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Cojawfee posted:PC Gamer usually had a demo CD attached to it. Coconut monkey! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcDVw6UFAM
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I just re-found for the dozenth time my stack of ~50 magazine demo CDs the other day; I am sure any minute now I will indeed finally get around to trying out these mid-late 1990s software bonanzas
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I got Fallout off a cover disk. The magazine was all translated material from something foreign so I didn't read it.
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 This here is the punished A500. It sacrificed one of its CIA chips for my C128. The previous owner did some horrible hackery to this thing, and looks like kept it at the bottom of the most bottomest cellar. Or highest attic. One of the CIA chips had a leg clipped off it. Then soldered back on because the wrong leg was cut off. The RAM expansion card had one of those terrible barrel batteries for the RTC on it, and yes it had leaked. But seems to have not damaged the card much, but I'm not really going to use that card anymore. The mount for the Gary chip is a complete mess (which is needed for the RAM expansion to work) so that's going with its RAM card. Hopefully the Gary chip itself isn't damaged, but we'll see. I've got some replacement CIA chips coming in the mail soon to replace the missing/hacked CIA chips. Then pray to Jay Miner/RJ Micall that it works in stock OCS config. THEN MODIFY THE LIVING BEJESUS OUT OF IT.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I just bought the demo CD from Walmart for ten bucks and used qcrack to unlock the whole (up until then) id library qcrack was one of the most holy-poo poo moments of my youth, the entire id catalog on a single disc?! And all I need to do is run this crack to unlock it?! So good. Rev. Bleech_ posted:gently caress yeah dogg, best soundtrack ever to boot Absolutely.  The Black Mages version is good, but I love the original Zeromus theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZftUF_OUNFY It's such a great theme, especially for that fight. Another favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKKadyDrBsw
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Bargearse posted:I didn’t think any TI-99/4A software came on tape, I thought they were all ROM cartridges so TI could retain full control. There was a lot of more or less terrible homebrew software sold on tape for the TI-994/A. The back pages of computer magazines at the were full of listings.
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You Am I posted:I've got some replacement CIA chips coming in the mail soon to replace the missing/hacked CIA chips. Then pray to Jay Miner/RJ Micall that it works in stock OCS config. Where did you source the chips from? I'm asking because this just popped up in my YouTube recommendations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwJNCy4ZYmI Different chip, obviously, but I'm curious where people get parts these days.
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From Amibay, seller was parting out some A500s. Sadly they had sold out of Gary chips
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Code Jockey posted:qcrack was one of the most holy-poo poo moments of my youth, the entire id catalog on a single disc?! And all I need to do is run this crack to unlock it?! I later put all my Qcracked versions on a Zip Disk, which later migrated to my first CD-R, which made it to my first DVD-R, now I have them on a BDR somewhere and an external drive. I've gotten 24 years of mileage out of that one drat demo CD. Which is still on my shelf:  Absolutely. Code Jockey posted:The Black Mages version is good, but I love the original Zeromus theme: The bit from 0:57 to 1:30 or so still gets me. I was completely obsessed at the end of 1992 and spent much of spring/summer of 1993 manually leveling everyone to lvl 99. I had a couple of cassettes with the music dubbed onto it. I about poo poo myself when a bit of the prologue music was used during the end credits of FFVI, which had a similar obsession. Then FFVII came out, I bought a PS1 just for it aaaand never even finished disc 1. So there's two tech relics. The SNES, and the cassette tapes I dubbed the game music onto because that system's sound chip could fuckin slap in the right hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB9Pym-sdbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWMN91gMD_4
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Dr. Quarex posted:I just re-found for the dozenth time my stack of ~50 magazine demo CDs the other day; I am sure any minute now I will indeed finally get around to trying out these mid-late 1990s software bonanzas Still got a bunch of PC PowerPlay CDs and later DVDs from the early days of the magazine. I'd love to find a scanned archive of the magazines themselves, mainly to find the issue where I won literally every competition. Don't know how it happened but they used a bunch of fake names in the issue detailing who won.
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Mar 4, 2020 04:35
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Archive.org has all those PC Gamer and Windows demo discs FYI
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Humphreys posted:Still got a bunch of PC PowerPlay CDs and later DVDs from the early days of the magazine. I'd love to find a scanned archive of the magazines themselves, mainly to find the issue where I won literally every competition. Don't know how it happened but they used a bunch of fake names in the issue detailing who won. Funny, I have a cardboard box of old computer magazines in an attic somewhere but I wish I'd kept the CDs instead. I spent a while recently trying to find a game I barely remembered that I knew had come from one.
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Fallom posted:Archive.org has all those PC Gamer and Windows demo discs FYI OMG here we go! https://archive.org/details/PCPowerplay EDIT: Yup found the issue! A different issue but I was only talking about doodie.com the other day:  Now to find the issue of Nintendo Power I submitted a WR for Pod Racer on 64 haha Humphreys has a new favorite as of 08:45 on Mar 4, 2020 |
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Mar 4, 2020 08:29
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Hell yeah, look at those new releases.
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Mar 4, 2020 08:58
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UnkleBoB posted:Hell yeah, look at those new releases. I still remember the size of the manual for Falcon 4.0 Could probably knock someone out with it.
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Mar 4, 2020 09:54
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Jesus, $79 for a copy of Settlers 3. I'll stop complaining about Switch game prices now.
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I'm not sure I ever played any Moraff's games, but that just seemed like one of those crappy-looking shareware games I saw in all the catalogs, so I searched for "Moraff's Revenge" because that was a title I remembered and well it was Moraff's World. I think my brain is now wired this way: - Old high-resolution, low color depth game with crappy sprites: must be Moraff's World - Old low-resolution, high(er) color depth game with crappy sprites: must be Ken's Labyrinth Thanks for that trip down a very ugly memory lane.
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Hell yeah Matt’s Script Archive
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UnkleBoB posted:Hell yeah, look at those new releases. Jesus, I worked on Falcon 4.0, Civ II, and The War of the Worlds game (a really weird RTS kind of). I was working for a 3rd party QA company at the time.
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Computer viking posted:Jesus, $79 for a copy of Settlers 3. I'll stop complaining about Switch game prices now. Australia has always gotten F'd in the A for video game pricing.
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Oh, Australia - I'm less surprised then. Norway is on the expensive end, but it's still cheaper than what you get. I'm still sad about Steam moving to localized prices, though; going from US dollar pricing to NOK nearly doubled everything overnight. It's calmed down considerably, fortunately.
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Computer viking posted:Oh, Australia - I'm less surprised then. Norway is on the expensive end, but it's still cheaper than what you get. Thats still cheap, new games are like $99 dollerydos
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I remember Mickey Mania for the SNES was 850 NOK ($85) when it came out, due to the ROM size? Insane.
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Cartridge game prices in the mid 90s were bonkers here. $140-150 AUD RRP for some. Virtua Racer was $180 on the Megadrive. That's over $300 today with inflation. On the other hand I fondly remember the year or so of parity the AUD had with US right about the time that steam sales were at their peak.
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Virtua Racer had that special chip inside it, I believe, that was supposed to compete with the one Nintendo was using. Like most things by Sega, they hosed it up.
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Randaconda posted:Virtua Racer had that special chip inside it, I believe, that was supposed to compete with the one Nintendo was using. Like most things by Sega, they hosed it up. Yeah Virtua Racer doesn't work on my megadrive FlashCart. As if I would want to play it though lol
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F4rt5 posted:I remember Mickey Mania for the SNES was 850 NOK ($85) when it came out, due to the ROM size? Insane. Expensive SNES games were usually due to added expansion chips or co-processors in the cartridge. Games like Yoshi's Island were insane.
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Doom for SNES was $130 CAD when it came out, and that game loving sucked
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I think I remember Wing Commander coming out for SNES too, grossly overpriced, and it was unplayably terrible
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RandomFerret posted:Doom for SNES was $130 CAD when it came out, and that game loving sucked Yeah Yoshi had the same co-processor as Doom (Super FX 2) so it was probably a similar price. And yeah SNES Doom isn't the greatest but it was at least playable and one of the better console ports of the game at the time, believe it or not.
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Randaconda posted:Virtua Racer had that special chip inside it, I believe, that was supposed to compete with the one Nintendo was using. Like most things by Sega, they hosed it up. Virtua Racing was more technically impressive than any SuperFX game, also better than most of them as a game too. Pretty expensive at the time, though. Humphreys posted:Yeah Virtua Racer doesn't work on my megadrive FlashCart. As if I would want to play it though lol Virtua Racing is good 
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RandomFerret posted:Doom for SNES was $130 CAD when it came out, and that game loving sucked had Doom on PC and this version:  The PC version was the first time I ever played an online multiplayer game, which ruled. The 32x version played just fine.
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SCheeseman posted:Virtua Racing was more technically impressive than any SuperFX game, also better than most of them as a game too. Pretty expensive at the time, though. Yeah Virtua Racing is awesome. They released a Switch version last year: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/sega-ages-virtua-racing-switch/
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32X version plays very smoothly yeah, but I don't know if it's worth the 15 levels and squeaky fart soundtrack
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Mak0rz posted:32X version plays very smoothly yeah, but I don't know if it's worth the 15 levels and squeaky fart soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-zbldrgITU
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Speaking of the devil, just got that game this week.  Despite being the most rudimentary version, it's pretty fun. Takes a bit to get used to playing a racing game at 15 FPS, but it works.
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SCheeseman posted:Virtua Racing was more technically impressive than any SuperFX game, also better than most of them as a game too. Pretty expensive at the time, though. Virtua Racing for the 32x was good. It was bad for the Geneses
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15fps sounds terrible but the game manages to feel pretty snappy despite this. It was fine, given the context of everything else available at the time.
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