Thanks for the Linux link! Where is that on the git
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RedSnt 7 points a year ago
I unfortunately don't know of any other games on top of my head. I know Lego Island is close to 100% reverse engineered, but I'm not certain it'll get released as an open source game like Space Cadet.
brbposting 3 points a year ago
That’s great. Fun memories! Simple but exciting
grue 3 points a year ago
"Reverse engineered open source" isn't a thing. You can decompile a program and look at the source code all you want, but that's not the same as having the legal right to modify and redistribute it. Open Source specifically means the latter.
What you've linked to there is just some pirated proprietary-licensed source code that, frankly, I'm a little surprised Microsoft hasn't taken down yet.
(Also, I don't like the term "open source" for exactly the reason that it leads to this sort of confusion. According to both the OSI and FSF it means the same thing as "Free Software," so folks should use the term Free Software instead since it emphasizes the four freedoms.)
If you want a pinball game that's actually Free Software, check out Vector Pinball. I recommend installing it via F-Droid.
saltnotsugar 49 points a year ago
In paint be sure to make a bunch of random lines and then use the fill bucket to fill in random colors in the spaces.
Smokeydope 6 points a year ago
How do you know?!?! This is one of the most laser precise call out to my childhood ive ever seen in an internet comment.
GraniteM 3 points a year ago
I would do that with the spray paint, then select two colors on the bucket and fill them in alternating back and forth, slowly progressing outward, until the entire picture was one color. Good times.
nothingcorporate 48 points a year ago
All I see is four badass apps with no ads and no dark patterns.
ILikeBoobies 5 points a year ago
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For Linux, Mac, and Windows (sorry bsds)
SaharaMaleikuhm 2 points a year ago
Shoutout to Breezy Weather on Fdroid.
ShellMonkey 27 points a year ago
Kids and their fancy winders machines...
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BlueLineBae 2 points a year ago
I was going to say, I didn't have Internet until college we still had CD-ROMs, game consoles, and of course the public library for Internet when needed. Not that these options aren't excellent free entertainment.
GreenMartian 6 points a year ago
Was Encarta the one with a trivia game? Or was that Britannica? Cause I remember my antisocial young self playing it to death.
I still got some useless facts stuck in my head, taking up valuable space.. I can't conjure any of them on demand; but someone could randomly mention a species of frog and I would go, "oh yeah, they're native to Madagascar!"
hydrospanner 10 points a year ago
My Encarta 97 CD-ROM had a game where you went through rooms of a castle answering trivia questions to move on.
PolarKraken 2 points a year ago
I stumbled onto this at a library as a kid and couldn't get enough! This library was a big one and it wasn't near us, so I selfishly tried to squeeze in every moment I could.
I did feel guilty, knowing my grandmother was stuck waiting for me, but the game was too compelling, my nerdiness too severe, and my grandma too gentle. I was powerless to do anything but press on.
Years later I realized...my grandma was a librarian, and this was an unfamiliar library to her. She had the better time by a mile, and must have counted her lucky stars that I was content to just stay in one place (AKA safe and behaving myself) for hours on end. I can remember her coming to check on me every so often, and each time I couldn't believe I got to play even more.
Thanks for the memory :)
GreenMartian 1 point a year ago
Yeah that's the one!
couch1potato 1 point a year ago
Iirc encarta was an encyclopedia software
Nastybutler 15 points a year ago
Space Cadet.
restingboredface 15 points a year ago
I played the hell put of Freecell back in the day. Started going through the seeds in order, and over the course of about 2 years I made it through 1500 or so.
I should pick that up again. Only got about 30000 or so games left to finish the whole thing...
palmtrees2309 15 points a year ago
What about winamp and windows media center audio visualizers. Trippy patterns
pticrix 7 points a year ago
Have I got good news for you.
palmtrees2309 4 points a year ago
It was bundled with the computer, my father won at a lottery.
glitch1985 15 points a year ago
No love for SkiFree?
ICastFist 13 points a year ago
Obligatory XKCD - https://xkcd.com/667/
AtariDump 10 points a year ago
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glitch1985 2 points a year ago
Well there goes the rest of my day, thanks.
ICastFist 14 points a year ago
'Member when you bought a magazine and got a FREE floppy or CD with a bunch of (shareware/demo) games? I played the same 2 demo maps of Age of Empires to death - the game had 3, but the 3rd one was too hard for youngster me.
altkey 4 points a year ago
First Mount&Blade for me. It was hard capped so you straight up can not play after some level (?). I wonder how many times I rolled a stone on top of that mountain, only to gleefuly repeat the process after it felt back.
AmazingAwesomator 13 points a year ago
skiifree was also a solid choice
CanadianCarl 5 points a year ago
And Chip's Challenge.
aeronmelon 9 points a year ago
Had dialup from 1994, still spent hours playing Space Cadet and Solitaire.
Jimmycrackcrack 9 points a year ago
Loved old school paint. I used to try and recreate 3d renders of Nintendo characters that I'd seen printed in magazines and on my Gameboy pocket pouch by doing a kind of primitive dithering technique that 10 year old me thought up drawing 1 pixel blocks of specific colours in alternating patterns to try recreate shading or gradients of colour and I'd draw whole rows of them with the line tool which naturally had a staircase effect to it. Used to save it all on a zipdisk.
GreenMartian 7 points a year ago
> qbasic nibbles.bas
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1SimpleTailor 7 points a year ago
Man this takes me back.
Encarta and Paint were where I spent most of my computer time as a younger teenager. The trivia games on Encarta were dope, I also spent a lot of time walking around the 3d castles and ancient ruins. And a lot of time in the ummm.... Art section. Learned a lot about myself from Venus of Urbino.
Used to waste time by painting giant graphic and bloody battle scenes between stick figures in paint. Did it pixel by pixel! Good times!
GoodLuckToFriends 4 points a year ago
Fucking encarta! I always am amazed that no one else my age remembers that. I don't think I ever found the art section interesting... I don't even remember it.
SunshineJogger 6 points a year ago
I just had a happy flashback into my pst of playing that pinball a lot.
I had totally forgotten that.
Thanks for triggering this memory :)
Psythik 6 points a year ago
I grew up with a a Windows 3.1 machine, so for me my game selection was Chip's Challenge, Miser Mind (MasterMind), WinTris (Tetris), Atmoids (Asteroids), and JezzBall. Oh and SkiFree of course but somehow I never played it.
Chip's Challenge was my favorite. To this day I still haven't beaten every level.
jeanofthedead 6 points a year ago
Don’t forget Hover!
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edgemaster72 4 points a year ago
this is how i learned i suck hard as fuck at hearts
samus12345 4 points a year ago
And this was fancy stuff. Command prompts on an Apple IIe was my first computer experience.
snowboardbum 2 points a year ago
Gorilla and Snake were my pre-internet.
MummysLittleBloodSlut 3 points a year ago
You can still play it
SaharaMaleikuhm 2 points a year ago
Loved. Past tense.
KingJalopy 6 points a year ago
Username is fitting
KingJalopy 1 point a year ago
Yeah swing and a miss there for sure
ItsLysandreAgain0 2 points a year ago
You forgot chess {or checkers, if you want to}
JadenSmith 2 points a year ago
No matter what it says about my game time on Steam, XBox, etc. I still think Space Cadet has given me the most hours on record (albeit unrecorded).
TempermentalAnomaly 2 points a year ago
I'm not a nostalgic one, but Space Cadet got me with all the good feels.
boonhet 6 points a year ago
But in my neck of the woods plenty of people owned a PC before Windows networking AND ISPs were reliable lol
Like yes I had Internet at home, but sometimes it didn't work very well, sometimes it was really slow, etc.
For years, it was almost normal in a small town to have an ethernet cable routed from your neighbour's house to yours, share a connection. Guess what, it'll be slow as shit when they're using it too. Or if the router needs to be restarted for some reason and they're not home? Welp.
Why did we have that setup? Estonia over 20 years ago was still pretty poor. This whole ADSL thing was pretty new too, it cost quite a bit. I found an article from that period and turns out in 2003 there were three main providers. Starman at 149 EEK per month, Eesti Telefon at 345 and Uninet at 800. I have no idea about Uninet, but Starman was only available in a couple of cities and even in those cities I think it was mostly just apartment buildings. Minimum monthly salary BEFORE tax was 2160 EEK. First 1000 EEK per month was income tax free, on the other 1160 EEK you'd be taxed 26% so 301 EEK. The remaining 1859 EEK, and this is with only income tax deducted, nothing else, is equivalent to 119.16 euros. 345 EEK for internet is 22 euros and change. Imagine spending 18% of your income on an Internet connection!
Still, a computer was becoming necessary for schoolwork. Researching subjects online, printing out homework, etc. If you didn't have one at home, you'd need to use computer class at the end of the day, or go to the library. Having one at home got me into gaming and tinkering with software and the tinkering got me into programming at the age of ~13 and you can guess what I do for a living now.
Hikermick 7 points a year ago
US here. I got my first "home computer" a TRS-80 CoCo (16k RAM) sometime around 1981 before PCs were a thing. The internet existed but cost around $7 US per hour plus it was a long distance call to Compuserve the only ISP which would have cost around 50 cents a minute (on a 1200 baud dial up modem). I still have an advertisement somewhere. Also i have a thin book of websites. You had to type in the IP address because domain names didn't exist yet. I couldn't afford any of this so I visited BBS's though I did fumble around with the internet on public library computers. The Macintosh and PCs came out a few years later but few homes had one because they were expensive and you couldn't do much with them besides play games. Businesses of course had them because they were useful. It wasn't until the mid 90's did everyone buy one after the internet got popular.
merdaverse 1 point a year ago
What savages would use Paint without AI???
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Whenever people mention Space Cadet pinball, I HAVE to recommend the reverse engineered open source version on github (source ports for almost every type of platform).
It's also available on flathub.
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