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Sep 24, 2021 1 hr 3 min

54. Failure is the interesting option

from Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO Hosted by DJ Daemon

Today, it's a another walk down memory lane of some stupid mistakes done by me and others when working with old computers. What about shorting out a poor C64, backing up all non-important stuff instead of the needed files, running DCopy 4.1 and nuking the disk and making the power lead fit.. upside down. Playlist: 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past 00:07 DJ Daemon: It's been a tough week, so today it's more music and nothing serious planned. But the topic is “Stupid mistakes”. Mostly mine. 00:28 Ilmarque – Circus of Kismet 04:14 DJ Daemon: The story of the bad DCopy. 05:09 Beek and Virt of Tequila – Fruitbat 09:29 DJ Daemon: The story of the useless backup. 10:21 Arachno and Seablue – In memory 12:23 DJ Daemon: The story of “Violence does it”. How a hard drive power connector fits upside down. 13:15 Moby – Fury-Tube 15:45 DJ Daemon: Who framed Roger Rabbit? The story of not understanding copy protections. 16:42 Dustbin of Charlie.Brown.records – Flying Around A Rainbow 21:01 DJ Daemon: Burning down the chip: the story of the reset button that killed… 22:01 Falah – Dark comedy sad af 24:33 DJ Daemon: The missing three – the story of a mistreated C64 25:34 Allister Brimble – Overdrive 29:25 DJ Daemon: Loose screws and heads, the story of Daisy the destroyer of diskdrives. 30:19 Sphenx – Ocean of Dark 37:00 DJ Daemon: A shock to the system: how not repair stuff. 37:53 Buzzer of Zenon – The White Thing 41:04 DJ Daemon: Last story: No!!! It's DON'T!!!! 41:52 Rapture – Aurora Borealis 47:19 DJ Daemon: A bit of the future.. 48:06 Yannis Brown – Magic carpet journey 50:20 DJ Daemon: Outro 51:06 Adkd – Saved – Calm remix 53:44 ericade.radio – With all the best music composed on Protracker, Noisetracker, Impulse tracker and Fast tracker 53:53 Joloosx – Roll-out 55:47 DJ Daemon: leading you into the good night. 56:18 Lesnik of Altair – Horizon 59:46 ericade.radio – An echo from a digital past 59:52 Funktion of Paranoids – Deepness Production notes: An episode made by me on the fly, as I didn't have time to write a script but still wanted to talk about some topic. Stupid mistakes and failures make for amusing storytelling. Colophone: "Failure is the only option" is a trope defined in the TV-tropes directory. It's a storytelling trope that dictates that the only option open to the heroes must lead to failure. The joke is that I'm mixing it with the old saying "IF you fail, at least you learn something interesting". Tags: Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021

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Today, it's a another walk down memory lane of some stupid mistakes done by me and others when working with old computers. What about shorting out a poor C64, backing up all non-important stuff instead of the needed files, running DCopy 4.1 and nuking the disk and making the power lead fit.. upside down.

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  1. 0:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
  2. 0:07 DJ Daemon: It's been a tough week, so today it's more music and nothing serious planned. But the topic is “Stupid mistakes”. Mostly mine.
  3. 0:28 Ilmarque – Circus of Kismet
  4. 4:14 DJ Daemon: The story of the bad DCopy.
  5. 5:09 Beek and Virt of Tequila – Fruitbat
  6. 9:29 DJ Daemon: The story of the useless backup.
  7. 10:21 Arachno and Seablue – In memory
  8. 12:23 DJ Daemon: The story of “Violence does it”. How a hard drive power connector fits upside down.
  9. 13:15 Moby – Fury-Tube
  10. 15:45 DJ Daemon: Who framed Roger Rabbit? The story of not understanding copy protections.
  11. 16:42 Dustbin of Charlie.Brown.records – Flying Around A Rainbow
  12. 21:01 DJ Daemon: Burning down the chip: the story of the reset button that killed…
  13. 22:01 Falah – Dark comedy sad af
  14. 24:33 DJ Daemon: The missing three – the story of a mistreated C64
  15. 25:34 Allister Brimble – Overdrive
  16. 29:25 DJ Daemon: Loose screws and heads, the story of Daisy the destroyer of diskdrives.
  17. 30:19 Sphenx – Ocean of Dark
  18. 37:00 DJ Daemon: A shock to the system: how not repair stuff.
  19. 37:53 Buzzer of Zenon – The White Thing
  20. 41:04 DJ Daemon: Last story: No!!! It's DON'T!!!!
  21. 41:52 Rapture – Aurora Borealis
  22. 47:19 DJ Daemon: A bit of the future..
  23. 48:06 Yannis Brown – Magic carpet journey
  24. 50:20 DJ Daemon: Outro
  25. 51:06 Adkd – Saved – Calm remix
  26. 53:44 ericade.radio – With all the best music composed on Protracker, Noisetracker, Impulse tracker and Fast tracker
  27. 53:53 Joloosx – Roll-out
  28. 55:47 DJ Daemon: leading you into the good night.
  29. 56:18 Lesnik of Altair – Horizon
  30. 59:46 ericade.radio – An echo from a digital past
  31. 59:52 Funktion of Paranoids – Deepness

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