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This doesn't give me nostalgia as much as it reminds me of the huge headaches of PC gaming during the late 90's. IRQ's, sound card settings that didn't always w
by asciimov 4y ago
This doesn't give me nostalgia as much as it reminds me of the huge headaches of PC gaming during the late 90's. IRQ's, sound card settings that didn't always work, boot discs, not to mention verifying ownership with a color wheel, special glasses, or find a word in the manual.
- the_af 4y agoAlmost every DOS game I played was cracked, so none of those annoyances for me! The one game which wasn't, MicroProse F-19, thought it would deter me by asking me the names of various shapes of Cold War era aircraft. As if! It only served to teach me those few shapes I didn't already know.
- rzzzt 4y agoThe copy protection quiz in the first instalment of Leisure Suit Larry taught me trivia that wasn't really applicable to real-life conversations.
- aidenn0 4y agoI could probably still today answer 2/3 of the Wing Commander questions without looking them up. It was 100% back when I played the game daily. Example: Maniac's age is 23.
- martincmartin 4y ago"Your sound card works perfectly."
- moosedev 4y agoHMI Module Alpha Humana on approach to Space Station Mercury!
- qwertfisch 4y agoI know this was the test sample in the sound configuration utility for a lot of mid-90s games – but do you know the origin of it? Anybody?