/retro/ - Y2K

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>>5169
Same to you.

Nokia used to run ads with some serious cuties on them. Wish I could find those wallpapers again, stupidly didn't name them.

>>2612
If you dig around, you can find the full video. There's other women in it and it's all topless nudity. It feels slightly pornographic (even though nothing explicit happens) but the real intention apparently was art. I got curious because I miss 00s "amateur" porn. That stuff today is just kinda gross imo.

>>5149
You should share the link with the class, you teaser!
https://archive.org/details/howtohavecybersexontheinternet1996

>>5160

Imma do it (wish me luck)

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IT'S MOON CHILD
OH OH OH
YOU HAVE THE POWER
TO BE HIS FRIEND

>>5242
I've tried it before, but not for very long. I'm too busy now to check it out but I would like to see if using it would extend the capabilities of and old computer like a 486 or something.

>>5243
A 486 should be able to run Windows 95 or maybe even NetBSD, and those should add more capabilities. DOS is more of a launcher than an operating system as far as I'm concerned, and that's exactly why I like the idea of a free and open source drop-in replacement.

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>>5242
Hehehe open source mostly sucks at documentation. Also in general if it's modern software, it will be slow and bloated. Try to get old OS+software on 486, if you want it to be actually usable. But the problem is if you run old Windows or Linux/BSD then it's got security holes. So you're probably better off with a "dumb" OS like DOS, if it can run the software you want. I like dumb OS for same reasons I like dumb phone. Lucky for me, I really like ancient stuff like GW-BASIC and text games.

Obligatory Supermium mention:
https://www.win32subsystem.live/supermium/

>>5245
>the problem is if you run old Windows or Linux/BSD then it's got security holes
That's practically a non-issue since a 486 is of no use to attackers.

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>>5246
Botnet can still encrypt files and ask for bitcoin, or whatever they do these days. Maybe it doesn't matter if there's no important files on there, but I'd rather just avoid the situation altogether. I got hacked before when I was new to Linux and I was hanging out on IRC. It was even a 486 with slackware. I had to reinstall, and then learn about security. If I still had only DOS on there, they wouldn't have any way to hack me, since I would have been using plain old dialup shell (where IRC runs on the remote host) instead of a SLIP/PPP that assigns my computer an IP address and leaves it entirely exposed to the world.
Not that I care that much about DOS, most 1980's microcomputers have the same advantage. Actually my favorite is CP/M because it's so minimal!

>>5235
Heh. Well hello anyway, Anon. Have any favorite retro stuff?

>>5236
I've already posted some in this thread a long time ago, but one that I don't see here is https://spacehey.com/

it's a myspace lookalike sort of thing. I haven't really used it but it seems neat. I'm going to make an account and keep it to only some IRL friends (otherwise I would share my account here once I do).

>>5237
Sounds interesting, thanks Anon. Please continue participating with us all here, btw. Cheers.

>>5237
I was pretty late to the MySpace train, but social media went downhill once Facebook came along. I guess Twitter has its uses, but still.

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>>5238
My problem with slow boards is always that I forget to check in after I see no new posts for a while, then I realize it's been months (sometimes years) before I remember to check back again.

I'll drop some of my bookmarks some of you guys may like.

http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/ic.cgi?a=va&ns=1

>>4412
Vietnamese nail salon art?

>>4809
It looks kinda fancy or glammed up (even if dated) - I can see how the ladies dug that stuff. I kinda enjoyed the haircut experience for the same reason - never had enough coverage for pompadours and such but big crazy hair always sounded cool to me.

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Some Atari 2600 game ads.

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>>5218

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Suzanne Ciani talking about synthesizers.

I guess I never shared it here, but Pizza Tower spawned a ton of VHS-style retro animation when it released back in 2023. The Noise update the following year helped keep it going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=7jbjeF0-kMA

>>4348
New Anna Logue dropped just in time for Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFtaWTzPLP4

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Happy New Year
I'm that 1 anon who's been curating animation and art that excels in imitating older aesthetics since 2022. This year I've decidied to focus on my personal animation and life, so it'll be a while till my next post

Found an animator named Skarmuse, their art/animation evokes late 90s cg renders projected onto film like those cinemark promos with the cats. 
Some of the animation has anachronistic issues but the key idea is there thanks to coloring, rendering, and bitrate compression/filters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpX9c0BIG6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5f_vNbOyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGosrHDwd2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3uQv3p4cww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzOe4Bhc2U

I really enjoy this thread, its been super inspirational for my creative process, probably the best use of the 4chan format in my opinion

>>5173
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ge4KQjv4Q

Would you say Planetronika counts?

>>5171
Ten minutes of Anna. That was pretty good, and I'm glad the cast is being introduced.

>>5076
>TESTMACARONI
Speaking of this guy, he made a new short about shrek in 1930's style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aor2ja9Aqmc

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Greg was a real pro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj2drENV9uk

>>5226
*Craig

>>5226
Nintendo Power wasnt enough like RAW magazine

>>3827
Its so mature for its age. 
and somewhat more paletable than 
other cyberpunk games-not just point n click

>>5134
I just read this article and I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for compiling all this info and making it easily available so what remains of Pure Dragon does not become lost media. I was so sad to learn about that animated pilot which had not been archived.

I just found this 90's site which is compatible with windows 3.1 , win95 and win98

https://lifeseven.com/1990s/

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Here's how I watch VHS anime without a working VCR
>use my PS2 S-Video cable to connect my modded PS3 to my CRT
>open Movian M7 homebrew app
>install archive.org plugin
>play one of countless available VHS rips
>alternatively open the youtube app and visit channels like this one >>4360
Almost feels like the real thing.

>>5204
Why not just copy the VHS rips directly onto a memory card or something?

>>5207
Cause its easier to just press play  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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>>5142
How was usable was that controller? The D-pad in that picture doesn't look too bad. My family never had a proper computer gamepad until the Microsoft SideWinder, just a joystick, but I never liked the D-pad on that thing.

>>5198
And how did the process of subscribing work? As in, did they mail you an instruction booklet alongside your username and password, and maybe a floppy with telix to make sure that you can log in?

>>5200
I don't know how it worked for other people, but for me it went like this:
> Ordered parts over the phone to build a 486 PC to run Doom in 1994. I already had the 3-episode game on floppy disk (copied from someone else). They also copied the MSDOS 6 install disks for me.
> Received box of parts in the mail, put everything together, played a lot of Doom!
> Some month later bought a 14.4K modem from a local store. In the box was also a floppy disk with very basic comms software (not as nice as Telix, but enough to get started).
> Called some local BBS that I found the number for somewhere (probably in a magazine?) Anyway I don't remember which board it was exactly. But from here I quickly found numbers for many, many other local BBS, and wrote them down, and started calling them.
The way it works on BBS is you have to login with username/password. But if you don't have an account, you can create one and enter your personal infos like real name, address, phone number, and whatever username/password you want to use on that board. Then the sysop will review it and probably OK it, unless you're a known lamer (troublemaker). Then the next time you call the BBS, you'll find out if your account is active, or if you were denied.
I didn't get Internet access until later on, when

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS_4
>AmigaOS 4 (abbreviated as OS4 or AOS4) is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code developed by Commodore, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partner.[2] "The Final Update" (for OS version 4.0) was released on 24 December 2006 (originally released in April 2004)[3] after five years of development by the Belgian company Hyperion Entertainment under license from Amiga, Inc. for AmigaOne registered users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne
>AmigaOne is a series of computers intended to run AmigaOS 4 developed by Hyperion Entertainment, as a successor to the Amiga series by Commodore International. Unlike the original Amiga computers which used Motorola 68k processors, the AmigaOne line uses PowerPC processors. Earlier models were produced by Eyetech; in September 2009, Hyperion secured an exclusive licence for the AmigaOne name and subsequently new AmigaOne computers were released by A-Eon Technology and Acube Systems. 
Looks like the OS is still being updated, and the latest AmigaOne is from 2024. Still, I'm really not sure how retro these reall

>>5221
>it wouldn't be any more retro than any other random alternative x86.
I mean, any other random alternative to x86.

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>>5221
> I'm really not sure how retro these really are
It's not. If you want an Amiga, get a 68k model. If you want a modern Amiga-like system, run AROS on a hardware that can boot it on bare metal. If you just want to run old Amiga software, use an emulator (they even have some Linux distro that boots into the emulator on Raspberry Pi board).
All the post-68k Amiga models are just lame cash-grabs for milking boomer Amiga users by $CURRENT_YEAR_AMIGA_IP_OWNER. They pay a lot of money just to have something that says "Amiga" on it, even though it's just another boring modern computer.

>>2851
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary
>BBS: The Documentary (commonly referred to as BBS Documentary) is a 3-disc, 8-episode documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com.
> Wired called it "a five-and-a-half-hour paean to the era when computers were named Stacy and Lisa, and tech loyalists fought bitter battles over the superiority of Ataris to Amigas".
Not that I care about Wired, but a documentary this long made by people who are actually part of the subculture should be at least informative, so I might as well bump this thread.

Also, if you want to run a BBS you should also consider using existing BBS software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBS_software

>>5211
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_(BBS_software)
>Waffle is a bulletin-board system created by Tom Dell for the Dark Side of the Moon BBS which ran under DOS and later UNIX. The software was unique among DOS BBS software in many ways, including the fact that all of the configuration files were in readable text files, and that it fully supported Usenet and UUCP on the DOS platform.
>A Usenet news group named comp.bbs.waffle was created for discussion of the Waffle BBS System.
>Waffle was first released in 1989.[1] The last version seems to be v1.65.[2] There was a beta version of 1.66 on the main site, but it was never released.
>It was possible to link Waffle (under DOS) to Fidonet and WWIV using external gateway utilities. 
This definitely sounds interesting, but there is surprisingly little info available. Still, there is the source code for a UNIX version here:
https://archive.org/details/unix-waffle-1.64-src

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>>2848
> goto10.fr (Minitel)
This looks so much nicer and easier to use than the shitty sncf.fr website that usually never works right with any of my web browsers. ;_;
The moderm web a shit!

>>5212
Although if you want a BBS with usenet integration then there is at least one still maintained alternative:
https://www.synchro.net/
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:newslink?s[]=nntp

https://synchro.net/sbbslist.html
I've tried to visit a few of these, and it seems like that either ssh doesn't work, or I just can't figure out what am I supposed to do. Telnet connections are perfectly fine, but if I try to enter with ssh followed by the domain of the bbs, then it just tries to log in as my Linux user. And I can't figure out if I need to add a flag to ssh or an user before the domain or something else.