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[Eric5h5]

the Battle Cat, on 01 June 2012 - 06:54 PM, said:

14.4K = 2400 baud you intertube no0b.

I'm sure he was just confusing bp/s with baud, and was therefore actually talking about a 2.4kp/s modem.

--Eric

[Diablofett]

I remember playing Warcraft II back in my single-digit-aged days. Back then there was the America Online Wargaming League. We would meet in chat rooms, exchanged our ip addresses, and then hope to connect in a game of Warcraft II. Of course it was no fun when you had only one phone line and someone would call you during a game and bump you off. What made that even worse was when it was a telemarketer.

[the Battle Cat]

Eric5h5, on 01 June 2012 - 09:48 PM, said:

I'm sure he was just confusing bp/s with baud, and was therefore actually talking about a 2.4kp/s modem.

--Eric

Quit sticking up for the little tard!

[The Liberator]

Diablofett, on 02 June 2012 - 07:24 AM, said:

I remember playing Warcraft II back in my single-digit-aged days. Back then there was the America Online Wargaming League. We would meet in chat rooms, exchanged our ip addresses, and then hope to connect in a game of Warcraft II. Of course it was no fun when you had only one phone line and someone would call you during a game and bump you off. What made that even worse was when it was a telemarketer.

Yeah, I remember when I tried to call my friend's house, only to find the internet was being used there, so I was instead greeted with a dialup-ish sound instead.

Lib.

[Matt Diamond]

Remember when you'd forget to turn off call waiting, and you'd be dialled in to some bbs and  random characters would appear on your screen when people tried to call you (or when a spouse picked up a handset to make a call)? And people would complain that your phone was always busy when they tried to call you, because everyone only had one phone number?

[Frost]

the Battle Cat, on 01 June 2012 - 06:54 PM, said:

14.4K = 2400 baud you intertube no0b.

Actually, 9600 = 2400 baud as well under different modulation.

Eric5h5, on 01 June 2012 - 09:48 PM, said:

I'm sure he was just confusing bp/s with baud, and was therefore actually talking about a 2.4kp/s modem.

But Eric is right. I was referring to my ancient Apple 2400 modem I was creeping along with (I was using an Apple 1200 before that in the BBS-only times) before grabbing a 28.8K Global Village Teleport Platinum  (anybody remember those?) in my later Marathon days.

Matt Diamond, on 02 June 2012 - 02:18 PM, said:

Remember when you'd forget to turn off call waiting, and you'd be dialled in to some bbs and  random characters would appear on your screen when people tried to call you (or when a spouse picked up a handset to make a call)? And people would complain that your phone was always busy when they tried to call you, because everyone only had one phone number?

YES, I remember that! So many times I'd be rampaging through another player's empire in Barren Realms Elite when all of a sudden a bunch of random jumbled crap would show up in the Telnet window and I'd headdesk because I knew the disconnect was seconds away and the other player would get a chance to call in and retaliate before I finished my turns for the day.

[Diablofett]

Frost, on 02 June 2012 - 02:44 PM, said:

YES, I remember that! So many times I'd be rampaging through another player's empire in Barren Realms Elite when all of a sudden a bunch of random jumbled crap would show up in the Telnet window and I'd headdesk because I knew the disconnect was seconds away and the other player would get a chance to call in and retaliate before I finished my turns for the day.

It sounds like getting another player's number would have been a useful tactic back then.

[Matt Diamond]

Diablofett, on 03 June 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

It sounds like getting another player's number would have been a useful tactic back then.

[badger2d]

Oh, dialup. Now thanks to all of you I'm now remembering fresh and clear the horrible, dying-robot sequence of sounds the modem would make while establishing a connection. Why in the world was it necessary to play all that out loud??

Diablofett, on 02 June 2012 - 07:24 AM, said:

I remember playing Warcraft II back in my single-digit-aged days. Back then there was the America Online Wargaming League. We would meet in chat rooms, exchanged our ip addresses, and then hope to connect in a game of Warcraft II. Of course it was no fun when you had only one phone line and someone would call you during a game and bump you off. What made that even worse was when it was a telemarketer.

Ambrosia's Avara was the first game I ever played online, in 1997, and a fair few people were also using it as a chat client to set up Warcraft 2 games. I had been playing Warcraft 2 previously with a couple of friends via LAN or dialup, and I vividly remember being crushed by someone online and not even comprehending how he could build such a huge army so fast. And then, the moment of revelation when I finally saw his base - he had built more than one barracks! It had apparently never before occurred to me or my friends that you could even do that.  

[the Battle Cat]

badger2d, on 04 June 2012 - 11:02 AM, said:

Why in the world was it necessary to play all that out loud??

It was so that your wife would know what you were up to and come in to check on you.

[The Liberator]

I think those sounds were made purely to annoy you, Badger.

Lib.

[DaveyJJ]

the Battle Cat, on 04 June 2012 - 12:40 PM, said:

It was so that your wife would know what you were up to and come in to check on you.

My wife knows all about my Tinkerbell fetish, thank you very much.

[The Liberator]

DaveyJJ, on 04 June 2012 - 02:08 PM, said:

My wife knows all about my Tinkerbell fetish, thank you very much.

I'm sure she does, just don't involve tBC in your shenanigans next time. ...they get hairy.

Lib.

[Diablofett]

badger2d, on 04 June 2012 - 11:02 AM, said:

Oh, dialup. Now thanks to all of you I'm now remembering fresh and clear the horrible, dying-robot sequence of sounds the modem would make while establishing a connection. Why in the world was it necessary to play all that out loud??



Ambrosia's Avara was the first game I ever played online, in 1997, and a fair few people were also using it as a chat client to set up Warcraft 2 games. I had been playing Warcraft 2 previously with a couple of friends via LAN or dialup, and I vividly remember being crushed by someone online and not even comprehending how he could build such a huge army so fast. And then, the moment of revelation when I finally saw his base - he had built more than one barracks! It had apparently never before occurred to me or my friends that you could even do that.  

I would think those connection sounds from back in the day could be used as torture in some cases.
Avara, oh man that takes me back. It was far from being my favorite game, but I played it online a few times. One non-mainstream game I used to play online was Oberin. I think the game is active to this day, but I played it before their hiatus/server crash in 1999 or 2000. The Myth series was another fun game to play online. I played Myth II online a lot back in the day, I had a high ranking icon on my Bungie.net account because of my many victories.

[Matt Diamond]

Loved Myth & Myth 2 multiplayer. Wasn't great at online public games, but I was solid enough. Managed to advance past the first round of their Heron Guard online tourney, whatever that was called. We all got t-shirts and a discount coupon for the Bungie Store. I still have the shirt and the coupon-- was saving the discount for Oni, but then MS bought Bungie and the coupon wasn't usable any more. I HAD TO PAY FULL PRICE-- THE HORROR! I will never forgive Microsoft for costing me those few bucks.

Ahem. Not that I'm still bitter or anything.

[Diablofett]

Matt Diamond, on 06 June 2012 - 10:17 AM, said:

Loved Myth & Myth 2 multiplayer. Wasn't great at online public games, but I was solid enough. Managed to advance past the first round of their Heron Guard online tourney, whatever that was called. We all got t-shirts and a discount coupon for the Bungie Store. I still have the shirt and the coupon-- was saving the discount for Oni, but then MS bought Bungie and the coupon wasn't usable any more. I HAD TO PAY FULL PRICE-- THE HORROR! I will never forgive Microsoft for costing me those few bucks.

Ahem. Not that I'm still bitter or anything.

It seems you got Microshafted.

My link

Which mac user did not have this video file on their computer back in the day?

[Frost]

I also used to play a metric popsnizzleton of Myth and Myth 2 online back in the day. GREAT multiplayer games, both coop and competitive. L-O-V-E-D those games. Got pretty damn good too, I was consistently a crown level player (the lower tier one, not the upper tier one) in my heydey. Had a warrior/archer/dwarf combo strategy that was an absolute killer if I could get some decent terrain to work with. Used to love abusing the dwarves' simultaneous throw/bottle launch tactic to artillery enemies from afar, although as always it carried the risk of a backfire bottle, which I caught more than a few times to disastrous but hilarious effect.

Always remember one in a free for all where my own bottle came back at me JUST right, killed all my dwarves, one of them dropped a lit bottle when he died, it instantly set off all their dropped satchels, and half my army flew into my screen in bits as the terrain deformed and bounced like a trampoline. I lost terribly but I laughed myself sick and watched the replay like 20 times!

I did play some Avara and WarCraft 2 as well, though unlike Myth those were usually with the two or three Mac friends I played with regularly rather than strangers.

Diablofett, on 06 June 2012 - 12:22 PM, said:

It seems you got Microshafted.

My link

Which mac user did not have this video file on their computer back in the day?

Heheh, I did. A bunch of others too.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Heh, maybe we could do a monthly IMG Myth 2 match or two. That would be awesome.. ^_^

[Frost]

Matt Diamond, on 06 June 2012 - 10:17 AM, said:

Loved Myth & Myth 2 multiplayer. Wasn't great at online public games, but I was solid enough. Managed to advance past the first round of their Heron Guard online tourney, whatever that was called. We all got t-shirts and a discount coupon for the Bungie Store. I still have the shirt and the coupon-- was saving the discount for Oni, but then MS bought Bungie and the coupon wasn't usable any more. I HAD TO PAY FULL PRICE-- THE HORROR! I will never forgive Microsoft for costing me those few bucks.

Ahem. Not that I'm still bitter or anything.

Should've just contacted Jim Ruiz, the Bungie Store guy. He is/was awesome. I contacted him by e-mail just before Microsoft let him go to see what was going to happen to the Bungie Points reward system as I'd always wanted one of the bTV mugs and wondered if I'd still be able to get one. No reply...

... except, two days later, a package showed up in the mail with a Bungie TV mug in it. Jim had pulled my address from my account and mailed me a mug. Naturally I thanked him profusely and he just responded with " :) "

What a cool dude.

[Diablofett]

Frost, on 07 June 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

Should've just contacted Jim Ruiz, the Bungie Store guy. He is/was awesome. I contacted him by e-mail just before Microsoft let him go to see what was going to happen to the Bungie Points reward system as I'd always wanted one of the bTV mugs and wondered if I'd still be able to get one. No reply...

... except, two days later, a package showed up in the mail with a Bungie TV mug in it. Jim had pulled my address from my account and mailed me a mug. Naturally I thanked him profusely and he just responded with " "

What a cool dude.

That is a good story, thanks for sharing. That was really awesome of him to do that.
An IMG Myth II game would also be neat. I would play, however, my Myth II disc is broken much like most of my 1990s Mac Games. My iMac and iBook cd drives both scratched them beyond use back in the day. Both drives must have been malfunctional. The iBook leaves a circular scratch on the discs and the iMac leaves a circular patter of scratches or dots. Well, for the iMac I should say "left" since that computer has ceased to be. Another odd cd story is that my copies of Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 both had black dots on their Disc 2s that made 3 files on each disc inaccessible. They both came like that, I did not bother to get replacements.