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Edit: Also looks a bit like the ‘reduce reuse recycle’ symbol if you squint.

Some of those that work forces

are…

… not the same that burn crosses this time!!!

Better than the _🎵Juice That Makes Your Head Explode🎵 _

Yeah it’s actually around the 30s (or 60s, depending on whether you consider interlaced frames to be ‘true’ or just ‘halves’)

A CRT television runs at 60Hz because it uses the alternating current from the wall as a reference, but in every half cycle it only actually draws half of the image. “60i” as they call it.

So you can say it’s 60 interlaced frames a second, which is about comparable to 30 progressive frames.

Funny

I played a lot of Lunistice some time back. It’s a retro 3D platformer that has an option to cap the framerate at 20 for a “more authentic retro feel”. Fun lil’ game, even if I eventually uncapped the framerate because it’s also a high-speed and precision platformer and doing that at 20FPS is dizzying.

And yes absolutely Zelda 64 chokes on its 20 frames from time to time. I played it enough (again, yearly tradition, which started when I first finished the duology in the mid-aughts) to know that.

But it wouldn’t change the fact that its absolute maximum is 20 and it still doesn’t feel bad to play.

I wouldn’t know. Could never afford a posh high-refresh-rate monitor, and it’s very low on my priority list, so even if/when I do get a windfall of money, it probably won’t be what I buy next.

Wrong but also not completely wrong.

Framerates weren’t really a

Thing.

Before consoles had frame-buffers – Because Framebuffers are what allow the machine to build a frame of animation over several VBlank Intervals before presenting to the viewer.

The first console with a framebuffer was the 3DO. The first console people cared about with a framebuffer was the PSX.

Before that, you were in beam-racing town.

If your processing wasn’t enough to keep up with the TV’s refresh rate (60i/30p in NTSC territories, 50i/25p in PAL) – Things didn’t get stuttery or drop frames like modern games. They’d either literally run in slow-motion, or not display stuff (often both, as anyone who’s ever played a Shmup on NES can tell you)

You had the brief window of the HBlank and VBlank intervals of the television to calc stuff and get the next frame ready.

Buuuut, as of the PSX/N64/Saturn, most games were running anywhere between 15 and 60 FPS, with most sitting at the 20s.

PC is a whole different beast, as usual.

Descent is pretty fun. Not as big of a fan as you are, but I definitely dig it.

Ackshuli – By late 2000 there were a couple games on PC that could get there.

… If you were playing on high-end hardware. Which most PC gamers were not. (despite what Reddit PCMR weirdos will tell you, PC gaming has always been the home for janky hand-built shitboxes that are pushed to their crying limits trying to run games they were never meant to)

Regardless that’s beside the point – The original MM still doesn’t feel bad to go back to (it’s an annual tradition for me, and I alternate which port I play) even though it never changed from its 20FPSy roots.

When you’re god’s most perfect killing machine but you also fit inside the palm of a hand and people make kissy noises at you.

It can but it’s useless

It only works if the browser tab is focused.

Not very useful as a PTT key.

The bnnu

A pentium 100 shitbox hand built by my ol dad

This was well into the pentium II era of PC mind

Brand written big

What the product is written super tiny

If I could enshrine 1(one) regulation into law it would be to reverse that.

Resale. The reason is resale. Between the economy being trashed, planned obsolescence, and cultural shifts. People buy things not really expecting to keep them for very long, and the less individual something is, the easier to sell it on to someone else later.

easier to maintain

The thing is

they’re kinda not?

Grey(“Silver”) on cars kinda is in the sense that it “hides” dirt, but like, that particular shade of landlord beige they use on buildings? That becomes an ugly colour within weeks of exposure to the elements. And would require constant repainting to stay looking good.

It’s all about that resale value and the fact that nowadays no one buys anything expecting to keep it for very long. So the less “personal” things are, the better to pass them along.

I think they might use AAAs

Down to you if that’s worse or better.

adjusts 🤓 glasses

So a cassette tape works by using electromagnetism. Ferric Oxide (AKA, literally rust powder) has a property that if exposed to a magnetic field, it will create a weak version of that magnetic field within itself

So the record head of a tape machine is an electromagnet that changes its field based on the actual audio signal, translating audio frequencies directly to magnetic directions and strengths, while the read head is a passive electromagnetic coil that picks up that weak magnetic field on the rust-coated plastic tape while a small motor runs the tape past it and emits it as a soundwave.

The tape adapter skips 90% of these steps —

— It just has an electromagnetic coil of its own, positioned so it lines up with the play head, and when you feed it an audio signal, that audio signal gets directly translated to a magnetic field just by running it through the coil. The tape deck picks it up and doesn’t even realise there is no tape running through

Sonic the Hedgehog.

I got that Sonic Autism