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Contributions / Re: HTML Intellistar 2 Simulator

« Last post by Rubidium on June 20, 2025, 12:04:58 AM »

I love this simulator and how you can set custom backgrounds!

I set it to a picture of a winking Stuffed States USA Virginia GIF.



Wonder if there'll be an option to customize the greeting as well?

Thanks for the awesome product!

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General Discussion / Re: Recent music purchases

« Last post by TWCJim on June 14, 2025, 06:57:52 PM »

Bumping this topic because I thought I'd share what I've bought musically within the last year or two, and a little hint: all have to do with instrumentals and vocal tracks that aired during LOT8s years and years ago.   

CDs

- Gooding - Winter's Return
- Pylon - Chain
- Timothy Drury & Corridor - The Crossing
- The Timeout Drawer - Record Of Small Histories
- Phish - The Story Of The Ghost

Individual tracks from online music services

- Trance Fury - Yet Unknown (Weeping Guitar Mix)
- Trance Fury - Fly Away (Bird's Eye View Mix)
- Trance Fury - February (Mid-Winter Night Mix)
- Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine
- Physical Therapy - Wishbone
- DC Talk - In The Light (Instrumental)
- Claudio Fiore - Event Horizon
- Gooding - For Love
- Phish - If I Could (Live Columbus 6/22/1994)
- Johnny Ramone - Viva Las Vegas
- Wheeler Brothers - My Time
- Cary Brothers - Ride

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General Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself! (For New Members)

« Last post by solaris on June 09, 2025, 02:55:11 PM »

Hi Hi! I joined this forum today because i just discovered it existed, I love messing around with WS Emulators and I used to be briefly hyperfixated on TWC in 2011! Someday I do hope to own an actual old TWC WS Computer!

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Authentic classic TWC rendering fail

« Last post by Rubidium on May 29, 2025, 11:42:56 AM »

Was looking at the randomly picked video on the front page, which was a Honolulu Hawaii forecast. (It's randomly picked every time you refresh the page, I was bored)

The light rain cloud looked miscolored and only one of the rain parts were correctly colored. There are 3 videos of this kind - all taken on the same day, February 27.

How does this even happen? I'm curious now.

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The Game Room / Re: Which would you prefer?

« Last post by Dylan on April 17, 2025, 10:08:19 AM »

I guess Midnight City

Heather Tesch or Kelly Cass?

Both.
Local on the 8s the way it is now (only airing twice an hour for a minute) or the way it was 20 years ago (every :x8 for 2 minutes except for during Storm Stories)?

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Contributions / Locals on the 8s Welcome Message

« Last post by Coastiestevie on April 04, 2025, 01:33:26 AM »

Something I just wanted to make for the forums and our new members. Hope you enjoy this audio welcome message, attached with the topic!

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: What's the name of these songs used in these two videos by TheWeatherChazz?

« Last post by twcclassics on March 28, 2025, 06:36:53 PM »

I've especially been looking for the first one (Tommy Nehls) for a very long time - before Tommy uploaded it to his channel himself, the only video that had the song was the aforementioned "Here we go again" video.

I have the song on my channel as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS_1RVSJQPU

Or maybe you were talking about Charles' channel?

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: What's the name of these songs used in these two videos by TheWeatherChazz?

« Last post by JesseLikesWeather on March 18, 2025, 04:39:30 PM »

Sadly, he hasn't posted in 6 years, hopefully he's doing alright. (His videos are the reason why I'm interested in WeatherStar4000 content)

It's bad news sadly, he passed away in 2018.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Authentic classic TWC rendering fail

« Last post by Rubidium on March 06, 2025, 04:27:56 PM »

I just saw this one on YouTube. No music there, just some static.

What do you think of this fail? Any other funny authentic fails (not simulation fails) you found?

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: What's the name of these songs used in these two videos by TheWeatherChazz?

« Last post by Rubidium on March 05, 2025, 11:32:55 PM »

The first song (the "Here We Go again..." video) is Right Now by Tommy Nehls, the second song (the "Overnight Storms" video) is And I Think About It All The Time by The Meeting. As for theweatherchazz, you've not followed the news, but he sadly passed away in November 2019, 10 months after he posted his final video, cause was never known.

Can't believe you found them that fast, thank you so much.

I've especially been looking for the first one (Tommy Nehls) for a very long time - before Tommy uploaded it to his channel himself, the only video that had the song was the aforementioned "Here we go again" video.

As for the Chazz situation... I'll miss Chazz, his contributions to the TWC community and his videos were one of a kind... his channel is an archive now. Died way too young... I know people come and go but the fact he died too early is really heartbreaking.

You're welcome. I see your profile says you're 19, so you've been looking for those songs since you were 5? I'm 27 so you still seem like a kid to me.

Don't think my search for the song started in 2011, but I think in 2016. I'm not sure when exactly.
I posted a YouTube video one time searching for the name of the song, and someone jokingly said "Darude Sandstorm."

Still though, you were 10 in 2016. Is that video of yours still up on YouTube?

Nope, deleted that channel around the same time I made it for unknown reasons.