[01:24] <arkhive> Just picked up over 100 videodiscs(selectavision,CEDs) someday I'll have to dump those. Included was Star Wars Empire Strikes Back..Wonder if that's a different mastering(i think you call it) from VHS/DVD/LD...
[01:24] <arkhive> And a Videodisc player.
[01:24] <arkhive> if anyone cares.
[01:24] <arkhive> :)
[01:25] <mistym_> Cool! :D
[01:25] <Coderjoe> mmm 244%
[01:25] <arkhive> CoderJoe: huh?
[01:26] <Coderjoe> I'll take the CED stuff if you want to get rid of it
[01:26] <mistym_> I think it's on Youtube, but you should totally get your hands on Memories of Videodisc and upload that to IA ;)
[01:26] <Coderjoe> arkhive: the infocube 2.0 is up to 244% as of a minute ago
[01:26] <arkhive> I will eventually. Just out of curiosity where are you located.
[01:26] <arkhive> I'm Colorado
[01:27] <Coderjoe> I have an LD player and some LDs (including the faces edition of the original trilogy)
[01:27] <Coderjoe> I had been meaning to pick up some CED stuff
[01:27] <Coderjoe> southwest michigan
[01:27] <arkhive> ah. This stuff is soo heavy when you add them up.
[01:28] <mistym_> LD <3
[01:28] <mistym_> arkhive: I bet!
[01:28] <mistym_> How many pounds does it work out to?
[01:29] <Coderjoe> and I think I have heard that every release is slightly different
[01:29] <Coderjoe> I don't have any of the special editions of the OT, prior to the DVD release
[01:30] <Coderjoe> I have a fox video VHS release and the faces LDs
[01:31] <Coderjoe> on the subject of old video recording tech, have you heard of phonovision?
[01:41] <arkhive> nope.
[01:41] <arkhive> uploading pictures. I also got a beta max player. no tapes though.
[01:42] <arkhive> btw it was all free. *end of bragging*
[01:45] <Coderjoe> mm
[01:45] <Coderjoe> another thing I kinda would like to get
[01:45] <Coderjoe> even though I have no immediate use for it
[01:57] <shaqfu> You could watch Blade Runner on it
[02:00] <mistym_> I know I'd never do anything with it but it would be kind of cool to have a D-Theater deck.
[02:00] <shaqfu> (I wonder if anyone owns a complete set of all Blade Runner releases, given that it's on almost everything)
[02:02] <mistym_> Or a Hi-Vision player, even if apparently all the discs look really crappy.
[02:02] <shaqfu> mistym_: Analog 720p? Spiffy
[02:03] <dashcloud> is D-Theater the same as DVHS?
[02:03] <mistym_> dashcloud: D-Theater is DVHS + DRM.
[02:03] <dashcloud> interesting
[02:04] <mistym_> There were a couple dozen commercial movie releases on it. 720p + 1080i.
[02:04] <dashcloud> the player+tapes would still be useful today, if you've got a firewire port on there
[02:05] <mistym_> shaqfu: Hi-Vision's kinda odd, I thnk it's *around* 720i in the LD version.
[02:06] <dashcloud> arkhive: I wouldn't be surprised at all if that version of the movie is different from the others
[02:10] <dashcloud> SketchCow: have any travel plans for California in October?
[02:11] <SketchCow> Not sure
[02:12] <SketchCow> Maybe
[02:12] <SketchCow> What's up?
[02:12] <dashcloud> I'm going to be out there anyway for a trip- meeting Will Wright for lunch
[02:12] <SketchCow> The kickstarter thing
[02:12] <dashcloud> yeap
[02:13] <dashcloud> also going to see the MADE museum hopefully
[02:16] <dashcloud> folks, apparently you can register for CES 2013 for free until Sept. 1st : http://registration3.experientevent.com/showCES131/Default.aspx
[02:16] <SketchCow> You didn't mention the downside
[02:16] <SketchCow> you have to go to CES
[02:17] <dashcloud> well yeah- but it could be worse- you could be paying them $200 to go there
[02:17] <godane> finally getting commodore 64 training with jim butterfield video
[02:18] <arkhive> You don't like CES SketchCow
[02:18] <godane> i found a bigger file on piratebay
[02:23] <Coderjoe> well, i would like to get a beta deck so i can play beta tapes, should i happen upon any
[06:28] <Sally323> Learn how to become an op in any channel with the program at http://tinyurl.com/9gwzvm9
[06:30] <SketchCow> NOT TODAY, SALLY
[06:31] <Nintendud> aw but SketchCow, I wanted to leaaaarn
[06:31] <Nintendud> one more disc to upload
[06:39] <Nintendud> SketchCow: Alright, I just uploaded the final one (PC Gamer Extended Play Collection Volume 2). When you get a chance, move them over to the collection.
[06:40] <Nintendud> I accidentally uploaded disc #1 to the 'texts' collection; I don't appear to have the ability to rederive it as software.
[06:49] <Nintendud> SketchCow: I also have some scans for existing items that I cannot edit (#12 / #3.3). Let me know what a good workflow would be for contributing them (upload them to new items that you later merge, or send them to you offline?)
[06:50] <SketchCow> Better to give me .zips or whatever and tell me what the items are.
[06:50] <Nintendud> SketchCow: eh. Items that I've uploaded that need to be moved to the pcgamer collection are here http://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22nintendud%40gmail.com%22
[06:51] <Nintendud> So you want me to email you a .zip with the scans and tell you the individual items?
[06:51] <SketchCow> Will they fit in a mailed .zip?
[06:51] <Nintendud> Should.
[06:51] <Nintendud> let me get on that
[06:56] <Nintendud> SketchCow: sent.
[06:56] <Nintendud> it's something like 8MB of scans total
[06:56] <Nintendud> or 7MB
[07:01] <SketchCow> They've moved.
[07:01] <Nintendud> Thanks much
[07:01] <Nintendud> SketchCow: oh, #1 needs to be moved to software
[07:02] <Nintendud> it's still categorized as text
[07:02] <Nintendud> http://archive.org/details/pcgamer-coverdisc-1994-12
[07:02] <SketchCow> Done
[07:02] <Nintendud> thanks again
[07:02] <Nintendud> hopefully the scans have safely arrived via email
[07:03] <SketchCow> http://ia600805.us.archive.org/isoview.php?iso=/18/items/pcgamer-coverdisc-1994-12/1994-12_-_Disc_1.iso
[07:04] <SketchCow> http://archive.org/download/pcgamer-coverdisc-1994-12/1994-12_-_Disc_1.iso/BREAK%2FBRKDEMO%2FMIDIFILE%2F4VOICE%2FGERMANY.MID is what plays when archive.org processes CD-ROMs
[07:06] <Nintendud> hah
[07:06] <Nintendud> what game is this from?
[07:08] <Nintendud> Looks like Breakthru
[07:08] <SketchCow> Not sure offhand, but bet it sucks
[07:09] <Nintendud> from alexey pajitnov
[07:09] <Nintendud> judging from filepath + scan of the back sleeve
[07:09] <Nintendud> oh god, this thing never ends
[07:09] <SketchCow> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthru!_(video_game)
[07:10] <Nintendud> huh. maybe the PC version was canceled?
[07:10] <Nintendud> a demo is definitely on that disc
[07:11] <SketchCow> http://www.classic-pc-games.com/pc/puzzle_games/breakthru!_for_windows.html
[07:12] <Nintendud> Looks like the wikipedia article could use updating
[07:15] <underscor> Nintendud: Looks like SketchCow fixed it before I could nab it
[07:15] <underscor> oh, wow, scrolled up
[07:15] <Nintendud> yup
[07:15] <Nintendud> 28 new items added to collection
[07:15] <underscor> nice!
[07:15] <Nintendud> still waiting for the collection to update on the site
[07:16] <Nintendud> Two of the uploaded discs had sector errors on the discs, which I noted.
[07:16] <Nintendud> But they appear to function correctly
[07:16] <Nintendud> I have a second erroneous copy of one of the discs. I hope to do a binary diff between them; maybe recover some sectors
[07:20] <Nintendud> Oh. I actually have three more discs to upload at some point.
[07:20] <Nintendud> Noice.
[07:49] <underscor> awesome!
[07:50] <Nintendud> I wonder how often the collections are updated. The PC Gamer coverdisc collection description is still at 74 items
[07:51] <SketchCow> Once a day
[07:51] <SketchCow> roughly.
[07:51] <Nintendud> gotcha
[07:51] <Nintendud> I'll stop refreshing then, haha
[07:51] <underscor> Nintendud: It's waiting on the search engine to reindex
[07:52] <Nintendud> after these three discs, we should have all of the main numbered discs from #1 up to 7.19
[07:52] <Nintendud> still missing some of the weird best-of and extended-play discs
[07:57] <Nintendud> underscor / SketchCow: Also, if you can, mention in the description of this that, while labeled #5.14 on the jacket, it is also counted as #6.1 as its CD's volume label is 6.1. http://archive.org/details/pcgamer-coverdisc-2000-11
[07:57] <Nintendud> Dunno if that tidbit should also be reflected in the title (#5.14 / #6.1)
[07:57] <Nintendud> there's so many fuckups in the volume labels of these things
[07:57] <Nintendud> I believe one of them has the label CGAMER, haha
[07:58] <Nintendud> But yeah, according to several people who have the actual magazines they went from #5.14 to #6.2
[08:15] <underscor> Nintendud: archive.org/details/pcgamer-coverdisc-2000-11?reCache=1
[08:15] <Nintendud> underscor: <3
[08:16] <underscor> :3
[08:16] <underscor> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erh2ngRZxs0
[08:16] <Nintendud> more discs should be coming in too, as Swizzle is going to rip the stuff he has
[08:16] <Nintendud> so excite
[08:16] <underscor> awesome!
[08:17] <Nintendud> honestly, a complete collection is not too far away
[08:20] <SmileyG> hehe
[08:21] <BlueMax> nice
[08:52] <Schbirid> Nintendud: did you grab the ones from underground gamer already?
[08:52] <omf_> if you were going to buy a domain name for an open source project is there any real difference between .org and .info if .com is not available? Is there brand erosion?
[08:52] <Schbirid> use org
[08:55] <underscor> ^
[08:55] <omf_> yeah that is what I thought
[08:55] <underscor> I think of .info as scams and server hostnames
[08:55] <underscor> haha
[08:55] <omf_> everything that is not .com .org .net is not "good enough"
[08:55] <Schbirid> undersc.org
[08:56] <Schbirid> .de is great
[08:56] <underscor> .biz has always bugged me too
[08:56] <ersi> .de's quite the DNS nazi
[08:57] <ersi> they were a pain in the ass to deal with, when working at a registry/dns resolver
[08:57] <Schbirid> wat
[08:57] <underscor> yeah, they are
[08:57] <underscor> .am too
[08:57] * ersi shrugs
[08:59] <Nintendud> Schbirid: huh? I uploaded that collection
[08:59] <Schbirid> Nintendud: you rock
[08:59] <Nintendud> :3 thanks
[09:00] <Nintendud> that collection is actually what got me to contribute to the shareware cd archive; DFJustin told me about it
[09:00] <Nintendud> I had no idea that it existed
[09:00] <Nintendud> A revised torrent with new material will be coming soon
[09:00] <Schbirid> i've been pming uploaders of german stuff about it
[09:00] <Nintendud> well, with the material that I just uploaded to archive.org
[09:01] <Nintendud> german stuff?
[09:01] <Schbirid> discs and mags
[09:02] <Nintendud> ahh, cool cool
[09:02] <Nintendud> this is all PC Gamer US; no UK stuff so far
[09:04] <Nintendud> but yeah, if it can get people to contribute some other stuff, that would be cool
[09:06] <Nintendud> I'm hoping the next torrent iteration will bring fresh faces with more stuff to contribute, now that the 'stuff needed' list is much shorter
[09:06] <Nintendud> looking forward to contributing a ton of scans once I get back to my apartment in two weeks
[14:17] <godane> SketchCow: is starcade in the dark on archive.org?
[14:18] <godane> i ask cause there is a complete run of starcade on underground gamer
[22:34] <arkhive> So I picked up hundreds of 5.25" floppies. From Commodore, IBM, CPM, DOS, MSDOS, Windows, Apple. I have three PC Magazine 5.25" disks
[22:35] <arkhive> Anyone want to help dump them?
[22:35] <DFJustin> where are you located
[22:35] <arkhive> Colorado, USA
[22:35] <arkhive> I'll be back. have to go somewhere. but let me know people.
[22:36] <underscor> Twitter> @BillGates: 4 out of 10 people don’t have a safe way to poop - that’s 2.6 billion!
[22:36] <underscor> https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/235126430055411712
[22:37] <DFJustin> won't somebody think of the poop
[23:01] <dashcloud> look at this press release: http://pandodaily.com/2012/08/13/ycs-kippt-and-buffer-join-forces-for-saving-and-sharing-content/
[23:06] <dashcloud> arkhive: be sure to update the instructions on the wiki with the actual equipment & commands you're using if you use something different
[23:22] <balrog> arkhive: I'll get back to you soon (about the data recovery)
[23:22] <balrog> Been busy as ever :(
[23:55] <underscor> http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhscxjyGH1qfplr3o1_500.jpg