When I read the sentence, I was like “Wh… w… how? WHY? …and OF COURSE it was distributed via FTP, I mean, what else do you use for entertainment in AIX. Or business, for that matter.”

(Abuse)

  • FigMcLargeHugeEnglish
    24·
    6 months ago

    I mean, what else do you use for entertainment in AIX.

    I once accidentally deleted all of our production portal apps in AIX. That was entertaining…

    • Unforeseen
      5·
      6 months ago

      I got my first job with AIX in the early 2000’s after the previous admin did a reinstall of the OS vs an upgrade on prod, with unverified backups. It was a resume generating event.

      They lost over 3 months of data and barely survived it.

  • Kashif Shah@lemmy.sdf.org
    91·
    6 months ago

    lol we still play some old UNIX games at SDF every now and then, but we’re not all graybeards either

      • Kashif Shah@lemmy.sdf.org
        61·
        6 months ago

        trek, if we are talking about classics (i’m still not good at it), but I grew up with MUDs, so those are my favorites. i got to play a little zork in the BBS days, and Legend of the Red Dragon.

        Hmm, LORD might have been my favorite of all time, if I had to pick one terminal-ish game.

        edit: i’ll have to check out atc, btw, i havent played it yet

  • Redkey@programming.dev
    71·
    6 months ago

    Every time I see yet another obscure game/platform article or video, I realise that I’ve once again forgotten how little most people delve into the history of their creative media. I’m teaching myself about Soviet clones and niche Japanese systems that came out before I was born, and some 20-something self-proclaimed video game historian is releasing a video titled “The most obscure game that NO-ONE remembers” and it’s about Legacy of Kain or Space Quest or Sly Cooper or some other million-selling franchise that just hasn’t had a new release in the last 5-10 years.

    I’m waiting for these guys to get old enough to start seeing “world’s most obscure game” videos about Minecraft and Fortnite.

    AIX is pretty obscure as a gaming platform, though, I’ll give you that.

  • refalo@programming.dev
    6·
    6 months ago

    I think the LaserActive and MegaLD/LD-ROM system was at least as obscure, there may have even been less units made and the cost was certainly much more, plus there weren’t exactly many games released on laserdisc.

    The Bandai Pippin also only sold half as many as the LaserActive.