The monitor would flicker and in its reflection you would see the shadowy figure take a step closer to you. You dared not turn around but you knew what would happen if it ever got to 5.
Yeah but they didn't limit the buffer. You had to wait 15min for it to load but once it did you could watch a whole low quality video file straight through with no shuddering or stopping.
Error with winsock.dll 😁
blows your fecking socks off :D
Happy99!!
It hung up and you had to try connecting again.
I’d wait a half hour while playing Descent
If you're looking for some nostalgia they made a revival called Overload. It's $30 of GOG and steam.
Already got it
have you played "overload"?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/
No but now I’m definitely not going to get anything done this weekend.
A flood of cheat codes just rose up inside of me that I forgot existed.
It gave up
Yo mama be screaming for you to get off the damn inter net while she's on the phone with aunt Heidi, so it'll it never reach attempt 5.
Do not tell yo mama that technically you never managed to get on to the "inter net". Trust me on this one.
Set your modem string to go for more than 5.
https://www.computerhope.com/atcom.htm
Also add
S109=0to force k56flex, since it's (like 3kbps) faster than v.90Oh! That's a new one on me! Maybe sounds familiar?
The monitor would flicker and in its reflection you would see the shadowy figure take a step closer to you. You dared not turn around but you knew what would happen if it ever got to 5.
I would play MechWarrior 3 on campaign mode and try again in half an hour or however long it took me to die a few times.
Overheating. Shutting down.
The computer would blow up
The old memories of seeing this for 5 minutes as a kid just to be able to load the espn homepage to see football scores and a few images
And the full screen nude that would load from the top down and idle for what seemed like forever just before revealing the boobies.
Yeah but they didn't limit the buffer. You had to wait 15min for it to load but once it did you could watch a whole low quality video file straight through with no shuddering or stopping.
I was a weird kid and had this growing up
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE
There was a time when I connected my nextel via USB to my computer and used it to connect to 36k internet and played runescape all day...
Good times punching giants for big bones.