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Thank youquote:Bungie recalled every shipped unit of the game, a decision which cost them $800,000 in expenses and fines from retailers for missing their release deadline.[1] Meanwhile, Donohue called the Bungie factory in Atlanta and told the production managers to immediately stop printing copies of the game, and hold any shipments that hadn't already gone out, while Joost began calling the stores that were still awaiting shipments, telling them to refuse any orders that arrived. As the units that were in transit began to arrive back at the factory, each individual one had to be repackaged by hand.[66] Joost explains: Haha I'm still tasting the schadenfreude.
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I had that hosed myth disc, but I neither installed software to root nor did I ever uninstall the game from that machine
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Jul 2, 2023 03:04
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barbecue at the folks posted:Lots of dos games installed the whole game on hard drive for shorter loading times and then just played the music from CD. I used to play Micro Machines 2 while listening to Offspring This, but Settlers 2 and the Mechwarrior 2 CD 
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Jul 2, 2023 03:11
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Myth II was the best product Bungie ever made, even considering it would delete your hard drive.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Lots of dos games installed the whole game on hard drive for shorter loading times and then just played the music from CD. I used to play Micro Machines 2 while listening to Offspring Conversely, the original Diablo installed just a few megs of executable files to the hard drive, and then loaded everything else from the CD, like a console game. E: I played Ignition! with Offspring in the drive. Hell yeah.
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Jul 2, 2023 08:18
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Anyone else have this bad boy?
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Jul 2, 2023 08:21
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Armacham posted:Anyone else have this bad boy? I did and half the disks didn't work
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lazer_chicken posted:A lot of old pc games put the music in regular cd-da tracks. I remember putting the xwing vs tie fighter disc into my cd player to listen to the soundtrack. Civilization II would play some (usually wrong) sound from the CD-ROM like once every 10 hours. But if I played it with the Interstate 76 disc in the drive, it would toot out funky tunes all the time while I was nuking everyone. Weird.
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Jul 2, 2023 08:58
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I miss Quarantine, the music on the CD not the wonky gameplay. Pity Rockstar games will probably never revisit the gonzo 90's concept.
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Jul 2, 2023 09:04
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Armacham posted:Anyone else have this bad boy? No, because the day I got Baldur's Gate was the same day my dad bought our first DVD ROM. Only one disc for us, baby 
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Jul 2, 2023 09:07
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Wait, why does the other 20th century tech thread get a sticky and not this one? Typical wintel bias
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By popular demand posted:I miss Quarantine, the music on the CD not the wonky gameplay. Oh cool the CD image is on the internet archive.
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Jul 2, 2023 09:29
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I don't know how the Internet Archive remains up and easily accessible with OK-ish download speeds but it's rad to be able to go on there and get games and every edition of Windows you could want. We live in truly blessed times.
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Jul 2, 2023 10:29
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The times are thoroughly cursed, it's just that most dark clouds have spots of silver and some things happen to fall in the holes of the thick smog of corporate media domination.
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Jul 2, 2023 10:37
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By popular demand posted:The times are thoroughly cursed, it's just that most dark clouds have spots of silver and some things happen to fall in the holes of the thick smog of corporate media domination. I find at least some amount of solace in knowing that I'm easily able to find and install Novell Netware 6.0 on a whim.
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Jul 2, 2023 10:46
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credburn posted:Myth II was the best product Bungie ever made, even considering it would delete your hard drive. I respect your opinion, but I'm going to have to stick with Marathon 2 myself
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Jul 2, 2023 13:36
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Armacham posted:Anyone else have this bad boy? Hell yeah! I have that map, still, too, it's pretty dang rad. Haven't tested the CDs in ages, wonder if they've rotted out by now. 
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Jul 2, 2023 14:08
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I remember playing half life one time and it started playing the wrong music, I had two cd drives at the time and had forgotten to take a game disk out the other drive so the game was playing the redbook audio from the other disc.
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Jul 2, 2023 14:09
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Entirely the wrong thread nvm
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Explosionface posted:I respect your opinion, but I'm going to have to stick with Marathon 2 myself more like Durandull e: okay, I put it just slightly below Doom II but perhaps it is only because of Doom II's popularity and modability
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Explosionface posted:I respect your opinion, but I'm going to have to stick with Marathon 2 myself Aleph one is my zdoom
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Civilization II would play some (usually wrong) sound from the CD-ROM like once every 10 hours. But if I played it with the Interstate 76 disc in the drive, it would toot out funky tunes all the time while I was nuking everyone. Weird. I've had the installed on my new (probably like 10 years old actually) laptop forever, and just recently found the disc for it. The disc won't play in the CD-R drive  I always liked it when the war guy would tell me to gently caress other peoples poo poo up.
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Jul 2, 2023 16:18
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wesleywillis posted:I've had the installed on my new (probably like 10 years old actually) laptop forever, and just recently found the disc for it. I will never play Civilization II or any of the other ones again, because I have a job.
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Jul 2, 2023 16:25
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Arivia posted:Myth 2 and Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor had badly coded uninstallers that could delete all data on your hard disk instead of just the game. An Eve online update had a different problem with similar results - it would delete the boot.ini file Windows needs to start up.
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Jul 2, 2023 16:34
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Remulak posted:This is so funny to me, I started my career in the 90’s and never understood why the new, incredibly inexperienced person (me) got stuck doing the installer, the face of your product. I never hosed one up (in the final deliverable) but it took a lot of detail and attention to get the scripting right. You were the wizard wizard
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Jul 2, 2023 16:37
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Some old games came with printed backstory novels, back before cinematic intros were invented. Loom came with a audiobook backstory novel on cassette: 
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Jul 2, 2023 17:08
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Armacham posted:Anyone else have this bad boy? Yes, i got it nib at a swap meet in like 2001 for 6 bucks. It ruled
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Jul 2, 2023 17:38
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You don't have to swap discs if you install it all on your HDD.
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Arivia posted:Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor My God, I'd suppressed all memory of that game. I had played the original goldbox PoR on my Commodore 64 and I was chuffed as hell that there was this Baldur's Gate-type sequel coming out and using 3E rules and I snapped it up straight away. And then it turned out to be garbage to every extent.
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Jul 2, 2023 18:06
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Armacham posted:Anyone else have this bad boy? I’ve got a lot of the old boxed games with discs and manuals. That was a cool time - stop by Egghead Software to buy a new game based on the box! 
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Jul 2, 2023 19:52
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Cat Hassler posted:I’ve got a lot of the old boxed games with discs and manuals. That was a cool time - stop by Egghead Software to buy a new game based on the box! I bought Gobliiins based on the box. One of the best games of the 90s.
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I still have the id Anthology box and the t-shirt hasn't fallen apart yet. Edit: they seem to go for stupid money now! spookygonk has a new favorite as of 21:22 on Jul 2, 2023 |
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I've still got a day of the tentacle triangle box on a shelf. I was about to throw it out or give it to a charity shop a few years ago but just of of curiosity had a look to see how rare they are. I kept it. I don't even like the game or like the box.
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Armacham posted:Anyone else have this bad boy? Took me a while to dig it out of my collection but I got its grand daddy from back when you could still find classic big boxes in thrift stores.  It tells a tale of woe.    The funny thing about it is that even though it's this giant collectors set box is that besides a sheet of cards and the decoder wheesl all the feelies like the maps are just printed on the same sort of really thin glossy paper that discount store catalogs are made of. A game with Lackluster collectables that didn't even work out of the box, the more things change the more they stay exactly the same.
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Cat Hassler posted:I’ve got a lot of the old boxed games with discs and manuals. That was a cool time - stop by Egghead Software to buy a new game based on the box! Nice! I collect big box-era pc games. I've been trying to get hold of a NOLF big box; I've got the sequel in pretty good condition. We had a Goodwill nearby that specializes in electronics stuff so for a while it was a gold mine of these things, but they recently got wise to the value and cranked the price up so goddamn high.
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Jul 3, 2023 00:04
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I don't even want to know what my final fantasy 3 and Chrono trigger, CIB with all the maps and everything, are worth now. And I just let my rear end in a top hat cousin have them for free.
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Skipping ahead several pages from a discussion about CRTs to say that while LCDs definitely stink at the stuff that CRTs did well with their lack of true blacks, poor refresh rates, and all that (unless you spring for one of those crazy expensive gamer monitors harhar), I will say that I'm still quite pleased with the custom CRT shader setup I have with Retroarch, which is really the only reason I still bother to boot up that bloated pile at this point, especially with how universally people seem to have turned on it (I guess that's the real failed technology in this case).
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Guy Axlerod posted:My brother had some Richard Scarry's Busy town "game" that also had CD audio. It started playing "welcome to busytown" over the Quake demo. hell yea https://classicreload.com/how-things-work-in-busytown.html
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this owns
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If anyone has any Intel PIII-S 1400Mhz 1.4Ghz 512K SL5XL CPUs for cheap I need a few! Totally not for my time machine.
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