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| This one is already in my dA gallery. A sunny afternoon. Too bad this light didn’t last much longer since the Sun practically jumps over Estonia during winter. It’s 15.49 now and guess what? It’s dark. |
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
The following quote by Alex from “A Clockwork Orange” describes pretty well how I felt: “Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. (It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!)”
It had tons of games: Doom, Dangerous Dave, Wolfenstein 3D, Paperboy II, Pipe dream, SkiFree, Sky roads, Chess, Minesweeper, Tetris, Supaplex, The Lion King, Prince of Persia…the list goes on. As I discovered today I had Microsoft Entertainment Pack ver 1.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack) along with some other games as well. I can safely say that I had the greatest piece of technology among my friends back then :D
Well anyways, I was looking for Win95 screenshots today (I felt kind of nostalgic) when I stumbled upon the game I had been looking for for years. It was a game I had discovered quite late in my time of using Win95 (it was hidden in some secret folder). I didn’t know its name, I only remembered how I had loved playing it.
So, without further ado I introduce you to…“Chip’s Challenge” *the crowd goes wild*
And, to my great pleasure, it was actually available for download as well! I was able to play it again for the first time in over 12-13 years. F*ck yes! I still love it. And even though I also enjoy playing GTA etc. it’s still such a badass game.
Notice how Chip moves like John Travolta :D
Yes, he might be nerdy (according to Wikipedia) and spend time collecting computer chips but he’s definitely got the moves ;D
And the game has like 149 levels!
And since I can’t upload this post just yet (thanks, Tumblr, I finally have something to write about and you decide to be “We’ll be back shortly”) I shall continue babbling about old (dos) games and stuff.
Now, I never really got to play Wolfenstein 3D. After years of having my computer, I discovered some new games and, eagerly, clicked on them. I don’t know what happened but after clicking on Wolfenstein 3D icon something went terribly wrong. Once we restarted our computer, it automatically opened Paperboy II and we were forced to play it for months (we didn’t even get see the actual Windows desktop anymore). Some IT guys tried to fix it and I guess they re-installed Win95 with the price of almost every game I had on that PC being deleted.
When I was still using Vista, I had a SEGA genesis emulator and I could play older games (ROMs) on that. Paperboy II was the first ROM I was dying to get :D And I was absolutely addicted to playing Aladdin.
http://www.youtube.com/v/bp1XvV8BBfQ?fs=1
Coming back to Win95 I had a pretty lonely life after the re-installation, almost no games and definitely no Internet (I got the Internet when I was 13-14 on Win98). So I played around in MS Paint :D
We had a book, called “Windows 98 for beginners” and although we had Win95, I could still use some tricks&tips from that book. One of them was, um, about creating a nice text effect which I shall gladly demonstrate for you (the original screenshot was “Tere talv!” - “Hello winter!”)
Tadaa! I can’t believe I spent 10 minutes looking for the snowflake in the Wingdings font. And I used to have all of them memorized before!
And btw, I used Photoshop for this, MS Paint gave me weird edges when I placed one “Hello winter!” on top of the other (yes-yes, I could’ve cheated by just using drop shadow but for the sake of accurately displaying this technique I went for it the old way).
I also remember seeing Paint Shop Pro for the first time in our computer. Filling the image with a gradient was mind-blowing :D I’m dead serious, our whole family was impressed by that. I guess it was the most high quality thing we had ever seen on that screen.
