DodgyGeezerFella
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If anybody recognizes this, we're truly kindred spirits.
Not an older version of Deluxe Paint is it ?
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Not an older version of Deluxe Paint is it ?
The software is called Nero Burning ROM (It's a CD/DVD burning suite), which is a pun of (Emperor) Nero Burning Rome, as in the historical figure who was accused of burning down most of the city of Rome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero#Great_Fire_of_Rome_.2864_AD.29
Patrick S.
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Knit Your Own Porridge
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I was shit-hot at that.
rom and rome are pronounced differently tho
NekoFever
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You'd better write to Nero and let them know that they've been living a lie, then.
They are?
Internet on the couch!
I recall watching a commercial about this or a similar product that let you browse the web on your TV. It had talking mouths on screen.
Do you seriously say cd-rome?
MS Bob
My parents were anti-game, so my sister and I would spend hours arranging the pretend rooms in this game.
For people who are unfamiliar, MS Bob was sort of a graphical alternative to Windows desktop. You could write email (click on the pencil and paper), work on your budget (the check book/money box), manage contacts (the rolodex), look at a calendar (the calendar). There were also little edu-games (the thing by the fireplace).
The rest of the stuff in that image is just filler fluff. You could make numerous rooms like the one pictured, with various themes (western, space, horror, etc.)
My parents were anti-game, so my sister and I would spend hours arranging the pretend rooms in this game.
For people who are unfamiliar, MS Bob was sort of a graphical alternative to Windows desktop. You could write email (click on the pencil and paper), work on your budget (the check book/money box), manage contacts (the rolodex), look at a calendar (the calendar). There were also little edu-games (the thing by the fireplace).
The rest of the stuff in that image is just filler fluff. You could make numerous rooms like the one pictured, with various themes (western, space, horror, etc.)
3DNA, a 3D desktop. You could load different environments (proprietary format, sadly, so only official ones created by the devs), decorate them using furniture (which had physics! could be locked so you wouldn't knock them around), frame stuff from your pictures folder, launch bookmarks (with a preview, see below), applications, games...
I hope the concept will be revived now that VR gets more and more viable.
I hope the concept will be revived now that VR gets more and more viable.
protomouse
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Not in Germany.
My god, is that TIM? Lots of good times with that.
Even in Germany.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
protomouse
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8BitsAtATime
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Cybertown.
BearShare....I wonder if it still works
BearShare....I wonder if it still works
GameSpy
All Seeing Eye
Wow... Both of those take me way back, had almost completely forgotten about them
I spent so much time with this....
Knit Your Own Porridge
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A/S/L?
Remember ICQ? They did Nintendo friend codes before they weren't cool!
Wow that brings back some memories. I actually met my wife on ICQ. 10 years later I can still hear the default message sound.
SpookyFries
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Almost forgot Active Worlds!
Dr. Sbaitso, by Creative Labs... Please enter your name:
OMG...I remember that.
That was on my first PC.
The Real Abed
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FUCK! I was just about to post Dr. Halo III myself!If anybody recognizes this, we're truly kindred spirits.
I was so sure I was the only person who would ever remember it.
It was our second paint program on our second PC. (The one we ended up keeping) PC Paint was on our first and much better but this is the one I got to know better. It was always weird that it was a black canvas with white drawing by default but it worked. I read the manual for that front to back and drew birthday cakes all the time.
Android18a
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Stuff from the early 2000s, my internet prime aged 16-20 or so...
RPG Maker 2000. Fan translation by Don Miguel. The character naming thing never worked properly, and some of the translation was super janky, but creating sprites for this software and playing around making little RPGs is one of my fondest memories. A lot of my closest internet friends were made back then doing this.
AIM. My main communication software over the early years of the internet after moving away from ICQ.
SNES9x (or SNES98, I'm sure we used to use...), as a European gamer this was how I got my first taste of games like Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy 3. Oh, how I loved it. I didn't love the 4-5 hour download time for a SNES ROM on our late 90's/early 2000's internet though.
Creative Writer! As a kid I used to make my own videogame fanzine called Progamer (So original, right?). It had no screenshots or anything, but if you wanted crap reviews of SNES and Megadrive games, along with walkthroughs copied almost word-for-word from proper games magazines, it was great. I made dozens of issues before I stopped making it. It even turned into a colour mag with actual screenshots once the internet came along (all with IGN64 or equivalent watermarks).
RPG Maker 2000. Fan translation by Don Miguel. The character naming thing never worked properly, and some of the translation was super janky, but creating sprites for this software and playing around making little RPGs is one of my fondest memories. A lot of my closest internet friends were made back then doing this.
AIM. My main communication software over the early years of the internet after moving away from ICQ.
SNES9x (or SNES98, I'm sure we used to use...), as a European gamer this was how I got my first taste of games like Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy 3. Oh, how I loved it. I didn't love the 4-5 hour download time for a SNES ROM on our late 90's/early 2000's internet though.
Creative Writer! As a kid I used to make my own videogame fanzine called Progamer (So original, right?). It had no screenshots or anything, but if you wanted crap reviews of SNES and Megadrive games, along with walkthroughs copied almost word-for-word from proper games magazines, it was great. I made dozens of issues before I stopped making it. It even turned into a colour mag with actual screenshots once the internet came along (all with IGN64 or equivalent watermarks).
spindashing
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Hahaha, good times... I downloaded porn from there and it was a virus that ate my computer alive.
Yooo... Now Kid Pix definitely takes me back.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
i spent an embarrassing amount of time watching this.
uh-oh!
Rapscallion
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Windows 3D Movie Maker!
THHHISSSSSSS SOOOO MUCH.
I don't understand why a newer version of this was never made. The ability to download new skins, upload videos, etc. would make this thing a gold mine.
God, those peer-to-peer screenshots... good times.
My story: You know that "Sky High" song from Daytona USA? My friend and I always thought that it sounded like he sang "I want to brooonnze my cock... and goooo to get hiiiiiigh". We named an MP3 of that song as "Daytona USA - Bronze my Cock (and go to get high).mp3" and would share it on Napster/Kazaa/etc, just to try to make someone laugh
I sometimes wonder if any now-GAFfers ever saw it!
My story: You know that "Sky High" song from Daytona USA? My friend and I always thought that it sounded like he sang "I want to brooonnze my cock... and goooo to get hiiiiiigh". We named an MP3 of that song as "Daytona USA - Bronze my Cock (and go to get high).mp3" and would share it on Napster/Kazaa/etc, just to try to make someone laugh
I sometimes wonder if any now-GAFfers ever saw it!
Fortunately Valve seems to have been the only company to understand the need for something similar. It's crazy what people are doing with SFM.
Cheat Code
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Simpsons Cartoon Studio
The Real Abed
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Interesting that Bart has the traditional "not counterfeit" blue shirt in the left icon and the gameplay, but a completely incorrect red shirt in the right photograph.
Simpsons Cartoon Studio
How do we know it's a licensed product???
Disorientator
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FastTracker 2
QBASIC Gorillas
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