Classic ThinkPad

"Nibby" (nibby68) 05/05/2015 at 20:02 • Filed to: None

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So cool!

tromoly > Nibby 05/05/2015 at 20:11

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Is that CART Precision Racing? I have that on CD somewhere, could never get it to work on any machine, ever.

whoarder is tellurium > Nibby 05/05/2015 at 20:15

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Omg the video capture ports. omgomgomg

Nibby > tromoly 05/05/2015 at 20:17

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I have no idea what game that is.

Nibby > whoarder is tellurium 05/05/2015 at 20:17

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YAAAAAAAAS

pretty damn nice for 1994!

fiverguy > tromoly 05/05/2015 at 20:47

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Papyrus’s IndyCar Racing. Was quite fun back in the day. Remember it like it was yesterday, telling Windows 95 to restart in MS-DOS mode, then plugging in whatever the command was to start it. This game had a fun anti-piracy feature too: “On page 283 of the manual, second paragraph, third word in the first sentence, please type the word...”

tromoly > fiverguy 05/05/2015 at 20:49

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A lot of software in the late-80s / early-90s had that feature, it’s quite annoying when the manual is lost.

fiverguy > tromoly 05/05/2015 at 20:59

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And you can bet it was the one manual I never ended up losing.

Bad Idea Hat > Nibby 05/05/2015 at 21:42

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IBM/Lenovo is the best computer manufacturer.

That’s such a wonderful, ingenious piece of hardware.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > tromoly 05/06/2015 at 00:28

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DOSBox to the rescue.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > fiverguy 05/06/2015 at 00:39

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Quite a variety of games at the time had that sort of anti-piracy too, for example in ‘Stunts’, a random selection of phrases had to be written from the manual, or the car’s ‘safety system’ would not be disabled, and the game would end as if the car crashed.

tromoly > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 05/06/2015 at 01:19

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I was trying on a Windows 98 machine, there wasn’t a need for DOSBox ‘cause it still ran DOS. Though if I find the disk I’ll give DOSBox a try, now that I’m running Linux.