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I can't remember the game well but I think it was called Syndicate. It was 3rd person with 4 operatives which you could upgrade biohardware. Looked like fallout but smaller units with less def.
 
Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius
AOL 3.0 with PuntShield, you'll never get me!
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LMAO, I remember those days. Good stuff, yet so stupid. 😀

My vote goes to TradeWars. I'd kill to find a BBS that is still running it.
 
Originally posted by: mattpegher
I can't remember the game well but I think it was called Syndicate. It was 3rd person with 4 operatives which you could upgrade biohardware. Looked like fallout but smaller units with less def.
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Yup, it was called Syndicate and they made Syndicate 2 if you weren't aware. I LOVED that game. Alsom to the other poster for "Jill of the Jingle," I thought I was the only person who had ever played that.

Other favorites from back in the day.

XTree Gold
An app I can't remember the name of. It was a DOS window manager for loading apps, the version number was 5.1 and it was 4 letters long as an acronym.
duke nukem
commander keen
Dune
Rampart
The original SimCity
Might & Magic on the C64
Any BBS door game
WordPerfect 5.4
DOS 6.22
 
Originally posted by: Kaervak
Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius
AOL 3.0 with PuntShield, you'll never get me!
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LMAO, I remember those days. Good stuff, yet so stupid. 😀

My vote goes to TradeWars. I'd kill to find a BBS that is still running it.
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easy... I used to regularly play. do a google search for "bbs telnet"
We had a web based Tradewars game setup last year. I so owned everyone... good times...

You can even find active boards that run Usurper, BRE, SRE, TradeWars and L.O.R.D. with *ALL* the expansions...
 
WordPerfect 5.1
I used to be a wiz with that, knew so many of the shortcuts, etc.
I still use it for writing fiction.

Originally posted by: mchammer
Dr. Sbaitso
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:laugh:
It was funny the way it would react when you kept putting in cuss words.
 
Originally posted by: mattpegher
I can't remember the game well but I think it was called Syndicate. It was 3rd person with 4 operatives which you could upgrade biohardware. Looked like fallout but smaller units with less def.
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The flamethrower was classic in that... watching the hapless victims run around as they burned to death.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: mchammer
Dr. Sbaitso
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:laugh:
It was funny the way it would react when you kept putting in cuss words.
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My friends and I thought that was the greatest thing after my dad bought a Sound Blaster Pro...we were like 8-9 at the time 😛
 
Originally posted by: sinucus
Originally posted by: mattpegher
I can't remember the game well but I think it was called Syndicate. It was 3rd person with 4 operatives which you could upgrade biohardware. Looked like fallout but smaller units with less def.
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Yup, it was called Syndicate and they made Syndicate 2 if you weren't aware. I LOVED that game. Alsom to the other poster for "Jill of the Jingle," I thought I was the only person who had ever played that.

Other favorites from back in the day.

XTree Gold
An app I can't remember the name of. It was a DOS window manager for loading apps, the version number was 5.1 and it was 4 letters long as an acronym.
duke nukem
commander keen
Dune
Rampart
The original SimCity
Might & Magic on the C64
Any BBS door game
WordPerfect 5.4
DOS 6.22
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XTREE GOLD OMGITROCKED FTW!!!!

I miss Xtree Gold 🙁 And Terminate, the rest I miss too but Xtree was soooo good. Use it with terminate and you had the first means of multi tasking.

Start xtree, launch terminate - go to console in terminate, launch xtree again, launch doom and terminate was still running - downloading all your goodies. AHHH those were the days
 
Originally posted by: Ramma2
DOS
QBASIC.EXE
Config.sys and Autoexec.bat editing

CornCob Flight Sim
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I was happier than a pig in poo when DOS 6 introduced that multiple boot screen so I didn't have to make disks. After spending some time on it, and getting a different mouse driver, I managed to get to 604K free with everything necessary loaded 😎
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
WordPerfect 5.1
I used to be a wiz with that, knew so many of the shortcuts, etc.
I still use it for writing fiction.

Originally posted by: mchammer
Dr. Sbaitso
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:laugh:
It was funny the way it would react when you kept putting in cuss words.
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Download it here. Been playing with it for a couple minutes. Kinda fun, in a corny sorta way.
 
Originally posted by: Joemonkey
Originally posted by: Ausm
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: TXHokie
Windows NT 4.0 SP2, it was cool to see my screen turn blue when I click on the floppy drive...loads of fun.
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Installing that thing on a domain was royal in the ass...
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Try networking in DOS 😉


Ausm
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Banyan Vines FTW!
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LANtastic pwns all of you. at least for DOS. i'm convinced the windows client is a virus.
 
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