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  1. Robert Pattinson: The first Batman that looks scared.

  2. Lesson #1 from 2021: If Keanu Reeves is involved in a hyped project, prepare the popcorn: there will be drama.

  3. If Atari had released the Dreamcast in 1973 with Ray Tracing, Dungeons & Dragons wouldn't have had a chance.

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      @DraxxonDon't be so confused. Check out the Atari 2600, Jaguar and Dreamcast forums for references.

  4. I imagine certain CEO tweeting this and getting destroyed:
  5. "For a genius, George Lucas sure has a lot of bad ideas". Now that's a way to start a video game review! (Quote from CGW's review of Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures in 1996)

  6. I'm not sure if others had the same experience, but my dad never had or loaded Windows 3.x from 1992 and 1995 and barely even loaded Windows 95 from 1995 to 1998.
  7. @profholt82 Great post! I just wanted to point out that Rebel Assault is not 3D and uses video as a background. I believe Crash N Burn uses the same technique, as the framerate is quite low and the camera doesn't really change.
  8. Just to provide some context to non-Amstrad conoisseurs, the Amstrad thing he scored was an Amstrad PC 1512, not an Amstrad CPC or Amstrad PCW (the most successful models). I checked the specs a couple of years ago and it was basically a PC with a couple of "improvements" to the CGA mode.
  9. Everyone that has been around IT people or has worked/studied IT for a bit knows that many people have been complaining about Microsoft for years. Amiga is better than PC, Linux is better than Windows... We've all heard that (and often suffered it too while being Microsoft users). However, Microsoft managed to have enormous succeed and growth in the 90s thanks to MS-DOS and then Windows. Did they deserve it? Were they just in the right place at the right time? Or maybe their actual merit was all about finantial/marketing? Let's discuss.
  10. @JamesD Thanks! I wish I could have tried all those machines. Anyway and not to nitpick, you only answered one of the questions (model of computers used). So... what was your experience using one of them for 8 hours? Did you grow some "love" for them? Did you manage to run any games on them or connect to any "pseudo-Internet"? Were some of them more comfortable to use due to the keyboard or screens? ? I could add a fourth question to the initial post: After years/months/weeks using these machines for serious stuff at work, was any of you guys nostalgic enough to buy one for yourselves 20 years later or emulate it to play games (or do other stuff)?
  11. So the VAX 9000 was a mainframe... Interesting! (I was a Mainframe operator for 4 years in the mid 2000s, but in my case it was all remote console apps running on a Windows PC). I just found a 2 year old blog entry about a guy who has "VAX 9000 nostalgia". He also mentions playing 2 games on it.
  12. I googled "teletype" and it looks like that thing didn't even have monitors. Can you give more details on "gaming" and "networking" using that? Were you "reading" the social messages on sheets of paper? Did text adventures come into multiple perforated cards? How did you manage to hide ALL THAT from the boss?
  13. Yeah, I've actually only seen this once. I think it was a modern application I used, maybe a dating app. It's a feature that basically camouflages your video game/dating app/insert thing you shouldn't be doing with your computer. It makes it look as something different, serious, technical. Often fake graphs are added. I think I got to see/use two: 1) Around 5-10 years ago, when i was an IT worker, someone had installed some app that could "fake" that you were writing code as a programmer. I remember some green and black colors that made it look more serious. I seem to remember you could type anything with the keyboard and the code appeared anyway as something that made sense. 2) The feature in the dating app. It basically showed a fake graph that made it look like you were working on soething serious and boring. I suppose these retro "boss keys" this user has mentioned worked similarly. I just googled it and found an article about it in Howtogeek. And Mobygames has a list of the games with a boss key! That's pretty interesting, because I've played some of these games (Wolfenstein 3D, Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures) and didn't noticed (or dont' remember). EDIT: I just played Wolfenstein 3D and there doesn't seem to be a "boss key" anywhere. The Howtogeek article says you see a fake "C:" prompt if you press F1.
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