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Mickey7@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

What happened if the 5th attempt failed?

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What happened if the 5th attempt failed?

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    It gave up

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    I’d wait a half hour while playing Descent

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      Descent

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      A flood of cheat codes just rose up inside of me that I forgot existed.

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    Set your modem string to go for more than 5.

    https://www.computerhope.com/atcom.htm

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      Also add S109=0 to force k56flex, since it’s (like 3kbps) faster than v.90

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        Oh! That’s a new one on me! Maybe sounds familiar?

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    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.

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      Overheating. Shutting down.

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    I was a weird kid and had this growing up

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    The computer would blow up

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    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

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      And the full screen nude that would load from the top down and idle for what seemed like forever just before revealing the boobies.

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    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.

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