This just came to my mind... I think everyone has still some hidden memories from their early days of computing, locked somewhere in the basement.
I'll want to share this one:
The first one is Flight Simulator 2 for Amiga. It features a cool cracktro with some heavy metal music (Judas Priest?) and the combat mode, which for me was the only fun aspect in the game.
The second disc is also Flight Simulator 2, bought by my dad, who actually liked it on the amiga. But this time for the Atari ST and lacking the combat mode (or it had a different key combination ::) )
Also the annoying position of the Atari's mouse/joystick-ports has to be mentioned to understand, what I did here :-[
1) We already owned Flight2
2) 10 Floppy Discs cost 30 to 40 DM back in 1987 (around 15 euro)
3) Flight2 sucks even more on the Atari, because you had to lift the computer and switch mouse and joystick in order to play it - and reverse it to play something else
4) It doesn't even have a cracktro
So without further explanation
(http://blog.sonores.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/flight2.jpeg)
That was the day, my dad explained the difference between copy and original to me...
I feel a little moronic :)
Not embarassing per se, but I spent A LOT of time drawing game logos on my pirated Amiga floppies. These aren't even all that elaborate, but they're the only ones I have at my house at the moment, the rest are at my mother's place. I wish I had my disks for The Untouchables and The Colonel's Bequest here to show you, I more or less drew the entire cover/title screen on those.
(http://shadowplaygame.googlepages.com/floppies.jpg)
Sadly, I had to throw all my old floppy's away last year. I think my fondest memories of games I ever owned on floppy, of which there were very, very few, would have to be Castle of Dr Brain and Beneath A Steel Sky.
Days of floppy were funny. I remember in school we just used to nick each others important floppy discs and smash them on the ground. This led to a lot of trouble! A particular floppy disc with a particularly sensitive document on it found its way to the person that should never have seen it too.
I was wondering, as I read your thread abstauber, about floppy days gone by and whether I miss them, or their crappy charm or just the "days of floppy". But no. I don't.
May floppy disks burn in hell, and the memories I have of them fall into a similarly hot vat of molten lava. The only thing I will say is that BASS was probably the most reliable set of floppys I owned, and we were amazed they could fit that game on them - especially with its "seemingly" 3D opening sequence.
The floppy version had the shortened intro and was not talkie, right?
How many disks it was?
I remember playing BASS and monkey island with floppies, and most of the time was spent on watching loading screens and searching for the right disk. For some reason, many of these large games weren't constructed so that a series of adjacent screens could be loaded from the same disk, but instead seemed spread out randomly over the disks.
But Abstauer, I feel a bit dumb here but I actually don't really understand your post. What was the embarrassing episode? I think I need the "further explanation"-version.
Must..... resist...... obvious.... joke.........
I have moved houses, countries, and back again, so my old floppys are most likely at the bottom of a dump. I had loads. A bunch of pirated stuff for the C=64 on the 5.12, then basically all the games I got bought for me as a kid. Things like Space Quest, Kings Quest, Eco Quest, Dr Brain. KQ 6 have about 15 discs. I remember that. Huge game for the time. Half of it was for the intro methinks.
I used to have Windows 95 on floppy. It took something ridiculous like 26 of them. Windows 7 now takes up most of a DVD. Progress!
Andail, here's some explaination
* individual way of spelling Bubble Bobble
* erasing Flight Sim 2 in favour of P.O.W (a cheesy clone of Operation Wolf)
* deleting a 200 DM game in general :P
* a nice and clean handwritten message, that this disc is now intended for amiga
(there's indeed a sequel of this FlightSimulator 2 affair, which I'll post when I find that floppy too)
In general I've started the thread to exhibit some sins of the childhood/youth/whatsoever... e.g. spelling mistakes, mis-punched 5 1/4" floppys, handdrawn labels of teenage queen poker and so on.
About floppys in general
What happens, if your 1 TB hdd crashes? Do you still have backups on your USB sticks, the today's floppy substitute? Or what will be in 20 years, will that hdd ever spin up again? ;) So for the (unwanted) archiving value, floppys did a good job.
I don't know if I'd have been clever enough to create CD-R/DVD backups at the age of eight ;)
Hehee! Buble Buble! :p
Does that disc play catchy jazzy/lounge tunes?!
Lol, it should have ;D
But here's, what the first disk did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxv3p5QpmZ4
I still have a box of Atari ST disks somewhere. They smell like the early 90's.
Lots of Ocean "Hit Squad!" budget re-releases. Bubble Bobble, Chase HQ, Shadow Warriors, Batman, etc. Some US Gold "Kixx" re-releases too; Strider, Turrican, Tusker...
And Cannon Fodder!
I had a relatively large stash of floppies, which I'd spend ages on the labels. Half the time I'd spend longer on the labels than I would playing the games.
I was far worse with the wonderful world of VHS, though. 3 (sometimes 4) movies on the cassette, thanks to using long play not standard play. I'd spend hours designing the labels, so that the fonts of the 3 movie titles would blend together nicely.
Then a week later, I'd have a new label to draw.
Kk, I'm getting it now.
I think I woke up on the I-don't-get-it side of the bed this morning. This feeling was amplified by SSH's post about an obvious joke.
Then at around 5 pm I got some more sleep and suddenly the world was crystal clear.
Except for SSH's obvious joke.
Quote from: Andail on Mon 23/03/2009 20:12:08
Then at around 5 pm I got some more sleep and suddenly the world was crystal clear.
Except for SSH's obvious joke.
SSH is just using humour to cover up his shame about last time it happened to him...
Quote from: AGA on Mon 23/03/2009 12:19:14
I used to have Windows 95 on floppy. It took something ridiculous like 26 of them. Windows 7 now takes up most of a DVD. Progress!
I've got Windows 3.0 on floppy, unopened in it's original box with the original shrinkwrap still on it. I have no idea why I'm keeping it.
Quote from: Evil on Tue 24/03/2009 02:24:30
I've got Windows 3.0 on floppy, unopened in it's original box with the original shrinkwrap still on it. I have no idea why I'm keeping it.
To remind you of the good ol' times?
I used to have the entire Internet on floppies.
Damn was it tedious to surf the web back then!
So that's a floppy too? :o
(http://blog.sonores.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/floppy.gif)
I'd get that round lesion checked, abstauber...and I don't think clamping your penis in a vise repeatedly is healthy!
I still have a box of Amiga hits in a secret cache beneath my bed along with some of my 80's Star Wars figures (I think the Millennium Falcon is back there somewhere) and some Small Soldiers collectibles someone bought for me one Christmas. Oh yeah, and a shitload of Nintendo Powers. Oh wait, this thread was about embarrassing things, right?
I suppose I could admit that I used to have an impressive Playboy collection from the 90's, and I bet the breasts of the women in them are very floppy nowadays!
My most embarrassing floppy moment came when my wife called me to bed and I couldn't get it u--
OH, THAT KIND OF FLOPPY. I threw any remaining floppy disks I may have had like 7 or 8 years ago. Hell, pretty soon CD-ROMs will be obselete. :(
I have buried in my BOX OF MYSTERY a few floppies containing Tetris, Prince of Persia, Wings of Fury...
Are they still available for download? I liked them.
MY MOST EMBARRESING FLOPPY WAS WHEN I COULDN'T GET MY PENIS ERECT
You need a new hard drive!
Back on topic.. hands up who's old enough to remember those floppy discs which were actually floppy? Meee!
Nothing special... just a sign of age.
Quote from: Stupot on Sun 29/03/2009 16:20:38
Back on topic.. hands up who's old enough to remember those floppy discs which were actually floppy? Meee!
Meh, I remember those. Its what happens when your school doesn't have an IT budget.
Quote from: OneDollar on Sun 29/03/2009 20:14:39
Meh, I remember those. Its what happens when your school doesn't have an IT budget.
Yeah exactly!
Or you are simply an old bastard!
This was the first game I ever made...
(http://www.onedollarproductions.co.uk/uploads/DQFloppy.jpg)
It had the debug mode left on accidentally, a fair few bugs, the odd near-unsolvable puzzle and because it was slightly larger than 1.44 MB I had to .zip the floppy version. Those arrows and letters were part of the broken and very crackable password protection (which was probably just as well because I forgot to include the password with the CD version). Still, it was better than version 2 which introduced a brand new game-breaking bug.
One day I'll get round to fixing it up and give it a place of honour on my website ;D
$1, is that the Konami code I see written one there? :D
~Trent
Hey 1$, this actually very nice (girls might say cute). Does this disc still work? As soon as I started draw a fancy sticker for my first adventure, the disc had read/write errors. So the disc is the only thing left of my first (text)adventure.
PS: I should really rename this thread ;)
Quote from: Trent R on Sat 04/04/2009 01:58:12
$1, is that the Konami code I see written one there? :D
They *are* always stealing my ideas.
Quote from: abstauber on Tue 07/04/2009 07:03:02
Does this disc still work?
Yes, its actually one of the least damaged disks I've got. Unfortunately its got part ??? of ??? of a spanned .zip file on there, rather than the original game files. I still have them backed up somewhere though...
Not really embarassing, but Im back home for easter hols and since my room is now "the storage room" were everyone kindly dumps their junk, I'v noticed a couple of floppy disks on my fathers desk that he doesnt even use, next to his computer (that he also doesnt use)
Here's oneI'm particularly proud of, beware its quite a large file so i haven't img tagged it
http://www.agsn.co.uk/16042009038.jpg
A particularly embarassing one, but im sure i was too old for it to be mine. At least its better than what was originally on it
http://www.agsn.co.uk/16042009039.jpg
Anyone remember joecartoon and the frog in a blender animation?
http://www.agsn.co.uk/16042009041.jpg
And the sequel to it Gerbil in a microwave?
http://www.agsn.co.uk/16042009043.jpg
Its a shame really I dont have a floppy drive anymore (whats the point?). I do however have loads of floppies with mouse drivers on them. How many mice do you go through exactly?
If you want embarassing though, i've left hard drives i don't use anymore unformatted and "backup cd's" lying around here, and i know my folks snoop around. Not good when theyre filled with porn :-\
QuoteAnyone remember joecartoon and the frog in a blender animation?
http://www.agsn.co.uk/16042009041.jpg
I of course remember frog in the blender. That damned program had a timed virus within it that attacked my bios at a specific time. I think it was like Christmas or New Years. This was at least 8-10 years ago (perhaps longer). I think it attacked a gigantic amount of computers. I remember hearing it on the radio.
Really? It was harmless. Never touched my comp. Maybe someone sent you a dodgy infected version?
Hmm. I was curious to see the dates of this virus and who it attacked and found a few google hits.
QuotePlease be informed that the joke regarding the frog being splattered in a blender and the fish joke (FISH.EXE and
BLENDER.EXE) are suspected to be infected with virus, which will activate on 28 May 99.
These 2 viruses are NOT found in the HOAX list. With the vendor advice please delete these 2 files immediately if you have them
in your hardisk.
So it wasn't Christmas or New Years. It was 10 days after by birthday. I had remembered it being around a 'special' occasion. :P
This other article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/05/24/BU107617.DTL
Said it attacked 300,000 computers in China alone. 11,000 in U.S.
Wow, guess i was lucky then. None of our computers died, but i guess i could have had a clean version.
Anyway Happy Birthday! Its 3am here.
Quote from: Stee on Fri 17/04/2009 02:39:01
Anyway Happy Birthday! Its 3am here.
And a month in the future, it seems! :P
Quote from: Hudders on Fri 17/04/2009 15:52:02
Quote from: Stee on Fri 17/04/2009 02:39:01
Anyway Happy Birthday! Its 3am here.
And a month in the future, it seems! :P
Yeah sorry i got a little confused
QuoteThat frog, sent via e-mail, also was the likely carrier of the dreadful Chernobyl computer virus that melted down my home PC on April 26.
From the link he gave and
Quote from: Ryan Timothy on Fri 17/04/2009 00:09:57
So it wasn't Christmas or New Years. It was 10 days after by birthday. I had remembered it being around a 'special' occasion. :P
This other article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/05/24/BU107617.DTL
Said it attacked 300,000 computers in China alone. 11,000 in U.S.
i have leasure suit larry for my commador its on like 8 floppy disks and someone overwrote them :( more a sad moment than a embarrassing floppy...
i also have a program called 'jolly roger cookbook' if any of you know what that is :P
I have all 6 disks of Windows 3.1 somewhere... not the originals... the backup disks that they highly recommend you make of your OS so that you always have a copy of Windows...
good times... good times...
lol i havent used windows for a long time... i cant even remember how to use it tbh :-X
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9897/oldfloppies.jpg)
I was surprized I actually still had the orignal disks that came with the Commodore 286. The disks are blank tho :P Guess they're too old by now
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/floppy.JPG)
I had to go and buy an external Floppy Disk Drive on my last computer because I was working inside of the computer with the power ON and fried the drive. That little Blue Spark might have done it. Stupid me, never work on a computer after having a few beers.
That is a picture of the external drive, which I don't need anymore, but I am still keeping it.
Domino
I still have my original disks of Windows 2.0 around somewhere that came with my Amstrad PC2286. I also still have the original boxes to larry 1,2,3 and 5, Amazon, Martian Memorandum, oh and the 5.25" high density version of Dark Seed. Hehe