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#1

Forum Games and Role-Playing / Re: Wot's Playing?

Last post by Bella - Today at 09:23:10 AM

This is such an ear worm.

#2

Forum Games and Role-Playing / Re: Wot's Playing?

Last post by Goujer - Today at 08:48:00 AM

Been in my head on loop:

#3

OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by oobabasama - Yesterday at 04:20:31 AM

I havent been on pixiv for years. It requires being singed in to browse, right?
That site got pretty much Deviantarted with the AI slop too.

I do remember seeing much more Ultima-san back in the day, that's why I was bit surprised how rare she seems nowadays.

Interestingly, Gelbooru seems to tag Ultima-san as "Spirit (Vista)". Dunno what that even means.

To browse SFW, no. NSFW yeah.
I don't know why Gelbooru tags it as that either.
I guess her rarity partially has to do with the issue of some people only caring about ME, 2K, 95 and XP and maybe a few more, and none of the other Nijiura girls.

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OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by VonDaab - Yesterday at 03:42:56 AM

I havent been on pixiv for years. It requires being singed in to browse, right?
That site got pretty much Deviantarted with the AI slop too.

I do remember seeing much more Ultima-san back in the day, that's why I was bit surprised how rare she seems nowadays.

Interestingly, Gelbooru seems to tag Ultima-san as "Spirit (Vista)". Dunno what that even means.

#5

OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by oobabasama - July 06, 2026, 10:48:29 PM

It turns out Ultima-san isn't that obscure after all, she has far more posts on Pixiv than for example Secchan. It reminds me of how Obabasama has far more tagged posts than ME, XP, 95 and everyone else on the same site

#6

General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by VonDaab - July 06, 2026, 03:14:16 PM

Early Mavicas could store up to 40 pictures on lowest quality. That's more than what a 35mm roll of film could do. Those were usually either 24 or 36 shots per roll.

Oh yeah, the FD85 supports MPEG video. It's video quality is gloriously crusty. And only 5 second snippets.

#7

General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by Goujer - July 06, 2026, 03:03:00 PM

Its 1280x960, so really not that far from early iPhones, or even just a downscaled image off a iPhone4.
With maximum quality you can only get something like 6 photos on a single floppy.

Early Mavicas actually use a video camera sensor, so the image is scanned as an interlaced picture, which does give early Mavicas that somewhat jaggy picture quality. FD85 has already a sensor that scans the entire field in a single go. No interlace splicing that would cause artefacting.

Only 6 images a floppy!? Makes you wonder how many floppies avid users of those cameras would have brought around.

I think the interlacing of the sensor is a bit of the charm.

#8

General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by Bella - July 06, 2026, 03:00:39 PM

Nifty, it's cool to see the increase in photo quality. It looks clearer but still has a retro feel IMO.

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General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by VonDaab - July 06, 2026, 01:40:04 PM

You could convince me that new pic was taken with a modern camera.

Its 1280x960, so really not that far from early iPhones, or even just a downscaled image off a iPhone4.
With maximum quality you can only get something like 6 photos on a single floppy.

Dropping the quality down to 640x480 starts to give more the original FD7 look, but due to how the sensor works on FD7, it still doesn't get the true crustyness with the FD85.


Early Mavicas actually use a video camera sensor, so the image is scanned as an interlaced picture, which does give early Mavicas that somewhat jaggy picture quality. FD85 has already a sensor that scans the entire field in a single go. No interlace splicing that would cause artefacting.

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General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by Goujer - July 06, 2026, 01:34:15 PM

You could convince me that new pic was taken with a modern camera.