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.

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"

Data Graham posted:

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

Data Graham posted:

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

Nckdictator posted:

Websites for things that turned out badly are fairly creepy.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010204013700/http://windowsontheworld.com/wow/index.shtml

deep impact on vhs posted:

pre:

                               ==Phrack Inc.==

                    Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The following was written shortly after my arrest...

                       \/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/

                                      by

                               +++The Mentor+++

                          Written on January 8, 1986
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

        Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers.  "Teenager
Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
        drat kids.  They're all alike.

        But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain,
ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker?  Did you ever wonder what
made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
        I am a hacker, enter my world...
        Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of
the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
        drat underachiever.  They're all alike.

        I'm in junior high or high school.  I've listened to teachers explain
for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction.  I understand it.  "No, Ms.
Smith, I didn't show my work.  I did it in my head..."
        drat kid.  Probably copied it.  They're all alike.

        I made a discovery today.  I found a computer.  Wait a second, this is
cool.  It does what I want it to.  If it makes a mistake, it's because I
screwed it up.  Not because it doesn't like me...
                Or feels threatened by me...
                Or thinks I'm a smart rear end...
                Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
        drat kid.  All he does is play games.  They're all alike.

        And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through
the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is
sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is
found.
        "This is it... this is where I belong..."
        I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to
them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
        drat kid.  Tying up the phone line again.  They're all alike...

        You bet your rear end we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at
school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless.  We've been dominated by sadists, or
ignored by the apathetic.  The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

        This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud.  We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals.  We explore... and you call us criminals.  We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals.  We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

        Yes, I am a criminal.  My crime is that of curiosity.  My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for.

        I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.  You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

                               +++The Mentor+++

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!

https://web.archive.org/web/20030209041236/http://timecube.com/

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.

Harveygod posted:

This game I used to play in high school. The website, while still "active," has not updated it's style since 1995.

Sagan posted:

The Kins posted:

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.

Ehud posted:

I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic 2



had no idea what I was doing but i liked being the Necromancer faction

Ehud posted:

I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic 2



had no idea what I was doing but i liked being the Necromancer faction

Sagan posted:

Mak0rz posted:

This game loving rules and I'm sad it doesn't really exist anymore

hackbunny posted:

this looks good! how spergy/painful to play is it really?

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.

The Kins posted:

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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!

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.

fakeedit:

The Kins posted:

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!

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.
It's BGM also ruled the tits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJyl6MnocUs

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?

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
Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing by Mindscape
Command Aces of the Deep (Video) by Sierra On-Line Inc
Arcade America by 7th Level Inc
Battle Beast by 7th Level Inc
Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity by Viacom New Media
Activision's Commodore 64 15 Pack by Activision
The Daedalus Encounter(Video Demo) by Virgin Interactive & Mechadeus
Dogz by Virgin Interactive
Doom 95 by id Software
Double Switch by Digital Pictures
Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder (Non-Playable Demo) by Activision
Endorfun by Time Warner Interactive
Earthworm Jim (Non-playable demo) by Activision
Exos Powerstick Advertisement by Exos
Full Tilt Pinball v0.006 by Maxis
Fury3 by Microsoft
Havoc (Non-Playable Demo) by Reality Bytes
The Hive by Trimark Interactive
HyperBlade (Non-Playable Demo) by Activision
Ice & Fire by GT Interactive Software Corp.
Locus by GT Interactive Software Corp.
The Dig (Non-Playable Demo) By LucasArts Entertainment
Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire (Non-Playable Demo) by LucasArts Entertainment
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat By Activision
Magic The Gathering (Video Demo) by MicroProse
Virtual Karts (Video Demo) by MicroProse
Sid Meier's CivNet (Video Demo) by MicroProse
Meltdown by Monolith
Muppet Treasure Island (Non-Playable Demo) by Activision
Pressure Drop by Starhill Productions

Lathespin.gif posted:

Dredged up a couple more old timers from the ol' memory bank [28.8k WARNING]


you could play this bitch over a modem to modem connection with a buddy, gently caress YEAH

dablakh0l posted:

One of the best (unexpected) animations in Battle Chess was when the rook captured the queen

laserghost posted:

I wanted this so much. When finally pirated it years later, I was quite confused about the structure of the whole thing, and definitely would be even more as a kid. Still, quite good piece of software, it's very limited and yet flexible with few workarounds, the biggest limitation being stored variables - I think only three could be stored, but you could kinda cheat with score and lives counters. You could even get some kind of scrolling with creative use of moving sprites.

The Kins posted:

Pham Nuwen posted:

Those slow-rear end animations must have gotten old really fast

hackbunny posted:

this looks good! how spergy/painful to play is it really?

WebDog posted:

Windows has slowly phased out 16bit compatibility, the last version having support is the 32bit version of Windows 7

Snuffman posted:

http://www.gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_complete_edition