During the life of the Sempron box, I picked up a laptop (Inspiron 630m, Pentium M) and maintaining my desktop PC lost any sort of priority as my focus shifted to college studies. The AthlonXP was replaced by a Sempron 2800. The Pentium II was replaced with an AthlonXP.
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Long live Sneakernet!Įventually, the Pentium Pro box was replaced with a Pentium II. Even today, those experiences make me keep floppies on the mental radar as a valid means of moving data, even though it’s totally irrational.
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I learned how to create spanned zip files so I could get those files on those disks. I invested in my own box of floppy disks – yes, floppy disks – to transport all those downloaded Zips from her computer to my own. I spent hours browsing the content created by so many people, downloading the smaller files on my 56k and paying a visit to my aunt with DSL for the larger ones. Qwerty, your ‘daily driver’ class of cars made MM1 so relatable, so real…you may appreciate knowing my first real car (many years later) was a box Grand Marquis. Honourary mentions go out to Revolution Racing, BOX Designs, Qwerty_86, TEK_Xacto…the names that stuck with me all this time, after seeing them in so many Readme.txts. MM2 was probably the better game, but MM1 had the content that appealed to me. I particularly loved the Midtown Madness games, and it didn’t take long before I discovered the thriving enthusiast community developing add-on maps, vehicles and other mods for them. Titles that come to mind…Viper Racing, NFS III Hot Pursuit, NFS IV High Stakes, Half-Life, Redline Racer, and yes…Midtown Madness 1 and 2.
Paul, we haven’t spoken in a long time now, but I do hope you know how much I appreciate those years. He went above and beyond in that role exposing me to technology and experiences that I may not have had access to otherwise, which played a major role in developing hobbies and interests I’ll have for life. I had been introduced to gaming-capable computers, and the games themselves, by my then-Big Brother (the mentoring program, not a sibling). That computer is the first one I ever “worked on”, in the form of adding hard drives harvested from discarded computers at the roadside. I was 12 at the time.Īt the time I was rocking a more-than-second-hand white box PC with a 150MHz Pentium Pro, 64MB of RAM, a 2.5GB Quantum Bigfoot, ATI Rage + 3DFX Voodoo2, and Netzero’s monthly 10 free hours of dial-up. Based on ‘date created’ metadata for some files I’ve dug up, around the year 2002 I was first introduced to two PC games: Microsoft Midtown Madness, and Midtown Madness 2.
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