Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Wow, I can't believe that this topic is going strong still.And to believe this entire thing started last year in october or there abouts.I have finnished buying presents now, and a few other things, and decided to add more to my list of things I miss though it looks a lot of people miss the same things I do miss.Firstly all old sound cards and their midi fm chips, none of the modern hd non analog cards have midi chips or anything in them.Yeah I know I have fonts but the real thing was a lot better.Not to say that some are quite close, I mean we have good things.There is of course chipmusic now, a lot of stuff from bandcamp, etc winamp still exists but even so it doesn't play everything but most things.No one mentioned windows messenger 5x, I miss that.Sapi4, I forgot to put that in.The fact that I had to get up to go to school or rather the routeen, it can be a challenge to well get up these days especially since I know I don't need to be anywhere most of the time.I miss the fact that everything is by the book now, a lot of organisations including the blindness ones decided to go by a procedure for things, ie job finding, and all their creative people just went, it suddenly became not trendy to be creative.That means though if the book doesn't work you just go round and round.So I don't bother with that.Now though I think its time to start another trend in here, things I don't miss.Firstly.Single channel sound cards suck!Now these don't exist but back in 1998 and lower you didn't have those by default.In dos that hardly mattered much but you couldn't run 2 things at once without sounds going really badly.I don't miss every device like in win98 and lower having to have a driver and the first usb limitations.I do not miss the old serial and printer port interface though I do miss intersvr and interlnk if people know those they will know those were good programs.I do not miss jaws, activation floppies, actual bad disks, the fact I couldn't use the dialup and the phone at the same time though I do miss the lower prices.While I am happy for my rights, I do miss the time that when you didn't have to deal with the government and when you had to deal with an agency you could trust them to an extent.Sadly thats not always the case.For those that don't read my blog, I give you a nice background, to protect against benifit fraud every time you go away you need to tell the government where you are going especially if out of the country.Its alegal not to.The government make it as easy as they jolly well can.Even so, if you have a problem, an invalid date, an inaccessible bit, well you can report but the chances of it ever been sorted are almost not going to happen.I have had issues with things a couple times the first had my funding cut off but then they said it was an error the second time it happened they tried to review everything, luckily My dad was able to talk them out of doing this, the result being that the issues that I have reported are not fixed, I won't loose my benifits, but thats that, it leaves all issues open.I used to not have to have to handle all those burocratic bullshit.In fact it was a lot easier before people decided to cheat the system like that.I aggree with all posts about being a kid.Knowing that whatever was happening wasn't your problem because you were not expected to need to bother was quite a nice thing.There are a lot of things I wish I had then like digital recorders.I have a low energy thing especially at night and in places without airconditioning.Put me in a warm place or a place with a drone going on and I will sleep.I spent a lot of days sleeping in school, and people wandered what was wrong with me.Go forward to about 2014 or there abouts.I had to attend a radio course with a friend.It was at night.There was no way I could actually seriously stay awake, I knew if I tried I would fail.So I simply didn't try to stay awake.I turned on my recorder and just listened, maybe I slept a little I didn't care.When I got home I scanned my notes and worksheets and listened to the class in the comfort of my own room.I had to scan everything myself, and I had to read it so I needed to do the work anyway.In university I found it easier especially with the places with no aircon to handle notes and worksheets done by the lecturers and note taker I had, and any set work after I had finnished my course for the day rather than during that session.I have gone away on trips where a lot of stuff is at night.I would usually just nod off and not understand anything.Now I use my recorder, and I listen to that later.Sadly I have to disagree with some of the posters on here.I do not miss vhs tapes or audio tapes.I still have access to both but audio tapes jam and have a lot of issues.I do miss the fact that speakers are so small especially in laptops that you basically need crappy sound correction software to get them
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Also an 88 baby and the 90s were good times. 1 thing I super miss is anime. Like it's nice to have such easy access to anime, but there was something about only being able to watch Sailor Moon and DBZ on Toonami, and going to the mall to the Suncoast there with your parents and buying over priced VHS' just because that was the only way to watch any other anime back then. Looking around for anime merch, too: I remember this one birthday I had, my Mom scoured everywhere for Sailor Moon merch and I got tons of it, best bday ever haha. It's nice that stuff is so easily available, but I also feel like at the same time, something is lost to these youngans that can just have anything at their fingertips.Used to love Storybook Weaver, Wordmuncher Deluxe, and Space Pinball on Windows back in the day. Also AOL chat rooms, just pick a chat, hop into it, and you could have fun RPing for hrs. MSN Messenger was a great thing too, would talk to two close friends on it all the time before skype haha.Sailor Jupiter.com was great too, oh, and finding all the anime pics on the internet was great too! Just hunting in Anime Web Turnpike, for fan sites/shrines for characters you liked...and emulating SNES games back in the day, when I had better vision and could play them.Also Final Fantasy IV and VI and Chrono Trigger, all awesome childhood games I had in the 90s. So gd. I miss the SNES in general, probs my fav console still to this day. If I could play it still, I would. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/post/396856/#p396856 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss I miss Papa Sangre, and the other games somethin' else made. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/post/396237/#p396237 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss well, I miss the days of iOS 5 and Mac OS snow Leopord as that was my intro to apple and I think they were a lot more stable back then. And there were better audio games on iOS back then, not a bunch of card games and the like that are way over priced and that use their own gesture system instead of VO... Well, so I don't go on a rant, I also miss the days where audio games were a more frequent thing as far as release and quality. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/post/396062/#p396062 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss @Anthany, i did have that same problem with being pared up. And there's always one kid who tries to take advantage. Sometimes kids would back away from me when we were beginning a fight, then one of 2 things happened, either I grabbed them and whipped them really, really hard to the ground, or my sensay told them off. It stopped after a while thankfully. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332933#p332933 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss the best therapy I know of is found in talking and living alongside those you trust. I know not everyone has it that easy, and I don't discourage nor look down on the seeking of professional help if one feels it necessary. Still, as I pointed out above, because of the way society is built nowadays and its focusses and what it advertises, one thing people have honestly forgotten is what it feels like and means to have a true friend. IN place of that feeling we as a society rather than as individualistic minds now try to cater to the largest crowd possible because we dread loneliness, neglect and rejection, given that our oppinions are exceptionally important to us and we want others to value them as well. We look at our tweet streams and facebook feeds to see if anyone has replied to us or commented on our posts or shown any kind of reaction whatsoever to our existence. Those who aren't doing that, I wager, are looking at their skype windows or checking their mobile devices for text messages from people they feel they're acquainted with, so-called friends, as it were.We have, in short, redefined what it means to be a friend in the twenty first century. We no longer need to remember birthdays and anniversaries; facebook, skype, and even our phones do that for us. It's not important to know what's really going on in a person's life; you can supposedly gain all that information by reading just a few short sentences. So and so just checked in to such and such with someone else and is feeling exceptionally happy and blessed and lucky and you should all know about that, not the fight they had last night with their family, unless they tell you over their social networking platform of choice. Oh, and while you're here, you have 142623 notifications, 2524335 messages and about a kagillion friend requests; we sincerely hope you have time to respond to all of these becau se if you don't, they'll probably befriend and unfollow you and block you just about everywhere else your online footprint exists. and you should make sure you post your numbers to see if they're bigger and better than anyone else on your list, because everyone else is doing it. IN fact, we've designed a little bot to do that for you; fill in your username and a few other details on this website and we'll make sure this gets posted for you on an hourly basis if you like! While you're at it, don't forget to grab our smart app for your smart phone to make your smart life just a little smarter, giving you an all around smartened of a smarty day, with wich you can toggle the ability to have your ever so much smarter than you smartphone check you in, sign you out, and deduct from your bank account at our request.OK ok, that last one was a bit over the top... I admit it. Seriously though, the day we get back on track and rem ember that true blue friends are few and far between and that having two of them is in and of itself a huge miracle, we'll work harder at it and be better off because of it. These are the people who accept you just as you are, who forgive and forget your offenses, who respect you even when you know you don't deserve it, who don't turn their back on you when all the chips are down and the game is lost. I once heard it said that a friend might bail you out of jail, while a best friend will sit in there with you and say, "Man, we seriously screwed up!"Once again, maybe that last statement is a far stretch to imagine, given that I don't, to my knowledge, have any friends who are master criminals, but I do know that I would give my life and everything in it for those who are if it came to a life and death matter. If you know one person like that whom you talk to regularly, you should firstly be thanking them for sticking it out with y ou this long and then congratulating yourself because you can count on never being abandoned. Your friends might like you right now, but your true friends will choose to love you even when they can't like you, forever. PERIOD! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332919#p332919 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Oh, people helped me as well, but they kinda didn't really have a choice, because the instructers paired me up with someone who'd show me the moves as they were explaining them. That would be fine if the student was a higher belt or something, but most of the time the student was just trying to learn as I was, and really shouldn't have to take time out of his lesson to show the blind guy how to do techniques. I understand that it could be a good learning experience, but it's just not something I'm comfortable with. I heard the sighs, and felt the frustration of the students sometimes, you know? Just not ok for me. That being said, I was just as capable as any student I think, but I have people issues that make me freeze up in certain situations, bad memories from public school I guess. It really doesn't make a lot of sence, but it is what it is. I'm going to theropy on and off, so yeah! lol URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332915#p332915 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss anthany, what do you mean an inconvenience to the other students? I'm an orange belt in judo, and i've never felt that i was an inconvenience to anybody, many people actually really try to help me out.Regarding GTA emulators, I actually kinda want one. My pc won't run GTA 5, but I wonder if I'd be able to play the original game without sight? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332912#p332912 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss I miss staying up all night with my best friend, playing pokemon and leggos together while consuming way too much mountain dew. Hell, I miss having a friend in the first place! lol but anyway. I miss when you actually had to unlock characters in fighting games, and I miss being a kid and giving much less of a damn about my blindness. Last thing, I miss going to martial arts classes and having the time of my life. It's not the same now, because I feel like I'm inconveniencing the rest of the students and it's just uncomfortable. Those are my fondest memories.. I never knew how good I had it back then. That's usually how it goes though. I'll probably be talking about how good 2017 was in 10 years or so, nah, I don't think so. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332909#p332909 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss flackers wrote:I really miss the old playstation games from the late 90s when I used to play. particularly syphon filter and GTA. I get really jealous listening to playthroughs on yt because those games are clearly still eminently playable. I even thought about buying a PS2 and a few old school classics just in case the miracle happens and my sight gets restored. On the same subject, I recently discovered a book called subway art that I worshipped when I was about 12 and into graffiti art, was still in print, so I bought a copy. I'd love to see it again. I stole my first copy because it was very expensive and I just couldn't leave the shop without it after I saw the amazing art. it was very scary because I was alone and not a shoplifter. It was down in the basement floor of a massive bookstore, so I had to ride the lift back up and it seemed to take forever with the guilty secret that seemed so big in my coat. Wo rth it though .you can still play those games using emulators, but it's not really as good as playing them on the console itself. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332813#p332813 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss the hardest thing to deal with in the twisted metal series if you're playing alone is deathtraps, though they do not exist in every map. Because the only objective in TM is simply to kill your adversaries I'd say that for the most part it is playable if not entirely accessible, particularly if you have a good speaker system or headphones so as to be able to capture things in stereo, such as the sound of your opponent. by far I love TM 4 the best. In twisted metal You drive around and collect weapons which can range from small explosive devices to long range, self guided missiles that will keep following your enemy once you've fired upon him. There's also ways to freeze your enemy in place so you can continue attacking them. Besides that, there is shields, invisibility, the ability to jump out of the way of projectiles, and the ability to warp to a completely different part of the map instantly should you feel the tables are t urned against you. All of these abilities have cooldown/recharge timers as it were, so that no player or AI opponent can abuse them and simply disappear whenever just to run off and never die. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332665#p332665 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Hi,Regarding playstation games, Are the early twisted metal games playable, or is it better to play those locally with friends?Also, how is cycom filter playable? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332657#p332657 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss I remember The SEGA Genesis and CD. Those ones had some neat stuff. There was a SEGA CD called Silpheed that I loved a lot. There was also a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers one that was basically playing through a few of the episodes by pressing the right buttons during fights. Certain games could be put in CD players and you could play the soundtracks. Sewer Shark was also a fun one. You go around shooting giant rats in this ship thing. Of course I can't forget the cartrege games I played on that either. My favorite one of those was the Star Trek TNG game. You could fly the ship and battle Romulan Warbirds in that one.A couple of my favorite games for SNES were Donkey Kong Country and Street Fighter II Turbo.Hmm. Let's see. What else? That computer that had the sound card with the MIDI sound I miss ran Windows 98 SE. I replaced all the Windows event sounds with Star Trek computer sounds. Fun times. I also found out that having a password on windows 98 was pre tty much pointless. All you had to do was hit the esc key to bypass the password prompt, and everything was accessible to anyone anyway.I also remember... Floppies! Back when I first got that computer, all my sound files were on a ton of floppies. Lol. Fun times right there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332611#p332611 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Wooo! Super smash brothers! man oh man that brings back a ton of memories of busted n64 controlers after trying and failing miserably with various characters to defeat the master hand when I was 9 or 10, tons of furious button punching involved, and that thing just kept doing whatever attacks it did that made my rumblepacks go psychotic and my characters freeze for the span of about 3 seconds. I finally managed it though, and between a few friends and I we grabbed Nes, Luigi, captain falcon and others.Playstations? I loved the twisted metal series! I found a bug in TM4 where if players 1 and 2 both fired Calypso's projectiles at precisely the right time at one another you could lock up the whole game and have your controlers continuously vibrate until you reset the system, while a fire loop just played across your screen... Nothing else you could do, really.Keep it up, peeple! I'm totally enjoying this one! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332596#p332596 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Well interesting reply nocturnus.I also have a casette deck and a digital radio.My now dead grandpa left me his old 1970s analog shortwave radio.Its needs a good service but it does work.There is not probably much in the way of shortwave out there now days.I tried my darndest to buy an accessible shortwave unit but failed big time.One thing I do miss is dos, now I do have dos but no synths to run dos though I have all the old keynote software here.Dosbox works but I have never got com0com working on my 64 bit box and I havn't messed with the emulator for a while.One thing I miss a lot is the pre spam is bad error.That was from 1995 when we first got the net to 2001/2002.In this era there was the first free drive system xdrive and that had a lot of free stuff that came with it.You also had the free net era which didn't last to long.I remember listening to music, downloading some stuff and being told t o subscribe or run something to play it.I did and got subscribed to a newsletter with a lot of music reviews and things in it.One day I got a popup saying I needed to enter all my address information to get a free cd.I did this and got a free cd of weird stuff which I still have.What I miss is that your average junk mail was the same as well junk mail.It was probably lagit and probably by a big company somewhere.In most cases it was harmless there were even money making programs and the like.And before 2001 you could bet your dollar that at worst you would end up with something being delivered to your house.Sadly after or shortly after the blogging revolution in 2002-2004 things started changing.My first incling was that my security suite, norton at the time started to become more aggressive.After that, cloud networks came up.We also got news of the first actual spam/scam attack.Things have gotten worse from the re.I stayed on my joke and family chat lists, mp3 lists book lists till about 2010 at which point there was so much with piracy laws and the fact of malware, fishing and ransomware most of which we never thought about at the start that I pulled out of most of it.It was about the time I quit third party security after some of it trashed the network.Another thing I really miss are the netguide cds and computer cds that came with magazines as well as how games were structured.At the start, your average game maker put his sounds in plainview in a folder on the disk and audio tracks on the disk so pulling these were no issue.Later on they used things like crf, and pk3 which were basically zip files with different extentions.Then I had to use dragon unpacker to get a few things.Now days if you want free sounds from your games its impossible to do that.Technically you can extract steam files but its not like you would necessarily want to if a ll you want are sounds and music.Then there is the fact that while you can usually get into the files most are in cabs now or their own format but even if you could get in there there are a lot of encripted hex files.I also think that with the new tech and ways to solve issues we have lost respect for our machines.In the old days if you had an issue you may try to solve it now days you have almost no chance if its deep enough.I have people that say if something breaks, you start your recovery drive and it fixes it.Its just a reformat.Sadly if its not a checkbox or something fixable in a short time thats what I usually end up doing to.Technology as a whole is more stable.I have for example kept computers running for 6 years without a reformat.In fact I had to reformat last year because my system had become to broken for me to ignore.Sadly there were oses that I had to reformat more than others.The worst culprit was sad ly windows xp, which unless you cleared run history with tweakui, it would end up not working right and till I realised this I had to reformat constantly.Win98 was a stable os, se was anyway bar norton which had issues.win95 had its moments.And you never had to with dos unless you screwed something up big time and in 6.22 you could bypass the config files so.And while I had a memmory manager and extra programs, I really miss the fact that if I needed to really get to bios and the like with my old toshiba that I could just load the kernal and basically that was it and well run without configs.You can't run windows without services, or things like that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332574#p332574 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss I'll address everyone, first by thanking you all for posting; I really sincerely apreciate it. I'll also do each and every single one of you as much justice as I can because memories! Woohoo!@Draq concerning post 11,There's some truth to your pondering; as a child I looked ahead and wanted to grow up. Now that I'm grown up, I want to be a child again. No, it probably wouldn't be the same if I took a trip back in time and kept the memories of everything I know now and, perhaps a better way of phrasing what we're all doing here is to say that we can appreciate the different times we've had in our lives, which is why a little nostalgia helps us sort it all out and see it for what it is. Still, from this side of life you do miss being a child and a bunch of things that came along with it. When you consider a life on average can have as many as a hundred years in it, and laws in many places in the wester n world seem to regard you as an adult anywhere from 16 years onward, you truly begin to realize that you only have a small percentage of your life to freely enjoy before responsibilities sart piling on. It's getting worse by the years; I don't remember having homework at my son's age, but he gets the stuff all the time.As I posted above, however, this isn't supposed to be a let me wallow in self pity because I've lost things I can't get back topic... I really appreciate everyone's replies thus far and look forward to more. Three and 4 reenforce the feeling I got when I heard AOL was discontinuing AIM and which started this whole topic, that it wasn't too long ago that we used to chat and listen to music in completely different ways. Six? I sympathise with you... I stole a book called castle in the attic and don't remember what happened to it. I have since reread it thanks to the bard service provided b y NLS. Eight? I'm with you too; my younger sister, cousins and I spent most of our childhood outside, riding bikes, rollerblading, soaking each other with water guns and garden hoses long after the sun went down. One of my favorite tweets of all time illustrates a 90's kid talking to a present day child and saying, "Hey, lets go to the park!" The present day child responds with, "Are you sure they have WiFi there?" We didn't used to care so much.Nine, if there's any little devices I learned to use to their full capacity, the braille N Speak and Braille Lite have to fall into that category. I demonstrated a bug to a friend in which he password protected a file on his BLT; I moved it to flash memory and was able to access it regardless. Ten? Spot on about the feeling to some degree, but wrong in many senses... I can point you to tons of songs in the 90's that promoted sex, drugs and viol ence. You're right about one thing though; as technology has progressed we've become a rather disfunctional society that cares more about the quantity of friends rather than the quality of friendships.Thirteen? I still have tapes and even some records and, bless me, a way to play them both. The last stereo system I bought back in o5 still plays cassettes like a pro, while a friend of mine actually has the record player. Fourteen? My brother did the playing... I did the listening. It was better that way in some senses because I always knew he was going to get to the end of the game and I'd here practically every sound associated with it. Nowadays I listen to speedruns on youtube but it's not quite the same.Two? I never had the privelage of dealing with the machines you mentioned, but the bike riding was fun... Yes, I still did it even though I was blind and have videos to show for it because my parents th ought I was the brightest kid on the block and treated me like I was the stuff of legend, superhuman capabilities that allowed me to hear and feel things that just seemed to astound them, until I pointed out that if they would just pay a bit of attention they could honestly do it as well. It's easy to distinguish between the sounds a dime and a quarter make, or a soda can versus a can of beer when both are being opened. These are things sighted people take for granted because of the most magical of accessories on the human face, the human eye. Today, my hearing is nowhere near as good as it was 20 years ago... I don't ride bikes anymore, and I can't tell one can from another. Most blind people want their sight restored, and I suppose if you had it to begin with that is something you should want. I personally want my hearing back, but wouldn't argue to having my sight, if only to be a better parent, a dad who can take his children to fun places without the worry of having to call someone else just to get it done, no cabs, no buses, no extra transportation assistance required.I hope I got everyone, because I truly meant to. If I still haven't, you're about to be addressed, because if t
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Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss @Rory, it's really nice that the post office got someone to read the braille and write back. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332546#p332546 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Hi.I miss tapes. Having anything you wish on your computer or external hard drive is great but I dunno, tapes are better for some reason.I mean, I love that I have the Harry potter audiobooks on my external hard drive but having the first book on audio tape was amazing! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332525#p332525 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss This thread reminds me of something I ponder now and then.Often times, we say we miss things like going to school, watching TV after coming home from school, etc. Sometimes we even say we miss a certain time period.But is it that we miss those things or times, or do we simply miss being young? Since our brains are different now than when we were younger, would we still get that same feeling we used to get now? If we were to travel back to our favorite time, would we still enjoy being in that time as much as we did? Would we enjoy life in this time period more if we were younger?Deep questions, I know. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332354#p332354 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Hmm, for me it would be the apple IIGS I would play on in elementary school, the damn braille 'n speaks, though I don't know why, I always liked them, even though a $2 calculator from today could probably outstrip it as far as processing power. I miss when I moved out of my mom's and into my dad's when I was 13. He taught me how to do the things you need to do, like cook, laundry, etc. All that stuff, which I know some sighted people couldn't even do when I went up to college, well I could. I miss the showers on the back porch because our bath tub was shit, and he didn't have the money to fix it for a while, so we had this long host clamped up to the kitchen sink, slung over the clothesline and we'd shower in the evening. I'd turn on that water, walk out there, and just bask in the hot water, but with the cool air on me. Doing that in the winter was the best feeling ever. I miss actually getting up and getting ready for school, standing ther e on a cold morning, just the scent of that crisp, cold air. My dad was out of the house by 3:45, since he'd have to go in early to work to supervise the guys loading up and stuff, so it was up to me to get myself up and ready and out the door to the bus. I miss walking into school every morning, going right to that soda machine and buying a mountain dew code red, just savoring it. I miss some of the meals from school, even though that sounds completely crazy, I'd kill to eat that again. I miss hanging around with friends at college, hanging at the pool or at the hot tub on campus, drinking. I even miss walking the 3 miles round trip to get groceries. Even the worst of it when it would be winter, and by the time I got home, my fingers were so cold and numb I couldn't even get them to clamp tight enough to get the key out of my pocket. I miss playing basketball with my friends when I was a little kid. Riding my cousin's bike because it was a girl bike and di dn't have the nut busting crossbar like mine did, also hers had better braes, and the front one would grab so good, you'd do a stoppie. I miss all the devilish shit I used to do like play with fire, steal cookies from the ala carte line at the school cafeteria, etc. I miss the care free days where all I had to worry about is keeping my grades up. Yeah there's a lot of it, but whenever you get a glimpse of it, its never as good as you remember, so its better to just let those lie, and move on with your life, because trying to relive old memories will only disappoint. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332337#p332337 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss [[wow]] thanks nokturnus for this topic.What I miss.Oh [[wow]], there is a lot.I miss.Windows xp, in fact all windows from xp lower.I miss the pree nt systems where you could run what you wanted without incompatabilities and stuff.I miss dos.I miss the 386 and older systems.I miss 5 hours to reinstall things, keysoft and mastertouch.I miss the floppy disk drive.I miss 28kbps and 14.4kbps modems.I miss the isolation before the net ever existed.I miss casette tapes, the old radio shows, old shortwave, and old radio programs.I miss old sweets and some foods I can not get anymore.I miss low priced fuel, and all that sort of thing.I miss the good old days when a kid could eat what he wanted and no one batted an eye.Before the health rage took off with all its good and bad sides I miss well the simpler times.I miss the time before the approaching apocolipse where the us was understood a s the country that would nuke everyone if you messed with them, so no one messed with them and the world mostly functioned.Life in the 90s right up to 2001 was a simple life for me in new zealand, you did what you wanted and when you wanted, there was no net no blogs, no terrorists at least not in range, no isis.No big news that effected you directly and things like that.Kids actually still played outside and had nice lives, true we had game consoles but people didn't grow fat all day on the net.To really be away from it all, I have to actually not take my computer with me on a trip.I guess I miss the old interfaces like symbian, the old os interfaces, the fact if something broke you knew what it was and could fix it easy without resorting to simply reformatting because all the component codes did your head in.Or having something fail which is unable to be solved by you directly as such.I have an issue with some messages with attatchmen ts being stripped through the net to some locations its not my problem as such its in the middle.Life has got quite complex even if I don't want it to be.To be honest in the old days, you were blind.You lived a helpless blindy life in a helpless society that didn't care.You were entitled and were given and you were blind so you couldn't do anything because you were poor and helpless.In actual fact that meant you could do just about anything without all the paperwork involved if you put your mind to it.Now I am not giving up my rights as a blind person of today by any means, but with rights and responsibilities, there becomes procedures and regulations.And the fact while I understand progress can be hard, it certainly was easier before the mainstreaming of the blind, the blind were helpless and dumb and that was fine with me.I didn't have to understand the sighted, I had my life and they had theirs.Now I have t o adapt, so do they but they are still resisting a little.Sometimes I want to go back.Its more together blind and mainstream intergration like the new cloud os, but I guess its selfishness.I would dearly like to go back to my blindy world and my blindy devices because all I'd have to think about is me and it would be much simpler at times if I could do that.On the other side, that world didn't have rights for us and now we do.I don't think I'd relinquish my rights for the old world.I will have to adapt with the changes as even our blind schools are changing.I suppose its natural for all humans to remember the easier times of yesteryear.Yet we think the grass on the other side of the river is better.Tomorrow is better than today.Then when we get there we realise that we actually had it good or that we were actually ok and as soon as today goes I will say today was better yesterday.For me this missin g topic does bring a tear to my eyes though.In the past I had my grandparents and my family was closely nitt.Now everyone is doing various things and without my grandparents both sets are dead now and 1 just recently the family has drifted into their own clubs.Some we don't talk to anymore and some have vastly different lives that connecting with them is a challenge URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332321#p332321 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Nocturnus, I'm only 5 years younger than you, so I can definitely relate to some of these. The ones I can most relate to are 3 (Windows XP), 6 (school), and 7 (TV shows).Here's one of my own. Those who know me well will not be surprised. long story ahead!When I was in high school, I took a music technology class which was pretty much my dream class. For 45 minutes a day I sat in front of a computer producing music. Most of the software they used wasn't very accessible, at least not with the old version of NVDA that was out at the time. So I took a copy of my favorite midi sequencer which could be run portably, and put it on a flash drive. While the rest of the kids were playing with Finale and a DAW which I can't remember, I was creating music with my preferred midi sequencer (qws) instead. The instructor frequently went from trying to help me, to being too busy with other students, to leaving me to my own devices, and before long, being outright intrigued at what I could do with the school's cheap workstation keyboards.The sound was far from ideal. To start, the headphones I was using had past their prime, which made the sound muffled. The headphones also left disturbing amounts of residue around my ears. Even more frustrating was that the left channel on the keyboard had a faulty output, leaving me with sound only on my right side most of the time. Add to that the noise of talking students was really loud so I couldn't hear well what I was doing. This is high school though. I came to expect those sort of difficulties; My high school experience at least was full of equipment failures, routy kids, uncertainty, all that. To keep me sane I focused on my musical areas of interest which led me to wonder what kind of keyboards they were using. I had never heard the sounds before, but I liked them for some strange reason, even though they were really not high quality sounds.I don't know exactly how I f ound out, but I'm almost certain the workstations being used were Korg X5D keyboards. These were released in 1995, and were entry level keyboards, even then. The sounds on the Korg X5D were taken from other higher end workstations which were four years older, having originated on the Korg 01/w in 1991. And a few sounds were recycled from the Korg M1 in 1988. So yeah, these sounds were old way before I even heard them. My first exposure to them was in that music tech class in 2012! Despite them being 20 years old I still liked them. One fond moment was when the teacher was showing us how midi worked and how different sounds could be selected on the X5D. He pressed a button and hit a key, and the next thing I knew, the keyboard showed off this impressive display of whooshing jets, dramatic cinematic cymbals, timpani, strings, and tinkly sweeping etherial sounds layered together. The teacher was like, "whoa, that's not what we want... What the heck is that? *checks the d isplay* Solar flare... hehehe yeah you get all sorts of sounds on here..." I wanted to ask how the heck it did that. Until that point I had only heard the conventional GM sounds, akin to the ones that come with most computers, and I thought they were interesting but I had hardly heard anything like that. My first thought was to jump up and ask, how does something just do that? If it can do those crazy effects, what other things can it do?I started exploring buttons on the X5D over time, and eventually learned that Solar Flare was a combination of sounds layered together. I learned how to switch from that to the basic patch set I had been composing with. Combinations aren't meant for composing on the computer, they're more for live performance. So, when I would get bored of composing, I'd switch to one of those combinations and just scroll through and allow myself to be inspired. It's ashame I only got to hear the right side, because I've heard re cordings that really do show off cool stereo effects. I was playing with a particularly strange sounding one with what sounded like chanting demons and weird ethnic instruments, and the teacher comes over, not being able to hear what I'm doing, and glances at my display. "Headhunters," he observes. "Sheesh." With how demonic and crazy the sounds were, headhunters seemed like a fitting name for that combination. Another combination I later learned the name of was phantom sax, and I really liked that one too because it was very ethereal but musically expressive. All of the sounds, including the combinations with all their cool effects, and despite being impressive and huge, had this 90s gritty sound to them, and I find that sort of gritty low fi quality, in moderation, to be soothing and nostalgic. I wouldn't want it put on modern stuff as much, I only like it if it's genuinely brought on by old technology or really good emulations. And it's fun ny, I normally don't like really old sounds, bu
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
Re: nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss I really miss the old playstation games from the late 90s when I used to play. particularly syphon filter and GTA. I get really jealous listening to playthroughs on yt because those games are clearly still eminently playable. I even thought about buying a PS2 and a few old school classics just in case the miracle happens and my sight gets restored. On the same subject, I recently discovered a book called subway art that I worshipped when I was about 12 and into graffiti art, was still in print, so I bought a copy. I'd love to see it again. I stole my first copy because it was very expensive and I just couldn't leave the shop without it after I saw the amazing art. it was very scary because I was alone and not a shoplifter. It was down in the basement floor of a massive bookstore, so I had to ride the lift back up and it seemed to take forever with the guilty secret that seemed so big in my coat. Worth it though . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332310#p332310 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss
nostalgia: all the things I miss very deeply and will continue to miss Maybe I'm getting old or something, but I figured I had some time to kill and boredom and things. With the official discontinuation of AOL's instant messenger which has been up and running since 1997, I found myself longing for so many things I know I'll never ever truly have again. This isn't, however, meant to be a topic full of commiseration and self pity, but rather a topic in which we can share and enjoy each other's memories, should you care to join me. I'm a 90's kid for the most part, though I was actually born in 88, but I'm not limiting it to that timeframe nor do I want you to feel as such. Post in list format or just ramble on and on about things you hold dear and wish you could have if only for a second. :d1. AOL's instant messenger is actually how I got started in the big bad world that is now the internet of things. I remember it's fairly accessible tab interface; things got really interesting if you actually went all out and got the AOL desktop app complete with a web browser, email client, media player, simple suite of clean up utilities and a bunch of other nifty tools all in one. For awhile, AOL was my access to the internet, and then highspeed happened; cable companies started dishing out internet packages that were much more enticing. Bye bye AOL dialup.2. Hello MSN messenger; you were actually cooler in some senses, and not just because I could assign sounds for people who messaged me rather than having to stick to the crap on AOL.3. Windows XP, because I'm a jerk, I guess. Yeah yeah, moan and groan away about how I shouldn't have brought this one up, but seriously! It was clean, usable, powerful, beneficial, and in practically every house, store, building and institution I visited for the longest time because of how accessible it was to everyone! It's sounds were un mistakable and iconic, the themes that shipped with various versions were absolutely smashing, and listening to people playing pinball just never got old to me. I actually started out on 98 and liked it almost as much, but XP was my home for far too long. I obviously let it go willingly when I had to and knew it was absolutely time, but need and desire are completely different here.4. Is it just me or did poptarts use to be thicker and tastier?5. I believe serial in a paper bag stayed fresh for longer periods of time and tasted better as well.6. School... I see my children going and think about how their futures will shape up and wish I had had access to all the goodies they're going to get as they grow older... If only I could have had an iPhone back then...7. The feeling I got when watching my favorite TV shows; most of them are on streaming services now but I just can't feel the same anymore and wonder why I ev en liked them to begin with. lolI'll probably come back with more a bit later, but I figured I'd see if this generates any interest. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=332265#p332265 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
