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[Domon]

Or even Real Player. What a back of shit.

no. DivXplayer was a physical device. Like a dvdplayer.

 

[tre]

remember the dreaded click of death from these motherfuckers?

 

[plot]

I had a zip drive forever. Had an 850meg hd and got a zip drive with ten 100meg disks. Was heaven

 

[gee]

Click of death wasn't the issue I had with those things, it was the WHY DOES THIS NOT LIKE THE FUCKING PARALLEL PORT ON THIS COMPUTER OMG FUCK

 

[Duke]

Yeah, those and Bernoulli boxes were a fucking nightmare.

And then some fucker decided to make TBU's need a SCSI interface and fucked the world.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

I don't even remember that. DIVX was also an video encoding method.

They wanted you to pay every time you stuck the disc in the machine
Total giant rip-off idea
Fortunately nearly no one fell for it so it went away quickly

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Another failure:

 

[Domon]

remember the dreaded click of death from these motherfuckers?

get out of here with your low-density shit. I had a Jazz drive.

 

[Domon]

Click of death wasn't the issue I had with those things, it was the WHY DOES THIS NOT LIKE THE FUCKING PARALLEL PORT ON THIS COMPUTER OMG FUCK

Parallel ports are the fucking Devil, they had like 18 IRQ interrupts that had to be perfect.

 

[fly]

Another failure:

I don't even know what that is.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

I don't even know what that is.

HD-DVD drive for an xbox 360

 

[Peppers]

Sega CD (Mega CD). Sold 2.7 million units world wide by the end of 1995 while the Sega Genesis sold 29 millions units world wide during the same time frame.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Sega CD (Mega CD). Sold 2.7 million units world wide by the end of 1995 while the Sega Genesis sold 29 millions units world wide during the same time frame.

It did have a couple of really good games, though. The RPGs were epic.

 

[Valve1138]

no. DivXplayer was a physical device. Like a dvdplayer.

Oh thats right. Weren't there DVD players that could play data DVD's that have DivX files on them too?

 

[Valve1138]

They wanted you to pay every time you stuck the disc in the machine
Total giant rip-off idea
Fortunately nearly no one fell for it so it went away quickly

Holy fuck I had forgotten about this shit.

 

[Peppers]

It did have a couple of really good games, though. The RPGs were epic.

My friend had it. I remember playing a WWF wrestling game on it and I think it was called Night Trap? The game with the chick from Diff'rent Strokes in it.

 

[fly]

Sega CD (Mega CD). Sold 2.7 million units world wide by the end of 1995 while the Sega Genesis sold 29 millions units world wide during the same time frame.

I had one.

 

[fly]

Oh thats right. Weren't there DVD players that could play data DVD's that have DivX files on them too?

Nope. A ton of DVD players could do that, and probably still can.

 

[Valve1138]

Got my old shitty tech mixed up.

 

[gee]

I've still got a Sega CD

Though I might end up flogging it to pay charlie's vet bill... sigh.