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Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by floatboth »

zamalek wrote: post #36
daveFNbuck wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can speedrun PC games. For video games, better hardware can speed up things like loading times (which also happens if you put an SSD in your PS4) and increase the framerate but the actual gameplay won't become faster beyond the threshold necessary to play the game smoothly. This particular speedrun is much more tied to the hardware, but that's part of the fun for these people. It might make more sense if you comp…

Speedrunners have built tools for some games (most Valve games if I'm recalling correctly) that monitor times, while excluding loading screens. Obviously this is a separate category, and both curiously exist for games with a built-in timer (GDQ ignores in-game timers, for example).

There's actually a whole scripting language for reading values from games' memory and extract events for timing and progress:

https://github.com/LiveSplit/LiveSplit/blob/master/Documenta...

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by johannes1234321 »

781 wrote: post #34

OT: can someone explain this anime/waifu thing to me, in particular why does someone record a video like this one with careful window placement so that we can see the anime? I feel like I'm missing something.

In some cases (can't speak about this specific case) it's a matter of being recognizable. Many platforms (YouTube, twitch, ..) have limited capabilities for the creator to be recognisable. With such a branding at the second video you know "it's the anime guy"

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by a_t48 »

781 wrote: post #34

OT: can someone explain this anime/waifu thing to me, in particular why does someone record a video like this one with careful window placement so that we can see the anime? I feel like I'm missing something.

Visual appeal. The anime waifu is more eye catching than a plain background.

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by sly010 »

lqet wrote: post #19

Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…

I immediately recognized that key :)

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by jimmies »

781 wrote: post #34

OT: can someone explain this anime/waifu thing to me, in particular why does someone record a video like this one with careful window placement so that we can see the anime? I feel like I'm missing something.

Just a playful way to mess with people. At work, I see a guy that wears a D-Va shirt every other day. He is a big guy, and the whole D-Va thing is printed full-screen on his shirt. It makes quite a funny sight.

4chan people are notorious for pulling that kind of shit. I wouldn't be surprised if the person that makes that video is from /g/.

If you don't find it funny, then you don't find it funny, like how you don't get some movies or memes that people like. I do.

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by yeahdef »

Magi604 wrote: post #49
lqet wrote: post #19

Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…

This was me, but with the OG Starcraft: Brood War CD Key. I think I still remember the key, but I'm not sure and I don't have the CD to verify.

Scott? Is that you?

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by josteink »

forgotmypw wrote: post #14

I got pretty good at this type of thing at one of my earliest jobs was as a network admin's assistant at a training place that was similar to today's webdev bootcamps, but for stuff like Oracle, VB, and Java. Before every class began, I would go through the entire classroom of 15-20 workstations and do a clean install of WinNT4 and whatever software packages were necessary for the class. Imaging was possible with sof…

Windows NT and newer supported unattended installs of both the OS and other software you wanted installed automatically. Not as fast as imaging, but equivalent of a manual install, just without any manual work.

That’s how we handled 100s of machines with an IT dept of just 3-4 techies at the uni I worked for.

And we loathed people who came with non-standard HW our custom boot disks didn’t handle (remember that even being a thing?).

Things have certainly changed and IMO mostly for the better.

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by ygra »

Magi604 wrote: post #49
lqet wrote: post #19

Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…

This was me, but with the OG Starcraft: Brood War CD Key. I think I still remember the key, but I'm not sure and I don't have the CD to verify.

I still know my Starcraft CD key to this day as well.

Bonus: The same key also works for Half-Life. They used the same algorithm.

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