The Most Interesting CDROM Of All Time (Kinda Sucks [Who's Surprised])
- they/them/moo
- chimoora.zone/
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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.
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I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory
they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"
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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
25 minutes in and I REALLY hope we get told what the buttons on the back of the keyboard do, probably unrelated to the CD player
"SCSI inside ATA packets" sounds so horribly cursed but that's just how things have always been
PC really putting the "bastard" in "just a bastard computer!!!"
Good video thank you 
i'm a pedantic son of a bitch and i'm here to say / c&c 1 was actually streaming 22khz mono pcm tracks in software from somewhere in the packed game data files, i spent SO LONG trying to rip those 20-some years ago
Maybe more interestingly the mention of PC remotes reminded me of a thing I used to have and was convinced for a while I actually dreamed.
Packard Bell were shipping serial IR remotes, with media functions (of a sort) and arrow-key mouse emulation, with PCs from apparently 1994 onwards: http://pbplanet.info/wiki/index.php/Fast_Media_Remote
That is not the thing.
It closely RESEMBLES the thing, it seems to be the nearest thing to the thing that there's any meaningful information about online, but it's not the thing.
HALF of the thing is this: https://reverb.com/en-lv/item/35563118-packard-bell-multi-media-fernbedienung-bcps-1467620000-alles-tiptop
If you care enough to look closely, you'll see this doesn't have the 4-way direction button - that quarter-sized blob in the middle is a large analogue trackpoint, which is actually kind of usable!
You'll also notice it doesn't have a receiver. What's missing from this item is a special variant of that lovely mid-90s PS/2 Frog Design mouse, with a little black crescent around the back that hides the IR receiver. I don't know if I ever got the media functions to work, but the mouse functions were seamless and driverless, since it just passed the movements over the PS/2 port as if they were coming from the mouse itself.
Really interesting device that I'd be fascinated to see when it was actually on the market, and what else was operating in that space at the time, but honestly I'd settle for documentary proof that I didn't make it up.
I swear at some point in the late 90s my dad bought one of those remotes as a retail boxed addon at CompUSA. It was a free after rebate thing and we were never able to make it work.
I have received over 500,000 comments on this subject. I grabbed the name of a game out of thin air and landed on the only one of the entire decade that wasn't using CD audio, absolutely astonished at my luck
the important thing missing here is how beautifully 90s the soundtrack album covers are https://www.amazon.com/Music-Command-Conquer-Red-Alert/dp/B00004YKDI
the thing that somehow catches me every time when I look it up to remind myself of the details isn't that it wasn't CD audio, but that it wasn't some kind of tracker files. the songs were assembled from maybe a couple of dozen samples each!
just waiting to find out that the person who recycled an optiplex with an infra cd-rom was also your first patreon sub
I love that the remote matches your background enough to be partially color-keyed out