Vintage
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Remember when Star Wars Shadows of the Empire came out on PC and apparently, it's been awhile so maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but you needed a special card for your keyboard to play it?
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do you mean a card as in a pc hardware ISA / PCI device, or like a paper overlay card with reminders for button actions?
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Except that wasn't a serial port, it was midi, and the reason it was on the sound card was because the input was analog.
Your joystick was just two fancy potentiometers, and your soundcard decoded the voltage on the middle legs into a position.
Soundcards handled joysticks because they had the fastest ADCs.
huh, i thought it was just because "owning a sound card" and "likely to play games" was the biggest overlap of the Venn circles.
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That's a midi port
It's supposed to be, but it's really just a joystick port.
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It's supposed to be, but it's really just a joystick port.
That's how most people used it, yeah. But it's meant to be a midi port which is why it's on sound cards.
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An elegant port for a more civilized time
Nothing civilized about no hot plugging. Had to restart the whole damn computer, if the cable was loose or out at startup.
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Nothing civilized about no hot plugging. Had to restart the whole damn computer, if the cable was loose or out at startup.
skill issue
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This reminds me when a mouse was an option not a requirement
still is
/i3gang
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That's how most people used it, yeah. But it's meant to be a midi port which is why it's on sound cards.
It often worked poorly as such though. While it worked great as a joystick port. I drew my own conclusions.
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Nothing civilized about no hot plugging. Had to restart the whole damn computer, if the cable was loose or out at startup.
I loved the PCs that had Ctrl + up as a shortcut to flip the monitor orientation. I think it was a Dell thing?
My favourite prank was to flip the screen upside down then unplug the keyboard. Good luck saving your work fuck face
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It often worked poorly as such though. While it worked great as a joystick port. I drew my own conclusions.
Tbf most things worked poorly back then. I constantly had to pop my 386 open and jiggle the ram to get it to boot
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Tbf most things worked poorly back then. I constantly had to pop my 386 open and jiggle the ram to get it to boot
That's... not typical though.
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I'm this old
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I loved the PCs that had Ctrl + up as a shortcut to flip the monitor orientation. I think it was a Dell thing?
My favourite prank was to flip the screen upside down then unplug the keyboard. Good luck saving your work fuck face
Ok Satan
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skill issue
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t hot plug for anyone. Yes, even the very skilled.
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I tried to explain these ports to a salesperson at micro center, and they have me the dull cow stare.
I was looking at some PC's at Best Buy and a salesman came up to try and give me the hard sell. I asked if I could buy the PC without Windows on it for a discount.
"How would you use your computer without Windows on it?"
"I'm going to install Linux"
"What's that?"
"It's an operating system"
Blank stare
"Like Windows or OS X..."
Blank Stare
Sigh "I already have a copy of Windows at home"
"Oh! Well I don't think you can do that, no."
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I loved the PCs that had Ctrl + up as a shortcut to flip the monitor orientation. I think it was a Dell thing?
My favourite prank was to flip the screen upside down then unplug the keyboard. Good luck saving your work fuck face
I wanna say there’s a Windows hotkey for that now.
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I tried to explain these ports to a salesperson at micro center, and they have me the dull cow stare.
To be honest, I think that was probably to appropriate response. Information about ps/2 is not really relevant to them or any customer that they are going to help
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I wanna say there’s a Windows hotkey for that now.
Maybe, but it's just not the same if you can plug your keyboard back in and fix it. CURSE YOU USB
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IBM sure made naming pretty confusing aren't they?
Not really? I mean it was a whole thing. OS/2, PS/2, I think maybe some PC/2? I can't remember. Anyway it was all branded together.
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That's... not typical though.
It was. Hardware was absolute trash in the early-mid 90s.
