correct, copy protection measures are really old. On the Amiga, some companies who consisted of ex cracking group members, struck deals with the scene not to crack their games for some time to guarantee a minimum sales (Factor 5 with Turrican come to mind, also The Silents with Pinball Dreams/Fantasies).
There was one…

It was different on home computers. C64/Amiga and similar. Mainly, because it was actually easier to come by copies than originals. This was before the Internet days, and if you didn’t have a shop in town carrying games, only the supermarkets who carried known titles, then you had to mail order them, or just couldn’t…

This affected legitimate customers on “Die Siedler III” (The Settlers III), where the copy protection let the mines only produce fish after a certain amount of time had progressed in a level (45min-1h iirc).
The problem was, that the copy protection was sometimes sprung if the game was started from a drive that was…

Thank you. As an additional info, Mike Sanders also has “Fettband” which is cloth drenched in their “wax” that can be wrapped around leaf springs to stop them from rusting.

Whereas Fluid Film came from the large ship industry (they use it in ballast tanks), Mike Sanders was invented for oldtimer enthusiasts.

Alternatives…

I am talking about people who are new to this game, not having any idea what is going on, being verbally harassed, hunted down again and again, and then captured by having a prison built around them, forced to give up their clothes ingame and then told to sit on some other character to “simulate intercourse” and stuff…

Among the stuff to consider so you never have to use PB in the first place:
If it is already rusty: Owatrol Oil. Normally used for wood, this stuff seals rust (remove loose rust before) perfectly from air and water, so it prevents it from rusting further.
Can be painted over with Brantho Korrux 3-in-1 - a permanently…

Rust ist that kind of game that I could totally do without. Or to be more precise, I could do without its “community”.

It is a cesspool for toxic, misogynistic assholes who live their violent anti-social power fantasies under the guise of “roleplay”. They create a world like a combination of MadMax and Conan, and force…

You really hit the nail on the head, it is a car in which I’d love to actually DRIVE to a classic car meeting, not one that I’d pull there on a trailer.
A fantastic little quirky coupe, not extremely powerful, but then again not very heavy either.

Small Mazdas have for me always been cars, that you get in, turn the…

Interestingly, I think that game never ever went on sale on Steam, or did it?
Had it on my wishlist for ages, but never got a notification.

Audi had a similar thing with the “Concert” radios they put in the A4 B5 and A6 C4 models among others. The generation with the central dial knob, and cassette (cd changer control) was supposed to write the volume setting it was set at into flash memory every time it was turned off, so that at restart it would…

Labyrinth. Night Shift. Battlehawks. Their Finest Hour. SWOTL. I miss those.

Depends on what you call densely populated. Above ground wires have not been used in larger EU cities for dozens if not close to 100 years.
Overland is a different matter, from the plant to the local distribution centres it is all overland. But those towers and lines are massive, and run several thousand volts, so…

well, that’s where Porsche mounted their ECUs for quite some models. So they were in good company :D

it is a bit more complex. They used basically remnants of the Nvidia Nforce2-Chipset for motherboards iirc, therefore the Xbox could put out Dolby Digital encoded sound in hardware from the start in every game. Very nice in the racing games, when you get some kind of positional audio for the competition.
Also, they…

I don’t think that the 991 cab is much slower than the coupe if you leave the roof closed.
Apart from that, if you want a newer Turbo with RWD, you can look for the GT2 - they were always pure RWD.
The 996 GT2 already made 0-100km/h in less than 4 seconds, but it was priced accordingly.
From a pure driving standpoint,…

It is very telling that Sims 4 is now regularly on sale, including all add-ons, for 50-60% off, while Sims3 and its addons is still going for full price on the EA store.
I got a complete pack of Sims2 for free at some point from EA, I do not even know if there’s a complete pack in existance for Sims 3. Probably for…

tbh, you need some kind of power in your entertainment system to enjoy the quiet parts of music. I had speakers cut out when hooked out to underpowered amps during the more silent passages of songs. I would still prefer a good CD-only headunit over a modern one with thousands of things going on.
That said, the Pioneer…

That console was already made half a year ago. Basically MS stopped making the normal Xbox One and S, and the rest of the production of the One X was made into this special edition.
Which looks cool, no denying that, but it was sold in a bundle with the game for 350€ new at some retailers, value will plummet now for…

This probably has something to do with Sony threatening to sue CDPR over the refunds. Will be interesting how this plays out in the long run.
Just shows again though that buying a purely digital version of any game, or games that rely on one-time codes to function, might be a bad idea.

I just wish we could have…

I would really like to see the percentage of people who are complaining in contrast to the sales numbers on old-gen consoles.
Since I know of two people who are playing it right now on older systems and, apart from glitches and graphics pop-ins, textures loading late - the cosmetic stuff - are doing fine.
Two others…