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Gonzo the Eggman posted:"Over 900 new levels!" As others mentioned, yes, it's KQ VII. I only played the demo, but I absolutely got a Disney vibe from it, specifically Alice in Wonderland.
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Fabulousity posted:I still have that CD somewhere around here. Out of the 900+ levels only 30 or so weren't garbage or lazy object remaps of original Doom levels. I think they just blindly downloaded every file from ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames that ended in *.wad and tossed it on a CD. Haha, that sounds about right. I think we mainly used the audio WADs. "Silly Doom" was one that sticks in my mind. It just one guy re-voicing all the sound effects (ie. onomatopoetically). Back in the mid-90s (my high school dayz) creating Doom patches was the poo poo. My brother and couple of his friends created a version of Doom based on our school (complete with maps). RE: King's Quest I'd imagine, by then, Sierra was on the decline. Certainly a dramatic change in the tone. We never really finished KQ4. It's amazing what you miss in glorious Hercules monochrome. Ooh, a Perils of Rosella remake!  drat, she looks better in that promo pic than in the demo. Gonzo the Eggman has a new favorite as of 06:50 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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WebDog posted:Did someone leak your rejected interface ideas onto the Windows UI team as a cruel prank? Oh my god someone actually implemented that?!?! I worked in a building at MS that had the Exchange and Outlook teams. There was a big banner in the atrium that said "Microsoft Exchange" and someone added an "S" in front of "Exchange" and it caused a big ruckus because there was someone who worked in the building who was a transsexual. Back in 1994 or so the corporate email distribution tech was primitive. "Dad" resolved to Desktop Applications Division. One time a group of contractors had a social email thread going and someone send a mail about a coworkers hairy rear end and jokingly put "(Person's) Dad" in the cc line. It went out to everyone in the division including the VP.
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Keith Atherton posted:Oh my god someone actually implemented that?!?! This kinda stuff. I could read these stories for days.
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Is there a site like http://www.folklore.org but for microsoft? Did any of your coworkers ever threaten to piss on Bill Gates desk?
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Humphreys posted:This kinda stuff. I could read these stories for days. Here you go: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/tag/history
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error1 posted:Is there a site like http://www.folklore.org but for microsoft? EDIT: Beaten lol
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Humphreys posted:This kinda stuff. I could read these stories for days. A designer on my team and a program manager I knew were responsible for the Office Assistant project (aka Clippy). I could also tell the story about a guy falling for a coworker, getting shot down, then logging onto her PC and sending an email pretending to be her to all of her contacts and executive management as well. Like VP level. It's amazing to me now that we were a bunch of 20 somethings in our first real jobs and making decisions that involved hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and millions of users. When I got assigned to work with the Outlook team it was I think 10 of us - 3 program managers, 4 programmers, a GM, a marketing person, and me. Software development is so planned and streamlined now which is good but not as much fun.
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There used to be a guy who posted old MS stories in YOSPOS, are you the same guy Keith?The Kins posted:EDIT: Beaten lol That's what happens when you take the time to highlight some of the best content 
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mobby_6kl posted:There used to be a guy who posted old MS stories in YOSPOS, are you the same guy Keith? No that wasn't me! I have a lot more stories about funny poo poo that happened back then but I gotta be careful not to say anything that could get me in trouble. Doom and Descent were on a corporate server somehow and we'd stay late and play over the network. I remember getting motion sickness from Descent and puking.
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A friend of mine has one of these and there is some interesting history to it. http://www.pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=38398 quote:...due to some manufacturing flaws, most of these machines die and Patriot got stuck repairing and replacing so many of them that it drove them out of business. Worse, they took money and orders right up to the end and ended up not shipping thousands of units and failing to pay Mattel royalties. http://pcmuseum.ca/Brochures/MattelComputers.pdf
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Keith Atherton posted:My first boss and a coworker designed all the Win 3.1 icons. They are also responsible for the desktop themes including the infamous Hot Dog Stand. Did they sometimes remarked things like "Hitler was alright, I guess."? Just trying to understand. Thanks for your stories, they're an interesting read. A bunch of 20-somethings setting industry standards that would affect the entire world afterwards is actually less unusual than one should think. The pioneering days were crazy.
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WebDog posted:Did someone leak your rejected interface ideas onto the Windows UI team as a cruel prank? Scroll down to the part about the "Mountain Menus" program, where they criticize the practice of putting toolbar buttons in tabbed groups, and tell me if that reminds you of anything in recent MS Office releases.
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I remember setting my resolution too high that my monitor completely flaked out and my display looked like someone raked through a wet Jackson Pollack work. I had to call my friend who had a near identical setup to mine, icon-wise ("hit right five times to get to 'Display') and he walked me through how to set it back to good ol' 800x600. Nowadays, I always, ALWAYS appreciate those timers that say they'll set everything back unless you hit OK within the time limit.
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Gonzo the Eggman posted:Back in the mid-90s (my high school dayz) creating Doom patches was the poo poo. My brother and couple of his friends created a version of Doom based on our school (complete with maps). I think after Columbine this was no longer seen as cool. At the very least you'd get a counselor talking to you.
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woodch posted:Edit: Were there actually any Apple II viruses?
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Pham Nuwen posted:Scroll down to the part about the "Mountain Menus" program, where they criticize the practice of putting toolbar buttons in tabbed groups, and tell me if that reminds you of anything in recent MS Office releases. I love the ribbon and all criticism of it I've read is "it's different, give me the old UI back". that page criticizes the fact that the tabbed toolbars duplicate the menus in an inconsistent way, but the ribbon replaces menus entirely
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Has there been a boss/panic button mention yet? Not those stupid stick on keyboard keys that were a gag in the 90s, but the programmed in function key that would pop up a static image of a spread sheet so your boss totally wouldn't think you were loving off at work? It was a wild time before alt tabbing windows was a thing!
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In my experience, it usually showed a non-functional DOS-prompt. Playing games as a little kid I didn't understand what the point of that was.
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Stick Insect posted:In my experience, it usually showed a non-functional DOS-prompt. Yeah it varied by game, I just remembered a spreadsheet. I think it may have been Hugo's House of Horrors that had it? I'll research this.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Has there been a boss/panic button mention yet? Not those stupid stick on keyboard keys that were a gag in the 90s, but the programmed in function key that would pop up a static image of a spread sheet so your boss totally wouldn't think you were loving off at work? I remember that was a big selling point of MSN Messenger Plus.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Has there been a boss/panic button mention yet? Not those stupid stick on keyboard keys that were a gag in the 90s, but the programmed in function key that would pop up a static image of a spread sheet so your boss totally wouldn't think you were loving off at work? I remember there was one...was it Space Quest? If you loaded the boss key it, yeah, it looked like a spreadsheet but when you tried to get back to the game, the game would admonish you for playing a game when you should be working and kicked you to the DOS prompt. EDIT: It was Leisure Suit Larry. Space Quest 4 just made fun of you when you selected the option. Snuffman has a new favorite as of 22:47 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Yeah it varied by game, I just remembered a spreadsheet. I think it may have been Hugo's House of Horrors that had it? I'll research this. Think Leisure Suit Larry had a spreadsheet from what I recall. Sure there were others that did that as well.
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I think it was Commander Keen, not sure which of the half a dozen iterations. I've also seen other games with the white-on-blue Wordperfect 5.1 screen. I got DOS and WordPerfect 5.1 in Computer Class at school. Not because I'm that old, but also because our school was cheap.
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Khanstant posted:whats this? Warlords, a good game
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Warlords II was my jam. I'd give my left pinky to see it on GOG.
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Best Buy catalog from 1996. Pretty neat. Oh, man! An ad for Strife. I used to play that game all the time back in the day.
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Norton antivirus. I believe Symantec released a cheap version known as Dr. Solomon. It was so bad it detected itself as a virus.
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Stick Insect posted:In my experience, it usually showed a non-functional DOS-prompt. I remember the first time I tried the "boss key" listed in a game's controls as a kid - I was rather confused when it didn't take me straight to the boss.
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Stick Insect posted:I think it was Commander Keen, not sure which of the half a dozen iterations. Pressing F9 in the later Keens (4, 5, 6) brought up a static image of a DOS prompt. Confused the poo poo out of me as a kid.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Yeah it varied by game, I just remembered a spreadsheet. I think it may have been Hugo's House of Horrors that had it? I'll research this. MacPlaymate did this too. MacPlaymate was an early Mac game where the goal was to bring a woman to orgasm using different toys and techniques. The button on top left is "Panic" which put up a fake spreadsheet  http://i.imgur.com/LHfEhmI.jpg Edit: VVV Thanks Cat Hassler has a new favorite as of 05:20 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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you have to link that friend, not embed.
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos also had a boss key command. It put up a mock screen of Cornerstone, the database application which was the only non-game that Infocom ever published, and which also ended up ruining them.
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Somewhat on topic with the boss key is this site: http://cantyouseeimbusy.com/ Some pretty cool games made to look like you are working on spreadsheets, graphs and more. They are actually quite fun too.
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Back then, you only had pinball in Word97: https://youtu.be/K1eKKEk25Ms I was obsessed with collecting those easter egg tricks. It was like secret levels in boring productivity programs. Or Laffer Utilities: https://youtu.be/R5fpHeykp2s laserghost has a new favorite as of 05:23 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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 This was my first step into RPG-like games, and I played it for so many hours, I could still find my way around if I had to. I also remember 1 or 2 major plot points where the game would ALWAYS freeze. One of them was some sort of earthquake going on, and after 10 minutes of watching the screen shake, I would give up and reboot only to try again. But I absolutely loved this game. edit: Ultima VIII by the way
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Max Hammer posted:Ultima VIII by the way Oh man, memories. I also played the poo poo out of that game, or I thought I would. See, back in the early 90's I had really wanted to play Ultima 7 (either one), but my wimpy 286 couldn't handle anything more than Ultima 6. By the time I finally got an upgrade (486DX2 66MHz!), Ultima 8 was out - so I figured I'd play that instead. It was nothing like previous Ultima experiences. It was quite disappointing on a few levels in that regard. When taken as a standalone game though, it was pretty good. The platform jumping was bullshit and so were the stupid puddles you'd drown in (basically any surface of water, no matter how small, would insta-kill you if stepped on). It was an okay game. I still have it sitting around on a CD somewhere, always thinking I'll play it one day. Did anyone play Ultima 9? What a shameful end to the series. I still played it. My favorite Ultimas were definitely Underworld 1 & 2.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Oh man, memories. I also played the poo poo out of that game, or I thought I would. See, back in the early 90's I had really wanted to play Ultima 7 (either one), but my wimpy 286 couldn't handle anything more than Ultima 6. By the time I finally got an upgrade (486DX2 66MHz!), Ultima 8 was out - so I figured I'd play that instead. The thing that drove me crazy was when jumping, if there was anything on the surface you were landing on, anything at all, you risked sliding on it and falling off the platform altogether. Usually to your death.
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i tried to install ultima 7 and accidentally screwed up my win98 machine to the point i had to reformat. thanks, sir garriot.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Oh man, memories. I also played the poo poo out of that game, or I thought I would. See, back in the early 90's I had really wanted to play Ultima 7 (either one), but my wimpy 286 couldn't handle anything more than Ultima 6. By the time I finally got an upgrade (486DX2 66MHz!), Ultima 8 was out - so I figured I'd play that instead. Some goon did a video let's play of Ultima 9 showing off how broken it was ages ago but I can't remember who it was off the top of my head. Edit: It was Jewmander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj6fifM95As AbbadonOfHell has a new favorite as of 07:01 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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