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Ayn Randi posted:I hosed more than one amiga 500 mouse playing defender of the crown. From memory there's a repeating sword duel sequence when you capture a castle that basically amounts to click as fast as you can and the left button didn't hold up under prolonged abuse Old games were a bane of peripherals. I broke a cherry keyboard playing Duke Nukem.
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Back before mp3s and downloadable music became a thing, those of us with our SoundBlaster 16s were rocking out to music from Mod4Win, which for its time was pretty drat awesome. One of the few things I actually paid some money for and to this day I'm kind of sad that I never backed up my library of .MOD files as some of them were pretty good. Here's a screenshot of said product (this shows it running on Vista but I was using this back in the days of Windows 3.1): And a YouTube of said product in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DsYRNPuVL4. And my favorite mod, just found as I was thinking back on this, "12th Warrior" by Dr. Awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fyf6jLl5mo.
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Mr_Angry posted:And my favorite mod, just found as I was thinking back on this, "12th Warrior" by Dr. Awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fyf6jLl5mo. Never heard it before but wow that is a good tune. Will admit I spent a good chunk of time trying to find a proper version thinking it was just a remake of a song. It really sounded like something Blutengel would have made.
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Remember the ZX Spectrum? Maziacs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ-oaiPTj1c Manic Miner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZYuGUCrkoU A friend of mine wrote an editor for Manic Miner back in the days and we would one-up each other in creating the craziest levels which required pixel perfect jumps and diabolical timing to complete. There's plenty of other gems from that era. Jetpac, Atic Atac, Knight Lore (basically all games from "Ultimate play the game" were fantastic) Just went to http://www.80stopgames.com/site/zx-spectrum-48k and got hit hard by flashback nostalgia. I still got my Speccy somewhere in the basement.
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mcbexx posted:Just went to http://www.80stopgames.com/site/zx-spectrum-48k and got hit hard by flashback nostalgia. I still got my Speccy somewhere in the basement. There was a Bravestarr game?! Thanks for that link
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laserghost posted:I never understood the love for Shadow of the Beast, but Agony was incredible: Okay...where do I send my money again?
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Police Automaton posted:What's kinda annoying and sad is that all these "retro-style pixel art games" usually just use these words as code for bad graphics, while the style they claim to copy never really existed that way. This irks me more than anything. Or indie games describing themselves as having "8 bit" graphics when they have VGA-like colors but with Atari-levels of detail in the sprites. I think there would be (is?) probably still a market for games with actual good low-res, low-color pixel art.
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Mr_Angry posted:Back before mp3s and downloadable music became a thing, those of us with our SoundBlaster 16s were rocking out to music from Mod4Win, which for its time was pretty drat awesome. One of the few things I actually paid some money for and to this day I'm kind of sad that I never backed up my library of .MOD files as some of them were pretty good. Here's a screenshot of said product (this shows it running on Vista but I was using this back in the days of Windows 3.1): I had a similar formative experience, but with ModPlug Player 
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fuctifino posted:
guys I broke the rub out key again
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How about the futuristic amazingness that was PHOTONIX This is a program for copying floppy disks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfIJZ0npDI
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mcbexx posted:Remember the ZX Spectrum? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28
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an AOL chatroom posted:How about the futuristic amazingness that was PHOTONIX
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Mechanism Eight posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4IDGAsyIMo yep
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Mechanism Eight posted:
Here lies andy. peperony and chease.
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Mr_Angry posted:Back before mp3s and downloadable music became a thing, those of us with our SoundBlaster 16s were rocking out to music from Mod4Win, which for its time was pretty drat awesome. One of the few things I actually paid some money for and to this day I'm kind of sad that I never backed up my library of .MOD files as some of them were pretty good. Here's a screenshot of said product (this shows it running on Vista but I was using this back in the days of Windows 3.1): MOD files were awesome. One of my faves from that era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xHPIuX3s4 Edit: This one takes a little bit to get going, but once it does it's totally infectious. Just do a search for Purple Motion. His stuff was top-shelf.
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And Alexander Brandon (+his aliases, Siren and Chromatic Dragon), Necros, Jester, Captain, Karsten Koch, Chromag... Or just start listening to BitJam radio and Nectarine, the amount of this stuff is near-endless.
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powerofrecall posted:This irks me more than anything. Or indie games describing themselves as having "8 bit" graphics when they have VGA-like colors but with Atari-levels of detail in the sprites. I think there would be (is?) probably still a market for games with actual good low-res, low-color pixel art. http://store.steampowered.com/app/267360/ Muri is probably one of the few games that successfully catches the feel from that era of gaming. Speaking of classic crack screens... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIvV5SPe3Y One who mainly played pirated games may have mistaken Eaglesoft for an actual game developer considering how many good games they "released". Really the whole "cracktro" culture was actually pretty cool and attracted a lot of talented people from the demoscene. I wonder if there's a way to download a big collection of these songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WWFEBsgfk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFqBkSJOYOQ Original_Z has a new favorite as of 02:57 on Jan 17, 2016 |
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Original_Z posted:http://store.steampowered.com/app/267360/ Wow it's like someone just changed the sprites and the whole color scheme of Duke Nukem! Although it looks from the video like the gameplay is a little different, but some of it looks very similar. If only they had a shareware episode 1 to get me hooked.
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muri definitely gets it right, but it only lasts like 90 minutes, as opposed to the years a clumsy child could lose in duke nukem.
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Has Well of Souls been mentioned? If not then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzXbhSK_RV8 Used to play this a lot, was surprised to see its still going
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Does anyone remember "hackoo"? If you sent like 10$ they'd mail you a CD full of Trojans and various viruses/" hacker tools" 13 year old me thought that was the coolest poo poo
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Angry Birds Suicide posted:Does anyone remember "hackoo"? If you sent like 10$ they'd mail you a CD full of Trojans and various viruses/" hacker tools" No, but that reminds me of Hecklers Online. I don't even know if they could be described as hacker tools, but sounds similar.
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Angry Birds Suicide posted:Does anyone remember "hackoo"? If you sent like 10$ they'd mail you a CD full of Trojans and various viruses/" hacker tools" A couple of the BBSes I was on had the "Virus Creation Lab" software available in the files section. But just downloading it wasn't enough, you also had to have connections in the 1337 h4x0r community to learn the password to unzip it.   It was "Chiba City", which I'm pretty sure was a Neuromancer reference.
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 The Packard Bell Navigator - a huge piece of poo poo that crippled a new and expensive PC, which was already buckling under the pressure of running Windows 95.  Worlds Chat was my first experience of a virtual world. It's actually still running in an updated 3D client, although I think it's about five people idling/dead.  Wireplay was BT's pay as you play gaming dialup service in the late 90s. It was an FPS paradise - 64 player Quake II, Action Quake, Unreal, the CS betas and Jedi Knight:  I was so bad at WASD controls that I used the directional arrows while my brother or friend used the force powers.  The UK's first dialup ISP to provide unlimited access for a monthly subscription. Playing Ultima Online for far too long wouldn't have been financially viable without it.  I paid £100 to import this beauty from California in 2001. Always-on and 512kbps ADSL revolutionised my time wasting, although I forgot to cancel the dialup subscription and second phone line for several months, which obviously pleased my mother.
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SuperTeeJay posted:Wireplay was BT's pay as you play gaming dialup service in the late 90s. It was an FPS paradise - 64 player Quake II, Action Quake, Unreal, the CS betas and Jedi Knight: So, basically a service that charged you to play games that were free to play over the internet?
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The_Franz posted:So, basically a service that charged you to play games that were free to play over the internet?
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 http://www.graphicstablet.org/2011/03/koalapad-the-mother-of-them-all/ The Koala Pad. I had one of these things. If you compare the resolution to a modern Wacom, it's 5080 lines per inch vs. 81, so it's 60x higher resolution today. With 2048 levels of pressure detection vs. 1. It was so cool back in the day. thoughts and prayers has a new favorite as of 23:24 on Jan 17, 2016 |
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I remember the ads. "Just point to what you want to do... and do it!  "
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Also, Amigachat has had this running through my head for days now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWeO5IkCssk
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Buttcoin purse posted:What we really need is a screen saver that runs a VM in VirtualBox that runs After Dark If you're on a Mac, http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasters/index.shtml works pretty well... If you find that floppy and copy it I can see what can be done to get it working on modern Windows too 
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I think I have a really old version of After Dark on floppies (or even just 1) somewhere, I think it was designed for Windows 3.x so it's not going to run on my 64-bit system!
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Xali posted:Has Well of Souls been mentioned? I don't think its really still going. My cousin still keeps a server for it up. He said on the rare occasions people get on there they just use it as a chat box. I'm still waiting for Rocket Club
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ashgromnies posted:If you're on a Mac, http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasters/index.shtml works pretty well... Don't copy that floppy!
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Speaking of UO, d032 4ny1 271ll uNd3r274nD 13372p34k I could type 1337speak as fast as I could type normally back in the day in uo 101 fUkk3n n00b 1 b37 j00 h4v3 a GM 7r41n3r
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Man, gently caress trammel
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Angry Birds Suicide posted:Man, gently caress trammel God drat right! gently caress TRAMMEL loving
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Anyone else remember ThePalace? I used to haunt the Sci-Fi Channel server. Even remember having scripts installed to "zap" others.
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I remember shoplifting this weird, maybe laptop-style RAM to put into my soundblaster sound card. No idea why my sound card had slots for more RAM, didn't seem to make my speakers work better.
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Gorefluff posted:I remember shoplifting this weird, maybe laptop-style RAM to put into my soundblaster sound card. No idea why my sound card had slots for more RAM, didn't seem to make my speakers work better. A quick search says that a few soundblaster cards had a slot for generic ram for upgrading the memory available for storing soundfonts. The hell is a soundfont?
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