Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #25 : Unboxing XII

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:28:20 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
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Did you ever played classic DOOMs?

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Heck my first DOOM was the shareware episode1 0.99b, which didn't have
working sound until the patch a few days later.

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Ahh, the days of downloading your games over slow FTP servers. By the
time you managed to slowly trickle the archive over the modem to your
computer, the developers had enough time to release the next version
;-)

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Oh please. Try dial-up BBSes! Those were my days for DOOM! And then, I
finally got Internet in 1993 via college shell accounts! I still
remember ftp.idsoftware.com, ftp.cdrom.com/pub/games/doom..., etc. I
miss those days.

I did! That's how I initially got onto FTP servers, actually. I'd dial
up a BBS and then use their FTP to connect to wuarchive or wherever.
I'd download the file first to my BBS storage, and THEN download it a
second time to the local PC.

(Don't ask me why the SysOp had such a complicated method. I was glad
just to get access at all. I'd have driven over to wherever they were
located with a box of floppies if that's what it would have taken ;-)

Were there ever free Duke Nukem game giveaways in here?

Not as far as I'm aware. It certainly was never one of the games I
gave away, and my ever-so-brief search doesn't show any announcements
of it being given away elsewhere.

I played the Duke Nukems a few years back. (Well, okay, the
spreadsheet says it was in 2009, so more than a few). The first two
are pretty forgetable platformers, and aside from the nostalgia factor
I had a really hard time getting into them again (especially the first
one, with its PC Speaker sound). Duke Nukem 3D surprised me on a
technological level with how advanced it was; sure, it looked old, but
it had vehicles, and walls that blew up, and all sorts of neat stuff
that made the game feel less ancient than some of its contemporaries,
like Quake. But the game I found most fun to actually play was
"Manhattan Project". Still, overall the sophomoric humor was pretty
cringe even in 2009, and I doubt it's aged any better since.

I'm not sad to leave the Duke back in the past.