i had to re-buy fable 3 i couldn't run cd version i end of buying it on steam when it was on sell

i never own BioShock on cd i bought it on gog BioShock Remastered 1 and 2

Such a cool vid. While it's stuff most people will ever use, it's this sort of stuff that got me interested in computers as a kid back in the early 1980s and led me to a 35+ year IT tech career. I just love this channel and it's so cool to see younger people like yourself taking so much care and attention with tech and sharing knowledge. I've been working on various systems, plus Unix and x86 systems for 40 years now, you had to understand disk formatting in so many different ways for so many reasons. Even today if you still work on Solaris or HPUX, you have to understand disk layouts and formatting especially if you work with RDBMS raw filesystems like ASM for Oracle where you need to be aware of sector skipping else you could corrupt a 250TB database and spend a weekend restoring it ( not that I've ever had to do that, well only once!! ). One of the most fascinating things I learned back in the late 1980s was how Macintosh formats worked on floppies, they used zones and disk speeds to alter the speed of the disk spin rate to control the storage allocations, the old Copy-II-Deluxe board you used to be able to buy for PC would allow you to do this with a PC floppy drive so you could read/write Mac formatted disks in the late 1980s on a PC. Wwe needed to backup Lotus 1-2-3 v2 back in the 1980s and when you installed it on a hard drive it would "transfer" the copy protection keys from the floppy to the hard drive. So if you wiped the hard drive your floppies were toast and you had to write off to Lotus to get new copies sent out. Many people did this and to do the backups of the source disks, we had to check 17 installs, make sure the keys went back to the right floppies and then backup the source floppies using Copy-II deluxe board. Back in the days of Atari ST cracking scene in the late 80s and early 90s we had to use weird formats. Disks would 80 tracks by default but if you didn't have a hard drive you had to save your game saves to the floppy, so you'd format up the disks to 82 tracks, code and progs would be up to 80 and the game saves would be in tracks 81 and 82, so you MUST always use copy tools that could copy out to the 82 track on floppies. I've used flux data raw bin dumps of O/S boot floppies for older systems we needed to get back a few months back, the amount of precise raw data is frightening, they can be a pain if you're not used to them but if you need to read some half busted old floppy about to die on you then it's a lifesaver.

Short-sighted thinking. No other words to describe it and what is going to ultimately kill game preservation. These protection systems were put in place to prevent piracy, all very noble and commendable but the huge irony is that it's those very pirates and hackers that released cracks that allows the legacy games to still be played to this day, legalities aside for the sake of discussion. One of the reasons I don't tend to buy many games now especially from certain companies like Ubisoft who basically don't give a crap about customers. I will buy maybe 1-2 tripple-A a year and a handful of indy titles for under $10 but I do so kwowing that I will be able to play games for next 5 years abosolute max before whatever services and support infra behind them, will be gone without warning. Thankfully Steam is making enough money that they will be around for a while but that doesn't stop companies requsting Valve pull games from Steam libraries, most have agreements that purchases are kept but if the backend servers for the game are gone then the games are just useless. Most gaming these days is a huge watsed money pit.

12:00, watching this 5yrs later and im stuck between PCBWay being 10yrs old and PCBWay **only** being 10yrs old....

Honestly, i only understand copyrights as a right to make money using whatever it is. Once you're off the market, seriously, it isn't yours. Further, was it really YOUR idea that a hero went to a cave to fight a dragon, get the gold, and free the princess, nintendo? Really..? Thay was YOUR idea? Ok... oooook.... 👌

Stop buying digital games. Problem solved. But, this won't happen because people have no backbone when it comes to morals

With piracy i can. Imagine paying for propaganda...

Put Doom on it.

17:22 on the left is Flash Gordon and on the right is "A New Hope"

I can easily play fable 3

Sucks because I've wanted to play Fable 3 again

Capitalism is going to be the death of us all

Copyright and trademark laws should be eradicated permanently, they are so horribly evil and only bad for everyone

Microsoft not having any legal repercussions for games for windows live is so frustrating and awful

Perhaps if this had come out a few years earlier, when floppy distribution was more expensive and had lower capacity, and modems weren't so common, it would have been more successful.

Childhood memory & dream all back

so, games for windows live don't work when you try to play them from disc???

I remember the times when the digital copy of a game was cheaper than physical.

My old Windows 98SE system that a friend built for me, had a 1.8Ghz Pentium 4. I added a GeForce MX440 graphics card. Later, I swapped in a 2.8Ghz CPU, and maxed out the memory, as well as adding a 1TB secondary drive (for which I needed software to allow Widows to use all of). Then one day it was running ScanDisk after a crash and it stopped with an error about an invalid long filename, but it didn't tell me what file it was. I had to press a key to get it to continue. This happened every time ScanDisk ran. I Googled how to fix this, and found a page recommending you edit the ScanDisk config file and set "Validate Long FIlenames" to no, so I did that. The next time it crashed, ScanDisk ran, and I went in the other room to do something. When I came back, it hadn't stopped on an error, but it also hadn't finished yet. After letting it run a while longer, I finally stopped it. It booted up to a black Desktop and started popping up errors about programs that couldn't run. When I looked at the drive, I was horrified to see that it had gone through almost my entire C: drive and renamed every file to its DOS 8.3 counterpart! After much panic, I pulled my old system out of the closet and went online to find something to fix it with. I found a program that would show me the long filenames, but nothing else. Another would let me recover ONE file at a time with the long name. I immediately contacted the company to ask if the full, paid version would let me recover batches of files with the long names. Nope. ARGH! I ended up having to switch to a different system, plugged the drive in as a secondary, used the program to show the long filenames, used a screen capture program to capture the text, made a macro to create a rename script, and used that method to salvage the stuff I really cared about. If I ever meet the asshole that put that "functionality" into ScanDisk, I'm going to kick him right in the nuts.

Oddly I've been playing Fable 3 on my Steam account without needing to mod anything. It just boots up in offline mode. If you want to change your characters name you need a file to trick it into you thinking you have xbox live. But that's really it.

"the cables should be on the other end" just flip the book over

Ah, the days when you could actually decide for yourself what did or didn't get installed in the OS, and then configure it the way you wanted. Unlike today, where Microsoft has the final say about how your system is set up. :(

Wait. There's no 64 bit XP?

Capitalism is evil, yeah

I still have my old N64, Playstation 2, original Xbox, PS3, and my Xbox 360. So yeah I have plenty of options for gaming offline. Sure a few my PS3 games and 360 games had online multiplayer that doesn't work anymore. But I can live without that part if I need too. lol.

Yeah I wanted to download and run Steam on my old laptop. I never upgraded my OS though and my old laptop is still running Windows 7. And works just fine. But Not Steam... For some reason I could download Steam, and even install it. But just wouldn't run right and even the free game I was trying to play wouldn't run. It's ridiculous.

He needs to quit crying because you can play OverWatch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One you can still play afterlife 2 and BioShock 2 command & conquer Red alert 3 and Red Factor gorilla you can play them on PS3 or Xbox 360 you can play them on Xbox One and you can play Fable 3 on Xbox 360 and Xbox One as well so he just tried crying because he can't play the PC version you might as well that's playing on console cuz they're free to play and are unlocked

Yeah in '96 I had a 2000 MB HDD and that felt huge. I can absolutely buy an 8 GB limit in a '96 BIOS.

What are you talking about? You absolutely do have a way to play Red Faction Guerrilla. Download a crack to remove the DRM. "But that's a crime!" so is stealing your ability to make use of a product you purchased.

The originator was indirectly correct, qr codes are now in broad use, and can even store programs.👍

I like your 8086 license plate lol!!

Tried to play Sim City 2000 last year.. which didn't work out well. Also tried to reinstall Sim City Deluxe on my phone - it shows I purchased it but it's no longer available to download and install. So stupid.

Ordered one

I've been looking for one of these for my Commodore 64 for 25 years now and I've never seen one come up for sale.

Early USB implementations especially on AT boards usually didn’t have what we’d consider the correct pinout today on the header. I have an EPoX socket 7 board with an Apollo VPX chipset and its USB header is basically cut in half and stacked compared to what we’d consider normal.

14:49 Pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077, even got the guide book, just for them to change everything. Yea, the game economy really sucks these days. Cyberpunk taught me not to bother buying "physical copies" anymore.

12:00 Still waiting for them to fix Lost Planet 2. Same issues, delisted on steam, won't run, something about games for Windows. 💀

As a developer. I'm actually struggling archiving my older released titles to android or apple. Steam DRM has been super convenient allowing me to build a DRM free build at the same time. As for my older android games which are some of the best I've ever made, they are no longer supported by android >29. Actually, Google removes them all officially tomorrow due to changes in their requirements nearly a decade after the games original releases. They are offline games. Tragic. Having to rebuild the games honestly to keep them alive. Will take years as prioritise my next VR release. Which leads me to the concern of Quest VR. How in the heck is that gonna be, I bet they will play the same thing as Google play did.

I absolutely _LOVE_ the name "the stripper". I think that kind of name should be brought back.

I have a MT-120, and a large number of the midi files I download (particularly the larger, better files) do not play. I get the warning "Can Not Play This Data Format". Does this happen for you on the MT-200 too?

Such a great idea. Put snake in it!!

This is like punch tape on steroids.

Great video. I am wondering if the "live" browsing, as shown in 9:05 is available on Windows, too. I keep imaging disks with unknown contents, then have to mount in DOS emulator to check contents. I wish I could have a look at them upfront.Edit: Found the Fluxengine on Github with Windows Installer. So giddy now to try that!

Great video! Loved the Jeff Minter reference too. 😊

NEVER trust built in voodoo drivers - well I don't- esp 9.x and early XP. GLquake seems to need the "right" flavor voodoo drivers for your cpu, OS, etc and most of those websites are cached ghost versions, or just broken and gone. At least that's been my experience. The win drivers do give you some basic openGL, but not sure how much. would love a retro update for the 2020's by someone smarter than me!

DMCA COPPA and SOPA where all evil from the start. Change my mind.

I actually did this I backed up my private keys with data matricies (the barcode data matrix that's similar to a QR) printed on paper. So I have a physical offline indefinitely alive backup so long I don't get it wet...

Thanks for the video

15:32 what ?