Whenever people mention Space Cadet pinball, I HAVE to recommend the reverse engineered open source version on github (source ports for almost every type of platform).
It’s also available on flathub.Thanks for the Linux link! Where is that on the git
I assume you ask where in the Git mention the Flathub link since Flathub deems it unverified? It’s on On Linux section of the ReadMe
Ahh, my nostalgia. Thanks!
“Reverse engineered open source” isn’t a thing. You can decompile a program and look at the source code all you want, but that’s not the same as having the legal right to modify and redistribute it. Open Source specifically means the latter.
What you’ve linked to there is just some pirated proprietary-licensed source code that, frankly, I’m a little surprised Microsoft hasn’t taken down yet.
(Also, I don’t like the term “open source” for exactly the reason that it leads to this sort of confusion. According to both the OSI and FSF it means the same thing as “Free Software,” so folks should use the term Free Software instead since it emphasizes the four freedoms.)
If you want a pinball game that’s actually Free Software, check out Vector Pinball. I recommend installing it via F-Droid.
Are there revese engineered open source version of the other games?
I unfortunately don’t know of any other games on top of my head. I know Lego Island is close to 100% reverse engineered, but I’m not certain it’ll get released as an open source game like Space Cadet.
Ski free was available as an HTML 5 game years ago, so probably
That’s great. Fun memories! Simple but exciting
All I see is four badass apps with no ads and no dark patterns.
I got a Minesweeper app for my phone a few months ago with no ads. It’s amazing.
For Linux, Mac, and Windows (sorry bsds)
I also recomnend Libremines https://bollos00.github.io/LibreMines/
In general, get stuff like that from F-Droid. Ads and other enshittification basically isn’t allowed.
Shoutout to Breezy Weather on Fdroid.
In paint be sure to make a bunch of random lines and then use the fill bucket to fill in random colors in the spaces.
Oooh I totally forgot that I did play with MS Paint! I invented cities, countries, or I just did what you described. Fun times!
I used pixel-level zoom and drew top-down Star Wars starfighters and then copied and pasted them to have battles.
How do you know?!?! This is one of the most laser precise call out to my childhood ive ever seen in an internet comment.
I’d fill the whole screen, then use the freestyle cutting and go wild with the mouse, then delete the selection, leaving a weirdly neat 2-color mosaic
Em spaint was always fun.
I would do that with the spray paint, then select two colors on the bucket and fill them in alternating back and forth, slowly progressing outward, until the entire picture was one color. Good times.
Kids and their fancy winders machines…
That doesn’t look like GORILLAS.BAS
It’s nice to know that even without internet, they still had Balatro ❤️
You didn’t have diskettes or CDs in your neck of the woods?
500 games on 10 CD-ROMs 👌
(485 of them are shareware demos you can only play for 15 minutes at a time, but still)
I was going to say, I didn’t have Internet until college we still had CD-ROMs, game consoles, and of course the public library for Internet when needed. Not that these options aren’t excellent free entertainment.
No love for SkiFree?
Obligatory XKCD - https://xkcd.com/667/
What about winamp and windows media center audio visualizers. Trippy patterns
Have I got good news for you.
How would you acquire winamp without the internet?
It was bundled with the computer, my father won at a lottery.
Encarta was the internet
Was Encarta the one with a trivia game? Or was that Britannica? Cause I remember my antisocial young self playing it to death.
I still got some useless facts stuck in my head, taking up valuable space… I can’t conjure any of them on demand; but someone could randomly mention a species of frog and I would go, “oh yeah, they’re native to Madagascar!”
My Encarta 97 CD-ROM had a game where you went through rooms of a castle answering trivia questions to move on.
I stumbled onto this at a library as a kid and couldn’t get enough! This library was a big one and it wasn’t near us, so I selfishly tried to squeeze in every moment I could.
I did feel guilty, knowing my grandmother was stuck waiting for me, but the game was too compelling, my nerdiness too severe, and my grandma too gentle. I was powerless to do anything but press on.
Years later I realized…my grandma was a librarian, and this was an unfamiliar library to her. She had the better time by a mile, and must have counted her lucky stars that I was content to just stay in one place (AKA safe and behaving myself) for hours on end. I can remember her coming to check on me every so often, and each time I couldn’t believe I got to play even more.
Thanks for the memory :)
Space Cadet.
'Member when you bought a magazine and got a FREE floppy or CD with a bunch of (shareware/demo) games? I played the same 2 demo maps of Age of Empires to death - the game had 3, but the 3rd one was too hard for youngster me.
First Mount&Blade for me. It was hard capped so you straight up can not play after some level (?). I wonder how many times I rolled a stone on top of that mountain, only to gleefuly repeat the process after it felt back.
There had to be a moment, studying classical mythology, where you went “Hey, wait.”
Sisyphus was a balls person.
There’s a cream for that.
Navigating some Microsoft Bob ass Flash launcher where every installer link is a door on a space station, guided by the Coconut Monkey.
skiifree was also a solid choice
And Chip’s Challenge.
I played the hell put of Freecell back in the day. Started going through the seeds in order, and over the course of about 2 years I made it through 1500 or so.
I should pick that up again. Only got about 30000 or so games left to finish the whole thing…
I mean we did have internet, but it was billed by the amount of data you used, and being online meant that people couldn’t use the phone at the same time.
MS paint used to have a spray paint tool. I spent a lot of time using that tool to fill the entire canvas.
