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Just get better files, lol.

Not sure why people expect upscaling to be good, ever.

Just get better files, lol.

Not sure why people expect upscaling to be good, ever.

For older stuff better sources might not exist. Then we get absolutely cancer upscaled content in some cases.
Like turning everything purple (so that you can legally release it through a new distributor) isn't proper upscaling, I'm looking at you Lucas films. I think they made the films deliberately worse on each release to be able to use loopholes in their past contracts.


Upscaling can be good when it does add artifacts or distortion. Its kinda of funny that we can get the highest def content now from older film and the latest digital recordings.

Its like 1992 to 2008, when they were using relatively low resolution digital cameras that we don't get the best higher def releases.


I've been watching some professionally AI upscaled media recently, they did a decent job considering how bad the sources were. It passes as 720p now.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Nov 2 2023, 07:23

For older stuff better sources might not exist. Then we get absolutely cancer upscaled content in some cases.
Like turning everything purple (so that you can legally release it through a new distributor) isn't proper upscaling, I'm looking at you Lucas films. I think they made the films deliberately worse on each release to be able to use loopholes in their past contracts.
Upscaling can be good when it does add artifacts or distortion. Its kinda of funny that we can get the highest def content now from older film and the latest digital recordings.

Its like 1992 to 2008, when they were using relatively low resolution digital cameras that we don't get the best higher def releases.
I've been watching some professionally AI upscaled media recently, they did a decent job considering how bad the sources were. It passes as 720p now.

Scale it pre-emptively in software of your choosing and get even better upscaling, then.
If you start complaining about compression artifacts, I will remind you that the upscaling artifacts are worse. And then shiv you. In minecraft.

But I still think this looks fine, aside from the blocking (because web streaming compression) so maybe I'm retarded.
[files.catbox.moe] https://files.catbox.moe/ozz34h.webm
(Laserdisc rip, i think I've linked before)

I like my blu-rays, too, but they're just different feels.

Shell script for using alongside the bluesky CLI tool to download all images from someone's timeline (dependencies: 'bsky' command line program, wget, bourne shell, and 'jq')

CODE

#! /usr/bin/env sh
# bsky-dl user_handle.bsky.social

wrapper() {
bsky tl --handle "$1" --json | while read -r line; do
  # this is soooo stupid. need to turn \n's that are getting interpreted by 'read -r' as newlines back into \n's
  echo -n "$line" | sed '$ ! s/$/\\n/'|tr -d '\n'| jq -r '.post.cid' 2>/dev/null
  echo -n "$line" | sed '$ ! s/$/\\n/'|tr -d '\n'| jq -r '.post.embed.images[].fullsize' 2>/dev/null
done
}

CID=0
IMG_ID=0
wrapper "$@" | while read -r line; do
  echo "$line" | grep -q '^https://'
  if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
    # we have a URL line, so we use the previously determined CID as the base
    # of the filename and increment by image numbers until we hit our next CID
    # line
    # FILETYPE
    FILETYPE="$(echo "$line" | sed 's/^.*@//g')"
    if [ "$FILETYPE" = 'jpeg' ]; then
      FILETYPE='jpg'
    fi
    wget "$line" -O "$CID"'_'"$IMG_ID"'.'"$FILETYPE"
    IMG_ID="$(expr "$IMG_ID" '+' 1)"
  else
    CID="$line"
    IMG_ID=0
  fi
done

Does anyone here actually use any of the shell scripts that I've posted?

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 2 2023, 10:29

One of the things I wanted to do a long time ago was to get the entire touhou lossless torrent. Time to work my way through it now that I have shitload of storage. Might consider getting a new HDD for this thing.

Got my PC98 clone booting from a hard drive at last.

Just ended up getting a different SCSI card and that fixed everything with one or two config tweaks.

Going to see if I can get the other card working my flipping the DIP switches to get as close as possible to the software-based configuration of the one that's working. Then I might have a PC98 SCSI card to sell.

Whats the advantage of running it native?

I do regret getting rid of all my old comps and systems but also don't really have time for endless projects. (though I do have several arcade machine projects).

Fighting Cab (operational) main stars SF2 and MVC series. I could maybe get SF Alpha 3 and 3rd strike working but ran out of energy.

Light gun cab (operational) main stars Pointblank and Time Crisis series.


Racing cab (bits scattered everywhere) Daytona USA? This is probably the problem, I have no clear vision for what I want to play and good setup takes a heap of space. I have probably wasted more money here than the other projects.

I literally probably just want the theme running in background, which was common in arcades here.



This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Nov 5 2023, 00:00

Holy cow... the Bored Ape Club Ape Fest HK event temporarily blinded attendees because they used dangerous broad spectrum anti-germ UV lights from alibaba instead of Black lights that have the dark glass to filter out the most dangerous spectrums of UV.

In the venue for the different displays they put a ton of UV germ killer florescent tubes. People thought it was the dark light style DJ event, which just used colored LEDs, but it was Bored Ape UV themed displays in the venue.

[www.channelnewsasia.com] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/bored-...-issues-3902616

Its similar to arc flash, so like 2500 NFT bros got pwned hard. Yikes. The people queuing in the areas or looking at the displays were most affected.

edit: NFTs have in general lost 95% of their value and Bored Apes has lost 88%. I am sure blinding everyone will help.

Their value went up slightly after each event, seems keeping it relevant convinces the people that went all in that their NFTs must be special.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Nov 10 2023, 10:22

Telegram moderators are useless. I reported multiple times the same bot accounts for spamming in the group I'm part of and nothing was done, convincing me that the moderators exists in name only. When my Telegram account got automatically added to scammer-created groups ("buy gold/stocks/insurance online" via direct transfer - red flags), I decided to spam said groups and my account got restricted in return.

Discovered this PC with the "50MHz 486 DX2" sticker on it actually has a 100MHz 486 DX4 inside it on an accelerator board.

That was a welcome surprise.

Discovered this PC with the "50MHz 486 DX2" sticker on it actually has a 100MHz 486 DX4 inside it on an accelerator board.

That was a welcome surprise.

I think the fastest 486 compatible I had was a Cyrix 5x86 120mhz.

The store overclocked it to 133mhz and sold it as faster than the equivalent priced Pentium to my father.

It actually melted. I am not sure if the fan failed or heat protection wasn't a thing back then.

I think the fastest 486 compatible I had was a Cyrix 5x86 120mhz.

The store overclocked it to 133mhz and sold it as faster than the equivalent priced Pentium to my father.

It actually melted. I am not sure if the fan failed or heat protection wasn't a thing back then.

According to japanese message boards there's a chance mine has a cx5x86 as well. Haven't managed to figure out how to get the heat sink off to check yet. Doesn't look like it has the 'grab tabs' like intel 486'es often had for chip pullers to grip onto. Just said DX4 because it's got at least that; there's so little documentation that I have no idea how likely a Cx5x86 is.

Card has a big blower fan on it.

Wish I could figure out what the jumpers on the CPU card board are for. Would love to be able to wire up a switch to turn the 100MHz chip on and off and choose between it and the 25MHz 486SX that's soldered on (for older games... some even feel fast at the 'slow' speed from the switch on the front with the 100+MHz chip).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 13 2023, 17:31

Just said DX4 because it's got at least that; there's so little documentation that I have no idea how likely a Cx5x86 is.

Card has a big blower fan on it.

With the blower it seems like a cyrix as they ran hotter. The problem was when people upgraded an older PC and only had a small heat sink.


FreeBSD can detect which chip it is? There are probably easier ways.

With the blower it seems like a cyrix as they ran hotter. The problem was when people upgraded an older PC and only had a small heat sink.
FreeBSD can detect which chip it is? There are probably easier ways.

It was in a very tight area, so it could be that it was just needed for there to be a way for heat to exit. Blower isn't really THAT big.

System was originally designed with a 25MHZ 486SX.

Think this looks promising for a Cx5x86?
[postimg.cc] (IMG:[i.postimg.cc] https://i.postimg.cc/65HsnR4r/IMG-20231015-193900-sm.jpg)

I have more pictures, just can't get the damned heat sink to come off and I don't want to break anything. Yes, I did try removing the screw on the voltage regulator. There's something else holding it on, too. Kind of wonder if the thermal pad on the CPU and heat sink might have some adhesive on it. As silly as that sounds.

========Edit:========
Looks to be a 486DX4, according to a CPUID check (seems the CPUID instruction was introduced on the DX4; lucky me).

Some of this data looks wrong, but I'm not probably running on the intended IBM platform for this program. Also the computer locks up when the program quits and I have to reboot.
I am guessing the CPUID command at least executed properly, since 0x480 is a valid CPUID for a DX4.
[postimg.cc] (IMG:[i.postimg.cc] https://i.postimg.cc/7hKdpTkg/IMG-20231114-042425-sm.jpg)

So, a 3x multiplier... perhaps a 75MHz DX4? 25MHz is the bus speed on this computer (unless maybe if I replace the crystal).
Still better than anything I'd hoped for when I bought it. Miiight even be enough for Touhou if I ever decide I don't hate bullet hells.

A little bit bummed it's not a (legendary) cx5x86. But pleased as well given that this thing was $60 or so. if I ignore shipping... (-_-;)

Also, got an FM card (PC-9801-86) and a MIDI card (MPU-PC98II) and a karaoke variant Sound Canvas 55mkII (without the LCD) on the way. And then I think I should hopefully never have to buy PC98 cards again.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 14 2023, 11:41

I was going to say the blower didn't look as jank as some of the cyrix kits, though they were / still are popular in Japan. Certain cyrix 5x86 go for a fair bit with people going for certain revisions.

Seems like a pain. Damn people are asking 300-500 for certain revisions of the higher clocked cyrix 5x86. That seems like hype driven.



I was going to mention before, sometimes people would epoxy the fan/heat sink to the CPU in those days or later to make swapping CPUs easier.

I was going to say the blower didn't look as jank as some of the cyrix kits, though they were / still are popular in Japan. Certain cyrix 5x86 go for a fair bit with people going for certain revisions.

Seems like a pain. Damn people are asking 300-500 for certain revisions of the higher clocked cyrix 5x86. That seems like hype driven.
I was going to mention before, sometimes people would epoxy the fan/heat sink to the CPU in those days or later to make swapping CPUs easier.

The blowers were popular in japan?
Or the Cx5x86?

I 100% believe the cx5x86 is hype-driven. Probably billed as "the ultimate" for a socket-3, or something.

Yeah, not going to plan on upgrading or anything... 75MHz is pretty good. And if I bump the bus speed to 33MHz that makes it even snappier. Plus, it already runs some early games a wee bit too fast in the lowest speed setting, so I'm going to see if I can find a jumper to make it fall back to the SX (and add a switch to the back of the PC that controls the jumper pins, if I succeed).

I'd be interested in finding another PC-486GR, as well, if one shows up at a good price. Then I could have both, and have spare parts if something went south.

Many of the games I'm playing for the 98 are 80's RPGs from before it became an eroge-focused platform, so those lower speeds are sometimes necessary for games that don't throttle themselves.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 14 2023, 11:50

the Cx5x86?

I was reading, to reuse the older heatsink/fan they would epoxy if there was too much of a gap when putting the new CPU in. Not sure if thats the case but was fairly common for a while.


The Cx5x86 133mhz got a bunch of positive retro reviews as the fastest 486 and the price shot up to the moon back 2016-2018.

The Cx5x86 120mhz has competing high end CPUs available but seems too overpriced because of the halo effect and the 133mhz variants are rare now.

I was reading, to reuse the older heatsink/fan they would epoxy if there was too much of a gap when putting the new CPU in. Not sure if thats the case but was fairly common for a while.
The Cx5x86 133mhz got a bunch of positive retro reviews as the fastest 486 and the price shot up to the moon back 2016-2018.

The Cx5x86 120mhz has competing high end CPUs available but seems too overpriced because of the halo effect and the 133mhz variants are rare now.

So youtubers ruined everything for us by making things more accessible to the masses, as usual.

I am proud to say that I never watch tech youtubers (and never have). Because I enjoy reading and doing my own research.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 14 2023, 11:57

need update printer driver

So youtubers ruined everything for us by making things more accessible to the masses, as usual.

I am proud to say that I never watch tech youtubers (and never have). Because I enjoy reading and doing my own research.

Yeah, the current grail is now thanks to Tech tubers:

AMD X5-133 with certain revisions of the CPU on a LS-496e with 66mhz FSB, can hit 160mhz to 200mhz.


There are also some late revisions of the AM486DX2 that secretly overclock to 133mhz. They were just down binned 5x86s.

Seems they are always hyping something, the hype train coming for the AMD 486s which are still cheap for now.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Nov 15 2023, 04:12

Yeah, the current grail is now thanks to Tech tubers:

AMD X5-133 with certain revisions of the CPU on a LS-496e with 66mhz FSB, can hit 160mhz to 200mhz.
There are also some late revisions of the AM486DX2 that secretly overclock to 133mhz. They were just down binned 5x86s.

Seems they are always hyping something, the hype train coming for the AMD 486s which are still cheap for now.

I'll just keep being smug with my stock chips that do what i want and aren't going to burn themselves out.