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I was a video game software pirate (www.youtube.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember helping a teacher at school who had installed a CopyIIPc card on one of our computers. They used it to make everyday copies of the master disks of the copy protected educational software we used in our room full of Sperry IBM compatible PCs.

The card went in between the floppy controller and the drive and could do a pretty good job at duplicating all the physical copy protection tricks of the time.

They copied a lot of stuff, not for pirating reasons but simply because they were literally 5 1/4" floppy disks back then and school kids were not kind to them. Either it was simply jamming them into the drives, or touching the exposed disc surface, or chucking them around the room, those disks didn't last long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

School is where I first saw these. Every classroom had bootleg disks. They’d buy one copy of a program and then copy one for each classroom. Later when moving to PC’s from the Apple II, they’d clone each hard drive in that school from a master drive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This guy does such great content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=ockNRSt3Nsk

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Good ~~not~~ bot Bad Google-owned YouTube

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unfortunately the performance of piped has always bein terrible for me. Usually its just relatively high load times but now it wont even play the video (s21 firefox)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

X-Copy! YES! Mate, that’s a solid throwback for me. I had totally forgotten about this gem.

Thanks so much for bringing back that memory!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I remeber un- and replugging the soccer arcade machine as a kid in the mid 90es gaining 10 free games every time. That's how it all started.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A pirate life for me!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Finally I know the origin of this meme