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going to a cyber café with a bunch of floppy disks to download poo poo for your amiga
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I remember downloading midi files at school so I could play them at home 
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Mar 7, 2019 22:05
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also I always went to computer lab early so I could get one of the few Apple IIGSes. I knew they were better but not quite how e: these were different time periods. I also remember helping my teacher install Myst once
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Mar 7, 2019 22:06
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Silver Alicorn posted:I remember downloading midi files at school so I could play them at home Same but it was .xm and .mod and .it and .s3m files
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Mar 7, 2019 22:46
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every single windows sound is a simpsons.wav file
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Mar 7, 2019 22:53
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Vintersorg posted:every single windows sound is a simpsons.wav file my cousin changed all the windows sounds to austin powers wavs
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Mar 7, 2019 22:59
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same but warcraft 2
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Mar 7, 2019 23:08
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having a 386 with beck-loser.wav as the windows error sound, and taking about three minutes to load it
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Mar 8, 2019 00:20
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basically lol if you were actually alive in the 90s
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Mar 8, 2019 03:19
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Satellit3 fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Mar 8, 2019 |
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Mar 8, 2019 03:36
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Stick Insect posted:Same but it was .xm and .mod and .it and .s3m files by the time I discovered mod files I had internet at home Vintersorg posted:every single windows sound is a simpsons.wav file I had a sound set for windows 3.1 that had star trek/wars stuff and other random film sounds
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Mar 8, 2019 05:17
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Silver Alicorn posted:also I always went to computer lab early so I could get one of the few Apple IIGSes. I knew they were better but not quite how we had to clean the cheetos and nickels from the floppy drive on the one in my classroom, once. it didnt stop it from working fine but we got bored and were wondering if we could put it back together for that matter, trying to beat oregon trail in a rush during lunch was a super popular challenge and we forded the river in a desperate attempt to finish it before class
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Mar 8, 2019 05:37
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Mar 8, 2019 06:09
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Vintersorg posted:every single windows sound is a simpsons.wav file this was a thing
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Mar 8, 2019 06:25
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CDs on the front of magazines that were packed full of demos, shareware, icon/sound sets, and "art" made in terrible 3D rendering programs
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Mar 8, 2019 07:46
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The only windows sound I changed was the shutdown sound. It was a loud death scream from Street Fighter which always managed to startle the poo poo out of my dad 
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Mar 8, 2019 09:55
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~Coxy posted:CDs on the front of magazines that were packed full of demos, shareware, icon/sound sets, and "art" made in terrible 3D rendering programs 23 different shareware genealogy database programs with no instructions and UIs so bad they make linux software look usable. 250 doom .WADs, 200 of which are some variation of "giant room full of cyberdemons and barrels" 17 different wolfenstein hacks with all the nazis replaced with barney the dinosaur and/or bill gates 100 of the hottest websites for offline viewing for people without an internet connection
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Mar 8, 2019 14:05
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Chex Quest
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Mar 8, 2019 16:27
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desktop backgrounds from digital blasphemy dot com
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Mar 8, 2019 17:00
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3d text screensaver w/company name
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Mar 8, 2019 17:20
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going to the Software, Etc. every weekend and watching everyone crowd around the Amiga while they play Faery Tale Adventure or Dragon's Lair and chortling at the kids who say 'when is this coming out for the PC / Apple IIGS / Mac' now Commodore doesn't exist anymore and it's all Switch / PS4 / PC
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Mar 8, 2019 17:32
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qhat posted:this was a thing fox sent C+D's to most of the sites so it eventually died they had clips from the shows and highlight jokes i remember getting hyped for large files as it would be a 1 minute clip
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Mar 8, 2019 17:47
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~Coxy posted:CDs on the front of magazines that were packed full of demos, shareware, icon/sound sets, and "art" made in terrible 3D rendering programs pc gamer had like a full pre-rendered-myst-adventure-game thing to navigate content on their CDs for a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Acpv3GJFE
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Mar 8, 2019 20:43
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i have distinct memories of browsing the yahoo web directory in the middle school library and discovering discordianism and the church of the subgenius
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Mar 8, 2019 23:56
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lancemantis posted:pc gamer had like a full pre-rendered-myst-adventure-game thing to navigate content on their CDs for a while man that's way better than Mac Attack (?) 's wolfenstein 3D mod
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Mar 9, 2019 00:15
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Sweevo posted:23 different shareware genealogy database programs with no instructions and UIs so bad they make linux software look usable. PC magazine cover CDs were all that, but the Amiga ones were really good. Mostly because by the time Amiga got CD-ROM it was already a dead man walking platform and the magazine coverdiscs were constructed with love by die-hard fans. And it was all poo poo pulled off of Aminet, which had way better PD/shareware than anything on the PC at the time. Sending a postal order off to one of the PD mail order companies that listed in the back of the magazines, and 2 weeks later getting a CD-ROM full of nudie lady GIFs/ILBMs. Opening an image and waiting 2 minutes to see a HAM-mode image of Erika Eleniak's boobs.
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Mar 9, 2019 02:42
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HAM-mode boobs MOOOOOOOOODS
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Mar 9, 2019 03:01
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lancemantis posted:pc gamer had like a full pre-rendered-myst-adventure-game thing to navigate content on their CDs for a while I have a pc gamer coconut monkey tshirt somewhere
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Elevator Screamer posted:Sending a postal order off to one of the PD mail order companies that listed in the back of the magazines, and 2 weeks later getting a CD-ROM full of nudie lady GIFs/ILBMs. Opening an image and waiting 2 minutes to see a HAM-mode image of Erika Eleniak's boobs. ORDER.FRM internet shopping by going on pricewatch.com or a company's web site to find what you wanted and ordering by calling them or printing an order form and mailing it with a money order buying and selling random stuff by putting ads on usenet, waiting for emails, mailing money orders to random people, sometimes in other countries, and hoping that whatever you wanted would eventually show up thinking about usenet reminded me of og man-child rec.games.video.* console warrior/homophobe/troll charles doane (apparently he eventually migrated to a right-wing conspiracy nut message board as usenet use dwindled)
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Mar 9, 2019 04:48
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graph posted:desktop backgrounds from digital blasphemy dot com the propaganda tile set https://images.ira.abramov.org/Propaganda/
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Mar 9, 2019 05:18
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were the screaming crayons the pc gamer art department or was that another publication?
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Mar 9, 2019 07:20
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Any ya'll buy from Walnut Creek?
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Mar 9, 2019 08:03
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ya several sets of freebsd install cds. 1.something and iirc 2.2.5
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Elevator Screamer posted:PC magazine cover CDs were all that, but the Amiga ones were really good. Mostly because by the time Amiga got CD-ROM it was already a dead man walking platform and the magazine coverdiscs were constructed with love by die-hard fans. And it was all poo poo pulled off of Aminet, which had way better PD/shareware than anything on the PC at the time. i remember there was a period where every single amiga magazine had an ad for the "Women of the Web" cd-rom, which was basically a cd full of those geocities sites where someone had collected nine badly-scanned photos of some c-list sitcom actress.
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Mar 9, 2019 16:20
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sounds epic
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Mar 9, 2019 17:00
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Sweevo posted:23 different shareware genealogy database programs with no instructions and UIs so bad they make linux software look usable. trial-ware where you could reset your bios clock and keep it 'forever'. E: fwiw, my dad literally had a work computer in our family kitchen (because that's where the landline was) that we all used. It had the no cmos battery, and i'm pretty sure it was so he could use whatever dial-up intranet thing was required at the time. (it was either borland or IBM AOL obv url fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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Mar 9, 2019 17:06
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Sweevo posted:23 different shareware genealogy database programs with no instructions and UIs so bad they make linux software look usable. the software update to naughtilis patched all of that and Nice we get pornography on the default internet
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One thing I liked about pc gamer discs is they had half life patch updates so I could finally play mods since I had no home internet to download them otherwise
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