVD so we didn't have to keep the external zip drive around.
Also, yeah, I not only had a minidisc player, I upgraded from a minidisc player to a newer minidisc player well into the heyday of the iPod and the likes. Those things were rock solid. Kind of seems like a waste now. Can't even really sell the thing for enough to make it worth the effort.
I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory
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just make cartridges with larger capacities!
this isn't complicated
because... for some reason the capacity of a cartridge would never increase. we have things like micro SD cards that can fit 4 fucking gigs...
for the manufacturers I mean
so what, tack on a couple bucks to my price
it's an investment
they'll last for 30 years like these damn atari 2600 carts i've got lying around
it's not a couple extra dollars
snes and n64 empty carts cost the manufacturers about $30 a pop, guess how much blank CDs are
well if they are saving all that money by using a cheaper media what in the blue blazes am i paying $60 a game for?
I got an MP3 player for Christmas in like 1999. It was some old RCA piece of shit, it was all bulky with a screen the size of a postage stamp. It had no internal memory, and used compact flash cards. Between a few cards, I think I had like 256 MB of storage.
It was the shit.
hookers and blow, of course.
i was born in 1991
It didn't take hundreds of staff in an office 4 years and millions of dollars to create River Raid. Nowadays games are big productions. If you like you can download cheap or free games from the internet that still have 2D graphics and one level if you like. That'll be pretty damn cheap.
tell that to bomberman 64!
Your batting 100% so far then. That console was the shit.
Haha, I remember this one rich older kid who had a special little case for his MP3 memory cards. He had about a dozen, and we all thought he was the coolest thing.
It was the coolest thing.
I bet he got laid so much.
Tell me about it. I bought a flash drive in 2003. It cost me $45 and it was on sale. Guess how much storage capacity it had.
128 megs!
I'll put that in perspective.
In 2006 I recieved another flash drive that was also 128mb for free as a promotional item from HP's sales team because I was looking into multi-function printers for the office I worked in. It was the same as giving someone a pen or a coffee mug or a pad of post-it notes with your logo on them.
I can buy a 1gb (that's 1000mb) flash drive at Blockbuster Video now for $20. It's a name brand and everything. You can probably buy these things at the gas station now too.
STEAM!
4gb
$20.
Mistake!
first thing i installed was Doom 1 & 2
these will be the games i will play until the day i die
STEAM!
at the time, my school had a tiny tiny little computer lab with about 12 computers in it
the i.t. guy was a friend of a guy who was a friend of my dad
with a few other guys, we had sweet lan parties
quake 2 with some crow t robot and something else add-on all on a zip disc
It was the shit, man. Even more portable than a discman!
That shit is straight out science fiction.
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Damned if I can remember what the game was though
i still can't figure out what the hell i would do with an 8 gig card
the capacity on those things is mind-blowing though
it feels almost wasteful
jpegs and pngs
Also, yeah, I not only had a minidisc player, I upgraded from a minidisc player to a newer minidisc player well into the heyday of the iPod and the likes. Those things were rock solid. Kind of seems like a waste now. Can't even really sell the thing for enough to make it worth the effort.
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I use them for transfering several hours worth of video.
Or on occasion work files of solid model contacts.
But really 99% of the time it's barely full.
Satans..... hints.....
he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory