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hoyeboye
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Post subject: Anyone want a MovieCD? ![Post Post](./styles/AeroBlue/imageset/icon_post_target.gif) Posted: 14 May 2013, 21:41 |
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Hello fans of anime on obsolete formats. I've been holding on to three pieces of anime obscurity for a while, but now it's your turn to experience the obscure joy! For absolutely nothing (maybe chip in a few bucks for shipping), you can own a piece of forgotten formats with 3 MovieCD PC CD-ROM for Windows 95 and 3.1. Sold in the mid 90's with little success, this format makes up for its poor quality with its extreme obscurity. These discs are guaranteed to increase in value, if value is based on the "Buy It Now" prices on eBay. Act now, and you'll receive: New Dominion Tank Police volume 2 (Sealed with CompUSA price tag attached) (2 discs) Dominion Tank Police Part 1 (Acts 1 and 2) (2 discs) Ninja Scroll (2 discs) ![Image](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Q7ugMM8hrzA/UZKgEbaZo-I/AAAAAAAAByI/ZqklP9zkaUc/w1189-h560-no/MovieCD_Front.jpg) ![Image](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-bjL-M0z2veo/UZKgEVcnrRI/AAAAAAAAByE/mUbGyrnRyJg/w1189-h575-no/MovieCD_Back.jpg) Reserve yours, now! Wikipedia entry for MovieCD
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Post subject: Re: Anyone want a MovieCD? ![Post Post](./styles/AeroBlue/imageset/icon_post_target.gif) Posted: 15 May 2013, 14:28 |
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hippiedalek wrote: I'm guessing this is just another name for VCD? Nah, these were much crappier than VCD. VCD used MPEG-1 compression codec at a resolution of 352x240 at 30fps These discs used a proprietary codec called Motion Pixels at 320x236 at 16fps I wouldn't bother.
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Post subject: Re: Anyone want a MovieCD? ![Post Post](./styles/AeroBlue/imageset/icon_post_target.gif) Posted: 19 May 2013, 02:27 |
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dominion tank police is a fun series.
i used to have a couple moviecds. i think i still have MORTAL KOMBAT somewhere.
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Post subject: Re: Anyone want a MovieCD? ![Post Post](./styles/AeroBlue/imageset/icon_post_target.gif) Posted: 20 May 2013, 04:15 |
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currently the only way to play them is in a win95/win98 virtual machine after installing the codec. the codec was never updated to run on winxp or newer.
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Post subject: Re: Anyone want a MovieCD? ![Post Post](./styles/AeroBlue/imageset/icon_post_target.gif) Posted: 21 May 2013, 05:12 |
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Resurrected my old Packard Bell Pentium (I think 66MHz) with 16MB of RAM. Here's the computer trying to play New Dominion Tank Police Volume 2: http://youtu.be/gO8WSLENnlA. This was the second attempt. On the first attempt, I tried to do full-screen and the program locked up and had to be killed.
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Post subject: Re: Anyone want a MovieCD? ![Post Post](./styles/AeroBlue/imageset/icon_post_target.gif) Posted: 21 May 2013, 15:18 |
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signofzeta wrote: I'm pretty sure this PC doesn't really meet the requirements. A PII would probably run it much better. It would run MUCH better on a PII, but the codec was designed before the PIIs were available. Minimum requirements are pretty light. 486/66 processor, 8MB RAM, 2x CD-ROM, local-bus video adapter with 1MB RAM, 128Kb level 2 cache, Soundblaster Pro My system is Pentium 60, 40MB RAM, 256Kb level 2 cache, SB Pro. Not sure of the video RAM. Played around with some BIOS settings and couldn't improve the quality. I think I may be using a single-speed CD-ROM which may explain some of the lag.
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Post subject: Re: Anyone want a MovieCD? ![Post Post](./styles/AeroBlue/imageset/icon_post_target.gif) Posted: 21 May 2013, 17:20 |
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hoyeboye wrote: signofzeta wrote: I'm pretty sure this PC doesn't really meet the requirements. A PII would probably run it much better. It would run MUCH better on a PII, but the codec was designed before the PIIs were available. Minimum requirements are pretty light. 486/66 processor, 8MB RAM, 2x CD-ROM, local-bus video adapter with 1MB RAM, 128Kb level 2 cache, Soundblaster Pro My system is Pentium 60, 40MB RAM, 256Kb level 2 cache, SB Pro. Not sure of the video RAM. Played around with some BIOS settings and couldn't improve the quality. I think I may be using a single-speed CD-ROM which may explain some of the lag. When did these things come out? I was thinking it was 1997 or so. But yeah, CDROM performance is hugely important to something like this since its constantly streaming from the disc.
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Post subject: Re: Anyone want a MovieCD? ![Post Post](./styles/AeroBlue/imageset/icon_post_target.gif) Posted: 22 May 2013, 00:22 |
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signofzeta wrote: When did these things come out? I was thinking it was 1997 or so.
But yeah, CDROM performance is hugely important to something like this since its constantly streaming from the disc. You are correct, the date in the user manual is 1997.
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Post subject: Re: Anyone want a MovieCD? ![Post Post](./styles/AeroBlue/imageset/icon_post_target.gif) Posted: 24 May 2013, 02:51 |
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i remember talking to a guy in egghead computer store (haha remember those?) who said a customer tried loading one of the movie cds up in windows media player, and it locked the whole system up so badly he had to reformat it.
i was able to play mortal kombat and 'friday' moviecds fine using wmp or the official moviecd player in win98 however. the quality i thought was pretty bad. worse than vcd, lots of blocks.
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