Few things are worse than Weird Al songs stuck in your head. He’s great and I actually listen to the words of his song. Don’t a lot of the time just hear the melody but Al is funny. Just recently watched the Simpsons with him singing, was an amusing random watch. He helped me understand satire better, though always a fan of cheesy satire from Mel Brooks, National Lampoons and of course UHF. For movies I’ll also add, Spaceballs (Men in Tights, but never fully watched Blazing Saddles outside of bits which is by all accounts awesome), loaded weapon one and well Mr Als UHF in case people wanted something less than serious to watch sometime. In the vein of ‘cant rain all the time’(Original Crow movie), can’t always be serious and just need a funny one. Though I do know the humour isn’t for all.
Few things are worse than Weird Al songs stuck in your head.
Just ask Don McLean. Getting an artist to forget their own lyrics on stage in favor of your parody has to be some kind of lifetime achievement for a parody artist.
Yikes, that was around the time I knew the Amiga was a dead end and reluctantly bought a 100MHz Pentium outfit. The speed, memory, and resolution was far above anything I did with my Amiga 3000 but it wasn’t as much fun. Wow that was a long time ago.
I’m so jelly you had an Amiga!! I only recently realized it was a Commodore! We loved Commodore computing back in the day. The blue screen where you’d type the commands was strangely serene (or maybe that’s just my rose-colored glasses, lol)
Legit didn’t know and don’t know what an FPGA is, just knew that someone resurrected the commodore brand and started to output shit. Also I kinda want their Linux flip phone.
You could describe an FPGA as hardware defined by software. That FPGA in the “C64” Could also be an “SNES” or something other (given enough resources).
Software tells the hardware how to behave, and it then basically becomes the next best thing. It’s like emulation, but on a hardware basis.
Unironically neat, and if it works with old add ons and whatnot it seems like a good way of doing that. Personally I lament that some old tech can’t be acquired anymore since even limited production has ceased to exist and if this is a way of doing that without lack of demand issues fine by me.
They’re certainly fun! Pricy for what amounts to a few existing community projects in a “new original mould” case but very easy to set up on modern TVs and 99% compatible with old hardware and software. Even internet capable with the right cart images to play on the BBSs that are still around.
I still remember being soooooo fucking excited to see the next big step from a 486. I think we had a 486SX back when Pentium was current. I vaguely recall the Pentium chip being almost more like a cartridge in it’s form-factor but i could be way off. Old school computing days were the best 💖
Twenty-seven years later, and it is still all about the Pentiums.
Now Wierd Al is stuck in my head. A genuine thanks!
Few things are worse than Weird Al songs stuck in your head. He’s great and I actually listen to the words of his song. Don’t a lot of the time just hear the melody but Al is funny. Just recently watched the Simpsons with him singing, was an amusing random watch. He helped me understand satire better, though always a fan of cheesy satire from Mel Brooks, National Lampoons and of course UHF. For movies I’ll also add, Spaceballs (Men in Tights, but never fully watched Blazing Saddles outside of bits which is by all accounts awesome), loaded weapon one and well Mr Als UHF in case people wanted something less than serious to watch sometime. In the vein of ‘cant rain all the time’(Original Crow movie), can’t always be serious and just need a funny one. Though I do know the humour isn’t for all.
Just ask Don McLean. Getting an artist to forget their own lyrics on stage in favor of your parody has to be some kind of lifetime achievement for a parody artist.
Blazing Saddles is a hilarious satire on racism. You should absolutely watch it.
A friend recently went to a Weird Al concert and said he was very energetic the entire time. I’m jealous… I didn’t even know he was touring.
That dude is basically always touring. He’s incredibly hard working
27? First Pentium came out in 1993…
Yikes, that was around the time I knew the Amiga was a dead end and reluctantly bought a 100MHz Pentium outfit. The speed, memory, and resolution was far above anything I did with my Amiga 3000 but it wasn’t as much fun. Wow that was a long time ago.
I’m so jelly you had an Amiga!! I only recently realized it was a Commodore! We loved Commodore computing back in the day. The blue screen where you’d type the commands was strangely serene (or maybe that’s just my rose-colored glasses, lol)
Fun fact you can buy new production commodore 64s with mild modernizations.
They aren’t Commodore 64s, they’re FPGAs wrapped in a 64 styled box.
Legit didn’t know and don’t know what an FPGA is, just knew that someone resurrected the commodore brand and started to output shit. Also I kinda want their Linux flip phone.
You could describe an FPGA as hardware defined by software. That FPGA in the “C64” Could also be an “SNES” or something other (given enough resources).
Software tells the hardware how to behave, and it then basically becomes the next best thing. It’s like emulation, but on a hardware basis.
Unironically neat, and if it works with old add ons and whatnot it seems like a good way of doing that. Personally I lament that some old tech can’t be acquired anymore since even limited production has ceased to exist and if this is a way of doing that without lack of demand issues fine by me.
That is a fun fact!! I’m gonna see what they’re running these days.
They’re certainly fun! Pricy for what amounts to a few existing community projects in a “new original mould” case but very easy to set up on modern TVs and 99% compatible with old hardware and software. Even internet capable with the right cart images to play on the BBSs that are still around.
I have one of my spare SIDs in mine. 😁
I still remember being soooooo fucking excited to see the next big step from a 486. I think we had a 486SX back when Pentium was current. I vaguely recall the Pentium chip being almost more like a cartridge in it’s form-factor but i could be way off. Old school computing days were the best 💖
Pentium II introduced the cartridge, then for the P2 celerons they went back to socket 370. P3 offered both slot and socket CPUs.
Ahhhh yes, thank you! I should have googled it but i was swimming in nostalgia, lol 😅
And if you had a CPU for a socket but a board with a slot, you used a slocket adapter!
The song reference was 99 though. If you’ll excuse me I need to get back to waxin’ my modem, tryin to make it go faster.
My brain refuses to recognize that Running With Scissors is 27 years old!
They also had that fp bug, as op so generously demonstrated.