[Person of Color]

My buddy and me are about to build a sick ass MAME box.

http://www.ebay.com/...984.m1423.l2650

http://www.ebay.com/...=item2ec08601d7

[Kathy]

486DX2, on 10 July 2013 - 08:28 AM, said:

By the way, there are workarounds you can do to get it to work in Home Premium. All the necessary code is there already, Microsoft just locked home users out of their installer or something.

Which would be the same just as pirating it.

[Person of Color]

Not really. Just grab a license off a dead computer and activate it by phone.

[Kathy]

Grab what license from a dead computer? By EULA you aren't allowed to use XP Mode on Home version of 7.

[Forge]

xp mode is free for download and use. it's the licensing when using it on machines other than professional, enterprise, and ultimate that are the issue. (those releases come with the license pre-installed - so the idea is when you purchase those upgrades from home edition you are also purchasing the license to use xp mode)

i have an old windows xp pro 32bit disc which i legitimately bought - but it's dead from damage
i used that key to license the xp mode via online verification and it worked fine

(edit: there are illegal hacks to make virtual pc & xp mode run permanently on a home edition windows 7, but i wouldn't risk it myself since micro$oft spies on everybody that uses their software)

you can get xp mode to work on windows 7 home by adjusting the security settings properties of the vhd file, but the xp operating system will expire after 30 days (i don't like virtual pc & i don't won't to deal with potential issues by using a "hacked" version and then trying to license it)

i used a "modified" virtual pc (free to download) to boot the xp mode (free to download), exported an image, uninstalled virtual pc, converted the image with VMware vCenter Converter (free to download), launched xp mode with VMware Workstation (purchased) and licensed it (also purchased).

-so i cheated a little, but everything i downloaded or used was free or already paid for-

[leilei]

Personally I use Crapacle VirtualBox for WinXP and Microsoft VirtualPC 2007 for Win98, both on Windows 7 x64 (despite the "warnings" about the older VPC not functioning on a newer OS, it seems to work flawlessly, even including ethernet passthrough - the only way I can reliably do file transfer between other 9x PCs, as well as use DJGPP).

[Fantinaikos]

Yo guys, you still have some space there in the middle?


Looks like it.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Don't mock them! One of those medals was for issuing a glowing reverence to Mao Tse Tung immediately after sneezing.

[Master Fibbles]

Some of the younger ones might have medals for hacking Google.

[Person of Color]

Did you see that thing on VICE where they went into North Korea? I'm talking about the newer one, not the original one from 2008. It debuted on HBO a couple weeks back.

They had an entire room full of Koreans and computers. These computers were either on some random ebook or at the Google homepage. Yeah, they had people staring at fucking Google with their hands under their chin or just resting on the fucking mouse.

The only guy using a computer was the guy they wanted them to talk to.

"Silly Americans, they'll never notice!"

[Hank]

Monster Star found in our Milyway

[Engel220]

That's actually not bad considering I live in a pretty small town in a small English county. Certainly nothing to complain about, especially since I upgraded to fibre-optic broadband.

[High Treason]

Heh, wish things were so good here, no option of fibre yet because the ISP don't think the council estates need it.


Anyway, I said I would post this when it was done, so here it is;


Multi-track recording of course.

[Lunick]

Every time I do this and compare to you guys, I cry.

[Engel220]

Welp, seems Valve planned to offer a mix of good deals on games during the summer sale but not so much on bracing their servers for the rush of buyers. So much for buying Hotline Miami tonight, hopefully things run smoother tomorrow.

[Fox]

[Jimmy]

Lunick, on 11 July 2013 - 06:06 AM, said:

Every time I do this and compare to you guys, I cry.

Don't feel too bad, babe.



This is what happens when you live in jerkwater.

[Sangman]

Met a girl a couple weeks ago (not through the internet mind you) and things are going really well so yay!

[Master Fibbles]

I got sad when I saw that the Steam Summer Sale starts today...I can't spend any money this month because I'm moving and I need cash on hand to pay for all that stuff.
On the up side, nothing so far that screams great deal on a game I want.

[Mark]

I had 25Mbps , 1Mbps , 5ms with regular broadband cable from Roadrunner

[faked]

I just bought a new recliner.Right after I finished paying for my new computer the other day.Had it paid off in 5 months.Yay!Now my neighbor is pissed at me.

[Forge]

water heater blew a seam and leaked all over the garage. yay! another thousand bucks on the credit card.

at 2.5 % interest i'll have the last laugh since i'll die of old age before the credit card company gets all their money back.

[Fox]

So you won't live for more 40 years?

[faked]

Sangman, on 11 July 2013 - 02:45 PM, said:

Met a girl a couple weeks ago (not through the internet mind you) and things are going really well so yay!

Hey,good luck,Sangman!

[Person of Color]

JUST SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM GUYS

[Forge]

Fox, on 11 July 2013 - 07:00 PM, said:

So you won't live for more 40 years?

probably not. i'm surprised i even lived past the first forty. (and there's alot more than a thousand on that card)

edit: try to imagine this guy at middle age then you'll understand

[Lunick]

[faked]

???

[Hendricks266]

[Jimmy]