And an article to go with it. Interesting bit about them having to do some emergency re-coding to avoid possible patent issues.

I'm actually somewhat surprised it's ONLY 650GB, considering now you can pick up a 1TB Enterprise storage drive for around a hundred bucks. I mean, yeah, connections were slower and people weren't using rich media or anything then, so files/sites would be smaller, but there still were a *lot* of …

Aw, you didn't pick up on it in the review, but in addition to nicking Hoth from Star Wars, Gallifrey is the planet of the Time Lords from the Dr. Who series... which makes their little blurb "Time is running out for the inhabitants of this planet" something of a terrible, terrible pun.

Hmm, I remember when I was much younger, and going to a summer programming camp at the local university (nerd alert!), there were all sorts of games that the students (and other camp attendees) had left on the network drives. Ah, the halcyon days of computer science, back when it was still a wild, …

No. Just no. Nobody ruins my Star Control 2. Star Control 2 is pristine, pure, sacrosanct. (Although I'm pretty sure Admiral ZEX was a little... different)

I'd either have to go with my Pentium 75 or my first 3dfx card. The pentium 75 with a whopping 16MB (I think) of memory... I think I got that before Gemini moved out of 486 territory, so I had the edge in Descent deathmatches (muahaha). The 3dfx card was my first 3d accelerator, which I got for …

nerka99 wrote: Now i have most disturbing image in my head... ... mecha blow up sex-doll Rule 34.

Weeeeeeeee, MechWarrior 2. Despite my original disc being quite old, and also stashed in a box in storage somewhere, I've managed to preserve the redbook audio tracks from that. I still recall going over the one demo mission many times before I got my hands on the real deal. The one where you're …

ah yes, I remember trumpet winsock well. I think my first win 3.1 browser was mosaic, so Netscape's ancestor. That was back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and people dialed out on phone lines to read their email.

I actually legitimately use lynx from time to time. It's not quite DOS, but linux terminal is pretty darn close for a browser seeing real-world live use. Usually for when I have to troubleshoot something with a web interface on a network that doesn't permit inbound http, and over a link too slow for …

For what it's worth: The whole thing was a hoax

I hope you mean "actively online", such as with an IM client, because it would be quite embarassing for you if you forgot that I've had the same website domain name and eMail addresses for 11 years now! ;D That would be doing things the simple, logical, straightforward way. We certainly can't have …

Gemini, my minion. GUESS WHO? You're... difficult to find online at times due to that... erratic schedule of yours. I still have that magazine game demo disc I mentioned to you earlier. You should let me know sometime how to go about making sure I can get that to you.