Yeah but that F2P payed for development of that content way better I bet. It is a definite chicken or the egg scenario but I think F2P is good for the genre.
HST was actually what USRobotics called their implementation of 9.6k. The others two were Hayes and Telebit Trailblazer. V.32 came after the ITU realized it had to standardize stuff that was already out there. Same with error correction and compression: We had stuff from Microcom called MNP before the ITU standardized V.42/V.42bis. Most people used HST however, because it was considered the most reliable with international phone calls, especially on those shitty satellite links.
Funny thing is, all PC cards back then were 8 bit ISA on the I/O side, but the Soundblaster was actually the first mass market card to have an actual DAC so you could play back PCM samples in addition to the AdLib sound. The AdLib itself was just a cheap FM synthesizer chip from Yamaha and couldn't play back sound samples. Still better than those PC beeps, though.
That was in the 70ies and way before my time. I actually learned programming on the C64.
It was so awesome for the genre that even today people spend hours talking about how much they love those two seminal FTP games EQ and WoW.
Atari 800xl with 300 baud modem and dual cassette drives or GTFO!
I refuse to play that game partly because I don't find it that fun, but mostly because the prices for heroes and skins is just fucking absurd. And I say this as someone who has spent hundreds of dollars in League of Legends over the past 5 years.
I like you. We are going to go places you and me.
Hey by the way, my wife works Saturday night. Drunken game night on Valentines if your lady allows!
Lol yea. That's what I was thinking. I've tried to troll him out of it once or twice but decided it's more fun to pretend.
Not quite, I've placed in the money at a couple tournaments last year but not enough to even be pro-amWere you a former pro bowler by chance?
