Original copies? WTF? I mean, I had this version too, but I never ever saw the originals my disks were a copy of.
Here in former Yugoslavia, we got one original copy that got distributed to (probably) the whole country. Old times were so fun.
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
Now I want to brag with my CPM3.0 floppies for the C128… But parents sold the computer when I wasn’t looking :(
:’(
That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.
Another commenter posted, you can just get it from Wikipedia
Its been blacklisted by Microsoft for 20 years
Fucking Microsoft! Always ruining my plans!
I think that’s the same key I had memorized when I worked for a sketchy PC repair place as a teen.
Typing CD keys was such a feeling when it was for a brand new game you can’t wait to play, pure despair if you mistyped something and it didn’t accept but then you corrected the error, biggest sense of relief of my childhood
My first typing was a game into C64 using machine code. Game magazines at that time dedicated a few pages with lines of hex numbers for games. After typing 4 pages you had a game.
Unfortunately, I‘ve got my data tape recorder two month later for xmas. And mom was nervous about keeping the power on for days. I entered those numbers quite some times. Load„*“,8,1
That’s some hardcore ‘cd key’ typing lol
The joy of typing binary from a magazine into a hex editor :) we did it as two people, one reading, one typing, but I believe we only ever completed one of the smaller listings.
I’ll leave this here – it was maddening, but so satisfying and magical to have a running program after seemingly endless typing: https://archive.org/details/1990-11-compute-magazine/page/0-34/mode/1up?view=theater
I’m this old
I remember when I first saw floppies and how amazing it was to load things instantly instead of waiting minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape.
Lol you rich kids and your cassette drives. I cut my teeth on my friend’s VIC-20 which didn’t have a hard disk or a tape drive (they were available but my friend’s parents couldn’t afford one). If we wanted to play a game, we had to type it in in BASIC every time.
My ZX Spectrum clone didn’t have a “tape drive”, it had a cable that you could use to connect any tape player to it. We didn’t have a specialized tape player for it, we attached the same one we played music on.
I can’t remember if the tape drive came with a TRS-80, but I do remember using the tape drive port to get sound from games like pacman. Basically it was hack to use the save to cassette to make sounds for the computer.
This game contains programming which produces sound effects that leave the computer through the AUX plug in the cassette cable. To hear the sound follow these instructions: First, load in the game. Remove the tape from the recorder if you loaded the game from cassette. Insert the large grey plug on the cassette cable into the AUX jack on the recorder. Insert an earphone into the jack labeled EAR on the recorder. Pop open the cassette door on the top of the recorder and reach in and hold in the interlock switch that is located in the left rear corner. Now press Record & Play together and then release the interlock switch. Sound should now come through the earphone.
I had the pleasure of working with 8” floppy drives with the Social Security Administration.
ahh yes, the good old bunch of games on a disk. my grandpa went so hard that he had a printed catalog of which games were on which number-stickered disk
This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I’m also old. Goddamnit.
Did your dad ever find out if it was real, or if it was Memorex?
Maybe it’s Maybeline!
If you get old enough everyone’s parents used to work for a big tech company. My mother who can barely operate her phone, used to work for a company that manufactured microchips.
My mother used to work for a company that made magnetic core memory.
That’s the kind of memory that predates semiconductors and it was assembled by hand using gold wire and tiny ferrite rings.
She does know how to use a PC and has a tablet, though 😀
Holy shit… I’m Pitfall old too. What a shit game.
You shut your pretty little whore mouth! I loved Pitfall!
…but also I was 4, and as we all know, kids are stupid.
When I was four I loved pong.
I read this while I was power walking to the bus stop. I read it as:
When I was four I loved pegging.
I had SO MANY questions. None of which I wanted answered.
Pong is still arguably a balanced, and therefore good game. Especially if you were playing the Atari or Texas Instruments versions, since those may have been some of the last mainstream video games that didn’t cheat in favor of anyone. Neither the player or the computer was favored, which became the norm for most video games rather quickly thereafter.
Both. A nerd new nerds. The Ti friends had that shoot ‘em up gunslinger game… it was basically pong with a hat and guns.
Non No Falsch Nee
all of those work in German.LOAD “*”,8,1 . I was there, too shakes cane and ruffles grey hairs (It was a wonderful era. The current generation doesn’t know what they missed.)
Fucking Geos man… I remember doing homework on its word processor…
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I miss when they just sent free CDs.
Damn, I think I once asked for their version 8 CD, was amazed at it!
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Windows XP is what made me switch to Linux.
Ubuntu is what made me stick with ANY distro as long as it was not Ubuntu. Most crashy breaky thing ever.
That’s funny, me too! I switched to Mandrake or Mandriva. I liked Ubuntu (Kubuntu specifically), and never had any crash issues, but I wound up going to gNewSense and then Trisquel when those came out.
what’s the license number for Ubuntu?
Here it is friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfELJU1mRMg
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*FCKGW
I had the same key on my XP disc.
What the hell? That’s the same combination as my luggage!
That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life! That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Say, remind me later to change the combination on my luggage…
How do you know my WiFi password???
I was thinking the same thing! I swear I’ve used this key.
You 100% did, it was the most used winxp key out there, it always works until Microsoft fucked it.
Finally, now I don’t need to have to call a number to get my XP activated, I can just use this.
For those not in the know, XP’s activation requirements are so harsh that your computer just gets disabled completely after the 30 day grace period if you don’t activate at all. I live in a place where people really don’t tend to buy operating systems, so this was a gigantic letdown.
You know what? Fuck Windows XP. There. I said it. And I’m taking the downvotes without remorse.
Fuck Windows XP
I think it’s allowed to hate anti-customer practices and have good memories of an actually somewhat user-friendly OS that just worked for many people in many other regards.
I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.
So I am not mad at you. You shall be forgiven, and I am even going to turn the other cheek and give you an upvote. It’s what Windows XP would’ve wanted me to do, too, I am sure of it.
Your opinion shall forever be respected.
I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.
Windows 7 was the first and last version that I didn’t immediately (and lastingly) despise. Something something stopped clocks etc.
This is the internet. You can say “fuck GW”, it’s fine
I think people say “fuck Games Workshop” even on reddit
I was thinking “Fuck George W”
I thought it was people arguing about BASIC-A vs GW-BASIC.
Oh, that didn’t stand for GoneWild ?
Ahhh, the good old copy of windows xp that was stolen from Microsoft a month before release and spread it’s beautiful self all around the world, I had that code memorised for a long while, I called it the fuck code.
Floppy disk with Win 3.11
Yes, I have also installed windows from a very small stack of floppies. Windows 3.1
Also; You are at a crossroads, there are roads to the north, south and east. There is a dwarf, the dwarf throws an axe at you. The axe misses
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3.1 was my first OS too. JezzBall and Chip’s Challenge went hard.
The key that’s so commonly used, it’s in Wikipedia.
I remember a photo of a guy holding the burned XP CD while he’s standing at the front entrance of Microsoft. Pretty cool
At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.
This is the oldest I currently have pictures of.
