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you're not old enough..
« on: Sep 20, 2011, 12:00PM »
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #1 on: Sep 20, 2011, 02:08PM »
Bahahaha.. Without giving away too much I remember these days.. And it was a god send when upgraded... so phone calls could be allowed at the same time lol ;D
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #2 on: Sep 21, 2011, 05:47PM »
hahahahaa... yes!!
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #3 on: Sep 21, 2011, 06:36PM »
Indeed, Crimson Skies and Midtown Madness over dial-up for me! :)
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #4 on: Sep 21, 2011, 06:58PM »
fk yes! good ol' starcraft where 300 ping was teh win.

I remember direct dialing to my cousins house and playing red alert for hours on end.
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #5 on: Sep 21, 2011, 08:42PM »
haha thats awesome!

I remember you could pick up the phone and whistle and it will whistle back lol...would drop the connection thought haha
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #6 on: Sep 21, 2011, 11:00PM »
uh huh

ye old BBS days...I remember d/l'd the anarchists cookbook....that shit would get you on a dozen watch lists these days!!!

Made for interesting reading, about the only thing I ever tried from it was the phreaking stuff, I was fucking wrapt when I could make free calls from old telstra payphones using a portable dtmf dialler from an old answering machine!

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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #7 on: Sep 22, 2011, 05:19PM »
LMFAO love the gif bring back memories used to take a week to dl a movie

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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #8 on: Sep 24, 2011, 01:21PM »
those facial expressions are pretty much how i felt when trying to connect.
The old USSR had a single time zone. They had a hammer and sickle in the ground near the Kremlin much like a sundial.
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Moscow Time?
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #9 on: Sep 25, 2011, 09:48PM »
middle of the night, trying to sneak on....
*clicks dial*
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERAAAAAARRRRRR RR
!!1 OMG WHERE MUTE ?!?
*parents yelling*
FML >O<
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #10 on: Sep 29, 2011, 09:39PM »
Gezzzzz brings be back to when i was playing age of empires and first got age of mythology and played that online.......

Good times
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #11 on: Sep 30, 2011, 10:46PM »
thats when lans where the best multiplayer...that would have been when the DL DVD burners where introduced..x4 speed... pure awesomeness
the words "race car" spelled backward still spell "race car"? 




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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #12 on: Oct 2, 2011, 12:40AM »
thats when lans where the best multiplayer...that would have been when the DL DVD burners where introduced..x4 speed... pure awesomeness

you mean cd burners?
I had an 8x creAtive cd burner, cost nearly $300 o.O
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #13 on: Oct 2, 2011, 05:25PM »
I feel way too young reading this thread. I mean, don't get me wrong, I've used a commodore 64 - but that was only 5 or so years ago, when i started learning about computers. :P

And good GOD do I remember that noise. Although it's longer than I remember... Just a fraction. Maybe I got the 'updated' version? ;)

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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #14 on: Oct 2, 2011, 09:01PM »
Jungle Jill ftw!

shitters, i'd forgotten that game! I used to go next door and play with the kids there, and the youngest boy would always make her crouch down cos you could see more boobage. haha! crazy kid.
The old USSR had a single time zone. They had a hammer and sickle in the ground near the Kremlin much like a sundial.
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Hammer Time.

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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #15 on: Oct 2, 2011, 09:20PM »
I genuinly don't remember that! I just remember thinking "why are all the apples half eaten and why would she want them so badly?". Despite that, I always collected every single apple in each level... or near enough.

Jumping a few generations forward, whenever I think of a cartoon/video game and apple-eating (which is scarily common), I always think of Crash Bandicoot and collecting the Wumpa fruit. That noise. That's the generic "cartoon eating an apple' noise in my head. ;D

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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #16 on: Oct 2, 2011, 10:52PM »
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I've used a commodore 64
a c64 with a tape drive! easy 40min load time , the for the side 2!
games where easy to dupe,  :D
the words "race car" spelled backward still spell "race car"? 




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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #17 on: Oct 3, 2011, 11:59AM »
Yeah they had then sneaky little mini-games in them that required an answer from the manual. Or off the box. or made by a "code wheel" where you match these symbols to make the code, seemed fun at the time. But without these things you couldn't continue the game. That's right, very early forms of copy protection. =P
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #18 on: Oct 4, 2011, 02:00PM »
you mean cd burners?
I had an 8x creAtive cd burner, cost nearly $300 o.O

first double speed cd-rom drive my old man bought me, came with a 16bit creative sound card, was $540.

you couldn't write cd's back then!

My first computer was an old P-II running DOS. Jungle Jill ftw! Then we got a P4 celeron and started playing doom...

my first 'ibm comatible' pc was a 486 SX25 which had turbo boost to 33mhz. i never understood why you couldn't just run it at 33 all the time, or if the turbo boost was complete bs. it had a 250mb hard drive, 4gb of ram and a 256kb video card.

it ran doom pretty well actually, but it couldn't run doom 2. i was learning autocad at school at the time (v10, in dos) and i found a copy of it on a bbs and downloaded it (1 x 1.44mb disk), i couldn't however run autocad either, as it required the cpu to have a maths co-processor, which the 486 sx chips didn't have, so i went on the hunt for a dx chip.

i found myself a 486 DX-2 66 for $50. i didn't even think about motherboard compatibility, didn't realise it was an issue. luckily it wasn't.. i swapped it in (no heat sinks back then!) and away i went.

not only could i use my pirated autocad v10 at home, but i could also play doom 2.

absolute fucking winner!


my first computer however, was an Amstrad CPC 6128, 4mhz cpu and 128kb of RAM, complete with a 3" floppy disk built into the keyboard and a colour screen! i felt so much cooler than my uncle cause he had the CPC 464 with the tape deck in the keyboard.
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #19 on: Oct 4, 2011, 02:21PM »
4gb ram is awesome! :-p
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #20 on: Oct 4, 2011, 03:06PM »
4gb ram is awesome! :-p
Yep. Noss im calling bs unless your real name is Marty :P

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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #21 on: Oct 5, 2011, 01:31AM »

my first 'ibm comatible' pc was a 486 SX25 which had turbo boost to 33mhz. i never understood why you couldn't just run it at 33 all the time, or if the turbo boost was complete bs. it had a 250mb hard drive, 4gb of ram and a 256kb video card.

The turbo button was to help with emulations of older games. Some older games didn't have an instruction to tell the computer how time was to be perceived. It would just take so many turns/frames per so many clock cycles. as a result if you ran on a faster processor the game itself would run like it was on crack and a 100 shot of noss. The button was to just slow the processor in order to emulate older games. So you really were supposed to run on turbo all the time unless playing said game =P
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Re: you're not old enough..
« Reply #22 on: Oct 5, 2011, 09:23AM »
4gb ram is awesome! :-p

oops.. 4mb of ram. upgraded it to 8mb of ram for $380 a few years later!

The turbo button was to help with emulations of older games. Some older games didn't have an instruction to tell the computer how time was to be perceived. It would just take so many turns/frames per so many clock cycles. as a result if you ran on a faster processor the game itself would run like it was on crack and a 100 shot of noss. The button was to just slow the processor in order to emulate older games. So you really were supposed to run on turbo all the time unless playing said game =P

sorry i did run it on turbo all the time, i mean, why the button was there cause i ran it on turbo all the time.. having a bad day man!

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