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Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by Thin_icE »

huhtenberg wrote: post #89

> The day has come and gone and I didn't get a happy birthday card from Disney with the Monkey Island IP tucked inside. Disney got the Monkey Island IP when they bought Lucas Arts. The first thing they did with it was to pull an excellent MI remake off the iOS Apple Store. The explanation was that it was diluting their Pirates of the Caribbean brand... which is clearly some Grade A bullshit. So I really doubt that Ro…

the more we talk about it, the more disney will think it has value and will hold on to it.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by simonklitj »

serf wrote: post #100
cranesan wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were you burning CDs with enough contents to get close to the capacity of the disk? (~650mb-700mb?) I had a similar issue, also in the late 1990s, so I understand the stress around wasting those $20 blanks. Found out a few years later that the drives were defective, and would often (but not always!) have buffer errors when burning discs close to capacity. (something that you'd often WANT to do, to maximize the value…

>Found out a few years later that the drives were defective, and would often (but not always!) have buffer errors when burning discs close to capacity there was a slew of software hacks in most cd burning suites that'd attempt to deal with that problem across the industry. believe it or not : time dependent FIFO buffers are capital H Hard. Or at least they were back then.. I suspect the damage done by poorly construc…

A little interested! What exactly are FIFO buffers?

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by gre »

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #96

>> For the younger readers out there: These are not USB devices and you can't text your friends or watch TikTok videos on them. I know. Crazy. Tsk. Please. We've all seen CD disks before, you know.

Fun fact, the D stood for disks, so you're literally saying "Compact Disks Disks".

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by BucketsMcG »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #4

I first played Monkey Island well after its time, but it held up and I enjoyed it immensely. I recall specifically being impressed by the twist in the insult-sword-fighting mechanic that occurs when you fight the Sword Master. I maintain that the game holds up even today, though obviously nostalgia bias probably applies.

I think a case could be made that those insults are some of the first digital memes. Even to this day, they're still widely-recognised catchphrases among nerds and nerd-adjacents of a certain age. Before Monkey Island you only really got that effect from TV/movies/radio.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

serf wrote: post #100
cranesan wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were you burning CDs with enough contents to get close to the capacity of the disk? (~650mb-700mb?) I had a similar issue, also in the late 1990s, so I understand the stress around wasting those $20 blanks. Found out a few years later that the drives were defective, and would often (but not always!) have buffer errors when burning discs close to capacity. (something that you'd often WANT to do, to maximize the value…

>Found out a few years later that the drives were defective, and would often (but not always!) have buffer errors when burning discs close to capacity there was a slew of software hacks in most cd burning suites that'd attempt to deal with that problem across the industry. believe it or not : time dependent FIFO buffers are capital H Hard. Or at least they were back then.. I suspect the damage done by poorly construc…

I was bulk ripping CDs a few months ago and was running multiple SCSI drives to increase my throughput. The current Linux SCSI drivers will lock up the bus when you insert a disc and ruin any transfers already in progress on another drive. You'd think something like that would have been resolved at this point.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

dudul wrote: post #14
germinalphrase wrote: post #3

I was just the right age when ‘Monkey Island’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis’ appeared in my life. That kind of in-world puzzle solving seems absent from a lot of what I see my early-teenage nieces/nephews (choose to) play now.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is the true 4th Indiana Jones movie in my book. And yes, I'll die on that hill.

Same here, FoA beats the Kingdom of Crystal Skull any day. A true sequel that filly captures the spirit of the movies

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by haecceity »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #107

Monkey Island was great. To this day I occasionally use insults learned during the swordfighting part of the game. Also, the MI theme was once my ringtone on a good old Siemens S65i

You fight like a dairy farmer

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by myself248 »

jedberg wrote: post #84

In the middle it links to the post he made on the 25th anniversary, which talks about how they would ship the gold masters to Europe. He says they didn't have time in the schedule to mail it, so they would go to the airport, find a flight to London, walk up to the gate and find a passenger and ask them to carry a pack of disks with them, and tell them someone at the other end would meet them at the gate to pick it up…

A friend of mine had this happen with a processor card for a telephone switch. A bad software update had hosed up the primary card in such a way that it also made the standby unable to function, and they were capital-D Down for hours. The manufacturer was in Texas, the switch was in Michigan.

The soonest flight was a passenger flight, not a cargo flight, so they bought the box a ticket and sent it on its way. At the receiving airport, a logistics company picked it up and drove it straight to the office in need.

Thing is, the logistics company sent a semi. Because they hadn't been told the size of the shipment, just its declared value, and they reasoned that anything worth mid six figures must be big. So this intrepid truck driver couldn't (in a timely fashion) get close to the building, and ended up jogging across the parking lot with the card under his arm, as the tech headed down the elevator to meet him at the door.

"Sign here. What the heck is this thing, anyway?"

"Twenty thousand people's ability to call 911. Thanks, gotta go!"

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