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(DIR) Post #Aych9g4EZsmd7CbiWO by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T06:30:46Z
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86Box has an awfully big and empty toolbar for not having a "insert new disk in drive A" button. some of us have operating systems to install, damn it! this should be one click, not Media->Floppy 1->Existing Image.
(DIR) Post #AychidMEdzmAqYhBw0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T06:37:13Z
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@Lili honestly I didn't even see the floppy icon down there. I think the DPI scaling for it is broken.
(DIR) Post #Aycix69kT5o6AkJfBg by Whovian9369@digipres.club
2025-09-27T06:50:52Z
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@foone You can also click the floppy icon in the bottom right to get a menu for that!
(DIR) Post #AycjYSO0mRLJpenkxc by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T06:57:42Z
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for posterity, the floppy disks requested when installing Microsoft Excel 4.3 off a Microsoft Office 4.3 disk set are:1, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 22, 23
(DIR) Post #Ayck9guPkSdRaViDtg by phako@chaos.social
2025-09-27T07:04:26Z
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@foone instant “what comes next test” panic
(DIR) Post #AycmpJ5mt6nZnE0IBE by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:34:27Z
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foone-ass problems: I have to shut down my VM every time I want to pull the exported CSV off my Excel 4.3 spreadsheet
(DIR) Post #Aycn8AvdSrs5yYFhnE by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:37:55Z
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@Lili too lazy to make a blank image and format it, tbh
(DIR) Post #AycnOzE6E5mMbYuAEq by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:40:52Z
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maybe I should install trumpet winsock and FTP off my spreadsheets
(DIR) Post #AycnSQp05IrD3go8pM by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:41:35Z
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@Lili oh does it? neato! that makes it a good deal easier
(DIR) Post #AycnWRwNrjiNghB3PE by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:42:15Z
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wait, I can emulate a printer and print my CSVs!
(DIR) Post #AycnaBHHlAgrAPjVYW by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:42:33Z
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can it emulate the sound of dot matrix too? where do I enable that setting
(DIR) Post #AycninaDE37iHkhAC8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:44:33Z
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bad idea: CUPS proxy device that emulates the sound of a dot matrix printer. You configure it to point to your real printer, and it MITMs your printouts to calculate what they'd sound like to print on an Oki Microline 320 Turbo, which it then plays back at the correct calibrated volume (which if I recall correctly is around 140 dB)
(DIR) Post #AycnpLEz05NcPTswTI by makdaam@chaos.social
2025-09-27T07:45:06Z
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@foone There's going to be a sound accurate driver with reverb filters soon, isn't there?
(DIR) Post #Aycnu2gLQdAqIbvP1M by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:46:33Z
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seeing that 86Box can emulate at least one protection dongle gives me a great idea:someone should hire me fulltime to locate PC dongles, reverse engineer them, and implement emulation of them into 86box
(DIR) Post #AycnxXp26g3rkOeuBs by cricalix@mastodon.ie
2025-09-27T07:46:44Z
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@foone something something real people use an IBM line printer without the cover on something something
(DIR) Post #Ayco1NGXITsmAKLiSm by jamesholden@mas.to
2025-09-27T07:47:52Z
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@foone This idea sounds crazy until you remember that the “taking a photo” sound your smart phone makes is a short audio recording of a mechanical camera shutter and film advance motor drive.
(DIR) Post #Ayco6foDmTif7mdFVQ by bruce@darkmoon.social
2025-09-27T07:48:51Z
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@foone Dot matrix printers were specifically designed to be so obnoxiously loud that it was impossible to ignore. This was the same design philosophy employed by modem makers at the time.
(DIR) Post #Ayco9zS1D2MQuZpQUy by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:49:09Z
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UGH I have to go get my windows 3.1 install disks back out to install a printer!
(DIR) Post #AycoGgoit66l9Adv0K by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T07:50:36Z
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@stfn slashdotacular!
(DIR) Post #AycoKVRB8h610mRxi4 by itnomad@ruhr.social
2025-09-27T07:50:59Z
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@foone For proper nostalgia, I also want an Epson RX 80 version.
(DIR) Post #Aycpq2M2u5ee29eFJQ by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T08:07:38Z
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okay it works. printing the spreadsheet straight from excel gives me weird errors with missing data, but saving it out to CSV and opening it in notepad and printing from there? perfect.
(DIR) Post #Aycptgn913cGJe44vY by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T08:08:33Z
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@zero hey, I'll have you know I'm one of the top 1% of font havers in the world
(DIR) Post #AycqFwsrrkAMb1M8RM by Netux@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-09-27T08:12:43Z
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@foone cells the wrong size for bounding box? If i understand windows printing, it renders an image then prints instead of sending postscript. Worth trying maybe.
(DIR) Post #AycqJH0nUGuVtGeNOq by FlorentE_@piaille.fr
2025-09-27T08:13:04Z
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@foone insert <"shut up and take my money"> here.(Printed on a dot matrix ofc)
(DIR) Post #AycrBSaOfeFJQO8jjc by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T08:23:16Z
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@zero oh yeah. I'm all about the bitmap fonts. I'd marry them if that was legal.
(DIR) Post #AycrCWfIzRO8MiwaY4 by dcc@annihilation.social
2025-09-27T08:23:50.418131Z
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@zero @foone How about proportional spacing + Roman......
(DIR) Post #AycuLNJNR5ANpAbA8G by wonka@chaos.social
2025-09-27T08:58:35Z
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@foone Star NL-10 please!
(DIR) Post #Aycuv5MReX8mZp3sIK by kater_s@chaos.social
2025-09-27T09:05:01Z
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@foone How about using a modem + phone line to transfer files with Kermit or Xmodem? Also a very pleasing sound experience.
(DIR) Post #AycvbaIJ2AV6g2OHAm by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T09:12:47Z
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@kater_s I don't think I've got a terminal program though, so I couldn't send them. I guess I could find and install some windows 3.1 terminal program
(DIR) Post #AycvevrZIYheRLTrNI by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-27T09:13:03Z
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@kater_s maybe I'll reverse engineer an ancient AOL and use that
(DIR) Post #AycvkKhuM71iwOXNKK by kater_s@chaos.social
2025-09-27T09:14:21Z
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@foone Plus, for the real experience you’d need two modems. Only V.24 would be rather boring 🙃
(DIR) Post #Ayd4Z41mvavvc3XNtg by krono@toot.berlin
2025-09-27T10:53:09Z
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@foone It's so bad I love it dearly.
(DIR) Post #AydAuoLiV63d5Ac0C8 by pk2061@nrw.social
2025-09-27T12:04:19Z
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@foone First of all: Not a bad idea, more like a badass idea!But why bother with the additional printer?This just needs to be a dummy printer to produce the right printing sounds instead of paper. Just “print out” the useless email your boss sends you and listen to them being printed… 😃
(DIR) Post #AydBp5TpzkekQiFFkO by jkaniarz@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-09-27T12:14:31Z
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@foone I can’t get on board with this unless it also emulates my childhood Panasonic KX-P1123.It hits the just-right volume level of the whole home hearing it, but no risk of hearing damage.
(DIR) Post #AydWiaaQ2iFluk49r6 by davepolaschek@writing.exchange
2025-09-27T16:08:39Z
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@foone FWIW, given that Michael Sweet (the driving force behind CUPS) worked for Apple until 2019, I wonder if you might get more traction with an ImageWriter soundtrack. If he hasn’t already written such a beast for his own amusement.
(DIR) Post #AyeJtaDwctLbjHQSsS by SmartmanApps@dotnet.social
2025-09-28T01:19:37Z
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@foone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8I6qt_Z0Cg