Stop using mainstream operating systems like Windows 11/10/8.1, modern Linux, like Ubuntu or modern MacOS versions. On mobile Android 14/13/12/11/10/9/8.1 are prohibited because they use neural networks to profile your device and dial back to “home” to dump your personal data and preferences. iOS from very beginning was very phony platform.
My personal choices are Windows 7 for desktop and Android 8.0 for mobile. These two cover my digital needs fully, no restrictions whatsoever.
Couple days back virtual friend of mine send me a link to awesome website mainly dedicated to [vintage computer fonts]
. I suppose that project’s roots come from demoscene. And yeah, design aesthetics is so cool, just look at that.
Stashing it here for catalogue purposes.
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Not long ago [already reviewed]
in the past Firefox forks Icecat
and [Iceweasel]
for some reason went into 404 void due to applied sanctions to Russia.
So, i was forced to find an alternative way and stumbled upon Chinese builds of [Iceweasel]
. Just want to digest this historical fact as a blog post.
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Since i’ve switched to [fanless GPU]
from Nvidia and began to monitor Windows 7 driver related news. So, here is a [link to the latest]
to date Windows 7 driver .
It’s really neat to hear that Nvidia is not dropping driver support for Windows Classics
. Red team from AMD can’t demonstrate such coolness in this category.
Lastest GPU drivers for Windows 7 will be available [here]
.
[Essential documentary]
film about creators of [PirateBay]
torrent resource.
TPB AFK: THE PIRATE BAY AWAY FROM KEYBOARD [SOUNTRACK ID NEEDED]
Can anyone identify tracks playing at 15:58 and 58:09? Thoughts of yours can be shared via my [contacts section]
.
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Recently [Ghacks.net]
reported about almost unreal rumour regarding [another 3 years of extended support for Windows 7]
. If news are true, consider this as a gift from above, because i can’t stand windows 10/11 abominations and Linux is just not ready for serious multimedia workstation workloads.
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In previous posts i’ve [already mentioned]
Andrew Saga’s rants about history of music tracking, but i think that provided info are not covering topic fully. So, here is one more excellent video clip, which i dug up on yt recently. Enjoy!
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BBS is acronym which stands for [Bulletin board system]
. It was a distant ancestor of modern internet. In our days of totally non-private web cultivated by google, facebook and apple and other rotten companies BBS could be a neat solution to people who value their privacy and who don’t want to feed greedy corporations with telemery data of their own. Also tech will be useful for people who would like to hide themselves from modern shitty trends and stupid brainwashing or so-called government propaganda.
Non-prepaid vintage hardware reviewer based in UK. Streaming not only about retro tech, but adds some life experience touch. Likes freedom speech and don’t contact much with corrupted government “authorities”.
HIGH TREASON 610 AKA DX ZEFF ===> YT STREAM
<=== [PERSONAL FORUM]
[HT610 SITE]
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As you may already know Renoise supports installation of additional tools to extend software functionality beyond the boundaries of existence.
Here is my personal collection of best addon tools for Renoise.
Just a quick note just to share the most useful YT tutorials regarding Renoise tracker.
[Official Renoise tutorials]
► essential Renoise knowledge [Tutorials from official Renoise guy]
► Achenar [Excellent Renoise tutorials]
► Groovin’in G [Gold mine of Renoise knowledge]
► Brainplace [Very useful tutorials]
► Type-A Music Also i suggest to check [official manuals]
on Renoise website. Quick Reference Card [cheatsheet]
describing pattern commands. And don’t forget to visit vibrant Renoise [community forum]
.
I’m still using trusted [Icecat port by Muslayev]
. Problem is that it begin to show it’s age by not rendering some websites in a correct way.
After checking [Firefox release roadmap]
i find out that 91 ESR branch on which Icecat is based will reach EOL status at the end of the summer. So i’ll need a replacement to keep up with modern web standards. Chrome and original Firefox are not an options because of their telemetry framework and bloated nature.
Comprehensive history digression intro tracker heritage by famous US demoscene musician [Necros]
.
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Have you ever heard about digital audio workstation written in assembly language?
Yeah, that’s [SAW Studio]
.
32-bit version can be launched even in “obsolete” Windows XP.
64-bit version released in 2019 is Windows 7 compatible.
UPDATED ON: 2022-05-21
Today i want to share my custom made 80s theme for Renoise tracker.
RENOISE `84 [v0.4b] [GRAB IT FROM MEGA.NZ]
To install it just double click on downloaded XRNC files. Renoise will launch and install theme automatically.
Also, i’ve figured out how to change internal font and set custom mouse cursor. Tracker doesn’t provide GUI for such options. All settings related to current skin could be found here:
There are plenty of digital audio workstation software available today.
Fruity Loops, Apple Logic, Cakewalk….
but what make them so unimportant anymore?
One more demoscene post if you don’t mind.
Awesome technology to play full motion video with in sync audio on very slow puters using text mode or very low res. Courtesy of Trixter [Jim Leonard] / Hornet
8088 CORRUPTION [2004] [Demo page]
8088 DOMINATION [2014] [Demo page]
8088 CORRUPTION VS 8088 DOMINATION THIS IS HEAVY!!!! COMPREHENSIVE DETAILS ON FMV TECH Trixter confirmed that he was inspired by Spaceballs demo called State of the Art.
It is pretty strange that i didn’t cover this topic in previous posts. So, i stand corrected and posting it now!
@ FIRST: [WHAT IS DEMOSCENE?]
In this quick breakdown i’ll point to the most coolest demoscene stuff out there.
▓ IBM PC [DOS/WIN] In early 90s finnish coders from [Future Crew]
brought phenomenon of demoscene to masses.
FUTURE CREW - SECOND REALITY [1993] Demo size: 2Mb [Demo page]
[The Black Lotus]
are Swedish Atari/Amiga hackers.
I recommend you to use alternative search engines like [Searx.me]
or [Duckduckgo]
not because g is mining your data and then resells it to marketing agencies for targeted ads, but because if you say something restricted or will be “lucky” to be banned by their anti-spam bot you can lose access to your data forever.
Three years ago i had YT channel with [tracker music]
where i posted stuff almost daily, also i had [trackers database]
hosted on their blogger platform.
Benchmarks created by Russian company Unigine, which can easily compete with [MadOnion works]
of the past.
SUPERPOSITION [2017] [DOWNLOAD]
VALLEY [2013] [DOWNLOAD]
HEAVEN [2009] [DOWNLOAD]
TROPICS [2008] [DOWNLOAD]
SANCTUARY [2007] [DOWNLOAD]
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I’m very satisfied that I covered such a large topic and pretty sure that it is the most complete Windows 7 tweaking guide ever. But due to the lack of spare time it is still in unfinished state, so consider it as a stack of knowledge. Document contain all information [posted here]
plus loads of more detailed stuff.
[DOWNLOAD DOCX VERSION]
Maybe, if i have more free time, i’ll return back to the topic to clean things up someday.
UPDATED ON: 2022-04-27 Added Even More Contraptions
Excellent time killing game with a noticeable profit to grey matter of your brain. Game where every click is satisfactory.
I recommend to acquire [The Incredible Machine Mega Pack]
released by GOG store, which includes 4 game parts in a one solid package. My favourite is [Incredible Machine III]
for Windows 95/3.X.
░▒▓█LIKE IT FOR NEAT PIXEL PERFECT SVGA GRAPHICS█▓▒░
GAMEPLAY PERSONAL CAMCODER SAMPLE
Super quick breakdown of the most essential security applications for Android OS.
[ADAWAY]
► Effective hosts adblocker [AFWALL+]
► Root-based firewall based on Linux ip-tables [EXODUS]
► Check your applications for telemetry trackers and secure your privacy [YET ANOTHER CALL BLOCKER]
► quality open-source call blocker Forked mod for Russia region
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No bla-bla-bla here. Just a little breakdown of best computer games ever.
[Fallout 1/2]
[X-COM: Enemy Unknown]
[Transport Tycoon Deluxe]
[Tyrian 2000]
[Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl]
[Civilization II]
[Diablo I]
[The Incredible Machine III]
If you would like to play these games on modern computer you are in luck, coz most of them were forked to open-source or remastered versions.
[Fallout Restoration]
[OpenXcom]
/ Extended version
[OpenTTD]
[OpenTyrian]
[Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl OGSR]
[Civilization II:Test of Time]
[Diablo II: Resurrected]
And yeah, no cyberpunk 2077 here.
Some nostalgy rant about convinience of older websites and absense of uneeded crap. Don’t you remember?
Here is some fine examples of modern sites, which try to match older web in terms of ergonomics and overall perception.
[HACKER NEWS]
[COMMAND LINE RADIO]
[PLAIN TEXT SPORTS]
[RANDOM TEXT WEBSITES]
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UPDATED ON: 2023.02.17
Version 27.2.4 is the very last to work on Windows 7. 28.x builds require sytem dlls which can’t be found in Windows 7. [How to run version 29.x on Windows 7]
.
OBS is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Just want to let you know that latest version [27.2.4] runs on Windows 7. Works without any hickups. Using it on daily basis to capture the desktop screen with audio.
I suppose that many of you will be interested in looking at the most important operating systems of the past. Today it is possible even withour virtual machine. You can observe vintage operating systems right in your browser. [ATARI ST]
[MACOS 7]
||| [ver II]
[MACOS 8]
[AMIGA OS]
[WINDOWS 98]
BONUS PART
[CHIPTUNE.COM]
chiptune tracker music site heavily inspired by Amiga OS Workbench v1.3. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik
If for some reason you are unable to find wanted music and you already looked it in oldschool [Emule]
and didn’t get satisfactory results i suggest to try out Soulseek P2P network. Pretty big chance that you’ll find what you are looking for.
[DOWNLOAD SOULSEEK]
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![TPB AFK ▀ THE PIRATEBAY AWAY FROM KEYBOARD [2013]](/img/piratebay.png)
![HISTORY OF MUSIC TRACKING [MOAR]](/img/tracking.png){kind=tracking}
![THE INCREDIBLE MACHINE [1993] ▀ TRAIN YOUR BRAIN](/img/tim.png)
![LIST OF THE BEST GAMES EVER [2022]](/img/best-games-ever.png)
