It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor.

[meeea@piaille.fr]

@grumpygamer I spent hours and hours just looking at cursors moving during defragging

[klyx@troet.cafe]

@grumpygamer oh... degaussing. Loved it. The Sound. The "wobble". It felt like really important, when it was not done for a while 😀😀

[calibanscreations@app.wafrn.net]

Make one. :)

[zoidbergforpresident@kolektiva.social]

@grumpygamer Thought you were talking about Doom for a second...

[microblogc@neopaquita.es]

@grumpygamer
Oh, yes. No game could beat a session of "pc tools" 😜 (it was my sister's favourite program, indeed).

[horaynarea@chaos.social]

@grumpygamer oh I miss degaussing… someone™ should write a Desktop Compositor for Linux that simulates drifting colors/alignment over time and has a degaussing button 🤔

[hunterking@heads.social]

@grumpygamer I love that not only are both of those very satisfying to watch, they both have really cool names.

[leberschnitzel@existiert.ch]

@grumpygamer at least there's a pixel refresh for oled screens >.<

[anguadelphine@mk.absturztau.be]

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place

Ah happy days.

[gormdegamle@sueden.social]

@grumpygamer Degaussing the CRT monitor was really fun indeed! #goodoldtimes

[derherrfreitag@bonn.social]

@grumpygamer Games at that time did not steal out time with dark patterns, did not steal our money with loot boxes and pay to win. They told stories and made us team up. I learned Englisch to play those adventure games (or at least improved my vocabulary beyond the school necessary). Still love Monkey Island and other Lucas Arts adventures, still remember waiting for the release of LeChuck's Revenge...

[pieq@floss.social]

@grumpygamer "degaussing a monitor", a term I hadn't even thought of in decades!

[ridge@tilde.zone]

@grumpygamer Watching the defragger do its job on Win98 back when was like a game in itself to me.

Absolutely mesmerised for no good reason.

[maxbob@det.social]

@grumpygamer or the panic in the eyes when floppy disk no. 15 out of 20 was missing to install the latest game

[asymmetricblue@mastodon.social]

@wansti @grumpygamer @klyx *whhooomP!*

[klyx@troet.cafe]

@Asymmetricblue @wansti @grumpygamer yes, just yes! Maybe I need to get out there and get an old CRT just for this? Nah, shouldnt do that... Need to explain this to wifey then and I am not sure, if she approves :D

[dazo@infosec.exchange]

@grumpygamer Better games ... probably also related to the real hackers of 80s and 90s able to squeeze the limit of x86 CPUs in "demo competitions" where the main program was not allowed to exceed 64KiB. And they squeezed that lemon to amazing heights!

Today's generation just wines about how expensive it has become to buy more RAM.

Even though I've been doing programming professionally for for quite some time, I'm not even worthy looking at these older hacker's boots.

[dazo@infosec.exchange]

@HorayNarea @grumpygamer There is a potential hardware market here ... A USB connected button to attach to your monitor, which triggers the degauss emulator software ....

I smell a kickstarter project here!

[platymew@layer8.space]

@grumpygamer @Viss We MUST NOT fail at teaching them how a file system works!

Documents can be free - they don't NEED to "be in the app"! 😅 🖖

[colingourlay@bne.social]

@grumpygamer the real joy for me was sitting watching the defrag visuals