Definitely not me but man I remember headbanging to my friends keygen software from Razor1911
I have an mp3 of the patcher/keygen by Digital Insanity for Sony Vegas in my music collection. Such a banger, even after all those years.
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#72Wow, that brings back memories. Long nights, CRTs, that fresh and health-promoting smell of warm electronics in poorly ventilated spaces, microwaved garbage food, sugary drinks … not sure how my friends and I survived until adulthood.
I need to find a CRT and recreate one of those nights. Always wanted a 17" Viewsonic.
Oh boy. I got my friend's old CRT when he was moving. Carried down 3 flights of narrow stairs, drove the hour back to my house, loaded it up the front steps, got my PS2 out of the attic, was so excited... and the PS2 doesn't work anymore.
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#73Side note, I have and will continue to pronounce "Warez" like the Mexican city Juarez. I know it's wrong, but I read the word years before I heard someone pronounce it and it's stuck in my head that way.
yeah, we've all pronounced it like that in xUSSR..
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#74To prove that you are elite, what do these mean: RZR, FLT, DRG, TDT, TRSI? Oh wait, you can just look these up on the internet :(
I miss tKC (The Keyboard Caper) and Phrozen Crew. FAiRLiGHT was popular during the game CD / SecurROM days iirc. PARADOX, CLASS, SKIDROW and RELOADED I remember as well. Reading .nfo files was fun, the artwork was great too.
Man, I do remember those names - never would have guessed that the groups that provided me so many games would make me feel nostalgic...
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#75brings back memories https://ghuntley.com/under-suspicion/ the person who taught me how to program ran the r1911 botnet and was taken down in operation buccaneer.
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#76Definitely not me but man I remember headbanging to my friends keygen software from Razor1911
The artist behind a lot of that still makes music - under the name dubmood! I like this song for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7RE8ue6V74
Another Razor 1911 musician runs an internet radio station: https://scenesat.com/
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#77Side note, I have and will continue to pronounce "Warez" like the Mexican city Juarez. I know it's wrong, but I read the word years before I heard someone pronounce it and it's stuck in my head that way.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say you'll feel miserable and will wonder what is it you are missing from the old days. We look at it with rose tinted glasses, but for all practical purposes, everything was significantly worse back then. The kind of hardware and software we have available today was the stuff of the wildest dreams and imagination. I remember we could spend entire weeks in 4 player Doom 2 deathmatch during summer with my friends.…
Recently I played a game of Civilization 1. It actually did take a me back to that feeling of awe that I had as a child, except now the sound worked and I was able to read English so I actually knew how to play, which enhanced the experience.
There’s actually an SNES version of Civ. Surpassingly playable without a mass, but processing time on turn end is really long. To the point where it’s not really playable past, say, 1700 or so because it gets to the point where it takes over a minute to end each turn and advance.
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#79NFO viewers on GitHub:
https://github.com/model-map/EmpressNfo
https://github.com/syndicodefront/infekt
nfo files were used to describe the release.
Similar to FILE_ID.DIZ files, which were a way to describe a zip file for bbs software to index them.
Another good article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrinkOrDie
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#80I learnt to code primarily by writing IRC bots for these groups + wrote an auto-trading FXP client in C++ that looked for pres dropping in top site channels, and automatically FXP couriered to other topsites.
I wish I'd know back then (13 years old) what I know now (39) in terms of even simple things like linked lists, linear programming, estimators, etc, could have dominated.
The "hardcore" in the scene would actually set up shell boxes and write a bunch of shell scripts to do auto trading. That also piqued my interest in learning Linux and Bash scripting.