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This + Sound Recorder in Windows + the Reverse feature = hours(?) of fun.
There was a very simple space game on the computer (I think it came with windows, like hidden with other files or something?) that all the sound effects were just wav files.
For whatever reason, I used the microphone to record new sound effects but just sounds I could make like “pew” and literally saying the word “boom” and replacing all the files and playing it that way. Must’ve spent several hours on that project for sure.
Your first asset flip!
I remember recording clips of songs and used them to replace windows sounds. Those wav files took up a lot of space when your hard drive was only like 100 megs
Which Windows version, do you recall? I’m curious to know what game.
Not OP, but I’m going to take a guess that it was Hover
I wanna say Windows 95? The game was barely a game, and I recall the graphics were especially primitive even for the time (think something you’d do in paint in like an hour total). Can’t remember what it was called though… Pretty sure it was just in a folder and I found it just randomly browsing files.
It was just looking out from the cockpit of a spaceship (think like that typical white dots flying by a black background) and using the mouse to shoot lasers at stuff that popped up (flying saucers maybe? Honestly can’t remember). I don’t even think there were levels or anything beyond that, can’t even remember if there was a score. There was no flying/controlling the ship either.
Other comment mentioned Hover!, I was thinking maybe the original Incoming game.
Ok, it the span of hours, c/nostalgia has posted my microphone and my pc controller. I’m starting to think they are just going though my shit.
If the next post is a Gateway 2000, I’m pressing charges.
Oh I remember those, sound quality was horribly bad.
I had one of these from my first Creative SoundBlaster… i forget which model. But basically it worked so well I used it for 15+ years. I sounded better than most. Half of analog mics was just proper mic boost configuration, the other half was having a system that wasn’t rife with noise. It didn’t matter how good the mic or soundcard was if the mobo was noisy AF.
You also needed to know where to hook up your wires! I found that nearby plugs tend to interfere with audio input A LOT. In my case I had multiple audio jacks so it was preferred to use the one where I’d usually plug nothing in nearby!
There was no sound quality, good or bad.
My ska band used one to record a demo back in 99.
Have a copy?
I sure do. It’s terrible.
I had one of these for that game where Gowron teaches you to speak Klingon. I think I could still do that opening song.
Gowron teaches you a song?
Yes!
What do you mean “did you”? I know exactly where mine is.
I even recorded some (bad) vocals for some (bad) Fruity Loops tracks with one of these.
Get out of my brain.
OG Fruity Loops gang! All the samples I made had snaps and pops at the cut points too. Man we’ve come a long way.
Not that exact one, but yes! I swear mine was Altec Lansing, but I cannot find any pictures of one. It looked just like the Labtec ones.
Microphone.
Edit: Sorry, I somehow read it as “What do you call one of these?”.
Jean-Luc Picard: ICQ
Uh-oh!
I think I just found my new text alert
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in like 20 years. It occurs to me I still remember my old ICQ number, 3939036 (I think).
I used to record music on one of these. Sounded shite!
Ok, but what about the sound of the recording?
I set em up, you knock em down!
Never could figure out the appropriate place for this thing on my desk.
It goes inside your mouth.
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There was a mount that’d stick to the side of your monitor for it
Came with my IBM Aptiva.
Same. Got my 166MHz (mmx!!) aptiva as a birthday gift in 1998. While most of the components had been upgraded by 2001, I continued using the chassis and the mic until 2007
That sliding door on gears was…
Bussin?
On fleek?
I ended up upgrading the processor (to 400mhz?) thanks to the magic of a riser card.
Got mine with a Gateway 2000
