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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.
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This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I'm also old. Goddamnit.
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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
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.
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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.)
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Well, I should have Magic User Interface CD for Amiga 3.1 in somewhere. Didn’t find it right now.
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.
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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.
This is the oldest I currently have pictures of.
Hey, that's MY activation key!
I’m trying to get my 89 year old dad to set aside the tapes of the first games I programmed on our Commodore 64 in like 1983 when he moves this year. I really want them.
Early mud stuff. I’ll post it if he finds it.
If you do post them, let me know. I'll spin up an emulator and give them a try!
I will! Just so you know, I was 12, so I cant vouch for the quality of writing or gameplay, lol.
I remember a photo of a guy holding the burned XP CD while he's standing at the front entrance of Microsoft. Pretty cool
Should have left "Win XP" out. We know FCKGW. ☺️
Unethical life pro trip. If you are installing windows xp through 7 and need a license key, just search on eBay for "Laptop Parts Only" and find an auction where someone was nice enough to post one.
The fact I recognise that key.
(Also my husband agrees with me that looks eerily like my handwriting and is the kind of disk i used OP are you in Australia...)
Even still have a copy of 98
I've seen far more copies like this than original XP discs. It was the style at that time!
Not exactly Workbench 1.3 disk 1 is it?
Came here to post just that :D
I recently cleaned out some boxes of random stuff I had in one of my wardrobes and found several discs like this, some with Ubuntu 5-8.04, random drivers and other fun stuff. Huge nostalgia trip going through them. I also found this CD my dad gave me when I was 20 and had just started smoking weed:
(the title is in Swedish and means "a chill disc")
Sadly lost him in December last year, RIP dad. I normally don't smoke anymore but I'm gonna get a small piece of hash and smoke it while playing this in memory of him.
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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.
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I can remember installing Windows 95 with floppy disks, that was slow. XP was great because you could finally do minor things and it not require a reboot.
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I was thinking the album yes fragile. Check it out on on youtube. The song roundabout if nothing else.
The kids have heard that one, it's the credits song on season 1 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventures.
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My PC didn't support boot from CD, so I had to use about 6 WinXP floppies just to load the necessary drives to install from the CD. Good times
I think we also had the Win 95 and 98 installallers somewhere although I learned how to do it when upgrading from 98 to ME
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