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I remember playing activeworlds. Played on a world called ashmore. Supposedly the owner had brain cancer and prob died. Rip.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:If the hard drive hadn't spun down then there was a danger of data loss or corruption. Older file systems weren't as robust, and losing the file allocation table could hose an entire install. It's more about write-back caches - to keep hard drive operations fast, when a program tries to write something to disk, it doesn't happen instantly, but is delayed in case there are multiple writes that will affect the same area. So if you turned off your computer abruptly, there probably was some things in memory that hadn't been written to disk already, like that school report you spent hours on, and since FAT16/FAT32 was about as robust as a wet paper bag, it could corrupt the file system if you were unlucky. Modern Windows uses the NTFS file system instead, which supports Journaling, and is robust against sudden power loss - you might still lose the last changes to files you worked on, but the system won't be hosed. (Hard drive head crashing was a thing, but then we're talking mid to late 80s technology - after that, hard drives knew how to park their drive heads safely in the milliseconds after power loss, so your drive wouldn't break)
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Mak0rz posted:Lemon Demon aka Neil Ciceriga was once a goon and left because people made fun of him for claiming he "invented a new animation style" known as "animutation" Credit where it's due, he did produce quite a number of things we still recognize today. My favorite thing about the aforementioned video is that the "Ultimate Orgy of Homosexuality" parody () is way better animated than the original
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 03:48 |
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Data Graham posted:Credit where it's due, he did produce quite a number of things we still recognize today. This is incredibly dumb but still makes me chuckle because I have the humor of a 12-year old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 04:06 |
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This thread has brought back so many good memories of playing PC games with my oldest brother. Descent, Star Wars TIE fighter, and watching him make fly-through landscapes using some old program I can't remember the name of. Making just one would take HOURS. This is still the DIY bike mechanic's bible, and the website is still stuck in the year 2000. Sadly, he passed away in 2008 from MS. I would love to have read an article about Shimano's di2 electronic shifting on his hilariously old school website. http://sheldonbrown.com/glossary.html
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 04:17 |
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The website appears to be finally gone, but courtesy of cache and the wayback machine, you too can read all about the batshit insane TIMECUBE! https://web.archive.org/web/20030209041236/http://timecube.com/
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Data Graham posted:Credit where it's due, he did produce quite a number of things we still recognize today. IIRC Neil even admitted as much at the time. At this point there are probably more people who know him for Potter Puppet Pals than for his flash cartoons.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 06:28 |
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Nckdictator posted:Websites for things that turned out badly are fairly creepy. I didn't see what was up with this one at first...then POW right in the kissa. Nice find!
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 07:21 |
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deep impact on vhs posted:
drat, I haven't read that in a long time. I remember once parsing it through Bonzi Buddy and recorded him reciting it for fun.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 08:35 |
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slidebite posted:The website appears to be finally gone, but courtesy of cache and the wayback machine, you too can read all about the batshit insane TIMECUBE! ... until someone buys timecube.com, puts up a robots.txt file and the insane rants are lost forever. I really don't like that policy the web archive has
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The VIDEO TOASTER was a hardware/software combo for the Amiga 2000 that allowed importing from analog video sources and manipulating it in glorious unpalleted colour for the surprisingly low price of US$2,399. Since pre-existing Amiga software couldn't detect and take advantage of the new hardware capabilities, it came with its own suite of video switchers, editing tools, chroma-key solutions etc. Some of them were just full-color clones of palleted software like Deluxe Paint, while others... well... one of the tools was the first version of Lightwave 3D! These things were pretty common in TV production, especially among low-budget regional cable and public-access TV. As the Amiga platform died off into obscurity, they eventually transitioned to Windows, then split apart into multiple separate things - Lightwave is still around today, and the video switching stuff evolved into the Tricaster.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 10:51 |
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Somewhere in rural america, there's an ancient Amiga still being used for a cable company's video "bulletin board" on the public access channel.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 13:40 |
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stealie72 posted:Somewhere in rural america, there's an ancient Amiga still being used for a cable company's video "bulletin board" on the public access channel. I wouldn't be surprised. In early/mid 90s Philly, the local analog cable system still used an Amiga/Toaster combo to do the scrolling channel-guide channel. I know this because on at least two occasions it crashed, and for a few hours showed a blinking red Amiga "Guru Meditation" screen.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 13:47 |
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WELCOME TO THE WINDOWS 95 GAME PLATFORM This was an old demo disc by Microsoft and Monolith called "Odyssey - Games For Windows 95". It had a bunch of game demos like Doom, Dogz and Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity, some info sheets on other games like Earthworm Jim, and some weird tech demos by Monolith. The menu was a 3D Doom-style engine where you wandered around a space station. It had some weird secrets in it!
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 14:52 |
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61 FPS, drat out performing the xbone.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 14:53 |
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Harveygod posted:This game I used to play in high school. The website, while still "active," has not updated it's style since 1995. same
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 14:55 |
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This game loving rules and I'm sad it doesn't really exist anymore
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:04 |
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The Kins posted:
In 2000 my high school was still using this for video announcements.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:07 |
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I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic 2 had no idea what I was doing but i liked being the Necromancer faction
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:25 |
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Ehud posted:I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Literally all of my friends growing up were batshit nuts over HOMAM 3 and I just didn't get it. I hated the games so much and I still don't know why. I just don't find them enjoyable at all.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:36 |
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Ehud posted:I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic 2 this looks good! how spergy/painful to play is it really?
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:38 |
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A black and gold dragon is attacking a phoenix. Bad rear end.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:42 |
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Mak0rz posted:This game loving rules and I'm sad it doesn't really exist anymore Disney made an iPad version in 2011.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:50 |
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hackbunny posted:this looks good! how spergy/painful to play is it really? I don't think it was super complicated or tedious I played it and enjoyed it at 11 years old here is a video that shows some of the gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YdthMLeiRE
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GottaPayDaTrollToll posted:IIRC Neil even admitted as much at the time. At this point there are probably more people who know him for Potter Puppet Pals than for his flash cartoons. Especially today. First thing I thought of actually
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The Kins posted:
Hooo boy I sure did love that disc. That was the first time I played Doom 1, having already played Doom 2 before. It's BGM also ruled the tits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJyl6MnocUs
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:58 |
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. gently caress yeah! my favorite was the scorp Also there was some kind of download pack I found that had a couple new cars and tracks, one was this insane loop thing you had to drive thru the sky MMX The Kins posted:
ahhaha holy poo poo. My sister stole the disk and broke it but I still think I have a midi of the music floating around in some old backup. What was the deal with throwing out those coins with the nuke symbol on them? Also one room had some kind of mech in it that would have been too big to fit out the door. Negrostrike posted:Hooo boy I sure did love that disc. That was the first time I played Doom 1, having already played Doom 2 before. See, beat. That poo poo was fuckin sweet. Anybody know the list of games that was on that? What was that one weird puzzle game where you rotated some kind of thing and it had subliminal messages? Also some kind of vehicle based game called havoc or something where I constantly got lost and the compass didn't help at all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaM5Mv-TTo
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Anybody know the list of games that was on that? What was that one weird puzzle game where you rotated some kind of thing and it had subliminal messages? Endorfun. The whole list (as well as the disc image) is here: https://archive.org/details/cdrom-win95-game-sampler
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Mak0rz posted:This game loving rules and I'm sad it doesn't really exist anymore SniperWoreConverse posted:Anybody know the list of games that was on that? What was that one weird puzzle game where you rotated some kind of thing and it had subliminal messages? Also some kind of vehicle based game called havoc or something where I constantly got lost and the compass didn't help at all quote:Activision's Atari 2600 Action Packs 1, 2, & 3 by Activision
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Lathespin.gif posted:Dredged up a couple more old timers from the ol' memory bank [28.8k WARNING] One of the best (unexpected) animations in Battle Chess was when the rook captured the queen
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 18:40 |
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dablakh0l posted:One of the best (unexpected) animations in Battle Chess was when the rook captured the queen Those slow-rear end animations must have gotten old really fast
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 18:44 |
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laserghost posted:
Funny, I just found that box in amongst thing in my garage last weekend. Bought it, never opened it.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 18:44 |
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The monitor on the right, the Commodore 1702, is a badass CRT monitor. Capable of svideo [via chroma/luma], but even the composite input gives a bright, sharp, vivid image. I have three of them, one for my C64, one on one of my old xboxes used for emulation, and the third just because I'm a hoarder.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 19:37 |
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Something Awful is an internet relic, in fact right now my browser thinks its 1999 and SA is rocking the original layout:
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 19:40 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:Those slow-rear end animations must have gotten old really fast They definitely didn't
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:03 |
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hackbunny posted:this looks good! how spergy/painful to play is it really? Not spergy at all. Well, speaking from an HoMM3 perspective, it was one of those easy to learn and hard to master games. HoMM3 has aged really well. http://www.gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_complete_edition The GoG version is the best version to get, it includes all the expansions. The Steam version is just the base game, as the original source code for the expansions was lost.
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WebDog posted:Windows has slowly phased out 16bit compatibility, the last version having support is the 32bit version of Windows 7 Actually, Windows 10 32-bit still has 16-bit compatibility.
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eugh those prerendered graphics, I like the hand-drawn graphics of homm2 much better. there was this interminable, agonizing period of time in gaming where graphics went from sometimes beautiful hand-drawn 2D to unescapably cringeworthy 3D or pre-rendered graphics
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