Quake - The 1996 Beta scandal | MVG

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  @ModernVintageGamer · 4 years ago · pinned

  Let me know if you want more content like this. Really enjoyed this one. If you were a scener affiliated with any of these groups,  feel free to reach out

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• OF

  @offspringfan89 · 4 years ago (edited)

  There's so much romantism about the early warez scene, specially in the 90s: BBS, CompuServe, Usenet, FTPs, etc. There should be documentaries about these legendary groups.

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• TR

  @Trucked109 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Dude, it's like I stepped into a Time Machine. The nostalgia is real.

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• TE

  @TehAwesomer · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2d4k2-9dMY&amp;t=592">9:52</a> - The note here (&quot;CD beat to net, RZR to boards&quot;) shows that this event took place in the small window where both BBS systems and FTP servers were active and neither of them were centralized enough via a global dupecheck to establish definitively who had won a race. It is not surprising in this case that Razor 1911 won to BBSes, as their BBS curry team at the time was legendary.

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• BO

  @boomfunks · 4 years ago

  Would love to see more scene related content. It&apos;s a big part of internet history that isn&apos;t covered at all.

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• GU

  @gustavs410 · 4 years ago

  Back in the day, I was a part of an FTP ring that had FLT and Razor1911 as members. It was an awesome time. It was fun to read the SSL encrypted mIRC chats. I was a hardware provider which gave me unlimited ratio. The funny thing is that I don&apos;t quite remember how it all ended. I think I got my first kid and a job then it all just fell in to oblivion...

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• PA

  @pagb666 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I was in the scene like 20 years ago. Competition was fierce to get stuff up first, and sketchy releases like this one were not a rare thing. Some groups would also gladly DDOS your irc or ftp server if they found about it.

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• PX

  @PXAbstraction · 4 years ago

  That intro tune fired up so many dormant neurons in my brain. Second Reality FTW!

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• JA

  @Jason-fv4rg · 1 month ago

  This unlocked a deep memory. It was early 1997, my senior year of high school. I went with my girlfriend to the mall and we had a look around one of the computer game stores there. At the counter they had free Quake shareware CD-ROMs. I grabbed one. Later that night I installed it and wow, it was actual 3D! The next day at school I was talking about it with my friends and one of them said he&apos;d email me something later. It was a program that would generate a valid license code to turn the shareware version of Quake into the full version. They didn&apos;t have anything like servers to validate the codes or check if you actually purchased the game, they just shipped the whole game for free on a CD and protected it with an algorithmically generated code that was easily broken. It truly was a magical time.

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• BU

  @Bushidounohana · 4 years ago

  “No honor amongst thieves,” this is a really great examination of the underground scene and the Quake scandal, would love to see more content like this!

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• TE

  @tehf00n · 4 years ago

  Man this made me feel old. I was 24 when this released and we spent most weekends on a 9600 baud serial lan playing. What was really fun was learning that whoever hosted the game had a 0 ping so the rest of us were at a disadvantage. &nbsp;:D

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• XO

  @xorinzor · 4 years ago

  Oh man, that Second Reality demo soundtrack.. good memories.

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