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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 you destroyed a genuine commodore tankmouse? I didn't know such a thing was possible. I still have the mouse I got '87 with my 2000 and it still works. Went through a lot of joysticks though. Until I figured out how easy they are to repair, that is. The problem with creative cards is that their support for this wasn't what you'd consider 100% compatible, at least under DOS, so the games either had to do their sound support with AWE32 cards in mind, just General Midi compatibility wasn't enough. Creative was very popular with it's soundcards and the joke is that they often were poo poo in many ways, especially the drivers. They just got where they were because they got there first and through aggressive business tactics. They did not have the superior product and would shave off pennies wherever they could, even if it'd inhibit functionality. (So you could say, they went to Commodore business school, they just were better at it) The whole AWE32, it's countless revisions and it's bugs and oversights were a prime example for this. There were a lot of soundcards that did a lot of things better and were cheaper to boot, but people simply didn't know about them. Remember, it was the time before the internet was a huge and completely common household thing and information for the average user was pretty sparse and relied on a magazine or two and hearsay. Edit: deleted a few "often"s, wtf Police Automaton has a new favorite as of 11:03 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Angry Birds Suicide posted:Speaking of UO, d032 4ny1 271ll uNd3r274nD 13372p34k I was so un-1337 I had a keyboard mapping in Telemate that made my regular typing 31337 which I could activate when I wanted to be annoying on a BBS.
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Wicker Man posted:Shiiiit, I played Hexen 1, but it has "scripting errors" so that the game basically breaks without cheats if you gently caress up at certain points of time. I'm down with playing 2 if there is an active multiplayer component since I never played it By "active multiplayer component" are you asking if there is anyone playing this game? Well I worked out how to start a dedicated server the other day, does that count? 
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Egbert Souse posted:I used to haunt the Sci-Fi Channel server. Even remember having scripts installed to "zap" others. When the Sci-Fi Channel picked up MST3K they added a "Caption This!" chatroom where you riffed on live-captured Sci-Fi screenshots. People had more fun bashing the constant commercials than some of the programming, though I remember a Dark Shadows crew who had a whole alt-story going on.
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Troma in the late 90s used to have a site called Tromaville.com that ran in that incarnation for a very short period of time. Separate, I think, from their main site, I think they offered a free e-Mail address (not a huge deal, but sort of interesting at the time), but it only seemed to function for a few weeks before vanishing. I think that or the main Troma site proper is where they tried to create a new Class of Nuke'Em High script that eventually went off the rails and became unfilmable. Premise was that every week or so, readers to the site would submit the next few pages of the script and one would get chosen and tacked onto it and the cycle would continue. They were hoping to get 120 pages, I think, but I believe the project ended well before that and never got made. Probably one reason it didn't ever come to be was logistics in cost/casting. Time rolled forward and that script was eventually tossed aside for other "Class Of..." projects. Also, Sega released a program in the 90s for PC called Web Vengeance. It was a thing that let you vandalize a web page on your home computer with eggs, rocks, bullets, tomatoes. It was sort of fun and if you put a line of code on your page then anyone who was trying to vandalize it would have to deal with a tray trying to block their shots. I think it probably only ran on a few early versions of IE and then after that it probably never worked ever again.
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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. The Gravis Ultrasound card my little brother had used actual RAM chips plugged into chip sockets on the card itself for memory expansion. I had to take the thing to my RAM vendor back in the day to see if he could scare some up. (he did).
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Speaking of Troma, in the late 90s/early 2000s they were working with Bloodlust Software (Genecyst, NESticle, Time) on minigames inspired by their films at the time, particularly Terror Firmer. At that point the games were pretty drat weak. Every once in a while Bloodlust threatens to come back and release another game, but without Sardu doing the coding the spark just doesn't seem to be there.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Also, Sega released a program in the 90s for PC called Web Vengeance. It was a thing that let you vandalize a web page on your home computer with eggs, rocks, bullets, tomatoes. It was sort of fun and if you put a line of code on your page then anyone who was trying to vandalize it would have to deal with a tray trying to block their shots. I think it probably only ran on a few early versions of IE and then after that it probably never worked ever again.   That'll show 'em!
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this thread really speaks to me man https://web.archive.org/web/19961109005607/http://l0pht.com/ I always had Macs so I missed out on a lot of the games in this thread but we had a few keepers  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realmz  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_%281987_video_game%29 Good memories of linking every Mac LCII in the computer lab at school to play this TACTICAL SANDALS has a new favorite as of 21:16 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Anyone remember desktop destroyer? I tried finding a download for that today but all I could see was those automatically generated dodgy software sites.
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any of ya'll play Battletech on AOL/Gamestorm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rLR4McpjHs
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Bob Pape wrote a great book about the hardships of making the ZX Spectrum port of R-Type. Highly reccomended read, not only because he dives into various issues about gamedev itself, but also it show how amateurish the whole industry was back in the day (at least in the UK). It's a freely downloadable PDF and Kindle file: http://bizzley.com/ I've read the whole thing yesterday, it's incredible, in the same way the game itself turned out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiQxq98OYfA laserghost has a new favorite as of 23:12 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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JediTalentAgent posted:Also, Sega released a program in the 90s for PC called Web Vengeance. It was a thing that let you vandalize a web page on your home computer with eggs, rocks, bullets, tomatoes. It was sort of fun and if you put a line of code on your page then anyone who was trying to vandalize it would have to deal with a tray trying to block their shots. I think it probably only ran on a few early versions of IE and then after that it probably never worked ever again. holy poo poo that reminds me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDhzp-6lVd8 i had HOURS of fun with this as a kid 
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Buttcoin purse posted:By "active multiplayer component" are you asking if there is anyone playing this game? Well I worked out how to start a dedicated server the other day, does that count? I think all I've got is the steam version. Wonder if I would have to use a special launcher to get it to work right?
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TACTICAL SANDALS posted:
Aww yes. Bolo LAN battles were awesome. Apparently you were supposed to capture all the bases? We just fought over pillboxes until someone made a massive fortress with all the pillboxes. Or alteratively grabbed as many pillboxes as possible and drove them out to the edge of the map, with an ensuing race to grab them all to follow. Snuffman has a new favorite as of 01:44 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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There was a game I used to play with a friend called 'Tumble Bugs' or similar. Every search I do comes up with some puzzle game unfortunately. The one I've been looking for was out sometime between 1998 and 2001. It was an Isometric shoot em up arena deathmatch game. Little planes/spaceships flying around the screen and you could play a 2 player deathmatch with both players sharing a keyboard if I remember correctly (could have been keyboard for one player and mouse for second). If anyone can help that would be amazing. Also A legit source for 'Raptor' would be awesome.
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Humphreys posted:Also A legit source for 'Raptor' would be awesome.  You can grab the original DOS version from Steam for five bucks. You can also grab a really bad Windows version for the same price. Honestly, though, you're better off remembering that Tyrian was way better, and grabbing OpenTyrian - it's free, and it's been ported to pretty much every platform!
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I think that this is the Tumble Bugs you're looking for. http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~tarini/?3?tumble_bugs.html
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The Kins posted:This Raptor? Thankyou soo much - I enjoyed the DOS version soo much. I will take your advise and try the free Tryian, and also buy the steam version. A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I think that this is the Tumble Bugs you're looking for. Holy gently caress! That's the one! I even remember the medical software background. Thread delivers! If I wasn't poor I'd give custom forum things to both of you.
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Ehud posted:any of ya'll play Battletech on AOL/Gamestorm? I used to play this, I remember the best strategy was to fire every single weapon at once and try to hit the opponent's head, I think it was called "heading" or something to that effect. It would be an instant kill if you landed the shot, but a missed shot would put your system into overheating and you'd just have to wait for your opponent to kill you. The ultimate risk-reward strategy, but a lot of of the rooms banned the practice. AOL online games were something special, I remember playing Slingo and other various trivia-style games. There was also a game called "Splatterball" which was a pretty bad paintball simulator, among other 3d-style games. Here's a blast from the past: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/aol-initiates-new-game-pricing-plan/1100-2466497/ I remember when they started charging to play these games, I sure as hell stopped playing and I'm sure it probably destroyed the communities. Speaking of old AOL, I used to always go to "Hecklers Online" and "Antagonist Inc.", it's almost amazing how back in the day the AOL "keywords" were a much better way to experience the internet than through actual websites. I remember when the web started to surpass keywords and being sad as all of my favorite pages either moved or died. Original_Z has a new favorite as of 12:47 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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Data Graham posted: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. CADKEY still exists, though now it is called Kubotek KeyCreator and I use it every day at work. They definitely do licensing by year now, and they only in the last three or four years finally moved from USB dongles to web-based activation.
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TACTICAL SANDALS posted:this thread really speaks to me man Having nostalgia trips on all three
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0toShifty posted:For what it's worth - I have quite a lot of experience with power surges. Our house was on the top of a hill in Colorado near Pikes Peak. We got lightning strikes several times per year, always on the same spot on the house - the corner of a skylight. You could see the scorch marks. Short of running this phone over with a tank, you cannot kill it. These things are literally built to withstand WWIII. Seriously, POTS (Plain old telephone service) was literally made to survive nuclear war, because those phones have two or three moving parts (besides buttons), a mic and a speaker. It looks like a western electric phone from the 60's before they added the twelve button layout.
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Whoever brought up Slingo made me think of Snood (I was exposed to both for the first time in the same day way back somewhere around 2000-2001). It's basically a Puzzle Bobble clone, but I had no idea what Puzzle Bobble was when I first played Snood as an eight-year-old. The game was fully functional if you didn't purchase it, but you couldn't access certain features and were subjected to poem-based interludes about the programmer's kids needing to eat if you didn't buy the game. The missing features were minute (seriously, why would you ever want to take a mulligan) and the poems were more charming than anything, so it almost completely failed as a piece of shareware.
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Leroy Dennui posted:Whoever brought up Slingo made me think of Snood (I was exposed to both for the first time in the same day way back somewhere around 2000-2001). Oh god this loving game, I had totally forgotten
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Ugh, that reminded me... when you had DOS games that needed a separate "boot disk" to run. Something about extended or expanded memory or whatever.
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this is prob. obscure as gently caress but idk maybe someone remembers this back in like 2001 maybe idk. but there was this company that was advertising their physics engine for flash or something involving a browser plugin and they had these little demos of the physics like a bouncy ball in a room and a car in a field with some jumps one of the demos was this little side scrollerish game with a desk lamp like the pixar lamp, and you grabbed the top of the lamp and tried to jump the lamp over obstacles and poo poo like logs and holes in the floor. it was a checkerboard patterned floor for some reason i loved this stupid loving game bakc then. anyone remember this poo poo or is it only my gay brain
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Quite a few pages ago goons were talking about old PC Game boxes. It took me a while, but I sort of dusted off my old collection and took pictures. After a move from Germany to the US nearly 20 years ago, I have but a small portion of the collection I used to have and that makes me sad  .I fondly remember the boxes (and manuals!) for Falcon 4.0, Novalogic's Commanche, X-Wing, and a bunch of others. Oops, some of those reflected badly.  Another look, a bit closer:  Here's Origin's Pacific Strike. It wasn't all that great. I think it tried to ride Strike Commander's wake, which was awesome and really long-awaited at the time. Three whole years!   How about some classic LucasArts?  Flight sims of the 90's had some really nice stuff. Those maps are almost laminated quality. Definitely water/beverage-proof. And look at that manual!   The oldest box I have. This was the very first PC game (well, set of games) I ever bought. Around 91 or 92 I am guessing.  Those games were all mail-order for me back in the day. The distributors would always send these old magazines/ads with them.  Getting gaming questions answered was a lot harder back then. I got into the habit of writing down level descriptions and maps and so on. Here's a level layout for Rebel Assault, which was revolutionary when it came out. Sort of.  Hey look what else I found! If you know what the thing on the left is, you can figure out what the sheet on the right most likely is, as well.  Final find....something that 12 year old me probably thought of as hot enough to print out and save 'for later'. 
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Three-Phase posted:Ugh, that reminded me... when you had DOS games that needed a separate "boot disk" to run. Something about extended or expanded memory or whatever. I remember Wing Commander: Privateer had this problem. EMS memory? I was too young to figure it out, my Dad setup a seperate boot option for my favorite vidya game. I just remember the game would lock up when I was shooting the lovely merchant ships outside of the starting base. TotalLossBrain posted:Quite a few pages ago goons were talking about old PC Game boxes. It took me a while, but I sort of dusted off my old collection and took pictures. After a move from Germany to the US nearly 20 years ago, I have but a small portion of the collection I used to have and that makes me sad Uhhh, Victory Stike is the Wing Commander 3 manual?  Man...Wing Commander 3 was such a "thing" back in the day. My Dad, in an unexpected moment of forward thinking, got us a  SINGLE SPEED CD rom before CD-ROMs were a "thing". It was cool for showing off "7th Guest" to my friends...but then CD-ROM speeds went up. Remember when CD-ROM speed was briefly the defining factor in how well a game ran? I struggled through Wing Commander 3 with studdering cinematics, jealous of my late adoption friends with their fancy 4x or 6x CD-ROMs. Am I wrong or was the cap-out speed of approx 56x (years later) due to CD-ROMs shattering at faster speeds? EDIT: Related, it somehow still blows my mind that I can play the "7th Guest" on my iPad. Never got into the "11th Hour", got a little to grimdark. The wonderful Trilobyte introspective on Gamespot confirms my childhood memories. Here's a Tumblr link where someone preserved the text: Pro-click about the Rise and Fall of Trylobyte Software Snuffman has a new favorite as of 04:07 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Snuffman posted:The wonderful Trilobyte introspective on Gamespot confirms my childhood memories. As for that Trilobyte retrospective, I love that they mention Uncle Henry's Playhouse: quote:Sales figures from the company’s late 1996 releases had arrived, and Uncle Henry’s Playhouse had sold through 27 (yes, twenty seven) units in the US, according to PC Data. It would eventually go on to sell 176 units worldwide.
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sandoz posted:CADKEY still exists, though now it is called Kubotek KeyCreator and I use it every day at work. They definitely do licensing by year now, and they only in the last three or four years finally moved from USB dongles to web-based activation. When I did video production, some of the software packages were USB dongles and it was great. Then they moved to Online and it really irritated me, as our editing stations were completely air gapped.
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