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Retro-adventures, day two. A top laptop from 1994 - 486DX2@40MHz, 20MB RAM, SVG… |
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One of the attributes of a modern digital artist is a digital tablet. Again, it… |
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It is often a bit difficult to comprehend how slow i486 was, compared even to P… |
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Photoshop 4 from 1996 is pretty great. It seems to be the first version with th… |
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Somewhat counter-intuitively, downgrading to Photoshop 2.5 from 1991 doesn'… |
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Post #AvlarrtfMp7ZmxzAS8 by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina wrt wacoms - my slightly-educated-guess is that very early PC t… |
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@domi oh, that would explain a lot, yeah |
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Post #Avlawc1dnuBq0pyghU by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina I started with Photoshop 2.5 in 1993 and already had a little A… |
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One really interesting example of artistic software here is Fractal Design'… |
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Post #AvlbYkdIFaxJiBm8au by [email protected] |
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@slowtiger nice!!! So, it IS the operating system to blame. :D |
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Post #AvlbZtiNy8DSAXhhtA by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina I'd rather blame the operating system than the CPU. š |
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Post #AvlbZtoPbj2KTEWWHY by [email protected] |
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@shred sounds like you're correct here... |
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Post #AvlbhPW683HApNXTQu by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina - oh! I have that one from a clearance sale at an Aldi store. A… |
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@nina_kali_nina I'm a bit confused: my Wacom pens worked even when tilted -… |
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One last bit regarding the graphics editors. I've used the tablet as a trac… |
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@nina_kali_ninaI'll try to remember tomorrow to fire up Photoshop Creative … |
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@nina_kali_nina I also had Painter (but didn't use it much), it came in a n… |
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@slowtiger that really depends on what you consider "tilt". I can hol… |
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Post #Avlcr5EMVTdUlHQ3lo by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina Ah - I never had these problems with the Wacom - I never used a… |
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Post #AvlctbqiCd0MVOYtCi by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina There are some lightweight minimal linux distros made to run on… |
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Post #AvlcwpRS7ddVWyHXbE by [email protected] |
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@slowtiger Wacom from 2006 already had super-advanced support for this! Your pe… |
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Post #Avlcz4Eq518c06Rvjk by [email protected] |
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@galacticstone I'm about to write about GNU IMP on this machine :D |
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@nina_kali_nina Wacom never had this! In hindsight I seem to have had only luxu… |
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Post #Avld3QdejpQ0dG8Yu8 by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina (A shareware copy of) PSP3 was my go-to image editor for a long… |
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@nina_kali_nina My brother had that same tablet in the early 2000s! The only th… |
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@nina_kali_nina I was using this exact version of Photoshop (totally legit vers… |
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@nina_kali_ninaIs that a PS/2 drawing tablet? š |
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@nina_kali_nina I used PSP 4.10 for a long long time, since it just had a nag s… |
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I wanted to try open-source alternatives, so I installed GNU IMP 1.2.5. Strictl… |
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@nina_kali_ninaš¤ how can it draw the mouse pointer smoothly if the CPU is ov… |
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It is painfully obvious that a laptop from 1994 is not made to run software fro… |
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@nina_kali_nina Oh, I don't think GTK+ ever supported 256 (or lower) colour… |
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One extra dimension of making screenshots from a real Windows 95 computer: taki… |
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Post #AvlfMJssH8SF5sOJ3w by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina Iāve recently been enjoying playing around with a 486 on my M… |
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@jaj that is a mystery! But drawing is much more than just plotting pixels - Ph… |
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@jernej__s IIRC GIMP 0.9x on Linux I had on this machine didn't run smoothl… |
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@nina_kali_nina I can remember even with twin pentiums it would take Adobe Phot… |
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@nina_kali_nina This is so cool! I built a Pentium machine a while ago, mostly … |
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@nina_kali_nina Please don't tell anyone I was defending an i486. It's … |
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@stilvoid we have a lovely library of disks and such at home. But in all practi… |
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@unsolaci if you have an SB16-compatible card, you should be able to run both A… |
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@nina_kali_nina Yeah, everyone including Microsoft played games with the VGA pa… |
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@angelastella with this particular screenshot, I've pasted it to MS Paint t… |
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@nina_kali_nina very nice! And thanks š |
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@nina_kali_ninaIIRC, win 95 did feel quite slow compared to DOS + 3.1. Around t… |
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@GerardThornley Windows 95 system requirements were 386DX@25 MHz and 4 MB of RA… |
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@nina_kali_nina At least GTK+ on Linux had support for low-colour modes. Window… |
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@nina_kali_nina Well, this brings back memories (from '98 š) |
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@nina_kali_nina Pretty sure I have a couple of Sound Blasters laying around som… |
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@nina_kali_nina Iāve been nostalgic for a lot of things lately. But error dia… |
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@nina_kali_nina Iād been thinking about the defining moment when everyone kne… |
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@nina_kali_nina that conversion is probably happening inside a bunch of scheme … |
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@nina_kali_ninaReallyā½ The minimum requirements are much lower than I thought… |
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@GerardThornley this model retail price ranged from $2500 to $6000. This one is… |
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@greatquux indeed. And it looks like there are two main components to this: muc… |
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@nina_kali_nina Speaking of comprehending how much slower old computers wereā¦… |
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@mathew this is a wonderful parable, and perhaps it leaves some avenues for opt… |
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@nina_kali_nina @jaj in many display adapters, even back in the legacy days, th… |
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@astraleureka @jaj the CPU still has to talk to the serial port to poll the coo… |
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@nina_kali_nina Windows 95 has preemptive multitasking, so in theory, it can ta… |
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@Popolon yay, I bamboozled you! This sticker is from some other hardware (I thi… |
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@nina_kali_nina Classic Adobe behavior. |
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@nina_kali_nina cc @GTK someone is calling you... a past you... a glorious gtk … |
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@nina_kali_nina that one I can explain. The Windows 16 and 32 bit APIs for colo… |
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@nina_kali_nina Pretty sure you can use PS4 or 5 for anything modern, excluding… |
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@nina_kali_nina dunno if Iāve sent you it before, but you may enjoy reading t… |
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@nina_kali_nina itās incredible how quickly tech was moving back then (or, co… |
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@kwramm I think it's time to unpack my Macintosh, then. But it's using … |
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@jaj it is a serial port drawing tablet that uses PS/2 keyboard connector for p… |
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@nina_kali_nina you would need an ADB tablet though (unless you have a driver? … |
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@WiteWulf wow, thanks for sharing! |
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We're continuing on the day 3: https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/1147972233… |
