Found and bought this early 90s shareware package recently. It looks wonderfully homemade. So let’s dive in and see what’s what! Download the disk images here: archive.org/details/attitude-...
I'm sure this has been said before, but thank you so much for archiving everything you find! Even if it's something some people may find "silly" or "mundane," the archivist in me still appreciates what you've done!
I agree. I have been binge watching LGR videos for about 2 weeks now and have enjoyed most of them. I love the Colabs with Sarah (PushingUpRoses,) the hardware reviews, the Oddware, and a lot of the software reviews. Anything Sim or Maxis related I do skip because I am not interested in them (sorry Clint,), but some of the software from the early 80's to mid 90's is quite fascinating. Like listening to an expert History teacher. I never really had PC's growing up, not until the Late 90's when I was in my late 20's. I had an Amiga before that and I loved it. But I wanted a more capable machine in both Hardware and Software. Anyway, thanks again Clint for everything you do. I love the way you never swear or use any bad language. Just wholesome, family fun.
@@yogibear2k220 no cussing. Just lots of talk about balls. I liked your comment, but you lost me at no cussing. Nothing wrong with letting one fly on occasion. Tastefully of course though.
Not to diminish your regular videos, they definitely show the work you put into them. I really really love these "just a nerd gets a hold of some cool shit" videos. I appreciate that we can join in on the joy you get from just playing with something dope
Bananoid is an mostly unknown but legendary piece of programming. If I recall correctly, it was made to prove just how capable VGA is. It was made in the early days of video cards with that standard appearing.
The "divide error" is usually due to the CPU being too fast (though not always), VGA Sharks might run if you use Mo'Slo or such and really, really slow the CPU down.
Yup, was going to reply with exactly this, and to try MOSLO or something like it. The divide error usually occurs when a program TRIES to account for the CPU speed, but fails because it's so much faster than what it expected that the math for the timing calculations overflows.
I remember sleeping over at my friends place and spending the whole night eating pizza and exploring through a game pack like this on his Compaq in the mid 90’s.
Those were the days! Even still the old C-64 was a treat to explore. There were SO MANY weird and wonderful programs around then. No real genres had been established and developers would just throw things at the wall to see what stuck. Great times.
Bananoid was one of my favorite games back in the day. And yes, very much an Arkanoid clone, but I still loved it. Super Fly is one I remember having played. I think the main challenge was that if you get trapped by dead flies, you lose, so you have to be careful when you're killing them that you don't trap yourself. Darn It had two prompts when you hit Quit, one to "Quit this deck" followed by "Play again", and LGR kept hitting "Yes" to both. Captain Comic and Commander Keen were definitely favorites as well, and depending on the version, Mahjongg. Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy were definitely on the disks my school would let kids play when they finished whatever assignment was given out. And $50 is way too much to be charging for a Shareware collection, so many of those will state "not allowed to charge more than necessary for distribution", and that package did not cost the company $50. I love that all the disks are labeled "IMPORTANT", too.
It amazes me how many of those programmers straight up put their home addresses on their title screens without fear. I guess back before email was common it was the best way for contact.
Yeah often companies (and people) used to use the term Public Domain to describe Shareware, even if it’s incorrect. You can see the same thing going on with old Amiga Mags here in the UK.
This is likely bleedover from cheap video publishers like Goodtimes who at the time would just barely skirt under the radar knocking off Disney movies and copying them verbatim then saying its "public domain" because Disney also copied the stories from old books. But the issue was Goodtimes wasn't copying the books and making their own rendition they were copying Disney and intentionally designing the covers to trick people. People got the idea seeing them do that "oh well thats public domain so is this". Still happens today.
*11:54* Hahah I love that little version of The Internationale! Robert Roberds at BSX International was/is a comrade Also the names in the high scores for Blue Balls were quite on the nose
8:39 Interesting high score table names there. When I was at college we had a textbook and the author was B. J. Holmes and my college friend called it the "Big John Holmes" book.
Yeah, I knew the guy who (briefly) had the job of assembling the monthly cover-mounted CDROM for PC Format (or some similar Future Publishing title) in ~1995. Literally all he did all month was assembly endless folders full of doom levels and other freeware from FTP sites. Awful non-job.
Tarnsmandw on twitch did a playthrough of entirety of maximum doom, you can find it in his clip archives. He only cited 36 maps by end of it that he really liked.
_Stand up, all victims of oppression_ _For the tyrants fear your might_ _Don't cling so hard to your possessions_ _For you have nothing if you have no rights_
I could watch this sort of thing all day long! Spent far too many hours playing Amiga PD, shareware and demos as a kid, and wouldn’t change that for the world :)
14:28 The Divide Error is because your CPU is too fast. There was a common problem with Turbo Pascal applications (and there was a patch), though I don't know if this is the exact Turbo Pascal issue, but I'm 99% sure it's a CPU Speed issue. Time for a Even-More-Wood-Grainy-386?
I remember seeing a lot of these back in the 90's where they just took a bunch of shareware and put them on a CD or disks and sold them for anywhere from $5 to $30. I mean back when dial-up was basically your only option, and games like Doom were 20MB, this was a good option to get a large quantity of games for a small price (probably just covered the cost of the media and time to duplicate the games by the vendor).
This is a classic example of, what can go wrong, will go wrong! Typical for these types of bundles, but hey, I'm sure you'll get some hours of frustration out of it!
Holy Crap! SuperFly! Childhood memory unlocked! My grandparents had that on their computer when I was a kid! omg I always loved going over there to play on the computer. Wild how I've forgotten that over the years
I played a bunch of SuperFly in the day, it was weirdly addictive. A mainstay of shareware compilations, too... pretty sure Game Empire had it, as did most of the computer show homebrew compilations I had.
I remember some other shareware collection packs, had alot of fun late friday nights after school in the late 80's/early 90's exploring some odd pack you found at the PC store LOL
Something about this compilation and the design of the packaging this reminds me of the kind of software my late grandfather would have on his old shareware-laden 286
Oh wow, this one brings me back, my parents bought us a Jewel Case CD of a Game Collection called, "Game Empire", it had a ton of shareware games, and the original Duke Nukem, along with a bunch of other random ones I'd never played like VGA Trek, and that Fly Game was also on it, so I instantly had flash backs to those old days. I have no idea what happened to that game, but it sure had a bunch of Games listed that I never found on there, like it listed Duke Nukem 3D, but I never found it ever on the Disc, along with several other games.
LGR and Pushing Up Roses actually went through 2 different versions of Game Empire on Pushing Up Roses' channel several years ago! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L4XFxwAjSCU.html And ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AuLj6G1_4Rg.html
Still have Game Empire volumes 1 and 2. Haven't messed with them in ages, and if i ever do mess with them again I'll probably grab them off the Internet Archive because my discs are so beat up half the games don't load because I really sucked at taking care of optical media when I was a little kid lol.
these remind me of the Games we were not supposed to play on GOV work PC< but hey there all DOS games, one i miss is the banana toss game, and there was nuke game( set protectory and blow the other city up) when sitting on ship, crossing the Atlantic do what you can pass time, or in your work center waiting for Aircraft to return from training flight. good old days of DOS . 90's beginning of my NAVY days. good times.
The names on the screen at 8:40 may be a hint that you indeed have the adult pack. If blue balls wasn't enough of a... tip. As far as i remember bananoid had terrible controls, your gameplay was way good than i ever did.
I remember back in the day almost all software I was getting were such home made releases, some of it was shareware too... You could bring them back and swap out for something else too.
Yeah, PD Games = Public Domain games. That naming was used more in the UK I think, and implied completely free, not shareware which was like a trial licence. All my old Atari ST mags from England are filled with ads from Public Domain Libraries selling floppies stuffed with things that were free and you were technically paying only for the disc and service.
You could probably have fixed the "packed file is corrupt" error with "LOADFIX INSTALL" This has something to do with programs created with ancient versions of EXEPACK sometimes breaking on newer versions of DOS
I was just about to suggest the same thing. It would have probably worked fine on DOS 3 or without himem.sys and XMS. I think LOADFIX just uses up all of the extra memory and makes sure no address below 64K is free so that the old program doesn't get confused.
Oh man, Hurkle Hunt, that really takes me back... So basically the guy moves to a random adjacent square after every move and you're supposed to trap him into a spot with no more squares for him to move to. Like at 17:23 you almost had it, if you had shot the space below the one you did he would have been forced to move up to the corner, and *then* shooting the space you killed him at would have won.
I was thinking the interface and graphics of that game looked really familiar, then I noticed William Voss's name. I used to play another of his games a LOT back in the day: Revenge of the Killer Robots from Hell.
superfly was one of my fav dos games i found in a pc at a garage sale as a kid, its such a fun game and many lvls. I would recommend to run it on a slower 486
Blueballs definitely made an appearance on the DOS game compilation CD video that you appeared on on PushingUpRoses' channel. Granted, it was something like 9 years ago, but we happened to watch it just this month!
I remember the old strip mall computer stores would have the shareware racks and stuff like this. And speaking of Winston-Salem, I specifically remember a computer store just outside of town, I think on 52, just to the north. I remember being there with my dad and grandfather, and trying to watch the Doom demo on the PC upfront without being _seen_ watching it 😂
