I used Alcohol 120%, which was based off DaemonTools. Eventually I learned how to make my own “mini disc images” to load on my virtual CD drive, because some little bit on the CD was all the games installed on hard drive were checking for, with regards to copy protection.
Those were the days!
NES and SNES games fit on a 3.5" floppy disk, and there were piratey disk drive peripherals that you could insert into the cartridge slots on those systems. The peripheral had a cartridge slot on top, so you inserted the cartridge, copied the game to floppy, or floppies, and gave those to your friends, as they gave you their copies. You could rent game cartridges from video stores.
PS1 games you just installed a modchip and then you could play CD-R copies of game disks
PS2 they had the flip top cases, and “magic disc” that was a special disk printed with the “official authentication code” but then ran a program to stop the drive, allowing you to lift up the lid, then press a button to load whatever game was on the CD-R/DVD-R copy.
For PC Games there was the mighty GameCopyWorld that allowed you to patch games to bypass CD/DVD disc checks. If you had the right tools, you could make your own virtual CD, bypassing the risk of viruses from rando downloading.
Even before that, people could write fully working games by hand, and shareware was fully functional before it all became crippleware or nagware.
These days, you can’t play tic-tac-toe without the game connecting to a server, and forcing you to log in after watching 30 minutes of ads, and that’s after you’ve paid your monthly subscription fee.
qB has an avatar 😂
Never heard of 'em.
Were they good for some kind of content or feature?
The re-releases sometimes come with improvements, such as the ability to save mid-game, or networked multiplayer, that would have been impossible with the original release, e.g. a standup arcade game.
Good thinking!
Microprose MTG came out in 1997, one year after Pokemon in 1996, but that was in Japan as Pokemon Red/Green.
Pokemon Red/Blue was released in the US in 1998.
So in the US technically, Microprose published first.
I have no idea who owns Microprose’s IP these days.
JD helps you manage slow free downloads, not have to wade through all those popups and misleading links to get through the actual download process.
If you actually have a paid user ID at the host, it can handle that too.
Try JDownloader 2.
Most countries have some kind of internet restrictions.
You can look yours up, in case you’re trying to visit torrent sites while in Denmark, for example.
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/internet-censorship-map/
It’s really frustrating to search for old hard-to-find videos, at long last find some forum post with a DDL link, then find out that the DDL was deleted by the host due to inactivity.
Nothing is wrong with archive.ph , but it’s good to have a backup in case it goes down, or if it starts failing for some reason.
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Every Google account comes with 15GB of free storage.
Make as many Google accounts as you need.
Store files in Google Drive up to the limit for each account, then add links to the other GDrive archives.
Organize the files as needed.
Maybe make a free web page in Wix, Wordpress, or whatever with links to the files easy to search and find.
Pass the userid and passwords to the GDrive and webpages to whomever wants to be your successor.
You will be dependent on the generosity of Google, Wix, Wordpress or whatever to not cleanup the webpages and files due to inactivity.
So keep a backup. Torrents can be messy because they can be broken if there are no seeders.
If the content is static, then I’d recommend some older P2P filesharing like eD2K to keep one big zip/rar file backup shared among peers.
How’s the food database?
Is it static, or can one change it locally, and/or upload contributions?
I hate my Samsung S25.
The hardware is lightning fast, but this OneUi garbage fucks up multiple apps, even Voyager that I am using to type this right now.
They especially seem to fuck over the Fossify open source apps.
The redundant Samsung apps (Phone, Messenger, Calendar, Photos, App Store, et al) are garbage clones of the vanilla Google Android apps.
I never had this many problems with my Motorola, which did use vanilla Google Apps
How many people actually own shortwave-receiving radios though?
List of known piefed instances:
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
.Social’s in 3 digits user numbers
feddit.online and preferred.social are in 2 digits
Does the web page game work for you? Mine just sits there.
https://github.com/lukemcneil/killer-queen
maybe? I’m not sure how this clone is supposed to work.
There’s usually some way to watch livestreams.
For sports, there’s apps like Sopcast, Acestream, Kodi, Veetle, also any number of dodgy streaming websites that change all the time.