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For quite some time now Linux and FOSS vlogger Nixie Pixel, has been bringing videos about Linux, FOSS, and more to many a thirsty geek. Finally, after a mysterious absence of one year, the vlog darling returns to YouTube.
If you're not familiar with her, she has two channels on YouTube:
NixieDoesLinux, and "OS.ALT. The second of which covers the indie/hacking/geek community, including open source alternatives to operating systems and gaming."
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:11AM (1 child)
The original King's Quest I probably would have been reasonably playable on a machine from the mid-late 1990s with a CPU slowdown utility. I've used such a thing often enough to play on modern hardware the old games like Ultima and Bard's Tale which I grew up on. There was also an official remake of KQ1 which Sierra released in 1990 (along with a similar remake of Leisure Suit Larry I as I recall) which would have played better on the hardware of the late nineties/early 2000s, and seems like it might have been perfectly playable on Windows 95/98/XP.
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @03:03AM
At least when I was a kid (80s-late 90s), people held onto their games. Hell I first played Leisure Suit Larry *1* in the mid 90s because somebody I knew had it as one of the few games on their computers.
Boxed/cartridge games from the 80s and 90s got a lot more mileage spent on them compared to modern day games where after a year you are expected to move on to the next game. Rare is that a game consistently sells more than a year or two later, and 5 years seems to be pushing it nowadays. Many of those older games (some of which are now available on GOG or Steam, upping their lifetime and marketability significantly) had *SHELF* lives of 5-15 years. Which is pretty significant when you think about it. Some of these games could be found reissued on CD, or in a box, etc up to 15 years later. As an example I picked up the Ultimate Doom trilogy after the Doom 3 expansion was out, which puts it around 10-13 years after Doom originally came out, and about 4-5 games later as far as id's 'flagship games' went.
Having said that, between handmedowns, and being poor but tech savvy with a Good Will nearby, maybe she picked one up at the local thrift store, before all the bougies started pilfering them for deals on electronics.