Retro Computing - How We Survived

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Long Distance was expensive if you wanted to dial out to a good BBS somewhere far away in 1988.

This is what some of us did as kids/adults to circumvent $1000+ phone bills a month from Bell.

http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/BOXES/

ie. “How to Blue Box into Russia”

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From my first Compaq with Pentium 1 processor and 24gb RAM I still have the processor in paper and a wood box (to protect it from humidity).

I still remember playing Lotus 3 in MS-DOS. Damn I loved that speed zone.

I also remember playing F1 Grand Prix with my cousins.

And I will never forget watching my very first porn on that PC.

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Rusty & Eddies.

When done, &TOTSE.

That Lotus is nicer than that Blonde and less maintenance bills. I’m just saying… Anal is trickier in a 2 seater. Wagons are ideal for that.

You only need one seat for anal.

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CHEASE N PEPERONI

Reverse cowgirl gets boring. Need to dog. Variety is the spice of life.

Tucows … I just remember them for some shareware stuff … And for shareware, I used another (non-Tucows) site called NoNags :sunglasses:

The playability of those C64 and later Amiga games (Superfrog!) was enormous. My father did have an 8088, original PC and later 286 6 MHz :laughing: I had a CPM/64 computer before I got my first Commodore. But also played with something called ABC806 (or 807?) or something … Had a pretty cool basic :notes::sunglasses::nerd_face:

Was anyone here into the Sierra “Quest” series? King’s Quest, Space Quest?

Also Maniac Mansion and Secret of Monkey Island were some of my favorites of that time.

Oh, Wing Commander series too!

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Commander Keen will always be my favorite DOS game. Red Alert a close second.

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I think I completed at least two Space Quest and maybe one or two King’s Quest games. (+ some other stuff, Larry etc.)

Monkey Island and Wing Commander also sound familiar. Think I had a bunch of floppies for Wing Commander something :joy:

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Duke Nukem 3D in your browser

Can take a while to load… but works

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Yessir. Loved Maniac Mansion and…

I get the feeling that Futurama was in some way inspired by this game.

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What was the name of that C64 game with the caveman on the unicycle ?

Graphic/Text Adventure

Great game actually.

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that’s it… lol

haven’t seen that for many many years