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Post by brudgers »

timewizard wrote: post #210
brudgers wrote: post #141

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In 1900, QRS began making piano rolls. By 1920, they had invented a machine to capture piano players directly and over the years QRS captured many including Liberace, George Gershwin, and even Roger Miller playing Autumn Leaves . QRS is still in business and some of its product lines use Midi conversions of piano rolls and last month I landed a mixed lot with a bunch of those Midi files on 3.5” floppy disks. I had Ge…

I didn't say it wouldn't sound good. It wouldn't sound right, as in, not what was intended. In particular, think of how this would play out if you had never heard that song before, would that be what you were after?

I was barely thinking about what you said at all.

I was thinking about retelling the story I wanted to retell.

Thinking about writing.

The banjo was just an excuse.

I didn’t hear it.

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Post by gond »

29athrowaway wrote: post #112
zkmon wrote: post #25

Why did we kill all that beautiful minimalism? Computers had enough gaming, entertainment and productivity back then. But the definition of "enough" kept changing. Like a carrot tied to stick attached to an animal.

On Linux you can customize your UI to achieve any look you want. - A Windows 3.1 window manager theme - The Windows 3.1 fonts with font hinting/antialiasing disabled - Windows 3.1 icons - A matching cursor theme - Lower your display resolution

I wish this would be the solution. What I would like specifically for Linux are alternative desktop environments like the resurrected CDE. Themes don’t update well and are in my experience, sluggish.

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Post by brookst »

pxc wrote: post #65
brookst wrote: post #59

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This is more commentary on the nature of personality and taste than of computers. It’s human nature to think of familiar things from our youth as the height of achievement. That was the time of the best music, the best movies, the best culture, the best sports, the best everything. No matter if you were born in 1950 or 1990.

> It’s human nature to think of familiar things from our youth as the height of achievement. That was the time of the best music, the best movies, the best culture, the best sports, the best everything. No matter if you were born in 1950 or 1990. Is it? I think there's a common tendency to "stop exploring" cultural artifacts very deeply as we age, but not everyone shares this trait. Some people continue to value nove…

Sure, human nature isn’t homogeneous. Empathy is human nature, but some lack it. The drive to reproduction is human nature, I’ve never felt it. But in general observation tells me that people cling to the world as it was in their relative youth.

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

khedoros1 wrote: post #202
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #183

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When they say "PC Speaker" they mean that thing that beeps when your computer fails to boot being used to play music, not normal speakers vs dedicated midi device.

Yes. 35 years ago, the family PC-clone didn't have any dedicated audio hardware, just the built-in speaker, and that was pretty common. A couple years later, we got a "Sound Blaster" card (more likely, a clone). That provides a FM synthesis chip (typically used for music), and PCM audio output (for sound effects, voice, video playback) that doesn't require constant load on the CPU (it was possible to output scratchy…

All sounds wrong to me because I grew up with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpmpBLANYwM
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