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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 18, 2003, 01:44:53 pm

Title: Old magazine coverdiscs.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 18, 2003, 01:44:53 pm: Have any of you experienced the fun that can be had, installing stuff off old mag coverdiscs? For instance, I have been unearthing quite a number of them over the past few days. Today I found one with 3DMark 99 on it, which I duly installed. I can only think that the system of scoring has changed, as I got a score of about 7500. In 800 X 600. In 16 bit. With a Radeon 9000Pro. As you can guess, this is somewhat lower than my score under 3DMark2001!

Anyway, some more things I found on old discs. Paint Shop Pro. No version number, just Paint Shop Pro. Nasty! A demo of Z, the first chapters of Doom and Quake. 1 disc was just loads of game demos and shareware, including System Shock 1! Rise of the Triads, Raptor, Duke Nukem 2, Sam & Max! All these things are older than God’s dog, and predate my first entry into the world of PCs, so god only knows how and why I have the discs.

And what’s more, this thread does not have any real purpose, it’s just I’ve been unable to contact anyone else who might care about this amazing discovery. Has anyone else found anything interesting on old discs?
Title: Old magazine coverdiscs.
Post by: phreak on April 18, 2003, 02:09:59 pm: raptor rocks
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Post by: Stryke 9 on April 18, 2003, 02:18:15 pm: I don't do magazines, I just patrol junk shops, bargain bins, and yard sales. Get a ****load of old stuff- most of it's trash, but some is interesting... I think there was an original copy of Blood in there, Mortal Kombat 2, Warcraft II... I gave the last two away in a hurry, though I'd really like to find the Blood CD...
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Post by: Visionism on April 18, 2003, 03:30:26 pm: They have Blood and Blood 2 at HotU but I can't say I'd recommend the second one. Basically they dropped all the schlocky B movie stuff that made the first one so good.
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Post by: IceFire on April 18, 2003, 04:38:20 pm: Bah...I was playing games when the first Wolfenstine 3D came out. I was playing games when it was popular to have an NES...I was playing games on a C64 when I was 3 years old.

Those games are new by those standards :D
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Post by: demon442 on April 19, 2003, 12:29:00 am: I have cover disks to thank for my being here. Without that PC Accelerator disk I would never have heard about freespace 2 and would have bought IWar 2 instead of FS2. Too bad the mag went out of business, it introduced me to a lot.
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Post by: J.F.K. on April 19, 2003, 03:50:05 am: Quote
Originally posted by IceFire
...I was playing games on a C64 when I was 3 years old.

Ditto :) "Why would anyone need, nay, WANT more than sixty-four kilobytes of RAM?"
Title: Old magazine coverdiscs.
Post by: Amon_Re on April 19, 2003, 07:26:41 am: Since no-one seems to have mentioned it sofar.... I also played games when the Amiga was the hotness of computing :)

Cheers,
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Post by: 01010 on April 19, 2003, 08:14:18 am: Quote
Originally posted by Amon_Re
Since no-one seems to have mentioned it sofar.... I also played games when the Amiga was the hotness of computing :)

Cheers,

::Hugs his now dead A1200::

Oh emulation, what a wonderous thing you are.
Title: Old magazine coverdiscs.
Post by: Amon_Re on April 19, 2003, 08:43:33 am: You to eh?

My amiga's disk is now inside my PC, using it with WinUAE atm (Amithlon didn't like my nic) & waiting for AOS4 :)

But this is getting way off topic, so i'll just mention that i have afew hunderd coverdisks laying here in a box on the attic :)

And i do mean disks :) those were the days... :)

Cheers,
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Post by: an0n on April 19, 2003, 09:22:03 am: I once bought 5000 old BBC floppy coverdisks.

There was some cool **** on 'em.

Hundreds of games. Hundreds of crappy apps. All sorts of junk.
Title: Old magazine coverdiscs.
Post by: silverwolf on April 19, 2003, 10:56:51 am: the oldst game i have was one of those kings quest games. it had both big floppys and small floppys. about 6 in all.
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Post by: elorran on April 19, 2003, 02:07:28 pm: Quote
Originally posted by IceFire
Bah...I was playing games when the first Wolfenstine 3D came out. I was playing games when it was popular to have an NES...I was playing games on a C64 when I was 3 years old.

Those games are new by those standards :D

Ah, the good old days. :)
Title: Old magazine coverdiscs.
Post by: Sandwich on April 20, 2003, 05:17:19 pm: I actually am a step ahead of you guys. :p Collecting dust in my room, I still have a nice Cyrix P166 (133Mhz), 14" very curved monitor, and various old 1-5Gb hard drives. Once I get the time and inclination, I plan on reliving all those oldies under MS-DOS 6.22 - and perhaps Windows 3.11 as well, just for kicks. :p

Oh yes, I also have an 8" floppy disk sitting on my shelf. :D
Title: Old magazine coverdiscs.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 23, 2003, 02:55:50 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
I actually am a step ahead of you guys. :p Collecting dust in my room, I still have a nice Cyrix P166 (133Mhz), 14" very curved monitor,

I still use a machine like that! Not very often, but it's good for playing old DOS games.
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Post by: Nico on April 24, 2003, 02:24:47 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
I actually am a step ahead of you guys. :p Collecting dust in my room, I still have a nice Cyrix P166 (133Mhz), 14" very curved monitor, and various old 1-5Gb hard drives. Once I get the time and inclination, I plan on reliving all those oldies under MS-DOS 6.22 - and perhaps Windows 3.11 as well, just for kicks. :p

Oh yes, I also have an 8" floppy disk sitting on my shelf. :D

Mwhahaha! 1-5Gb Hd? I have 150mb HD :D ( why do I feel like there's no reason to be proud about having a ridiculously small HD? )
My first computer game was... her... a game on M05. don't remember the name of the game, you had to run from a guy ( that looked like donkey kong, the first one with mario ). you could make holes on the ground to make the guy fall in it. that was fun as hell ( was 4 or 5, mind you )
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Post by: Turnsky on April 24, 2003, 02:27:37 am: 150mb hdd? i have a Really old 41 mb lurking around the house somewhere...:p

and the first pc game i can remember playing to any real extent was wolf3d...
Title: Old magazine coverdiscs.
Post by: Nico on April 24, 2003, 02:32:47 am: Quote
Originally posted by Turnsky
150mb hdd? i have a Really old 41 mb lurking around the house somewhere...:p

oh, yeah, well those were standards. mine died a long time ago. couldn't even install wing commande 2 on that one ( lol, I remember the adv for WC2: "so big it holds on 5 disks!" :lol: )
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Post by: Visionism on April 24, 2003, 10:00:50 am: My old Amiga 600 had a 20MB drive. I remember wondering how I was ever going to fill it then I bought Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and found out. Eleven (count em) floppies! In other news I still have a 486 laptop I use regularly.... mmm monochrome....

God, I miss my Amiga :(