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by aricz 1y ago
AMIGAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
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by aricz 2y ago
Scumsoft Software and Elmo Pug, the fat dude that walked around whipping the programmers. Scumsoft Software was of course Sierra On-Line, and Elmo Pug was Ken Williams. They did get away with it, Ken Williams approved :D
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by aricz 2y ago
Haha, I remember this with Leisure Suit Larry 1. When you knock on the door at Lefty's Bar, a guy opens a hatch in the door and asks "What's the password?". Then you need to type "ken sent me" and press enter.
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by aricz 3y ago
Maybe you were thinking of Softporn Adventure from 1981. It's a text adventure game by Sierra (at the time they were called On-Line Systems), and Leisure Suit Larry 1 is a graphical adaption of it. Source Wikipedia.
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by aricz 3y ago
The first Leisure Suit Larry game was released 1987.
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by aricz 4y ago
Hah, nice piece of trivia, I didn't know. How are the item levels down at level 200, because droprates and stuff are based on dungeonlevel right?
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by aricz 4y ago
I went quite deep into Angband, but I remember playing Zangband too. I think it had a mindcrafter/psionist class, which I loved.
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by aricz 4y ago
I'll add Angband to the list. A hack-and-slash roguelike. 1 town, 100 dungeon levels, kill Morgoth and win the game. Diablo 1 was heavily inspired by this game (and Moria).
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by aricz 4y ago
Same, Asphyxia tutorials were considered very good back in the day for democoding in x86 asm. I think they were included in "Programmer's Heaven", a CD full of (obviously) programming guides, tutorials and technical manuals
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by aricz 4y ago
Check out Lex Fridman and John Carmack interview. Also read Masters of Doom. I think the key with Carmack is that he's a workaholic, and he expects the same from the ones around him.
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by aricz 4y ago
I didn't know, I should've put "I assume the name is from...". It just made too much sense. Nibbler being a 4-bit CPU and "nibble" meaning 4 bits.
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by aricz 4y ago
Nice article, I remember the thrill of calling new bbs' back then. Especially the elite-bbs' and getting hold of the NUP (new user password). This is also where my love of ascii-/ansiart started. And lets not forget door-game
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by aricz 4y ago
For those who don't know, the name is taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble
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by aricz 4y ago
93. When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop. <3
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by aricz 4y ago
I would say 150mcg is a moderate dose, maybe pushing into the high dose territory. Anything beyond is high dose. And kamikaze at 500mcg? Beyond that you have thumbprints. All subjective, and the lines become fuzzy.
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by aricz 4y ago
Edibles can kick your arse in a major way and go on for hours. I've had a few experiences that surpasses most of my trips on LSD. But I agree that a moderate-high dose of LSD that goes south is much harder to control. Sometimes it&#x27
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by aricz 4y ago
Sierra On-Line used 555-XXXX in many of their adventure games. I remember 555-6969 from Leisure Suit Larry 1 :)
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by aricz 4y ago
"... Initial speculation pointed to John Carmack as the probable author of the code, but the original authors were much earlier in 3D computer graphics. Rys Sommefeldt concluded that the original algorithm was devised by Greg Walsh at
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by aricz 4y ago
I stand corrected, you're right. You only need to press F6 <enter>.
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by aricz 4y ago
mode 13h was 320x200 resolution with 256 colors. A000h was the top left pixel.
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by aricz 4y ago
int 20h for .com, and ah=4ch; int 21h; for .exe
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by aricz 4y ago
alt+f6 <enter> to save
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by aricz 4y ago
Speaking of 256 byte demos, I have to push these out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1joQfp78Yo (tube by 3SC) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdaMbGPEXV8 (A Mind is Born by lft). Impressive stuff indeed
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by aricz 4y ago
Bitwarden.
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by aricz 5y ago
VR - Check out Oculus Quest 2 for a cheap wireless standalone consumer device. If it had better resolution I think it could hit the mainstream. Or maybe it's already happening.
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by aricz 5y ago
I use HHKB Professional 2 https://www.hhkeyboard.com/uk/products/pro2 . Typing feels mellow, and I enjoy the "thock" sound it creates. It looks sexy (black/charcoal with blank keys). It also has Unix
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by aricz 5y ago
High quality PC-speaker music https://youtu.be/Xqjs1SPF9KY
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by aricz 5y ago
*takes off his pants* AMIGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
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by aricz 5y ago
And then you check out Second Reality 64 by Smash Designs https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1216 Yes, it's Second Reality on the Commodore 64 <3
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by aricz 6y ago
Good to see someone else remembering the mouse gestures. It was what hooked me, together with being a fast browser at the time. On a sidenote, I stopped using Opera when they included a torrent-client in their webbrowser. The amount of bloa

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