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Ein posted:Up until 99/2000 or something https://www.ati.com was just a picture of poo(plastic fake dog poo poo) against a green background. Internet Archive seems to have purged the page though. Wow, I didn't know they had re-writables back then, when I worked at Circuit City in the mid 90's we sold a Compaq desktop that came with a WORM drive, they sent us a case of discs and we eventually threw them all out and didn't sell a single one.
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thathonkey posted:Are mouse trails still an option in the latest versions of Windows? It's still there in Windows 10 (10.0.10586)! Rupert Buttermilk posted:I recall buying FF7 and my video card, the ATI 128, was only 'somewhat' supported. It was my first experience with the game, so later on, when someone lent me their PS1 and I played it, I was kind of blown away by how smooth it's supposed to run. Thanks, ATI/Square! Hey that was one of the games that I was playing too. Blame Eidos for it, as they did the shoddy porting job. The game would crash to desktop all the time and even occasionally bluescreen. On Eidos' FAQ page for it they basically said "Yes we are aware this happens, but we don't know why. Save often." Also the Rage 128 would reliably make one of Cid's Limit Breaks (either Hyper Jump or Dragon Dive) crash the game every time. I had to avoid using him altogether because of that. 
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I made it all the way through FF7 PC, but it was definitely a second class experience. I remember it took me a lot of work to get the FMVs to work.
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Feb 8, 2016 18:00
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The Kins posted:IIRC Click & Create was basically the deluxe version of The Games Factory. I forget all the exact details, but I know there was a plugin system added. I had the Atari ST version, STOS. It was pretty neat
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Feb 8, 2016 18:02
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EVIR Gibson posted:There was a killer screensaver right around when the matrix came out that dynamically built buildings on a flat landscape for up to 16 connections whenever a socket was opened. On that note, screensavers themselves seem to be a relic. Since screens are no longer at risk of developing ghosts from static images, it seems to be that whole industry faded into oblivion.
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Feb 8, 2016 18:39
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Non Serviam posted:On that note, screensavers themselves seem to be a relic. Since screens are no longer at risk of developing ghosts from static images, it seems to be that whole industry faded into oblivion. Especially since you can just have the screen go into standby now.
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Feb 8, 2016 18:43
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Germstore posted:I remember it took me a lot of work to get the FMVs to work. When I first played it they were upsidedown and had no sound!
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Feb 8, 2016 18:44
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Didn't IPS Panels have problems with ghosting? At any rate it's a lot more prudent to just have your OS turn off the screen anyways, for the power savings and also to go easy on your screen's backlight.
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Feb 8, 2016 18:47
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Police Automaton posted:Didn't IPS Panels have problems with ghosting? I have an LCD monitor where you can see ghosts of the minimize/restore/close icons in the upper right, but it's almost 10 years old.
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Khanstant posted:I've been looking for this game for a decade!! I kept thinking it was some old weird version of heroes of might and magic or something. I played it once as a little kid on my parents' friend's mac. I thought it was an awesome game, but I don't think it was on PC or at the very least I had no way to play it. I'm so glad to finally know what it was and it feels good to see the screenshots click!! Is there are a way to play in on a modern windows machine or do I need to set up a mac emulator? Warlords I - III are at the very least available on Archive.org, but I think you can only stream them from there. There were definitely DOS versions, though, so there should be abandonware sites hosting the game, https://archive.org/details/msdos_Warlords_1990
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0toShifty posted:Packard Bell sound utilities and Goldwave Gonzo the Eggman posted:Cool Edit Pro These two posts sum up how I spent about 90% of my free time between 1996 and 2005.
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Germstore posted:I made it all the way through FF7 PC, but it was definitely a second class experience. I remember it took me a lot of work to get the FMVs to work. FMVs worked ok, but I remember some of the Gold Saucer games being sped up to the point of being unplayable (including the motorcycle chase scene at the beginning, IIRC the whole sequence was over in like 10 seconds when I played it). Also the MIDI conversions of the soundtrack were pretty bad; at least when I got a better sound card the MIDI instrumentation was a lot better. FFVIII was way more egregious in that regard, the music sounded like total rear end and almost ruined what was otherwise a great soundtrack for me. On the other hand the PC port of VIII came with that little Chocobo minigame that was originally released for the JP-only "memory card with a screen" (like the Dreamcast VMU). It was a fun little time-waster and could snag you some really good items for the actual game. Really helped out when I did my low-level runs of the game.
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Ein posted:Up until 99/2000 or something https://www.ati.com was just a picture of poo(plastic fake dog poo poo) against a green background. Internet Archive seems to have purged the page though. Haha, is this like DVD-RAM but with only CD-like capacity?
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Ein posted:And here's a relic that few, if anyone, will remember - the PD format: My parents had a computer with one of these when I was in college, maybe 98 or so. I've never seen another one, and I think this is the only time it's come up in a thread like this where I didn't bring it up.
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I recall having some MO (magneto-optical) drive for a while in the late 90's. It was the same size and a regular CD drive. The disks had their own non-removable caddies, just like what's shown a few posts above. The capacity rings a bell, too - I think the disks I used were also 650 MB. As I recall, it was kind of slow to backup data. Besides, a teenager doesn't need backup drives. I am not sure why I had that thing to begin with.
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This loving thing gave me nightmares so bad I couldn't sleep for weeks. 
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First time I played this was on a crummy laptop my mother was using when we went to go visit grandma once  Could never get much further than the lovely onboard sound, which meant no music, but certain creature noises came through loud and clear. The zombie groans at the time were very unnerving to 8 year old me. It's also one of the first few games I've played where it's possible to fucks things up permanently if you aren't careful in certain areas
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Lufiron posted:ah marathon, made by a still-total-garbo game company called bungie
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i started using a pirated copy of goldwave (thx dad) to put simpsons samples in worms 2, and kept using it early into my musical career. god bless you, mr. gold.
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Wicker Man posted:I remember trying the demo version. She starts bouncing around on a ball like some kind of hamster with a toy. Deleting the program gives a pop up image of her crying while it asks, "Are you sure?" Tahni was one in a series of Deskmates.  Hello there. I'm a talking parrot... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY0F5AjHP7E Gonzo the Eggman has a new favorite as of 03:26 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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I remember my mom tried to cancel AOL when we were switching to the local phone company's service for dial-up. Their customer retention process was shady as poo poo, and they basically would try to hang up on you, transfer you to the wrong department, anything to keep from processing a service cancellation. After hours on the phone, I finally invited my friend over to run some lovely South Park themed AOL Hax application. It started spamming chatrooms and sending people 50 IMs per second, etc. It took about 3 minutes for our connection and our service to be terminated. Non Serviam posted:On that note, screensavers themselves seem to be a relic. Since screens are no longer at risk of developing ghosts from static images, it seems to be that whole industry faded into oblivion. The main holdover from screensavers being a thing is many of my coworkers referring to their desktop background as a screensaver. Heteroy has a new favorite as of 02:21 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Waffle! posted:The original creator's copy is probably lost to time, but still a classic: Halo was objectively a really lovely game
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Data Graham posted:I'm speaking literally, see, because Doom only had 2D maps and in Marathon you could cross over yourself at different elevations Marathon was objectively bad too
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I miss good games pay 30$ and wait three years for this indie retro sandbox survival platformer rpg to be finished (maybe) (no refunds) EDIT: Also subscribe to our youtube channel
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UIApplication posted:Halo was objectively a really lovely game It blew me away how some parts of the game where just a single level section copy+pasted over and over and over 
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Police Automaton posted:I miss good games at least thats an option, and some good games have come out of it. It's really nice that a lot of that stuff is coming out to PS4 and stuff as well. It's a decent time to be a gamer, imo.
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wayne curr posted:It blew me away how some parts of the game where just a single level section copy+pasted over and over and over That level where you first encounter the Flood (the Library?) was really loving egregious in that regard. All the old reviews are like "oooh spooky new enemies in cool open-yet-claustrophobic spaces" but really it was just "dark hallway section with lovely suiciding enemies coming at you from every angle" 50 times in a row
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drunk asian neighbor posted:That level where you first encounter the Flood (the Library?) was really loving egregious in that regard. All the old reviews are like "oooh spooky new enemies in cool open-yet-claustrophobic spaces" but really it was just "dark hallway section with lovely suiciding enemies coming at you from every angle" 50 times in a row I do not miss games with frustratingly hard to kill enemies.
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What about retail software stores? I remember going to Egghead Software to buy boxed copies of games. I bought Fallout 1 based just on the box art and screenshots. I have a bunch of old games in my office bookshelf: Also PC Gamer from 1998 to 2004 or so. 
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:at least thats an option, and some good games have come out of it. It's really nice that a lot of that stuff is coming out to PS4 and stuff as well. It's a decent time to be a gamer, imo. Yeah that's true. Well, I guess I just wish people were less stupid with their money then. Also this whole marketing and social media crap from the small-time developers like they were some sort of huge media entity. Just make the godamn game dude. If it's good people will probably play it. I'd be embarrassed to release what some people consider worth paying for. I was really hoping the whole indie game thing would take off and deliver the delightfully weird and unique games I've seen so many of in the late 80s and the early 90s. Instead they rip each other off endlessly ad infinitum. That's quite of a bummer, too. There are a few pearls tho, that's true also. I feel it's such a whole different crowd nowadays than back then.
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Man I love the guide that came with Baulders Gate 2. It was spiral bound and easily 100-200 pages long. Had lots of cool art and poo poo in the margins
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Police Automaton posted:I feel it's such a whole different crowd nowadays than back then. No offense man but this is because you are a grandpa gamer if that timeline is accurate. You are old and the games are not targeted at you. Not to be mean spirited with that or anything for real.
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Shaquin posted:No offense man but this is because you are a grandpa gamer if that timeline is accurate. You are old and the games are not targeted at you. Could be, could also be that I don't remember the sheer amount of crap that was out back then also. Who knows.
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Keith Atherton posted:What about retail software stores? I remember going to Egghead Software to buy boxed copies of games. I bought Fallout 1 based just on the box art and screenshots. I have a bunch of old games in my office bookshelf: How many issues did that PC Gamer spine art span?
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I think that's very much the case where even with only a couple of decades of experience I can safely say the brain sifts the memories of that poo poo until you do not remember or consider the garbage
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Gamepro was dumber than poo poo but every article I've ever seen on kotaku is infinitely worse
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Keith Atherton posted:What about retail software stores? I remember going to Egghead Software to buy boxed copies of games. I bought Fallout 1 based just on the box art and screenshots. I have a bunch of old games in my office bookshelf: Do you have a separate shelf where you keep your "not incredible" game collection because dang this is an all-star lineup here. I like the PC Gamer spine art. Nintendo Power did the same thing. One of the series had a portrait of Mario but they accidentally duplicated a slice of it on one issue so he ends up with three eyes.
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Remember Norton Change Disk? 2-pane navigation/file editing, mouse support...poo poo was glorious. My dad had it installed on every computer we had growing up, and I remember being really confused when I'd go on my friends/school computers and "ncd" would give me the good ol' "bad command or file name" 2-pane navigation still rules and Xplorer^2 is like the first program I re-install on every computer VVVVVVVVV I think ncd was actually released with Norton Utilities originally, but IIRC NU and NC were pretty similar overall (I think NU was rolled into NC?) Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 04:45 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Ah the Norton Commander, Linux has the Midnight Commander which is pretty much the same in many ways and is still pretty useful if you remote connect via SSH and some-such. Amiga had Directory Opus which I felt always was a bit more functional because you had the rows of scriptable buttons. There's also sort of an spiritual successor for the original Directory Opus, called Worker - also for Linux. Feels at first like a very convoluted and outdated mess but it grows on you. Directory Opus is still made for Windows, I think. No idea if it even still does the 2-pane thing though.
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