• nevemsenki@lemmy.world
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    Ah, the good old times when I had to find and commission someone with a CD burner to copy Red Alert for me…

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      I was a bit before that, my group of friends liberally shared 5 1/4" floppies with C64 games on them. I also remember a demo being passed around where someone (not one of my friends) managed to encode about 10 scratchy seconds of “Why can’t this be love?” by Van Halen onto a 360K floppy disk and it was amazing at the time.

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        As far as C64 goes, when I was young there were radio broadcasts with C64 games. You’d record them on tape and then put that in the comodore…

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            Yup! But at least that tradition went on for a while. Just like a 3.5" disk failing… when your game was a single RAR file split over 15 of them.

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              Oh I remember bringing not one, not two but three pirated 5.25" disks home from the only other C64 person in the village! 3km in the cold on my crappy bicycle.

              Coming home the cold had made them all making read errors aaargh but then they thawed up and all worked perfectly well, I remember one was a sort of platformer where you had to walk on the different ingredients of burgers to make them fall down an well … make burgers.

              That was really a nice time to be alive.

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        Damn. A friend asked me to recover his and his brother’s c64 floppy collection of like 200 disks. I got several including his porn collection