Original copies? WTF? I mean, I had this version too, but I never ever saw the originals my disks were a copy of.
Here in former Yugoslavia, we got one original copy that got distributed to (probably) the whole country. Old times were so fun.
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
I’m this old
I remember when I first saw floppies and how amazing it was to load things instantly instead of waiting minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape.
Lol you rich kids and your cassette drives. I cut my teeth on my friend’s VIC-20 which didn’t have a hard disk or a tape drive (they were available but my friend’s parents couldn’t afford one). If we wanted to play a game, we had to type it in in BASIC every time.
My ZX Spectrum clone didn’t have a “tape drive”, it had a cable that you could use to connect any tape player to it. We didn’t have a specialized tape player for it, we attached the same one we played music on.
I had the pleasure of working with 8” floppy drives with the Social Security Administration.
LOAD “*”,8,1 . I was there, too shakes cane and ruffles grey hairs (It was a wonderful era. The current generation doesn’t know what they missed.)
ahh yes, the good old bunch of games on a disk. my grandpa went so hard that he had a printed catalog of which games were on which number-stickered disk
Holy shit… I’m Pitfall old too. What a shit game.
You shut your pretty little whore mouth! I loved Pitfall!
…but also I was 4, and as we all know, kids are stupid.
When I was four I loved pong.
I read this while I was power walking to the bus stop. I read it as:
When I was four I loved pegging.
I had SO MANY questions. None of which I wanted answered.
Pong is still arguably a balanced, and therefore good game. Especially if you were playing the Atari or Texas Instruments versions, since those may have been some of the last mainstream video games that didn’t cheat in favor of anyone. Neither the player or the computer was favored, which became the norm for most video games rather quickly thereafter.
This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I’m also old. Goddamnit.
Did your dad ever find out if it was real, or if it was Memorex?
Maybe it’s Maybeline!
If you get old enough everyone’s parents used to work for a big tech company. My mother who can barely operate her phone, used to work for a company that manufactured microchips.
My mother used to work for a company that made magnetic core memory.
That’s the kind of memory that predates semiconductors and it was assembled by hand using gold wire and tiny ferrite rings.
She does know how to use a PC and has a tablet, though 😀
Fucking Geos man… I remember doing homework on its word processor…
Non No Falsch Nee
all of those work in German.
That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.
Another commenter posted, you can just get it from Wikipedia
Its been blacklisted by Microsoft for 20 years
Fucking Microsoft! Always ruining my plans!
I think that’s the same key I had memorized when I worked for a sketchy PC repair place as a teen.
Ahhh, the good old copy of windows xp that was stolen from Microsoft a month before release and spread it’s beautiful self all around the world, I had that code memorised for a long while, I called it the fuck code.
Typing CD keys was such a feeling when it was for a brand new game you can’t wait to play, pure despair if you mistyped something and it didn’t accept but then you corrected the error, biggest sense of relief of my childhood
My first typing was a game into C64 using machine code. Game magazines at that time dedicated a few pages with lines of hex numbers for games. After typing 4 pages you had a game.
Unfortunately, I‘ve got my data tape recorder two month later for xmas. And mom was nervous about keeping the power on for days. I entered those numbers quite some times. Load„*“,8,1
The joy of typing binary from a magazine into a hex editor :) we did it as two people, one reading, one typing, but I believe we only ever completed one of the smaller listings.
I’ll leave this here – it was maddening, but so satisfying and magical to have a running program after seemingly endless typing: https://archive.org/details/1990-11-compute-magazine/page/0-34/mode/1up?view=theater
That’s some hardcore ‘cd key’ typing lol
Hey, that’s MY activation key!
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I miss when they just sent free CDs.
Damn, I think I once asked for their version 8 CD, was amazed at it!
Windows XP is what made me switch to Linux.
Ubuntu is what made me stick with ANY distro as long as it was not Ubuntu. Most crashy breaky thing ever.
Please. You’re talking to a man here who ripped his entire CD collection into iTunes … and then backed his library up on 1.44 MB floppies.
I have certain programs that were ripped from my father’s 7.5" floppies. They have gone through 3.5" floppies, to CDs, to thumb drives.
The Data shall Remain.
If it is on a thumb drive then probably not lol, these things are more fragile than a Redditor
Finally, now I don’t need to have to call a number to get my XP activated, I can just use this.
For those not in the know, XP’s activation requirements are so harsh that your computer just gets disabled completely after the 30 day grace period if you don’t activate at all. I live in a place where people really don’t tend to buy operating systems, so this was a gigantic letdown.
You know what? Fuck Windows XP. There. I said it. And I’m taking the downvotes without remorse.
Fuck Windows XP
I think it’s allowed to hate anti-customer practices and have good memories of an actually somewhat user-friendly OS that just worked for many people in many other regards.
I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.
So I am not mad at you. You shall be forgiven, and I am even going to turn the other cheek and give you an upvote. It’s what Windows XP would’ve wanted me to do, too, I am sure of it.
I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.
Windows 7 was the first and last version that I didn’t immediately (and lastingly) despise. Something something stopped clocks etc.
Unethical life pro trip. If you are installing windows xp through 7 and need a license key, just search on eBay for “Laptop Parts Only” and find an auction where someone was nice enough to post one.
Not exactly Workbench 1.3 disk 1 is it?
Came here to post just that :D
I’m trying to get my 89 year old dad to set aside the tapes of the first games I programmed on our Commodore 64 in like 1983 when he moves this year. I really want them.
Early mud stuff. I’ll post it if he finds it.
SP2 enters the chat…
Sup peeps. I’m stable af.
OS/2 enters the chat.
Eldritch demonic screams in the background
Pay no attention to the daemons I’ve had to restrain, please.
You could write to Microsoft and they would mail you a CD with SP2 on it for free.
This is the oldest I currently have pictures of.
why did you keep it? didn’t you use it for anything?
Does it count that I am 20 and have spindles of blank old CD/DVD spindles?
