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I have forgotten the model but it was an ST something, I think this one or one after https://musictech.com/reviews/vintage-rewind-atari-st-computer/
it was colour and I even rendered fractal terrains with a freeware program I got
like a primitive Bryce
I bought magazines with programs on floppy discs
I made videos which I recorded with my Beta video recorder (my cathode ray TV was my monitor)
and it had a midi plug I used it as a sequencer, I also bought a small midi piano keyboard to use with it
(This was actually the reason I bought it)
I had a Michael Jackson Sleepwalker game and another popular arcade game I forget the name of, I played endlessly
( you were a wizard, elf or valkarie and killed lots of grunts in maze like dungeons, collected keys and escaped through a trapdoor, the characters were always saying they needed food, the arcade version 4 players could play, I later got it for my Sega megadrive too and had 4 controllers)
I also used the painting program that had animated textures
I had at least 10 years if not more between last using it and getting another computer
a Win98 in 2007 given to me I also got freeware on magazines for but at least DVDs
YES..nice. We're OT a bit, but they were great computers. I never stepped up to that, went a different direction, but for what they were you could do a lot. I used Vista Pro for a long time before Bryce. Its too bad DAZ let Bryce rot on the vine. I moved to Vue, but they got wonky with their pricing and wouldn't allow upgrades on lower versions, even one back, so I dropped that too.
don't think the topic is that set in stone
was trying to work out when I last used that computer and am pretty sure it was before I bought my own house at 33
as I never had it there
so pre 1995
so wow 13 years before I had a computer again
Maybe that will change for you. I've been adding new Windows/osX/FreeBSD/Linux computers to further split out use cases and my income is quite tiny. Splitting those compunting devices out keeps things interesting for myself personally as well.
Or you realize other people have at least two kidneys... and everyone has to sleep at some point...
Wow man. You mean you can't buy something for someone similar to gifting. Oh well. Surely, instead, you could buy a gift card thru Daz to give to someone for the same purpose.
I was actually joking anyway because it was just funny to say in line with the topic.
That would only be an issue if the older software stopped working. It's not like it's getting any better. Just slower. But maybe that's just how it seems to me. I still use Macromedia Fireworks because it does some things Photoshop doesn't do. It doesn't matter how old it is if it works. And I really think if DAZ disappeared completely, people would find very creative ways to get Poser to do what they want. There would definitely be forums and galleries. Just whichever ones became the main ones, would not be controlled by DAZ. And that would be amazing.
...I've been doing that for years.
G8.1 and 9 has only reinforced that.
Same for this year's MM sale which often requires buying 2 ore more new themed release items instead of just one.
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Gauntlet!
the name of the game I played on my Atari and later Sega eluded me for 24 hours!!!
I am going senile
DAZ content hoarding the least of my worries
I didn't know Gauntlet was on Atari; I only know it from arcades and NES.
well this was before the Sega Genesis I believe it was called over there existed
I was still playing it in the arcade at the bowling club
was only B&W on my TV with the computer sadly needed a monitor for colour
was a computer NOT an Atari console!
it was on floppy discs you had to change each level too FFS
I had an Atari ST back in the day,. It was quite a powerful home computer for it's time, comparable to the Apple Mac. The ST could run a version of The Mac desktop. It was very popular with Midi users, as Wendy notes, because it had Midi-In and Midi-Out built in so it could record and playback Midi files to keyboards and synths, and store the files on disk ( 3.5 inch floppy unless you went for the very expensive Hard disk option. )
The disk file format was compatible with the IBM PC which was useful. It's main competitor was the Commadore Amiga, which had better built in sound but a completely bespoke disk format.
btw my first computer was a Nascom 1 which was 8-bit and supplied as a kit which had to be soldered together. Data storage on that was a 'hit and miss' link to an audio cassette player.
The thing that amazes me is that you could get a functional word processor, or spreadsheet, or complex game in just 32 Kilobytes of 8 bit memory. These days just the icon for a program probably takes more memory than that.
Dammit, this site is worthless if you're trying to save money, bought 2 products this month totalling $28 and while it didn't set me back too much, this store kills your wallet with one thousand little cuts as I really had to hold myself back from spending another $30!
Stay in the forums and keep away from the store, as that's where your wallet is the most safe! :P
First game I played on the commodore64 was Loderunner. It had a 5 1/4 floppy peripheral.. still have it sitting on a shelf.
Why are you doing that? Are you using the stuff you buy? Do you know what's in your library? Perhaps you need an intervention.
I have a 1-tb solid state hard drive in my laptop. And two 4-tb external drives. My problem is that I create a lot of unique looking charcters by blending heads and bodies from several other characters giving my characters a unique look that my subscibers identify as uniquely my own. The characters and saved scenes account for about half my space problem.
Most of what I buy are tools and utilities, so I use them religiously, but yeah, I still find myself forgetting whether it was a freebie or an actual product that I bought!
Thankfully, I'm on a fixed income, so pre-purchases sometimes give me pause before blowing what little money I do have! :P
Lol, I can fit your entire collection on ONE of my externals... So yeah, I have at least 91.9 TB, with only 26.426 free space left!
So yes, my name is Takezo3001 and I am a data hoarder...
I think I am also at this point.
Plasma can be donated with much more frequency although it's been a long time so I don't know what it sells for nowadays. I know back then if my weight dropped below 160 lbs I'd only be given $13 instead of $15 so I'd weigh myself before going, drink plenty of water, and wear my heavy coat as the walk to the plasma center could take a bit of weight off me. I sometimes put rocks in my pockets. And sometimes I just had to accept I was only getting $13 for that particular donation. They never did ask me to take off my jacket!
I understand! A lot of my characters are dial-spun as well, and I've been developing custome textures too. That will eat up the drive space! So far, it hasn't been too bad, but it will only get worse over time.
OK you win that!
The NES also predated the Genesis/Mega Drive.
You got my memory working again! It was about 1986-87 when I bought an Atari 520ST. I had a "windfall" of a little less than $1,000. I chose the 520ST, rather than the 1040ST because I wanted enough money to buy a Hayes 300-Baud (wow!) external modem, and a printer. These were the days before the Internet, when I frequented local Bulletin Boards (BBSes.) We connected via telephone lines (dial-up modems). Many generous System Operators (SYSOPs) provided a host computer for us to connect and socialize. I was in the Minneapolis Minnesota area at the time. A popular hosting software was called Citadel.
Yeah, so I'm old. My first computer was a joyfully useless Commodore VIC20. I went to a Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 and then onto the Atari 520ST. I didn't really have a useful computer until I built my first PC. That was before Windows!
you don't have to buy every asset, as there are many that look quite similar... Also, no need to buy them immediately when they come out. For example, now genesis 2 and 3 items are quite cheap. There are also other websites that offer (often) higher quality content for way less than here. daz's store used to be so good, but now it's only beautiful white women and sexy clothes... it's too comercialised and that is dangerous for a business. they should focus on other issues. but each to its own...
My character, I don't have any to hear the teachers say,
, is straight out of the DAZ 3D/PA box. I just use it as a sort of avatar sometimes. I've not developed any characters at all. I did try some FaceGen Artist Pro morphs to test the product a few years back as I was interested in integrating that product's capabilities into games for players to customize the protagonists and antagonists in games to themselves & their friends but felt that the results were not instantly recognizable once exported into DAZ so I lost interest in using that. I will check again when the product is released for an update to Genesis 9. With the higher number of polygons in Genesis 9 I think the DAZ exported results will be more likely to be instantly recognizable. I'd have to save a lot of money to license that code and though it's a lot, it's not an insurmountable amount I'd need to save.
I've not tried to develop any unique characters with morph dials really since 2016 - 2017. A few of the results there are in my earlier DAZ Gallery. They are similar to Pedro Furtado's Cartoonized products and the DAZ 3D Girl 7/Guy 7/Girl 8 products but were made only using the DAZ 3D Head & Body morph products for Genesis 3. I think they are good and was happy to find that was possible when I did that using those DAZ 3D morphs. Also, I used some morph freebies from a generous 3D artist at ShareCG to make toon morphs of TV show characters a long while back.
Nowadays, I strictly just use what DAZ & the PA do. I don't have any subscribers and don't offer anything to subscribe to. I wouldn't feel comfortable asking for subscribers without a regular release schedule of high quality output. And I don't produce such. Until I get serious developing again, if I ever get motivated to, that is, I personally don't have sufficient incentive to morph dial to create a bunch of unique DAZ characters. I am content to slowly plod along in the meantime with my Blender skills tutorials and keeping on the back burner some ideals for the DAZ content I've bought because I will need it. The Blender tutorials are slow going and difficult but I've found I do learn them. If I get to the point that I am happy with my Blender output, then I will have the needed motivation to make new models and modify DAZ 3D purchased models for use in developing games. Most DAZ models I've bought are just the way I want them out of the box though because no matter how good and fast I get a modeling and modifying existing models, practically speaking, it wouldn't be fast enough and still have sufficient time to develop modifications to game code libraries I've bought but that would need modified into something I find more interesting.
there was the phrase "what the market will bear". How high can DAZ prices go before customers stop buying? I now I've capped my spend to 70% discount other then something that is really good, or needed, but its rare I buy anything at full price, even DAZ+ items are now getting put in the wait category. as they go up in price. I used to buy them just becasie it was such a bargain, but they're not any longer. Yes, less expensive than the main products, but not just an auto buy anymore.
When the inspiration is gone because the brain is too tired to be creative.
When AI trivializes all your efforts.