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I remember winning a contest on AOL shortly after I found the engine. The prize?
An additional 10MB for your members.aol.com web page. You started with 2MB, IIRC.
I felt like a king being able to upload entire 100KB jpgs to post for my games on the forums back then and not having to rotate old ones out. This was before everyone in the OHRRPGCE community had their own Xoom.com webpage (which is now a Paypal domain).
I remember feeling like I was visiting people's internet homes by going to their Xoom webpage, their Tripod page, or their Geocities page, or their Fortunecity site, all with different presentations and update styles. And email list subscribe buttons.
Nowadays 10MB is just the header for certain files
An additional 10MB for your members.aol.com web page. You started with 2MB, IIRC.
I felt like a king being able to upload entire 100KB jpgs to post for my games on the forums back then and not having to rotate old ones out. This was before everyone in the OHRRPGCE community had their own Xoom.com webpage (which is now a Paypal domain).
I remember feeling like I was visiting people's internet homes by going to their Xoom webpage, their Tripod page, or their Geocities page, or their Fortunecity site, all with different presentations and update styles. And email list subscribe buttons.
Nowadays 10MB is just the header for certain files
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100kB jpegs??? You monster!
I remember that on 56k it took over half an hour to download 10MB. A 10MB demo of some Total War RTS game was the biggest thing I ever downloaded. Holding up the phoneline for most of an hour! Of course, 56k was the fastest dialup speed, and sometimes the connection would be half of that. Thankfully I never had to live through days before 56k was state of the art.
Anyway, there's still a lot of geocities, AOL etc.*, sites archived at archive.org. It's fun browsing them because you have to follow links from one website to the next; there's no web search engine! (Actually, archive.org do have an experimental search feature, but they don't actually have much indexed, so it's never given me a useful result)
(*Unfortunately, tripod websites aren't accessible, although they used to be, due to a robots.txt file on the modern tripod.com website. I've been meaning to make an appeal against that)
Check out this huge list of OHR games which I stumbled upon from 1999, with links and (some working) screenshots. I had never heard of this website before.
http://web.archive.org/web/199905062041 ... mages.html
Sometimes the game download links still work. But mostly not.
"So this was my first game demo I'll try to get better graphics and music. I don't know music. So please don't pikc my game apart and say that it is not that great." -- from The Magnus Devolpment page
I remember that on 56k it took over half an hour to download 10MB. A 10MB demo of some Total War RTS game was the biggest thing I ever downloaded. Holding up the phoneline for most of an hour! Of course, 56k was the fastest dialup speed, and sometimes the connection would be half of that. Thankfully I never had to live through days before 56k was state of the art.
Anyway, there's still a lot of geocities, AOL etc.*, sites archived at archive.org. It's fun browsing them because you have to follow links from one website to the next; there's no web search engine! (Actually, archive.org do have an experimental search feature, but they don't actually have much indexed, so it's never given me a useful result)
(*Unfortunately, tripod websites aren't accessible, although they used to be, due to a robots.txt file on the modern tripod.com website. I've been meaning to make an appeal against that)
Check out this huge list of OHR games which I stumbled upon from 1999, with links and (some working) screenshots. I had never heard of this website before.
http://web.archive.org/web/199905062041 ... mages.html
Sometimes the game download links still work. But mostly not.
"So this was my first game demo I'll try to get better graphics and music. I don't know music. So please don't pikc my game apart and say that it is not that great." -- from The Magnus Devolpment page
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Now I remember the hidden area!
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/cK8qdyH.gif">
I think I removed that around the same time I added the "Cheat Shop"
And the messed up global text strings really make me giggle. I guess I filled up the STT lump with a lot of speculative unimplemented strings the same day I first created it.
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/cK8qdyH.gif">
I think I removed that around the same time I added the "Cheat Shop"
And the messed up global text strings really make me giggle. I guess I filled up the STT lump with a lot of speculative unimplemented strings the same day I first created it.
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Unfortunately it looks like members.aol.com/fyyrewulff was blocked by AOL whenever it got crawled back then. That sort of sucks since if they hadn't, my first ever website would still be up on the internet.TMC wrote:100kB jpegs??? You monster!
I remember that on 56k it took over half an hour to download 10MB. A 10MB demo of some Total War RTS game was the biggest thing I ever downloaded. Holding up the phoneline for most of an hour! Of course, 56k was the fastest dialup speed, and sometimes the connection would be half of that. Thankfully I never had to live through days before 56k was state of the art.
Anyway, there's still a lot of geocities, AOL etc.*, sites archived at archive.org. It's fun browsing them because you have to follow links from one website to the next; there's no web search engine! (Actually, archive.org do have an experimental search feature, but they don't actually have much indexed, so it's never given me a useful result)
Mixed with Pokemon.The Wobbler wrote:Someone should really make another OHR Dragonball Z game.
With the final boss battle set to the music of the sabre dance .bam
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I found the hidden area when James wandered into it. I guess that was the only way anyone would have found it, since of course CUSTOM.EXE wasn't available.
Just in the last decade*, Awful Waffle actually made two different Dragonball Z games, which were actually quite decent aside from being short and unfinished.
1st: http://castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=884
2nd: http://castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=970 http://superwalrusland.com/ohr/issue34/dbz/dbz.html
* A few years ago, it seemed like it was recent. Apparently that adds up to 8 years
Just in the last decade*, Awful Waffle actually made two different Dragonball Z games, which were actually quite decent aside from being short and unfinished.
1st: http://castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=884
2nd: http://castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=970 http://superwalrusland.com/ohr/issue34/dbz/dbz.html
* A few years ago, it seemed like it was recent. Apparently that adds up to 8 years
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It was easy to tell the quality for Adlib dropped over the years due to that one.Foxley wrote:But the hidden secret final boss is really CHUFFY.BAM incarnate.
1997-8: "Oh, I know what this is going for. Bass sounds good"
2000-01: "Um, the bass is gone, but it's still recognizable"
2004-05: "At least VDMS makes it sound decent"
2007: "The fx doesn't even decay anymore and did they map trumpets to the horn instrument?"
2009-Present: You're literally better off finding a mid-90s computer and recording the BAM from the line out and playing it in game as an ogg
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That's precisely how I found it too. I didn't realize it was removed. It's probably been over 10 years since I last played the game though.TMC wrote:I found the hidden area when James wandered into it.
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I didn't realize OHRRPGCE had been around for that long. I think I started messing with it in 2002, so about 5 years after it came to be.
I remember a friend in my Taekwon-do class showed me it and showed me a cool mech building and battling type game he was working on. I don't think his game was ever made available for download which is a shame because I recall it being quite good actually and it inspired me to download OHRRPGCE as soon as I returned home.
After about a year I started learning the basics of scripting and remember moving our old computer (running Windows 95) to my bedroom as my family had purchased a new computer for our home. I recall many late nights staying up on the computer and making/playing games. I also remember that the computer was so loud when it booted up that it woke my dad up a few times in the room across the hall and he scolded me for being awake so late. I figured out I could muffle the sound by smothering the computer with a blanket during boot up and I was never caught since.
I remember a friend in my Taekwon-do class showed me it and showed me a cool mech building and battling type game he was working on. I don't think his game was ever made available for download which is a shame because I recall it being quite good actually and it inspired me to download OHRRPGCE as soon as I returned home.
After about a year I started learning the basics of scripting and remember moving our old computer (running Windows 95) to my bedroom as my family had purchased a new computer for our home. I recall many late nights staying up on the computer and making/playing games. I also remember that the computer was so loud when it booted up that it woke my dad up a few times in the room across the hall and he scolded me for being awake so late. I figured out I could muffle the sound by smothering the computer with a blanket during boot up and I was never caught since.
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