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Sup peeps. I’m stable af.
I was thinking the album yes fragile. Check it out on on youtube. The song roundabout if nothing else.
Rick Beato thinks it’s great too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFisOTDzGuE
The kids have heard that one, it’s the credits song on season 1 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures.
Hey, that’s MY activation key!
Not real. The Bs and 8s are clearly different.
I had the same key on my XP disc.
What the hell? That’s the same combination as my luggage!
How do you know my WiFi password???
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!
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.
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
Thx for the key shithead
Have fun with XP? Not sure Microsoft even cares anymore
They didn’t even care back then, they sure as fuck don’t care now.
At least 35. Maybe closer to 40.
I was going to disagree with you because I had a copy of Windows XP on the disc in my drawer, but then I remembered that I am 35 so thanks for that.
Not exactly Workbench 1.3 disk 1 is it?
Came here to post just that :D
Please. You’re talking to a man here who ripped his entire CD collection into iTunes … and then backed his library up on 1.44 MB floppies.
I have certain programs that were ripped from my father’s 7.5" floppies. They have gone through 3.5" floppies, to CDs, to thumb drives.
The Data shall Remain.
If it is on a thumb drive then probably not lol, these things are more fragile than a Redditor
I’m this old
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fucking Geos man… I remember doing homework on its word processor…
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 😀
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
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.)
laughs in C64 BASIC
lollers I was just going through my stuff and agonizing if I should chuck my XP stuff.
Well you’re a huge nerd!
I feel the same way about my Composite to SCART adaptor cable
I have one, and I’m in North America… I saw it at a thrift store and recognized it, not something I expected to see at a Goodwill.
Yeah American TVs never seem to have them. I’m not sure why.
They were awful actually, they were far larger than they needed to be and they were very much like USB in that you needed to turn them over three times in order to insert them. It’s not even as if the picture quality was even any better than composite so I don’t know why we bothered.
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.
