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they were poofy on the box, lol. Her boobs and the title were the only thing embossed.
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wtb sow tunnel also my first cyber sex with a poly fat chick experience, woo
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Three-Phase posted:Were CAD licenses as obscenely expensive back then as they are now? CADKEY certainly wasn't cheap. My high school had like 20 seat licenses at what I remember them telling me was $3500 a pop. They were pretty serious about copy protection too, as I mentioned, with parallel port dongles without which it wouldn't run. And that was in the industry's infancy... and likely with a huge education discount.
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At my work they bought a few people fancy CAD laptops with Quadros and poo poo and then cheaped out and never bought them the actual CAD software licenses 
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sinking belle posted:Come play my lord Evonyquest
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Everquest defined the early mainstream MMO genre, and basically everything else was taking their formula and iterating on it. People like to point out how lovely and bad it was (and yeah, it was), but EQ was what taught new game devs those lessons. World of Warcraft refined a lot of stuff and further advanced the genre, but one thing that I think was a misstep was the proliferation of instancing. Yeah, it makes sense for a whole lot of reasons---it avoids conflicts between groups in dungeons, and keeps lag manageable in player hubs (idk if WoW does this, actually). But there was something interesting in having to contend with other groups---Guilds would band together to camp certain bosses around the clock, the ability to train enemies on groups camping the spawn you want, and just sitting around bullshitting in chat while you wait for a mob with good drops to respawn. Lots of interesting emergent gameplay came out of having a single shared world for all of the players. It's cool to see that EVE found a way to avoid needing instancing, which seems to be used to great effect. I havent actually played an MMO seriously since like 2007 and never will again, because who has that kind of time
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Pham Nuwen posted:Big Trinitron CRTs were pretty fantastic. I had a pair of huge Sun monitors, they were beautifully designed and had a really nice picture. Had to buy 13w3 adapters for them but they were great. Here's a lovely picture (not mine): I had a 28" Sony Trinitron monitor in '99 or so (I worked at an electronics repair center that fixed and calibrated monitors) that I got FOR FREE by scrounging 10 or so dead monitors, putting together the working bits, and calibrating. I hope I didn't build an X ray death machine and irradiate myself for five years. GRINDCORE MEGGIDO has a new favorite as of 20:16 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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 Legit good tech that creative took and reamed it up the rear end by putting it into eax but only in name only. I had the Screaming lady edition 
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Buttcoin purse posted:Wow I must not be the most stuck in the past computer relic I remember picking this up at the local computer expo they held every few months. It was mostly pirated games and porno vcds. But I grabbed that because it was like 5 bux and it was better than downloading that poo poo for days on end.
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PC gaming demos you say?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2lajsZt4Hg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-baW0iSY8E0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYRPB2ssjkA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NewIWQpem0 I loved the physics in this, pushing around the trackside stuff was so fun and unlike anything i'd seen before (SEGA megadrive) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKZkZFo4_IM WOW, TOTAL destruction! edit: I noticed these were all racers, completely unintentional. I guess I liked racers as a kid. Here's one the break the streak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zefeHRKqQTI
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i had a pc demo disc that included both a pc version of zelda 1 and a birthday cake item for the sims. it was a good year.
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Fairly passive posted:ICQ ICQ legit got me a handjob once. It used to have this feature where you could find and chat with people in your area and naturally I used to cruise for chicks. Got 3 to come to my moms house. Scored one handjob and makeout session 
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 This is how I lost my cyber cherry and made my first babe gallery on geocities
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crew posted:
Good lord I forgot all about that nightmare. I used to teach old people how to use computers and a couple of them had this thing. Does anyone remember the pre-sims game, Little Computer People? 
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simosimo posted:PC gaming demos you say?! Carolina Crusher is taking a detour! LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i had a pc demo disc that included both a pc version of zelda 1 and a birthday cake item for the sims. it was a good year. what? 
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Mak0rz posted:what? no clue. it didn't seem like a standard emulator or anything. i imagine it was something proprietary, and maybe slightly illegal.
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It's wild to see that someone else remembers this game. My siblings and I would play this on road trips all the time. It wasn't fun exactly, although there was a certain manic attraction to it when things got really fast.
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:no clue. it didn't seem like a standard emulator or anything. i imagine it was something proprietary, and maybe slightly illegal. I remember playing this remake in 2002, I think. It definitely wasn't an emulator with bundled rom, like somewhere you can still find Genesis Ghouls n Ghosts with rom and Kega Fusion configured to autorun the game.
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Sounds like Zelda Classic. So many years later and still no cease and desist, somehow.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Sounds like Zelda Classic. So many years later and still no cease and desist, somehow. what.php indeed
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I supported these for Sony in 2001ish.. the mental capacity of the users was highly diminished. Generally old folk or trailer park people. The modems were generally poo poo so it was power cycle try to connect, and read the code on screen, " I ain't gunna lie, I can not view and or download pornography right now" "I know I'm safe because tires are good conductors, but I was driving home with my back windows open and there was a storm is it possible lightening went through my back windows and shorted out the modem when I was on my way back from the store?"
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Some of this is more recent, but there used to be a number of things that let me guess with 90% accuracy if a computer was virus-riddled just by glancing at the desktop. Animated cursor? Viruses. Weatherbug? Viruses. Limewire? Viruses.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Limewire? Viruses. Viruses and questionably legal pornography.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Some of this is more recent, but there used to be a number of things that let me guess with 90% accuracy if a computer was virus-riddled just by glancing at the desktop. Animated cursor? Viruses. Weatherbug? Viruses. Limewire? Viruses. You forgot one: 
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There has to be a way to get flying toasters back. Actually any of that poo poo. I wish I had saved that stuff. There's a ton of old computer poo poo that was fuckin sweet back then that's gonna all get forgotten.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:There has to be a way to get flying toasters back. The downside is that Windows has slowly phased out 16bit compatibility, the last version having support is the 32bit version of Windows 7 where you have to enable it via a registry tweak. After Dark 4.0 can work in Windows 10, but the classic toasters are replaced by the glossy 3D ones. The awesome thing was that almost all of the screensavers were set to tiled so it doesn't care about 1920x1080 resolution.
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 I remember spending hours playing crappy fanmade South Park games and listening to South Park "song parodies"(Basically songs with random voice clips added in).
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Archer666 posted:
I, too, got in to SP game explosion. Some of the games were terrible, but others were pretty impressive for what they were. Was one of the creators called Nomad or something? I remember him having a meltdown because people were posting fake "codes" on his message board.
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They had a pretty decent football game, Chef constantly yelling "Hike the drat ball!"
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Mad Monk posted:Good lord I forgot all about that nightmare. I used to teach old people how to use computers and a couple of them had this thing. Yes. Did you know that every one of the little people was unique to the disk you got because every disk was unique? That was very neat for that time but still something that's funnily basically unknown, probably because it was pirated to hell and back. quote:Actually, we thought it would be nice to get some of this confirmed, so we contacted David Crane, designer of the game and programmer for the Commodore 64 version, and he was kind enough to give us the info we needed. His mail follows. The entire Article: http://www.softpres.org/?id=article:game:little_computer_people A bit of old hardware porn because, why not:     It's an MPEG-decoder card. You gotta know that computers at that time did not have the capabilities by far to decode something like movies in any sensible way, especially not Amigas. This card worked by hooking it up directly to a TV. The manual was like "Imagine... watching Terminator 2, on your Amiga!". It does work pretty well for VCDs and the like. I've seen such stuff only many years later for PCs. It even had digital out for sound. Very high-end and crazy expensive for it's time.   These are pictures of a rather rare, early german Amiga 2000 Mainboard. They didn't end up being used for the Amiga 2000 as Commodore deemed them too expensive and went with a different cost reduced solution. It still works, I just had all the ICs out because I was cleaning the Mainboard. While the Amiga 2000s that were sold in big numbers more in common with the A500, this Board has a lot more in common with the A1000.    This is one of the few Amiga graphics cards which were made. Contrary to the PCs, the Amiga had a graphics chipset solution, which was far ahead of it's time at the beginning but later on was seriously obsolete and outpaced by VGA. There were never graphics chips for the Zorro bus, so this card has actually a PC-Chip below the heatsink, a Tseng Labs ET4000W32. Tseng Labs was a very popular manufacturer of graphics chips in the early 90s, but later fell behind when the 3D accelerators started cropping up. They ended up being aquired by ATI. All the little chips you see there below the graphics chips are programmable logic, emulating a PCI bus for the chip to communicate with the "Zorro"-Bus of the Amiga. I ended up getting ahold of the Designer of this card as I had a problem with mine. He's a very nice guy and even gave me the schematics.   Another card for the Amiga, cirrus logic chipset. Very common in the PC World.  An OpalVision sort of an primitive 24 bit color Framebuffer. With hardware expansions, it was supposed to become the Video Toaster killer but the expansions never materialized. Still has a pretty nifty 24-bit true color paint program tho! (the older Amigas are normally limited to 32 colors in normal color modes) This card costed several thousand dollars at release. The Program looks like this:   It could also do 24-bit animations which were basically like truecolor-.GIFs which was very cool at that time.   Commodore had this weird thing where they would name their Keyboard-Amigas after B-52 songs. This is a system not many of you will know from my home country, a KC-85/3. It was produced in eastern germany (VEB Mikroelektronik "Wilhelm Pieck" Mühlhausen/Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt) before the wall came down.      The eastern bloc had it's own convention regarding markings, but they all roughly translate into western things. They were always behind in semiconductor designs. There were a lot of deals made with west germany but also a lot of stealing and reverse engineering. The CPU you see in the picture, "VB880" was an unlicensed and in east germany developed (through a lot of reverse engineering of course) clone of the Zilog Z-80, which you'd find in the ZX Spectrum for example. The soviet version of the chip is the КР1858ВМ1, which in turn is an exact clone of the U880. Even though the original idea was to get these computers as items for private usage (east germany being THE model socialist state and all) they were mostly distributed to schools, government facilities and the like and computers were very hard to come by for the average citizen until the end of the GDR and the available software was not very interesting, to say the least. That in turn made C64s and the like acquired by west german relatives or acquaintances a very sought-after item. You could also purchase them in so-called Intershops. It was very difficult to get software for western-made computers in east germany as every kind of data storage device (floppies, cassettes etc.) was basically forbidden to import and could land you in very hot waters.  Still works! Not exactly old internet relics but maybe interesting to some.
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I have been looking for this for so god damned long. I played this endlessly when I was 10. I only had the first level though and after you'd killed the end boss and gotten a sweet suit of armour you had to buy the upgrade  edit: I got it with my first pc that for some reason came with a loving anthology of lovely free games on a huge cardboard cd case plain blue jacket has a new favorite as of 19:26 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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Police Automaton posted:Not exactly old internet relics but maybe interesting to some. Interesting to me! Police Automaton posted:Yes. Did you know that every one of the little people was unique to the disk you got because every disk was unique? That was very neat for that time but still something that's funnily basically unknown, probably because it was pirated to hell and back. Did NOT know that, and I played the C64 version a bunch. Police Automaton posted:It's an MPEG-decoder card. You gotta know that computers at that time did not have the capabilities by far to decode something like movies in any sensible way, especially not Amigas. This card worked by hooking it up directly to a TV. The manual was like "Imagine... watching Terminator 2, on your Amiga!". It does work pretty well for VCDs and the like. I've seen such stuff only many years later for PCs. It even had digital out for sound. Very high-end and crazy expensive for it's time. I used one of these on my Living Room PC right up to 2004.
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More handheld goodness, here a primitive Space Invaders clone from Bandai: Released in 1980, I got it for Christmas that year. Super primitive, but I played the poo poo out of it. I remember enjoying how "futuristic" the plastic case looked, with it's orange, candy-like buttons. Here is the German version, showing what the screen looked like:  And finally, YouTube link to see the game play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONpj9QQtkdA Squashy Nipples has a new favorite as of 19:50 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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I forget there was a time when hardware decoders were necessary.Squashy Nipples posted:More handheld goodness, here a primitive Space Invaders clone from Bandai: I know a guy who found one of these at a landfill along with two complete and fully functional Super Nintendo systems and a couple of cartridges, including DKC1 and 2
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We had a game called POD that came with our Compaq Presario PenitumMMX, had no idea it was 'Planet of Death' but it owned. fakeedit: 
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SaNChEzZ posted:We had a game called POD that came with our Compaq Presario PenitumMMX, had no idea it was 'Planet of Death' but it owned. Had this game as well! Racing through alien landscapes and poo poo, it was pretty unique. No idea it was called "Planet of Death", either.
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