Here is something interesting. Does anyone rememeber the golden years of the internet? Back when 1300 and 2400 baud with the best thing you could hope for and 56k was an urban legend? Now most of the boards were run with WWiV 4.24 (World War Software, or sometimes Wildcat), but they always seemed to have these strangely amusing "on-line" games such as trade wars, studs, The Pit, and some other assorted ASCII character masterpieces. Well I just happened to find the other .zip file and source code directly from the 80's.
So what do I do. Unzip......I begin to tinker around with the the welcome screens and the source code and it started bringing back memories from back in the old days when porn on computers was really beginning to get big, But instead of movies they used to used a series of animated gifs and beeps from the pc speaker
.... and the only way you get more was on the free sites that your buddy's freind from high schools, sister's roomate knows. Damn those were the old days of programs you see now a days in the future. Dialers, Membership, etc etc. Try to imagine this, Being 15 years old and asking your mom if you could order this new "game" for your "new" cd rom drive that you saw in a catalog, and better yet having her give the CC info on the phone to order it , Not even bothering to check what exacty this "game " was about. In fact what she had purchased was not in fact a game as all. But, It was going to make her son a little extra spending cash during the pre-bar era. It was an old school adult image disc which contained a description file that you could import into the BBS and it would recognize the file and match up the file names and desc. for you . etc etc, But there wasn;t enough room on my hard drive to keep all of the pictures so I kept them on the disc and rotated it around during the week and just posting the schedule of what genres would be on the page on what days and also charging or people who dialed up you bbs phone line and "surfed" your site if they wanted acceses to the adult pictures they would have to pay you a fee of being able to access per month for that content on your site. Ah...the ol days...
Sorry if i rambled a bit much, i am on baby watch this evening while the women goes to a bridal shower and thought i would share this thought with all of you (and the couch surfing will soon begin)
Ps. Anyone have a favorite "old-school" online game......?
later.....