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I searched "snatcher sega cd" and google suggested "snatcher seg…
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I'm going to pretend that's what all the searchers were looking for, an…
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foone: I hate linguistic prescriptivism. Language changes, grandpa, get used to…
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@foone Snatcher was pretty great, but also some troubling Kojima’isms regardi…
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except for the games available for the PCjr on cartridge, and arguably the firm…
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BUT THERE DEFINITELY WASN'T A "DOOM ROM" UNLESS YOU MEAN A VERSIO…
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@foone are we counting MSX
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wait, Atari Jaguar! It had Doom as well. I always think of it as a CD-ROM syste…
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the official Doom wiki suggests that I forgot:* Sega 32X* N64
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@foone also 8-bit computers with cp/m, since DOS is just a dirty clone of it, c…
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@foone what is a CD-ROM if not a ROM on a CD?
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and I think that's it for commercial ports. There's certainly fan-ports…
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@h0m54r no
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@foone Next task: put doom into coreboot
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@foone nes wads download free
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@foone wait. What you call that CD format? CD-something, but I can't put my…
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For reference since I didn't actually explain and clearly not everyone know…
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PC games never (again, other than the weird PCjr) used ROM chips for games, the…
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@foone "Fan-ports"... you mean the holes in the side of the case?(Sor…
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later we got CDs (and DVDs, technically) for PC games, but those don't have…
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@foone there exists UEFI Doom... One could conceivably fit that in ROM https://…
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and then eventually games went fully downloadable, so neither ROMs nor ISOs mak…
Post #ApO1m6y0XJkZqJjZUe by [email protected]
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but for a lot of people the word "ROMs" has always meant "pirate…
Post #ApO1oSqy8Ms2IlZ0nA by [email protected]
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so it's technically incorrect but not linguistically incorrect. The word&#3…
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THIS DOESN'T MEAN I HAVE TO LIKE IT
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@LucyG CD-ROMs are built on the ISO-9660 standard.ISO here is International Sta…
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@foone I remember when in the mid-2000s if you wanted pirated things you search…
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@foone
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I forgot to explain: The CD-ROM one is also weird.They're called ISOs becau…
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@Canageek nothing comes on CDs anymore?
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@fooneThere's even a version of DOS for ROMs called ROMDOS!
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but yeah. over in the PC space, this stuff was always just warez. as in "s…
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with multiple words for different specific types of pirated media (warez/isos/i…
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@foone Among all the things, I would could "barcode" as a ROM kind. I…
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but since it's technically incorrect it does make my bloodpressure go up a …
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@foone I mean, nothing comes on ROM chips either! I mean, why did ROM piracy te…
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@foone My 8bit SSD with MSDOS 6.2 in ROM 😁
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@Lydie oh wow, that's very cool! Is that DIY or an existing design?
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@foone * it’s surprising how many abbreviations are just (almost) reversed in…
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@fooneI have at least 1 CD-ROM that's *not* iso9660, because it predates th…
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although to be honest, ISO was misused a lot too.an "ISO" is technica…
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@foone what do you mean, roms are what you get when you image a floppy with the…
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so often have I downloaded "ISOs" (from Highly Legitimate Sources (sa…
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@foone a streamer I like pronounces Warez like Juarez and it fucks me up every …
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some consoles even have their own disc image formats! Ever look into Wii games?…
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@fooneI had always (until relatively recently) pronounced "warez" as …
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There's a whole special toolset for converting between ISOs, WDF, WIA, CISO…
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@Mareepy I'm sure he does. I've definitely done that more than once
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@foone Huh. All this time I had assumed it was "International Standards Or…
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@foone I suppose barcodes could be considered a kind of read only memory. Tapes…
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@foone hold on, does that mean that if I took an “iso” with dd if=device of…
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anyway this has been annoying me for so long that 8 years ago I ported a versio…
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@mhoye no, because that's making an ISO9660 dump, that's literally what…
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@foone anne.: *stares incredulously*Irregardless, if we go to this MS-DOS ROM c…
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@foone How do you pronounce "warez"? I always pronounced it like &qu…
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@BoydStephenSmithJr I think everyone I know who pronounced it juarez was doing …
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@curtmack that would make logical sense, so of course that's not what it st…
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@foone nah, it was "kewl" ;o)(that particular part of the 1990s -- wh…
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@foone Now I’m curious if you could replace the BIOS chip entirely with a Tet…
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@MidniteLibrary it'd make sense, but no. Rom first showed up in 1979, but R…
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@MenhirMike Sure. It'd be more work but it's doable.
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@yakkoj good point
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@glyph NO
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@foone but isn’t “dd if=device” making a bit wise copy of all the data on…
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@foone I actually like this, because it provides an example path by which the N…
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@bstacey oh my
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@foone guess I should consider myself lucky that I only needed a special IOS to…
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@mhoye Nope. The audio tracks aren't exposed through that interface.That in…
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@foone how did it start the game code?
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@foone I professionally blame the French for making DI ideal diameter. But that…
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Mind you, the emulator I'm using right now (BizHawk) doesn't help matte…
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@martin_piper the PC BIOS has long had support for something called "Optio…
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@foone Wait, CD-*ROM* audio?Is there such a thing as yellow book specific audio…
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@foone don't forget CHD! Imho it's a pretty good compromise between a…
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@kastor whoops. that was a typo. I meant CD-Audio.But yeah, it's red-book a…
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@foone ahh useful to know. Thanks!
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@foone The UTC one makes me especially happy. From Wikipedia:"In 1967 the …
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@foone okay but it's still a dump of the ROM (CD-, DVD-, or otherwise), com…
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@foone IMO, pushing back on linguistic creep via prescriptivist rhetoric is val…
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@foone this does help me understand why I am often confused about what people a…
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@foone If you run a game off a flash drive with a physical write-protect switch…
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@foone ooh, this answers a question I've had in my head for years!
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@foonegot to get me some msdos rom warezi still have my simearth box with 3.5 i…
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@fooneAnd cd-roms are literally called roms yet they are NOT roms
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@foone now I really want to know about your feelings regarding the usage of ROM…
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@Larymir I'm not a huge fan but it's harmless enough
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@foone I have software that makes ISO images out of DVDs and Blu-rays, which is…
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@faassen
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@fooneoh oh do the trichordates! There's a supernes version so like an actu…
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@henryk @foone Let me get my Sharpie
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@foone I love how this harmless little toot exploded into a giant thread on RO…
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@fooneRock Ridge!
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@foone an image!!!! this is so awesome, I hope you continue on this road!
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@foone oh, nice with the ROM game too!
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@foone COMMAND.ROM
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@foone People be all like "so it must have used the PC BIOS functions to i…
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@foone I'm alrigt with the language changing, it's the stupid changes I…
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@foone @BoydStephenSmithJr in fra'nce I have always heard it l'île it …
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@foone @Canageek many modern pirated games are packaged in an iso file for some…
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@foone Doom 64 is interesting because it's actually a wholly distinct Doom …
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@foone *.udf
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@foone they didn't live on read only memory?
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@NULLderef oh that was a typo, whoops. fixed
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@foone I definitely prefer the more media-neutral "images" for this s…
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@foone @MenhirMike How about replacing a BIOS configuration tool with Tetris so…
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@Pichu0102 @MenhirMike that'd be fun. like that old kernel module configura…
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@foone what aboutandroid ROMs
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@Lydie very cool!
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@foone I looked, I saw, I wish I hadn’t.
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@foone now I'm just imagining this on one of the HP Z820 (?) workstations w…
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@foone MS-DOS ROMS? You mean BIOS?
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@foone sure, but. How many systems do you own that do have DOS in ROM?
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@foone so, you might be younger then... Because x86 isn't the only PC!
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@foone this I can agree with 🙂
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@foone Real fans know the true meaning of... wait...
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@fooneand now RVZ as Dolphin's native (better than the mess of the rest) co…
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@rebeccafinn believe me, @foone knows, challenge not the Foone. Here PC was ju…
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@Specialist_Being_677 @rebeccafinn yeah. I had (and have, several) a c64, so I …
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@foone can confirm, JagDoom was a cartridge— still have mine around here some…
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@foone Weird thing is, cartridge-based systems had piracy devices that download…
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@foone @Specialist_Being_677 ah, see?... yet another way language surprises us …
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@foone Don't even get me started on these whippersnappers who call copying …
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@foone Like CERN. Which stands for a thing that it was never actually named, be…
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