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those 30% market share machines are the gaming machines I want though. I wait [ramageddon] it out on an i7-2600 with ddr3. yay intel comeback?

netcraft confirms it

Persistent Online Pirates sounds like a scene group

i declare netbsd!

Penn State @ 6 deaths this year, measles all along the Appalachian trail this year

I mostly collected them and made menus on backup-disks and didn’t play them a lot, but Mail Order Monsters was cool, made by the people who made Archon and had some of the gameplay. Raid on Bungling Bay had it’s engine reused for the first Sim City. The Infocom adventures like Hitchhikers guide and Suspended, the Zorks, The Bards Tales, Ultima 4, Maniac mansion, Paradroid, Racing Destruction Set, Adventure Construction Set, montezuma’s revenge, guess I could go on all day the longer I think about it the more there were

They were all pirated. It’s amazing how well these games got distributed in schools via friends before the internet. Had the c64 from the day it was released until the Amiga came out, it was only 3 years, yet the amount of distribution and networking in those 3 years was substantial. Physical meet copy parties were a huge thing and morphed into other kinds of groups (like D&D) when people mostly outgrew casual childhood piracy.

Moving from a Commodore 64 with 16 colors to an Amiga with 4096 was something in 1985, when IBM couldn’t do much better than the Commodore 64. Not to mention going from the 8 bit/64k to a meg of fully addressable RAM, the IBM side didn’t get their RAM shit together until mid-i386 territory.