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Oddity Archive: Episode 280.3 – Windows 98 Laptop Update (5/2024) (She Lives!) (Patreon)

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2024-05-22 14:30:17
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Another update on the laptop this week--that update being that it lives! Let's see (within the realm of my limited computer gear) what it can handle.

On a thoroughly different note, we had a really difficult week at home last week--so much so, that no real OA production got done. As such, next week will be an Archiveland Public Domain Theatre livestream week (I'm thinking a Roger Corman tribute).

The following week (June 5th) will be the "finale" to this season (not that it means much right now)--it's gonna be the uber-delayed TV Sign-Offs Vol. 2.

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Oddity Archive: Episode 280.3 – Windows 98 Laptop Update (5/2024) (She Lives!)

Ben christens his newly-functional laptop…by playing a little Slim Whitman. Visit our website at http://www.oddityarchive.com Social Media: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/oddityarchive Twitter/X: @oddityarchive Help out the Archive by making a monthly donation to our ongoing Patreon campaign. Visit the campaign at http://www.patreon.com/oddityarchive

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Jen Gibbons

Hang in there, Ben, and take care of yourself.

Ben A.

DVD playback on Windows 98 was always dicey, between the legal issues surrounding the encryption and the CPUs of the time not being powerful enough to decode the video in real time. Somewhere around here, I have a copy of Mediamatics DVDExpress, which was the DVD player application that shipped with DVD-equipped IBM Aptiva desktops circa 1999. As I recall, it uses the graphics card to assist with the video decoding, so as to avoid the stuttering from the CPU not being able to keep up. Also, speaking of TV sign-offs - don't know if you've found it yet, but there's a sign-off from WROC lurking on one of those tapes I sent you. I believe it's on the tape marked "1", following an episode of "Later with Bob Costas". I also have a digital copy of that sign-off that I can send you if you want (which may be more complete than the copy you have, though it still cuts off at the last few notes of the national anthem).

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Haven't gotten to that tape yet, but I've already got the sign-offs I want to cover. Thanks for the tip though. :)

Jason Haman

Sorry you had a bad week... thinking of you and your family.