Gregory's Server
My body is a MACHINE.
An 80s IBM PC-compatible machine that is too slow, too loud, and takes too long to get started after nearly 40 years.
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ββββββββββββββββββββββββ If you've enjoyed the documentary parts of Tetris Forever, but haven't seen the BBC documentary "Tetris: From Russia with Love," I suggest you check it out. You get a much more comprehensive story of the infamous rights debacle told personally by most of the participants:
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 @dosnostalgic The last FPS I played. I recall keeping the CD-ROM in the drive and Civ2 would pick up the soundtrack and play it in game. Made for an eerier experience. PRIORITY ONE Wait. The new episodic documentary about ReBoot is actually being released for free??? foax's Kali Kit: A fan remake ("remaster") of the original Alone in the Dark:
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 @dosnostalgic Soul Brother hm I know I'm missing at least five things that were deeply important to me at the time. I remain proud of my one, very simple Flash game. https://data.runhello.com/f/swim6/  Happy birthday to the Internet SHAREWARE version of Quake! πππΎπ₯
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 @dosnostalgic it's fun how in Doom and Quake the best episode is the one that was distributed in shareware version.
Don't get me wrong, the other are good too, but leave impact on player. Didn't even finished Doom episodes, but maybe I just like Quake more. :) This reminds me. I should probably look into how to recompile Quake 3, since for reasons unknown it's hardcoded to limit the default amount of players on a server to 8, even though there are 10 available slots in the creation screen π (and I have 10 LAN machines going at LI Retro.) So the Quake 3 engine is cooler than I expected for a 1999 game. Turned out that it's not all one executable, but a bunch of DLLs that are loaded at runtime. So I just had to recompile the UI dll, and drop it in the BASEQ3 folder, and it just works. π ΠΡΠΉΠ΄Ρ Π½Π° ΠΊΡΡΡΡ ππ΅ #OPL3MIDI StrataVision was the 3D modeling and rendering package used to produce graphics of the original Myst. They are so proud of this that even right now if you get the latest version of it ("Strata Design 3D SE", free on Steam,) it comes with a bunch of Myst assets in its library: Pretty amazing visuals generated by a 256 *byte* executable in MS-DOS: π―
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@dosnostalgic it feels sinful to stream a recording of that from YouTube, using orders of magnitude more space than the executable. It isn't an April Fools' joke?  A photo by Anastasiya Berthier. HEY WAIT A MINUTE! ππππ Computer, enhance!  @dosnostalgic i just went to that insta and holy shit, i feel sorry for her back. that's not going to age well.
 This β xmas tree decoration was just a wire interspersed with light bulbs, plugged into a 220v outlet. When I was a kid ours broke, so I opened it up. 2 metal bits that held a bulb were bent, so I tried to bend them back, forgetting to unplug the thing. I grabbed both, 1 hand each, & completed the circuit with my body.
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 @Anatoly ShashkinπΎ Oh, how many times as a kid I got "energized" repairing a garland - I can't count!
  DOS Subsystem for Linux integrates a real Linux environment into MS-DOS systems, allowing users to make use of both DOS and Linux applications from the DOS command prompt.
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@dosnostalgic Very cool, but just like WSL am driven mad by the naming, a DOS subsystem for Linux is dosbox, I have that. This is a Linux subsystem for DOS. @dosnostalgic and then inside that box I want to launch Win95! In Quake console command "showturtle 1" will show a little turtle icon in the top left corner of the screen when frame rate drops below 10 fps.
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 @dosnostalgic so that's what that tortoise was for. I remember digging into the files and seeing it but I never caught that. Cool. If you saw me not noticing the legs and writing turtle before no you didn't. Ignore that indicator that this was edited in the corner. The file was actually named turtle. I remember that even without the image. :p  @dosnostalgic If you want to test this, remove the cooler from your gpu and wait a bit with quake running :neocat_devil: FALLOUT ET TU, a project that brings FALLOUT 1 into the engine of FALLOUT 2 almost 1:1, but with lots of improvements  @dosnostalgic Brilliant way to play the original. I played the whole thing a year or so ago and it worked flawlessly. Felt slightly cheaty being able to give Ian power armour, but let's not sweat the details |
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I thought I heard the buzz of a dot matrix printer
@dosnostalgic It still works, but while it used to move smoothly it now makes disconcerting grinding noises.
@dosnostalgic you probably need to blow out a lot of dust with compressed air. (warning do not attempt, death possible)