itt it is the early '90s and we are trying to make a game run on our comput

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

Lol at the idiot above me who thinks it isn't 2015.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 19:41

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Soricidus: Oct 21, 2010; freedom-hating statist shill

actually it's 1436, hth

# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:33

Dominus Vobiscum: Sep 2, 2004; Our motives are multiple, our desires complex.; Fallen Rib

Soricidus posted:

actually it's 1436, hth

It's actually 5775

# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:55

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

平成27年

# ? Jan 22, 2015 20:59

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

Dominus Vobiscum posted:

It's actually 5775

good av. you can stay

# ? Jan 22, 2015 21:00

Meat Beat Agent: Aug 5, 2007; felonious assault with a sproinging boner

Sagebrush posted:

This is the dumbest ongoing mini-gimmick on the forums, congratulations

actually,

# ? Jan 22, 2015 21:32

GATOS Y VATOS: Aug 22, 2002

*walks across the parking lot after work to join my friends working at Adobe to play Specter on their LAN with them for a couple hours*

# ? Jan 22, 2015 21:41

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

could be worse. i have to literally deposit a physical paycheck at a bank every two weeks because my job does not do direct deposit

Deposit that poo poo with your smartphone

# ? Jan 22, 2015 22:03

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

i'd rather deposit my poo poo... right... here

:getin:

# ? Jan 22, 2015 22:04

Panty Saluter: Jan 17, 2004; Making learning fun!

Kirk posted:

making boot floppies for specific games sucked and if ur nostalgic about that then I hope you wake up tomorrow with an irq conflict

Is that like when ur hungover and have to puke and have diarrhea at the time

# ? Jan 22, 2015 23:29

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Soricidus posted:

itt it is now the early 80s and we are trying to make a game run on our microcomputer

*accidentally presses record instead of play and wipes the cassette*

lol if your game tape didn't have the write protect box pulled

# ? Jan 22, 2015 23:36

Panty Saluter: Jan 17, 2004; Making learning fun!

Luigi Thirty posted:

lol if your game tape didn't have the write protect box pulled

# ? Jan 23, 2015 01:44

ahmeni: May 1, 2005; It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.; Grimey Drawer

LOAD "*",8,1

aw yiss

ahmeni fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jan 23, 2015

# ? Jan 23, 2015 01:59

Jeff Goldblum: Dec 3, 2009

what i saw, which worries me

# ? Jan 23, 2015 03:01

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Sagebrush posted:

This is the dumbest ongoing mini-gimmick on the forums, congratulations

actually, it isn't

# ? Jan 23, 2015 04:29

ahmeni: May 1, 2005; It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.; Grimey Drawer

maniacdevnull posted:

actually, it isn't

fishmechin is a 1:1 process
a Wikipedia mirror of the soul

# ? Jan 23, 2015 05:11

BooLoo: Oct 18, 2010; SLAM TIME

I miss box art and all the cool things they used to put in there like maps or elaborate copy protection.

# ? Jan 23, 2015 05:41

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

BooLoo posted:

I miss box art and all the cool things they used to put in there like maps or elaborate copy protection.

Same.

Well they still kinda do that there's days, but that's for idiots who buy the "Collectors Limited Edition" for double the retail price

# ? Jan 23, 2015 05:49

BooLoo: Oct 18, 2010; SLAM TIME

It's not the same though, although I guess it's pandering to that exact nostalgia.

# ? Jan 23, 2015 06:08

Wirth1000: May 12, 2010; #essereFerrari

BooLoo posted:

I miss box art and all the cool things they used to put in there like maps or elaborate copy protection.

i miss the crazy loving box sizes like the tomb raider boxes or full throttle box and fallout 2 box

# ? Jan 23, 2015 06:26

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

i miss the big 11x14 boxes that were made of super heavy glossy cardboard and opened with a separate lid like christmas presents in the movies

i still have my simcity 2000 box on the shelf with the awesome illustration of the city and the alien spaceship that does not actually appear in the game

# ? Jan 23, 2015 06:28

du -hast: Mar 12, 2003; BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO

Jeff Goldblum posted:

what i saw, which worries me

are you me because i literally saw that exact same thing when i looked at that picture. like wasn't paying attention and thought that was an emptyquote that you posted :catstare:

# ? Jan 23, 2015 06:36

Pope Guilty: Nov 6, 2006; The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Sagebrush posted:

i miss the big 11x14 boxes that were made of super heavy glossy cardboard and opened with a separate lid like christmas presents in the movies

i still have my simcity 2000 box on the shelf with the awesome illustration of the city and the alien spaceship that does not actually appear in the game

I remember flying into NYC and realizing how like SimCity 2000 Manhattan looks from the air.

# ? Jan 23, 2015 06:59

Miley Virus: Apr 9, 2010

Don Lapre posted:

I remember the PC Magazine cover when the 120mhz pentium came out "We've broken the 100mhz barrier"

edit: Also it was AMD bitch

im the fastest cpu of all time, the amd athlon

# ? Jan 23, 2015 07:05

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

BooLoo posted:

It's not the same though, although I guess it's pandering to that exact nostalgia.

The Ultimate Ultima 7 box I have weighs a ton due to the manuals for both the Part 1 and 2 of the game, as well as supplementary manuals for the add ons, maps for both games (which the Part 1 map went missing when borrowed to a friend, but for some reason I got the full walkthrough hint guide for Part 2 out of it) and other documents.

Found the UItima Underworld 2 box I brought back in 1994. Paid AU$99 for it back then :stare:

# ? Jan 23, 2015 10:07

Jeff Goldblum: Dec 3, 2009

du -hast posted:

are you me

hope not because if i were to high five you for it we would probably tear open the fabric of spacetime just like in an early '90s computre game

# ? Jan 23, 2015 10:19

computer parts: Nov 18, 2010; PLEASE CLAP

As a Millennial I posted:

when you're a millennial, every day is 1993

i do like being a literal baby

# ? Jan 23, 2015 12:42

Miley Virus: Apr 9, 2010

computer parts posted:

i do like being a literal baby

same but a metaphorical baby

# ? Jan 23, 2015 13:24

ahmeni: May 1, 2005; It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.; Grimey Drawer

Miley Virus posted:

same but a metaphorical baby

same but a hypothetical baby

# ? Jan 23, 2015 13:43

Vintersorg: Mar 3, 2004; President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club

im the smell that a giant crt and plastic tower had that isnt the same anymore

# ? Jan 23, 2015 16:14

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD: Jul 7, 2012

Don Lapre posted:

I remember the PC Magazine cover when the 120mhz pentium came out "We've broken the 100mhz barrier"

edit: Also it was AMD bitch

i fuckin love maximum pc

gordon mah ung resigned last month tho which was pretty :smith:

# ? Jan 23, 2015 16:17

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

# ? Jan 23, 2015 16:30

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

# ? Jan 23, 2015 16:35

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

Vintersorg posted:

im the smell that a giant crt and plastic tower had that isnt the same anymore

this

i close my eyes at night and i see in-win s500s

# ? Jan 23, 2015 16:38

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

# ? Jan 23, 2015 20:05

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

the developers of incredible power died on their way to their home planet

# ? Jan 23, 2015 20:07

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

As development for Wing Commander came to a close, the EMM386 memory manager the game used would give an exception when the user exited the game. It would print out a message similar to "EMM386 Memory manager error..." with additional information. The team could not isolate and fix the error and they needed to ship it as soon as possible. As a work-around, one of the game's programmers, Ken Demarest III, hex-edited the memory manager so it displayed a different message. Instead of the error message, it printed "Thank you for playing Wing Commander."

# ? Jan 23, 2015 20:07

Meat Beat Agent: Aug 5, 2007; felonious assault with a sproinging boner

Beeftweeter posted:

nice hosed up box characters

# ? Jan 23, 2015 20:35

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

univbee posted:

"Thank you for playing Wing Commander."

that is glorious

# ? Jan 23, 2015 20:51

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Don Lapre posted:

Just run memmaker you loving lpb

They didn't loving have memmaker until loving DOS 6.0

# ? Jan 23, 2015 22:06

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