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gamedev tycoon famously had a game-breaking anti-piracy feature. i heard operation: flashpoint would also degrade bit by bit if it was a warez copy, and it actually made me buy the game, because i couldn't be sure by just playing that it wouldn't go south sometime later if it was pirated.
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I remember playing a pirated version of GTA IV when it first came out on the PC and the devs had figured a way to tell if the game was cracked and it would put you in drunk mode all the time. Not too fun, so I went out and bought it a few days later after seeing if there was ever going to be a fix.
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ yeah it was called FADE, it would degrade gun accuracy over time.
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trilljester posted:I remember playing a pirated version of GTA IV when it first came out on the PC and the devs had figured a way to tell if the game was cracked and it would put you in drunk mode all the time. Not too fun, so I went out and bought it a few days later after seeing if there was ever going to be a fix. I know this is outside of our reminescences, but wasn't GTAIV release on PC plagued by odd conversion issues?
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laserghost posted:I know this is outside of our reminescences, but wasn't GTAIV release on PC plagued by odd conversion issues? I don't remember much wrong once you got it started, but if you bought it on Steam you had to sequentially log into Steam, GFWL and Rockstar Social Club to get that poo poo to launch Pretty sure there was a failure state where the Rockstar login box would appear on top of the GFWL one and soft lock the game before it had begun
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Aug 16, 2023 07:22
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lmao games for windows live, now that’s some funy tech poo poo
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serious sam 3 had an immortal giant fast scorpion that would chase you down and kill you iirc
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Sagebrush posted:One of the early scene releases of Deus Ex had a bunch of NPC chatter stripped out for size, but the trigger to end the first level was when the NPC boat captain spoke to you, famously leading to 10,000 "how do I get on the boat?" forum posts. It's just occurred to me that Deus ex was fully voiced which is pretty amazing given it had to fit on one cd. I still have a boxed copy which is basically worthless but still, I doubt I'll ever throw that away
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Aug 16, 2023 08:55
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Pretty sure a boxed copy of a cult classic game is everything but worthless
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laserghost posted:Pretty sure a boxed copy of a cult classic game is everything but worthless   I guess I should check for the others I have - both baldur's gates and both original fallouts and Ultima 9 with a cloth map 
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I don't remember what happened to the original half life and whatever else I had from those days, I think I gave them to charity
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Aug 16, 2023 10:40
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lol remember cap'n hector
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laserghost posted:Pretty sure a boxed copy of a cult classic game is everything but worthless i mean, near worthless for its original purpose (and to society), i'm sure some hoarder will pay up for it anyway
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:
I remember getting a giant poster-sized map with every GTA game up to San Andreas. I wish I still had the GTA1 poster, I loved that game
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Aug 16, 2023 13:00
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4 and 5 had them too. Also the reds dead
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Beve Stuscemi posted:I remember getting a giant poster-sized map with every GTA game up to San Andreas. especially since you actually need the map when playing gta1
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Raluek posted:lol remember cap'n hector named after Hector D. Byrd, who's still going strong!  e: 13 years ago today, i asked asked Andrew Welch about the rights for further development of the EV series
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the filing cabinet we had next to the computer with code wheels, manuals, and every other tchotchke used for copy protection
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A very early episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force had a URL you could go to that was just all popups. Hundreds of them all at once. This was before popup blockers were a thing so you were forced to hit the power switch because windows would lock almost immediately. Hilarious
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Arson Daily posted:A very early episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force had a URL you could go to that was just all popups. Hundreds of them all at once. This was before popup blockers were a thing so you were forced to hit the power switch because windows would lock almost immediately. Hilarious w-w-w-w-w-w-wizzardd
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Armitag3 posted:w-w-w-w-w-w-wizzardd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rY7kKf0wlE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjE5WwACHgk blackwolf 
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well-read undead posted:lmao games for windows live, now that’s some funy tech poo poo A bunch of PC Capcom games became unplayable when GFWL went down, including RE5, Street Fighter × Tekken, and I think some of the Lost Planet games. Not sure if Capcom ever went back to patch it out.
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fins posted:named after Hector D. Byrd, who's still going strong! yeah and i bet he's earned his name as much as the in-game version has
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Aug 17, 2023 05:13
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The windows right click option for "Create New Shortcut" has anyone in the history of computer touching ever used that?
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Beve Stuscemi posted:The windows right click option for "Create New Shortcut" similarly, firefox's "email image" right click item.
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Jawbone driving themselves bankrupt because their fitness bands had the circuitry running through out the entire band, not just on the top side like most fitness bands and smart watches. So putting it on and taking it off required you to bend the band and thus bend the circuitry past its tolerances. So your $150 band would die after a few months. They did replace it for free when that happened (and even replaced the replacements) but I doubt any of that was good for the bottom line.
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Derek Smart
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being slightly amused when windows came with a recycle bin, as opposed to mac's trash can
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Beve Stuscemi posted:The windows right click option for "Create New Shortcut" "create qr code from image"
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Beve Stuscemi posted:The windows right click option for "Create New Shortcut" at pharmacies i’ve worked at people want desktop links for webpages and i’ve done it this way
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I've created a shortcut that way to make it easier to add operations to the command line as the application is launched. Certain games that could only be launched in windowed mode that way for example.
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create shortcut is at least useful once ina while, but right click set as desktop background never is
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echinopsis posted:at pharmacies i’ve worked at people want desktop links for webpages and i’ve done it this way next time try dragging the little lock icon in the url bar directly to the desktop Wild EEPROM posted:create shortcut is at least useful once ina while, but right click set as desktop background never is i've used that function. quicker than going to the control panel
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and then you change it again and oops you don’t have that one again or you’re browsing and trying to copy a link or something and you just set the background to some dude stretching out his rear end hole
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Wild EEPROM posted:and then you change it again and oops you don’t have that one again i put all desktop backgrounds into my user pictures folder. hth
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A judge ordering all physical copies of Too Human be destroyed because it turned out the devs didn't have a license for the Unreal engine.
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whats wrong with craft computing? just weird bad advice on computers? or is he a Problematic Guy?
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Wild EEPROM posted:create shortcut is at least useful once ina while, but right click set as desktop background never is extremely wrong buzzer noise! one of the unregistered win10 things is that you can't go to the control panel and set your wallpaper, but you can right click any image and set as wallpaper and it works. lol
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i'm baffled at any yosposter who has an unregistered copy of windows with the shameful nag text in the corner. you know you can buy a license for 10 bucks from a goon in sa-mart right? don't be pathetic.
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