Many that weren’t based on x86 microcompters could do this: Tandem, I mean, Compaq, I mean HP NonStop machines, Sun Ultra Enterprise as you mentioned, IBM s390 and System-Z, several HPUX systems, I’m sure there’s others.

Does it work the other way? Can I follow Threads users without being on threads.net myself?

Canada: first time?

Pirate an old, pre-CC version.

That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.

I’m thinking of my Bard’s Tale C=64 saves which easily fit on a 160k floppy.

I realized I composed that entirely incorrectly; here’s what I should have said:

I hope they use full-motion video for characters, rather than rendered CGI models. This didn’t look great in Myst, and it was really nice when an enterprising modder added FMV back to Myst. I get why (FMV doesn’t always work with VR) but I hope they give us the option on day one with Riven.

Not saying pretty much says it all.

Please do the FMV bits “nicely” and not using pre-rendered clips like I’m the Myst remakes?

The PC OEMs really, really, REALLY want to get back to the 90s and 2000s, when the six-month obsolescence cycle reigned supreme and you couldn’t sit on the same Ivy Bridge machine for a decade.

That’s a large part of the push behind NPUs and AI: it’s the only way to get the cycle going again, because otherwise the PC OEMs are going to be looking at a market similar to automotive OEMs, mature, and where replacement happens at the customer’s discretion instead of the market’s.

Qualcomm lets them do this because ARM isn’t anywhere near as open and standardized as x86, and Qualcomm can–and will–sunset platforms whenever it suits them, resulting in millions of machines getting boat-anchored.

(side note: Apple doesn’t indulge in this despite selling ARM machines because Apple plays the long game, and would rather chase revenue from conquest sales than cannibalize their existing customers; it’s remarkably long-term thinking from an erstwhile hardware company)

I think I bought Shadow of the Beast for almost that much in 1988 or 89. Of course, it came with a t-shirt and cool Roger Dean poster, which added some to the cost.

Point being, games certainly were this expensive for a long time, and I’d agree with them being that expensive again, but for the money going to vulture capitalists who’ll soak me via DLC on top of that. And I won’t get a Roger Dean poster, even.

Props to you, OP, for not doing the clickbait thing and putting the answer in the headline of the post.

The device was not listing as valid serial numbers and such so had to go to support and have them manually create the RMA case after they couldn’t do it

Ah, I had that happen with my monitor from them, too. It took a lot of doing just to get the case created.

The problem is that you’re charged for packaging, and the monitor is not exactly cheap.

The model should be Apple: yes, they’re expensive, but they’re also no-questions-asked. As long as your AppleCare is still valid:

• Laptop stopped working? Just send it in for repair or come into the store, you get a new one.
• Apple pencil won’t charge? We’ll send you a new one, send the us the old one back in a prepaid shipping container.
• Screen cracked on your iPhone? Here’s the schedule of repair costs, we’ll send you a new one.
• Dog chewed your airpod? Nominal fee for replacement and we’ll send you a new one first.

The problem is that Apple has the up-front margin to support this kind of thing. Asus et al don’t.

Huh. I had a Predator monitor that was diagnosed with mysterious “liquid damage” when it stopped working. Considering it’s well up and above the desk, that would have taken some work.

I’m wondering if I should try again?

There’s Supermicro and Tyan, but they’re…a different market.

I don’t recall this exactly, but I do remember:

• Rocket-jumping, where you can point the rocket-launcher at your feet and, if you survive the back-splash, get places you normally couldn’t
• The exploding BOBs could be backsplashed to places (“Frog blast the vent core!”) to amusing effect.

Ah, got it. I was confused because Aleph has been a thing for a very long time. I didn’t click that it was “…on Steam” that’s the important part.

I loved Marathon back in the day; played the hell out of it on an LC475, and it was a key reason why a) I stuck with Macs in my post-Amiga era, b) made me a fan of Bungie in general, c) broke my heart when Halo became an XBox exclusive, and c) resulted in my buying an XBox anyway because Halo is/was basically Marathon 4.

Marathon, via Aleph One, has been free for at least a two decades at this point, hasn’t it? Bungie open sourced it before 2000 and Aleph has been a thing since at least 2004, I think.

Also, wow I’m old…

This isn’t the weird multitasking variant, is it?