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Broken Machine posted:writing and mailing an actual letter to Sierra for hints lol one of my friends is convinced that old adventure games were explicitly designed to be obtuse as gently caress so they could get people to call the 1-900 hint lines and buy the hint books
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lol one of my friends is convinced that old adventure games were explicitly designed to be obtuse as gently caress so they could get people to call the 1-900 hint lines and buy the hint books Sierra On-Line 3D adventure games aren't "old"  /  e: The hint books were so that you could get revenue from pirated games, so... kind of. ee: And it worked.
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lancemantis posted:photoshop having special tools/features to slice up your website graphics so they would load nicer, since every site had huge image-based sidebars and headers microsoft frontpage had a tool where you would type in all the various sections of your site (Landing Page, About Me, Cool Stuff, Pix, Funny Stuff) and it would generate image tiles for the menu complete with onhover and onclick variants and wire up all the events for you
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lol one of my friends is convinced that old adventure games were explicitly designed to be obtuse as gently caress so they could get people to call the 1-900 hint lines and buy the hint books I think it was two things: 1. there's not actually a lot of content in most of those games, so you have to make it pretty hard so there's anything there 2. once you get e-famous for designing adventure games you start huffing your own farts LucasArts games are basically made to specifically eschew the terrible design decision of sierra games I seem to remember MicroProse games as being more fun as well
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Deliberately slowing down every facet of your experience to get 40MB out of a 20MB HDD using DoubleSpace. Until you got a CD-ROM which meant you could play pirated cut-scene games  and properly fun games:  .(I forget which goon was also playing this a couple of years ago, but it was a great throwback). And there was honest debate about the viability of using a CD-RW for storage instead of a HDD because 750 MB CD's were cheaper. Also, Mp3's were new and the collective realisation that one ripped CD would hold 12 store bought CD's if you ripped and converted. This single realization meant we said hello Napster (hi the Seans), emule (lol - still going), Gnutella: morpheus, bearshare, kazaa(Hi Jaan Friis), finally limewire, WASTE (hi again Justin Frankel). These were finally eclipsed post 90's in 2001 when we finally welcomed Brahm Cohen's work. 
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url posted:Also, Mp3's were new and the collective realisation that one ripped CD would hold 12 store bought CD's if you ripped and converted. Audiogalaxy was pretty great.
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Mar 15, 2019 09:17
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I kinda miss going to LANs and in the quiet period in the early AM just browsing and leeching people music collections still have a couple of mis-labelled MP3s from that time period
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Mar 15, 2019 13:16
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~Coxy posted:I kinda miss going to LANs and in the quiet period in the early AM just browsing and leeching people music collections extremely same
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Mar 15, 2019 16:44
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~Coxy posted:I kinda miss going to LANs and in the quiet period in the early AM just browsing and leeching people music collections Phish - Gin and Juice.mp3
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Mar 15, 2019 17:58
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I had Primus - Detachable Penis.mp3
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sweet a gravis pc gamepad, this is gonna make games way better now to plug it into th....OH GODDAMMIT
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OH MY GOD I havent thought of that game in forever - only ever had the demo but gently caress, what a demo
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Mar 15, 2019 19:29
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i'll see your gamepad and raise you a Force Feedback Pro!  
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Lysidas posted:red hat linux 6.2 hey this is for 90s stuff not things that are still currently everywhere
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i'll see your gamepad and raise you a Force Feedback Pro! force feedback joysticks are cool but what about us kb+m players 
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Mar 15, 2019 19:45
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tk posted:Audiogalaxy was pretty great.  How did i forget! Direct Connect also, with every entry site saying "if you are law enforcement you can't use this service."
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url posted:And there was honest debate about the viability of using a CD-RW for storage instead of a HDD because 750 MB CD's were cheaper. ill cop to this. i used to keep a stack of cdrws that i slowly add to over time when there was a sale, and have to toss occasionally when there was a write error. it was like having a stack of spare drives and I'd stash so much music on them
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lancemantis posted:hey this is for 90s stuff not things that are still currently everywhere oh man i hope you are joking just to make sure, you know rhl 6.2 != rhel 6.2, right? because i hope rhl 6.2 (kernel 2.2, predates ssh and ext3) is not currently used 'everywhere' in your experience
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Mar 15, 2019 20:11
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Agile Vector posted:it was like having a stack of spare drives and I'd stash so many copies of basically the same music on them
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Lysidas posted:oh man i hope you are joking this post is so 90s
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Mar 15, 2019 22:20
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magazine articles fawning about how linux is going to destroy miKKKro$haft
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Vintersorg posted:putting a towel over your computer or a pillow or anything to dampen the sound of a modem dialing up in the middle of the night when you were supposed to be in bed ATM0 u n00b
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~Coxy posted:I kinda miss going to LANs and in the quiet period in the early AM just browsing and leeching people music collections im surprised given the way you smell that you have to miss it at all 
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Mar 16, 2019 01:40
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florida lan posted:the 90s was not a great era for logo design alienskin was cheap and learning proper channels in big electric cat was HARD
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early 3d dates so god drat poorly. i can't ever imagine games made in the future to look 3d retro like pixel art is now.. its tragic the first gran turismo game is abysmal. mario on the other hand is fine
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florida lan posted:
loleem!
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Mar 16, 2019 09:11
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 Yeah prepare to enter the inside of your computer and steal some icons and blast viruses and pirates
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echinopsis posted:the first gran turismo game is abysmal. mario on the other hand is fine mario 64's camera control is unplayably bad by today's standards but that's okay because nobody had tried something like that before and they were still figuring it out
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Gran Turismo is fine; I played it a lot only last year.
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echinopsis posted:early 3d dates so god drat poorly. i can't ever imagine games made in the future to look 3d retro like pixel art is now.. its tragic it depends strongly on art direction. like, megaman legends still looks nice but it was with low poly characters that made the most out of the platforms limitations
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early 3d can be charming but there’s lots of warts (pop out, jittering and rotating low res textures, view fog, tanky controls etc) but it was fuckin rad at the time
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