Marrado
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Amazing how as a kid I could stare at this for hours
Retro Tech Dreams@RetroTechDreams
Windows 98 Plus: Space
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For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?
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@exQUIZitely That monster face illuminated by lightning at the end gave me a jump scare when I was a kid
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Forbidden Forest might look terribly dated now, but if you didn’t grow up with early 80s gaming standards, you'd never realise just how far ahead of its time it really was.
Parallax scrolling that created real depth as trees and background layers moved at different speeds.
A dynamic day-to-night cycle with a detailed moon and darkening sky.
One of the earliest uses of animated blood/gore (woohoo, scary!) when enemies were hit.
Context-sensitive music and eerie sound effects (including a pretty terrifying scream when certain creatures died).
It was programmed by one person (Paul Norman), sold over a million copies and helped push what the C64 (and home computers) could do. Let that sink in for a second: 1 million copies in 1983!
By the way, Norman's second game was Aztec Challenge, another 80s masterpiece. If you listen to the sound of the javelin throw in the opening level of Aztec Challenge and compare it to the arrow shot in Forbidden Forest you might notice a similarity...
In 1983, when most games were simple arcade clones with flat graphics and basic beeps, Forbidden Forest looked like a movie horror experience on a home computer. So, you might scoff at it now but back then it was brilliant!
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When Winamp was all you needed — music, skins, and that perfect late-night vibe 💾🎧
#Winamp #RetroPC #90sTech #Y2K #Nostalgia
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"Well, I gave you my word, and brought you here as promised. But by all that's still holy, I wish I'd never returned to this accursed place. This fetid jungle can't be the fair Kurast I left behind. I don't know what all this evil is, my friend, but it's obvious that you must stop it. I only pray that you can before the jungle consumes the last vestiges of my beloved homeland."
~Meshif
D2+LoD 🔊
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@exQUIZitely Pentium 120 Mhz, no sound card, only PC speaker, 14 inch monitor
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Do you remember the specs of your very first PC?
I got mine in 1991, after my journey started with an Atari 2600 in 1980, a C64 in 1984, and an Amiga in 1987. Slowly but surely progressing to finally get my first PC with these specs:
✅ 286 AT / 16 MHz
✅ 20 MB hard drive
✅ 1 MB RAM
✅ 3.5" and 5.25" disk drives
✅ 14" VGA monitor
⛔️ PC speaker sound (yikes...)
And yes, it had a key to lock it, of course!
What was your "first love"?
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@Megalithic12000 Funny, in Europe there are "hunger" stones, placed in rivers and appear in severe droughts warning of crop failure and impending hunger, similar idea thousand of kilometers apart
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🚨 Japan placed stone warnings along its coastline centuries ago. In 2011, the ocean proved them right.
Scattered along Japan's coast are hundreds of ancient markers known as tsunami stones. Some are over 600 years old.
They carry one message: do not build below this point.
🔹Aneyoshi obeyed and survived 2011
🔹Some stones are over 600 years old
🔹Hundreds placed along Japan's coast
🔹Over 20,000 killed in the 2011 tsunami
🔹Towns below the markers were destroyed
One stone in Aneyoshi reads "Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."
The village obeyed.
When the 2011 tsunami hit, the water stopped just below the stone. Aneyoshi survived. Surrounding towns that built below the markers lost over 20,000 people.
A Tohoku University professor said "It takes about three generations for people to forget." Survivors carved warnings into stone because they knew memory fades.
Civilisation after civilisation did the same thing thousands of years earlier.
If the Japanese stones proved deadly accurate after 600 years, why do we assume the older warnings are just myths?
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@Marrado78 Never played it on the C64... I assume it had the same 2 plater mode, heli and jeep?
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Any fans of this masterpiece?
One of the few games I managed to finish (in 2 player mode with my brother) without using unlimited lives: Silkworm
It's a classic horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up developed and published by Tecmo for arcades in 1988. You control either a heli (player 1) or a jeep (player 2) as they blast through enemy territory. And "blast" in the very sense of the word - great sound effects, epic explosions, and non-stop action.
The helicopter offers free movement in the air, while the jeep drives on the ground, can jump over obstacles like mines, and has a turret that rotates to shoot in a 180 degree angle.
Originally an arcade game, it was later ported to home computers like the Amiga (as in the video) and consoles. To me still one of the best games ever for the Amiga, and still playing it these days when my brother comes for a visit.
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@supernalmystic @St1ka Under operating system tag, check Linux at it will show Linux compatible games (also has MacOS)
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Ascension to the Throne, RPG/turn-based hybrid, I loved it. You choose your class warrior/mage (go mage), and you assemble your army (always have werewolves if you can). At the start, you are a prisoner, if you give the wrong answer they just kill you and the game ends, so be mindful of that. I loved it
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Do you ever played a game (any year, any platform) that you felt like you were the only one playing this?
It would be great if you could share the title, platform, year, and a screenshot - maybe I’ll find a hidden gem I haven’t heard of that’s worth checking out.
For me, one of those games was Deadline (1996, MS-DOS)
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@TechLab_UK with current DDR5 and storage prices, building new system without express and urgent need for it is out of the question
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Apparently Intel dropped a new CPU line-up and no one seemed to care. Dark times.
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Marshal Shaposhnikov was one of the architects of Soviet victory in WWII.
He died 44 days before Hitler’s capitulation, but his role in shaping the Red Army was immense. Shaposhnikov was the only man Stalin addressed by name and patronymic and the only one allowed to smoke in his presence.
At his funeral, Stalin and Molotov carried the coffin.
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@mpr_reviews Not to mention that the price of such a setup back in the day would make RTX 5090 look downright affordable
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PC gaming today is more accessible and convenient as it's ever been. All these "issues" were a lot of fun to troubleshoot in your own time, but there was always that one guy whose PC just magically stopped working at a LAN and had to leave early.
We had a guy who always brought at least 10 network cards and 20 T-pieces and terminators to every LAN because everything would be 100% now, and after a restart suddenly a network card will stop working, or a coax cable that worked for months just stops working midway through an 8 hour 4v4 Starcraft game.
Today you dont have to worry about setting jumpers on the motherboard, or correctly setting master / slave on your HDD, or worrying about your sound card suddenly not working because you plugged in something else. Games are available at the click of a button, replacement parts can be ordered for same day delivery, and as PC gaming is so popular today you are bound to know someone who is at least technical enough to help with an issue, or know someone who knows someone.
And if you do decide to get into PC gaming there are a ton of tutorials on Youtube to show you how to build your own PC, as well as guides on how to keep it working optimally.
exQUIZitely 🕹️@exQUIZitely
I know gaming is much more "convenient" these days. No more fiddling with AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files. No fine-tuning HIMEM.SYS. No IRQ conflicts with your sound card. You don’t need a boot disk anymore. Juggling hard drive space? Forget it - drives now come in terabytes, not megabytes. Dealing with a 5.25" floppy, a 3.5" floppy, and a CD-ROM drive all crammed into one case? What a drag. These days, you just click a button and the game downloads and installs itself. Saving up for that shiny new VGA card to replace your trusty old EGA? Not a thing anymore. And yet, if you ask older gamers who lived through the 80s and 90s, most of us actually enjoyed customizing and troubleshooting our machines. It was part of the experience - part of the joy and excitement. Sure, it involved a lot of trial and error and plenty of frustrating “OMFG, why isn’t this working?!” moments… but when it finally did work, the reward was so much sweeter. Finally freeing up those last couple of KB in your 640K base memory? Replacing the pathetic PC speaker with a real sound card? Pure ecstasy. Especially when your “Command HQ” eventually looked like this… oh, the glory days! Too all you OGs out there, I hope you experienced it that way too.
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Putin Is Waiting for One Move — And When America Makes It, It's All Over
- Prof. Jiang Xueqin
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@DoggyDog1208 when the rest of the world stops paying Americans a fee every time they buy groceries with a visa/Mastercard card
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@witte_sergei San Marino was a surprise to me. Being there for so long yet mattering so little is an accomplishment unto itself. Longevity through irrelevance seems to be a sound strategy
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Iran isn’t the “oldest country” no matter which pedantic definition you use. The answer is either Egypt, China, Japan, or San Marino.
Amir@AmirAminiMD
For the record: Iran is the oldest country in the world. The UAE was founded in 1971.
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Liberal woman drastically changes her haircut after allegedly being hit on by a man.
Nothing could’ve prepared me for the result.
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@Pirat_Nation during the Pandemic, many did not need to raise prices, but they did not want to waste an opportunity so everyone got on "lets raise the prices bandwagon" and once they are up they do not come down
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Funny that at the same time Sony is increasing prices for consoles.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Sony has announced new price increases for the PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal, effective April 2, 2026. -PS5 base will rise to $649.99 for the disc version and $599.99 for the digital version in the US. -PS5 Pro will go to $899.99. -The PlayStation Portal will increase to $249.99.
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