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ShiroTheSniper posted:Second Reality demo. drat that I looked at it often. I'm still amazed that they did it that small (one 3.5" disk IIRC). I like the tribute ports better than the original! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPW40ygds4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwV-Gz0_Nhc
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Vladimir Poutine posted:keen 4 or gtfo 4+5 are better but i'm still quite partial to 2+3
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re: dos demoscene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2suZ1KkZ9HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3GUfM7qkCw Triton was working on their own full 3D game, which would probably match Quake and Tomb Raider, but it never came to fruition
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gagelion2 posted:who here played a-10 cuba I played a lot of A-10 Tank Killer. It was made by a local company, and the city you have a mission or two around is clearly Eugene, Oregon.  It also let you do fun things like murder the B-52s you are supposed to provide ground support to. http://www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?gid=MTc=
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laserghost posted:re: dos demoscene Fuckin' hell, forgot about that poo poo until now. Didn't realize it had music, I'd never had a PC with a sound card until '99. We were cheapskates, I played DOOM at a blazing 15spf (yeah, not a typo, seconds per frame  )More hilariously archaic demo crap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xht5KXInD
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This thread has brought back so many memories. I'm old enough to have lived through the following: -Apple IIe in the classroom where I killed many deer on the Oregon Trail -The Commodore VIC-20/Commodore 64 era where you played Spy vs. Spy and showed off your l33t programming skills in BASIC on the demo unit at the mall by having it scroll "Insert Name was here!" -Computer Summer Camp at Radio Shack on the TRS-80 -486SX/25 with 2400 baud modem where you could look at a porn jpeg one line at a time -The joy of getting your PIII 550 Gateway 2000 in the Holstein box so you could play Rise of the Triad when you weren't in a chatroom on Compuserve. -The amazement of getting free music on Napster and Audiogalaxy and it only taking 30 minutes to download one song. -Spending a huge amount of time downloading the newest version of Internet Explorer and then using it to see what giant leap forward they had in each version. -I remember playing Counter Strike on a cable modem when Roadrunner first came to Orlando. Playing against people who were using dial-up still was like something straight out of the Matrix. Those were the days.
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i made lifelong friend on #bowiechat or some poo poo on teenagewildlife.com while i was browsing the internet on webtv circa 99 or so the best years of my life~
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That Dare to Dream point-and-click game was on the Best Games for Windows disc I mentioned a few pages back. I've been trying to remember the name of that for years!
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Epic Pinball was great but I remember thinking most other Epic games were a bit ordinary. That said, I played the poo poo out of Jill of the Jungle. A large portion of my childhood was spent on these two:   Slightly later, but The Neverhood had its moments. 
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Superior Bastard posted:-Computer Summer Camp at Radio Shack on the TRS-80  The summer camps I went to were terrible but that sounds awesome!Titus Sardonicus posted:Fuckin' hell, forgot about that poo poo until now. Didn't realize it had music, I'd never had a PC with a sound card until '99. You didn't know demos had music? drat, it's not too late to report your parents for child abuse. My music folder does pretty much only have .mp3/.ogg files, but it also has ASM-93.S3M. To quote someone else's "Here is a list of the modules I currently have.": pre:Filename Module Name Author/Tracker/Group ============ ============================ =============================== ASM-93 S3M World of plastic Purple Motion / FC Vladimir Poutine posted:Epic Pinball was great but I remember thinking most other Epic games were a bit ordinary.  It wasn't just you.
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Lathespin.gif posted:The following post was largely made possible by these two companies: the best post on this dead gay forum I've seen in a while everyone go buy that huge 3drealms pack that's on steam for tenbux right now, it is worth it, also the commander keen pack I thought it had jill of the jungle also but I guess not, get that somewhere though
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Does anyone else remember playing Uh-oh! Text Adventure? It was a Y2K themed office preparedness story, but it was very detailed. I'd kill to find this game again, but all I can find is a news article from 1997! http://web.archive.org/web/19981203070828/http://www.successinformation.com/game.htm https://gcn.com/Articles/1997/03/16/Fixing-date-codes-is-no-game-but-one-can-help-you-prepare.aspx
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Holy poo poo seeing all of those games just gave me intense deja-vu.
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Buttcoin purse posted:My music folder does pretty much only have .mp3/.ogg files, but it also has ASM-93.S3M. To quote someone else's "Here is a list of the modules I currently have.": check this album out https://archive.org/details/futurecrew-metropolis for me christmas meaned playing 
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Tumble posted:a cool mage FPS Holy poo poo, Magestorm. I was never any good but I played the gently caress out of that game. I just did a quick google and there's a website called Magestorm Revival that hosts a server, but it appears to be dead. That's too bad. edit: it also appears that someone is redeveloping the whole game, but he hasn't updated since july. oh dope has a new favorite as of 16:42 on Dec 28, 2015 |
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I always felt like the WC games were just a poor man's Xwing
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Rise of the Triad owned. I liked Wing Commander but yeah they were kind of star wars ripoffs... Even had mark Hamill doing voice acting
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One of the things that sticks in my memory was we got my mom a cribbage game for the Mac, tried to load it and we couldn't play "don't you know what day it is?" And it would not let though play. Could you imagine someone pulling that poo poo now?
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Holy crap i could never remember that the game was called dare to dream Talk about nostalgia, thanks
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I had it on some kind of dodgy "best kids games" CD (it also had Bio Menace, Jazz Jackrabbit and Krazy Ivan  )    you know, kid's stuff! (I never got so far though so w/e)
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laserghost posted:I had it on some kind of dodgy "best kids games" CD (it also had Bio Menace, Jazz Jackrabbit and Krazy Ivan I remember when growing up a bunch of people petitioned really hard and got Splatterhouse removed from a local arcade.
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Iron Crowned posted:I remember when growing up a bunch of people petitioned really hard and got Splatterhouse removed from a local arcade. I hope those people went on to have bad experiences in life because what the gently caress kind of monster would do that
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Code Jockey posted:I hope those people went on to have bad experiences in life because what the gently caress kind of monster would do that They probably went on to protest Mortal Kombat a few years later
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Buttcoin purse posted:Also that reminds me, remember 8.3 filenames and geocities.com? I'm pretty sure this was the url for my first webpage: http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/7225/ Catchy, huh? If I've got the names right, Enchanted Forest was their kids' section, and Dell was overflow. I remember looking at their stupid little "block" pages to see who my neighbors were  Mine was a page all about my virtual pets, which came from websites saying "download this drawing of a guinea pig and put it on your website and it's a virtual pet!" That's how I learned verrrry basic HTML using a quick reference book my sister had. I was in 5th grade, I think. I remember struggling to put my little gifs of animals into a pleasing layout using tables when it took loving forever to upload it to test anything out. MEMORIES...
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Universe Master posted:I don't know what the turbo button did. blast processing
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Universe Master posted:I don't know what the turbo button did. I love turbo buttons. They do the opposite of what you'd think. They slow down your processor.
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poo poo I just kept it pushed down to make my games go faster.
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  Top gifts for Christmas '99:   Non-3d oculus with 1.5 million x 1.5million pixels! (actually 832 x 3 x 624 according to this website  )
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plape tickler posted:I had some weird feudal japanese game dos game a looooong time ago. I'll never figure out the title. You floated around to various locations. The architecture seemed japanese. It was on a 5 1/2 floppy. Maybe it was supposed to be ancient china. I don't know. i bet you're thinking of shogun, by mastertronic - a budget games publisher in the 80's they released a lot of stuff on pc and commodore. pc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phUxJ6mkiYo c64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI8JzP_Q_0g edit: damnit! in my rush to amaze with my ability to identify obscure old games, i didn't notice i was beaten.  CONTENT!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Blue_Disk big blue disk! a monthly collection of software that you could buy at the newsstand, corner store, etc. came with games, utilities, animations (alfredo!) and other stuff. my dad got these all the time in the mid/late 80's EDIT: holy crap. i totally forgot all this - okay, so big blue disc eventually became softdisk. which had an offshoot - gamer's edge. this was a subscription based software company that made lots of free/shareware games. i remember also being signed up with this, for awhile - some pretty rad games were released under it. eventually folks from gamer's edge broke off and formed id software. and the rest is history Gomi Day has a new favorite as of 20:03 on Dec 28, 2015 |
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Universe Master posted:poo poo I just kept it pushed down to make my games go faster. You were supposed to; it was there to make it possible to play games that used the CPU speed for timing (making it possible to move your guy around without him instantly zooming into death on either side of the screen). There was a bug in the runtime of the Turbo Pascal compiler which would time your CPU by running a loop for a number of iterations and then use the amount of time to scale waiting. It didn't work so well when CPUs could run thru the loop in 0 seconds, causing a divide by zero error. That could for a period of time be circumvented by pressing the Turbo button as well.
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Legendary mainboard manufacturer: PC CHIPS. In the 486 and Socket 7 era, they made boards with fake cache chips, fake chipsets (reverse engineered UMC chipset but marked as ALi with a sticky label!) and then in the Slot1 era, they made boards which weren't capable of running 100MhZ FSB Pentium 2s (despite claiming otherwise), they were painfully slow. I've had six M726 boards of theirs in my workshop. One worked fine, four were complete duds (wouldn't POST) one worked fine for a few weeks but then the voltage regulator died, and one board had a defective southbridge which coudln't cope with 100MhZ FSB, causing data transmission errors from the HDD. I "solved" the problem by disabling the HDD controller and putting in an ISA paddle card from a 386. These boards had very questionable Winbond BIOS EEPROMs, you could reflash the bios in theory but you had a good chance of failing the flash due to data errors which would just garble the data on the chip. No wonder PC CHIPS went out of business the moment Internet became common, despite the fact that they hid themselves under a bazillion of trade names (Amptron, Aristo, VXpro, BXcel and others) people grew wary of them and the sales plummeted, which served them right.
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GAY 4 ORGANS