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84426ed6 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @fc501b69 When I first used WinAMP v0.2 my PC was too slow, so any .mp3 I downloaded (modem speeds) I had to uncompress it to .wav before I played it :-)
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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5c76222c

Oh nice 😄
486?

I remember waiting for The Cars' "Let the Good Times Roll" to download...
It would download a little bit, and I'd be able to play a second of it or two, then I'd repeat it and it would have had a little more downloaded, and so on 😄
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84426ed6 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @fc501b69 
Yes, 486. 
But not just any 486... a 486SX25 from the small ads in an Uithoorn local newspaper :-)
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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5c76222c 

Nice. I had a 486DX33 that I drop-in upgraded to a Pentium... ~60Mhz? I recall the multiplier being a bit weird, not quite 2x

Strange that I'm now missing a computer I got in early 1994 and gave away in 1998 XD
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84426ed6 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @fc501b69 I'd just taken a new job.
Within a year I'd upgraded it and spent all my overtime on a SCSI controller and Plextor CD burner. Oh and I finished Monkey Island 3 about that time :-)
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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5c76222c

Nice. I was enjoying #Myst at the time 😁
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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5c76222c 

Oh, an anecdote. I remember rendering a particular scene in the #PovRay raytracer on that machine circa 1995.
The resolution was somewhere between 640x480 and 1024x768, inclusive.
It took a WEEK to render the scene (drums with a kind of plasma background).

I tried it out on my relatively week ARM #PinebookPro and it rendered at 1080p in like three seconds. XD XD XD