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When the apocalypse happens, I am sure of two things:

1) I will be able to play DOOM on something.

2) I will be able to watch Bad Apple on something.

I suppose there are worse fates.

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It'll be like that episode of The Twilight Zone with the guy's glasses when you find a CD with Crysis on it but only have a Voodoo 5 installed.

I had similar situations in my youth, I have fond memories of hacking games up so they'd work without the 3D models. You haven't lived until you've played Mafia only being able to see the player's shadow beating up the target's shadow with a bat.

Please elaborate, were the worlds not 3d? I guess shadows where gradient sprits on the the ground, but im curios to what you did?

Yes, anything that was statically lit was fine. The game had absurdly low graphics requirements for modern standards, but even so I didn't have a GPU, just integrated graphics. So hacking the game to not render dynamically lit items was enough to make it playable (also needed some tweaks that would let it even launch in the first place). I obviously can't say exactly what I did though, this was a very, very long time ago (24 years).

That would be wild but very funny. They are rare now but in the bizarro land, Nvidia never exists!

Was thinking the same thing. Bad Apple is the Doom for when you hacked your toaster's creen, but it doesn't have inputs

You can also watch Star War on terminal

Well, the first several minutes, anyway.

Some future civilization which recovers only ASCII Star Wars will be unaware how the story ends. It will be a subject of great debate among scholars.

That's so sad. They'll never know the classic line "Soy tu padre mijo"

Or learn about the role of Cerveza Cristal in a galaxy far, far away.

Probably one of the best ad campaigns ever foisted upon the viewers

That, and while you're scavenging for the remaining parts of technology you can always question: But, can it play Crysis?

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