1996 was some year.....

[ninjamonkeyz]

well my 96 is a blurr that was one of my coke years, and many others... and 2nd year of my first job at wendys , one of my friends introduced quake to me and told me about quake.mint.net, im thinking it was 96 or 97 something like that..

[Cobalt]

Yea, we are old farts now lol....gotta get use to it. Used Fidonet to finally get up to speed with my computer hw , connected to some BBS that had some extra Fidonet groups, and caught a for sale post for a pentium 233mmx mobo with 64MB ram and a 4MB PCI vid card. Sucked that up with a money order to Hawaii and the guy gave me some free Macadamia nuts candy with the shipment. Yea lots of Techies on Fidonet who could help with just about anything from ham radios to tv repair and computers.

I remember the phreak from way back in 1985 when me and my pal were into the C64 scene. Bought a program called phoneman that duplicated the sounds of coins dropping into a payphone and stuff like that.....I think it called diverters and yea, u could get free long distance. Of course, never got mine to work, never had the time to figure it out actually....

FIDONET was hobbiests using inter-relay to pass along email from one system to another

Phreak was when u hack the phone to make free longdistance calls! omg wheres my cell!!
LOL!

[R00k]

OH!

I was pre internet! it was all fidonet! Internet was exclusive! unless u were on a edu account otherwise it was all phreak!


lol all thei kids are like wtf is all this jargon?!

FIDONET was hobbiests using inter-relay to pass along email from one system to another

Phreak was when u hack the phone to make free longdistance calls! omg wheres my cell!!
LOL!

[Cobalt]

Ah, you were right in the groove I wanted to be back then with the more modern hw. 14.4 or 33.6 modem?

By the time I upgraded from my XT in early 1998, it was a 386 SX16 with maybe 8mB ram and WFWG 3.11....and NO modem. I picked up a 286 AT from a streetside curb that looked like a bunch of old stuff they were throwing out. The floppy drive would not work, there was no hdd, but it had an old 1200 baud modem stuck in one of the slots, so that became my modem for the 386. I spent the next couple of months ' catching up ' on what BBS's were available (not many) and how to email etc. Back then they sent you an AOL CD like every month with 50 or so free hours on it, and believe it or not, the early aol I think 3.0 loaded up on WFWG 3.11 and the 386, slow with the 1200 modem, but I was like - WOW ! Hearing the guy say "you got mail ' was like the highlight of the day.

When those free hours ran out, I spent lot of time connecting to whatever BBs's I could to learn more about the evolution of the internet. I DL'd 32 bit object length extensions to get it to behave more close to a 486, and there was a terminal called Ripterm that displayed gif's and jpg's I think when you connected to special BBS's. Fidonet was also still up, and I used that alot along with the SBA.GOV (small business administration) which had free access and one free email address they gave you, and you needed a .QWK
type message reader like Uniqwk or Big Blue to read the message posts or read any email. I remember calling lots of BBS numbers during the late evening hours, and many were disconnected or no one answered. One time a woman picked up the phone, and I said, sorry I thought this was a computer I was calling, and she said, 'who is this'?

In 1996 i had a 486dx2-80 and spent my time making a (igm) mod for Legend of the Red Dragon, (bbs door game). Then I got a demo of Quake (v1.0) from CDROMToday magazine. I still have the CD around here. It ran horribly slow on my machine, I didnt even have win95 yet, only Win3.xx, and im not even sure what kind of gfx card maybe a Diamond Stealth. But Quake would drop to about 5fps during the demo. I did end up trying it again a year later after I had upgraded my hardware. But it wasnt until around 1998 that i was playing Quake online.

I had played the shareware demos of wolf 3d, doom 1 and 2, heritic, hexen, and hexen2, so Quake was something i kept my eye on.

[R00k]

In 1996 i had a 486dx2-80 and spent my time making a (igm) mod for Legend of the Red Dragon, (bbs door game). Then I got a demo of Quake (v1.0) from CDROMToday magazine. I still have the CD around here. It ran horribly slow on my machine, I didnt even have win95 yet, only Win3.xx, and im not even sure what kind of gfx card maybe a Diamond Stealth. But Quake would drop to about 5fps during the demo. I did end up trying it again a year later after I had upgraded my hardware. But it wasnt until around 1998 that i was playing Quake online.

I had played the shareware demos of wolf 3d, doom 1 and 2, heritic, hexen, and hexen2, so Quake was something i kept my eye on.

[LordHavoc]

Long live Quake

[ImperiusDamian]

I wasn't even a gamer in 1996.

Nerding it up with programming and what-have-you. Wasn't until 1997 that I really 'discovered' gaming and that was the Almighty Q2. *nods*

At 320x240 software mode on a Cyrix 150 ("PR200+") w/16MB of RAM and a 1 gig hard drive and 1 meg graphics card. And Q2 was STILL the greatest thing I'd ever seen. *nods*

Wasn't long after that that I found the shareware episode of Q1 and from then on I was an unrepentant gamer. *nods*

[Grim Warlock]

Ahh yes 1996 when I was 7 years old hehe. Oh and SONG FROM 1996!!!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLNh71lZLes]Marilyn Manson: Apple of Sodom - YouTube[/ame]

[nahuel]

I only remember tomb raider in 96, i play quake the first time in 1998 with a pentium 133
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPMkpKbjgWw"]this album![/ame]

[grave_digga]

Back in the summer of 96 *sing*

I remember i had a AMD 486DX2 100 (or 133) with 64MB Ram and a 2 MB S3 Trio 64 Video Card. HD was 1GB and a SB16 soundcard with Windows 95. But deleted that and installed Dos 6.22 instead. Runned Quake great, i got my hands on it as soon as it hit the shops. Played Wolf3D/Doom/Doom2/Heretic/Hexen/Hexen2 before Quake. I also met my best friend that still is in my life, he means a lot to me. I guess 95/96 was the years my life changed (to the good side).

[Shadowswift]

96? Lets see, I was between 5th and 6th grade, loved the shit out of DooM, Hexen, and Warcraft II. Had only heard rumors of Quake at that time. Didn't start playing until summer of 97.

[Authentic]

96 i was only 4 years old. I didn't play quake untill 97-98, But when i did. I was pretty good at it.

[Roy Batty]

Amiga, yeah 4000 then 1200 (amiga always the weird back and forth with the model numbers, 1000 was before 500 etc)...

1996... I was getting out of the 64 scene, got my first pc. I don't remember what it was now... some pentium I think, it had a tseng et4000 and a voodoo 2 card. I was 5 years out of high school then, working everyday, listening still to the big 4 of thrash and playing guitar in my band. I played with my old commodore 64 a lot still then as I just loved that machine and didn't pay much attention to pc, but I remember playing a lot of duke nukem on it. I also remember all my friends on IRC raving about Quake, but I didn't get it until later.

[Bloodshot]

I think there was up to the 4000s for the amiga, I had an Amiga 500, played a lot of prince of persia and body blows and golden axe, got Quake when i was like 3 years old, don't remember much from back then but I know i played it a lot.

[inkub0]

In 1996...
i was a 12 Years old boy... i studied in my 1st year of "medium school" in italy (6th year of school) and i met who bully boys are. I was a thin, shy boy. My dog, Bobby, disappeared that year. He didn't came back. I asked to my uncle a copy of Quake1 as a Christmas gift. He bought it and made me happy. The previous year i had my second PC: an old 486DX2/66 with 4 MB or RAM. Quake worked barely on it. I rediscovered Quake two years later, with my new K6-2 processor.
I started to met often a great friend of mine, playing quake with him. Thanks to Quake, it gave me a friend!