Loading Time - The New Old Thing

[Graham]

It's everything but the penny farthing, and a deep look at Graham's old floppy disks. Behind the scenes of The New Old Thing.

[TheGeek]

I'm loving Cam's bag. Cam, where did you get it?

[Arakasi]

I really, really want to watch you play Pitfall II on stream now.

Resurrect the Commodore!

[empath]

Ah, when Lucasarts was doing military-themed games, spinning off their flight-sim start, and Electronic Arts still spelled out their name, and were "the artists' publisher"

Oh, and I was going to say that I had the exact same 5.25" floppy caddy...but then, I think there was really only one design.

Agreed on the 'DRM' of yesteryear, I actually got a pirated copy of the Jack Nicklaus golf game...where someone had either drawn out the course maps, or traced them off the 'anti-photocopy' sheet.


And discovering the source of the LRR theme...sadly, I cannot find the credits to EPYX's "The Sporting News Baseball"...

Nonetheless, thanks for the nostalgia trip!

[tamaness]

Oh, and I was going to say that I had the exact same 5.25" floppy caddy...but then, I think there was really only one design.

I have three separate designs for 5.25" caddies (I've a lot of Apple][e software -- most of the discs still work, too).

As long as your users don't mind learning some command-line syntax, no-GUI OSes are easier to support than anything else, because even though it's easier for the user to jack up, you can usually read a log and see what happened, instead of guessing what shiny thing caught the users' attention this time.

[beowuuf]

And discovering the source of the LRR theme...

My mind is blown! Heard in context it's even more of a shock as the 'take me out the ballgame' riff just breaks down in to it. Very cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip-MbOSmlZY

[Master Gunner]

The full LRR/Sporting News Baseball theme was actually used in an older sketch, It's Very Simple.

[Graham]

I'm still happy with that. The music is uncut, it just transitions right back into Take Me Out

[Master Gunner]

It's a great sketch.

[plummeting_sloth]

Beej of course being intimately familiar with the smell of exploding baby due to that one crazy night in Calgary

[Beej]

I'm loving Cam's bag. Cam, where did you get it?

Saddleback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a11wlngpuSY