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did aol punters ever actually work for forcing someone to log off, because I used punters all the time (got my family banned from AOL) and I never successfully punted someone
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Virtual Valerie 2 :bigtran:
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3D Body Adventure! That's what it was called. Oh, and you could put on those red and blue 3D glasses for...uhhh..extra 3D
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Angry Birds Suicide posted:42017806 oneonesixtwoninesixoheight god drat that's like 15+ years ago
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ShiroTheSniper posted:Virtual Valerie 2 Naw man, Rhiana Rouge was where it's at. I loved how old PC gaming mags had ads for porno games in them, they were so hard-up (boom) for advertising dollars. Especially weird were the porno ads that clearly used to have nudity in them, but someone had hastily photoshopped a bikini on to the woman.
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Dec 22, 2015 21:21
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I played the King's Quest games a lot with my older sister. They weren't as frustrating when you were with someone vastly better at figuring out puzzles. They had some badass box art: I learned to read/spell partially by playing King's IV  I had a "cheat sheet" where my mom had written down words for me after she got tired of me asking how to spell "pouch" for the millionth time. Those text parsers had no sympathy for poor spellers or very young kids.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYkpL3A3JeI I loved this game as a kid. You got to feed sandwiches to the blue one
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JakeP posted:did aol punters ever actually work for forcing someone to log off, because I used punters all the time (got my family banned from AOL) and I never successfully punted someone Yeah, it worked because it would completely freeze AOL and you'd have to ctrl alt delete. The code was just spamming <h3> over and over again which as far as I know is just html code for a large title. Not sure why that would freeze AOL but it did. You didn't even need a punter to do it. Just copy and paste a bunch of <h3>s and you'd kick someone off. It stopped working in AOL 4.0 because html codes for fonts and stuff were allowed. 
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i can remember telling people to type ALT F4 to enter a secret chat room. But as soon as you did this you'd hear "Goodbye" and the AOL Window would close. Now the person would have to spend the next 45 minutes trying to dial back in
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Melmac posted:Yeah, it worked because it would completely freeze AOL and you'd have to ctrl alt delete. I love dumb poo poo like that. I played an online Dreamcast game called Phantasy Star Online that let you have very short PMs, but the font was not fixed-width and the message seemed to be limited by whether or not it fit in the box, not the number of characters. So if you filled the entire box with lowercase l's and tried to send it, the game would crash because it had so many more characters than if you'd put in, say, a ton of capital Ws. Who the gently caress did not think that one through  People then claimed that if you sent that to someone, you'd crash THEIR game, to trick people into crashing their own.
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Spider-Man Cartoon Maker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loD1v-rrO1s
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More edutainment: Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego Waiting for shareware DOOM to download at 9600bps because it had been hyped for ages. It's probably the most amazed I've ever been. Hacking the QBASIC code for GORILLAS.BAS or NIBBLES.BAS (or the GW-BASIC for DONKEY.BAS if you're really old-school).
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Buttcoin purse posted:Hacking the QBASIC code for GORILLAS.BAS Why would you need to modify the code of an already broken/perfect game. Pro strat: ANGLE: 0 VELOCITY: 999 Repeat maybe two more times and wait for the banana bomb to slice through the building and gib the chump chimp on the other side.
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I was trying to remember the first video card I ever installed, but can't bring it to mind. I put in the first computer I bought for myself, an HP Pavilion Pentium II that was 350mHz at the fastest. I upgraded the RAM to a whopping 96MB and put in a 3D card that had to have that funny VGA to VGA bridge to the onboard video. When I eventually upgraded to a P4 running Windows XP, installed an ATI 9600 Pro and 768MB of RAM, I felt like I was in the future. 
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you were warned posted:I love dumb poo poo like that. I played an online Dreamcast game called Phantasy Star Online that let you have very short PMs, but the font was not fixed-width and the message seemed to be limited by whether or not it fit in the box, not the number of characters. So if you filled the entire box with lowercase l's and tried to send it, the game would crash because it had so many more characters than if you'd put in, say, a ton of capital Ws. Who the gently caress did not think that one through Phantasy Star online for DC was great, because you could burn yourself a copy of gameshark and easily grief people and take their stuff
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3D Movie Maker. I wasted so many hours on this thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBCoaZn8FU That was the version I'm used to that they released in North America and Aus but one of my friends from Britain said that in the version she grew up with that awful McZee character was Scottish. And, yeah looks like that's the case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJDrciWbEII I have a vague memory of there being a Nickelodeon version too. I think I had a demo of it on one of those demo cds that came with Windows 95
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Dec 22, 2015 23:42
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What was this game called again? I've had it in the back of my mind for a while.
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Sir_Charles posted:Spider-Man Cartoon Maker Sorry, can't fill now!
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Bonzo posted:It's amazing how lovely web design was back then  346kb picture takes nearly a full minute to download, on a tech show which presumably had a good connectionAlso WYSIWYG webwombat spending 45 minutes of the lunch hour at school installing doom on 2 computers in the computer lab, 5 minutes configuring the network settings and then 10 minutes playing multiplayer before having to go back to class and I miss this poo poo out of everything to do with this game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ucLyqEboGM
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dad gay. so what posted:Msg#: 935 *EREWHON* did u do any phone phreaking back in the day dgsw? I read 2600 when I was a lad but never actually did any phreaking
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Naw man, Rhiana Rouge was where it's at. yeah there were also porno ads that censored any dirty word so it read like "get some hot s*x with n*ked w****s" or someshit
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Farking Bastage posted:That thing that got 19 year old me kicked out of my first college are you the kitten stomper?
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.par (parity) files = magic
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Picking the "Internet" menu option from the BBS and getting a shell prompt and having to learn how to use ftp, telnet and lynx. To see a picture on a website you had to save it using lynx onto the BBS's computer, and then exit or suspend lynx and run sz to send it to your PC, then open a DOS shell in Telemate or whatever to run your picture viewer. I never bought a book from the store which told me which websites were good but I know that was a thing.
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Old games with cool midi sound tracks etc like SSI games, Dark Sun, also cool games like Tyrian. http://www.myabandonware.com/game/dark-sun-shattered-lands-318 I spit in the face of Tectuktilay! 
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exmachina posted:Would unironically platinum tier buy into this. I have tried so many hacks but the physics engine just cannot run. This version supposedly works on win7 x64 even. http://www.gog.com/game/interstate76 the comments explain how to get it going. warcraft_boyfriend_99 has a new favorite as of 07:29 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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mrwuss posted:48871154 onezeroonezeroeighttwosixnineone
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The forums still let you put an ICQ number in your profile, so it can't be THAT outdated!
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Sir_Charles posted:Spider-Man Cartoon Maker no_games_to_play_on_your_uncles_pc.flv
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xechostormx posted:This version supposedly works on win7 x64 even. http://www.gog.com/game/interstate76 I own it, not compatible with my graphics card (AMD 290X)
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Kharnifex posted:Old games with cool midi sound tracks etc like SSI games, Dark Sun, also cool games like Tyrian. Listen to the SimAnt YouTube I linked above, loving great midi soundtrack
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you were warned posted:The forums still let you put an ICQ number in your profile, so it can't be THAT outdated! 
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 Gothic Nightmares So you could be the coolest guy in the AOL chatroom.
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It's simultaneously amazing and sad as hell that Mechwarrior 2 was the absolute pinnacle of the franchise
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Maldoror posted:lol tim eckel Hah, I remember this site, Tim Eckel was one of the biggest dicks in the scene. Somewhat fitting for it to turn into a broken goatse redirect. For some bizarre reason their forums are still around and have active users: http://www.arcadeathome.com/forums/ The design and quality of posting hasn't moved on since the 90s!
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I remember being at my cousin/Aunt's house, and staring wistfully at these screens. I begged, but it just wasn't happening. Some other poo poo.  
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nice this brings back memories. i somehow swindled my parents into buying me this game when i was in middle school. got to see titties. owned. umm i dont think this is really nsfw but jic   i used to think that she just had really weird nipples
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